"The Aguinaldo Guard" (Puck, 1900)
Named American anti-imperialists are drawn as a ragged honour guard marching behind Emilio Aguinaldo, casting domestic opposition to the war as service to a foreign enemy commander rather than as a position on U.S. policy.
J. S. Pughe drew this cartoon for Puck, published on 17 October 1900 during the U.S. presidential election. Named American anti-imperialists, labelled by hatbands such as PULITZER, GODKIN and COCKRAN, march behind a portrait of Aguinaldo on a banner reading "THE GEORGE WASHINGTON OF THE PHILIPPINES", with Bryan riding a donkey marked DEMOCRACY. The title "The Aguinaldo Guard" is the name-calling, casting domestic opponents of the war as a guard for a foreign enemy commander. Transfer is also tagged, since the enemy leader's image is attached to the opponents.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- October 17, 1900
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Puck magazine (Keppler & Schwarzmann)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Mckinley Administration
- Leader
- William Mckinley
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- 1900 US Election
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published in the U.S. in 1900; LOC: no known restrictions on publication)
J. S. Pughe, "The Aguinaldo Guard", Puck v. 48 no. 1232, 17 October 1900, centerfold (Keppler & Schwarzmann); LC-DIG-ppmsca-25465
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
PUCK. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON OF THE PHILIPPINES [on the banner carried behind Aguinaldo's portrait] BRYAN [on the rider's hatband] DEMOCRACY [on the donkey's saddle blanket] PULITZER — TOWNE — [illegible, bearded marcher's hatband] — GODKIN — COCKRAN — MITCHELL [hatband labels on the marching figures, left to right] THE AGUINALDO GUARD. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. J. OTTMANN LITH. CO. PUCK BLDG, N.Y.
Each marcher wears a hat labeled with the surname of the real anti-imperialist or anti-expansion figure he caricatures (contemporary press identified figures such as Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Towne, E. L. Godkin, W. Bourke Cockran and John Mitchell in comparable Puck cartoons of 1900); one bearded marcher's hatband is too blurred at this resolution to read with confidence and is left [illegible] rather than guessed. Small text on the sword blade, if any, was not legible.
