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President Roosevelt thanks Massachusetts Representative Washburn for his note with Bible verses from James but wishes they applied only to the “dishonest rich.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-29
Eugene G. Asher congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on his speedy recovery after being shot by a would-be assassin, and compares Roosevelt’s survival to several Bible stories that feature God protecting chosen figures. Asher says that Roosevelt is standing for and fighting for principles that immortalized such figures as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. He hopes that Roosevelt will completely recover and be able to give more speeches before the election next month, and that he will be victorious.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-10-27
President William McKinley appears as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his top hat, and wearing a red cape labeled “McKinley.” He stands next to a large rock labeled “Prosperity” that has split and is spewing money toward a throng of people representing mostly the working class and the poor who stream from the factories in the background. Caption: The people foolishly think that McKinley will be able to tap the rock of prosperity, à la Moses, and make money flow like water.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-10
A fat man labeled “Monopoly” feasts on a large piece of meat labeled “Alaska Natural Resources” while a beggar labeled “American Homesteader” lies at his feet asking only for the morsels that fall from the table. Caption: “Fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-16
Print shows an angel labeled “New Party” with wings labeled “Tariff-Reform” and “Anti-Monopoly” leading two small orphan children labeled “Political Honesty” and “Political Wisdom” to safety, away from the fires, ignited by lightning labeled “Public Condemnation,” that are consuming “Republican Sodom” and “Democratic Gomorrah.” Caption: But peradventure the New Party will save these two little orphans from the burning and bring them up for us.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-05-10
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
Print shows John Kelly as the serpent labeled “Tammany” in the Garden of Eden offering an apple labeled “Harmony” from a tree labeled “Bossism” to “H.O. Thompson,” as Adam, labeled “County Democracy” and Alexander V. “Davidson,” as Eve, labeled “Irving Hall” who holds out his hand to take the apple.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-09-19
Samuel J. Tilden, pictured as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his forehead, stands with his back to a mountainside where some rocks look like barrels labeled with “$”, and a sign that states “This Stream Stopped Running in November 1876.” He is confronted by a group of parched (for funds) political aspirants labeled “Hewitt, Watterson, Dana, [Hendricks], Cox, Bayard, Randall, N. Y. Democracy, [Kelly], Payne, Lamar, [and] Thurman,” and one man holding a jug labeled “For Campaign Funds.” They implore him to strike the rocks and make the money flow.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-04-02
Theodore Roosevelt, as the biblical Hagar in a moment of despair, sits on the ground next to a wooden figure (Ishmael) wrapped in cloth that looks like Roosevelt, wearing a crown labeled “III Term.” An empty water bottle labeled “Prestige” and a staff lie on the ground next to Hagar/Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-04-24
President Taft, as the biblical figure Jacob, wears robes labeled “Progressivism” and goat skins labeled “Delegates.” He is kneeling before the Republican elephant labeled “G.O.P.” as the aged biblical figure Isaac, who is feeling the skins worn by Taft. To the left is a steaming dish of “Savory Politics” that Jacob presented to Isaac. Standing in the background are three men, of which two are identified as “Barnes” and “Sherman.” Standing just right of center is Elihu Root as the biblical figure “Rebekah,” who looks anxious at the approach of “Teddy” as the biblical figure Esau, with a deer over his shoulders labeled “Popularity.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-17
Theodore Roosevelt suggests B. A. G. Fuller look at the Song of Deborah in the Book of Judges to compare the character of Meroz to President Wilson.
1917-01-26