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“Shoeing the Old Democratic Mule"

Topic:
The National Party Conventions
Source:
Judge
Cartoonist:
Eugene Zimmerman
Date:  July 16, 1904
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This Judge cartoon dramatizes the ideologically diverse nature of the Democratic Party in the early-twentieth century. The Democratic Donkey is being shod with a “Free Trade” shoe by (left-right): Grover Cleveland, the former president; Richard Olney, the former attorney general and secretary of state; and Senator William J. Stone of Missouri. Congressman William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the New York Journal and San Francisco Examiner, pounds in the shoe of “Populism,” while David B. Hill, campaign manager for nominee Alton B. Parker, readies the shoe of “Jeffersonian Democracy.” The fourth hoof is on a “spoils” (patronage) shoe, with other pejoratively labeled shoes on the floor. Uncle Sam looks with dismay at the scene, while Democratic presidential nominee Parker relaxes in the background (left).

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