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Title	William Howard Taft and the Republican Party Cartoons
Subject	Presidents and Politics Literary Ohio Presidents Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Political parties Political cartoons Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio) New York (New York)
Description	Three cartoons, published in the satirical magazine Judge, refer to a split occurring between progressive and conservative wings of the Republican Party in 1909 and 1910. The first cartoon, published October 2, 1909, shows Taft's Republican political platform as divided between the East (conservative) and the West (progressive). Taft's seemingly mediated standpoint allowed for his election in the 1908 presidential campaign, since both sides believed that they were electing one of their own. The second cartoon, titled "Stop Rocking the Boat" includes Taft and other prominent Republicans and warns that a split in the party could lead to an end of prosperity. The final cartoon shows Taft and other party leaders with the caption "Come on in, the water's fine." In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt split with the party and ran against Taft. With the Republican Party split, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president. The cartoons are one page each and measure 13" x 9.5" (33.02 x 24.13 cm). William Howard Taft (1857-1930), the twenty-seventh president of the United States, accepted his party's nomination for the presidency from the front lawn of his half-brother's home, now the Taft Museum of Art. Prior to that time, William Howard was a lawyer in his native Cincinnati and in 1904 had been appointed secretary of war by President Theodore Roosevelt. Following his presidency, Taft become chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the only president to achieve this distinction. James Albert Wales (1852-1886) was born in Clyde, Ohio. He worked as a wood engraver and cartoonist in Toledo and Cleveland before moving to New York to work for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Puck. Wales was a founder of Judge, a satirical magazine that competed with Puck and eventually exceeded it in popularity. Judge, published between the early 1880s to the late 1930s, used black-and-white as well as color cartoons to comment on national events. Wales died of a heart attack at the age of 35 and was buried near his home in Clyde.
Creator	Judge Publishing Company
Date of Original	October 02, 1909; June 04, 1910; July 30, 1910
Collection	Judge Presidential Political Cartoons
Source	Published material Spec Coll AP2 J8x Vol 57 # 1459 Vol 58 # 1494 Vol 59 # 1502
Submitting Institution	Ohio University, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections
Type	Text

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Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
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Image Height	4866
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Full Text	^Ja 'e- rOPYRIGHT, 1909, BV LEhLIE-.l UDCE CO., PUBLISHEJ -., Ill III i\ ENUE AND MADISON SyU^RF, NEW YORy PLANTING THE FLAG AT THE POLITICAL POLE ,.*.ooi

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