This cartoon shows the Democratic Donkey skittishly resisting the pull of William Jennings Bryan. The presidential candidate is saddled with the heavy burden of his political positions, his talkative nature, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s possible try for a third term (the Teddy bear). For cartoonist Rogers, Bryan’s campaign for his third nomination (1896, 1900, and 1908) is an uphill struggle leading to “The Place of Departed Booms.”