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Tilden and Hendricks |
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"Hen(dricks)-Pecked" |
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Cartoonist: Thomas Nast |
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Source: Harper's Weekly |
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Date:
August 5, 1876, p. 629
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
Pro-Republican cartoonists made much of the Democratic ticket's conflicting
views on monetary policy. In this cover illustration, Thomas Nast plays off a
pun on vice-presidential nominee Thomas Hendricks' name to show presidential
nominee Samuel Tilden as a henpecked husband. The artist wants the public to
believe that, if elected, Hendricks and the soft-money wing of the Democratic
party will keep Tilden's hard-money inclinations in check. At Hendricks'
command, an anxious, sweating Tilden nurtures the Rag Baby symbol of inflation
so that it will continue to grow.
Tilden's brand of reform is put in quotation marks on the wall to indicate its
false nature, while Hendricks prepares to stoke the stove where his monetary
reform brews. The Democratic platform is merely a "soothing syrup" on
the window ledge, above which Uncle Sam peers in warily. The term "Home
Rule" (on the wall) is, in this context, a synonym for states' rights and
the end of Reconstruction. |
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