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President Roosevelt holds a “Roosevelt rail-road rate ideas” bag and a “rail-road rate bill U.S. Senate” gold brick. Uncle Sam puts his hand on Roosevelt’s shoulder and points to the brick. The United States Capitol building is in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-02
President Roosevelt rides on an elephant and leads a Saint Patrick’s Day parade featuring the “G.O.P. band,” which includes Secretary of War William H. Taft, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, and Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. The parade has a banner with a three-leaf clover that has words in each leaf: “anti-rail-road rebate,” “Philippine tariff moderation,” and “Panama Canal—no grafting.” Roosevelt holds a “Spanish-American War” sword.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03
President Roosevelt stands before a corpulent gentleman labeled “U.S. Prosperity,” who is wearing suspenders with a “G.O.P.” emblem. Roosevelt offers him “Tariff Revision Pills, Reciprocity Formula.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-07
President Roosevelt points Russian Emperor Nicholas II to a “Russian Jew” bent over by a large burden labeled “oppression” with a number of weights attached to it. Several others follow and leave a burning village. Caption: Roosevelt (to the czar)—”Now that you have peace without, why not remove his burden and have peace within your borders?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-30
President Roosevelt tries to push Secretary of War William H. Taft onto an already overloaded Republican elephant, which carries a lot of baggage: “Philippine scandal,” “Panama Canal supplies,” “tariff reduction,” “Loomis Rex. Whitewash,” “Morton Railroad Rebate scandal,” “Anti-trust fiasco,” and “wood Manila.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09
Uncle Sam holds up President Roosevelt’s pledge that he would not be a candidate or accept the nomination for the presidency another time. Uncle Sam winks as he wears a “four years more of Theodore” ribbon with “the big stick” pin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-11
Full color political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt dressed as Aaron, the Biblical figure, laying his hands on the head of a goat representing Standard Oil. The goat has a bell labeled “Prosecution” around its neck and is carrying many bundles that represent other trusts. William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst are nearby and appear to be clapping.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1907
Full color political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt leading the “Regular Republican Party Ticket,” in the form of an elephant, along the road to the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Behind them on the road is a keg-shaped wagon mired in mud and being confounded by obstacles. The wagon is being urged on by William Jennings Bryan and driven by Lewis Emery. A donkey labeled “Democratic Destructive Party” pulls the wagon along with a giraffe labeled “Lincoln Obstructive Party.”
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1906
Full color political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt cutting the bonds that are restraining the Republican elephant. The bonds have labels reflecting factional difficulties and fighting. The Democratic Party can be seen in the form of a braying donkey in the background.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1906
Full color political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt in formal dress, wearing a “Roosevelt” campaign badge, with his arms spread in front of a factory scene. The left side of the cartoon depicts Democratic rule as ruining Pennsylvania’s economy. The right side of the cartoon shows a prosperous Pennsylvania under Republican policies.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1906-10-06
Full color political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt as a hunter. He is holding a smoking rifle in one hand and a dead wolf or coyote labeled “Hearstism” in the other. Another, larger, dead wolf or coyote labeled “Bryanism” is at his feet.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1906-12-01