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“Mr. Bryan Has a Good Bugaboo, And He Is Pushing It Along"

Topic:
Imperialism
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
William Allen Rogers
Date:
September 8, 1900, p. 837
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The imaginary fear (“bugaboo”) being carted out by William Jennings Bryan is imperialism, which is a front (literally here, a straw man) for the Democratic presidential nominee’s supposed actual goal of imposing unlimited coinage of silver on the country. Dressed as a farmer, Bryan pushes a wheelbarrow with a broken, “bunco” (sham) silver dollar on which the Populist Ostrich appears. In an accompanying commentary by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, “The Results of a Bryan Victory,” the Republican spokesman warned, “free silver is just as real and dangerous now as it was four years ago…” when Bryan first ran for president.

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