Take It Away!

In the political cartoon, Theodore Roosevelt is dressed as a woman and wears a dress and apron. He appears to have just left a baby in a basket on William Jennings Bryan's doorstep and is running away. Inside basket, labeled "Standard Oil," there is a crying baby depicted as an oil can covered in dollar signs. Bryan looks angrily out the window at Roosevelt.
The political cartoon is poking fun at the Standard Oil Scandal which erupted during the 1908 presidential election between William Jennings Bryan and William Taft. In his newspapers, William Randolph Hearst accused Republican Senator Joseph Foraker and Democratic Governor Charles Haskell of taking bribes from Standard Oil Company. Bryan refused to believe the allegations against Haskell, so Roosevelt attacked Bryan for refusing to cut political ties with the governor.