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The next morning

A large man carrying golf clubs and a small piece of luggage, and holding goggles and a coat, with the railroad station in the background, asks who won the election. A diminutive boy is selling newspapers at his feet. Caption: The returned “Good Citizen” — Well, who was elected?

Comments and Context

The cover drawing by Joseph Keppler, Junior, seems to be a political, but not partisan, cartoon. Appearing just after midterm elections, the smiling, comfortable vacationer emits a careless disregard for whatever elections have just been held. It was, and is, often said that citizens who play little part in the politics of their day later complain about the results of elections they disregarded.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Pearl Wight

Theodore Roosevelt tells Progressive National Committee Member Pearl Wight that he agrees that the American people are apathetic, especially on the issue of American interest and honor in Mexico, making them more to blame than President Wilson and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan for the situation. Roosevelt recalls a speech by former Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-13

In command

President Roosevelt, Frank Swett Black, New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell, and New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt all call for donations. Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou holds a “cash contributions wanted!!!” flag. They call down from the “Republican breastworks” toward “General Apathy.” A number of men surround the general and lie on the ground.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-26

The Democratic Andromeda

A “Democracy” woman is chained to “factional leadership” while a scaled and monstrous “apathy” approaches from below. Caption: Wanted, a Perseus! There she stands, poor soul,/Watching the red-gorged monster’s slow advance—/While ever he nearer and nearer creeps/And the gods laugh and the deliverer sleeps!

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-15

The recruiting-sergeant and the tough subject

Benjamin F. Butler is a “Recruiting-Sergeant” holding a paper that states “Join the Butler Army OH! – Victory and Spoils in 1884.” He is appealing to a man sitting on a chair, holding a “Southern Vote” in his hands. Caption: The Unrecruited South – “Stranger, I guess you’ll have to count me out of this.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-07-18

Airships are getting so dreadfully commonplace

On the left, pedestrians and people in and on top of buildings look with amazement at an airplane flying over a city. On the right, citizens no longer take notice of all the airplanes crowding the sky above the city. Caption: As it was a year or two ago / As it may be a year or two from now.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-08-23