Blaine Game
April 23rd, 1884 — one week following the first Blaine Tattooed-Man cartoon — Puck magazine featured the above centerspread cartoon, by Puck founder Joseph Keppler, Sr. This cartoon — titled Blaine O’Maine — concentrates on the Mulligan Letters, which involved James G. Blaine‘s corruption involving railroad stock and land rights, and is one of the tattoes always found on him, in the Tattooed-Man cartoon series. This one is obviously not one of the Tattooed-Man cartoons, but I thought it would be good to show something involving what the tattooes are about, before getting back into them (next week).
Click on the above cartoon, to both view it in detail, and read the captions.
Below, commentary from the same issue of Puck.
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— Doug
