Passing of Party Bosses (yeah, right): Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 10
From the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine — optimistic exhuberance about how, in 1912, the introduction of direct voting for candidates in primary, would lead to the elimination of Party Bosses ignoring the voters, and nominating who the establishment wanted. Of course, we still have Party Operatives, who influence results, albeit slightly more subtly.
Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions and text.
Amongst the Cartoonists are Charles Bowers and W.A. Ireland (above); Norman Ritchie and Ole May (below).
Beneath, extracted from The Political Campaign of 1912 in Cartoons, by Nelson Harding.
ElectionComics Billy Ireland
— Doug
