Image Description:

The cartoon depicts Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan as a spider waiting for prey. In the 1908 presidential election Bryan ran against William Howard Taft. The spider web has the text “anti injunction” and “bogus labor plank.” A man, depicted as a fly, has a wing labeled “labor vote”, holds a sign “TAFT for president”, and refuses to go into the spider web. President Theodore Roosevelt supporteded Taft for president and advocated for how Taft would help the labor vote, while claiming Bryan would be chaos for industry.  

The artist of the cartoon is Fred Morgan. The handwritten note of 10-26-1908 was misrecorded by the original cataloger. The actual original print date was 10-25-1908 in the Philadelphia Inquirer in volume 159, issue 117, page 2.
 

Inscription:

Nay Nay I William Nothing Doing (speech bubble)

Labor vote (wing)

Taft for President (Sign)

ANTI INJUCTION
BOGUS LABOR PLANK (spider web)

Phila Inquirer 10-26-1908 (handwritten note)

Fred Mogran (signature)

WILL YOU COME INTO MY PARTY? SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY (Bottom text)