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A three-panel cartoon highlights legislator attendance before and after bills go into effect. The cartoonist suggests the introduction of a timeclock and reduction in pay as a solution for high absentee rates among Congressmen.Captions: "Under one:…

Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon criticizes the Chicago Police Department's ability to fight crime in the city. In the top panel a detective holds two guns and stops three crooks. In the lower panel, two pairs of legs jump out a window with a…

A disproportionately large man stands on a chair and warns Democratic presidential candidate William J. Bryan not to ask questions. Bryan, the forty-first United States Secretary of State, was the Democratic nominee for president in 1896, 1900, and…

This cartoon parodies the number of speechesDemocratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan made during his November 1, 1900, visit to Chicago. Chairman of the 1900Democratic National Convention, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, hurries William…

Billboards advertising cigars, medicines, and bars line the street with figures pointing at pedestrians in an attempt to get their attention. A man wearing a hat reading "Olde" chases a second man down the street while a cart driver stops to watch. A…

The crowd at the 1908 Democratic Convention gathers at the top of the viewing stands to watch the 300th anniversary celebrations in Quebec City taking place outside and ignoring the convention activities. Uncle Sam serves as ring leader of the…

William Jennings Bryan prepares to speak while holding a megaphone to the ear of the Democratic donkey as he prepares to accept the Democratic nomination for president for the third time. Bryan, the forty-first U.S. Secretary of State, was the…

The two-panel cartoon shows scenes of Americans arriving at hotels abroad and the greetings the received before and after the Lorimer Scandal. The clerk in the top panel exclaims "Ah! I see monsieur is from Illinois! Zat grand state of Lincoln and…

The three-panel cartoon illustrates the political fallout over the Lorimer Scandal in which Illinois Speaker of the House Edward D. Shurtleff and his followers broke the 1909 deadlock over the election of a new U. S. Senator from Illinois by bribing…

Opportunity in the form of a goddess knocks on the door of the 1912 Democratic National Convention while Alton B. Parker and William Jennings Bryan fight inside. Former New York Governor and 1904 Democratic presidential nominee Alton B. Parker headed…

A three-panel cartoon depicts two bankers founding a private bank for small investors due to the state's lack of supervision for private banks. The middle panel shows lines of depositors entering the bank. The bottom panel illustrates the bankers'…

The Illinois Senate President elections of Walter I. Manny on January 22, 1913, and Stephen D. Canady on January 6, 1915, gave the Democrats control of the Senate for the first time since 1893. Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon hints towards…

Tax payers watch as the GOP's elephant grazes from the income tax reduction proposal of 1927 as Democratic party leaders pull the donkey away, fearing a trick.

The Republican elephant walks across the 1928 Republican Convention floor on a plank labeled "Platform plank opposing debt cancellation" while holding a newspaper declaring "$535,000,000 in Gold has left the U.S. for foreign shores in the last eight…

A G. O. P. elephant looks out a window at an angry man straddling Niagara Falls representing opposition from steel plants and power plants to diverting water from the Great Lakes as part of the Mississippi Valley Waterway Project.The Mississippi…

John McCutcheon illustrates the 1903 Chicago livery driver strike in a three-panel cartoon showing a young couple hurrying to their wedding venue only to find another couple and no minister. The bottom panel shows the minister and a woman standing…