Ever since Roosevelt beat
Taft in the popular vote primaries (except for Massachusetts), Roosevelt
and his supporters accused Taft of unfairly using his incumbency, with
all of its powers including the power to appoint office holders, to
control the Republican Party over the popular will.
These accusations led to some bitter
cartoons from Roosevelt supporters.
McCutcheon
of the Chicago Tribune expressed his bitterness toward
Taft in a series of cartoons. (His cartoon associating Roosevelt
with the popularity of the Union appeared on May 30, 1912.)
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