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“Evacuation day” March 4th, 1885 – a Democratic dream

“Evacuation day” March 4th, 1885 – a Democratic dream

Print shows the Republican Party, led by Chester A. Arthur, laying down their arms, with George M. Robeson, James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, Charles J. Folger, Robert T. Lincoln, John A. Logan, Ulysses S. Grant, James D. Cameron, George F. Hoar, George F. Edmunds, and Henry Ward Beecher, exiting a citadel in the background. They are surrendering the presidency to the Democratic Party, led by newspaper editors Joseph Pulitzer of the N.Y. World, Charles A. Dana, and Henry Watterson. Samuel J. Tilden “Old Ticket,” Benjamin F. Butler, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Hendricks, Winfield Scott Hancock, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Thomas F. Bayard are on horseback, and Tammany Hall, led by John Kelly, marches under the banner “To the Victors Belong the Spoils.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-11-21

“The soul of Blaine” still on the rampage

“The soul of Blaine” still on the rampage

James G. Blaine, wearing Elizabethan style dress, and a small band of accomplices labeled “Clapp, Reid, Murat Halstead, Elkins, [and] Mahone” make their way down a Tudor style street, marking the doors of potential victims, including Puck’s offices, of a personal vendetta. Reid carries a long list that includes “C. Schurz, H. W. Beecher, G. W. Curtis, C. A. Arthur, Col. Lyman, H. White, G. Jones, [and] E. L. Godkin.” Drawn by the commotion, Arthur, Curtis, Schurz, and Beecher lean out windows observing, as does Puck’s figure of the Independent Party. Caption: He organizes a little private St. Bartholomew’s eve of his own.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-01-21

Gulliver and the party Liliputians — they cannot bind him

Gulliver and the party Liliputians — they cannot bind him

Henry Ward Beecher, as Gulliver, holds on his knee a small building labeled “Plymouth Church” and reaches his left hand out, in a friendly gesture, toward a crowd of “Liliputians” who are scampering about, some with ropes labeled “Partisan Rope, Caucus Rope, [and] Political Slavery,” others with signs that state “Down with him. He defeated Blaine!!, No freedom Allowed in Politics, [and] Edict of Ostracism.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-01-07

“The Mulligan guard lies, but – surrenders”

“The Mulligan guard lies, but – surrenders”

An explosion has occurred at the “Claim Agency, Formerly Republican Head Quarters” with William M. Evarts peeking through the opening in the tent to survey the damage. Several small kiosks labeled “Machine Republicans Meet Here, County Democracy Blaine Exchange, Tribune Blaine Organ, [and] Friends of Tammany Meet Here” have been blown over and damaged. Also knocked to the ground by the blast were “Keifer, [Blaine holding a paper that states “I Claim Everything”], Logan, W. Reid, Butler, Dana, Burchard [labeled “R.R.R.”], Robeson, Elkins, Dorsey,” and an unidentified man lying on the ground next to bags of “Soap.” On horseback, in the upper left corner, is Grover Cleveland holding a scroll labeled “Reform,” and a Puck character carrying a standard labeled “Independents.” Among the ranks are Carl Schurz, George W. Curtis, and Henry Ward Beecher. Strewn on the ground are papers that state “I.O.U. If we win. J. G., I.O.U. Conditional on Success, C.W.F., [and] I.O.U. If you get there, J. Roach”; and several of the downed “Mulligan Guard” hold papers that state “We Still Claim,” whereas Dana’s paper states “I Give Up.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-11-19

Men may come, and men may go; but the work of reform shall go on forever

Men may come, and men may go; but the work of reform shall go on forever

Columbia stands with Puck’s figure for the “Independent” party/vote and Puck who is holding a design drawing for a statue labeled “Reform,” which is under construction behind them by “D. W. Everett, Rev. J. F. Clarke, Beecher, Col. The. Lyman, Schurz, H. White, G. F. Williams, Curtis, [and] Jones.” The building blocks are labeled “Scratchem 1879, Anti-3rd Termism 1880, Tidal Wave Elections 1882, Civil Service Reform Bill, [and] Republican Revolt 1884.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-11-05

Why they dislike him — he will not prove himself a cat’s-paw in the enterprise

Why they dislike him — he will not prove himself a cat’s-paw in the enterprise

Grover Cleveland is a lion with his paw on a monkey labeled “T. Grady” on top of a rock labeled “Civil Service Reform.” Nearby is a small fire in which are roasting chestnuts labeled “City Spoils, State Spoils, [and] National Spoils Chestnut.” Cleveland is looking over his right shoulder at a group of monkeys in a tree. Among them are John Kelly, Charles A. Dana, Benjamin F. Butler, Henry Ward Beecher, and three monkeys labeled “Dynamiter, Ward Boss, [and] N. Y. Alderman.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-09-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Julian LaRose Harris

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Julian LaRose Harris

Oscar K. Davis releases this item for the morning papers of August 3, 1912. Theodore Roosevelt describes in detail the treatment of African Americans by both the Republican and Democratic Parties, but believes that for the Progressive Party, this issue is not a race issue, but a moral issue. Roosevelt concludes that the Progressive Party, as well as Southern black men, will be best served by appealing to Southern white men who support civil rights.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-01