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  • Collection: Harold R. Heaton Collection

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Several hands wave laurel wreaths under a waving American flag in front of a monument resembling the top of the Lincoln Tomb. Writing on the flag's stripes states "The Lincoln League for the Constitution, American Institutions, and Historic…

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Governor Edward F. Dunne ushers two girls named "Initiative" and "Referendum" to a second man depicting the Illinois State Senate. This man is holding an apple labeled "Approval," while a third man representing the Illinois House of Representatives…

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A woman wearing a sash labeled "The Chicago Woman" hits a mallet on a carnival game labeled "Chicago Polls" illustrating quickly-rising voter registration while "The Chicago Man" cheers her on. A colonial figure representing New York waves his arms…

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Four men labeled "Deneen," "Busse," "Campbell," and "Pease" have their hands in a pie labeled "Political Patronage Pie" while a group of Native Americans, led by a woman holding a "Pro Bunco Publico" banner, shoot arrows at them. One arrow labeled…

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A woman representing Chicago sits with papers listing scandals and graft schemes next to a scale with weights resembling several political officials. The lower portion of the cartoon shows an imbalance when she attempts to weigh "Kern" against…

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Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison, Jr. stands next to a flag labeled "Police Department Reorganization" under a storm cloud labeled "Public Sentiment Against Commercialized and Protected Vice." The cartoon is in response to the resignation ofChicago…

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An arm strikes a staff labeled "Action" against a rock representing "Senatorial Deadlock at Springfield" allowing water to pour forth with the label "Proper Representation of Illinois Interest at Washington." The United States Capitol building is…

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The legislature returns to Springfield to discover the rebirth of former governor Charles S. Deneen's Water Power Bill in the form of a bride. Speaker of the Illinois House Charles Adkins (1911-1913) crouches, ready to smash the bill yet again.

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Governor Edward F. Dunne and his supporters wield swords while marching towards the Grim Reaper standing at a railroad crossing. Dunne and his supporters fought for the elimination of three crossing types: the hogback crossing, or those in which the…

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Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton captures the strong disagreements surrounding marriage and divorce through the image of a judge declaring"No More SUB ROSA DIVORCES!". The startled couple before him wears a set of shackels with a tag labeled…

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Three mice with horns on their head run around a large wheel of cheese labeled "Illinois Senatorial Cheese." A woman representing Illinois wields a large knife as though she is going to cut off their tails similar to the nursery rhyme "Three Blind…

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Governor Edward Dunne is greeted upon his return from Washington, D.C. by a bill with human features representing the Illinois State Administration wrapping itself around his legs while looking fearfully at Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara. Dunne…

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In this political cartoon by Harold R. Heaton, Emmeline Pankhurst, a women's suffragist from England known for her militant tactics, cheers on the dust cloud of fighting over women's suffrage in Peoria.

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Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton articulates the divide in the Illinois Republican party, as Republican representatives B. M. Chipperfield, David Shanahan, Edward Shurtleff, and Illinois Speaker of the House Charles Adkins beat Governor Charles…

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State's Attorney John E. W. Wayman walks through the streets of Chicago shining the light of investigation. Additional people search the city with binoculars and telescopes from the roof of the City Hall building while a person peeks through…

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Governor Charles S. Deneen stands at the end of a diving board wearing swimming clothes while hesitating to dive into the "Candidates Swimming Hole" decorated with signs pointing in opposite directions for the "governorship" and the "senatorship."…

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A dentist wielding a dental drill and other instruments stands over Governor Charles S. Deneen while he signs a bill exempting dentists serving jury duty. As he signs the bill, a hand reaches in from the left with a paper labeled "Objections of Att'y…

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A road sign posted on a fence reads "To the Governor's Seat in 1912" above an elephant wearing a saddle labeled "For the Reg. Rep. Candidate" crouching in the road. Armed groups on either side of the road representing Charles Deneen and Charles…

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President William Taft holds boards and nails while preparing to repair "political fences" surrounding a field filled with grazing animals representing the Democrat, Progressive Democrat, and Insurgent candidates in Illinois. A frightened Republican…

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Governor Charles S. Deneen hugs a woman representing Boston as they mourn dead animals hanging on the walls. A cat labeled "Pet Cats Kidnap[p]ed and Dissected" hangs under a Boston Medical Colleges sign while a rabbit labeled "Rabbit Shepherds…

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Governor Charles S. Deneen stands in front of two doors fretting over which issue to tackle- trying to elect a senator out of the divided Republicans in the Illinois House of Representatives, or facing a recount.

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In this cartoon, the Republican elephant flees Progressive Republicans Charles E. Merriam and Robert Maron La Follette, Sr. La Follette, a Progressive Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ran unsuccessfully for president in 1912 as a Republican and in…

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Iowa Senator and then-possible Vice-Presidential candidate Jonathan P. Dolliver and the Union League Club of Chicago, represented as a building on a man's body, bow to each other as the Union League offers Dolliver the opportunity to speak to its…

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President William Taft sits on top of an elephant wearing an Illinois G.O.P blanket next to a sign reading "To Nov. 4." Taft and the elephant look behind them to find a basket carrying Governor Charles Deneen tied to the elephant's tail with a tag…

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Dripping in political corruption, Chicago Mayor Fred Busse begs for help as a speeding governor, Charles S. Deneen, comes to the rescue with a medicine chest. After his 1907 election to the mayor's office, Busse was accused of using the power and…
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