Chapter 9 | Wicked politics:
Page 120: A political cartoon from the Morning Oregonian, Oct. 19, 1896 (an election year, of course) which satirizes Jonathan Bourne's support of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan and the "Free Silver" populist movement. Bourne and the Oregonian both were Republican institutions, and the Oregonian, among many others, roundly criticized Bourne for this "betrayal." (Image: xxx)
Page 122: Senator John Mitchell as he looked in the 1870s. By the time of his famous battle with Jonathan Bourne, he was much older than this. (Image: Joseph Gaston)
