“What Are You Going to Do About it”, If “Old Honesty” Lets Him Loose Again?

Thomas Nast
Harper’s Weekly
August 31, 1872
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Uncle Sam looks on disapprovingly as presidential hopeful Horace Greeley paints over the Tammany Tiger with his “reform white wash.”  The strips on the tiger are labeled “Corruption”, “Illegal Voting”, “Whole Sale Robbery” and “Tammany Ring.” The incumbent and Civil War hero, Ulysses S. Grant, was reelected and sadly Horace Greeley passed away soon after the election on November 29, 1872.