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"Two Bees, or One Bee, That Is the Question"

Topic:
Hill Challenges Cleveland
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Charles G. Bush
Date:
March 14, 1891, p. 191
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In this parody of Hamlet’s soliloquy, “To Be or Not To Be,” David B. Hill, who has already pinned the “bees” of the New York governorship and a seat in the U.S. Senate, contemplates adding the presidency to his collection. As lieutenant governor, Hill had succeeded to the governorship in January 1885 when Grover Cleveland resigned to assume the presidency. Thereafter, an animosity developed between the two, primarily due to Hill’s unfulfilled desire for ample federal patronage and Cleveland’s characterization of the governor as an unprincipled machine politician. Hill was elected to the governorship in his own right in November 1885 and reelected in 1888.

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