The national bench show' The "Republican Kennels" and the "Democratic Kennels" at the "National Bench Show" with President Theodore Roosevelt as a dog with his trainer Mark "Hanna". An old woman labelled "Dem. Party" pats Alton "Parker" on the head and offers him a biscuit labelled "Political Sanity", as other Democratic dogs George "Gray", Richard "Olney", David "Hill", and Arthur "Gorman" labelled "Senatorial Leadership" and "Panama Issue" sit kennelled nearby. Hanging on the wall is a picture of "Cleveland" with ribbons labelled "1884" and "1892", and in the lower left is a cage labelled "Distemper" with William Jennings Bryan as a dog bandaged with "1896" and "1900" sitting inside before a small dish labelled "Free Silver". In the center, at left, is a small dog labelled "Yellow Journalism Willie Hearst".