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Hobbled

Hobbled

This political cartoon shows President Roosevelt glaring at an upheaval in Colorado, which most likely represents a strike, while his feet are tied to a stake in the ground labeled “Nomination.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-05

Bear stories

Bear stories

A political cartoon depicting President Theodore Roosevelt and lawyer Francis Heney comparing hunting kills. Roosevelt’s two dead bears identify him as a boodler and a land thief, and Heney’s bears are labeled grafter and U.S. Senator.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-25

“Git out!”

“Git out!”

President Roosevelt peeks out of the “President’s Office / Army Affairs” at an old woman labeled the “meddlesome Senate.” She holds a bag: “Brownsville.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

This cartoon by J. H. “Hal” Donahey carried a direct observation about the current political situation, but also spoke to a larger subtext that contemporary readers would understand, but posterity would not, immediately.

Cartoon in the Washington Herald

Cartoon in the Washington Herald

President Roosevelt uses his patented “Roosevelt invigorator” with “necessary measures,” “anti-injunction,” “anti-trust,” and “currency legislation” to blow into the mouth of a “Do Nothing 60th Congress” elephant costume that appears to be on Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon who says, “A storm must be brewing.” Roosevelt’s big stick lies on the ground with the United States Capitol building in the background.

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Comments and Context

Joseph Harry Cunningham in the Washington Herald almost anticipated a Rube Goldberg invention, in those eponymous cartoon panels with complicated mechanisms that required patient study and ultimately accomplished little. In this political cartoon President Roosevelt works the bellows to inflate an elephant costume with Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon inside.

For future delivery

For future delivery

President Roosevelt rolls up a “message to the Senate and House of Representatives” “guaranteed to make a noise when opened.” A teddy bear stares as Roosevelt rolls up two sticks of dynamite and an “alarm clock” as Maurice Latta heads toward the United States Capitol building.

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Comments and Context

As the weeks counted down to the Republican National Convention, the practical perception of President Roosevelt as a lame duck accelerated. However, he would be president for a full ten months after this cartoon’s publication, and no one should have expected a man like Roosevelt to slow down in activities, or controversies.

Roosevelt:—”Oh, very well! I guess the country will be interested!”

Roosevelt:—”Oh, very well! I guess the country will be interested!”

President Roosevelt holds up his “latest message showing how Congress has fallen down on much needed and much promised legislation!” to Uncle Sam–“The Country.” An old man labeled “Congress” says “Oh! Yaw-w-w-ah! Now Theodore–surely–not another one!–Heavens, man! How you bore me!!” Caption: Roosevelt–“Oh, very well! I guess the country will be interested!”

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Comments and Context

Albert Wilbur Steele was a pedestrian cartoonist whose reputation was enhanced by a few of his political cartoons about Theodore Roosevelt being reprinted as illustrations in history books. Therefore his legacy outshone his work; or perhaps he benefitted from drawing in Denver, one of the most fiercely competitive newspaper cities of his day.

Happy afterthoughts

Happy afterthoughts

A Japanese woman holding an umbrella looks adoringly at an American eagle. Caption: Japan (to American eagle)–But how sweet of you to come all this way on purpose to see me! Eagle–Why, yes; I thought you’d be pleased!–Punch.

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Comments and Context

The context of this cartoon from London’s Punch magazine reprinted in an American newspaper and pasted in the White House’s cartoon scrapbook, is the port of call in Japanese waters of the Great White Fleet.

The burdened ones:—”You carry least and complain the most.”

The burdened ones:—”You carry least and complain the most.”

Three men struggle under tariff burdens–“on the salaried man,” “on labor,” and “on farmer”–as the “one cent newspaper publisher” refuses to pick up the “tariff on wood pulp.”

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Comments and Context

This unsigned cartoon by W. A. Rogers, who recently had switched affiliations from Harper’s Weekly magazine to the daily New York Herald, drew this cartoon during a period of intense debate about United States tariff rates and import duties. It might appear to depict a family quarrel about arcane tax and trade matters, but it was a very contentious issue at the time.