This Harper’s Weekly cartoon approves the effort of Democratic presidential nominee Alton B. Parker to add a “gold plank” to his party’s national platform. In 1896 and 1900, William Jennings Bryan had been soundly defeated while advocating free silver. In 1904, Parker was a staunch defender of the gold standard. Here, he attempts to pull the Democratic Donkey out of the “Free Silver Bog” into which it has fallen. (“Esopus” was the name of his hometown in New York.)
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1860
