Life, 1912-11-14 · page 9 of 44
Life — November 14, 1912 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**The Cartoon:** The main illustration depicts a rotund figure labeled "CAPITAL" juggling objects while wearing a coat. The title "A CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE" suggests satire about capitalism's perpetual, precarious balancing act. The figure appears to be a capitalist juggling various economic elements—possibly representing the instability of markets or business operations. **The Text:** The page discusses Dr. Wilson (likely Governor Wilson, later President Woodrow Wilson) as a political candidate, praising his character and potential. It also discusses Vice-President Sherman, noting his recent death before the election. **Context:** This appears from the 1912 election period, when Wilson was emerging as a presidential candidate. The juggling cartoon likely satirizes the economic anxieties and instability of the era, with capitalism portrayed as a precarious balancing act requiring careful management.
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"A DTN crm mh ill MH I) yenmyyy A CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE reluctance as heretofore to think all alike, The best reason to expect the con- tinuance of the Bull Moose on the na- tional ballot is that the Colonel will, of course, continue in politics, and must have a party, and neither of the other parties could hold him. He is too big, and needs too much room and rocks the boat too much to be a party man again except in a party entirely his own, Whenever he is, or threatens to be, a candidate, he becomes the issue, and we guess he always will. Of course he can’t help that. He and his political social service aspirations recall Lanigan’s kind-hearted she-cle- phant, who stepped accidentally on a brooding partridge, and, moved with pity, sat down on the motherless eggs. 2189 Miss Jane Addams docs best on that nest. 8% 'O Dr. Wilson, victor among can- didates all victorious, prayerful condolences scems fitter to offer than overjoyous congratulations. If the Governor has justified the betting odds he is in for a hard time. He has be- hind him a party much more united in ambitious expectations than in definite governmental purposes. Jealousies and vanities of every description will in- crease the difficulties of a course very difficult indeed to work out under the most favorable conditions. But we have great hopes of Gover- nor Wilson. His training and his nat- ural endowment are both far out of common. We have entire confidence that he is a good man, and expectation that he will prove himself the kind of good man that the present exigency needs. In his sympathy for those who need help, and in his determination to ring them all the help that a just and wise government can afford, we think ot him as running quite abreast of Colonel Roosevelt. And he has the great advantage that neither his per- ‘sonality nor his popularity is feared, ‘and the hope of what his mind may achieve is not forever shadowed by the fear of what his will may destroy. PRESIDENT SHERMAN as an exemplary and cheerful an, abundantly dispar- vic wi machine politi aged in his time by persons who disap- prove that type of statesman, but for whom, personally, nobody had a bad word. His death just before election was very much regretted, the more so because it seemed to have been hast- ened by the strain of duties connected with his candidacy, which should not have devolved upon a man in his con- dition of health. His death and the shooting of the Colonel humanized with decent sympathies the closing days of the campaign. comicbooks.com