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Here, Democratic Puck portrays Republican vice-presidential nominee Theodore Roosevelt as part Wild West gunslinger, part untamed stallion. Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Committee, looks dismayed as the candidate shoots off “Wild Talk.” Even though Hanna had tried unsuccessfully to stop Roosevelt’s nomination, after the convention the New York governor offered his full cooperation to the party chairman: “I am strong as a bull moose, and you can use me to the limit.” Hanna agreed, and Roosevelt embarked on a 21,000-mile campaign tour through the Midwest, Far West, Border States, and his home state of New York. He delivered 673 speeches to an estimated audience of three million Americans. As satirist Finley Peter Dunne remarked through his popular character, Mr. Dooley, of the GOP vice-presidential nominee, “he ain’t runnin, he’s gallopin’.” |
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1860
