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# Political Cartoon Analysis: "No Thanks!" This Judge magazine cover from May 30, 1896 depicts a political figure labeled "Harrison" rejecting a box of "Presidential Nomination Cigars." The cartoon satirizes Harrison's reluctance to accept the Republican presidential nomination for that election year. The figure on the left (presumably representing party leadership or a political operative) offers the cigars as a symbolic gift of nomination, while Harrison waves them away, stating "I don't smoke that brand." This is a pun: he refuses both the literal cigars and the nomination itself. The joke relies on understanding that Harrison declined to seek another term in 1896, making his rejection of the "nomination" the central political commentary of the satire.
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VOL. 30 NO. 763 MAY 30 1896 PRICE 10 CENTS EMTERES AT 1He Pest Ormice av New Yous as Secona Coase MATTER, Corrmient 1896 OY THe Jueee Pumuismine Co, Tire eorntente AB A Teor Mann, WR OST OFX 5 COPHMGNT 1896, BY THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY OF NEW YORK. NO, THANKS! Harrison—“I don't smoke that brand.”