A half-way meeting
President Roosevelt is shown dragging out representatives of the coal miners and operators onto a board between two cliffs.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-02
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Maybell, Claude, 1872-
Why not an automatic substitute?
Theodore Roosevelt greets guests in “Wildwood Gulch” at a reception in his honor. Roosevelt crosses his arms behind his back, and a “hand shaker” device stands in front of him (“patent applied for”), offering a fake arm with which the people may shake hands. Caption: It is announced that the President will omit handshaking during his western tour.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-01
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Safe
Cartoon depicts General Nelson Appleton Miles sliding safely into home plate before Secretary of War Elihu Root can catch the baseball labeled “Retirement.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-23
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Prepared for the worst
Cartoon depicts General Nelson Appleton Miles protected in a bunker by heavy artillery from President Roosevelt’s and Secretary of War Elihu Root’s rebukes.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-01
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It is rumored that Senator Hanna would like to take the next vacancy
President Roosevelt and his cabinet share a “Vapor Bath Cabinet” being heated by a lamp labeled “Strenuous Policy,” as Marcus Alonzo Hanna looks on from outside. Secretary of State John Hay and Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock are shown sweating, while President Roosevelt is shown to be staying cool without a problem. Cartoon is regarding Hanna’s 1904 presidential aspirations.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-03
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The President paints a picture at Charleston
Cartoon shows President Roosevelt with a paint brush and his finished work of art: Uncle Sam plowing a field with two horses and a plow. The horses are labeled “Combination of Capital” and “Labor Combine.” Uncle Sam is holding reins titled “Regulation by Law.” Cartoon is regarding government regulation of industry.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-10
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Corked
President Roosevelt shoves a cork labeled “Silence Order” into the mouth of General Frederick Funston. Cartoon is regarding Roosevelt’s gag order on Funston.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-24
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The Rough Riders of the future
Theodore Roosevelt, dressed as a Rough Rider, rides an air balloon, followed by his fellow rough riders similarly airborne. Caption: President Roosevelt tells Santos-Dumont at the White House that he might accompany him in an ascension.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-17
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Unkind cut for the land-stealing industry…The President learned wire-cutting at San Juan Hill
President Roosevelt in Rough Rider garb is cutting through barbed wire with scissors labeled “Exclusion.” A large rider marked “Land Thief” is pointing a gun at him while a sign proclaims the fenced public land belongs to the beef trust.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-02
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Political merry-go-round
President Roosevelt and Senator Hanna are shown on a merry-go-round trying to capture a ring labeled “Republican nomination for president, 1904.” Caption: Mark – If Teddy misses, the ring is mine.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-29
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President Roosevelt – “Never mind; it will get ripe as sure as fate.”
President Roosevelt, holding a knife labeled “Pittsburg Speech,” comforts “Cuba” as they look over a garden wall at a ripening melon labeled “Reciprocity.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-05
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The great vanishing cabinet act
Theodore Roosevelt appears as a master of ceremonies on a stage, as members of William McKinley’s cabinet vanish.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-02-21
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The minute-man
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna holds a “boom for presidency” rifle and has a “patriotism” feather in his hat as he holds an earpiece to a “wireless telegraph call to the presidency.” Caption: “Mr. Hanna is a patriot, and if the country demanded his nomination he would respond if it killed him.”—Gov. Durbin.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-01-21
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Fare—”Stop, cabby, the bottom’s falling out!”
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna tells his carriage driver to stop driving “Hanna’s presidential boom” carriage headed toward the White House because the bottom is falling out.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-01-16
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Priscilla—”Why don’t you speak for yourself, Mark?”
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, playing the part of John Alden, hands a bouquet of flowers labeled “Advocacy of Roosevelt” to the figure of the Republican Presidential Nomination, playing the part of Priscilla. Priscilla holds “1904” spun wool in her hand. Caption: Priscilla—”Why don’t you speak for yourself, Mark?” —Maybell in the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12
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Many a slip ‘twist the neck and the hatchet!
President Roosevelt holds a “popularity” hatchet to chop the neck of a “presidential nomination 1904” turkey. A “Hanna boomer” has snuck up from behind a fence and attempts to grab the hatchet from Roosevelt’s hand.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-11-23
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Everything gone by the board
Three masts on a boat—”presidential ticket,” “New York state ticket,” and “congressional ticket”—were thrown off due to the “Roosevelt hurricane.” Charles A. Peabody and Patrick Henry McCarren hold onto the bottom of the New York state ticket mast by the “Democratic party” hold. Thomas Taggart, Alton B. Parker, and David B. Hill are in another hold.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-09