Reading his future
An old woman, known as “Madame Democracy Palmist,” reads William Randolph Hearst’s palm and speaks of the future. Caption: “You have reason to fear a large, dark man, who will shortly return from abroad!”
Comments and Context
William Jennings Bryan had been on an extensive world tour through 1905-1906. The tour was largely forgotten by history, but Bryan met with many world and cultural leaders on these journeys. Since he was a party leader in the United States and always a potential president, leaders and monarchs generally were happy to meet the famous Bryan. He met with fewer heads of state than, perhaps, Ulysses S. Grant on his famous and extensive post-president tour, or than Theodore Roosevelt would meet in a few years after he left the White House, yet Bryan had significant discussions about international affairs, and cultural exchanges with such as Count Leo Tolstoy.
