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“The Motorist”

Topic:
The Republican Nomination
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Edward Windsor Kemble
Date:
November 25, 1911, p. 7
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This Harper’s Weekly cartoon suggests the difficult time President William Howard Taft will have in being renominated by the Republican Party. In the foreground, Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin is a mischievous boy who has placed tacks in the road to flatten the tires on the president’s campaign car. The dog represents the “insurgent press” loyal to the progressive wing of the GOP. Cartoonists had previously used the term “My Policies” to mock President Theodore Roosevelt’s egotism, and depicted him passing them to Taft in 1908. Here, the “My Policies” tire has gone flat, symbolizing how Taft had allegedly not safeguarded Roosevelt’s legacy (at least in the estimation of the former president and other progressives).

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