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The New Democratic Party Whip-Whipping Into Line.

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Resource type	Image
Creator	Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
Description	Engraving, published in Harper's Weekly. Depicts presidential candidate Horace Greeley, owner of the New York Tribune, organizing his party. His employee, Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid, moves to whip a Democrat (whose party failed to hold a convention in 1872, endorsing Greeley). Greeley had published a book called "What I Know About Farming" that Nast often mocked by reproducing it with various titles that demonstrated Greeley's pretensions towards expertise. It was also announced that Greeley's newspaper would not become a party organ during the election, and this was another common slogan that Nast chose to mock (as Reid's whip is carved with "not an organ"). Prominent members of the Tweed Ring stand in line before Greeley, with Boss Tweed himself holding the flag of the "Liberal Reform Army." An American flag sporting Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson's names can be found to the left, as they were the Republican opponents to Greeley.
Subject	Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 Presidential elections Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875 Political party loyalty Hypocrisy Sweeny, Peter Barr, 1825-1911 Greeley, Horace Hall, Abraham Oakey, 1826-1898 Tweed, William Marcy, 1823-1878
Rights statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Language	eng
Keyword	This is not an organ flags Liberal Republican Party whip NY Tribune army What I Know of Farming newspapers
Date created	August 31, 1872
Last modified	March 06, 2024
Identifier	Finding Number: CGA.AC.AP6.071 Digital ID: d_14543
Published in	Harper's Weekly
Repository	Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Alternative title	Independent Democrat. "I do not belong to your Class of Democrats."
File Format	image/tiff
Rights note	This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
Version	mechanical reproduction
Medium	engraving paper
Permanent link	https://hdl.handle.net/1811/a21b6d1c-94cc-44b6-9cd8-788c0b380504
Provenance	Donor: James W. Cartwright
Time period (Topic)	1870s (1870-1879)
Genre	editorial cartoons prints
Extent	27.2 x 40.3 cm

Credit line: The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

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