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Illinois governor John R. Tanner appears as a devilish executioner holding a gallows, with noose, labeled “For Capitalists.” The “Illinois” capitol building is in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-11-09
New York political bosses Thomas Collier Platt and Richard Croker appear as Roman centurions, wearing armor and carrying swords labeled “Bossism.” They are daintily shaking hands with the New York state capitol building labeled “Albany” in the background.
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1898-11-16
Uncle Sam hangs onto a young woman labeled “Philippines” who is dangling over a cliff labeled “U.S.” above a canyon where a tiger labeled “Spanish Misrule” and a wolf labeled “Aguinaldoism” await her fall from Uncle Sam’s grasp.
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1898-11-23
Britannia and Columbia shake hands from the bows of British and American battleships. Dark clouds behind Britannia are labeled “Eastern Question,” and behind Columbia are the dark clouds of war labeled “Spanish-American War.” Caption: Britannia – Daughter! / Columbia – Mother!
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1898-06-15
The “USS Merrimac,” a cargo ship, is under fire as it passes between the fortifications at the Socapa Battery and Morro Castle at the entrance to Santiago de Cuba Bay, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War. Includes an American flag labeled with the names of the eight volunteer sailors, “Hobson, Charette, Murphy, Deignan, Phillips, Kelly, Clausen, [and] Montague,” intent on scuttling the ship to block the harbor and trap the Spanish fleet within. Caption: The Trojan Horse – Great Olympus! These Yankee exploits put me clear in the shade!
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1898-06-29
President McKinley sits at a desk, holding a large paper that shows “President McKinley’s War Policy.” A newspaper reporter, most likely Joseph Pulitzer,” leaning through an open window and carrying sheets of paper labeled “Yellow Journal War Plans,” is poking his nose into the back of McKinley’s “Plans of Campaign.”
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1898-07-06
Uncle Sam stands on an island labeled “Philippines” at an open gate labeled “Open to All Nations on Equal Terms.” He is welcoming an international crowd to enter through the gate. A female figure labeled “Commerce” is tugging on his coattails; she is standing on a solid, fortress-like structure labeled “U.S.” and “Protective Tariff Wall.”
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1898-12-28
President William McKinley stands on a road leading to the White House, in the background. He is delivering a speech, with a group of newspaper editors and congressmen, to the left and right, who have broken into small groups, talking amongst themselves. In the right foreground, William Jennings Bryan is inflating his “Anti-Annexation Issue for 1900.” American flags are on islands beyond the White House. The flags and/or islands are labeled “Porto Rico, Ladrone Islds., Cuba, Hawaii, [and] Philippine Islds.” At McKinley’s feet is an excerpt from his “Speech at Banquet of Board of Trade and Associated Citizens” in Savannah, December 17, 1898.
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1899-01-11
President Cleveland stands on the right, holding an axe labeled “Political Wisdom,” in a forest where he has been cutting trees labeled “Gold Standard.” Approaching from the left is a procession led by Mark A. Hanna, as drum major, followed by William McKinley, Garret A. Hobart, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas B. Reed, George F. Hoar, John Sherman, Henry Cabot Lodge, and others. One is carrying a banner that states, “The Repubican Party is unreservedly for Sound Money – the existing Gold Standard must be preserved. Rep. Platform.” Caption: He blazed the path that they have got to follow.
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1896-08-26
William Bourke Cockran, labeled “Democratic Sound Money League,” delivers a speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during which he presses down upon the back of William Jennings Bryan who is lying on papers that state “The Financial Fallacy of 16 to 1.” Caption: Falsehood crushed to earth will never rise again!
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1896-09-09
David B. Hill is dressed as a hayseed with hat and feather labeled “I am a Popocrat,” a fake beard labeled “Populism,” and a button labeled “16 to 1” on his vest. He is holding a feather labeled “I am a Democrat” in his left hand and a mirror, in which he admires himself, in his right hand. He is sitting on a plank labeled “Repudiation” that rests on beams labeled “Popo Platform.” At his feet are torn papers that state “Hill’s Chicago Convention Speech.”
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1896-09-16
William Jennings Bryan rides a donkey labeled “Popocracy,” and holds a sword labeled “16 to 1” and a string attached to a small cannon labeled “Boy Orator,” at the head of a small army of followers. Among those identified are “Stewart, Watson, Coxey, Lease, Peffer, Tillman, [and] Altgeld,” and possibly Joseph C. S. Blackburn. They are armed with farm tools, brooms, and a large sword labeled “Silver Syndicate” carried by Stewart. Their military standards state “Repudiation, Down with the Supreme Court!!, [and] Dishonesty” and “D–n the Savings Banks, The Loan Associations, The Life Ins. Co’s – The Institutions of the Gold Bugs!!” Across a plain is a large army with flags that state “National Honor” and “Allied Armies of the Sound Money Democrats and the Republican Party,” with the U.S. Capitol and the White House in the background.
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1896-09-30
William Jennings Bryan is pictured as a puppet being manipulated by a well-dressed man sitting on a large money bag labeled “Silver Mining Syndicate” and listing names and dollar amounts: “Hearst $75,000,000, Fair 40,000,000, Mackay 40,000,000, Wm. Stewart 40,000,000, W. A. Clark 30,000,000, Moffatt 30,000,000 [and] J. P. Jones 25,000,000.” Byran is holding cymbals labeled “Free Silver and Prosperity” and “Promises of Good Wages.” His audience is a laborer with his lunch pail labeled “Labor” and in his back pocket a “Bank Book.” Caption: They can never catch American labor with that combination.
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1896-10-07
At center, William Jennings Bryan, labeled “16 to 1,” stands on a platform “Built by Popo. Platform Silver Syndicate” and holds up a paper that states, “‘We Denounce Arbitrary Interference by Federal Authorities, in Local Affairs, as a Violation of the Constitution,’ etc., W.J. Bryan.” On the right, labeled “1861,” Jefferson Davis holds a paper that states, “‘We Denounce Arbitrary Interference by Federal Authorities, in Local Affairs, as a Violation of the Constitution,’ etc., Jeff. Davis.” Davis confronts Abraham Lincoln who is holding a copy of the “Constitution of U.S.” The bombing of “Fort Sumter” is taking place behind them. On the left, labeled “1896,” Benjamin R. Tillman, John Peter Altgeld, Eugene V. Debs, and John P. Jones are standing on a torn American flag labeled “National Honor” and raising a new flag labeled “Dis-Order and Mis-Rule.”
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1896-10-28
An encampment of the Democrat/Populist presidential candidate and his followers dances around a campfire labeled “Repudiation.” Depicted are, from left, “Peffer, Jerry Simpson, Teller, Vest, Watson, Bryan, Sewall, Sen. J. P. Jones, Jones, Altgeld, Bland, [and] Stewart.”
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1896-11-04
A bloated businessman, holding an American flag labeled “Victory,” rides in a wheelbarrow being pushed by another man. In the background, a young boy is explaining to a stranger that the scene is the result of a bet over the outcome of the presidential election. Caption: Boy–Yes, it was an election bet and Dad won. Ain’t he making an awful fool of the other fellow? / Stranger–Yes! Which one is your Dad?
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1896-11-11
Uncle Sam, with a laurel wreath on his head, stands with a female figure labeled “Prosperity,” bowing his head in acknowledgement of the respect accorded the United States by representatives from Europe and Asia. To the right, behind Uncle Sam, are booming grain export activities, and on the left, streaming through a gate labeled “Europe and Asia” are figures labeled “England, Russia, Turkey, India, Germany, South America, Greece, China, France, [and] Italy,” along with many others, seeking shipments of American wheat.
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1896-11-18
Mark Hanna is about to carve a large turkey labeled “Presidency” resting on a gold platter labeled “Sound Money Vote.” Newly elected president William McKinley is sitting at the head of the table, looking heavenward, and the White House is visible through a window behind Hanna. Caption: “For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful.”
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1896-11-25
Uncle Sam sits in a chair with pillows behind his head, convalescing. Before him is a table filled with various medicines, including “Bland-Allison Silver Mixture, Sherman’s Compromise Lotion, Tariff Tinkering Tincture, Jones’ Repudiation Pills, Weaver’s Old Greenback Cordial, [and] Fake Financial Theories.” A bottle of “Byran’s Free Coinage Panacea” lies under a chair and a device labeled “Peffer’s Populistic Electrifier” sits on a small table. In consultation around a table in the background are “Drs. Cleveland, McKinley, [and] Reed.” On the table is a bottle labeled “Currency Reform Medicine.” Wreaths labeled “Merry Christmas” are hanging in the windows. Caption: Uncle Sam (to his three eminent doctors of different schools)–Say, gentlemen, I’m getting over my prostration so fast that all I need is a good dose of that bottle on the table, and you can throw all this stuff here out of the window!
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1896-12-23
Uncle Sam, wearing a nightshirt, paces the floor, carrying a large, crying infant labeled “Infant Industries.” A bottle of “41% Protection Soothing Syrup, Ineffectual” is on a nightstand next to a bed. Caption: Uncle Sam–I guess he won’t stop howling till I give him enough Protection Soothing Syrup to burst him!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-12-30