"Giddap!" (Puck back cover, 14 March 1914)
Five young women with a 'Votes for Women' banner walk down a country road as an elderly farmer on a wagon offers them a lift; the 'general' answers that he can give one 'by voting for the cause'. The tell: an ordinary farmer is shown as the person to persuade, and the cause arrives on foot as one of his neighbours.
Puck Publishing Corporation ran this back cover on 14 March 1914. Five young women with a 'Votes for Women' banner walk down a country road as an elderly farmer on a wagon offers them a lift, and their 'general' answers that he can give one 'by voting for the cause'. It asks readers to support the cause. Plain folks is the tagged technique: an ordinary farmer is shown as the person to persuade, and the cause arrives on foot as one of his neighbours.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- March 14, 1914
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Puck Publishing Corporation, New York
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
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Elections and party politics
- Event
- US Woman Suffrage Campaign
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1914, before 1931); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 2011649801. "Giddap!" (Puck back cover, 14 March 1914)
