Salt River" Political Cartoon

United States, 1880. Very good. Toned.. A pocket-sized political cartoon (3.5" by 2.25") poking fun at a politician's failed bid for mayor. The caption reads, "HECTOR falls in climbing into the Mayor's Chair". In the woodcut image, an onlooker points as a whiskered politician falls from a tall pole into a river, after trying to reach the "mayor's chair" at the top of the pole. The river he is falling into the labeled "Salt River". The turn of phrase "to go up Salt River" or "to be rowed up Salt River" is a catch phrase usually used in the context of political candidates or parties that find themselves defeated or pushed to the wayside. It originated in the 1820s, and was heavily used in the 1848 Presidential campaign (e.g. cartoons showing Zachary Taylor with his head above water while rivals drown in "Salt River").