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title: A little private mutual admiration scheme, - Joss Ben and his only priest, Sun-Sun
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/joss-ben-butler-1884/
description: 'Puck cover by Frederick Burr Opper, 27 August 1884: Benjamin F. Butler as a seated Chinese idol (''A Goodman Weighing 250 lbs.'') while Charles A. Dana of…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1884 cartoon with a Chinese-idol caricature. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![A little private mutual admiration scheme, - Joss Ben and his only priest, Sun-Sun](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/joss-ben-butler-1884.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/joss-ben-butler-1884.jpg)

# A little private mutual admiration scheme, - Joss Ben and his only priest, Sun-Sun

Puck cover by Frederick Burr Opper, 27 August 1884: Benjamin F. Butler as a seated Chinese idol ('A Goodman Weighing 250 lbs.') while Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, as his only priest, burns papers headed 'Butler's praises' and 'Butler's statesmanship'. A clipping at right quotes the New York Sun of 17 September 1878 saying Butler had ceased to be a Democrat.

[← The new Democratic eucalyptus tree purifies a political morass](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eucalyptus-cleveland-1884/) [The bogus workingman and his lonsome boom →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bogus-workingman-butler-1884/)

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