A hard pull Creator(s): Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist. Dated 1884
Title: A hard pull Creator(s): Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist 1884 Illustration shows James G. Blaine dressed as a knight, the plumes of his helmet labelled 'Dodger, Speakership Record, [and] Mulligan Letters', he holds papers labelled 'Aggressive Cash Campaign' and has his other hand in a bag of money labelled 'Vote Persuader'; he is riding in a wagon labelled ' Blaine, Unlicensed Vendor, Stocks, Political Influence, etc.', the seat of which is labelled 'Compressed Magnetism'. Phelps is riding on the back of the wagon, sitting on boxes of 'Condensed Fireworks' and 'Campaign Lies, Scandals', he is holding a portrait painting of George Washington labelled ' Blaine'. At the front of the wagon, 'Dorsey, Brady, [Robeson, and] Keifer' are pulling, and at the back 'Gould, Clapp, [and] Clayton' are pushing. Whitelaw Reid marches alongside as a one-man-band playing a horn labelled 'Brag', a drum labelled 'Bluster', an organ labelled 'Blaine Organ', a bellows labelled 'Campaign Wind' and firing a cannon labelled 'Blaine Organ'. Stephen B. Elkins in the background on the left, waving a whip that spells 'Enthusiasm' and former Vice President Schuyler Colfax, with a 'Credit Mobilizer' plume in his cap, carries the standard that states 'Westward The Star of Corruption Fakes its Way'. They are passing a sign that states 'To Ohio'.
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