Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

The national honor and credit in good hands

President Cleveland holds papers labeled “National Honor and Credit” behind his back, as he faces a group of newspaper editors and legislators labeled “Tribune, N.Y. Sun, Tom Reed, Hill, World, Teller, Stewart, Vest, Peffer, [and] Hoar.” Charles A. Boutelle is at the back of the group holding a paper labeled “Boutelle Resolution.” The U.S. Capitol is in the background behind President Cleveland.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-01-31

Don’t!!

A man, possibly Joseph Pulitzer, dressed as a jester and holding papers labeled “Income Tax Law,” stands before a woman labeled “Democracy” sitting in a chair labeled “Congress.” “Democracy” holds a quill pen in her hand and appears to be pondering whether to sign the bill. In the background, a man with a ballot box for a head and with one finger raised tells her not to sign the bill.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-02-07

“The country ‘s safe!”

A small dog wearing a collar labeled “Boutelle” is bound with heavy chains and a large padlock labeled “Democratic Majority.” The dog sits outside a doghouse labeled “Minority Kennel.” He is exposed to the cold and snow of winter.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-02-14

The bounty jumper of 1894

Benjamin Harrison stands on the deck of a ship labeled “Republican Party,” under sails labeled “Prohibitory Protection.” He is holding a rope that leads to a rowboat labeled “McKinleyism” with William McKinley standing in it, holding up a diminutive man labeled “Ex-Subdizied Sugar Planter.” To the right of the rowboat, President Cleveland is standing on the deck of a ship labeled “Democracy,” under sails labeled “Tariff Reform.” Caption: Capt. Cleveland–Subsidies were the price of his party allegiance! Take him, – you’re welcome to him!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-10-31

Now let the lion beware!

Henry C. Lodge plays a horn labeled “Discrimination Against England,” Benjamin Harrison plays cymbals labeled “Bimetallic Standard,” Thomas B. Reed beats a tub labeled “Bimetallism” with a club labeled “Speech,” and Whitelaw Reid plays a trumpet and holds a paper labeled “Tribune.” They are on a wharf labeled “U.S.” and raising a bimetallic clamor with silver and gold instruments, against the British Lion who is smugly reclining on a bit of land labeled “England” and holding papers labeled “Free Trade,” with ships along the shore labeled “To Japan, To India, To S. America, To Australia, [and] To China.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-11-14

No turkey for David!

A distraught David B. Hill sits on the ground on a broken ladder labeled “Machine Nomination for Gov. of N.Y.” holding a hatchet labeled “Hill” in his left hand and a turkey feather labeled “Defeat” in his right hand. The turkey, labeled “Presidential Nomination 1896,” is flying away.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-11-28

Sit on him!

Newly elected New York City Mayor William L. Strong and newly elected Governor Levi P. Morton sit on Tammany boss Thomas Collier Platt who is wearing a crown labeled “Plattism” and has a cat-o’-nine-tails labeled “Boss.” Strong and Morton confer over a paper labeled “Plans for Reform Administrations.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-12-19

“I’ll take care of you, Grandma!” (after the original masterpiece)

Arthur P. Gorman labeled “Gormanism” hugs Theodore A. Havemeyer sitting in a chair, dressed as an old woman and labeled “Sugar Trust” and “$.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-01-09

John Bull’s dilemma

John Bull sits on a rock facing a dilemma. Across a narrow body of water is a man holding a sword labeled “Kurd Atrocities” and a handgun, about to strike a kneeling woman labeled “Armenia.” John Bull has a bag hanging from his shoulder labeled “Turkish Revenues” containing “Turkish Bonds” and “Turkish Loans,” and in his pocket is a paper labeled “Suez Canal Stock.” At his feet is a cashbox labeled “£.s.d. He is worried that if he interferes with Turkish affairs, it might jeopardize their financial relations. Caption: “It’s ‘ard to ‘ave to disturb ‘im – ‘e’s such a good customer!”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-01-16

The grand old game of tit for tat

Uncle Sam, looking obstinate and pointing his finger at some point between the “Germany Home Market” and the “France Home Market,” responds to their complaints. He is standing on the left, at the “U.S. Home Market” which is stocked with such commodities as beef, pork, ham, rice, cotton, canned goods, manufactures, wheat, corn, and cabbage. On the right, across a narrow channel, is a German man standing next to a barrel of “Beet Sugar.” In the background, across another channel, is a French man and a woman labeled “Belgium” standing next to boxes labeled “Wines.” Caption: Germany–You vill not take mein raw sugar, – I vill not take your bork or beef or hay or noddings. Donnerwetter! / France–Sacré nom de dieu! You discriminate against my wine! Is it not so? I will not take your goods. / Uncle Sam–What do I care for commercial intercourse and prosperity? I’ve got my “Home Market” all to myself, see?

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-01-23

Puck hopes – that Philadelphia will follow the good example of Brooklyn and New York

Robert E. Pattison sits in a chair labeled “Mayoralty” with a woman labeled “Philadelphia” standing behind him. Charles A. Schieren sits in a chair labeled “Mayoralty” with a woman labeled “Brooklyn” standing behind him. William L. Strong sits in a chair labeled “Mayoralty” with Father Knickerbocker standing behind him. All are holding papers labeled “Reform.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-02-13

“Who laughs last laughs best”

Grover Cleveland drives a stagecoach labeled “Administration Coach” carrying “Columbia” and being pulled by two horses labeled “Honest Principles” and “Sound Policy.” The coach is stuck in a hole labeled “Deficit” and “This Hole Dug by Republican Party.” Arthur P. Gorman, standing at the rear, uses a large stick labeled “Wilson Bill” and a board labeled “Bond Issue” to try to get the wheels out of the hole. On the right, in a “Bog of Public Contempt,” are Whitelaw Reid, John Sherman, Thomas B. Reed, George F. Hoar, and Benjamin Harrison. They are laughing at Cleveland.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-02-21

The chorus of the newly-converted communists

Benjamin Harrison plays the “Communists’ Chorus” on a large pipe organ, with “Tom Reed” and “McKinley” singing along. All are wearing liberty caps. Includes text of the chorus, which laments, “The Wilson Bill your present thought engages; / We must bring the whole thing up short with a jerk. / The Government has got to pay the wages / Of every man who doesn’t care to work!”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-03-07

The latest suitor

An old man kneeling on a sack labeled “182,000 Majority in Pennsylvania for Galusha A. Grow” is proposing to an elderly woman sitting in a chair and holding a fan labeled “Republican Party.” Caption: Republican Party–After all, it might not be so bad to be an old man’s darling!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-03-14

That settles it!

President Cleveland holds a cat by the tail. The cat has ribbons labeled “Bland Seignorage [and] Silver Bill.” Cleveland has used the ribbons to tie a rock labeled “Veto” to the cat, which he drops over a cliff.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-03-21

A senate for revenue only

Uncle Sam sits on the Speaker’s desk in the “U.S. Senate,” bound by tape labeled “McKinley’s High Protection Monopoly Tariff,” facing a group of senators labeled “Coal Senator, R. Road Senator, Collar and Cuff Senator, Sugar Senator, Steel Rail Senator, Lumber Senator, Copper, [and] Iron Senator,” and David B. Hill holding a large knife labeled “Peanut Dave.” Seated among them is George F. Hoar. Caption: What are we here for, if not for our private interests?

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-03-28

Next!!

A prisoner labeled “McKane” sits on a bench labeled “Reserved for Bosses who Steal Elections” at Sing Sing prison. McKane is holding a large pair of scissors, a measuring tape, fabric and thread. He is looking back at the new arrival, Edward Murphy Jr., sitting in a chair labeled “U.S. Senator,” that is being lifted over the wall of the prison by a pair of hands labeled “Justice.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-04-04

Another hide to be taken

A wolf wearing a red cape labeled “Hard Times 1893” stands on a rock outside a gate labeled “U.S.” with Uncle Sam standing inside the gate and pointing a rifle labeled “Business Revival” at the wolf. Hanging on the wall of a building in the background are hides labeled “Hard Times 1819, Hard Times 1837, Hard Times 1857, [and] Hard Times 1873.” Columbia, carrying a rifle labeled “Prosperity,” is rushing to aid Uncle Sam. Caption: Uncle Sam (to the Wolf at the Door)–One of you pesky critters comes around here about every twenty years; but this is the gun that gits you!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-04-11

A handicap needed

A bicycle race is underway on the “National Track” with the man in the lead labeled “National Expenses” easily outstripping the second bicyclist labeled “National Revenue.” A man labeled “Dingley” is giving the second bicyclist a push. Caption: As run at present the man behind has no show.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-01-12

An interruption

The British lion stands on a “Map of China” showing a large Chinese man’s face. The Russian bear holding a compass and the German eagle holding scissors stand at the edge of the map. In the background is the Gallic rooster labeled “France” wearing a military uniform and crowing. Caption: The Newcomer–Say, you fellows! If there’s any cutting up to be done, I’m here for the lion’s share.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-01-19