Content note: A multi-panel convention page including a caricatured Black child figure labelled Topsy holding a beer mug, drawn with exaggerated features, as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Nearing the End (multi-panel convention sketches)
A multi-panel page of convention sketches signed 'Jim Berryman, Phila., Pa.': delegates carrying state placards for Roosevelt, a caricatured figure labelled 'Topsy' with a beer mug, a man labelled 'The V.P.' carrying a bag into a 'Texas Welcomes You' headquarters, and a dazed man on a 'We Want Al Smith' sign. The slogan-carrying crowd is the nearest technique fit (bandwagon, weak): the cartoon records the display of support rather than itself urging it.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- June 27, 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- 1936 US Election
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743107 (NAID 5743107).
Text on the object
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TAKES DEMONSTRATIONS QUITE CALMLY..... "TOPSY" IN THE MUMMERS PARADE HAD TO TAKE TIME OUT FOR A BEER... TEXAS WELCOMES YOU CHARLIE MICHELSON, PUBLICITY DIRECTOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, SEEMS PRETTY WELL SATISFIED AT THE WAY THINGS HAVE RUN OFF! THE V.P. WASH. D.C. WHAT A FUROR THIS "VISITOR" TO THE TEXAS HEADQUARTERS CAUSED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THE "FORGOTTEN MAN" WAS FOUND-- STILL OUT COLD LONG AFTER THE OTHER AGITATORS HAD BEEN BOUNCED OUT! WE WANT AL SMITH THE SLOGAN-EERS ON PARADE - NO. CAROLINA GEORGIA THE GRANITE STATE IS SOLID FOR FRANKLIN 3 HARD YEARS WITH HOOVER- 3 GOOD YEARS WITH ROOSEVELT IN MISSISSIPPI Cool COLORADA Hot for ROOSEVELT F.D.R. IS O.K. WITH OKLAHOMA MICHIGAN RIDES WITH ROOSEVELT PEDESTRIANS BEWARE! SO. DAKOTA JIM BERRYMAN PHILA. PA.
