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A man labeled “Republican Campaign Manager” waves a cane, topped with the head of an elephant, at a small dog wearing a collar labeled “The Tariff” that has been following him.
L. M. Glackens’s cover cartoon is a masterpiece of simplicity, portraying a political situation with many implications: a handsome cover, simple but eye-catching on newsstands.
A gigantic boar, wearing a crown with “$” and a shawl labeled “Plutocratic Greed,” holds the U.S. Capitol dome labeled “Special Privilege,” inverted to form a bucket from which it is sowing seeds labeled “Abuse of Power, Arrogance, [and] Contempt of Law” onto a field sprouting “Socialist votes.” It is stepping on an American flag and a Liberty cap.
As Puck magazine grew bolder, more radical in its pronouncements, and more extreme, almost brutal, in conceptual presentations, it occasionally seemed to take on socialist tones.