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“The Vanguard of the Boxers”
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This cartoon highlights the three major issues upon which William Jennings Bryan planned to conduct his presidential campaign in 1900: free-silver, anti-imperialism, and antitrust. The candidate appears in the center foreground as a Chinese rebel noisily banging a gong in the shape of a silver “bunco” (counterfeit) dollar. In the left background, Edward Atkinson, who helped found the Anti-Imperialist League, tries to instill fear with his imperialism “bogey” (meaning both an evil spirit and a false issue). In the right background is Augustus Van Wyck (the brother of the New York City mayor) accompanied by the tiger symbolizing Tammany Hall, of which he was a leading member. Van Wyck carries an octopus-shaped sign that denounces trusts, but parenthetically omits from scrutiny the “Ice Trust” in which he owned stock worth over $200,000 ($4.25 million in 2002 dollars). This depiction of Bryan and his Democratic supporters as rebel Chinese Boxers was one of several that appeared in Harper’s Weekly and Judge, both of which endorsed Republican William McKinley for reelection as president in 1900. |
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