Belmont Snipe Hunt

The caption reads: August Belmont went out West 'Snipe-Shooting,' so the Daily Papers Say. Belmont—then chairman of the Democratic National Committee—stands at the treeline, rifle raised, stalking five snipe birds whose heads bear the faces of Liberal Republican dissidents: Horace Greeley, Carl Schurz, Reuben Fenton, Lyman Trumbull, and Thomas Tipton. Nast argues that Belmont and the Democrats are cynically hunting the Liberal Republican bolt movement for their own electoral advantage, treating principled reformers as easy prey.