Peter Newell, American
That Dream I Always Have If I Listen To Conservative Talk Radio Before Bed, 1901
Watercolor, gouache, and pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper mounted on board
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/// Wee James Madison somehow outruns
charging pachyderms (some weigh ten tons).
An Amendment he penned—
number Two— they’d amend
to exclude bearing elephant guns.
/// Then some elephants started a brawl.
A group on the far right, although small,
jeered and cursed just like winos
calling all the rest rhinos.
“There should be no restrictions at all.”
/// Meanwhile Madison’s run out of breath,
and he stops, fearing imminent death.
He sends up the wish a
well-ordered militia
would appear… then hears lines from Macbeth.
/// He awakens while stifling a scream.
In the theatre he dozed, it would seem.
He’d been running away—
now trapped watching this play.
Both are nightmares. Which one’s the bad dream?
/// This “political” cartoon was done
in the year nineteen hundred and one.
It could very well be
Jumbo meant GOP,
the Grand Party back then was more fun.
/// In that year the Republicans won.
POTUS term number two just begun.
Then McKinley got shot
in an anarchist plot.
VP TR became Number 1.
/// Later Teddy thought Taft was excessive
in his policies, old and regressive.
The conservatives laughed
when he lost out to Taft.
Bull Moose party’s real name was “Progressive”!
/// “A stampede breached the walls of the zoo.
Charging elephants pushed their way through.
They run faster than I,
but I just passed you by.
Hope they’ll halt when they’re done trampling you.”