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Rival Republican reports
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
|---|---|
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Description | Cartoon shows Republican National Committeeman Charles Hilles and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler presenting contradictory reports to the GOP elephant who moans, "Now I ask you! What's a poor party to do?" Hilles's report reads "All through the West everybody happy and prosperous! Pleased over tax reduction and Republican policies." Butler's reads "All through the West everybody sore, dissatisfied; down on third term, wet clean through, and damp Democrat in 1928 strong possibility." As the Republican Convention neared in 1928, the New York Republican delegation was divided. Butler, supported former Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois who was favored by the farmers and had refused to take a stand supporting Prohibition. Hilles supported a third term for President Coolidge despited the fact that the western farmers were outraged that he had vetoed the farm relief bill. Neither man had his way and at the convention, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was nominated on the first ballot. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Cartoon Drawings |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Republican Party (N.Y.)--1920-1930. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Presidential elections--United States--1920-1930. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Hilles, Charles Dewey,--1867-1949. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Republican elephant (Symbolic character)--1920-1930. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Butler, Nicholas Murray,--1862-1947. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
