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Puck, v. 64, no. 1650

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Sir Hudibras

Sir Hudibras

William Randolph Hearst, as Sir Hudibras, rides a mule labeled “Maud” being led by a man labeled “Gloomy Arthur” on a quixotic adventure. Papers protrude from Hearst’s pockets stating “The danger of Taft, The peril of Bryan, Philippics for the Peepul, Standard Oil letters, [and] Other letters.” Caption: “Accompanied by a clerk, one of the Independents, he ranges the country after the manner of Don Quixote, with zealous ignorance endeavoring to correct abuses and repress superstition.”–Century Dictionary.

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There are subtexts and now-obscure references in this L. M. Glackens cover cartoon in Puck, but it is presumed that average readers of 1908 understood. Although the caption makes reference to Don Quixote by Cervantes, the drawing and its purport rely on Hudibras by Samuel Butler, an epic poem loosely based on Quixote.

The winning of the West

The winning of the West

William H. Taft rides on horseback during a tour of the American West where he is making a campaign stop to address a gathering of cowboys, farmers, lumberjacks, and businessmen. Taft’s clothing and the horse’s brand, saddle, and bridle are emblazoned with “TR,” the initials of Theodore Roosevelt, suggesting Roosevelt’s endorsement of Taft in the upcoming presidential election.

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Will Crawford, illustrator and cartoonist of Western and Native American subjects invariably depicted sympathetically, became around this a major member of Puck Magazine’s art staff. In this double-page cartoon he calls upon his familiarity with the old and new American West to make a subtle but devastating comment on the inept Republican presidential candidate William H. Taft.