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Kelley, William D. (William Darrah), 1814-1890

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“The tribute to the Minotaur” – the interests of all other states sacrificed to the protection monster of Pennsylvania

llustration shows Samuel J. Randall seated at one end of a gondola and William D. Kelley standing at the other end calling out “to the Protection Minotaur of Pennsylvania”, between them are several maiden women labeled “Louisiana, California, Illinois, New York, Georgia, Mass, [and] Indiana” who are to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. A banner hanging on the wall states “Pennsylvania First Last and All the Time”. At the opening in the wall is a relief of a minotaur’s head labeled “Pennsylvania.” After a painting by Ernest Augustin Gendron titled “The Tribute to the Minotaur.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-12-02

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

Democracy’s disastrous egg-dance

A woman labeled “Democracy,” wearing a blindfold labeled “Stupidity,” is being pushed by Samuel J. Randall toward a “Presidenti[al] Chair.” Several eggs lie in the way on the ground, labeled “Honest Naval Appropriation, Civil Service Reform, Honest River-Harbor Appropriation, Economy, Anti-Silver Coinage, National Banking System, Tariff Reform, [and] Prompt Legislation.” Two of the eggs are broken. Among a group of men laughing, in the background on the right, are John Logan, John Sherman, and William D. Kelley.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-04-09

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

Nursing our infant industries

Several congressmen and senators are dressed as women nursing symbols of American industry. Sherman and Blaine feed “American Swine” as it sits on a rocking horse. William D. Kelley, known as “Pig-Iron Kelley,” hugs a tin-man labeled “Iron” with a locomotive for a head and clutching a pig labeled “Pigdron” [sic]. Thomas Ochiltree kisses “American Beef,” Warner Miller hugs “Wood Pulp,” John P. Jones comforts “Silver Mining,” Charles W. Jones combs “Cotton,” and George M. Robeson and John Roach pass “Ship Building” off to “John Bull” hiding in the bushes. Uncle Sam sits with Liberty in the upper left.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-06-27

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

The allies under the new flag – the Republicans and the monopolists train their guns on the workingmen

Print shows the Republican and monopolist allies raising a flag that states “Down with the Workingman and Up with the Tariff” in an artillery battery where they are aiming a cannon toward “Fort Labor” which is flying the flag of the “Workingmans Party”. In the allies camp are Roscoe Conkling, Jay Gould, Alonzo B. Cornell, William D. Kelley, William H. Vanderbilt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Sherman, George F. Hoar, John Roach, “Hastings”, and Whitelaw Reid.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-08-08

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896