Content note: 1888 Republican poster carrying the slogan 'foreign pauper labor'. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Our nation's choice, Benjamin Harrison, Levi P. Morton
Broadside with oval portraits of Harrison and Morton framed by allegorical women, biographies in side columns, the Republican platform adopted at Chicago, and figures of Lincoln and Grant with printed mottoes. The Lincoln and Grant figures and the "Loyalty to the Union" badge borrow their prestige for the ticket (transfer), the quoted mottoes put words to named men (testimonial), and the heading "No competition with foreign pauper labor" attaches a label to foreign workers (name-calling).
- Date
- 1888
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Charles Lubrecht, New York (publisher and copyright claimant)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Cleveland Administration
- Leader
- Grover Cleveland
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1888 US Election
- Techniques
- TransferTestimonialName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain by age (published 1888); LOC rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Text on the object
OUR NATION'S CHOICE. / THE REPUBLICAN BANDANNA: "OUR GLORIOUS STARS AND STRIPES." / NO FREE TRADE! NO COMPETITION WITH FOREIGN PAUPER LABOR. / NUMBER OF ELECTORAL VOTES OF EACH STATE [table] / BENJAMIN HARRISON, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. / LEVI P. MORTON, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. / THE PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, Adopted at the Convention in Chicago, June 21st, 1888. / LOYALTY TO THE UNION / Liberty and the Union--One and Inseparable. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. / Protection for American Industries. U. S. GRANT. / Copyright 1888 by Charles Lubrecht. PUBLISHED BY CHARLES LUBRECHT, 193 PEARL ST. NEW YORK. AGENTS WANTED.
The biographies and the platform text in the columns are not transcribed here; only the display lettering is.
