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The great American bull-fight
The great American bull-fight. Illustration shows a bullfight with Theodore Roosevelt as the bull surrounded by picadors and banderilleros labeled La Follette, Root, Taft, Sherman, Bryan, Watterson, and Crane, and William Barnes, who is unidentified, thrusting lances and banderillas into the bull, while the matador, Woodrow Wilson, waits in the upper right background to finish it off. Date 1912 August 21. The great American bull-fight. Illustration shows a bullfight with Theodore Roosevelt as the bull surrounded by picadors and banderilleros labeled La Follette, Root, Taft, Sherman, Bryan, Watterson, and Crane, and William Barnes, who is unidentified, thrusting lances and banderillas into the bull, while the matador, Woodrow Wilson, waits in the upper right background to finish it off. Date 1912 August 21
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is a political cartoon published in Puck magazine on August 21, 1912, depicting a lively and unconventional take on the presidential campaign of that year. In this illustration, Theodore Roosevelt, who had recently left the Republican Party to run as a third-party candidate under the Progressive Party banner, is personified as a bull, surrounded by a ring of prominent political figures. The picadors and banderilleros in the scene represent key political figures of the time, including Robert La Follette, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and William Jennings Bryan. Each man is identified by a label and is shown vigorously thrusting lances and banderillas into the bull, representing their efforts to weaken Roosevelt's presidential campaign. In the upper right background, an unidentified figure, William Barnes, prepares to deliver the final blow. However, instead of finishing off the bull, he is waiting for the matador, Woodrow Wilson, to make his move. Wilson, the Democratic Party nominee, is shown poised and ready to deliver the coup de grâce, symbolizing his intention to defeat Roosevelt and claim the presidency for the Democrats. This cartoon reflects the intense political rivalries and animosities of the 1912 presidential campaign, with each major party and third-party candidate vying for the support of the American electorate. The use of a bullfight as a metaphor for the political arena adds a layer of drama and intrigue to the image, making it a fascinating snapshot of American political history.
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