A woman labeled "Democracy" wearing a blindfold labeled "Stupidity" is pushed by Samuel J. Randall toward a chair labeled "Presidenti[al] Chair", with several eggs in the way on the ground, they are labeled "Honest Naval Appropriation, Civil Service Reform, Honest River - Harbor Appropriation, Economy, Anti-Silver Coinage, National Banking System, Tariff Reform, [and] Prompt Legislation", two of the eggs are broken; among a group of men laughing, in the background on the right, are John Logan, John Sherman, and William D. Kelley.

Featured on PDR in the collection The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible. Another variation (depicted in many of the images featured here) involved tipping an egg from a bowl, and then trying to flip the bowl over on top of it, all with only using one's feet and staying within a chalk circle drawn on the ground. Although, as shown in many of its depictions in art, the pastime is associated with peasant villages of the 16th and 17th century, one of the earliest references to egg-dancing relates to the marriage of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy on Easter Monday in 1498. The event was described…