A number of Puck's cartoons require a good deal of explaining, over a century removed from their context. This isn't really one of 'em. After his Vice-President, Garret Hobart, died in office in 1899, William McKinley was spoiled for choice in 1900 on picking a new VP for his re-election campaign, with a whole bunch of up-and-coming Republicans looking to launch their own political careers off his currently successful presidency. Said decision takes place in the spring because election campaigns used to run for six months instead of non-stop, spring has Easter, spring means chickens laying eggs, Easter eggs, bob's your uncle. Cue the frankly disturbing political cartoon that was kind of the standard for the time. Ultimately, he would pass over all the people in this you've never heard of in your life and pick "Teddy" over there, the ferocious Governor of New York. It would prove fortunate that he did, as less than six months would pass after McKinley was re-elected before he was shot dead by an anarchist and Roosevelt would be catapulted into the Presidency.