File:William McKinnley Punches Silver Dollar - Cartoon, New Orleans Bee, 4 November 1896.png

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William McKinley Punches Silver Dollar - Cartoon, New Orleans Bee, 4 November 1896

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English: Cartoon, The New Orleans Bee, 4 November 1896. William McKinley had been elected US President in the held election the day before. McKinley is here shown wearing a ribbon reading "Republicanism", in a boxing ring punching out a personified silver dollar, a symbol of his rival William Jennings Bryant's "Free Silver" campaign. Below the dollar figure a dog starts to run away, labeled "Peffer", caricaturing William A. Peffer, a populist who Senator who lost re-election in the same election. At right figures with question marks for heads, one labeled "Democratie" the others unlabeled, look on. Caption, "The Triumph of Gold over Silver".
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Source Cartoon in "The New Orleans Bee", 4 November 1896, via File:The_New_Orleans_Bee_1896_November_0017.pdf
Author Cartoonist signature looks like "FB N.O." (likely François Bildstein, d. 1935)
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Lower resolution from different source: File:New_Orleans_Bee_1896_Cartoon_Triumph_of_Gold_Over_Silver.jpg

Uncropped newspaper page from microfilm PDF: File:The_New_Orleans_Bee_1896_November_0017.pdf
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