------------------------------------------------------------------------ CAMPAIGN POEMS AND PORTRAITS BY PROMINENT POLITICIANS [Illustration: MR. CLEVELAND’S PICTURE OF HIMSELF AND MISS DEMOCRACY. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CAMPAIGN PORTRAITS AND POEMS [Illustration: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, BY VOX POPULI ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “THE REPUBLICAN DERBY” [Illustration: ON THE EVE OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HUMORS OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION [Illustration: THE DELEGATE—“_They say the night of June 21 is the shortest of the year, but, by geminy, it seems the longest to me._” ] [Illustration: _The editor of the_ “Anaconda Avalanche” _finds that they have not made provision for his staff_. ] [Illustration: THE LAY OF THE DELEGATE—“_I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls._” ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AFTER THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION [Illustration: NEWS FROM THE FIRING LINE ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MR. CLEVELAND—“I WON’T RUN ANOTHER STEP” [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOMINATING THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT [Illustration: “_Gentlemen of the convention, I rise to nominate for Vice-President that peerless statesman, that grand old Jeffersonian Democrat, that wealthy patriot, Mr.—Mr.—ahem—Mr.—_” ] [Illustration: “—_that wealthy patriot, Mr. Davis, whose name is a household word in Elkins, West Virginia. It is moved and seconded that the nomination be made unanimous._” ] [Illustration: “_He is therefore nominated and the convention is adjourned._” ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GROVER—“I WASN’T VERY HUNGRY ANYHOW.” [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A SAD CASE OF DESERTION [Illustration: _Late Wednesday night a dark figure was seen to emerge from the neighboring gloom and deposit a mysterious bundle in the middle of a vast and lonely prairie. Plaintive cries were heard to issue from the bundle._ ] [Illustration: _The figure then stealthily departed, leaving the bundle in the midst of the prairie._ ] [Illustration: