On the Brink

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Title

On the Brink

Subject

Political cartoons
Heaton, Harold R., -1940
Governors--Election
Deneen, Charles Samuel, 1863-1940
Governors
Crows
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854)
Diving boards

Description

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." Several Deneen office holders stand in the dressing room behind Deneen demanding he jump in order to secure jobs for them.

Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton illustrates the precarious position of Governor Charles S. Deneen (1905-1913), a Republican governor caught between warring party factions (Conservative and the Progressive Republicans), and the whim of machine politics.

Creator

Heaton, Harold R.

Publisher

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Date

n.d.

Format

jpg

Language

eng

Identifier

400957
Harold R. Heaton Collection

Original Format

political cartoon
b&w
1

Physical Dimensions

44 x 38 cm