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This page satirizes William Jennings Bryan's 1908 presidential campaign. The main cartoon depicts Bryan as a donkey (the Democratic Party symbol), labeled "BRYAN," being "ORDERED OFF THE FIELD" by a baseball umpire—suggesting Bryan should withdraw from the race. The text "OUR LACK OF ORIGINALITY" criticizes Bryan for repeating campaign tactics and arguments from previous elections, calling his continued political activity tiresome. The accompanying article "DYNAMITE" discusses Bryan's attacks on President Taft and Grant's legacy, portraying Bryan as using recycled ammunition against opponents. A smaller notice advertises a "Democratic Ball Park Game: Bryan vs Johnson's," continuing the baseball metaphor to mock the campaign's predictability and lack of fresh ideas.

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Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal order, mot by local checks which areata disrount in New York Cty. dependencies, and Mexico, To Canadian Provinces The contents of FUDGE are orotected by conyright in both the Unites Britains C0 ances /atermational News Com pai ue. Chancery La ha EC. London; Brentane t, Avenne dt Opera, Paris: News brchange, Garmany. 4 JUDGE cannot be found at aay cewe-stand. (be publlabers will be ander iW that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. OUR LACK OF ORIGINALITY. DYNAMITE. ORED friends of ours HE TIME for campaign lies is approaching. After the booms h mplained that I come the bombs, Sudden discoveries t JupGe harps too much used to beat his mother or th ity fon one subject in his every other week in his att y to be to the full-page cartoons. In public throug, z . On Meme y Mr. Taft delivered other words, they say ddress on Gene ant, in which he de Bryan grows tiresom ts as to Grant ly history. Nothing could so pri What is more, Jupct — eneral’s innate strength of character and power of will a is a Republi in which he triumphed over conditions and put his past and its a These things Secretary Taft brought out very clearly; yet the next see the opposition party day that part of the public which had not been present was astonished 1 and commit to learn that Candidate Taft ha bryancide for a third — by his virulent attack on Grant and his unfounded cha a * time, Why should Jupct the sainted general as one who had once been acquainted with strong ¥ = fight the my’s bat- drink. Has any one forgotten Lincoln's famous remark, that if he : - It is perfectly could find out just what brand of whiskey Grant used he would send 3 hat the nomins a barrel of it to some of his other generals?” But, after all, this Luan? yl of Bryan means an very mild anti-Taft canard, With- ( iis uw Republican victory in swe shall know the ali. ae ot, the fall for any nomi depths of perfidy in the tlife of —_— G ey that the Republ this husky eandic whom nature aw *E W may choose at has ill-fitted for concealment; while, Bryan on the donkey is as for the possible atrocities in the ruining the beast. But political policy is not nm ily the domi- buried past of Mr. Hughes, imagi- nating moti f acomic paper, even a politico-comic paper such ax nation not anticipate. But, Humor is the ete my of sham, and Junce honestly be- with all the enemy's skill in slan- He considers it a crowning American derous invention, we dare predict misfortune that any politi ty, binding any large number of our — that he will not go so far as to people, should be dominated by a man who i ally + cuse Unele Joe Cannon of ever hav- published a few wi ions from Mr. Bryan's — ing taught a Sunday-school class, any effort to secure the nomina ion, but smugly remarked that if drafted he would not r ht for del ed delegat ed by money, his refusal to say that he would give support to Johnson . J A : : if that able man chanced to re- y dyes [7 71 » the nomination— all these b =e yi DEMOERA mong the least of the : \ y | BALL PARK GAME ing for the hi TODAY tion has to offer. Junce will continue to do his little best to burst an undesirable bubble. We want you to become weary of his pictures. We want you to be- come weary, as we are, of the very name, APOLOGIES. HOUGH it be our first of hob- bies To make light of every blot, " oa e, : : rot igo Yet we find our hardest job is “ es SS To be funny when it's hot. ORDERED OFF THE FIELD, WILL HE QO? comicbooks.com