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Draft of a letter with handwritten edits. President Roosevelt formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination. He then reviews several campaign issues and the achievements of his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-03
Third draft of a letter with handwritten edits. President Roosevelt formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination. He then reviews several campaign issues and the achievements of his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-15
Commissioner Roosevelt stands in the back of a police wagon, brandishing a police baton that reads “T. Roosevelt, Able Reformer.” Mayor Strong directs the wagon to the symbolic figure of New York City, who is being beaten by two thugs whose clubs are labeled “Dem. Boss” and “Rep. Boss.” A cherub, acting as a paperboy, sells copies of the Washington Post in front of the U.S. Capitol announcing Roosevelt’s resignation from the Civil Service Commission. Caption: “Our own Theodore turns his back on Washington and takes a seat in Mayor Strong’s “Hurry-Up Wagon” as one of the finest.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-05-03
Mayor William L. Strong is depicted as St. Patrick standing outside “N.Y. City Hall,” holding a long crosier labeled “Power to Remove,” driving away snakes and frogs labeled “Tammany Office-Holder, Tammany Heeler, Office-Holder with a ‘Pull,’ Tammany-ite, [and] Heeler.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-03-20
David B. Hill labeled “Hill-ism,” Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger labeled “Croker-ism,” and Roswell P. Flower, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, labeled “Flower-ism,” stand on “Condemned Row” in the “Prison of Public Condemnation.” They are watching a group of men, on the left, construct a guillotine labeled “Reform Movement.” Puck is standing on the left with “Parkhurst, Grace, Lexow, Godkin, Ottendorfer, [and] Goff,” who is posting a notice on the wall of the prison that states, “Notice! On Election Day, Nov. 6th 1894. Execution of Hill-ism, Croker-ism, and Flower-ism. By Order of the People.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-13
An old woman with a broom labeled “Spoils System” evicts from the “Democratic Home” a young woman labeled “Civil Service Reform” carrying a bag labeled “Civil Service Laws.” On the street are Benjamin Harrison, Whitelaw Reid, and Thomas B. Reed, laughing. In the background, on the left, is the “Republican Home” with an old woman labeled “G.O.P.” looking out the window. A large padlock labeled “Spoils System” bars the gate. On the right is the “Mugwump Home” where a woman is standing with open arms to welcome the young woman labeled “Civil Service Reform.” Caption: But she will always find a hearty welcome and kind treatment at the old reliable independent home.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-20
President Cleveland sculpts a statue labeled “Purity in Politics,” but a group of legislators have resorted to mudslinging tactics to destroy Cleveland’s efforts. Those identified with a hammer, ink, mud, and stones are “McPherson, Dana, Hill, Murphy, Gorman, [and] Brice.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-11
Presidents Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley nurse a foundling labeled “Civil Service Reform” discovered on “the White House steps” that was “left by Geo. H. Pendleton 1883,” through four administrations, to the point where she has become a young woman on a bicycle-built-for-two with McKinley. Caption: Showing how civil service reform has been preserved from the deadly spoils fever.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-17
“Father Knickerbocker” stands at a bar at the “Tammany Inn,” drinking “Irish Whiskey,” with Richard Croker as the bartender, standing behind the bar, offering “Mixed Drinks Croker Style.” A weeping young boy labeled “Reform Movement” has a hold of Father Knickerbocker’s arm, trying to get him to leave the bar and come home. Caption: “Father, dear Father, come home with me now!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-29
At center, young women watch a football game. Surrounding vignettes depict William McKinley as triumphant in Ohio, “New Jersey” cleaning up gambling and horse racing, an unidentified man, possibly Whitelaw Reid, eating crow with his turkey, John Y. McKane hiding in a hollow tree labeled “Gravesend” with a dog labeled “Newton” on a chain, families with baby carriages in Brooklyn under Mayor Charles A. “Schieren,” David B. “Hill” in bed nursing a big-head, a tea party in Massachusetts, and Uncle Sam enjoying the Christmas issue of Puck magazine. Poetry accompanies each vignette, describing everything for which Americans ought to be thankful.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-29
Charles A. Schieren walks toward city hall labeled “Brooklyn,” carrying a book labeled “Business Administration Schieren.” In the foreground, Whitelaw Reid is straddling a trunk labeled “To Salt River,” on which three men are sitting. He implores Schieren not to “forget the boys!!” The three men are of the “boss” or “walking delegate” type and their political careers appear to be over as they are headed up “Salt River,” as the new mayoral administration of Schieren gets underway. Caption: Political Adviser–For goodness’s sake! Don’t forget the boys!!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-12-27
At center, Uncle Sam and President Cleveland shake hands, with a portrait of Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, in the background. The surrounding vignettes feature a cast of characters, identified or referred to in the text as “Croker,” “Parkhurst,” and “Tammany” reform, “Iago Manley” and “Othello Reed,” “Peffer, Lease, Dana, Pulitzer, [and] Depew,” Harrison sitting in his over-sized top hat, and Thomas Collier Platt turning a crank that manipulates George R. “Malby” as “Speaker” of the New York State Assembly, David B. Hill sitting in an over-sized “Senatorial Chair N.Y. State,” and “McKinley” dressed as Napoleon I, riding a “War Tariff” rocking horse. Each scene includes “Valentine” text, such as this for “Peffer” and “Lease,” each holding papers labeled “Speech”: “From bleeding Kansas’s wind-swept plains, / Where whiskers take the place of brains, / You come with all your verbose strength / Of speeches of unending length. / Here, take the hint Puck gives – resign! / Let Mary be your Valentine”; and this for McKinley: “McKinley Bill! McKinley Bill! / Why do you ride that hobby still? / The cause of pool, combine and trust, / And idle mill-wheels red with rust. / Mistaken Man! We’ll never pine / For you to be our Valentine.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-02-14
In the aftermath of a battle, David B. Hill is draped over a cannon, while Charles A. Dana and many New York politicians, identified as “Croker, Grant, Hinckley, Sheehan, Gilroy, Murphy, McLaughlin, Smyth, [and] Divver,” as well as the Tammany Tiger, appear to have some wound or injury. Puck is standing on the right holding a military standard that states, “The Principles We Fought For. Free Raw Materials – Civil Service Reform – Honest Money – Economical Government.” Caption: Puck–It is for the benefit of any party to be purified of its baser elements!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-11-21
The Tammany Tiger lies on its back on a bed, apparently dead. A notice on the wall states, “The Tammany Tiger Executed by the People, November 6, 1894.” Archbishop Michael Corrigan kneels at the bedside, cranking “Corrigan’s Battery” which is connected to the front paws of the Tiger by wires that spell “Church Influence.” Thomas Collier Platt stands at the foot of the bed, cranking on a battery labeled “Headquarters of the Republican ‘Boys'” which is connected to electrodes in the back paws of the Tiger by wires that spell “Political Deals.” A bucket of water and a sponge lie on the floor at the foot of the bed, and the New York State Capitol at Albany is in the background. Caption: Despite the efforts of prelate and politician the cat will not come back.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-12-12
Newly elected New York City Mayor William L. Strong and newly elected Governor Levi P. Morton sit on Tammany boss Thomas Collier Platt who is wearing a crown labeled “Plattism” and has a cat-o’-nine-tails labeled “Boss.” Strong and Morton confer over a paper labeled “Plans for Reform Administrations.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-12-19
President Cleveland adds the top board to a wooden fence enclosing a pasture labeled “Public Office.” The board is labeled, “Extension of Civil Service Reform under President Cleveland.” Lower boards in the fence are labeled, “Extension of Civil Service Reform under Pres. Harrison,” “Extension of Civil Service Reform under Pres. Cleveland,” and “Extension of Civil Service Reform under Pres. Arthur.” Watching Cleveland are the Republican Elephant and the Democratic Donkey, each wearing ribbons that state, “To the Victors Belong the Spoils.” Two vignettes show, on the left, “Republican Party beaten in 1884 and 1892, with all the offices,” and on the right, “Democratic Party beaten in 1888 and 1894, with all the offices.” On the ground is a fence board labeled “Further Extension of Civil Service Reform.” Caption: Neither of these animals has thriven in the spoils pasture, and the sooner they are barred out the better.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-01-16
Robert E. Pattison sits in a chair labeled “Mayoralty” with a woman labeled “Philadelphia” standing behind him. Charles A. Schieren sits in a chair labeled “Mayoralty” with a woman labeled “Brooklyn” standing behind him. William L. Strong sits in a chair labeled “Mayoralty” with Father Knickerbocker standing behind him. All are holding papers labeled “Reform.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-02-13
President William McKinley sits at his desk, as former president Grover Cleveland departs with Uncle Sam. Puck is standing on a step-ladder, carving “McKinley’s Good Record” and “Appointment of Gage, Sec. of Treasury” into stone next to “Cleveland’s Good Record” which includes “Extension of Civil Service Reform,” “Repeal of Silver Purchase Bill,” “Suppression of Chicago Riots,” “Settlement of Venezuelan Controversy,” and “Arbitration Agreement with England.” Caption: Puck–Keep on this way, Mr. President, and you may leave as good a record as your predecessor!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-03
Puck bows to Governor Roosevelt who is sitting in a chair at a desk with a bust of George Washington on it, as well as papers labeled “Canal Investigation, Civil Service Reform, National Guard, [and] Police Reform.” Caption: Puck–A happy New Year, Mr. Governor! Now, just get to work and show us all what good stuff you’ve got in you.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-01-04
A large policeman labeled “Civil Service Reform,” holding a nightstick labeled “Public Opinion,” stands outside a building labeled “Public Offices.” He is about to be assaulted by two diminutive men. On the left is Frank Swett Black wearing a hat labeled “Gov. of N.Y.” and carrying a large blackjack labeled “Black’s Civil Service Reform Bill.” On the right is Charles H. Grosvenor holding a brick labeled “Grosvenor’s Anti-Civil Service Reform Bill” and “Congress” that he intends to throw at the officer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-05-19