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Taylor, Albert J. (Albert Jean), 1868-1927

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Who’s in the hole?

Who’s in the hole?

President Roosevelt smiles as Joseph Benson Foraker grabs onto his coat, which rips off and he falls into a deep hole. The U.S. Capitol building and Washington monument are in the background.

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The idea of this cartoon is to represent the end of the controversy between President Roosevelt and Senator Joseph Benson Foraker over the matter of a regiment of black troops being cashiered (not honorably discharged) after a melee near their barracks in Brownsville, Texas, left one man dead and another wounded. The accusations, defenses, and insults were the stuff of national interest for months.

On the wall

On the wall

President Roosevelt points to handwriting on the wall, “Regulation or Revolution?”, as he sits at a table with J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Huttleston Rogers.

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Comments and Context

Cartoonist Albert J. Taylor was earnest in his spin on a popular political-cartoon inspiration, the writing on the wall. Other than a wall, and writing, and perhaps an interrupted feast, any parallels to the Book of Daniel and Belshazzar’s Feast are elusive.

The “Gridiron club”

The “Gridiron club”

President Roosevelt holds a hot gridiron and runs after Senator Joseph Benson Foraker who is escaping through the Senate door. Meanwhile, Edward Henry Harriman runs toward a train to escape Roosevelt.

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Cartoonist Albert J. Taylor of the Los Angeles Times (about whom little is known; he was overshadowed by fellow art staffers like George Herriman, future creator of Krazy Kat) managed several clever puns in one cartoon frame when he addressed the imbroglio at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington D.C.