C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 Comic Strips starring William Vanderbilt, Episode 3: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 41
Between 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created approximately a dozen sequential comic strips, starring stock market manipulator / railroad monopolist William H. Vanderbilt. To find the prior episodes, click here.
Today’s outing - The Substance of Things Hoped For — The Evidence of Things Not Seen. In this episode, Vanderbilt and his organization are attempting to manipulate the 1881 election for Senator from New York, to place his man — Chauncey Depew - into Congress. Depew was a Vanderbilt attorney who represented railroad interests. Vanderbilt was said to have already controlled the state legislatures of New York and Pennsylvania. (P.S., since our current Supreme Court this year ruled that Corporations have the free-”speech” right to use their money to buy — I mean sway — elections, the good old days of the robber baron corporations, may be upon us again!)
From the front page of the June 6, 2025 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic — Enjoy!
Click on picture to enlarge it enough to be read.
Tomorrow, Episode Four! Click here to view the 1881-32 William Vanderbilt comic strips so far posted.
And, click here to find the prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries, and related I.T.C.H. posts. This series will continue, while the debate on financial reforms continues in Congress (except Mondays and holidays, on which I already had other material planned).
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— Doug
