Details
Contributor McDermott, John, publisher.
Title Republican platform, or the political montebank. [graphic].
Publisher New York : John McDermott
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1868
Date 1868
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 36 x 48 cm (14 x 19 in.)
Description Cartoon critical of the inequity of the 1868 Republican platform's post-war monetary policy. Depicts pensioners and bond holders witnessing Republican presidential nominee General Ulysses S. Grant, attired in his military uniform and spurs, balancing himself on a plank using a baton inscribed "U.S. Treasury" from which gold pieces shoot out from the one end as greenbacks (paper money without gold backing) shoot out from the other. The gold falls in the direction of the smug, well-dressed, white men bond holders who gladly accept such reimbursement for their government bonds. The greenbacks land on the pensioners, which include a white disabled veteran with an amputated arm and leg and a white, widowed mother with a baby who bitterly question such a form of payment for their war services. The plank is supported by a kneeling Horace Greeley, the New York Tribune editor, and a kneeling African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular, "you as got to carry dis chile on dat platform, Massa Grant, too." Greeley warns that "we must not let this Election go by default, so hurry up you stump speakers."
Is referenced by Weitenkampf, p. 157
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress by John McDermott in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Purchase 1958.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872,
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Bondholders.
Currency question -- United States -- History.
Disabled veterans -- American.
Government securities.
Greenbacks.
Mothers -- United States.
Pensions.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1868.
Racism in popular culture.
Veterans -- United States.
Widows.
Geographic subject United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Printer McDermott, John, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1868-13W [6270.F]
Accession number 6270.F