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For Harper’s Weekly, the election of 1896 was concerned with far more than the money question. It was a stark choice of law and order against anarchy, of democratic free enterprise against paternalistic socialism. Editor Carl Schurz considered Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan to be a person of good character, but weak intellect, who was a front man for dangerously radical politicians, such as Governor John Peter Altgeld of Illinois. While the devalued bunco dollar symbolic of free silver is prominent in W. A. Rogers’s cartoon, the dominant theme is the political extremism of the Democrats, derided in the caption with the term “Popocratic”—a combination of “Populist” and “Democratic.” Rising from his seat as a future Supreme Court chief justice, Altgeld has angrily thrown away the U.S. Constitution. |
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Warning
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