Schurz and Sumner Cooking

Three figures crowd a smoky kitchen. At the stove, Senator Charles Sumner—caricatured with exaggerated jowls and a chef's toque—dumps pepper into a pan labeled HASH; a pot of STEW sits nearby. Carl Schurz, bespectacled and aproned, assists from behind. At left, General John A. Logan pinches his nose at the stench while holding papers marked FOR THE SENATE KITCHEN; a box reads SUMNER'S SPICE BOX. Nast mocks the Liberal Republican coalition of 1872, depicting Sumner and Schurz as recyclers of stale political grievances—old hash reheated rather than fresh policy. Logan, a regular Republican loyalist, registers the result as foul. The signed lower-right corner confirms Nast's authorship.