Sottek cartoon about William Randolph Hearst's campaign funds, Frank Sottek, 3 May 1904

The barrel (so full of coins that it is leaking) represents the funds that william randolph hearst brought to his failed 1904 campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. The miniature men with wings and top hats, fluttering around the barrel and declaring that it is "the real stuff", are politically-active people whose support hearst was attempting to secure. Date: 3 May 1904.