In the image we have TR on the GOP elephant, with a Teddy Bear hanging on, the Teddy Bear was an addition to many editorial cartoons at the time. Holding onto the elephant’s tail is Republican chairman, Mark Hanna, who didn’t quite take to TR and is quoted as telling McKinley that his biggest responsibility as president was to stay alive for four years. Crushed under the thundering elephant (the biggest landslide in American elections at that point) is the Democratic jackass and the presidential candidate Alton Parker (mustache) and VP Henry Davis. Running away is Joseph Pulitzer who created the only real stir in the campaign by accusing TR of being owned by the trusts to the point where TR eventually responded with a furious denial that had Pulitzer back off. In the meantime, on the left side in the background are E.H. Harriman and Henry Clay Frick, rail and steel magnates, who in actuality responded to TR’s appeals for donations by contributing and raising a total of $400,000. After the election TR returned to going after the trusts. Frick is quoted as saying, “We bought the sonofabitch and then he did not stay bought.”

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