Life, 1903-02-26 · page 9 of 24
Life — February 26, 1903 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon Caption:** "What's your hurry?" / "I promised to meet him at one o'clock." / "But it's only two now." This appears to be a commentary on **Senator Spooner** of Wisconsin, referenced in the adjacent text. The Wisconsin Senate chaplain supposedly suggested Spooner would make a good Presidential candidate in 1908. The text questions whether someone from a non-pivotal state could realistically become President, and expresses doubt about the proposal's viability. The cartoon itself depicts a domestic scene with figures and a dog—likely illustrating romantic or social discord. The illustration's timing joke (confusion about clock times) may be visual wordplay, though the exact satirical target requires additional historical context about Spooner and 1908 political dynamics.
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“wuat's your munnY?” “L PROMISED MY HUSBAND 1 WOULD MBET HIM AT ONE O'CLOCK.” “nur It's ONLY Two Now."? He Was the Man, After All. “7 OU will not do!” It was nearly eight o'clock in the front reception room of a Harlem flat. Two people sat alone in the shadows. In the distance could be heard the rumble of the great city. Something in the stern, forbidding aspect of the young girl's face, beauti- ful as it was, seemed to fascinate the pale young man who faced her, so that he listened with parted lips, unable to reply to the full force of her elo- quence. “No,” she continued, * you will not do. While in a certain sense I respect the ability which has enabled you to ask me for my hand, there is some- thing in my nature that demands, nay, that cries out fora hero. I must have aman tolove me who has really suf- fered, and whose nature has thus been developed in the fire of actual experi- ence. I want a man who has, unaided, struggled with humanity, and who, 475 although at times suffocated with the contact of baser souls, has yet had the patience to fight on and never surrender, until his destina- tion has been reached. I want a man who, when the opportunity has presented itself, has not stopped to consider, but in spite of warning voices has jumped into the breach and held on with desperate resolve to win out; a man who, if neces- sary, will push to the wall all others, and, right in the thick of the battle, will strike right and left until the palm of victory be his.”’ “Then,”’ said her companion, re- covering his composure swiftly,“my own darling, waste no time, for I am that very man. I have just successfully ridden up from Park Place in the Elevated.” T. M. Question. (pe chaplain of the Wisconsin Senate broaches a delicate question when he suggests, in his morning prayer, that Senator Spooner would make a good Presi- dential candidate in 1908. That temperate and accurate theo- logian, Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, used to say that the Aimighty could not maintain gold and silver money at a parity of value (either with or without the consent of other nations, presumably). Is it likely, then, that He is able to ele President from a State which is in no sense pivotal? Of course, much depends on the attitude of the material interests. A STRONG BUSINESS PROPOSITION, “AULLIONS IN IT. comicbooks.com