Cartoons Magazine Centennial’s Post-Election 1912
Finally, finally, we’ve reached the Closing Out, of the Closing Out, of the 1912 Election! (It’s only taken me, like, a hundred years.) As a reprinter of the prior months’ editorial cartoons, Cartoons Magazine‘s November Election follow-up, naturally appeared in its December (mostly) & January (some) issues. In this post, the page is from the [...]
Bull Moose Convention, Day 2, August 6th, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 3
After delegates supporting Teddy Roosevelt walked out in protest at the Republican National Convention, they split away to form their own party — the Progressive Party, more popularly known as the Bull Moose Party. The Progressive Party quickly organized its own nominating convention, though the outcome of declaring T.R. as their candidate was a certainty. [...]
Fourth of July Fireworks: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 0.1 + Others
Appropriate for the day, a few cartoons focused on fireworks and their danger. Above, from the Election of 1884, and the July 2nd, 1884 rear cover of Puck magazine, artist Frederick Burr Opper depicts G.O.P. Presidential candidate James G. Blaine as a flashy, rising firework, in He Goes Up Like a Rocket, and He Will [...]
Cartoonists at the Republican National Convention: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 1
Above, with art by cartoonist Fred Morgan, the cover of the July 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, depicting a pair of demons emphasizing the discord of the 1912 Republican National Convention in Chicago, giving the Earth a pounding headache. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their [...]
Taft Political Machine, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 2: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.2
The 1912 Republican National Convention opened with sitting President, William Howard Taft, firmly in control of the Party Machine and Bosses, at a time when it was the Bosses who chose most of the delegates to Conventions. 1912 was also the year that a handful of states had reformed that process, for the first time [...]
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 [...]
Teddy Roosevelt: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 12
It’s Teddy Time again, as we continue our up-to-the-minute coverage, of the Presidential Election of 1912! Today’s round of jewels, of course come from the May 1912 Centennial issue of Cartoons Magazine! Above, tongue-in-cheek, Saint Teddy Roosevelt, as pictured by cartoonist Fontaine Fox. Below, a set of cartoons by John DeMar (hinting that T.R. might [...]
Sinking of the Titanic, Day One, April 14, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 0
Every month, Cartoons Magazine gathered & reprinted cartoons from newspapers and publications in the U.S., and world-wide. This of course meant a delay, between original appearance in the papers, and their reprinting in Cartoons Magazine, which is why today’s grouping of Titanic cartoons — on this, April 14th, the 100th anniversary of the Titanic striking [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 6
Our Cartoons Magazine centennial year coverage of the Election of 1912 continues. Today, we present candidate Woodrow Wilson‘s lone page in the April 1912 issue (absolutely eclipsed by many pages this month devoted to the more fun candidate for cartoonists to draw — T.R)! Click on the above picture, to view the cartoons in detail, [...]
Teddy Roosevelt, Part 1: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 3
Today’s Election of 1912 cartoons, involve Teddy Roosevelt expecting to be handed the G.O.P. nomination for his third term run, and finding the party establishment not welcoming him. Above cartoons by Robert Minor, Jr., A.B. Chapin, and others. Below, the cartoons include on by John DeMar. Click on the above & below pictures, to view [...]
