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Political cartoon featuring Theodore Roosevel on horseback in his Rough Rider uniform, with a typewriter, telephone, a hunting rifle, boxing gloves, and Indian clubs.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900
A “messenger” brings a message for “the boss” but does not know to whom to give it. Victor Dowling, Thomas Taggart, De Lancey Nicoll, William F. Sheehan, George B. McClellan, and David B. Hill hold out their hands for the message.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-30
President Roosevelt sits on a ladder and reads the “Constitution of the United States.” “The Strenuous Life” book is locked down while cobwebs are on two pictures on the wall of “San Juan” and “big game.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-27
New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell saws wood to put in the “cut and dried” “Republican woodpile.” Meanwhile, Charles Francis Murphy and Patrick Henry McCarren sit on the “Democratic wood pile” with a saw and watch.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-16
A man carrying “the bigger stick—’large financial interests'” points it toward President Roosevelt who sits on the “mourners bench” on “Wall Street” with “the big stick” beside him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-13
Alton B. Parker tries to drive a cart with a Democratic donkey, a Tammany tiger, and a populist goat. A “Sagamore” steamer and a “Rosemount” farm house are in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-21
Two men walk down Wall Street wearing hunting attire and holding guns and bags labeled “Democratic campaign fund” and “Republican campaign fund” respectively. Bulls and bears run away while a sheep with a top hat and an “immune” bow winks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-10
President Roosevelt wears a shirt with a Republican elephant on it and uses the “Constitution of the United States” as a boxing bag. On the ground is a “jingoism” hobbyhorse, “big stick foreign policy” Indian clubs, and “high tariff, high prices” weights. William McKinley eyes Roosevelt from a picture frame on the wall. Caption: “I then stated it was my purpose to carry out his principles and policies. * * * To the best of my ability I have kept the promise thus made.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-29
Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou holds a cup and parades a Republican elephant down Wall Street as bulls and bears run away.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-29
President Roosevelt, Frank Swett Black, New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell, and New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt all call for donations. Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou holds a “cash contributions wanted!!!” flag. They call down from the “Republican breastworks” toward “General Apathy.” A number of men surround the general and lie on the ground.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-26
Alton B. Parker leads a number of men out of the “populism” wilderness while William Jennings Bryan is stuck on one of the cliffs. The men include, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, Arthur P. Gorman, William Francis Sheehan, Mississippi Representative John Sharp Williams, and Joseph W. Bailey. “High Priest Cleveland” points them forward.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07
A heron wearing a “Parker” crown picks up a frog with the face of Martin W. Littleton. Other frogs watch, including Joseph W. Bailey, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman with his pitchfork, William Jennings Bryan, David B. Hill, and Charles Francis Murphy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-22
Charles W. Fairbanks lies in a hammock reading a book as Alton B. Parker, President Roosevelt, and Henry Gassaway Davis all ride horses in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-17
President Roosevelt and William Loeb stand on a stage. Roosevelt wears a sign that says, “boquets here,” while Loeb’s sign says, “kicks here please.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-16
President Roosevelt flexes his bicep as he watches several boys leaving “Miss Democracy Select School”: David B. Hill, Alton B. Parker, New York Mayor George B. McClellan, Arthur P. Gorman, Richard Olney, and William Randolph Hearst.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-26
At the “Republican National Convention,” President Roosevelt presses a button that controls Frank Swett Black who holds a “nominating speech that approves T. R.” New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt and New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell sit beside each other on the stage while Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon receives shocks. Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge holds up “the platform.” Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks is on a wire and wears a sign that reads, “great vice-presidential slide for life.” All the delegates are puppets who vote for “Roosevelt.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-21
A number of President Roosevelts sit on the train as one Roosevelt wearing a “Republican Natl Convention” sash steps off and greets a woman with a large hat labeled “Chicago.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-19
President Roosevelt shakes hands with the “official Republican campaign uniform” that looks the attire of a cowboy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-18
President Roosevelt appears everywhere in the “Republican National Convention.” He holds the gavel to nominate himself as president and is supported by the “Northern States,” “Western States,” “Southern States,” and “Eastern States.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-29
President Roosevelt holds “the new diplomacy” Indian clubs and points them toward “Central” America and “South America.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-30