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Governor Charles S. Deneen stands at the end of a diving board wearing swimming clothes while hesitating to dive into the "Candidates Swimming Hole" decorated with signs pointing in opposite directions for the "governorship" and the "senatorship."…

State's Attorney John E. W. Wayman walks through the streets of Chicago shining the light of investigation. Additional people search the city with binoculars and telescopes from the roof of the City Hall building while a person peeks through…

Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton articulates the divide in the Illinois Republican party, as Republican representatives B. M. Chipperfield, David Shanahan, Edward Shurtleff, and Illinois Speaker of the House Charles Adkins beat Governor Charles…

In this political cartoon by Harold R. Heaton, Emmeline Pankhurst, a women's suffragist from England known for her militant tactics, cheers on the dust cloud of fighting over women's suffrage in Peoria.

Governor Edward Dunne is greeted upon his return from Washington, D.C. by a bill with human features representing the Illinois State Administration wrapping itself around his legs while looking fearfully at Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara. Dunne…

Three mice with horns on their head run around a large wheel of cheese labeled "Illinois Senatorial Cheese." A woman representing Illinois wields a large knife as though she is going to cut off their tails similar to the nursery rhyme "Three Blind…

Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton captures the strong disagreements surrounding marriage and divorce through the image of a judge declaring"No More SUB ROSA DIVORCES!". The startled couple before him wears a set of shackels with a tag labeled…

Governor Edward F. Dunne and his supporters wield swords while marching towards the Grim Reaper standing at a railroad crossing. Dunne and his supporters fought for the elimination of three crossing types: the hogback crossing, or those in which the…

The legislature returns to Springfield to discover the rebirth of former governor Charles S. Deneen's Water Power Bill in the form of a bride. Speaker of the Illinois House Charles Adkins (1911-1913) crouches, ready to smash the bill yet again.

An arm strikes a staff labeled "Action" against a rock representing "Senatorial Deadlock at Springfield" allowing water to pour forth with the label "Proper Representation of Illinois Interest at Washington." The United States Capitol building is…

Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison, Jr. stands next to a flag labeled "Police Department Reorganization" under a storm cloud labeled "Public Sentiment Against Commercialized and Protected Vice." The cartoon is in response to the resignation ofChicago…

A woman representing Chicago sits with papers listing scandals and graft schemes next to a scale with weights resembling several political officials. The lower portion of the cartoon shows an imbalance when she attempts to weigh "Kern" against…

Four men labeled "Deneen," "Busse," "Campbell," and "Pease" have their hands in a pie labeled "Political Patronage Pie" while a group of Native Americans, led by a woman holding a "Pro Bunco Publico" banner, shoot arrows at them. One arrow labeled…

A woman wearing a sash labeled "The Chicago Woman" hits a mallet on a carnival game labeled "Chicago Polls" illustrating quickly-rising voter registration while "The Chicago Man" cheers her on. A colonial figure representing New York waves his arms…

Governor Edward F. Dunne ushers two girls named "Initiative" and "Referendum" to a second man depicting the Illinois State Senate. This man is holding an apple labeled "Approval," while a third man representing the Illinois House of Representatives…

Several hands wave laurel wreaths under a waving American flag in front of a monument resembling the top of the Lincoln Tomb. Writing on the flag's stripes states "The Lincoln League for the Constitution, American Institutions, and Historic…