harpers1872mar23

 

Caption: "Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire."

Source/Date: Harper's Weekly, March 23, 1872

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Creator: Thomas Nast

Remarks: New York is a series of stick figures jumping from the frying pan into the Erie fire. Nast suggests that the Erie ring is the basis of the Tammany ring and that simply getting rid of the latter would do little good.

Keywords: Political influence