_PUCK, October 22nd, 1884._
The New York _Sun’s_ “bolt” of the Democratic ticket during the
Cleveland Campaign of 1884 was so characteristic, so extravagant and
so funny in its fantastic futility, that it can not be forgotten, even
now. This cartoon appeared about the time that Mr. Chas. A. Dana was
running General Benj. F. Butler as a candidate for the Presidency,
and was predicting for that harlequin among political adventurers a
majority over Mr. Cleveland in the City of New York. General Butler
came out of the death-struggle with four-thousand-odd-hundred votes,
_in all_, as his share of the suffrages of New York’s citizens; and
Mr. Dana, a day or two after the election, blithely caroled, to the
somewhat discordant accompaniment of his organ:
“We may be happy yet,
You bet.”
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