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President Roosevelt stands on the “Oyster Bay Summer School Rifle Range,” holding two rifles, one labeled “Sherman Law” and the other “Inter-state Law.” He faces a target labeled “Monopoly of Public Necessities.” Representative Charles E. “Littlefield of Maine” hands him a rifle labeled “New Anti Trust Law.”
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1902-07-09
Cartoon depicts Mark Hanna sitting in a U.S. Senate chair with capital and labor each on one knee as President Roosevelt looks on from over the top of the President’s chair.
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1902-08-10
Uncle Sam helps President Roosevelt split a log labeled with various monopolies and trusts. Roosevelt’s mallet is labeled the “Attorney General” and his wedge “The Law.”
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1902-08-07
President Roosevelt sits atop the Republican elephant while a man with no endorsement in his pocket looks up at an empty shelf labeled for Roosevelt in 1900.
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1902-09-13
President Roosevelt in rough rider garb is holding back labor and capitalism from a fight. A woman representing the public holds up the price of coal above them.
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1902-06-13
President Roosevelt, holding a whip labeled “Special Message,” tries to make a tired-looking Republican elephant do a trick to the music box labeled “Reciprocity.”
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1902-06-19
Uncle Sam sits with a representative of Portugal and reads letters from their respective leaders about their travels.
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1903-04-06
Political cartoon with a two headed President Roosevelt, labeled “Boss” and “President,” pointing towards Governor Odell of New York who is labeled “Governor” and “Chairman.” They are standing on a rug labeled “G.O.P.”
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1904-05-23
President Roosevelt is dressed in religious attire as are several weapons, including “the big stick,” a cannon, a dagger, and a revolver. Above them is a dove.
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1904-08-29
President Roosevelt bows to J. P. Morgan, who is departing from Sagamore Hill after their visit. Morgan attorney Charles Steele and Chair of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou escort Morgan to a small boat which will carry him to his yacht “Corsair” in the distance. Cortelyou carries a carpet bag of money initialed “J.P.M.” Morgan has “Knox’s scalp” tied to his belt, along with a note, “No more buttin’ in. T.R.”
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1904-09-02
David B. Hill has an “I am a Democrat” feather and rides on Alton B. Parker’s shoulders as he walks from “Esopus” to the “White House.” Parker holds the “Constitution of the United States” while Hill has two papers—”Herrick for judge” and “Stanchfield for governor”—in his back pocket.
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1904-09-04
A large band holds a “You’re It” sign and waves a “notification committee” flag. President Roosevelt holds the string to a cannon full of weapons, “the big stick,” and the “Roosevelt Monroe Doctrine” that is attached to a Republican elephant’s back. The elephant holds onto a “Sagamore Hill” sign and wears a “and Fairbanks” tag on its tails.
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1904-07-23
President Roosevelt, a Republican elephant with an “and Fairbanks” tag, and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon are all attached to a rope system that Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou controls. Roosevelt receives a paper that reads, “Take notice: you’re it. Uncle Joe.”
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1904-07-28
President Roosevelt sits in a chair at the “White House” and smiles at a “beef trust” cow, wearing a “strikes” bell, with dollar signs all over it. Caption: There was a young man said, “How can I ‘scape from this terrible cow? I will sit here a while and continue to smile, which may soften the heart of this cow.”
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1904-07-31
President Roosevelt holds “the big stick” and watches as a number of South American republics put money into a locked box with a sign that reads, “Please help the poor foreign bondholder.” A man leans on the “president’s chair” and holds a paper that reads, “25 percent profit.” American battleships can be seen in the distance.
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1904-08-01
President Roosevelt—It—wears a number of signs: “imperialism,” “protection for monopoly,” “personal orders substituted for acts of Congress,” “militarism,” “extravagance,” “my Cortelyou—the fat fryer,” “standpatism,” and “promotion of personal favorites.” His “party” and “despotism” legs crush “international law” and “the Constitution of the United States.” He holds “the big stick” in one hand and a revolver in the other.
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1904-08-03
President Roosevelt wears an “ex-government trust investigator” sign and has a “Cortelyou” paper in his back pocket as he pushes an “official trust squeezer” on a wine press to get funds from a man on the press. On the other side, another President Roosevelt collects money in a “campaign fund” bag. There is a line of corporations with checks in the background, following the sign that reads, “This way to the press.”
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1904-08-04
President Roosevelt stands behind a “Quaker suit” with a tag that reads, “pacific speech of acceptance for campaign purposes,” and fires a revolver at the feet of the Sultan of the Turks Abdülhamid II. Sultan of Morocco Mulai Abd al-Aziz IV watches in the background with a sign that reads, “Perdicaris alive, or Raisuli dead.” In the distance, Ahmad Raysūnī watches from a cliff.
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1904-08-10
President Roosevelt and Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks ride a carriage driven by an elephant with a cannon attached to it. Roosevelt holds “the big stick.” Alton B. Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis ride calmly in a carriage beside them. “The law” and the “Constitution of the United States” are attached to the carriage. Both pass the “1904” marker.
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1904-08-12
A “Filipino” points at President Roosevelt as Alton B. Parker holds “the Constitution of the United States” and points to the “Declaration of Independence.” There is a sign on the wall that reads, “Independence political and territorial—I also favor making the promise to them now to take such action as soon as it can be prudently done. Alton B. Parker.”
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1904-08-27