Hearst is pulling the donkey and NYC DA William Jerome is at the tail. They are fighting for the Dem nonination for NY Governor. Hearst got it and lost to the Repub. Hearst then moved to the right the next year.
William Jennings Bryan is on the railway embankment. And actually my above mentioned grandmother was a Bryan herself, her family originally from Culpeper County, Va. And was a cousin of the—much younger—William.
I really don’t know that much about the politics of the era but I hope this helps.
I dislike Hearst Corporation *intensely* because of what they did to our good newspaper. Could not compete, so the bought it, gutted it, & replaced it with their liberal crap under the better paper’s name.
I would pay good money for weekend breakfast with a decent paper. :-( I guess that’s gone forever. grrr