The difficult ones
President Roosevelt rides alongside a bull labeled “organized labor vote” as a “third term” bear labeled “I am blind” watches from atop a fence post. William H. Taft attempts to get the African American vote with some “salt.”
Comments and Context
Cartoonist W. A. Rogers, who had moved to the New York Herald from his longtime post with Harper’s Weekly, correctly pictured the political situation facing President Roosevelt and his chosen successor William H. Taft, in 1908. Roosevelt endeavored to be as neutral in the contest as he could be — this was preceding the nominating convention, and Taft still had Republican rivals aspiring to the presidency — so he balanced an interest in party cohesion with subtlety influencing events for Taft.
