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Susan B. Anthony Chasing Grover Cleveland

Charles L. Bartholomew · 1905

A 1905 political cartoon by Charles L. Bartholomew showing Susan B. Anthony chasing President Grover Cleveland with an umbrella labeled 'Woman Suffrage.'

Depicts Anthony as a combative, sympathetic public figure in a 1905 political cartoon.

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Ink cartoon: a stout man in a suit, labeled Grover Cleveland, runs left, his top hat flying off, holding a book titled 'What I Know About Women's Clubs'. A woman labeled Susan B. Anthony, with a sash reading 'Ladies' and a sign 'Home Trouble', chases him, swinging an umbrella labeled 'Woman Suffrage'. A small figure of Uncle Sam watches at right.
Charles L. Bartholomew, Susan B. Anthony Chasing Grover Cleveland, 1905.

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What it is

This ink cartoon, drawn by Charles Lewis Bartholomew in 1905, shows a man labeled Grover Cleveland fleeing while carrying a book titled "What I Know About Women's Clubs," chased by a woman labeled Susan B. Anthony swinging an umbrella marked "Woman Suffrage." A figure of Uncle Sam watches from the side.

Why it matters

The cartoon responds to former President Cleveland's public criticism of women's clubs. By 1905 Anthony was a well-known and, to this cartoonist, sympathetic public figure, shown here as combative but humorous rather than threatening. It shows how the press used humor to comment on the ongoing debate over women's roles in public life.

Look closer

  • What does the cartoonist's choice to make Anthony the pursuer, rather than the pursued, suggest about public opinion of her by 1905?
  • Why is Uncle Sam included watching the scene, and what might his reaction suggest?
  • What does the cartoon leave out about the real debate over women's clubs and suffrage?

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