The first recruit
President Roosevelt stitches a uniform around William H. Taft who holds a “big stick.” Caption: On His Way to Join the “Hamilton County Ring Killers Brigade.” Twenty-five Hundred Volunteers Wanted.
Comments and Context
A small, rural newspaper evidently “borrowed” an image and premise from a major cartoonist in a major city in order to graft local references and apply a different context. In this case, from the White House scrapbook, the Hamilton County Hornet in Williams, Iowa (there was another publication in the country named The Wasp), transformed a cartoon from the New York World.