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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