--- title: The Vote of the Gold Democrats; Their Country's Welfare Before Their Party's Welfare (Puck, 12 September 1900) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vote-of-gold-democrats-1900/ description: Chromolithograph by Louis Dalrymple in Puck, 12 September 1900. Men, one in a 'Sound Money Democrat' sash, step up to a ballot box under a 'Republican… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![The Vote of the Gold Democrats; Their Country's Welfare Before Their Party's Welfare (Puck, 12 September 1900)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vote-of-gold-democrats-1900.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vote-of-gold-democrats-1900.jpg) # The Vote of the Gold Democrats; Their Country's Welfare Before Their Party's Welfare (Puck, 12 September 1900) Chromolithograph by Louis Dalrymple in Puck, 12 September 1900. Men, one in a 'Sound Money Democrat' sash, step up to a ballot box under a 'Republican Sound Money' banner with McKinley's portrait; at left a small bearded figure holds a ballot under a 'Populist' banner with Bryan's portrait and '16 to 1'; a flag reads 'Democrat: No Nomination'. The caption praises the gold Democrats' choice. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` PUCK POPULIST 16 TO 1 [on the left banner] DEMOCRAT NO NOMINATION [on the centre flag] SOUND MONEY DEMOCRAT [on the sash] REPUBLICAN SOUND MONEY [on the right banner] THE VOTE OF THE GOLD DEMOCRATS;- THEIR COUNTRY'S WELFARE BEFORE THEIR PARTY'S WELFARE. Dalrymple. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. ``` Small labels on the voters' ballots and one sash are not legible. [← The Promised Feast (Puck centerfold, 8 August 1900)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-promised-feast-both-candidates-1900/) ['Are our teachings, then, in vain?' (Keppler, Puck, 3 October 1900) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keppler-teachings-in-vain-1900/) ## Using the same techniques - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer) - [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-stop-van-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Name-calling, Bandwagon) - [Democratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-whole-hog-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon) - ["Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon, Name-calling). Content note: Partisan caricature of named politicians that uses the epithet 'Black Dan' for Daniel Webster and regional stereotypes in the speech balloons. - ["Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/) (United States · Apr 1836 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ['The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-line-take-care-of-the-locomotive-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Bandwagon) - ['The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)