"Triumphant Democracy" to the Rescue, 1888
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- Box 1, Folder 19
- Scope and content:
bound issue from May 30, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 586. Lithographs address various topics, including: Edgar Thompson Steel Works Bessemer method and Andrew Carnegie co-opting the Bessemer process for his own iron works plants; Republican presidential nominee W.Q. Gresham (1884 and 1884), presumed to be the best candidate to beat Grover Cleveland; clean politics and fair issues. Lithographs include "'Triumphant Democracy' to the Rescue" (title page; shows J.G. Blaine dressed in white overalls/long johns looking greedily towards Andrew Carnegie carrying a bag labeled "Annual personal profits from the poorly, protected Edgar Thompson Iron Works $1,500,500." Carnegie is bringing the bag to a "High Protection Campaign Mill"); "The Standards of the West" (shows an oversized man wearing a red ribbon pin labeled "The Republican West" holding a flag with W.Q. Gresham's image on it, ribbons flowing from its point labeled "Clean Politics and a Fair Issue." Various republican members [William W. Phelps, Elkins, and John J. Ingalls) are seen scrambling over the man's arm, trying to cut the flag pole. Below, Puck is seen yelling at the group saying Graham is a worthy opponent for Cleveland); "Our Patriot-Crank Abroad" (shows a vignette of an uneducated American abroad criticizing foreign life and culture)
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