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[The Weekly Puck] Idol Wheels

The Latest Idol of the “Grand Old Party of Moral Ideas”



by Joseph Keppler (1889)

The Latest Idol of the Grand Old Party of Moral Ideas (1889)


Lazy Curator™ sez: Image shows William Mahone posing on the base of a Ulysses S. Grant monument he has shoved the bust off of and carved the word “Mahoneism” onto. Various men are prostrating themselves before him, including:

  • William Wade Dudley

  • John Wanamaker (who has a page in his pocket reading, “Go to John Wanamaker’s for cheap clothes &c”)

  • Matthew S. Quay

  • Benjamin Harrison

  • James S. Clarkson (with Headsman axe)

  • Redfield Proctor


    • I am not completely out of Thanksgiving images, but I am mostly out of good ones, so enjoy this cartoon depicting [nearly] birthday boy “Little Billy” Mahone instead.