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A large President Roosevelt holds a knife in his mouth, a pistol in his left hand, and a rifle in his right hand as he stares at a small “third term” bear in the “President Cane Brake.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-10
President Roosevelt pushes William H. Taft holding a pennant, “Taft Boom.” Behind Roosevelt is Representative Theodore E. Burton and a group of men with the pennant, “Radical Freshmen.” In front of Taft are the “Conservative Sophomores”: Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, Philander C. Knox, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, and Senator Joseph Benson Foraker.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-26
President Roosevelt and Uncle Sam stand on the shore of the ocean. In Roosevelt’s pocket is a handle labeled, “lately discovered,” and Uncle Sam says, “Just a squall, Ted,” as they look out on the “Japanese jingoism” waves.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-11
President Roosevelt with his big stick and Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte with a “law” bucket sit on a log at “Harriman Pool.” The water is labeled, “watered stocks,” and a speech balloon rises from the water, “Not yet but.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-07
President Roosevelt throws several shoes at the “3rd term” rooster that crows, “Theo-dore-‘ll-do-o” as the sun rises.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-08
William Jennings Bryan and President Roosevelt stand at a crossroads. Bryan’s sign reads, “Those not for me in 1896 and 1900 are against me” with a “political mourner’s bench” covered in cobwebs. Roosevelt’s sign reads, “Those not for me are against me. T.R.” Many people are on bended knee at his “political mourner’s bench.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-15
President Roosevelt rides with Uncle Sam in a car labeled “prosperity” that is leaving the “Hard Times Cop” on a bicycle in the dust. Beside the bicycle is a turtle labeled “Wall Street” that asks, “Do you think we’ll catch him?” The road is named “G.O.P. Pike.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-02
President Roosevelt puts his thumb on Secretary of War William H. Taft’s head as it pops out of a hole labeled, “Taft Boom.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-20