Images from HIUS 202

) "Cabinet Meeting-If Al Were President," This cartoon appeared in the conservative periodical The Fellowship Forum. The illustration, representing Smith as the pawn of the Catholic hierarchy, was typical of the extreme anti-Catholic Klan propaganda. The 1928 campaign helped to inflame these passions and prejudices and polarized the nation. Source: Edmund Moore, A Catholic Runs for President (1928).

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