The Tail-End of the Republican Presidential Procession, 1888
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- Box 1, Folder 31
- Scope and content:
bound issue from August 22, 1888 "with supplement"; Vol XXIII, no. 598. Lithographs address "free whiskey" Republicanism and Benjamin Harrison; Republicans and free trade; Uncle Sam; Republican party dead issues, sectional strife, and party spite; Republicans and tariff reform. Lithographs include "The Tail-End of the Republican Presidential Procession" (title page; shows Benjamin Harrison wearing an oversized "Granpapa's Hat" proceeding a troop of marching Republicans holding a flag labeled "The Greatest Living Statesman." Harrison is carrying an overflowing bucket labeled "Free Whiskey for the promotion of temperance and morality"); " "Free Trade" (shows Uncle Sam walking away from a "Grave Yard of Republican Hopes." Whitelaw Reid is waving a broom stick with a white sheet draped over it, resembling a ghost, labeled "Free Trade" to a waving Uncle Sam. Inside the cemetery are various Republican senators and Benjamin Harrison, hiding behind gravestones labeled "Sectional Strife," "Dead Issues," "Party Spite," and "Blaineism"); "A Bad Break for the Republican Sheep" (shows a farmer herding a flock of sheep toward a castle labeled "Property Sheep Ford," the surrounding fencing states "Tariff Reform." A flock of anthropomorphized sheep resembling Benjamin Harrison and other Republican senators are seen escaping from the farmer. A sign is attached to Harrison stating "Free Whiskey for the promotion of temperance and morality"); and a supplemental lithograph loose from the bound issue depicting a portrait of Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman.
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