“You go home and stay there!”
Subject(s): Dogs, Presidents--Term of office, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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President Roosevelt holds a stick and looks at a “third term” dog. Caption: “You go home and stay there!”
Comments and Context
Mostly forgotten today is a popular Sunday strip from the time of J. H. Donahey’s cartoon. Billy Marriner’s page was called “Wags, the Dog That Adopted a Man,” and its weekly episodes concerned a top-hatted man who could never escape the stray that followed him everywhere. Whether Donahey intentionally borrowed that theme — after all, lonely strays are always with us, or try to be — that is the concept in this cartoon from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
President Roosevelt, try as he might, and he did try, mightily, spent four years disabusing the public, press, and politicians of the conviction that he should or would angle for another run for the presidency in 1908. He disavowed it on election night of 1904 and never displayed a hint of changing his mind; he worked, steadily more in the open, for the nomination of William H. Taft.
Yet that “dog,” the rumors associated with a third-term ambition, dogged him. In this cartoon the frustrated Roosevelt is cutting a switch, ready to cut ever more assertive in chasing the dog away.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-11-21
Creator(s)
Donahey, J. H. (James Harrison), 1875-1949
Language
English
Period
U.S. President – 2nd Term (March 1905-February 1909)
Page Count
1
Production Method
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
“You go home and stay there!”. [November 21, 1907]. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o301657. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Donahey, J. H. (James Harrison), 1875-1949. “You go home and stay there!”. [21 Nov. 1907]. Image.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 26, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o301657.
APA:
Donahey, J. H. (James Harrison), 1875-1949., [1907, November 21]. “You go home and stay there!”.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o301657.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 26, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division.
APA:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division.
