Photograph of South Unit sewage lift station
Photograph of a brick sewage lift station in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1967-10-02
Your TR Source
Bricks
The president takes a shy at the lying newspapers
President Roosevelt throws a brick at a man labeled “N. Y. Sun” as a man labeled the “Indianapolis News” runs away. A “newspaper report” is by Roosevelt’s feet.
Comments and Context
The assertive rejoinders of President Roosevelt, aimed at newspapers in the latter days of the 1908 presidential campaign, typically responded in kind to attacks on him and William H. Taft; and the president’s brother-in-law, and Taft’s brother.
The fate of the innocent bystander
President Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan throw bricks at one another and unintentionally hit William H. Taft in the head. Bryan’s brick bounces off Roosevelt’s head originally while Roosevelt’s bounces off “Jeffersonian Democracy.” Bryan says, “Take that you inventor of the fake ‘square deal.” We’ve got you going now!!” Roosevelt replies, “Moneycoddle!”
Comments and Context
At the beginning of a long career in cartooning — but not political cartooning — James Calvert Smith drew anti-Roosevelt cartoons during the president’s second administration. He virtually used a blunderbuss as well as a pen, so broad and rather unfocused were his attacks.
Who threw that brick?
Alton B. Parker of Esopus throws a “record of Republican extravagance” brick at President Roosevelt of Oyster Bay.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-09-10