Taft to-morrow
William H. Taft and William Jennings Bryan play on a seesaw. Bryan, on the upper half, holds papers labeled “Speech in reply to Taft,” and Taft, on the lower half, is writing “Memo for reply” on a pad of paper.
Comments and Context
A month before the presidential election, and the nominally (or traditionally) Democratic magazine Puck continued to tweak the Republican William H. Taft and the Democrat William Jennings Bryan with equal middle-distance solicitude and, basically, gentleness. The journal never could accept Bryan’s radical policies nor his lack of political sophistication; and it had cordially endorsed many of President Theodore positions, which Taft implicitly pledged to continue if elected.