Puck's Presidential Possibilities No. II, "Old-Man-Ready-To-Be-Struck" portrays Harrison as apparently hopeful for the nomination. His lightening rods say things like "Reciprocity," and "Paternalism."
Presidential Aspirants' Poker Club "McKinley Has Almost All the Chips, -- But The Game Is Young Yet" Puck trots out its "Grandfather's Hat" portrayal of Harrison, with Napoleon McKinley and King Reed.
Too Much Like Caesar: "Cassius Reed (to Brutus McKinley) -- 'Upon what doth this our Benjamin feed, that he hath grown so large?'" Reed and McKinley stand poised to unseat Harrison as frontrunner.
Beginning in 1894, Puck set to work discrediting former President Harrison in advance of the next Presidential election. Harrison in reality had very little interest in running for a third time. Puck nevertheless identified the only living ex-President as the obvious frontrunner for the 1896 Republican nomination, and aimed early at removing him from the field. The other two contenders were House Speaker Thomas B. Reed (who finished second at the Convention), and Former Governor of Ohio and Congressman William McKinley, who won both the nomination and the presidency.
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