“Father Knickerbocker’s Next Job,” Puck, August 28, 1895. The symbolic figure of New York City ejects a “Hayseed Legislator” whose hat scatters papers labeled “Anti Local Option” and “Anti Home Rule Laws.” The caption reads: “He got rid of Tammany rule, and now, if he gets rid of hayseed rule, he will be ready for home rule.” The image shows a late nineteenth-century triangulated governance contest among machine corruption (Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker sits on the ground), state legislative overreach, and municipal self-governance.