Clipping from Harper's Weekley with four cartoons and an article titled "The Tammany Society. Greeley and Kernan" by Eugene Lawrence.

Clipping from Harper's Weekley with four cartoons and an article titled "The Tammany Society. Greeley and Kernan" by Eugene Lawrence.

Print from Harper's Weekly, November 2, 1872. Incluldes four small cartoons. "Our Foreign Ruler(?). F.K. 'I will do your bidding, as you are unfallible'" shows shows a man kneeling before the Pope. A Catholic priest in the background holds a paper that reads, "Down with the U.S. public school, vote as Catholic." The second cartoon has no title and shows two men, one (H. Clay) quoting "I would rather be right than be President"; the other (a caricature of an Irish man) quoting "I would be anything to be president". The third cartoon, "The German Vote", shows a caricature of a Geman man and a poster reading "The Germans will vote as they please. They have no dictator". The fourth cartoon, "The Same Old Smell", shows Uncle Sam holding his nose and holding a large cracked egg with "Tammany" coming out of the shell.

Harper's Weekly.

1872-11-02

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