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A “beef trust” bull with “low prices” legs and “high prices” horns jumps toward a “consumer” man. A “cattle raiser” jumps backward. President Roosevelt holds a lasso and rides toward the bull. The United States Capitol building is in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-08
President Roosevelt sits at a table with members of his cabinet. He gestures at Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton. Beside Morton is a newspaper with the headline: “A.T. & S.F. R.R.’s Secret Rebates—Paul Morton Traffic Mangr.” There is also a “suit of armor formerly worn by Sec’y Morton” with a locomotive engine for a helmet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-03
President Roosevelt rides an elephant and tries to lasso a number of locomotives: “freight lines,” “rebate system,” and “Beef Trust Refrigerating Line Car Co.” A “small shipper” man lies on the ground.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-25
Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Rhode Island Senator Eugene Hale, and others hold up pitchforks to keep a Republican elephant standing up on “the high tariff pyramid.” President Roosevelt sits on the elephant’s head.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-05
President Roosevelt rides a Republican elephant decorated with several bells, a “Roosevelt” megaphone, and a “big stick.” Roosevelt sits in a seat with the names of various states.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-09
Former President Grover Cleveland escorts a woman wearing a crown labeled “St. Louis” and a sash labeled “Popularity” past President Roosevelt and David R. Francis, President of the St. Louis World’s Fair (also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition). (Mr. Cleveland made a speech at the Fair, and it was thought that he might become a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President and run against Roosevelt.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-01
President Roosevelt is riding the Republican elephant through the Monopoly Wilderness as various Republican lawmakers hang onto its tail. Uncle Sam holds a sign stating This Way Out in the distance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-03
President Roosevelt, pictured with a cigar in his hand, greets guests at the White House. Many other guests appear in the background, dancing, smoking, and visiting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-16
President Roosevelt is pictured as a hunter hunched next to a large, dead animal labeled “The Coal Strike.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-15
Cartoon depicts Republicans barricaded behind a fence marked prosperity with President Roosevelt atop the Republican elephant aiming a gun labeled arbitration as various groups rush the fence. Item is regarding whether coal mines should be privately or publicly owned.
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1902-10-26
President Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan appear as roosters. Roosevelt has just pulled off Bryan’s last tail feather labeled “Curb the Trusts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-05
A man chases after a band wagon being driven by President Roosevelt. The various instruments on the wagon are labeled with the names of states which have voiced support for Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential bid.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-15
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
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
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
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 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
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
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