Political cartoon, Hoist, the friend of the Comic People. by Louis M. Glackens for Puck magazine, October 31, 1906. The characters seen, clockwise are: en:Foxy Granpa by en:Carl E. Schultze, en:Alphonse and Gaston by en:Frederick Burr Opper, en:Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper, en:And Her Name Was Maud by Frederick Burr Opper, en:The Katzenjammer Kids by en:Rudolph Dirks, en:Buster Brown by en:Richard Felton Outcault, and at the center, all of the characters having a rally with Hoist sitting on the back of Maud, the mule. Hoist was en:William Randolph Hearst, who was the publisher of ma
Political cartoon, Hoist, the friend of the Comic People. by Louis M. Glackens for Puck magazine, October 31, 1906. The characters seen, clockwise are: en:Foxy Granpa by en:Carl E. Schultze, en:Alphonse and Gaston by en:Frederick Burr Opper, en:Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper, en:And Her Name Was Maud by Frederick Burr Opper, en:The Katzenjammer Kids by en:Rudolph Dirks, en:Buster Brown by en:Richard Felton Outcault, and at the center, all of the characters having a rally with Hoist sitting on the back of Maud, the mule. Hoist was en:William Randolph Hearst, who was the publisher of many newspapers--all of the comic characters in the illustration appeared in Hearst-owned newspapers. W. R, Hearst ran for governor of New York State in 1906; his opponent (and the winner of the election) was en:Charles Evans Hughes.
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