G.O.P. vs. G.O.P. (1912): Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 17
Looks like we won’t be gettin a centennial re-enactment of what was probably the U.S.’s worst intra-party battle for the Presidential nomination — the 1912 fight that split the Republican Party in two. It would have been fun to watch (for Democrats), but we’ll have to be satisfied to re-live the 1912 Election, via Cartoons Magazine.
Above, from April 1912‘s title page, by cartoonist William Charles Morris, we see the late-to-join-the-race Teddy Roosevelt jealously grimacing at the larger flower bed of “delegates” being watered by happy incumbent president William Howard Taft.
Beneath, cartoons involving the intra-party fight, and how public opinion was being driven away from the G.O.P.
Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions.
Below, by Ole May and Harry J. Westerman, Democrats enjoying the show…
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— Doug
