Three-Way Partying 3!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Back yet again with our up-to-the-century election coverage, via the October and November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, from back in the days when insurgent forces inside the Republican Party split it in two, giving us a major three-way race, plus hope to minor parties that their day might finally be arriving. Above, cartoons involving [...]
Three-Way Partying 2!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Welcome back again, to a look at the days when Mr. & Mrs. America decided to flirt with threeways! Above, voters and Uncle Sam alike, find themselves tangled and rope bound with major Party Animals, the Democratic Donkey, Republican Elephant, and Progressive Party Bull Moose. Art by Bronstrup, Doc Hirer Finch, Harry J. Westerman, and [...]
La Follette’s Little Question: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 5
Continuing our up-to-the-century coverage of Election 1912, with the splitting of the Republican Party into the old guard G.O.P. versus the new Progressive Party (or, Bull Moose), we find Senator Robert La Follette attempting once again to challenge Teddy Roosevelt, in the delusional hope that the new party might cast Teddy aside, in favor of [...]
La Follette Revives: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 4
Continuing our Election 1912 coverage, we have a page of cartoons on Senator Robert La Follette, whose challenge for the Republican Nomination for President, was pretty much over by the time these cartoons were reprinted in the April 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Like Newt Gingrich, however, La Follette was similarly self-delusional about his chances, [...]
