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“Trying on the New Method of Speech-Making”
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In 1908, for the first time in history, Americans could listen to the recorded voices of the presidential candidates, Republican William Howard Taft and Democrat William Jennings Bryan. In this Harper’s Weekly cartoon, Bryan reacts in horror to his own statements for “government ownership,” “initiative and referendum,” and “any old ism”; his criticisms of previous Democratic nominees, President Grover Cleveland and Alton B. Parker; and his contradictory comments for and against imperialism. Bryan bellows to his vice-presidential running mate, John Kern, who is turning the gramophone, to stop the infernal racket. Between them the dog of economic “Hard Times” howls. On the shelf (upper-left) a bust of Andrew Jackson sitting on a base inscribed “Thomas Jefferson” casts a distressed glance at the party’s current standard-bearer. |
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