Grant to Hayes - I guess that reform bait wont work this side. Better try and anti-Catholic worm – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Grant to Hayes - I guess that reform bait wont work this side. Better try and anti-Catholic worm comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Grant to Hayes - I guess that reform bait wont work this side. Better try and anti-Catholic worm
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The title sets a fishing scene: "I guess that reform bait won't work this side," the caption says, so "better try an anti-Catholic worm." Published in New York in 1876, the lithograph appeared during the presidential campaign that pitted Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes, a former governor of Ohio, against Democrat Samuel Tilden. Hayes ran on reform after a run of scandals had tarnished the Grant administration. Anti-Catholic appeals were a recurring part of American politics in the 1870s, and the cartoon mocks the idea that such a lure might win votes where reform language failed.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Pub'd by P. Jesse, 1876. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 23.3 x 39 cm. (image) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880.Political cartoons 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Copyrighted and Pub'd by P. Jesse 116 Nassau St. N.Y. Signed: F.G. Del. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1876-7. |
| Subjects | Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885. Hayes, Rutherford Birchard,--1822-1893. Catholic Church--1870-1880. Politics & government--1870-1880. New York (State)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 980 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162116 |
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