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Published about a month before the November 3 election, this postdated cartoon conjures an image of the nation’s hellish fate if voters choose the Democratic ticket. Feeding the boiling cauldron of “Class Hatred” are (left-right) Senator “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman of South Carolina, Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, and Governor John Peter Altgeld of Illinois holding the “anarchy” torch. The illustration dramatically conveys the message that the most dangerous thing about the Democratic Party in 1896 is its control by radical politicians. For the first and only time in Harper’s Weekly during the 1896 campaign, this cartoon includes Bryan as an equal in that group. He was shown in an earlier image as an innocent mask for anarchism, but was otherwise absent from cartoons condemning the Democrats’ alleged extremism. |
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