William Howard Taft: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, March 1912, Part 9
We round out our extracts from the March 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, with everybody’s favorite fat President – Howard Taft! His rotundness may have inspired Taft’s depiction as a dirigible in the 2nd cartoon, on the above left-hand page. Next to it, same page, T.R. watches from a distance in the Fontaine Fox cartoon, Perhaps the Big Stick Belongs to the Other Fellow This Time. On the right-hand page, Taft is shown snatching up all the delegates he can — in the form of doughnuts — while Teddy Roosevelt stubbornly sits outside, refusing to join in unless outright handed them, in Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling‘s cartoon, It’ll Soon Be Too Late.
Click on the above picture, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions.
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— Doug
