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In this cartoon, Senator David B. Hill’s 1894 campaign to become governor of New York is viewed as a foolish and dangerous ploy to use the governorship as a stepping-stone to the presidency two years later. To achieve his ultimate goal, the senator wears a flimsy flying contraption, the wings of which attest to his public support of President Grover Cleveland and opposition to the new federal income tax. Hill, however, appears more likely to plummet into the abyss of his “Odious Record,” which is polluted with rapacious vultures, demons, the Tammany Tiger, as well as scandals concerning the Croton Aqueduct and Judge Isaac Maynard (see below). |
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Warning
1860
