Caption: "Under one: Not this kind [with hand pointing up] but this kind [with hand pointing down]".]]>
Residents in Springfield flee the Lincoln League's rhetoric, in this political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon. The Lincoln League was a coalition of progressive Republicans in the early nineteen hundreds dedicated to reforms such as direct primaries, child labor laws, direct Senate elections, forest conservation, regulation of big business, and women in the workplace. McCutcheon captures conservative Republican/Democrat sentiment regarding the trust busting, or anti-monopoly tactics of the Lincoln League and other like-minded progressives in both parties.

On verso: "William Lorimer & The Lincoln League, Chicago, ca 1912[.]"]]>