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“Mr. Croker’s Idea of Expansion”

Topic:
Bryan and Tammany Hall
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
William Allen Rogers
Date:
July 21, 1900, p. 663
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This Harper’s Weekly cover cartoon charges that Richard Croker, the boss of Tammany Hall, was not concerned about expansion of either the money supply through free silver or the American annexation of former Spanish territories. Instead, he was interested in electing Democrat William Jennings Bryan president so that the power of Tammany and Croker personally would expand to the national level. An obese Croker sits atop the Democratic Donkey (which wears a free-silver 16-to-1 patch over one eye), while he grips the leash of two fierce bulldogs standing on a map of the United States. Steering the Donkey is now the job of the Tammany boss, not candidate Bryan, who peers out from behind the animal.

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