Cleaning Up
Rival parties and their presidential candidates claimed the idea of housekeeping as a metaphor for governing. In the 1880s, the distribution of lapel pins in the form of miniature whisk brooms required no explanation other than the addition of the candidate’s name or portrait.
Gifts of Robert Sherman, Nannine Young, Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana, and the Honorable Michael V. DiSalle in memory of Thomas H. Williams