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Czar Nicholas II of Russia clutches against his chest a doll that is wearing a crown labeled “Autocracy” as he races through the woods in a troika pursued by a pack of angry, ravenous wolves.
Keppler’s cartoon is a simple depiction of a simple situation, or, in the eyes of the Czar and his dwindling number of supporters, a complicated situation.
Uncle Sam pushes President Theodore Roosevelt, on a sled labeled “The ‘Teddy’ Flyer,” down a snow covered hill labeled “1905 to 1909.” In the background is a wrecked sled labeled “McKinley’s Policy.”
This issue of Puck was dated just days before Theodore Roosevelt’s inauguration to his second presidential term. That Puck, generally a Democratic journal, frequently had been partial to Roosevelt and his policies is seen by the favorable aura in the cover cartoon.
President McKinley drives a sleigh labeled “Prosperity,” drawn by a horse labeled “Administration.” He is towing two small sleds. One labeled “Defective Currency System” is carrying William Jennings Bryan, and the other labeled “Deficit” is carrying a bloated Nelson Dingley. Caption: McKinley–I wonder what makes this pesky thing pull so hard?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-01-19
A young woman stands in the snow with two young children in a sled. One is holding an American flag.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-12-26