Any Thing to Get Rid of the Surplus, 1889
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- Box 1, Folder 33
- Scope and content:
bound issue from April 3, 1889; Vol XXV, no. 530. Lithographs address James G. Blaine and a supposed surplus being used to "buy" Canada and Cuba; Cleveland and other Congress members trying to vie for Irish-American votes; Whitelaw Reid, minister to France, and William Phelps, minister to Germany, and other characters. Lithographs include "Any Thing to Get Rid of the Surplus" (title page; shows James G. Blaine wearing a sandwich board stating "Cash paid for foreign properties" and carrying a "$150,000,000 Surplus" on his back. Blaine is walking past various closed fences and doors labeled "Canada Not for Sale," "Cuba Not for Sale," Nicaragua Not for Sale," "St. Thomas Not for Sale"); "They All Do it--Cringing Before the Irish Vote and Support" (shows various senators, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and news papers bowing before an Irish man sitting on a throne); "Righteousness vs. Republican Politics" (shows a "Wicked Editor" [Whitelaw Reid] and a "Bad Boss" [presumably Boss Tweed] walking arm and arm away from a defeated Walter Miller and Colonel Shepherd. Behind them is a military-style fort with a flag labeled "To the Victors Belong the Spoils" waving in the wind. Beside Reid and Tweed is a broken drum labeled "Campaign of 1888)
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