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Updated: May 17, 2025

Thomas Nast's able pencil caricatured Blaine in Harper's Weekly as a magnetic candidate too heavy for the party elephant to carry; Puck portrayed him as the "tattooed man" covered all over with "Little Rock," "Mulligan Letters" and the like. Life described him as a Take all I can gettery, Mulligan lettery, Solid for Blaine old man. Nor was the contest of scurrility entirely one-sided.

Charles Ramsdell Lingley - The United States Since the Civil War