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# "Signs of the Zodiac" - 1900 Presidential Election Satire This page satirizes the 1900 U.S. presidential election through a dialogue about candidates. The central image shows zodiac signs, likely representing different political figures or factions. The text records a conversation between figures including **George Dewey** (the admiral famous from the Spanish-American War), **Theodore Roosevelt** (running as McKinley's VP), and **Mark Hanna** (McKinley's campaign manager). The satire mocks **Dewey's** political ambitions and the question of who should be on the Republican ticket. Roosevelt dismisses naval officers as "discreet," while McKinley's supporters debate strategy. Hanna tells Roosevelt to "slug your little sentiment / From Maine down to the Rio." The cartoon critiques the political maneuvering and deal-making behind the 1900 campaign.
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SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. LEOIULY. attachod to Elizabeth's knowledge of flowers and trees, Sho gots msthotic enjoyment out of their color and odor, and bas a nice, placid content in her own emotions, That Is all right, too; {t shows that she sleeps well, and fs fitly nourished. But real knowledgo of naturo is tho result of hard, aystematic, scientifle work, and you get it by doing tho things you don't like as woll as a fow of tho things that ploase you. . * . ¢€ AT ATURE BOOKS" Is the name given to a rapidly increasing class of writing which has to do with birds, and trees, and flowers. Recently they have be- como very practleal, They givo the un- learned reader tho facts by whieh ho may identify the flower or animal with its name, Tho other kind of nature book has to do with*personal emotions, It is worthless from a selentifie point of view, but it may be valuable as literature, “Tho Solitary Summer” is of tho latter class, It is woll written, and is shrowd as well as pootic. Droch, N EWRICH: I want my daughter to be the most accomplished and well-bred young woman in the city. Lavy Principat: Are you willing to be separated from her ? Eh, Mr. Hanna? ILAT sort of @ Presidential ticket for 1900 would this make? POR PRESIDENT, GEORGE DEWEY OF MANILA. YOR VICE-PRESIDENT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT OF SAN JU —Lire, June 8, Dewer: Wo naval men aro more discreet Sinco Captain Coghlan's day, And in reply to this, I bave Not got a word to say, RoosevELt: Er—at—ahem—lot’s seo—porhaps ‘The names I might endorse; But don’t you think that you have got ‘The cart before the horse? = McKrniey: Big guns they aro, of course, and might Put up the best of runs; But don’t you think the frat sheald be ‘The man behind the guns? HANNA: Go slug your little sentiment From Muine down to the Rio; Manila and San Juan, my friends, Ain’t in it with Ohio, G.0. P.: I guoss that Iam out of it, Although I used to bo A truly G. 0. P, before ‘They made a Trust of mo, T'd like to make a fow remarks And sing a loud hosunna, But ero I do I think, porbaps, I'd better go seo Hanna, W. J. Lampton, Tired. “T SHALL be glad when Dewey gets back,” said one inside newspaper man to the other. “Why so?” inquired his companion. ‘*Because,” replied the first speaker, “T have been writing interviews with him for months, aud I need the rest.” THE BIRD EDITOR. Toucan Putlizerit,