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This political cartoon satirizes the Democratic Party's 1904 election strategy regarding farmers. The tall figure appears to represent the Democratic Party or its candidate, holding a banner reading "VERMONT'S REPUBLICAN SURPLUS 30 GOOD, PLURALITY 30,000." A caricatured farmer (left) looks confused or skeptical, examining bags labeled "Cotton Crops," "Dollar," and "Wheat"—representing agricultural commodities. The caption reads "The Democratic Surprise-Party," with the farmer asking, "Yes, I am goin' figure in this campaign! What?" The satire mocks Democratic attempts to appeal to farmers by promising economic benefits, suggesting farmers find the party's agricultural policy proposals unconvincing or contradictory. The Vermont reference indicates Republican electoral strength in farming regions.
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VOL. 47 NO. 1198 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO THE FARMERS, “The six muilioa farms of the United States, operated by men who, ‘asa class, are steadiast, single-minded and industrious, form the basis of all the other achievements of the American people, and are more fruitful than all their other resources. The men on those six million farms receive from the protective tariff what they most need, and that is the best of all possible markets. .... American farmers have prospered because the growth of their market has kept pace with the growth of their farms. The additional market continaally furnished for agricultural products by do- mestic manufacturers has been far in excess of the outlet to other lands. = + + + Long ago over-production would have checked the marvelous devel- ‘opment of our national agriculture bat for the steadily.increasing demand of American manufacturers for farm products required as raw materials for steadily-expanding industries. facturer purchases his farm supplies almost exclasively in his own country. Nine-tenths of all the raw materials of every kind and description con- sumed in American manufactories are of American production. American manufacturer never coald have placed this nation at the head of the manufacturing nations of the world if he had not had behind him, securing him every variety of raw material, the exhaustless resources of the American farm, developed by the skill and the enterprise of intelligent and educated farmers. On the other hand, the debt of the farmers to the manufacturers is equally heavy, and the future of American agriculture is bound up in the future of American manufactures. The two industries have become, under the economic policy of our government, so closely in- terwoven, so mutually interdependent, that neither can hope to maintain itself at the high-water mark of progress without the other. Whatever makes to the advantage of one is equally to the advantage of the other.” —From the president's letter of acceptance, September 12th, 1904. COPTRIENT 1904 By JUOSE COMPANY PUBLISWERS, 225 FOURIM AVE, NEW YORK, OCTOBER | 1904 or vosee PRICE 10 CENTS Comnane, Tete Reawrenee as 4 Taape Maen THE DEMOCRATIC SURPRISE-PARTY. Farmer Vorer—“ Yes, 1 am goin’ to figure in this campaign! What?” Sacketr2 Wilbeims Liths & Pig Co NewYor® comicbooks.com