General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, March 1912, Part 8
While the 1912 Presidential Election naturally dominated the first year run of Cartoons Magazine, there was plenty of other political foolishness & scandals happening at that same time. Today’s posting of extracts from its March 1912 third issue, involves these other activities.
Above, several never-had-a-chance aspirants to the Presidency, including William Randolph Hearst (newspaper tycoon, and political loon ala Donald Trump), shown rushing to save Columbia (the U.S.), from the “the villains” (Bryan, Wilson, Taft, T.R.). Also above, is A Reactionary Idol, by pre-Barney Google Billy DeBeck, and, top right, a Joys & Glooms cartoon doubling as an editorial political cartoon, by T.E. Powers.
Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions.
Immediately below, proof that there’s nothing new about Congressional Investigation Committees out of control. Further down, cartoons on voter fraud (imagined or real), and recalls of recallers.
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— Doug
