A drifting match / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows several small boats in a race for the "Nomination Stake Boat"; in the boats are William H. Taft in the "Gnat" under the banner "Buckeye Y.C.", Joseph G. Cannon in the "Scat" under the banner "Danville Y.C.", Charles W. Fairbanks in the boat "Ice King" under the banner "Big Darby Y.C.", Leslie M. Shaw in the boat "Pshaw", and Elihu Root in the boat "Root". The face of Theodore Roosevelt fills the sun, smiling down on the becalmed racers.

Illus. in: Puck, v. 59, no. 1533 (1906 July 18), centerfold.
Copyright 1906 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.