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Issues were hard to come by in the 1916 election. Wilson was nominated for a second term by the Democrats, and Charles E. Hughes, as the Republican nominee, had the difficult task of criticizing the foreign policies of the man who "kept us out of war." (33A-1067066) Hughes attempted to undermine Wilson's policies on the tariff and foreign relations issues. But here we see him bemoaning the lack of issues (33B-1067067) The Republican platform was caricatured as well, as "anything to beat Wilson." (33C-1067068) The Democrats countered by maintaining their stand that Wilson had preserved peace and, as we see here, that "a vote for Hughes is a vote for War." (33D-1067069)

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Theodore Roosevelt was nominated by the Progressive Party, but he declined in order to support Hughes, and here we see a cartoon of him doing just that (33E-1067070) Another cartoonist caricatured these Republican efforts to bring the Progressives back to the GOP fold (33F-1067071) The election was close, but Wilson was re-elected.