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“In Despair”

Topic:
The National Party Conventions
Source:
Judge
Cartoonist:
Grant Hamilton
Date:
July 2, 1892, p. 1
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Cartoonist Grant Hamilton portrays the Democratic and Mugwump press as being out of political gunpowder for the 1892 presidential election. Comparing political campaigns to military ones was a common analogy used by nineteenth-century editorial cartoonists. This image is particularly similar to an 1880 Harper’s Weekly cartoon by William A. Rogers, "Now or Never—The White House or ‘Bust’ ! ,” in which that year’s Democratic presidential nominee, General Winfield S. Hancock, and his Democratic “officers” stand aboard a sinking raft, firing a dilapidated cannon at the Republican White House.

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