Your TR Source
Joseph Gurney Cannon hands a shoe labeled “Stand Pat” to J. S. Sherman, who is shining shoes labeled “Conservatism, Reactionary, Special Privileges, [and] Vested Interests.” Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, peers through an open door.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-07-29
William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers, looking worried, fly in a hot air balloon labeled “Labor Vote.” They are caught in an electrical storm with lightning labeled “Revolt” and are being driven by winds to an uncertain fate.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-08-26
William Jennings Bryan as Orpheus, singing and playing a lyre labeled “Harmony,” attracts a motley group of wild animals identified as: G. Gray, Kern, Folk, Gompers, McCarren, Mitchell, Hearst, Guffey, Watterson, Stone, Eliot, Williams, T. Johnson, Belmont, Sullivan, Pulitzer, Conners, Ryan, Parker, Murphy, and Johnson. One unidentified animal, similar to Williams, sits in a large tree, crawling through the branches above Bryan. Caption: Orpheus Bryan and the Democratic beasts.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-08-05
“Old Dutch Cleanser Chases Dirt, Makes Everything ‘Spick and Span.'” Cartoon of a cleaning woman with the face of Theodore Roosevelt. Inscription at bottom left corner: “van Benschoten with apologies to a well known cleansing powder.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1912
Three Theodore Roosevelts make up a fife and drum corps. Pince-nez and teeth substitute for the stars on the American flag. The caption at the bottom reads, “‘Teddy Doodle’ The Spirit of ’08.” This cartoon is signed, “Keppler, with apologies.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1907-05-15
Theodore Roosevelt stands between Uncle Sam and “Special Privilege,” who are arguing over a map of the United States. Signature: “K.- after E. Nicol.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1908
Hand-colored artist’s proof. Work appeared as cover of Puck. Uncle Sam inspects a large alarm clock bearing the face of William H. Taft, a ringer labeled “Roosevelt Policies,” and hand pointing to the end of Taft’s first year as President. Subtitled: “Set for March 4, 1909, and It Hasn’t Gone Off Yet.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910-01-05
Theodore Roosevelt as a maid, washing the hair of a boy, “Flim-Flam Finance,” with “Honesty Soap.” Caption at bottom right reads: “(Regards to Pears’ Soap.)” Published in Puck magazine, 1907.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1907
Theodore Roosevelt sits on a bench, resting a mallet labeled “My Policies” on his right knee. A large jar labeled “Republican Convention,” which he has just corked, lies on the bench next to him. On shelves behind him are bottles that he has corked: on the bottom shelf Alton B. “Parker Esopus Pickle,” Cipriano “Castro” which has popped its cork, and “Portsmouth Peace”; on the middle shelf George B. “Cortelyou,” James Roscoe “Day,” Charles Evans “Hughes,” Joseph Gurney “Cannon,” Robert M. “La Follette,” “Chan”[…], Philander C. “Knox,” and [unlabeled] Charles W. Fairbanks; and on the top shelf “Bowen,” Chester I. “Long,” “Bellam[y] Storer,” Edward Henry “Harriman,” “J. London,” [and] “Seton Thompson” (i.e. Ernest Thompson Seton).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-07-15
Theodore Roosevelt struggles to carry a huge hen labeled “Taft” to a nest of eggs labeled “State Delegations.” Sitting on a fence in the background is a chicken with the head of Joseph Gurney Cannon. Another chicken looking like Charles W. Fairbanks pokes his head through the fence. Caption: Getting the hen on the job.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-04-15
Joseph Gurney Cannon stands on a small platform labeled “Wall Street” at the end of a long two-handled accordion-like folding extension device manipulated by J. Pierpont Morgan who is standing in New York and using the tool to transport Cannon to the “Chicago Convention.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-04-22
Uncle Sam tries to get the attention of Joseph Gurney Cannon who is talking with Sereno E. Payne in the House chamber, as a large hand labeled “The Big Interests” wearing “Stand Pat” cufflinks, appears from above with its thumb extended as though to squash Cannon. Caption: He can’t get the speaker’s eye.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-04-29
Uncle Sam holds a large magnifying glass labeled “National Vanity” which he is using to examine a battleship flying an American flag labeled “U.S. Navy.” He is also holding papers labeled “Monroe Doctrine.” Caption: Why not look at it with the naked eye?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-05-06
Uncle Sam holds a map of “The United States” and Theodore Roosevelt stands next to him with a quill pen in his mouth, discussing the ownership of the country with a smug-looking man labeled “Special Privilege.” On a nearby table are papers labeled “Public Land Fraud, Yellow Dog Legislation, Graft Tariff, [and] Monopoly.” Caption: Who owns it?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-05-20
A “Workingman” is bent under the weight of an enormous dinner pail labeled “Tariff for Graft Only.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-05-27
Two men, one labeled “Political Boss” and the other labeled “Special Privilege,” with copies of “Blank Injunctions” in his pocket, help a diminutive judge write a “Dictated Decision.” In the background, Justice is partially obscured by a note that states “Remember Thy Creator.” Caption: Does a protest against this type of justice assail “the integrity of the courts”?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-06-03
Theodore Roosevelt as Caesar rejects a crown labeled “1908” as another crown labeled “1912” hovers nearby.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-06-17
Presidential hopeful John Albert Johnson, as a logger, struggles to break free a jam of logs labeled “Reactionary Democracy, Wall Street Interests, Plutocracy, High Finance, Ryanism, Conservatism, Safe & Sane Fake, [and] Stand Pat Democracy,” which are preventing him from presenting his political agenda at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Caption: “If it weren’t for these cussed logs, I could get my drive down to Denver.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-06-24
A large hand labeled “Special Privilege” has its thumb poised to squash a typical Independence Day celebration. A large crowd is listening to a man making a speech from a platform where others are sitting and a man is waving an American flag. Fireworks are going off in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-07-01
A group of men identified as “Land Grafter, Politician, Special Privilege, Timber Grafter, Mineral Grafter, Public Utilities, Corporation Lawyer, [and] Tariff Grafter” sit around a table getting Uncle Sam drunk on “Stand Pat Dope” mixed with a drink from a large punch bowl labeled “Our Natural Resources.” They are smoking “Vanity Perfectos” and two men, “Land Grafter” and “Timber Grafter,” are working together to pick Uncle Sam’s watch from his pocket. In the lower left corner, Joseph Gurney Cannon and Nelson W. Aldrich are pouring the “Stand Pat Dope” into his drink. Caption: “For he’s a jolly good fellow!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-07-08