Republican ticket
Republican ticket and platform for the state of Nevada.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-09-27
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Bimetallism
The survival of the fittest
Illustration showing two gladiators, one labeled “Gold Standard” and the other labeled “Silver Standard,” in a coliseum, the “Gold Standard” gladiator stands victorious over the “Silver Standard” gladiator, his sword, labeled “16 to 1” lies broken at his side.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1900-03-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Robert Procter
President Roosevelt would like John Robert Procter to give the note to Mr. Knott, because Knott states Roosevelt’s position exactly. Roosevelt was influenced by President Cleveland’s action “in the silver business.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-01
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Letter from Lorenzo S. Lake to Joseph M. Dixon
Lorenzo S. Lake, a Confederate veteran and Democrat, suggests that Theodore Roosevelt could secure southern delegates by announcing his intentions, if elected president, to revise the levee plans of the Mississippi River. Lake summarizes his political background and connections. Lake is willing to support Roosevelt for another term if Roosevelt announces his support for revising the levee plans.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-05-17
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Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Cabot Lodge spoke with Attorney General Moody about the platform he is preparing for the Republican State Convention. During their conversation, Lodge learned that President Roosevelt is thinking about appointing Democratic Judge Horace H. Lurton to the Supreme Court. Lodge has strong feelings that the Republican Party should only appoint Republican judges. As a Hamiltonian in his beliefs on the Constitution, he worries about appointing a “strict constructionist who inherits the separatist tradition.” Lodge concludes with some comments about William Jennings Bryan, the beef trust, and “the silver question,” also called bimetallism.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-01
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Excerpt from Greatness and Decline of Rome
This excerpt from Guglielmo Ferrero’s work Greatness and Decline of Rome describes an episode in which Catiline is standing as a candidate for the Consulship, and courts popularity by making promises to the crowd. Ferrero compares Catiline, in this, to William Jennings Bryan advocating the silver standard.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-02-20
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Quite true!
Edward Oliver Wolcott flies toward the “White House” after getting booted home from England on the foot of Lord “Salisbury.” Caption: “President McKinley’s bimetallic commission has started for home” – Daily Papers.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-11-17
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Now let the lion beware!
Henry C. Lodge plays a horn labeled “Discrimination Against England,” Benjamin Harrison plays cymbals labeled “Bimetallic Standard,” Thomas B. Reed beats a tub labeled “Bimetallism” with a club labeled “Speech,” and Whitelaw Reid plays a trumpet and holds a paper labeled “Tribune.” They are on a wharf labeled “U.S.” and raising a bimetallic clamor with silver and gold instruments, against the British Lion who is smugly reclining on a bit of land labeled “England” and holding papers labeled “Free Trade,” with ships along the shore labeled “To Japan, To India, To S. America, To Australia, [and] To China.”
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1894-11-14
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The Joshua of our silly senate in his great act of trying to make the sun stand still
Edward Oliver Wolcott as the biblical Joshua rides on a horse labeled “U.S. Senate” at the head of a small infantry comprised of John Sherman, George F. Hoar, George G. Vest, William A. Peffer, David B. Hill, Julius C. Burrows, Thomas H. Carter, William V. Allen, William J. Sewell, John M. Palmer, Roger Q. Mills, Justin S. Morrill, Matthew Quay, and others unidentified. Many are carrying spears or bow and arrows. They are chasing the sun labeled “Gold Standard” and descending upon a small community of farms and factories. One man carries a military standard that states, “Resolved, that some legislation be had by the U.S. Senate looking to an international conference with the nations of the world for the promotion of Bimetallism. Wolcott’s Resolution in Caucus.”
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-01-06
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Wrapped up in his pet idea
President McKinley, wearing a long cape labeled “Protection Monomania,” sits at a desk working on his “Tariff Plans,” while ignoring a businessman who offers “Suggestions for Financial Reform.” In baskets beneath the desk are papers that state, “Don’t forget the issues of the last campaign. [signed] A Banker” and, “Please give a little attention to the money question. [signed] Businessman.” Caption: Citizen–Mr. McKinley, I have called to offer a few suggestions about some needed reforms of our financial system. / McKinley–My dear sir, you must excuse me; – I’ve turned all that over to Senator Wolcott.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-01-27
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He did not think so in ’92
William Jennings Bryan casts a vote for the nomination of James B. Weaver, the Populist Party candidate in 1892, instead of the Democratic Party candidate, Grover Cleveland. Bryan supported the “Populist Platform ’92 – Free coinage of silver at half its commercial value, unlimited paper money for everybody, the confiscation of all railroad, telegraph and telephone lines – in short, trailing National Honor in the Mud of Repudiation” over the “Democratic Platform ’92 – Bimetallism through international agreement or by such safe guards of legislation as would ensure the parity of both Gold and Silver and preserve the National Honor.” Caption: “When the Democratic party is engaged in a struggle, as it is now, any man who deserts it in the face of the enemy will never get back unless he comes in sackcloth and ashes.” From Bryan’s speech at Petersburg, Va., 1896.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-10-14
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All ready, professor!
Black ink cartoon of President Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform and “Jedge Parker” on stage. Roosevelt bends over with his hat stretched out and both men hold a sheet of music. In front of the stage is a fat, bald man labeled “Wall Street” sitting and playing a piano, with his sheet music the same as the one being held by Roosevelt and Alton B. Parker. The text of the music reads “There will be no silver threads among the gold.”
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1904-07-24
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Reform as it seems to be in the Keystone State
Full color political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt leading the “Regular Republican Party Ticket,” in the form of an elephant, along the road to the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Behind them on the road is a keg-shaped wagon mired in mud and being confounded by obstacles. The wagon is being urged on by William Jennings Bryan and driven by Lewis Emery. A donkey labeled “Democratic Destructive Party” pulls the wagon along with a giraffe labeled “Lincoln Obstructive Party.”
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1906
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Speech of Gov. Roosevelt at St. Louis, Monday night, Oct. 9, 1900
In this speech draft with handwritten corrections, Governor Roosevelt campaigns against William Jennings Bryan and his policies. Bryan’s prophecies regarding the need for free silver have not come true and the country has prospered. Roosevelt advocates national action to combat the complex problems of trusts. He points out the plight of African Americans and that Bryan seems more concerned with the rights of the “bandits” in the Philippines. Roosevelt does not want the United States to shirk its duty in the Philippines and believes that liberty will come to the islands under the American flag.
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Creation Date
1900-10-09
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Detroit speech
Draft of a speech with handwritten corrections. Governor Roosevelt rebukes several statements from William Jennings Bryan regarding economic policy, bimetallism, patriotism, and imperialism.
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Creation Date
1900-09-06
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William S. Cowles
Commissioner Roosevelt reflects on the 1896 presidential election which he found to be the most exciting and important since 1860. The Republicans were victorious but Roosevelt was disappointed that their opponents received such significant support. The Democratic divisions over free silver helped the Republicans. He denies a quote attributed to him calling farmers “the basest class” and is enjoying his work on the Board of Police Commissioners.
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Creation Date
1896-11-19
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Cummins to fight
The Iowa Republican state convention is having problems maintaining party unity. Governor Cummins is trying to maintain control over the convention, and has spoken against William P. Hepburn remaining as permanent chairman of the convention. Cummins is trying to show that he has not abandoned the “Iowa idea,” and will likely write the platform, or at least the part related to tariffs. The governor’s opponents have dug up an old letter from Cummins in which he supports free silver, rather than the gold standard.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-06-30
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Letter from Jeremiah Whipple Jenks to William Cary Sanger
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks has been touring Southeast Asia and the Philippines in an official capacity with the Philippine Commission and offers his views on numerous issues.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-10
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Letter from George Harrison Barbour to Theodore Roosevelt
George Harrison Barbour has a high opinion of William Emory Quinby and his paper, the Free Press of Detroit, Michigan. Although he is a Democrat, Quinby bravely sided with the Republican Party on the silver issue and supported William McKinley’s campaign. Everyone Barbour has encountered has confidence in President Roosevelt’s capabilities. He recently met with Puerto Rican delegates and assured them that Roosevelt would offer them rights in the future.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-10-31
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Letter from James Bryce to Theodore Roosevelt
James Bryce thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his recent letter and returns a letter he had enclosed. The political situation in the U.S. Congress concerns Bryce, especially “the steady decline…in the composition and character of the Senate.” He wishes he could visit with Roosevelt about these matters. He is tired of the burdens of office and wishes to have the opportunity to travel and visit friends like Roosevelt.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1895-04-10