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To the members of the A.S.P.C.A.

To the members of the A.S.P.C.A.

Jefferson Seligman summarizes the recent meeting to consider the need for a salaried president of the New York chapter of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It was determined that Alfred Wagstaff, the current president, should stay on and receive a yearly honorarium. Seligman lists the Society’s current work and goals, which focus primarily on educational initiatives to promote animal welfare throughout the country.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-24

Exercising the mounts

Exercising the mounts

A bloated William Jennings Bryan, with a paper extending from his pocket labeled “Membership Fat Man’s Club. W.J. Bryan,” rides a diminutive Democratic donkey, while an even larger William H. Taft rides a diminutive “G.O.P” elephant. Caption: A case for the S.P.C.A.

comments and context

Comments and Context

At the end of his life, in 1925, William Jennings Bryan had enjoyed, or endured, periods of corpulence, probably inflicted by uncountable chicken dinners on the Chautauqua Circuit. That was his image as portrayed by Frederic March (as “Matthew Harrison Brady”) in the motion picture Inherit the Wind. In fact neither at the end of his life, nor in 1907 as in Frank A. Nankivell’s caricature on the cover of Puck, was Bryan ever as heavy as drawn.