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Color political cartoon of an elephant and donkey fighting over spoils at a fence while a man carries a civil service reform

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For their own good, John Samuel Pughe (1895), Library of Congress. Via artnap.com

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A color political cartoon shows a man in a dark suit carrying a plank labeled Extension of Civil Service Reform beside a fence, while an elephant and a donkey sit beneath a sign reading Offices. Smaller vignettes in the corners show each party beaten in 1884, 1892, 1888 and 1894 with all the offices. The work is titled For their own good, made in 1895 by John Samuel Pughe.

Museum record: Library of Congress