Abstract
One of the most caricatured figures in the presidential election of 1884 ran for no political office. By pulling support from the Republicans, Harper's Weekly editor George William Curtis became the target of visceral attacks from pro-GOP cartoonists. In addition to such time-honored methods as charging defectors with treason and hypocrisy, editors and cartoonists viciously attacked the masculinity of Curits and like-minded “Mugwumps,” playing upon cultural uncertainly over the meaning of manhood during the Gilded Age and equating a lack of political loyalty with alack of male characteristics. Thus, the cartoons served as sites of contention in the broader cultural war that gave readers an opportunity to negotiate a moral code as the battle of the Christian Gentleman versus the Masculine Achiever was coming to its climax.
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