Senator Hopkins - "I Wonder if My Seat is Safe?"

Senator Hopkins - "I Wonder if My Seat is Safe?"

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949

Political cartoons

Political corruption

Illinois. General Assembly

Deneen, Charles Samuel, 1863-1940

Primaries

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Democratic Party (U.S.)

Hopkins, Albert J., 1849-1922

Political candidates

Political campaigns

Elections

Illinois State Capitol (Springfield, Ill.)

Illinois. General Assembly

Republican elephant (Symbolic character)

Senator Albert J. Hopkins sits on a chair in the middle of a fenced in area labeled "Direct primary vote." Men representing the Republican and Democratic minorities ride the Illinois G. O. P. elephant as it breaks through the Deneen fence and runs over a man representing the Republican majority. Clouds representing arguments surround the Illinois capitol building as men sit on top of and next to the building.

Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon satirizes Senator Albert Hopkins's defeat for a second term in the U. S. Senate. His defeat led to a prolonged deadlock in the Illinois House of Representatives over the 1909 Senate election, which lasted from January 19, 1909 through May 26, 1909. The deadlock eventually led to the Lorimer Scandal in which Democrats in the Illinois General assembly accepted bribes in exchange for votes for Charles Lorimer.

McCutcheon, John T.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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John T. McCutcheon Collection

John T. McCutcheon Collection

political cartoon

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