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Alton B. Parker leads a number of men out of the “populism” wilderness while William Jennings Bryan is stuck on one of the cliffs. The men include, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, Arthur P. Gorman, William Francis Sheehan, Mississippi Representative John Sharp Williams, and Joseph W. Bailey. “High Priest Cleveland” points them forward.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07
President Roosevelt holds an old shirt labeled “discarded policy” as William Jennings Bryan comes to the door with a bag of old clothes: “cast-off Roosevelt policy” and “old populist doctrines.” Caption: Mr. B.—”Any old clothes to-day, gentleman?” Mr. R.—”Go ’round to the back door.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-05
Alton B. Parker sweats as he attempts to hoist the flag of “anti-Americanism populism experimental doctrines” up the “Democratic platform” flag pole. He stands on somewhat cracked “Jeffersonian principles,” which is on the “Philippines.” The “N.Y. Sun” glares at him. Below the cartoon is a quote from the New York Sun decrying the Democratic platform of 1904 and endorsing President Roosevelt and Senator Charles W. Fairbanks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-10
President Roosevelt, dressed as a victorious Roman conqueror, drives a chariot that contains a teddy bear. Two unsavory men labeled “Enemy’s Country” and “Populist Vote” are chained to the chariot and are being dragged behind it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
William A. Peffer grabs for the ropes of a hot air balloon labeled “Populism” that has burst in two places while high above the Washington, D.C., area.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-10-10
Uncle Sam is a policeman using a billy club labeled “Votes” to prevent a diminutive figure labeled “Free Silver” and “16 to 1” from entering the White House with papers labeled “Populism” and “Dishonest Money Schemes.” Caption: Uncle Sam–Consarn ye! you’ve spoiled my Senate and House of Representatives but I’ll never let you get into the White House! – that’s all I’ve got left to depend on!
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1896-06-17
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.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-09-30
William Jennings Bryan sits on the side of the road “to Washington,” his bicycle tires going flat. At the upper left, a vignette labeled “How he started” shows Bryan starting his ride to Washington, on a bicycle with tires labeled “Free Coinage Wind” and “Populist Wind.” Caption: How he started. How he will finish.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-08-26
A trial is taking place at the U.S. Supreme Court where the regular justices have been replaced by hayseed justices. In the foreground is a “Waiting Pen for Gold Bugs and Millionaires” where “W. Rockefeller, J. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Astor, Sage, Vanderbilt, [and] Gould” are waiting. Caption: If the silverites ever get a chance to put their populistic and revolutionary platform into force.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
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 stands on the back of a railroad caboose using a bellows labeled “16 to 1” to blow paraphrased fragments from speeches at rural citizens as the train passes. Some of these include, “[Our people] do not need the lessons of history!”, “They know it all!”, and “The popular intuition is better than reasoning and what the people say goes.” Traveling with Bryan are several newspaper reporters.
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1896-09-16
William Jennings Bryan as a soda jerk stands behind a counter offering a cup of “Boy Oratory” or “Bryan’s Free Silver Soda” to a farmer holding a “Vote” in his hand. A sign on the wall behind Bryan states, “Flavors. Anarchy, Repudiation, ‘Cross and Grown,’ Populism, [and] 16 to 1.” Caption: It won’t go down with the American farmer, as the Vermont and Maine elections show.
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1896-09-23
William Jennings Bryan is being carried in a chair by four men, two of whom are labeled “Tillman” and “J.F. Williams,” down a street, behind a group of crazed men labeled “Free Silver, Riot, Repudiation, Populism, Anarchy, [and] Class Hatred.” Two of the men are carrying small flags that state “Down with Supreme Court” and “Down with Property Holders.” Policemen labeled with the states of the Union and holding billy clubs labeled “Sound Money Vote” are lining both sides of the street.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-09-02
William McKinley walks down a street in the neighborhood of “Anarchy Slum” with a tall, well-dressed female figure labeled “Gold Standard” on his arm and two policemen labeled “Palmer” and “Buckner” walking behind them. On the wall is a presidential campaign poster that states, “Vote for Bryan, Watson and Repudiation.” In the background, Mary E. Lease is standing at the corner of a building, and Benjamin R. Tillman and John Peter Altgeld are standing on a cobblestone street labeled “Populist Alley.” An unidentified man, possibly William Sulzer, is leaning against the wall of the building, between “Miss Gold Standard” and “Palmer.” Caption: Miss Gold Standard and her escort have a brace of strong policemen to see them through the slums of Popocracy.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-10-07
A huge throng of people, some carrying banners labeled “Populism, Silverites, [and] Socialists,” eagerly follow a fairy labeled “Paternalism” carrying a transparent balloon or bag labeled “Government Support” as she floats toward a cliff or abyss.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-14
Print shows William Jennings Bryan kneeling on steps labeled “Socialism, Inflation, [and] Paternalism” with his back to a statue of an old man labeled “Populism” sitting in a chair labeled “Free Silver” that is covered with cobwebs. He is appealing to a crowd of men, some of whom are labeled “Voter”, and a female figure labeled “Prosperity” skipping or running along a road that leads to a building labeled “Regular Party Politics.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-07-05
Eugene Gano Hay defends Minnesota Republicans against statements made by Henry Loomis Nelson portraying them as populists and socialists.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-15
Excerpt of a letter in which James Hamilton describes the inauguration celebration of President Andrew Jackson as a “regular Saturnalia.” Hamilton mocks abolition and colonization advocates in his comments on the African American attendees of the party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1829-03-05