The Hobo pictured is
#34: Senator Cletus Scoffpossum
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Stubbornly relying on his "Stay the Course" platform regarding the "War on Tourism," Senator Cletus Scoffpossum debates William Jennings Bryan, and is found wanting.
Col. Bryan stands by politely, then responds:
"The nation is of age and can do what it pleases; it can spurn the traditions of the past; it can repudiate the principles upon which the nation rests; it can employ force instead of reason; it can substitute might for right; it can conquer weaker people; it can exploit their lands, appropriate their property and kill their people; but it cannot repeal the moral law or escape the punishment decreed for the violation of human rights." (1900 speech, quoted in "The Peerless Leader, William Jennings Bryan" by Paxton Hibben, 1929).Flickr Tags
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