People's Party (U.S.)

James H. Ferriss sends Theodore Roosevelt Gifford Pinchot’s latest Saturday Evening Post editorial and a speech by Ira Copley with some of his stances highlighted. Ferriss says since he is the Populist party national chairman, he is invested in these matters. He also mentions a speech Roosevelt gave recently in Osawatomie where he briefly mentioned finances and says these kinds of discussions must be discrete. He thinks they are living in good times and hopes to see everyone voting together.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-12

Uncle Sam sits on a fence and looks at nominees for president and vice-president of various parties: William H. Taft and J. S. Sherman of the Republican Party, William Jennings Bryan and John Worth Kern of the Democratic Party, Thomas E. Watson of the People’s Party, Eugene W. Chafin of the Prohibition Party, and Thomas Louis Hisgen of the Independence Party. Uncle Sam says to a teddy bear, “Well, they all know they’re it now!” The teddy bear replies, “But the worst is yet to come to most of ’em.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

Clifford Kennedy Berryman’s cartoon in the nation’s capital paper, and then the largest circulation in Washington, the Star, was virtually a capstone to the close of the four-year scramble for presidential nominations, and the opening start of the actual campaign. He depicted the major and relatively major candidates. Uncle Sam and the teddy bear mascot, and Berryman himself, commented on the universal smiles in the group; but that was likely due to the cartoonist’s famous reliance on available photographs, as to their optimism that provided the cartoon’s theme.