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“Shylock, We Would Have Moneys and Votes”

Topic:
The Democratic National Convention
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
July 6, 1872, p. 528
 
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After “American Battle of Dorking,” Nast set the stage for the scheduled coalition of the Liberal Republican and Democratic Parties at the latter’s convention in Baltimore on July 9-10, 1872.  In another escapist retreat into the convenient detachment of Shakespeare for the July 6 issue of Harper’s Weekly, Greeley is Antonio, the merchant of Venice, presented by his crafty friend and supporter, Senator Reuben Fenton (as Bassanio), to August Belmont, the outgoing chair of the Democratic National Committee, who is depicted as the longsuffering yet apparently accommodating money-lender, Shylock.  Here, the money lending is for vote buying.

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