Here, the massive wave is Democratic presidential nominee Woodrow Wilson and his approaching victory in the November 5 election. The Mrs. Partingtons are (left-right): President William Howard Taft, the Republican nominee; businessman George W. Perkins, co-chairman of the Progressive Party National Committee and a leading contributor (he holds a moneybag); the Reverend Lyman Abbott, editor of Outlook magazine, which published Theodore Roosevelt’s commentaries; Senator Joseph Dixon of Montana, Roosevelt’s campaign manager; Charles D. Hilles of New York, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Governor Hiram Johnson of California, the Progressive Party vice-presidential nominee; and publisher Charles Munsey, co-chairman of the Progressive Party National Committee and a leading contributor.