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Puck, v. 55, no. 1424

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Out of reach

Out of reach

William Jennings Bryan sits on a donkey on the “Democratic Merry-Go-Round.” He is holding up a yellow, diminutive William Randolph Hearst who has a small sword labeled with dollar signs ($) in his right hand, attempting to spear the “Nomination” hanging at the bottom of the canopy of the merry-go-round.

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William Randolph Hearst is depicted in Pughe’s cartoon as a plaything of William Jennings Bryan, but the actual situation — the political dynamic between Bryan and Hearst, and the politics of the moment — was different.

Chicago, June 21, 1904 – “All in favor of the nomination will say aye!”

Chicago, June 21, 1904 – “All in favor of the nomination will say aye!”

Inside a convention hall, an over-sized Theodore Roosevelt leans forward at a podium, holding a gavel raised in his right hand. In the foreground are the delegates attending the Republican National Convention, June 21, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Published more than a week before the opening of the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Keppler and Puck dispelled any remote vestiges of doubt or suspense in this cartoon. Theodore Roosevelt was president; his renomination was not in doubt, he was in complete control of his party’s machinery, and was beloved in all sections of the country.