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A “Wall Street magnate” holds a “N.Y. Sun” hoop that President Roosevelt jumps through onto a “Republican presidential nomination 1904” horse.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-16
On the left side, President Roosevelt sits on a table with a “1904” ball underneath and tips his hat. Caption: Roosevelt, Republicanism, and Re-election. On the right, Parker is crushed by the table. Caption: Resignation, Rejection, and Retirement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-03
Alton B. Parker pushes his head against a large statue labeled “36 years of Republican rule.” A “nomination” paper in his top hat. The statue includes a number of events that have occurred during Republican rule: “established the gold standard,” “prosperity,” “all the anti-trust legislation,” “protection,” “the construction of the Panama Canal a certainty,” “expansion,” and “Sherman law enforced by a Rep. president.” The statue has a woman—”freedom”—at the top which overlooks the United States Capitol building.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07
President Roosevelt rides a “popularity” horse and jumps a “1st term” rock over a gap to a “2nd term” rock. Alton B. Parker attempts to lasso Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-02
President Roosevelt rides a bicycle around the “prosperity loop” to a “2nd term.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-18
William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland hold two kites. Bryan has a paper that reads, “free-silver or bust,” while Cleveland kicks a “declination” shoe through the kite. In the background, President Roosevelt flies a “1904” kite. Caption: The political kite-flying season will begin early this year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-09
On the left side of this cartoon, President Roosevelt carries a large “public interests” scroll on his back as he walks up stairs: “courage—Monroe Doctrine upheld,” “opposition to graft—regulation of trusts,” “Cuban freedom—Northern Securities decision,” “honesty in the public service,” “Cuban reciprocity,” “Panama Canal,” “justice for capital and labor,” and “patriotic purposes.” Caption: The Roosevelt as real history will picture him. On the right side of this cartoon, Roosevelt holds a sword in his teeth and rides a horse, leaving men labeled “trust,” “Cuban,” and “Filipino” on the ground. He drags “Panama” by a rope. Caption: The Roosevelt as the demagogues now paint him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04
Grover Cleveland, who wears a “What and where am I?” feather; Arthur P. Gorman, who wears a “I am out in the cold” feather; and David B. Hill, who wears a “I am still a Democrat—very still” all hold down the lid on the “Democratic political pot.” Two lobsters—William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst—are inside. They each hold papers. Bryan’s reads, “Bryan the apostle of poverty. Income $50,000 a year.” Hearst’s reads, “God bless out home. Hear$t who pleads for the suffering poor while he enjoys his life on his mother’s $50,000,000.” There is a picture of Thomas Jefferson on the wall. Caption: Democratic chorus—”If they e’er take off the lid the worst will be yet to come!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03
On the left side of the cartoon, President Abraham Lincoln takes off the shackles of an African American man and holds the “Declaration of Independence.” On the right side, President Roosevelt gestures to the “U.S. Govt Printing” office to a man who is kneeling at his feet. Roosevelt holds a portion of one of his letters that reads, “In the employment and dismissal of men in the government service I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him than I can recognize the fact he is a Protestant or Catholic, a Jew or a Gentile, as being for or against him.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11
President Roosevelt jumps through a “N.Y. Sun” hoop that a “Wall Street magnate” holds and onto a “Republican presidential nomination 1904” horse. Caption: Roosevelt for 1904. And all Wall street cannot stop him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-10
A dove with President Roosevelt’s face sits on a cannon and watches as “Japan” and “Russia” shake hands. The Russian bear wears several bandages and has one foot stuck in a “Togo” trap. Behind Japan is a large money bag entitled “war indemnity 1,000,000,000.” Caption: The dove of peace appears to be wearing glasses and showing its teeth.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-15
President Roosevelt sits on a box in the “U.S. Navy Yard” as he holds a paper entitled, “new Navy plans.” He is surrounded by equipment like “steel” and an “armor plate” as well as two sides of the “Kansas” and “Vermont” battleships. There are a number of battleships in the distance. Caption: “More and more our people are waking up to the need of a navy, and, in view of events happening all over the world, I think we can count on Congress to build up our navy. It certainly will if I can persuade it.”—Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-24
President Roosevelt uses an “administration scoop” to dig the “Panama Canal.” He digs up a number of men, including a “grafter,” “revolutionist,” and “favored contractors.” There are more men still in the canal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-01
President Roosevelt stands on a “U.S.” battleship and points a “Monroe Doctrine” gun at “Europe,” who reaches for a man sitting on the “Republic of Santo Domingo.” Caption: “This in reality entails no new obligations upon us, for the Monroe Doctrine means precisely such a guarantee on our part.”—President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-18
Alton B. Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis operate a “St. Louis platform” handcar as a “Republican express” locomotive with President Roosevelt’s face on the front advances toward them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-29
“H. Giveaway Davis” holds a “Western Union telegram” that reads, “Democratic National Convention.” Meanwhile, President Roosevelt stands by a wall that reads, “sound finances—honesty in public service—courage to do right—protection to American labor—respect for the flag at home & abroad—fair play for capital and labor—punishment for every grafter.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-24
Alton B. Parker sweats as he attempts to hoist the flag of “anti-Americanism populism experimental doctrines” up the “Democratic platform” flag pole. He stands on somewhat cracked “Jeffersonian principles,” which is on the “Philippines.” The “N.Y. Sun” glares at him. Below the cartoon is a quote from the New York Sun decrying the Democratic platform of 1904 and endorsing President Roosevelt and Senator Charles W. Fairbanks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-10
Print shows Uncle Sam as an American farmer trying to sell his products labeled “Pork, Wheat, Butter, Beef, Oats,” and corn overseas where there is stiff “Open Competition” at the “Market of the World” represented by John Bull labeled “England” and “Germany, Russia, South America, [and] Australia.” In a vignette, Uncle Sam is shown at “The McKinley Home Market and High Prices” looking at the merchandise for sale, where all the items that he needs have been “Marked Up” 35% to 45%; McKinley offers him a new coat that has been marked Up 35%.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-08-15
“The United Order of Jingoes,” comprised of newspaper editors and legislators identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Reed, Frye, Reid, Lodge, Allison, Boutelle, [and] Hoar,” sits outside the White House on a winter’s night, in the snow. President Cleveland, visible through a window, reads from a paper labeled “Cleveland’s Hawaiian Policy.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-02-20
Uncle Sam is pictured as a peddler offering “Bonds Sold For Gold” on a snowy street where he encounters a diminutive figure labeled “Canada” holding a paper labeled “Sound Currency System.” She points to Uncle Sam’s bag of “Silver.” Standing on balconies labeled “England – Sound Currency System,” “France – Sound Financial System,” “Austria – Sound Financial Policy,” “Russia – Sound Financial Policy,” and “Germany – Sound Currency System” are the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Lord Salisbury; the President of France, Felix Faure; the Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph I; the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II; and the German Emperor, William II; and standing on an unmarked balcony is the King of Italy, Umberto I.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-02-05