Title
The Lincoln League
Subject
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949
Political cartoons
Political corruption
Corporation law
Illinois State Capitol (Springfield, Ill.)
Voting
Dogs
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Description
The Lincoln League positions a recruiting station in front of a statue of Abraham Lincoln next to the Illinois State House while members of the public hurry away. President William Taft attempts to stop one man from leaving by grabbing his coattails.
Residents in Springfield flee the Lincoln League's rhetoric, in this political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon. The Lincoln League was a coalition of progressive Republicans in the early nineteen hundreds dedicated to reforms such as direct primaries, child labor laws, direct Senate elections, forest conservation, regulation of big business, and women in the workplace. McCutcheon captures conservative Republican/Democrat sentiment regarding the trust busting, or anti-monopoly tactics of the Lincoln League and other like-minded progressives in both parties.
On verso: "William Lorimer & The Lincoln League, Chicago, ca 1912[.]"
Residents in Springfield flee the Lincoln League's rhetoric, in this political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon. The Lincoln League was a coalition of progressive Republicans in the early nineteen hundreds dedicated to reforms such as direct primaries, child labor laws, direct Senate elections, forest conservation, regulation of big business, and women in the workplace. McCutcheon captures conservative Republican/Democrat sentiment regarding the trust busting, or anti-monopoly tactics of the Lincoln League and other like-minded progressives in both parties.
On verso: "William Lorimer & The Lincoln League, Chicago, ca 1912[.]"
Creator
McCutcheon, John T.
Publisher
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Date
1912-XX-XX
Format
jpg
Language
eng
Identifier
400973
John T. McCutcheon Collection
Original Format
political cartoon
b&w
1
Physical Dimensions
37 x 36 cm