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"Esoterics"

Topic:
The Democratic Nomination
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Charles G. Bush
Date:
February 18, 1888, p. 124
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This cartoon continues the theme of Governor David B. Hill’s failure to produce interest in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. The gubernatorial plant of his horticulturalist companion, Roswell P. Flower, suffers from the same stunted growth. Flower was a former congressman who lost New York’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Grover Cleveland in 1882. Two years later, Tammany Hall backed Flower as the favorite-son candidate who could wreck Cleveland’s bandwagon for the party’s presidential nomination, but the governor defeated his Tammany rival to win the crucial support of the state delegation to Democratic National Convention. When Hill was nominated in 1885 for governor (having gained the position after Cleveland’s election as president), Flower was nominated for lieutenant governor, but declined for personal and business reasons. Although Flower’s candidacy for governor did not materialize in 1888, he was reelected to Congress that year. In 1891, he was finally elected governor of New York, but decided not to seek reelection three years later.
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