The Challenge

The Challenge

Political cartoons

Heaton, Harold R., -1940

Political corruption

Deneen, Charles Samuel, 1863-1940

National Progressive Republican League

La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925

Busse, Fred A., 1866-1914

Merriam, Charles Edward, 1874-1953

Political candidates

Political parties--Platforms

Political parties

Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton demonstrates the political striations in the nation during the early part of the twentieth century. To the left, radical Democrats led by presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette and Charles E. Merriam wave banners of Socialism while Governor Charles S. Deneen, Chicago Mayor Fred A. Busse, and the machine Republicans approach from the right. Obstructing their path, however, is The Lincoln League, a coalition of progressive Republicans dedicated to reforms such as direct primaries, child labor laws, direct senate elections, forest conservation, and regulation of big business and women in the workplace. Heaton likely supported such movements, depicting the Lincoln League as the defender of "American Institutions" like "The Constitution" and "Historic Republicanism."

Heaton, Harold R.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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eng

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Harold R. Heaton Collection

political cartoon

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44 x 38 cm