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Number 2?

President Roosevelt, dressed like French Emperor Napoleon I, stands next to a picture of Napoleon I with “the stick” underneath the picture.

Comments and Context

The reliably (to the point of a daily drumbeat) anti-Roosevelt Woman’s National Daily newspaper and its cartoonist N. Eingen often made ad hominem attacks on President Roosevelt and his Administration. There was a history of friction, including federal investigations into its publisher’s activities in banking and post privileges.

Explaining it

Uncle Sam holds a paper that reads, “Harriman raised $200,000 campaign fund for Roosevelt in 1904” and asks President Roosevelt, “Well, what have you got to say for yourself?” Roosevelt, clutching a bag of money and holding a G.O.P. elephant on a string, says, “It’s a ‘deliberate’ and ‘willful’ untruth!”

Comments and Context

Among the bitterest anti-Roosevelt agitators of the day were The Woman’s National Daily and its cartoonist known to history only as N. Eingen. The large-circulation paper was the brainchild of the St. Louis-area entrepreneur Edward Gardner Lewis, one of several enterprises spun off the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Lewis might indeed have had political differences with the president, but friction arose when the Administration pursued Lewis for infractions of postal and banking regulations.

Oliver Twist Wall Street gets his fill

President Roosevelt serves soup from the “U.S. Treasury” pot with a patch labeled “deficit” and says “D-e-e-lighted.” A man labeled “Wall St.” with wispy hair shaped like a dollar sign coming out of his head holds a bowl up to Roosevelt.

Comments and Context

Usually when cartoonists and their papers were hostile toward President Roosevelt– as the otherwise-forgotten N. Eingen of the Woman’s National Daily were — they depicted him as the supplicant or vassal of Wall Street. Corporate moguls, trust masters, and robber barons routinely were portrayed as masters, and politicians the servants.

Busy William

Secretary of War William H. Taft holds crying baby “Cuba” while rocking on a rocking chair and says, “I wish this kid would quiet down—I want to get back to that dear Ohio!!” To the left of the rocking chair is a bottle of “political dope” and a book entitled, “How to Soothe Cuba, Vol. I.”

Comments and Context

Little is known about the elusive cartoonist N. Eingen. In this cartoon in the Woman’s National Daily of St.Louis and University City, Missouri, he displayed more sympathy than usually accorded any member of the Roosevelt Administration.

Unpleasant news

President Roosevelt with his “Nobel Peace Prize” attached to his vest and his “big stick” in hand utters profanities as he grips “former Senator Burton’s speech” with a piece labeled “criticism” coming off. A dog running away from the president says, “Another member for the Ananias club.”

Comments and Context

A surfeit of minor issues, local politics, and obscure politicians provide the context of this cartoon; nevertheless it reveals much about American political history and about President Roosevelt’s policies.

Their master’s voice answers them

President Roosevelt listens to a gramophone labeled “voice of the common people” project the words, “Justice. We want fair play. We demand a sample of the famous ‘Square Deal.'”

Comments and Context

This cartoon was clipped and pasted into the White House scrapbook in mid-1907. Political cartoons were singled out and placed in the books presumably for the president to keep tabs on the editorial opinions of the nation, which of his policies resonated with the public, perhaps what initiatives were being called for, etc.

Chasing or being chased?

There are two scenes in this cartoon. In one, President Roosevelt with “the stick” is attacked by a buzzing “3rd term bee” as he heads toward the “to retirement 1909” sign. In the second, President Roosevelt attempts to catch the “3rd term bee” with a net as he heads toward the “to the White House 1909” sign.

Comments and Context

The forgotten cartoonist N. Eingen, in The Woman’s National Daily, contributed to the public’s interest, and the insatiable curiosity and skepticism of cartoonists, regarding President Roosevelt’s intentions for 1908 — adhering to his pledge to declaim a third term, or run to succeed himself. Eingen seemed to suggest more hypocrisy than indecision.