["You jes' wait till I getcha out!"]

Former President Theodore Roosevelt dressed in tattered overalls, making a threatening gesture toward President William Howard Taft who is dressed in the period costume of a pampered, affluent child. An elegantly clad Columbia leads Taft into a doorway guarded by Uncle Sam.
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Signed, lower right: Otho Cushing -.
Title from Life.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1541)
As the 1912 presidential election neared, former President Roosevelt became increasingly agitated by Republican President Taft's ultra-conservative policies, and felt compelled to compete with him for the Republican nomination. Although once friends, the contest became very bitter. Cushing's drawing is an anti-Roosevelt comment, siding with Taft on the issue of who should obtain the nomination.
Published in: Life, February 15, 1912.