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The unheeded telltale / K. - Political cartoon, public domain image
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Illustration shows President Taft as a railroad brakeman standing atop a freight car labeled "Administration Route", he is waving to a woman labeled "Reactionary Politics" driving an automobile, the train is headed for a tunnel labeled "Revolt of the West"; above the train is a bar labeled "Insurgent Movement" from which strips of rope are hanging, they are labeled "Burkett, Beveridge, Brown, Nelson, Clapp, Cummins, Dolliver, Bristow, [and] La Follette", an insurgent group of senators who broke with Taft's policies. Includes note: "A telltale is a bar to which strips of leather or rope are attached to warn brakemen on freight trains when they are approaching a bridge or a tunnel."
Caption: But there is still time to duck.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 66, no. 1707 (1909 November 17), centerfold.
Copyright 1909 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) served as the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908 and was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. William Taft attended Yale and was a member of Skull and Bones secret society. In 1904, Roosevelt made him Secretary of War and he became Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. After leaving office, Taft returned to Yale as a professor, continuing his political activity and working against war through the League to Enforce Peace. In 1921, President Harding appointed Taft chief justice, an office he had long sought. "Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood."
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