The sign on the ballot box in the lower-right predicts that Southern Democrats will commit vote fraud in order to achieve their political goal of controlling the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. The reference in the caption to the "Rag Baby" is a double-entendre alluding to both Hancock's manipulation by Southern Democrats and the latter's advocacy of "soft-money" inflationary policies. Hancock, in fact, did win the "Solid South" in November, but lost the election to Republican James Garfield. The results showed that the Republicans could win the White House without the South, leaving the majority of black Americans, who lived in that region, to deal with the racist policies of the Democratic party.