Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Not this time!

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

“Let us have peace”

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

An old fable with new application

David B. Hill appears as a jackass wearing a coat with a ribbon that states “I am a Democrat,” standing on rocks, kicking at the moon, which shows the face of Grover Cleveland. Puck and a group of citizens are laughing at him.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-05-23

Creator(s)

Hutchins, Frank Marion, approximately 1867-1896

Doing their little best to spoil his work

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.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-06-11

Creator(s)

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

The nurses did it

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-11-17

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

The penalty of being an American statesman of the first magnitude

Several former presidents of the United States, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Grant, and Cleveland, rest their elbows on a wall and hold out their hands, collectively saying “Good Luck, Theodore! We had to suffer the same kind of abuse in our day.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-05-27

Creator(s)

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949

St. Louis, Mo., April 30: the President was given the freedom of the city

President Roosevelt rejoices that Mayor Wells has given him the keys to the city of St. Louis. A teddy bear holds the keys while a policeman prevents Thomas Henry Carter, Henry Clark Corbin, and former President Grover Cleveland from exiting a building.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-04-30

Creator(s)

Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949

Restoring “prosperity”

President Cleveland and five men use “Sound Policy Cement” to repair a statue labeled “Nat. Prosperity.” Shown with Cleveland are John G. Carlisle, William L. Wilson, Daniel W. Voorhees, Charles Tracey, and Michael D. Harter. Caption: The Republican vandals damaged it badly; but it will soon be as sound as ever, again.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-09-20

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

The greatest race of the yachting season

President Cleveland, at the helm labeled “Congress” of a yacht labeled “Repeal,” races against British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone who is holding an oar labeled “House of Commons Majority” and piloting a boat labeled “Home Rule.” Gladstone’s boat has a broken spar and is bumping up against debris labeled “Opposition of the House of Lords” floating in the water. Caption: “Home Rule” is a good boat, but “Repeal” gets over the course a good deal quicker.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-09-27

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

They can’t hold up this train!

President Cleveland, a railroad engineer, drives a locomotive labeled “Administration R.R.” that is roaring out of a tunnel labeled “Business Depression Tunnel,” and knocking out of the way legislators who are placing “Dilatory Admendments” and “Teller’s Dilatory Tactics” on the tracks, trying to derail the train. Among the legislators are Francis M. Cockrell, James Z. George, James L. Pugh, William A. Peffer, George G. Vest, James D. Cameron, William M. Stewart, Henry M. Teller, John P. Jones, and Edward O. Wolcott.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-10-11

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

An old imposition

President Cleveland as a railroad conductor collects fares from William McKinley, who is holding a ticket labeled “War Tariff Pass,” and an elderly man, dressed as an infant labeled “Infant Industries,” on his lap. The infant holds a pacifier connected to a bottle labeled “Protection Pap.” Caption: Conductor Cleveland–That fellow can’t ride free any longer, Ma’am – he’s big enough to pay for himself!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-11-15

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Through the jungle

President Cleveland appears as an explorer, with cabinet members John G. Carlisle and Walter Q. Gresham, in a jungle, where they have come across a band of monkeys labeled “D. Hill, C. Dana, W. Reid, Blackburn, Vest, Jones, Pugh, Foraker, Wolcott, Teller, Morgan, Peffer, [and] Stewart.” Caption: Pioneer Cleveland is bound to carry political enlightenment forward, even if the simian statesmen don’t like it.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-11-22

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Launched at last! – good luck to her!

A cherub labeled “1894” smashes a bottle of champagne as he launches a large, modern ship, the Ship of State, under the banner “Tariff Reform,” with Grover Cleveland and members of his cabinet standing on the bow waving their hats. In the background, the specter of “1893” hovers over a sailing ship labeled “McKinley Tariff.” Among those with Cleveland are Walter Q. Gresham, John G. Carlisle, Richard Olney, and either Daniel S. Lamont or Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-12-27

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Relief at hand

A St. Bernard rescue dog, with a blanket labeled “Tariff Reform” strapped to its back and a small barrel labeled “The Wilson Tariff Bill” under its chin, approaches a man labeled “Labor” caught in snow drifts labeled “McKinley Tariff.” Nearby, Grover Cleveland, as a monk with a hand to his ear, responds to the dog’s bark. At the top of a hill, in the background, is the U.S. Capitol.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-01-10

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

The national honor and credit in good hands

President Cleveland holds papers labeled “National Honor and Credit” behind his back, as he faces a group of newspaper editors and legislators labeled “Tribune, N.Y. Sun, Tom Reed, Hill, World, Teller, Stewart, Vest, Peffer, [and] Hoar.” Charles A. Boutelle is at the back of the group holding a paper labeled “Boutelle Resolution.” The U.S. Capitol is in the background behind President Cleveland.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-01-31

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Puck’s valentines for 1894

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.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-02-14

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

The bounty jumper of 1894

Benjamin Harrison stands on the deck of a ship labeled “Republican Party,” under sails labeled “Prohibitory Protection.” He is holding a rope that leads to a rowboat labeled “McKinleyism” with William McKinley standing in it, holding up a diminutive man labeled “Ex-Subdizied Sugar Planter.” To the right of the rowboat, President Cleveland is standing on the deck of a ship labeled “Democracy,” under sails labeled “Tariff Reform.” Caption: Capt. Cleveland–Subsidies were the price of his party allegiance! Take him, – you’re welcome to him!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-10-31

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

The ass and his leader

President Cleveland stands on the edge of a cliff on the “high road” labeled “Good Government Road,” holding the end of a broken bridle to a donkey that has fallen off the cliff. The donkey is still wearing a portion of the bridle labeled “53rd Congress.” Caption: An Ass, being led along the high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. When in the act of throwing himself over, his Leader used his best endeavors to pull him back. The Ass, persisting in his effort, the Leader let him go, and remarked sorrowfully: “Well, I’ve done my best for you; – it’s your funeral, not mine!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-12-26

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Some people who ought to “swear off” this new year’s

President Cleveland is at the center, hounded by newspaper reporters who try to run the government. Puck suggests that they should resolve to leave the running of the government to those elected to do so. In the surrounding vignettes are instances where people should make resolutions to stop doing the things that most annoy those around them, such as bringing crying infants to the theater, trying to get change for large bills at the train station during rush hour, or leaving the door open after exiting a building.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-01-02

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

For their own good

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-01-16

Creator(s)

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