Down in the right-hand lower corner of the picture a pocket-flask labelled “Bourbon” may puzzle the reader who turns this page a generation hence. It is a sly reference to a jest well known and well understood at the time,--it had a much earlier origin. The Democrats were called Bourbons because it was supposed that “they never learned anything and never forgot anything.” As it happened, Bourbon County, Kentucky, had given its name to a brand of whiskey at that time in great favor. As whiskey was America’s democratic drink, in the broader sense of the word, by a natural association of ideas Bourbon whiskey was set down as the drink of the Democratic party. It was generally known as “Bourbon” and pronounced “Burbin.” [Illustration] JUST THE DIFFERENCE. _PUCK, July 28th, 1880._ This cartoon depicts so simply and clearly the position of the two great parties and their respective leaders in the early part of the campaign of 1880 that even at this date it hardly calls for any elucidation whatever. It may, however, be proper to note that the placing of Mr. Arthur as a burden upon Mr. Garfield’s back, in the bag labeled “Credit Mobilier” and “De Golyer Contract,” is not intended to imply that Mr. Arthur himself had any connection with these scandals. Mr. Arthur himself undoubtedly was regarded as an incumbrance to Mr. Garfield’s canvass because of his very unwise choice of associates among the politicians of New York, and his singular indifference to the regard of the people with whom his birth and breeding should naturally have led him to affiliate. In this it must be admitted that Mr. Arthur did himself an injustice, for which, however, he amply atoned when Mr. Garfield’s death threw upon him the responsibilities of the Chief Executive. [Illustration: HE CARRIES THE PARTY. THE PARTY CARRIES HIM. ] A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! _PUCK, December 22d. 1880._