Our political drama, conventions, campaigns, candidates (1904)
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 1847-1928 · New York, Scott-Thaw co. · leaf 110
a painting, but areal, live eagle, tied by the legs, surrounded by awreath of leaves, and hoisted upon a pole, after themanner of the Roman standards. The imperialbird was carried by a stout sailor, more pleased thanever was a sergeant permitted to hold one of thestrings of the canopy in a Catholic… … THE GREAT PRESIDENTIAL SWEEPSTAKES standard-bearers were as grave as the MexicanIndians who bore the sacred tapers. The Demo- 108 OUR POLITICAL DRAMA cratic procession, also, like the Catholic procession,had its halting-places; it stopped before the housesof the Jackson men to fill the air with…
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