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# "The Republican Split of 1867" - Judge Magazine Cartoon This satirical piece by Theo. Seuss depicts the 1867 Republican Party fracture. **General Zachery Corwin** ("Old Zach"), a Republican campaigner, is mocked for riding a "high-wheel bicycle" promoting protective tariffs. The cartoon illustrates the party's internal conflict: conservatives like Corwin championed tariffs, while a faction (including figures like **Phillip Hornbridge**, a Brooklyn schoolteacher) opposed them as damaging. The central cartoon shows Corwin being pulled apart by competing Republican factions—depicted as "Fugitive Slave Law," "Infant Industries," and "Congress"—over the Horsechestnut Warehouse scandal. The text notes this split ultimately led to Democrat James K. Polk's election, ending Republican dominance and leaving figures like Hornbridge politically displaced.
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At __fe_ JUDGE FAMOUS Pi General Zachery (alias “Old Zach,” alias’ “Drum- mer Boy”) Corwin For sheer pathos and rock- ribbed brutality there is no story in all American History that equals that of the Infamous Split of 1867. The Civil War was over and General Zachery (“Old Zach") Corwin was trying hard to win the Republican nomina- tion. It was he, as you may re- member, who had held Fort Wil- mont single-handed squadrons of rebel inst two dragoons while Sheridan marched to the sea. In com memoration of this feat of sterling gal- lantry, Anne Tolbert com- posed the spir- ited ballad, “Our Drum- mer Boy.” It ran: “Oh, Drummer Boy;Oh,grand Old Zach! Though wound- ed, you turned not your back. You stayed and stemmed the rebel tide With nobody else upon your side. So now it is our prime intent To have you, Drummer Boy, for presi- dent!” The Republican Split of 1867 By Theo. Seuss, 2nd These catehy words were set to music and the strains echoed and forth across the whole continent. Zach went from one city to another on his high-wheel id spoke in favor of his point—the high bac hicyele big cam} protective And then, the night before the convention was to meet, the bombshell was exploded. Andrew (USly Andy”) Fosdick, a book- keeper in’ the Department of Commerce, divulged the news, that it was none other than Old Zach Corwin himself who owned and controlled the vicious Horse- chestnut Trust! That year had seen a bumper crop of Horsechestnuts and this terrible combine had bought and hoarded up the entire crop in a large warehouse in the Bronx, which at that time was the lead- ing horsechestnut center. Readily Phillip Hornbridge. Yoaned through the courtesy of kis descendants the seand: public put two gether and now saw why Zach Corwin was so cager for the high protective tariff. Incensed. the Republicans nom inated Phillip Hornbridge, a shorthand instructor in the Girls’ High School, Brooklyn. All the dishonest people in the country still rallied about Corwin, how ever, and he ran for President as an independent. This. split the Republican yote and in the confusion the Demo- cratic nominee, Jas. K. Polk, was elected, His glorious war record now clouded with shame, Zachery Cor- win shut him- self up in his horsechestnut and two warehouse and never came out. Poor Phillip Ho rn bridge lost his job at the High School and died the follow- ing Monday— a broken man. And ex: B years later war A striking cartoon of the times which greatly aided the was declared Democrats in garnering their victory on. Spain. comicbooks.com