Life, 1915-10-14 · page 10 of 44
Life — October 14, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains political and humorous commentary. The top section criticizes Democratic Party strategy regarding New York's revised Constitution, quoting a Democratic operative warning that rejection would alienate independent Democrats—suggesting the party should avoid this "highbrow" approach. The left cartoon depicts a man aggressively confronting someone about cashing checks, saying "I CASH CLO'S! I GOT AN OLD SUIT AT HOME, MISTER!"—apparently satirizing aggressive debt collection or financial desperation during economic hardship. The right cartoon shows a reckless automobile driver ("Driver: YES, SINCE MAUDE THREW ME OVER I REALLY DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS") careening dangerously, titled "Lively." Below is an anecdote about Tennessee mountain roads and automobiles, humorously depicting rural unfamiliarity with cars.
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on “LIFE: How Not to Do It EING told that if the rejection of the revised New York Constitution was made a Democratic party measure it would alienate the independent Democrats throughout the State, “one of the best-known Democratic bosses” said to the correspondent of the Times: We can well afford to lose their votes. We will gain radical votes by cutting loose from them and the clement they represent. Defeat of the Constitution will indirectly be a blow at our Republican opponents. In my opinion we should go before the voters and tell them that nothing good to the common people can come out of a highbrow gathering like the late convention. That is as good an example as one could wish of the way the revision ought not to be treated. It represents a summer of hard work by some of the ablest men in the State. This demagogue, described as a “boss whose name is a household word, and who is said to have more in- fluence with Murphy than any other up-State Democrat,” would throw away the whole revision, as a Republican high- brow job, and therefore bad for “the people.” RITING of the swarming of golfers on Piping Rock Links, the World says: “What fair green but is vexed by their niblicks?” Go to, neighbor! If you were a golfer, you would know that it isn’t the business of a niblick to vex a fair green. &&Ddewo0dt Driver: ve 3 ‘ME OVER I REALLY DON HAPPENS. Lively THRE old man was sitting in front of his lonely cabin in the Tennessee mountains, “Them roads is vile with them automobyles,” he remarked as the visitor drew rein on the deeply rutted roads. “Why, do many come up here?” asked the surprised horseman. “TL casH cto’s!” “Many? Why, stranger, I don’t believe there air a week “1 COT AN OLD SUIT AT HOME, MISTER!” but what one goes by,” said the old man. comicbooks.com