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To sweep the Augean Stable. FOR PRESIDENT, Andrew Jackson. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN C. CALHOUN.
   
Complete Explanation:
Election ticket for Jackson delegates from various Ohio counties in the presidential contest of 1828, illustrated with an image of a straw broom. The broom, a traditional pictorial and literary symbol of reform, is linked here to one of the mythological labors of Hercules -- his cleansing of the Augean stables.

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