1880

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No new issues came to the fore in the 1880 campaign, but Democratic accusations of Republican depravity carried little weight after Hayes' honest administration. Cartoonists focused primarily on the men: the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, and the Democratic candidate, General Winfield Hancock. Garfield's nomination was such a surprise that James Wales of Puckhad not even included him in this cartoon puzzle (24A-1066996). Grant attempted to run for a third term and Joseph Keppler attacked his effort in this cartoon (24B-1066997).

Nast ridiculed both Hancock's comment that tariff was a "local question" and the Democratic platform that tariff was "for revenue only" here, where Hancock is asking, "Who is tariff and why is he for revenue only?" (24C-1066998) In this cartoon Hancock was pictured as a stalwart hero, giving a blood transfusion to democracy (24D-1066999). 

One of the most famous cartoons of this campaign is entitled "Forbidding the Bans," published by Keppler in Puck (24E-1067000). The Democratic chairman is bringing in accusations of a $329 dividend paid to Garfield in the Credit Mobilier scandal of the Grant administration. The objection was overruled and Uncle Sam got his "bride" when Garfield was elected.