The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . 18/r. THE FIRST RAG BABY. widow with a dog at her heels and a bottle of rum in thebasket on her arm. The Widow Grant has come to ask fora new lease. Well, Uncle Sam, she says, Ive called tosee if you will let me have the White House for four years CENTURY IN CARICATURE 261 longer, as I find the place suits me very well. No, MarmGrant, retorts Uncle Sam, shaking his head, I reckon Illdo no such thing. Ive had too many complaints about youfrom the neighbors during the last four years. Im just sickof you and your tobacco smoke and bull pups, s
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . 18/r. THE FIRST RAG BABY. widow with a dog at her heels and a bottle of rum in thebasket on her arm. The Widow Grant has come to ask fora new lease. Well, Uncle Sam, she says, Ive called tosee if you will let me have the White House for four years CENTURY IN CARICATURE 261 longer, as I find the place suits me very well. No, MarmGrant, retorts Uncle Sam, shaking his head, I reckon Illdo no such thing. Ive had too many complaints about youfrom the neighbors during the last four years. Im just sickof you and your tobacco smoke and bull pups, so Ive given. THE DONKEY. FIRST USED TO RIDICULE THE IN-FLATION TENDENCY. the lease to Honest Horace Greeley, who will take better careof the place than you have. In another of this series Horace Greeley is represented asthe entering wedge that is splitting the rock of the RepublicanParty. Greeley, with a paper bearing the words FreeTrade in one hand and one bearing Protection in theother, is being hammered into the cleft in the Republicanrock by a huge mallet—Democratic Nomination—wieldedby Carl Schurz. This is rather a novel position for astanch old Republican like me, he says. I begin to feelas if I was in a tight place. President Grant, with a cigarin his hand, is looking on complacently. My friend, he 262 CENTURY IN CARICATURE calls out to Schurz, youve got a soft thing on your wedge,but your mallet will kill the man. To which Schurz re-plies: I dont care whos killed, if we succeed in defeatingyour election. Below, creeping furtively about the rock, arethe figures of Dana, Sumner, Gratz Br
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