Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

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1907-07-07

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Letter from Jacob H. Gallinger to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Gallinger is taking up the “Crum case” during an executive session, with the hope of settling the matter. Gallinger asks President Roosevelt to notify certain senators of the importance of the matter.

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Gallinger, Jacob H. (Jacob Harold), 1837-1918

Creation Date

1904-04-22

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Letter from Grenville M. Dodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Grenville M. Dodge contacted Colonel Albert L. Mills, Senator William B. Allison, and others asking them to appeal to an unnamed senator.

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Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916

Creation Date

1904-04-11

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Partial pages of The Des Moines Daily Capital

The Des Moines Daily Capital reports on the Polk County Republican convention in Iowa on Saturday. After reports on corruption in the vote counting process in favor of S. F. Prouty, John A. T. Hull was given the nomination for the House of Representatives. In addition to nominating Hull, the convention named delegates to the state convention and issued a resolution calling for a reform of the primary voting process, expressing support for President Roosevelt’s renomination, and commitment to the Republican platform. A second article contains an allegory about a young politician who lost a race and learned that he should not “squeal.”

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Creation Date

1904-03-07

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Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt

Leslie M. Shaw reports on the customs drawback laws.

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Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932

Creation Date

1904-03-10

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The wail of the Jingos

“The United Order of Jingoes,” comprised of newspaper editors and legislators identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Reed, Frye, Reid, Lodge, Allison, Boutelle, [and] Hoar,” sits outside the White House on a winter’s night, in the snow. President Cleveland, visible through a window, reads from a paper labeled “Cleveland’s Hawaiian Policy.”

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Creation Date

1895-02-20

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The “press view” at the candidate show

Presidential candidates are on display in a gallery for the press. Among the candidates are Jerry Simpson, William A. Peffer, Robert E. Pattison, David B. Hill, James E. Campbell, William C. Whitney, William E. Russell, Adlai E. Stevenson, Levi P. Morton, Robert T. Lincoln, William B. Allison, Thomas B. Reed, William McKinley, and Benjamin Harrison who is standing next to a stack of books and a sign that states, “My Friends Say I Am Not A Candidate.” Down the center of the gallery are several newspaper editors, some with magnifying glasses and telescopes. Among them are Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Dana, Whitelaw Reid, Henry Watterson, Joseph R. Hawley, Murat Halstead, and Evan P. Howell, and an unidentified reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper.

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Creation Date

1895-11-20

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The Republican Christmas tree

A large Christmas tree is decorated with ornaments labeled with political offices and presidential appointments. Thomas Collier Platt and Matthew S. Quay, who is dressed as a woman, are standing in front of the tree. In queues on both sides are diminutive figures anxiously awaiting their presents, including from right to left, Jerry Simpson, Joseph B. Foraker, William E. Chandler, William McKinley, Whitelaw Reid, Thomas B. Reed, Levi P. Morton, Benjamin Harrison, William B. Allison, George F. Hoar, John Sherman, Chauncey M. Depew, and Robert T. Lincoln. Caption: The two big bosses have full charge of it, and the most obedient boys will come in for the best gifts.

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Creation Date

1895-12-25

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Waiting for the good times to blow over

A large female figure holds a cornucopia labeled “Prosperity 1895,” floating toward rays of light that illuminate industrial facilities. She hovers above a group of men gathered around a platform with a banner that states, “Protection Issue and Victory in 1896.” Several of the men are shaking their fists at her. Among those identified by name and unidentified are “Hoar, Elkins, Tom Reed, Lodge, [and] Hale,” and William B. Allison, possibly Thomas C. Carter, John Sherman, Joseph B. Foraker, William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, William E. Chandler, Whitelaw Reid labeled “Tribune of N.Y.,” Charles A. Boutelle, and Matthew S. Quay.

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Creation Date

1895-10-09

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The Republican schoolma’am and her pupils

An elderly woman sits in a chair on a platform, instructing her students in lessons that have probably been taken from the “Republican Campaign Text Book” sitting on a table on the right, or from the “Republican Press” at her feet. Reciting their lessons are pupils identified as “Boutelle, Reid, Reed, Foraker, Harrison, Hoar, Allison, Lodge, McKinley, Sherman,” and “Stewart,” who is standing on a stool and wearing a dunce cap labeled “Silver Dunce.” Caption: The Schoolma’am–Who were responsible for all the cyclones, dry spells, frosts, floods, landslides, chills-and-fever, mosquitos and everything else that plagued the country? / Chorus of Scholars–The Democrats! / The Schoolma’am–To whom does the country owe its present good crops, fine weather, health, wealth and general prosperity? / Chorus of Scholars–The Republicans!! / The Schoolma’am–Correct! – all go to the head!

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Creation Date

1895-08-28

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“Come in, boys, warm up, and have a little Christmas cheer!”

Columbia welcomes a group of ragged politicians, mostly Democrats, some no longer in office, and newspaper editors, to come in from the cold winter night and warm themselves by the fire and enjoy some “Christmas Cheer” from a large punch bowl, with the many recently elected Republican legislators, mayors, and governors. All are identified by name, except William B. Allison: “Morton, Goff, Strong, Harrison, Dayton, McKinley, McIntyre, Marvil, Upham, Coffin, Reed, Depew, C. A. Dana, D. B. Hill, Springer, Wilson, Bland, Smyth, Grant, Bynum, Waite, [and] McPherson.”

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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Creation Date

1894-12-26

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Old jokes in new political clothes

In this vignette cartoon various presidential candidates are depicted with their trappings. David B. Hill as “The Political Suburban Resident” is overloaded with packages labeled “Low Political Jobs, Petty Schemes, Unsuccessful Intrigues, Tricks, [and] Peanut Politics.” William McKinley is “The National Political Brooklynite” pushing a stroller containing papers labeled “High Protection.” Thomas Collier Platt is “The Obstreperous Cook” with William L. Strong and Levi P. Morton standing in the background. Thomas B. Reed is “The Political Lady with the Big Hat” which is labeled “Presidential Boom” and obscures the view of Benjamin Harrison, John Sherman, and William B. Allison. William A. Peffer is “The Amusing Political Hayseed” of “very ordinary” intellect, but long on whiskers, and George F. Hoar is “The Voluble Political Mother-in-Law” who clears the “U.S. Senate” when he stands to speak.

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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929; Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Creation Date

1895-01-30

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The rival May parties

Hopeful presidential candidates dance around the “Republican Presidential Nomination” maypole, hanging onto ribbons labeled “New York” (Levi P. Morton), “Maine” (Thomas B. Reed), “Indiana” (Benjamin Harrison), “Ohio” (William McKinley), with candidate “Allison” hanging onto “Iowa,” and candidates “Cullom” and “Sherman” in the background. On the left, David B. “Hill” is holding all the ribbons of the “Democratic Presidential Nomination” maypole.

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Creation Date

1895-05-08

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Presidential aspirants take to the wheel!

Print shows the interior of the “Bicycle Academy” which offers “Special Facilities for Presidential Candidates.” Trying out bicycles are several candidates labeled “Harrison, Sherman, Allison, Morton, Tom Reed, McKinley, Stewart, [Hill], Flower, Cullom, [and] Peffer.” Morton rides a motorized bicycle, Allison rides a tricycle, Flower has put his head through the front spokes, Stewart hangs on to a column, McKinley appears to be hanging onto Reed, and Hill’s tires are leaking air. On the wall is a poster for an “1896 Scorcher” cycle. Caption: The bicycle vote has got to be catered to, and the best wheelman will make the best run.

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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Creation Date

1895-06-12

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The circus has come!

William C. “Whitney” is the ringmaster at a circus where “D. B. Hill” is performing a horse riding trick by trying to ride two horses at once, a small horse labeled “Gold Standard” and a larger horse labeled “Free Silver.” Also in the ring is a clown labeled “Harvey.” Among those in the audience are William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas B. Reed, John Sherman, George F. Hoar, William B. Allison, William E. Chandler, William F. Peffer, Whitelaw Reid, Grover Cleveland, and Joseph J. C. Blackburn or Charles A. Boutelle. Caption: The New Ringmaster–Gentlemen of the audience, the great equestrian, “The Senator,” will perform his thrilling feat of riding two horses simultaneously! – Brace up, Dave, everybody’s looking at you!

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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Creation Date

1895-06-26

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Coronation of the autocrat of protection, June 16, 1896

William McKinley, at the Republican National Convention, wears a royal robe and places a crown labeled “Nomination” and listing the states “Mass., Texas, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Cal. [and] Va.” on his head. Charles H. Grosvenor and Mark A. Hanna are near him as high priests, and Herman H. Kohlsaat is a court page holding his robe. Paying their respects, on the right, are Thomas Collier Platt, William B. Allison, Matthew S. Quay, Thomas B. Reed, Shelby M. Cullom, and Levi P. Morton. A small portion of the convention hall is visible in the background.

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Creation Date

1896-06-24

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Among the silent ones

Uncle Sam, holding a paper labeled “Political Guide,” rides on a camel being led by Puck through the “City of Silence,” past several silent sphinxes labeled “Tom Reed, Allison, McKinley, Morton, [and] Harrison.” Includes dialogue between Uncle Sam and Puck that tells how these rulers were turned to stone for being unable to answer the currency question. Caption: Scene–The City of Silence in the Land of G.O.P., ferninst the Great Political Desert. – Enter Uncle Sam with Puck, his Dragoman.

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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Creation Date

1895-07-31

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The spring athletic meeting

Grover Cleveland lifts a heavy weight labeled “Silver Question.” He has several medals pinned to his chest. With him are “W.E. Russell,” David B. Hill, Robert E. Pattison, Adlai E. Stevenson, James E. Campbell, and William R. Morrison. On the right, refusing to touch any of the weights labeled “Silver Question, Tariff Question, [and] Cuban Question,” are William McKinley, Shelby M. Cullom, Levi P. Morton, Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin Harrison, [and] William B. Allison. Uncle Sam is part of a large audience seated in the background. Caption: One strong man has shown his ability to lift the heavy weight; – now let’s see what the others can do.

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Creation Date

1896-05-13

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He starts in with an Austerlitz

William McKinley sits on a white horse on a cliff, as the brilliant leader of a successful military campaign, with Mark A. Hanna standing next to him, holding a banner that states, “Three Cheers and a Tiger for Prosperity’s Advance Agent!!” In the valley below lie the casualties of the campaign, “Morton, Quay, Allison, Reed, Manley, [and] Cullom,” and in the background are John Sherman, Robert T. Lincoln, and Benjamin Harrison. “Manley,” Reed’s campaign manager, wears a Red Cross on his uniform.

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Creation Date

1896-05-20

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A few pleasant recollections of the fifty-fourth Congress

A large group of members of the Fifty-fourth Congress are pictured. Many are dressed as natives, with some wearing grass skirts. Most are armed with spears or clubs, while some have shields. Four are reading the “Reminiscences of John Sherman,” one turns the crank on a spit where John Bull is being roasted, and Thomas B. Reed is standing on a platform on the left. A statue labeled “Jingoism” appears at center. Grover Cleveland appears in effigy with several spears or arrows stuck in him. Joseph G. Cannon sits on the floor on the right.

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