We’re approaching both Halloween and next week’s election. What could be scarier subject for male Republican candidates than Women’s Suffrage(given how often they’re prone to make the colossal mistake of letting slip what their true opinions are)? All pages extracted from the October & November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine.

Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions.

Above, sure — all the candidates for President are for Women’s Rights. (Even those who truly aren’t.) By Herbert H. Perry, Camillus Kessler, William K. Patrick, and Gillam.

As in previous postings on this topic, it’s instructive to see what other cartoons related to women, were sitting in the same issues that Suffrage & anti-Suffrage cartoons were appearing. Below, a few cartoons on “Friend Wife”, by Perry, Fontaine Fox, and James H. Donahey.

In 1912, Ohio held rewrote its Constitution, to bring in new reforms. One of the reforms that some wanted to introduce, was to allow Ohio’s women to vote.

Above, a page of cartoons, involving those proud of the results. Note that there is zero mention of Women’s Suffrage. Art by Ole May, W.A. Ireland, Stinson, and Evans.

Beneath, there was zero mention of granting women the right to vote in Ohio’s 1912 Constitution, because, they didn’t. Cartoons on that loss, by Rogers (not “W.A”), Nash, Billy Ireland, and Donahey.

Above, a page of anti-Suffrage cartoons, by Plaschke, James North, and Arthur G. Racey.

Below, male harassment of women, depicted by Perry, Jack Wilson, and Frank Michael Spangler.

And to close, a suite of cartoons more typical of the depiction of men & women circa 1912 — all from the male viewpoint. Art by Spangler, Gaar Williams, Kessler, Fox, Perry, Karl K. Knecht, and Coffman.

For previous postings involving Women’s History, click here.

Doug Wheeler

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