This dexterity game promoted the 1908 Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan who was running for president for the third and last time. The goal of the game was to get the small metal balls “in the middle” of Bryan’s eyes. A similar game was sold that looked like Bryan’s victorious Republican opponent William Howard Taft.
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