Teddy Roosevelt: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach the Grand Finale of our political circus, SuperI.T.C.H. strives to keep you up on every twist & turn — from one century ago. Today our focus swings back to former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, seeking to return for a third term. He was running against not only the Democrats, but also against [...]
Latin America & Pacific Territories: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
WARNING: The below posting includes racially offensive cartoons. Tonight’s Presidential Debate being on Foreign Policy, and, today being the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, together make this a good day to look back at U.S. foreign policy, in 1912, via that year’s Cartoons Magazine. Decisions made today, can have lasting impact far into [...]
Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #104
Above, Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency, by artist Joseph Keppler, Sr., depicting Republican fund raisers in the guise of medieval clergy selling indulgences (i.e., back before/during Martin Luther, the church would sell tickets to Heaven, in which people could be absolved for any sin, for enough money “donated” to the church). Implied in [...]
Nothing Changes About Congress: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
From the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we see that a century has made little difference in the workings of Congress. In 1912, the Republican Party split in two at the Presidential level, with supporters of Taft remaining with the G.O.P., and the insurgents in league with T.R., forming the new Progressive Party. Herbert [...]
Three-Way Partying!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
We look back again to 1912, the year that America experimented with partying threeways! Added to spice things up between the longtime duo of Democratic and Republican parties, was the hot new star, the Progressive Party. Via the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, cartoons for and against Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Below, the same, [...]
Post-Nomination Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Cartoons Magazine‘s close-up on cartoonists for September 1912, focused on Herbert Johnson and Alfred West Brewerton. Click on the above picture, to read their bios, plus to see in detail their Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt cartoons they are shown with. Above, sitting President William Howard Taft, depicted by cartoonists Luther D. Bradley, Charles Lewis [...]
General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 2
About mid-month, we’ll reach the 100th Anniversary of the big political event of 1912 — the splintering of the Republican Party in two. So for this month’s coverage, I’m compressing all of Cartoons Magazine‘s pre-split political cartoons for June 1912 issue, into the first half of the month, beginning here with the overview of non-Presidential [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #90 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 11
The above Herbert Johnson cartoon, contained in the May 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, might as well have been published today, for all the current Republican rhetoric about how “Corporations are People”, and “Money equals Free Speech” (Citizens United decision). Below, from between-wars Germany, taking from the poor, to give to the military machine… (plus, [...]
Teddy Roosevelt vs. Corporate Campaign Contributions
With a week-and-a-half to go before the 2010 mid-term elections, record amounts of money are being spent on television adverting, 90%+ of it from anonymous corporate sources, their specific motives and agendas kept hidden from the American public. This, thanks to the recent ruling of our conservative activist Supreme Court, which threw away election reforms dating back to those [...]
