(Untitled)
1872
"Too Thin, Massa Grant"
1) The pre-eminent issue of this cartoon is to associate the Democrats with the Confederate cause and Reconstruction hostility. President Grant’s intention was to scare the black men with the KKK impersonators and trick them into voting Republican.
2) The KKK members are depicted bogusly and it is obvious that ( Read more... )
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“Just the Difference”
In this political cartoon, the crucial difference in the presidential race is the burden upon Hancock as the Democratic candidate. The powerful Hancock valiantly holds up the Democratic Donkey, which is blinded by stupidity, earmarked for "soft-money" schemes of green backing and inflation, saddled with sympathy to the former Confederate cause (copperheads), and pulled down by the desire for political "spoils" of Tammany Hall boss John Kelly, who is portrayed as an Irish leprechaun. Hancock is depicted as a strong and courageous man in opposition to his prissy Republican candidate who is carried in by the noble steed which represents the Republican party to carry him swiftly to the white house. This cartoon has a political effect to the public on the presidential race.
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