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title: Take Your Choice of the Two Bills! (Judge cover, 13 October 1900)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/judge-take-your-choice-two-bills-1900/
description: Cover of Judge, 13 October 1900 (vol. 39, no. 991), by Grant Hamilton.
section: Collection
---

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# Take Your Choice of the Two Bills! (Judge cover, 13 October 1900)

Cover of Judge, 13 October 1900 (vol. 39, no. 991), by Grant Hamilton. Two mock one-dollar notes are stacked: 'Bill McKinley', 'worth 100 cents or one dollar in gold, gold standard', above 'Bill Bryan', 'worth 53 cents only, free silver'. The masthead carries the slogan 'We want no change' between two pails marked 'Four years more of the full dinner pail'. The pairing converts the silver question into a single price comparison and gives each candidate a first-name nickname on a banknote.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
WE WANT NO CHANGE
FOUR YEARS MORE OF THE FULL DINNER PAIL [on each of the two pails]
Judge
OCTOBER 13 1900.  VOL. 39 NO. 991  PRICE 10 CENTS

BILL McKINLEY
WORTH 100 CENTS OR ONE DOLLAR IN GOLD
GOLD STANDARD

16 TO 1
BILL BRYAN
WORTH 53 CENTS ONLY.
FREE SILVER
Hard Times

GRANT HAMILTON.
TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF THE TWO BILLS!
```

Fine print on the notes and the issue line is partly illegible; only legible text is given.

[← Many Happy Returns - of the Gold to the Rightful Owners (Tom Browne, The Sketch)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/many-happy-returns-kruger-gold-1900/) [McKinley & Roosevelt (Underwood & Underwood stereograph) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/underwood-mckinley-roosevelt-stereograph-1900/)

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