Home / Guided Primary Source Analyses / Featured Source: American politics and the Tapeworm Party Guided Primary Source Analyses Featured Source: American politics and the Tapeworm Party May 14, 2012November 6, 2024 Chicago Bank Note Co. "Illustrated political chart, a cartoon of American politics and the Tapeworm Party." 1888 May 29. 1 print : chromolithograph. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. Summary: Print shows James G. Blaine as the head of a tapeworm made up of various government scandals over a map of the United States.