Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909 Archives - Page 15 of 15

The rivals

A white cat wearing a bow labeled “Nomination” is being courted by other cats who represent potential candidates in the upcoming presidential election. Two other cats peer over walls in the background. Those depicted are Philander C. Knox, Leslie M. Shaw, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles W. Fairbanks, William H. Taft, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Joseph Benson Foraker, and George B. Cortelyou. In the background are Timothy L. Woodruff and Albert J. Beveridge.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-02-05

The clumsy elephant

The “G.O.P.” elephant laments a broken pail labeled “Full Dinner Pail” on the ground before him. The U.S. Capitol building is in the background. Caption: “Gosh! How am I to get that pail in shape for next fall’s campaign?”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-03-11

Special privilege

An old woman labeled “Monopoly Tariff” sits next to an old shoe labeled “Special Privilege,” around which a number of children are playing. The children all represent a “Trust” and are labeled “Tool, Steel, Copper, Lumber, Sugar, Rubber, Beef, Coal, Tobacco, Clothing, Watch, Leather, Paper, [and] Linen.” Caption: There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, / Whose progeny here are presented by Pughe. / She petted and pampered and coddled the brats, / And guarded her brood from the bad Democrats.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-03-25

“Go on! You ask ’em! They can’t do more than refuse”

A donkey carries the “Democratic Dough Bag” and an elephant carries the “Republican Dough Bag” as they walk down “Wall Street,” seeking campaign funding for the upcoming presidential election.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-04-01

Future occupations for Roosevelt

At center, Theodore Roosevelt appears as a rugged “guide for city sportsmen.” Surrounding scenes show Roosevelt as a “Pedagogue of Natural History,” an “Instructor in the manly art” of boxing, a coach for athletic sports, and a physician delivering triplets. Caption: A few of the things he can turn his hand to after leaving the presidency.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-09-18

The scarecrow of the Pacific

An American bald eagle carries a scarecrow that looks like Uncle Sam, with battleships for hat, hands, and feet, across the Pacific Ocean toward “Japan,” where crows wearing military uniforms stand on the shore. The sun is rising in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-10-16

A pretty high bar to clear

A group of Republicans try to push, pull, and coax the “G.O.P.” elephant to jump a hurdle on a race course. William B. Allison stands on the far side of the hurdle. Philander C. Knox is pulling the elephant’s trunk. William P. Frye, Nelson W. Aldrich, Stephen B. Elkins, Joseph Gurney Cannon, and Eugene Hale are pushing the elephant, which is being ridden by a plump man labeled “Stand Pat,” wielding a whip. The hurdle has four bars, the lowest labeled “Cost of Living 1896,” the next “Cost of Living 1900,” then “Cost of Living 1904,” and the highest “Cost of Living 1908.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-10-30

“Well, for once they can’t blame me”

The Democratic donkey labeled “Democratic Party” sits among papers that state “The Trusts are to Blame,” “Harriman is to Blame,” “Wall Street is to Blame,” “High Finance is to Blame,” “Roosevelt is to Blame / Roosevelt is Not to Blame,” “Overcapitalization is to Blame,” “The Rail-Roads are to Blame,” [and] “Crooked Business is to Blame.” Many are blamed, but no one will accept the responsibility for the panic of 1907.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-12-11

Shedding his horns

William Jennings Bryan, as a moose, rubs his antlers labeled “Government Ownership” and “Initiative and Referendum” against a tree labeled “Party Opposition” to knock them off, so that new antlers can grow. On the ground are antlers from previous years labeled “Imperialism shed in 1904” and “Free Silver shed in 1900.” Five heavily-bearded owls are perched on branches of the tree.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-08-21

Over with the che-ild!

A sled labeled “Wall Street,” being pulled by a bull and a bear, races through the snow on a winter night, being chased by a wolf with the face of Theodore Roosevelt. The driver, wearing a hat labeled “The Railroads,” is about to throw a child labeled “Overcapitalization” to the wolf.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-04-10

Caged

A sickly looking dove is caught in a birdcage fashioned from rifles and swords, with “Powder” kegs at the ends of a perch labeled “Peace Conference,” and topped with the flags of “England, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Japan, Russia, Spain, [and] U.S.” Caption: “Caged.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-05-29

The puzzled chicks

Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan appear as hens among confused chicks labeled “Reciprocity, Anti-Money Devil, Over-Capitalization, Gov’t Control of Rail Roads, Income Tax, Anti Wall St., Campaign Fund Reform, Peace Movement, Anti Trust Laws, Peerless Leader, Rate Regulation, [and] Anti-Rebates.” The chicks are uncertain which is the mother hen. In the background is the White House as a chicken coop. Caption: Which is Mama?

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-06-19

Old Dr. Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt, as a doctor, examines Philander C. Knox, as other potential candidates for the upcoming presidential election await their turn: Charles Evans Hughes, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles W. Fairbanks, George B. Cortelyou, Joseph Gurney Cannon, [and] William Loeb as a dog. William H. Taft, already examined, has a paper labeled “Passed T.R.” extending from his pocket. On the wall in the background is a chart labeled “The Perfect Man” showing a profile view of Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-07-03

Farthest north

The “Tariff Reform” ship is mired in a sea of ice, around which are many glaciers in the shape of the heads of Joseph Gurney Cannon, Leslie M. Shaw, Nelson W. Aldrich, and Joseph Benson Foraker. Other glaciers are labeled “Trust” and “Monopoly.” The “Philippine Free Trade” ship has wrecked on a large block of ice labeled “Protected Trust” and only the hull remains. Survivors from “Tariff Reform” drag a sled labeled “Mass. Revisionists” up a mountain labeled “Stand Pat,” toward a rainbow labeled “Fair Trade.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-01-02

“Do it now”

A man sits in an ice house, wearing a fur coat and a hat labeled “Ice Trust.” He is writing “Owing to the mild winter, we regret to say that ice next summer will be dearer than ever.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-01-09

The return of Rip Van Winkle

An elderly man labeled “The Law,” with a long beard and holding a broken gun labeled “Fines,” peers at a group of bloated criminals standing and sitting on the porch of “The Jolly Grafter’s Inn, Successor to Ye Stern Justice” who are laughing at the old man before them. Those on the porch are labeled “Big Offender, Respectable Crook, Handy Judge [with a glass of] Judicial Favors, Corporate Lawyer [with mugs of] Legal Aid, Tax Dodger, Special Privilege, Insurance Grafter, Corrupt Business, Rail Road Merger, [and the] Oil, Coal, [and] Beef Trust[s].” On a table is a newspaper labeled “The Daily Graft,” and growling at the man is a dog labeled “Subsidized Press.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-02-13

The modern horn of plenty

A large cornucopia labeled “Cold Storage Warehouse” stores a significant amount of farm produce, creating an artificial shortage, in an effort to drive up the price of food in the marketplace. A group of people stand outside the locked door labeled “Closed for Higher Prices,” while, in the background, farm produce is being delivered from both sides for cold storage.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-02-27