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"Too Busy to Talk"

Topic:
Frontrunner McKinley: A Defeated Napoleon
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
William Allen Rogers
Date:
May 23, 1896, p. 505
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For the third time, cartoonist W. A. Rogers caricatures Governor William McKinley as Napoleon. Here, he criticizes the Republican presidential candidate’s silence on major policy questions. McKinley/Napoleon juggles the issues of a gold cannon ball, trade protection umbrella, Populist silver bug, and silver bag of tricks.
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