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title: McKinley's Easter Egg (Puck, 18 April 1900)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-mckinleys-easter-egg-1900/
description: Chromolithograph by Louis Dalrymple in Puck, 18 April 1900 (v. 47, no. 1206, special Easter centerfold).
section: Collection
---

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# McKinley's Easter Egg (Puck, 18 April 1900)

Chromolithograph by Louis Dalrymple in Puck, 18 April 1900 (v. 47, no. 1206, special Easter centerfold). McKinley, drawn as a top-hatted rooster, strokes his chin over a cracked egg lettered 'Vice-Presidential Aspirations' from which men's heads on chick bodies emerge; one chick at right, in glasses and a white hat, carries the label 'Teddy'. The press-cartoon device is to reduce the candidates for the second place on the ticket to chicks hatched by the president, which is a status-lowering label ([[name-calling]]) applied to McKinley and to every aspirant alike.

## Text on the object

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

```
PUCK
ASPIRATIONS [on the egg]
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL [on the egg]
TEDDY [on the right-hand chick's wing; the other labels are not legible]
McKINLEY'S EASTER EGG.
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN.
```

[← "Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-rire-cecil-rhodes-leandre-1900/) [The Ill-Fated Sister: A Case of Unjust Discrimination (Puck, 25 April 1900) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-ill-fated-sister-puerto-rico-1900/)

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