Schurz Greeley Monkey

Outside the 5th Avenue Hotel—site of the Liberal Republican "Fifth Avenue Convention"—Nast shows Senator Carl Schurz hoisting a small monkey to his face for a nose-to-nose stare. The monkey bears Horace Greeley's unmistakable features: white beard, spectacles, stooped posture. A paper tag on the monkey's tail reads "GRATZ BROWN" (Greeley's vice-presidential running mate), and the organ-grinder's box beside them carries a card: "THIS IS NOT AN ORGAN"—a dig at Schurz's Westliche Post, which denied being a party mouthpiece while shilling for the Liberal Republican ticket. The caption, "Any Thing to Beat Grant!", frames the coalition as pure opportunism.