Three-Way Partying 2!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Welcome back again, to a look at the days when Mr. & Mrs. America decided to flirt with threeways! Above, voters and Uncle Sam alike, find themselves tangled and rope bound with major Party Animals, the Democratic Donkey, Republican Elephant, and Progressive Party Bull Moose. Art by Bronstrup, Doc Hirer Finch, Harry J. Westerman, and [...]
Election Cash: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #101: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
The Supreme Court having thrown Campaign Reform laws back one hundred years or more, we take a look at the influence of corporate money on elections, one century past, via the the editorial cartoons found in the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, the front cover, with inset cartoon by Harry J. Westerman. Click [...]
Post-Nomination Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Cartoons Magazine‘s close-up on cartoonists for September 1912, focused on Herbert Johnson and Alfred West Brewerton. Click on the above picture, to read their bios, plus to see in detail their Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt cartoons they are shown with. Above, sitting President William Howard Taft, depicted by cartoonists Luther D. Bradley, Charles Lewis [...]
Panama Canal: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
From the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we have another round of cartoons revealing America’s 1912 view of its “ownership” of the Panama Canal. Cartoonists hopping on this jingoistic boat, include Fred Morgan, Charles Lewis Bartholomew (“Bart”) (above), and others. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Bryan vs. the Democratic Machine: 1912 Democratic National Convention, Part 2: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
< In 1912, the Democratic nomination was up for grabs going into the Convention, and Wall Street moneyed interests made a play at aligning with the Party Bosses in general — and the corrupt Tammany Hall in particular — at getting in their man (Champ Clark). They’d already succeeded in having their puppet — Taft [...]
Bull Moose Convention, Day 2, August 6th, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 3
After delegates supporting Teddy Roosevelt walked out in protest at the Republican National Convention, they split away to form their own party — the Progressive Party, more popularly known as the Bull Moose Party. The Progressive Party quickly organized its own nominating convention, though the outcome of declaring T.R. as their candidate was a certainty. [...]
William Jennings Bryan: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 3 + Cartoons Magazine Revue
In 1912, neither the Republican nor Democratic parties entered their conventions with their Presidential nominees decided. As we’ve already seen, this resulted in the Republican Party tearing itself in two. At this point, the 1912 Democratic Convention is yet to come, and cartoonists were still speculating on whether William Jennings Bryan — three times the [...]
Winning It All to Lose It All, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 3: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.3
Our up-to-the-century coverage of Chicago’s 1912 Republican National Convention, continues with cartoons swiped from next month’s “future” — the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine! Above, cartoonist Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling shows Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, late into the night, still playing their political game. Below, John Campbell Cory and Richard Keith Culver [...]
General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 2
About mid-month, we’ll reach the 100th Anniversary of the big political event of 1912 — the splintering of the Republican Party in two. So for this month’s coverage, I’m compressing all of Cartoons Magazine‘s pre-split political cartoons for June 1912 issue, into the first half of the month, beginning here with the overview of non-Presidential [...]
Broad Brush: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 14
We close up our coverage of the May 1912 fifth issue of Cartoons Magazine, with a hodge-podge of topics. Above, two cartoons concerning the Post Office using the Interstate Commerce Commission, to limit private carriers of packages, out of fear that such competition would drive the Post Office itself out of business. Much, much later, [...]
