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“We Are On the Home Stretch”

Topic:
Greeley's Campaign Falters
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
November 2, 1872, p. 848
 
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The day after Whitelaw Reid’s Tribune editorial prompted Nast to add “We Are on the Home Stretch!” to his “Tidal Wave” cartoon title, a letter appeared in The New York Times (October 10), which provided Nast with the germ of another cartoon:  “The New-York Tribune of this morning says, ‘We are on the home stretch, and confident of success.’  True!  H. G. is going home to Chappaqua [New York], and has every prospect of reaching there.”

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