<p>Political cartoon, <i>Hoist, the friend of the Comic People</i>. by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Glackens" class="extiw" title="en:Louis Glackens">Louis M. Glackens</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="en:Puck (magazine)">Puck</a></i> magazine, October 31, 1906.  The characters seen, clockwise are: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxy_Grandpa" class="extiw" title="en:Foxy Grandpa">en:Foxy Grandpa</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_E._Schultze" class="extiw" title="en:Carl E. Schultze">en:Carl E. Schultze</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_and_Gaston" class="extiw" title="en:Alphonse and Gaston">en:Alphonse and Gaston</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Burr_Opper" class="extiw" title="en:Frederick Burr Opper">en:Frederick Burr Opper</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hooligan" class="extiw" title="en:Happy Hooligan">en:Happy Hooligan</a> by Frederick Burr Opper, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Her_Name_Was_Maud" class="extiw" title="en:And Her Name Was Maud">en:And Her Name Was Maud</a> by Frederick Burr Opper, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Katzenjammer_Kids" class="extiw" title="en:The Katzenjammer Kids">en:The Katzenjammer Kids</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Dirks" class="extiw" title="en:Rudolph Dirks">en:Rudolph Dirks</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Brown" class="extiw" title="en:Buster Brown">en:Buster Brown</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Felton_Outcault" class="extiw" title="en:Richard Felton Outcault">en:Richard Felton Outcault</a>, and at the center, all of the characters having a "rally" with "Hoist" sitting on the back of Maud, the mule.
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"Hoist" was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst" class="extiw" title="en:William Randolph Hearst">en:William Randolph Hearst</a>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Evans Hughes">en:Charles Evans Hughes</a>.
Louis M. Glackens
1906
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