Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917

Henry J. Hendrix reviews Kenneth Wimmel’s Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Sea Power Comes of Age and finds it disappointing because it is “somewhat shallow” in its treatment of the times and figures that marked the rise of American naval power at the turn of the twentieth century. Hendrix notes the importance of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, and others to the creation of a modern American fleet. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2000

Creator(s)

Hendrix, Henry J.

Six works compete for attention in this edition of the “Book Reviews” section, including two works by Theodore Roosevelt: a collection of nine of his speeches and essays published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association and a reissue of his The Naval War of 1812. The review of The Man in the Arena: Speeches and Essays notes that John A. Gable wrote the introduction and explanatory notes, and it provides context for some of the selections. A portion of Gable’s introduction follows the review. Seth Cropsey praises Roosevelt’s naval history and stresses its fairness and “balanced objectivity” and notes its relevance to contemporary debates about how to deploy the American navy.

Lewis L. Gould reviews James Wright’s study of the Progressive era in New Hampshire and notes that Roosevelt’s Bull Moose campaign set back the cause of reform in the state. Archibald B. Roosevelt, Junior, joins his cousin Kermit Roosevelt, Junior, both grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt, in publishing a memoir of his service with the Central Intelligence Agency, For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer.

The section notes the publication of works on Roosevelt’s time as Police Commissioner of New York City and on his relationship with the naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, and notes that each will be reviewed in an upcoming issue of the Journal.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

The Kentucky Republican State Convention has resolved to select a candidate who is in full accord with President Roosevelt’s policies at the Republican National Convention. Rather than a Roosevelt supporter, republicans should nominate Roosevelt himself.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-21

Creator(s)

Unknown

President Roosevelt has a better understanding of the Payne-Wynne dispute and sees both of their viewpoints. He has been enjoying the company of the Jusserands and riding Wyoming, his new horse that is too fond of “trolleys and automobiles.”

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1903-06-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Harper’s Weekly cover shows Theodore Roosevelt holding a bowling bowl labeled “Nomination 1908.” A sign above the pins reads “Favorite Sons.” Pins are labeled with the names of the following states: Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Pennsylvania. Another sign lists people that are warned off the premises. Jack London is one of those individuals.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1907-06-01

Creator(s)

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931

President Cleveland is at the helm of the “Ship of State,” its sails labeled “Honest Pensions, Wilson Tariff Bill, Sound Financial Policy, Adherence to the Traditional Policy of Non-Interference,” [and] Economic Government,” as it sails past the “Rocks of Disaster” upon which are the remains of a shipwreck labeled “Sherman Silver Law, McKinley Bill, Fraudulent Pensions, [and] Jingoism,” and a group of marooned sailors labeled “McKinley, Lodge, Tom Reed, [and] Quay.” Also present are Benjamin Harrison, Whitelaw Reid, George F. Hoar, and William E. Chandler. Caption: The political wreckers see their hopes again indefinitely postponed.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-03-06

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

President Grover Cleveland and British Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, are dressed as Native Americans, smoking peace pipes filled with “Common Sense Tobacco.” Sitting with Cleveland, also dressed as natives, are Richard Olney, Robert R. Hitt, Charles A. Boutelle, Nelson Dingley, George Frisbie Hoar, William E. Chandler, John T. Morgan, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Sitting with Salisbury are Joseph Chamberlain, Arthur James Balfour, George Joachim Goschen, and the Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish. In the foreground is a hatchet in a hole, to be buried, possibly over the Venezuela boundary dispute.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-01-22

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

President Grover Cleveland, wearing military uniform, gives a twist to the British Lion’s tail as it stands on a small island labeled “Great Britain” just off the coast of the “United States” where Cleveland and his backers are standing. Among Cleveland’s backers are Thomas B. Reed, Charles A. Dana doing a headstand on the “N.Y. Sun,” George F. Hoar holding a rifle, William E. Chandler wearing a grenadier’s bearskin hat and holding a sword, Henry C. Lodge with a sword, John T. Morgan, and Charles A. Boutelle also wearing a bearskin hat.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-01-08

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

A large Christmas tree is decorated with ornaments labeled with political offices and presidential appointments. Thomas Collier Platt and Matthew S. Quay, who is dressed as a woman, are standing in front of the tree. In queues on both sides are diminutive figures anxiously awaiting their presents, including from right to left, Jerry Simpson, Joseph B. Foraker, William E. Chandler, William McKinley, Whitelaw Reid, Thomas B. Reed, Levi P. Morton, Benjamin Harrison, William B. Allison, George F. Hoar, John Sherman, Chauncey M. Depew, and Robert T. Lincoln. Caption: The two big bosses have full charge of it, and the most obedient boys will come in for the best gifts.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-12-25

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Members of the U.S. Senate look down on five diminutive members seated in the front. They are identified as “Hill Repudiated by New York,” “Murphy Repudiated by New York,” “Gorman Repudiated by Maryland,” “Brice Repudiated by Ohio,” and “Smith Repudiated by New Jersey.” Among the senators present are Adlai E. Stevenson, William M. Stewart, George F. Hoar, Charles A. Boutelle, John Sherman, Daniel W. Voorhees, William E. Chandler, John M. Palmer, Justin S. Morrill, John P. Jones, Matthew S. Quay, and William A. Peffer.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-12-11

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

William E. Chandler, former Secretary of the Navy under President Arthur, salutes from a trap door in the floor where he is hiding. Red-stained papers labeled “Plan of Campaign Against England” by “W. E. Chandler Jingo-in-Chief” are on the floor, and bombs are exploding outside the door to the room. Portraits of John Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant hang on the wall in the background. Under Grant’s portrait, the text “Let Us Have Peace” has been crossed out. A much larger portrait of “W. E. Chandler Painted by Himself” and labeled “Ex-Secretary of United States Navy – Before the War” hangs next to the others. Also hanging on the wall is a “Proclamation Against England – No. 999” labeled in red “War.” Caption: Where our bloodthirstiest Jingo will be found when a real war comes.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-12-11

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

A large female figure holds a cornucopia labeled “Prosperity 1895,” floating toward rays of light that illuminate industrial facilities. She hovers above a group of men gathered around a platform with a banner that states, “Protection Issue and Victory in 1896.” Several of the men are shaking their fists at her. Among those identified by name and unidentified are “Hoar, Elkins, Tom Reed, Lodge, [and] Hale,” and William B. Allison, possibly Thomas C. Carter, John Sherman, Joseph B. Foraker, William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, William E. Chandler, Whitelaw Reid labeled “Tribune of N.Y.,” Charles A. Boutelle, and Matthew S. Quay.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-10-09

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

William E. Chandler appears as a store clerk at the “Republican Misfit Clothing Company” helping David B. Hill purchase some new clothes. Hill is trying on a new coat that has a large golden medal labeled “McKinleyism” hanging from the lapel. The coat is too big for him, though Chandler tells him it fits perfectly. Hill’s old coat, with a ribbon that states “D.B.H. I am a Democrat,” is lying on a chair between them. Caption: Mister Chandler–Mein cracious, Meester Hill; it fits you like de paper on de vall!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-05-16

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

The spirit of General Winfield S. Hancock holds a paper that states “Governors Island 1880. The Tariff is a Local Issue. Gen. W. S. Hancock.” He stands among congressmen in a congressional chamber where senators or representatives from “Maryland, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Kansas, [and] Pennsylvania” are tearing off sections of a large paper labeled “The Tariff?” that apply to their respective states. Caption: Shade of General Hancock–They laughed at me when I said the tariff is a local issue; but I was right, after all!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-05-02

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

David B. Hill appears as a strong man on a stage in a theater, wearing a suit stuffed with straw and medals that state, “I am a Democrat, From Liquor Dealors, [and] Champion of Peanut Politics.” Weights lying around him, also stuffed with straw, are labeled “Powerful Influence Against Cleveland, Anti-Reform Club, Strength with the New York Machine, [and] Hill’s Presidential Prospects.” Edward Murphy Jr. is standing at the “Box Office” in the background and William E. Chandler is the only person in the audience. Caption: [S]tuffed “Strong Man” … Dave Hill / [Trea]surer … Ed. Murphy / [Applau]se Furnished by … Bill Chandler

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-04-18

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

David B. Hill as the animal trainer Carl “Hagenbeck” performs a circus act with trained animals labeled “Murphy, Pugh, Chandler, Peffer, Morgan, Coke, Higgins, Stewart, Teller, Cullom, [and] Hoar.” Hill is standing at center with a bag of “Peanut Politics” at his feet. He holds a whip in his right hand and a string in his left, which is attached to a ring in the nose of “Murphy” as a dancing bear. “Pugh” as a monkey sits on the floor. The other animals are standing on short pedestals arranged around the rear of the cage.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-02-07

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

William McKinley, as Napoleon I, rides a white horse labeled “Ohio” and carries a sword labeled “McKinley.” He is on the banks of a river, leading an army that includes Benjamin Harrison, Thomas B. Reed, John Sherman, William E. Chandler, William M. Stewart, Matthew S. Quay, Chauncey M. Depew, George F. Hoar, and Whitelaw Reid. On the other side of the river is the U.S. Capitol with the date “1896” above it. Caption: They do not see the Waterloo before them.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-12-13

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

President Cleveland stands on the steps of the “White House” watching a funeral procession with the hearse labeled “Calamity Cry killed by Business Revival” and a long line of Republican mourners. Among them are Reed, Harrison, McKinley, Sherman, Chandler, Hoar, W. Reid, and Boutelle. The U.S. Capitol is on a hill in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-06-05

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

William C. “Whitney” is the ringmaster at a circus where “D. B. Hill” is performing a horse riding trick by trying to ride two horses at once, a small horse labeled “Gold Standard” and a larger horse labeled “Free Silver.” Also in the ring is a clown labeled “Harvey.” Among those in the audience are William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas B. Reed, John Sherman, George F. Hoar, William B. Allison, William E. Chandler, William F. Peffer, Whitelaw Reid, Grover Cleveland, and Joseph J. C. Blackburn or Charles A. Boutelle. Caption: The New Ringmaster–Gentlemen of the audience, the great equestrian, “The Senator,” will perform his thrilling feat of riding two horses simultaneously! – Brace up, Dave, everybody’s looking at you!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-06-26

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

The combined forces of the gold standard supporters, including some newspaper editors, and a reluctant William McKinley, march under the standard “The Nation’s Credit Must Be Upheld,” toward a fort labeled “Fort 16 to 1” flying the banner “Repudiation,” and manned by soldiers armed with pitchforks and scythes. The newspaper editors are staffing the big guns labeled “Sound Money Press.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-07-22

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905