31. Got 'Em on the Run                            

Source:  Anthony Weekly Bulletin (KS), November 2, 1894

Although many individual Democrats and Republicans favored silver, only the People's Party had endorsed the issue in their 1892 platform.  When repeal of the Sherman Act catapulted the free silver issue to prominence, Populists expected to benefit.  This cartoon, which appeared just before the 1894 Congressional elections, shows the Democratic and Republican parties (portrayed as Cinderella's two ugly sisters) taking cover from the political storm that is brewing.  Populists, of course, hoped that their party, like Cinderella, would experience a meteoric rise in status.  They also frequently drew analogies between the People's Party and the early Republican Party, which won its second national campaign (1860).

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