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Take It Away! political cartoon, 1908
In the political cartoon, Theodore Roosevelt is dressed as a woman and wears a dress and apron. He appears to have just left a baby in a basket on William Jennings Bryan's doorstep and is running away. Inside the "Standard Oil" basket, there is an oil can depicted as a crying baby cove...
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| Collection: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania cartoons and caricatures collection (#3133) |
| Date: | 1908-09-25 |
| Alternate Date: | September 25, 1908 |
| Extent: | 1 loose sheet |
| Box Number: | Box 2 |
| Folder Number: | Folder 9 |
| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Swain, Abell & Simmons
Philadelphia Public Ledger |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/12241 |
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In the political cartoon, Theodore Roosevelt is dressed as a woman and wears a dress and apron. He appears to have just left a baby in a basket on William Jennings Bryan's doorstep and is running away. Inside the "Standard Oil" basket, there is an oil can depicted as a crying baby covered in dollar signs. Bryan looks angrily out the window at Roosevelt. The political cartoon is poking fun at the Standard Oil Scandal which erupted during the 1908 presidential election between William Jennings Bryan and William Taft. In his newspapers, William Randolph Hearst accused Republican Senator Joseph Foraker and Democratic Governor Charles Haskell of taking bribes from Standard Oil Company. Bryan refused to believe the allegations against Haskell, and so, Roosevelt attacked Bryan for refusing to cut political ties with the governor. |
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