Bismarck embraces his political offspring. The Progressives (with “F.” standing for “Fortschrittler”) are banished to the shadows, and Bismarck has half-turned away from the Centre Party leader Ludwig Windthorst (1812–1891). The National Liberals get due attention, but “brother farmer” and another “agrarian” are conspicuous favorites. The caption reads: “One after the other! Each well-behaved child will get his turn.”
Source: “Kanzlerliebe” [“Chancellor’s Love”] (1882), from Wilhelm
Scholz, Bismarck-Album Des
Kladderadatsch. 12. Aufl. Berlin: A. Hofmann, 1890, p. 143.
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