Dressing Up the Party
Above & below, a few cartoons in time for the next stage of the Great Republican Etch-a-Sketch Makeover, concealing their true words and actions of the past years and months, hiding their actual schemes which would guarantee electoral defeat if honestly revealed, and so must be dressed up in pretty sounding fare, for the consumption of the wide and mostly gullible public.
In the above August 20th, 1884 cartoon by Joseph Keppler, Sr. — The Grand Old Party of Moral Ideas “Keeping Up Appearances” — we see N.Y. Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid (known for his Fox News-like neutrality), helping the G.O.P. dress up. From the rear cover of Puck magazine.
Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read the text scattered inside them.
Below, by Bernhard Gillam, from the rear cover of Puck‘s July 16th, 1884 issue, we have A Big Job, this time depicting N.Y. Tribune editor Reid as a hotel shoe-shine boy, having to polish up all the dirt and the mud of a variety of Republican notables.
Beneath, Hopeless and Helpless, from October 3rd, 1888, Puck creator Joseph Keppler, Sr. shows Republican senators digging themselves deeper into a hole of their own making, in their efforts to put the President (then Grover Cleveland) in the hole, rather than doing what is best for the nation.
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— Doug
