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Puck’s political weather forecast for Fourteenth Street and vicinity

Puck’s political weather forecast for Fourteenth Street and vicinity

The angry countenance of Father Knickerbocker looks down from storm clouds on a flood that has broken up “Tammany Hall” with the Tammany Tiger sitting on a partial building labeled “Tammany” and a group of Natives sitting on a ladder resting against the other half of the building labeled “Hall.” Other Natives are treading water. A bolt of lightning is labeled “Popular Condemnation.” Among those depicted as Natives are Richard Croker, Roswell P. Flower, William B. Cockran, James J. Martin, and Hugh J. Grant. Also shown are Charles A. Dana, Edward Murphy Jr., and George B. McClellan, and the top hat of John J. Scannell.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-05-09

The latest version

The latest version

Richard Croker, a Tammany Hall boss, is pictured as Hamlet, exiting a castle labeled “Tammany Hall,” carrying a moneybag labeled “Pickings” and papers labeled “Deed $90,000 House, Ranch – Racing Stable, [and] Investm[ent] – Stock Farm.” He encounters the ghost of Boss Tweed who stands at the edge of an “Abyss for Smashed Bosses,” holding in his arms a moneybag labeled “Stealings” and papers labeled “‘Diamond Wedding’, Erie Deal, [and] 5th Avenue House.” Croker is headed for the abyss. Caption: Hamlet Croker (to Ghost Tweed)–I’ll follow thee!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-04-11

Mr. Hill tries it on

Mr. Hill tries it on

The Governor of New York, David B. Hill, rides backwards on the Democratic donkey labeled “Democracy” running on railroad tracks near a sign that states “Look Out for the Enlightening Express.” He is waving papers labeled “Defiance to Mugwumps” at a locomotive labeled “Independents” bearing down on him and driven by a familiar Puck cartoon figure with Carl Schurz standing behind him. To the right of the tracks are an old man dressed as a clown labeled “Sun,” looking down at a small elephant lying on the ground, also dressed as a clown, that looks like Benjamin F. Butler. Next to them are William W. Phelps and Whitelaw Reid resting on the fallen Republican elephant that looks like James G. Blaine and is labeled “Ditched Nov. 1884.” Caption: The little experiment made by the Blaine Republicans last year will now be repeated by the New York Democrats.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-10-07

Making the most of it

Making the most of it

A man labeled “Hill” holds a large magnifying glass labeled “Democratic Press Magnifier” between a donkey with blinders labeled “N. Y. Democracy” and a tiny shock of hay labeled “Cleveland’s Weak Indorsement.” The donkey is salivating over the large shock of hay labeled “Cleveland’s Indorsement” that it sees through the hand lens.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-10-14

The two retired bar’ls

The two retired bar’ls

A man labeled “Flower” sits on a barrel labeled “For a Presidential Nomination Only,” and Samuel J. Tilden sits on a barrel labeled “Plenty of Advice but no Money, S. J. T.” They are back to back. Tilden is reading a book labeled “The Fraud of 1876.” In the background on the left is the gloomy “New York Democratic Camp” with several dejected-looking men in front of a tent with a sign that reads “We have lost our Bar’l; but we have a Patriot.” Across the ravine, on the right, is the jubilant “N. Y. Republican Camp” with several excited men, one holding a sign that states “We have a Bar’l and 2 Patriots.” On the ground is a barrel labeled “Davenport” and with a “$.” The Democratic ticket went on to win the New York State election in November.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-10-07