One week after celebrating pictorially the victory of Democrat Grover Cleveland in the presidential election, cartoonist Thomas Nast exhorts the president-elect to stand firm against the Democratic hunger for political spoils. Having been out of the…
Often described as the most vivid of Thomas Nast’s cartoons is the image of Boss Tweed, as a Roman emperor, looking down on an arena where the Tammany Tiger stands over the symbolic images of republican government, justice, and commerce—all defeated…