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“Top-Heavy”

Topic:
The Weighty Nominee: Grover Cleveland
Source:
Judge
Cartoonist:
Bernhard Gillam
Date:
August 13, 1892, pp. 104-105
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The characters and scene of this cartoon are based on Bret Harte’s poem, “An Idyl of the Road,” but Grover Cleveland’s weight gives it meaning: the presidential nominee is too heavy a burden for the Democratic Party to succeed in 1892. Careening down the steep mountain labeled “Washington,” the Democracy stagecoach tilts perilously toward disaster. The driver is William C. Whitney, Cleveland’s campaign manager, in the guise of “Yuba Bill,” a character in the poem. He cracks his whip to speed forward the mismatched team of the Democratic Donkey (with its head down) and the Mugwump horse (with its head reared back in fright), the white color of which is a sarcastic symbol of good-government reformers’ political “purity.”

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