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This page compares two presidential inaugurations through paired illustrations labeled "The First" and "The Latest." The text mocks **William Jennings Bryan**, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate (1896, 1900, 1908) who lost to William McKinley and William Howard Taft. Judge ridicules Bryan's career trajectory: his failed presidential runs, his lecture tours (more profitable than political work), his anti-imperialist platform, and his founding of *The Commoner* newspaper. The satire suggests Bryan has become a perpetual political figure expecting cabinet positions under President Wilson, despite his repeated electoral failures. The contrasting crowd scenes emphasize the difference between Bryan's actual political influence versus his outsized self-importance. The accompanying short humor pieces about vanity and weakness appear unrelated to the main political commentary.
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THE FIRST INAUGURATION. them in hand-to-hand combat. In 1900 was again chosen as its standard-bearer by the Democratic party in the presiden- tial contest, on an anti-imperia plat- form, the chief end and aim of which was to keep Theodore Roosevelt from walking on the grass in Cuba. Was again re- turned to the bosom of his felluw-citizens, and established the Commoner, a journal designed to become to politics what the Ladies’ Home Journal is to the sewing circle, the fireside and the home. Also embarked on the lecture platform, finding its returns more golden than those of the silver plat- form upon which he had previously stood. Toured the world in 1906, on the theory that absence makes the heart grow fonder, returning in 1908 to run against William Howard Taft for the presidency. For results, see above. Has since assumed position of grand patriarch of the progres- sive Democracy, and is expected to fill every portfolio in the Cabinet of President Wilson, who, like a true Democrat, prefers a cocked hat to a crown. Author of Much Trouble and Considerable Apprehension. Recreations, hunting the octopus and chasing issues. Address, Bill Bill, Lincoln, Neb. Go back to their essentials, and all re- ligions will be found to be much the same and easily understood. It doesn’t require a volume to describe the cardinal virtues. MR. BROWN WILL NOT HEREAFTER DENY THAT HE SNORES. THE LATEST INAUGURATION, The Answer. A MIDDLE-AGED man will make fun of a youth For thinking of girls or the set of his collar; But the average middle-aged man will, in truth, Make a much greater fuss when it comes to a dollar. His defense is, of course, that those dollars of his— ° Those slow-piling dollars—arequite necessary; But the answer to that kind of argu- ment is That so is a girl to a young fellow —very! Walter G, Doty. Why He Would Enter. “*You can’t get into that set.”’ “Why not?’” “They're too exclusive.'’ “*Well, they gotta have somebody to snub.’" The man or woman without weak- nesses has no great strengths. comicbooks.com