Title: crowding the cabinet-making business
abstract: illustration shows newspaper editors james gordon "bennett" holding up a bust of roscoe conkling labeled "sect. Interior" and a tray labeled "bennett's beauties" at his feet; whitelaw "reid" holding a tray labeled "please choose these and suit us, blaine & reid" on which are busts labeled "kkk" for "sec'y interior, sec'y of war, [and] treasury"; joseph "pulitzer" holding up a tray labeled "the world for pulitzer" on which are busts of himself; and charles a. Dana carrying a tray labeled "dana's darlings" with busts of john "kelly", thomas f. "grady", george m. "robeson", samuel s. "cox", and benjamin f. Butler; there is also a man carrying a basket labeled "hens' rights heroines" with busts of "lockwood, e. C. Stanton, susan b. Anthony, phoebe cozzens [sic], [and] lucy stone". President cleveland is visible through a window on the right, conducting interviews for cabinet positions. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: illus. From puck, v. 16, no. 406, (1884 december 17), centerfold.;j. Keppler.;copyright 1884 by keppler & schwarzmann.;caption: chorus of journalistic candidate-peddlers-- "here y'are now! - i've got the only genuine article! - don't mind that other fellow!"; title from item. Date: 1884.
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