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"The Irrepressible Independent"

Topic:
Harper's Weekly Splits the Ticket
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
William Allen Rogers
Date:
October 20, 1888, p. 803
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This cartoon further clarifies the political independence of Harper’s Weekly during the 1888 election by portraying the newspaper’s endorsement of Democrat Grover Cleveland for reelection as president, Republican Warner Miller for governor of New York, and Citizens Democrat Abram Hewitt for reelection as mayor of New York City. Editor George William Curtis argued that New York had probably not had a better mayor than Hewitt since De Witt Clinton (1803-1814). Here, the same figure as in "Splitting the Ticket," leads a parade of independent voters representing all classes—the attire identifies the main figure as middle class, the man behind him as working class, and the third man as upper class. With a gesture of firm refusal, they march past party ticket booths manned by Tammany Democrat Hugh J. Grant, mayoral candidate; Democrat David B. Hill, gubernatorial candidate; and, Republican Benjamin Harrison, presidential candidate.

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