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This cover cartoon for the Harper’s Weekly issue reporting results of the 1896 Democratic National Convention gives a dire warning to voters. It portrays presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan on a silver coin as a mask for the evil intensions of Governor John Peter Altgeld of Illinois. “Repudiation” on Altgeld’s headband refers to the Democratic platform’s explicit rejection of “monometallism,” the use of one precious metal—gold—to give value to paper currency. Cartoonist W. A. Rogers, Harper's Weekly editor Carl Schurz, and other gold-standard supporters opposed free silver and similar inflationist monetary plans on the grounds that it would be detrimental to the national economy and, in turn, undermine social stability. However, they considered the Democratic promotion of free silver to be part of a more encompassing embrace of a radical agenda, signified in the cartoon by the torch labeled “anarchy”—a catchall term for socialism, communism, nihilism, or any type of political radicalism. |
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