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“And the Waters were Divided”

Topic:
The National Party Conventions
Source:
Puck
Cartoonist:
Unknown
Date:  July 31, 1912
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Using the biblical analogy of Moses parting the Red Sea, this Puck cartoon predicts that the split in the Republican Party, between followers of William Howard Taft and those of Theodore Roosevelt, will allow the Democratic Party and the nation to reach the Promised Land. In the background, the “Predatory Pharaohs” are the wealthy who allegedly had kept the nation in subjection and the Democrats out of power. Standing in the foreground is Democratic presidential nominee Woodrow Wilson as Moses, who was chosen by God to lead his people out of bondage in Egypt.

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