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The Tweed Ring |
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| “H. G. Diogenes Has Found the Honest Man” |
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Source: Harper’s Weekly |
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Date:
December 9, 1871, p. 1152
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the previous version of this cartoon |
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
The precipitous fall of the Tweed Ring climaxed in the municipal election of
November 7, 1871, which left Mayor Oakey Hall, whose term ran until January 1,
1873, as effectively its lone survivor. (Tweed was reelected to the state
senate, but arrested in December and barred from taking his seat.) Evidently,
the cartoonist was unable to forgive Greeley for not having been sufficiently
scathing in his treatment of Republicans who cooperated with the Democratic
Tweed Ring. In the December 9, 1871 issue of Harper’s Weekly, Nast again
presented Greeley as Diogenes, the ancient Greek
philosopher who legendarily searched for an honest man. In the cartoon, the
editor shines his lantern on Mayor Hall, who stands under the portico of the
City “Hall of Honesty” and turns his pockets inside out to demonstrate his
reduced financial condition and political purity.
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