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Just out of reach!

Just out of reach!

Secretary of War William H. Taft stands on President Roosevelt’s back and reaches for the “nomination pudding,” but he is unable to reach it.

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was a Democratic newspaper and therefore not expected to do otherwise than tweak the Republican presidential aspirations of William H. Taft, and the efforts on his behalf extended by President Roosevelt. Yet this awkward situation — Taft not in easy reach of the nomination, Roosevelt’s exertions, and even (predictably) the cartoonist’s target of Taft’s enormous bulk. His avoirdupois of approximately 325 pounds enabled cartoonists frequently to have fun at his expanse.

The nation’s chef

The nation’s chef

President Roosevelt holds “relief sauce” in his right hand and wears a belt with a buckle that says, “In God we trust.” Behind him is “confidence pudding” with steam that says, “for everybody.” In the background is a turkey labeled “bank deposits” that says, “saved.”

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Cartoonist Joseph Harry Cunningham utilized the Thanksgiving holiday to find a theme for a political cartoon, and a vehicle for an entire menu of attacks on President Roosevelt. Besides the Thanksgiving holiday, in 1907 this was a season of economic distress and uncertainty — even panic, as the Wall Street bank failures and stock-market losses collectively were called.