The Two Silly Billie's and the Hard Stone Wall, 1888
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- Box 1, Folder 17
- Scope and content:
bound issue from May 16, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 584. Lithographs address various topics, including: President Grover Cleveland's popularity between 1884-1888; (presumably) William Folger, Inspector of Ordnance at the Washington Navy Yard at the time, jingo policy (a form of aggressive foreign policy); the Republican party failing to succeed against progressive politics. Lithographs include "The Two Silly Billie's and the Hard Stone Wall" (title page; shows anthropomorphized donkeys representing the Republican Party ramming into a stone wall labeled "Grover Cleveland's Popularity." The U.S. Capitol is seen in the distance ); "An Ever-Popular Game--Chucking at Tough Old Uncle Jim" (shows a carnival-like game being played by Puck and Whitelaw Reid. In a pen, a large white canvas stands with a old man's head pushed through the middle. Objects are being thrown at the man, including a ball labeled "Jingo Policy," a brick labeled "Credit Mobilizer," money labeled "Mulligan," an anchor labeled "To the Windward," and other rocks labeled "Little Rock," "Burn this Letter," and "Equivocal Withdrawal." A sign is hung nearby stating "Here you are! Step right up and take a SHY at him! Wonder the tough skinned from Maine, JIM THE PACYDERM! Letter go, Gallagher!"; "A Poor Outlook" (shows Whitelaw Reid, John Ingalls, and other U.S. Senators holding onto the mast of a sinking ship. Its sails are tattered and bloody, labeled "Bloody Shirt," and the mast is labeled "Monopoly Dead Issues." Behind them, a large wave labeled "Progressive Political Sentiments" is threatening to drown the group)
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