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A gigantic snowball labeled “Morton Boom” is rolling down a hillside toward four men labeled “Allison, Reed, McKinley, [and] Harrison.” At the top of the hill are Thomas Collier Platt, Levi P. Morton, and another man.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-02-19
Matthew S. Quay and Thomas Collier Platt hold papers labeled “Great Republican Farce Comedy – Presidential Aspirations – Star Part.” Around them stand Thomas B. Reed, William B. Allison, William McKinley, and Levi P. Morton as actors in costume. On the far left, Benjamin Harrison is exiting the building. Caption: The Stock Company (in chorus)–“I want that part – it requires whiskers, and I’ve got ’em!”, “Give that character to me, and I’ll keep the house in order with it!”,”Let me have it – I’m a regular Napoleon in that kind of role!”, “Don’t mind those young fellows, – a man of mature age is needed to play it right!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-02-26
Uncle Sam strolls along “Presidential Avenue” through a maze of presidential campaign posters being posted by several of the candidates, including William “McKinley on his High Charger ‘War-Tariff’,” “Levi P. Morton, the only Able Guide through the Woods, Years of Experience,” William B. “Old Bill Allison, The Farmers Friend,” Henry M.”Teller Holding up the Ratio 16 to 1,” “Samson Davis Carrying Off the Honors, ‘Monroe Doctrine’,” Matthew Quay “If you want a ‘Boss Time’ try Quay – the Reformed One,” and Thomas B. Reed, “The only Reed in Continuous Performance – Dancing Lightly on Silver.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-03-11
Several men are on a ship at sea, with a waterspout labeled “Western Republican Silver Sentiment” and looking like Thomas H. Carter bearing down on the ship. At the helm, labeled “Sound Money,” is John Sherman. Others on deck are “Platt, Allison, Reed, McKinley, Quay, Morton, Hackett, Wellington, Chandler, Burrows, Clarkson,” and an unidentified man who may be George F. Hoar.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-03-25
A ringmaster labeled “Harrity Chairman Dem. Natl. Com.” stands on the left, offering an opportunity to ride the Democratic Donkey which wears a saddle labeled “1896” and “$50,000 a year for the man who can ride on this donkey to the White House.” Several reluctant man observe from the grandstands. They are identified as “Stevenson, Hill, Pattison, Olney, Matthews, [and] Campbell”, and William R. Morrison. In the background, riding on the Republican Elephant labeled “1896” are “McKinley, Morton, Reed, Allison, [and] Quay.” McKinley holds a pennant labeled “Protection.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-04-15
President McKinley holds an oil can labeled “Patronage” and turns the crank on a “Prosperity Engine” while Nelson Dingley shovels coal into a damaged “Protection Boiler” labeled “High Tariff Defeat 1890” and “High Tariff Defeat 1892.” Nearby is a brand new and unused “Sound Financial Policy Boiler.” William B. Allison pulls the handle on a large brass “Republican Whistle.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-05-19
A huge figure labeled “Tariff for Trusts,” wearing a quilted cape labeled with products and percentages and holding papers labeled “Concessions,” sits between the Senate and House chambers. Garret A. Hobart sits on the left and Thomas B. Reed sits on the right. Nelson Dingley and William B. Allison, holding enormous pincers labeled “Ways and Means Committee” and “Finance Committee” with a crown labeled “Sherman’s Bluff Anti-Trust Law of 1890” in the jaws, are placing the crown on the head of the devilish figure at center.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-28
Newspaper article crediting Senator Allison and the failed “Iowa idea” for encouraging discussion of “reasonable tariff revision.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07
Page four of the July 3, 1903, edition of the Des Moines Daily Capital. Several sections on this page are emphasized, including an article titled “Why These Attacks Upon Cousins?,” another titled “The Head Liners Have Their Ideas,” and a brief poem. The first of these discusses the difference in treatment given to Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins and others who have expressed their opinions about the tariff, and the treatment given to Robert G. Cousins when he did the same. The second compares the different ways that headlines across the country have described the Iowa Republican Convention. The circled poem declares that the “Iowa Idea” is dead and should be buried.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-03
Several Republicans with presidential aspirations and/or delegates to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, and a young boy holding a pillow labeled “Stand-Pat Press,” stand around “Stand-Pat” King Canute on the seashore with cliffs at their back, as he commands the rising tide of “Tariff Revision.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-06-24
A group of Republicans try to push, pull, and coax the “G.O.P.” elephant to jump a hurdle on a race course. William B. Allison stands on the far side of the hurdle. Philander C. Knox is pulling the elephant’s trunk. William P. Frye, Nelson W. Aldrich, Stephen B. Elkins, Joseph Gurney Cannon, and Eugene Hale are pushing the elephant, which is being ridden by a plump man labeled “Stand Pat,” wielding a whip. The hurdle has four bars, the lowest labeled “Cost of Living 1896,” the next “Cost of Living 1900,” then “Cost of Living 1904,” and the highest “Cost of Living 1908.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-10-30
Former Rough Rider William H. H. Llewellyn encloses a copy of his letter to Senator Allison.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-03
Llewellyn, William H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1851-1927
Joseph Gurney Cannon informs President Roosevelt of his meeting with Senator Allison and his views on the proposed financial legislation. He encloses a letter from Representative Campbell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-24
William A. Connolly writes to President Roosevelt to ask when he can begin organizing Irish American Roosevelt Clubs in Des Moines, Iowa, for the next presidential election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-13
The tariff plank of the Iowa Republican platform that has caused controversy is being reworked to align with the national plank of 1896. Senator Allison is working to bring together the Republican factions in Iowa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-01
The Iowa Republican platform will not demand tariff revision. The platform is being written by Senator Allison, who has always opposed the fad of tariff revision.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-11
President Roosevelt, Senator Allison, and Governor Cummins have agreed on a tariff plank for the Republican platform of 1904. President Roosevelt’s failure to admit that the tariff policy promotes and protects monopolies will limit the effects of the Iowa resolutions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-10
President Roosevelt, Governor Cummins, and Senator Allison have agreed to support a tariff reform plank at the Republican National Convention. The plank was written by Cummins and will first be taken up at the Iowa convention. The primary difference is that the Iowa plank removes the phrase “shelter for monopoly.” The history and creation of the plank are summarized.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-11
The Iowa idea for tariff reform has been abandoned. Tariff reform will not be an issue in Congress or at the Republican National Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-11
John Hay reports that Senators Fairbanks, Dolliver, and Allison favor the Alaskan treaty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-07