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Puck, v. 64, no. 1641

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Why not introduce a little novelty into the campaign?

William Jennings Bryan and William H. Taft debate from the rear of a railroad car while whistle-stop campaigning. Vignettes show them working shifts shaking hands, kissing babies, “Awarding Prizes at County Fairs,” exercising by tossing a medicine ball labeled “My Policies,” associating themselves with Theodore Roosevelt, and showing “Affection for the Filipino.”

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In another midsummer cartoon that addresses current political event and avoiding issues and partisanship, Puck‘s J. S. Pughe contributes a group of fantasy drawings based on the two Williams, rivals for the presidency in the aftermath of the Republican and Democratic conventions.

Times have changed

A dejected, well-dressed man labeled “The Corporation” sits next to an ice bucket filled with bottles labeled “Wall St. Brand, Privilege Brut, Immunity Fizz, [and] Stand Pat Sec,” while in the background William Jennings Bryan and William H. Taft are holding bottles of “Publicity Lithia.” The “Corporation” man misses those days when Mark Hanna was a driving force in presidential campaigns. Caption: The Wine Agent — Gee! When Mark was alive I opened a case a minute.

Comments and Context

It might seem odd that cartoonist Udo J. Keppler chose to delve almost five years in the past to invoke the name of a political boss who wined and dined corporate donors. Mark Hanna, senator and chairman of the Republican National Committee, was a confidant of President William McKinley, a presidential aspirant himself, and friend of the rich and famous, cultivated his party’s connections with policies favored by corporations and trusts.