This hard-hitting cartoon is a virtual grab-bag of negative images of Grant and the Republican party he led in 1872. The most obvious message echoes his long-time reputation as a drunk, while the bayonets accuse him of military despotism. But equally damning is the way his supporters -- recognizable figures of the time -- prostrate themselves in drunken worship of him. Meanwhile, the shining quote above exhorts "honest citizens" to rise up and "sweep from power the men who prostitute the name of an honored party to selfish interests."