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Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks as Don Quixote stands with shield and lance next to a well on which stands a suit of armor labeled “Indiana Organization.” To the right of Fairbanks, in the background, is a hobby horse. The full moon above shows the face of President Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: The flower of Indiana knighthood keeping watch over his boiler-plate.
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1905-06-14
A college student, wearing cap and gown for graduation, offers to take the world off the shoulders of Atlas. Caption: Class of ’05 — I’ll relieve you of that now, Atlas, old man.
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1905-06-21
A bald eagle, bruised and battered, stands on a pile of spent fireworks, following the celebration of the Fourth of July.
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1905-07-05
Three elderly naval officers question the spirit of John Paul Jones regarding the “Navy Dept. vs. Jones” for charges of conduct during the Revolutionary War, such as “Item 962 concerning the charge of cowardice” and “Did you get a rake-off in the Grog contract?” A map on the wall in the background shows “the loop of the Bonhomme Richard.” The cartoonist is spoofing a court of inquiry requested by Admiral Winfield Scott Schley following accusations regarding his conduct during the Battle of Santiago. Caption: Chairman of Paul Jones Inquiry Board — Captain Jones, did you or did you not say, “Damn the Alliance! Let her take care of herself!”
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1905-07-12
A bloated businessman labeled “Railroad Interests,” smoking a cigar and wearing a gold necklace of railroad passenger cars, sits on the hillside at the Culebra Cut in Panama. He is speaking to Uncle Sam, who is standing on the edge of the Cut, his coat over one arm and holding a pick-axe with the other. Stuffed head-first, in the businessman’s pocket, is John F. Wallace, chief engineer of the canal construction until his resignation in 1905. Caption: Gentleman in the Background — Sam, here’s an engineering problem for you. If it’ll take ten years to cut through Culebra, how many years will it take to cut through me?
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1905-07-19
Eight men and one woman are seated or standing around a table. Each is identified with a Cabinet position: J.P. Morgan as “Sec’y Navy,” Thomas W. Lawson as “Sec’y War,” Thomas F. Ryan as “Att’y Gen’l,” James J. Hill as “Sec’y Int,” James H. Hyde as “Sec’y Com. and Lab.”, Russell Sage as “Sec’y Agric,” Henrietta “Hetty” Green as “Post Mistress Gen’l,” Andrew Carnegie as “Sec’y State,” and John D. Rockefeller as “Sec’y Treas.” Setting on the table is a statue labeled “Golden Calf,” and hanging on the wall are portraits of “Midas” and “Croesus.” On the far left is a ticker tape machine. Caption: “There is not in my Cabinet one man to whom it is not a financial disadvantage to stay in the Cabinet.”–President Roosevelt at Asbury Park.
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1905-07-26
A man described as “America’s greatest Pecksniff,” an allusion to Dickens’ character Seth Pecksniff in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit, stands, full-length, facing slightly right, holding a paper that states “The Widow & Orphan Pump” which shows a pump spewing money into a trough. Likenesses of Pecksniff appear in the background as a bust statue, a painting, and a silhouette. Caption: “There is no deception, ladies and gentlemen; all is peace; a holy calm pervades me.”
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1905-08-02
Earth, with the face of John D. Rockefeller, appears against an oil slick labeled “The oily way” showing oil cans.
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1905-08-09
Puck reaches from the Puck Building to the White House to congratulate Theodore Roosevelt for winning the presidential election. They are shaking hands.
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1904-11-09
A drunken Russian man holds a jug of vodka and wildly swings a bloody sword at a wasp representing Japan. John Bull and Uncle Sam sit in the background.
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1904-11-16
Mars, the Roman god of war, with bandages on his head, arm, and foot, sits in his tent with a map of “Manchuria” on the small table next to him; hanging on the wall behind him are his helmet and shield. “Peace” is standing at the entrance to the tent and is asking if she may come in to visit. Caption: Peace–May I come in?
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1904-12-21
A diminutive Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, wearing a fur robe, courts Medusa who is hiding behind the mask of a beautiful young woman. On the left, as if issuing from Medusa, storm clouds labeled “Chaos” are brewing over a Russian city. A more modestly-dressed woman stands on the right pointing toward a temple labeled “Progress” at the top of a hill.
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1904-12-28
Thomas W. Lawson, as Orpheus, plays a lyre while sitting beneath a tree on a hillside in a pastoral setting. In the foreground are John D. Rockefeller, James R. Keene, J. Edward Addicks, and Henry H. Rogers as wild animals that have become entranced by the music. In the middle distance, a sheep lies on its back.
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1905-01-11
Puck directs a large floodlight to illuminate a cave. Charles H. Dietrich, Joseph R. Burton, and J. Edward Addicks shy away from the light. Pennsylvania governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, as a court jester, holds up a large sheet of paper labeled “Press Gag Law.” A man running to the right holds a paper labeled “R.R. Rebates.” Another man, possibly John D. Rockefeller, stands next to containers labeled “Paper Trust, Oil Trust, [and] Gas Trust,” and a diminutive figure, possibly New York State Senator Thomas F. Grady, stands behind Pennypacker, holding up a paper labeled “Anti-Cartoon Bill.” An octopus labeled “Mormonism” is visible at the entrance to the cave on the left.
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1905-01-25
An unidentified man sits in a chair in a cell at Sing Sing Prison. He has changed out of his prison uniform into a business suit, and is doling out money by the scoopful in return for “Bogus Securities” and “Bogus Collateral.” Chutes of money pour into his cell through windows labeled “Cashier, Vice-Pres., [and] President.” Sticking out of a back pocket is the “Star of Hope,” the Sing Sing Prison bulletin. Caption: A washday convenience for frenzied banks.
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1905-02-01
An elderly man labeled “Corporation Magnate” is sandwiched between the Republican Elephant and the Democratic Donkey, each holding out cups labeled, respectively, “Rep. Campaign Funds” and “Dem Campaign Funds”, seeking contributions. Caption: “Gentlemen, I cannot; my moral sense forbids!”
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1905-10-25
Uncle Sam, as a matador, wipes the blood off his sword after dispatching a bull labeled “Beef Trust” in a bullring with a portly man labeled “Monopoly” anxiously leaning over the wall.
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1905-02-22
President Roosevelt, as a Roman emperor, rides in a chariot being pulled by an elephant ridden by George B. Cortelyou. Three captives are tied to the back: William Jennings Bryan, Alton B. Parker, and Populist candidate Thomas Watson. Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks rides in a smaller chariot with Henry G. Davis as a captive in tow. Next to them Benjamin B. Odell carries a banner labeled “G.O.P.”, except that the “P” has been crossed out and replaced with a “T.” Near Roosevelt’s chariot Secretary of State John Hay bears a standard that says “S.P.Q.R.” (acronym for a Latin phrase which means “The Senate and People of Rome”), except that the “Q” has been crossed out and replaced with a “T.” At the front of the parade, holding the elephant’s trunk, is Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon. In the foreground, William H. Taft is carrying a large club. An African American man appears in the lower right foreground.
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1905-03-01
Nelson W. Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller sit at a keyboard from which the strings are connected to seats in Congress, in session at the U.S. Capitol. Rockefeller is holding a “Prompt Book” as Aldrich plays the instrument. The men are illuminated by the flame of an oil lamp labeled “Standard Oil.”
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1905-03-15
Alton B. Parker, in full-length portrait, facing slightly left, wears a judicial robe and holds in his right hand a scythe and in his left hand a book labeled “Law.”
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1904-06-29