Democratic slogan in the 1884 U.S.
presidential
campaign. Republican
candidate and
lawyer James G. Blaine was found to have benefitted personally from helping a
railroad keep a
federal land grant. This was far from his only questionable pro-railroad act, in a time when the
robber barons essentially ran U.S. politics for 20-30 years.
The 1884 campaign was a particularly good one for sloganeers -- competing with "Blaine, Blaine..." was the Republican slogan "Ma, ma, where's my pa?" bashing Democrat Grover Cleveland for having fathered an illegitimate child.