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Barnes is an inflated figure seated in "Root Camp," holding a "Renomination for Governor" document behind his back, while motioning to a small Whitman who wears a "Hughes for President" badge and holds rocks, to come over to his camp.
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Signed, lower right: Clubb 16 / [club logogram].
Title inscribed in pencil below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.912)
During the 1916 New York State Republican Convention, Governor Charles Seymour Whitman and party leader William Barnes, disagreed over whom to support for the presidential nomination. Barnes supported Senator Elihu Root while Whitman supported former New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes. Barnes as party leader, held enough power to assure Whitman his renomination for Governor. The image suggests that Whitman would have to support Root if he wanted to maintain the governorship.
Published in: The Rochester Herald, February 23, 1916.
Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art, "The Great Game of Politics," 1972.