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J. D. Loop invites Theodore Roosevelt to go whaling with him in Long Beach, California, and describes his previous experience with whale hunting various species of whales.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-17
William Randolph Hearst holds a harpoon labeled “Independence League” in a small boat labeled “The Comic Supplement” with two cartoon characters in pursuit of two whales that have the faces of William Jennings Bryan and William H. Taft.
After the virtual takeover of the Democratic Party in 1896 by the restive Populist Party and its hybrid politician William Jennings Bryan, there were few candidates as radical as Bryan, beyond former Populists like Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, or Socialists like Eugene V. Debs. One figure who could be more radical on some issues, and was variously a boon and a nettle to Bryan and radical Democrats was New York newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.