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Admission ticket for a gathering of Anti-Imperialists at Faneuil Hall on June 26, 1902, at which William Bourke Cockran is to be the featured speaker.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06
A number of men stand around an ailing mule with two brands: “W. J. B. 1900” and “W. J. B. 1896.” Alton B. Parker tries to feed the mule “Parker golden corn” and ponders, “I wonder will he swallow this?” William Francis Sheehan has a telegram, August Belmont holds “clippers,” William Bourke Cockran has “ginger,” David B. Hill holds a “whip,” and Patrick Henry McCarren holds a “knife.” Henry Gassaway Davis comes running toward the mule and says, “I’ve got the remedy.” The train at the “Esopus Station” has smoke that reads, “from West Virginia.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-17
The top left-hand corner includes a cartoon from the New York Herald on July 9, 1904, in which William Jennings Bryan takes the “money” plank away from a platform where William F. Sheehan and David B. Hill are nailing different planks down. In the larger cartoon, Alton B. Parker tells Bryan to return the “money” plank. Sheehan, Hill, Charles Francis Murphy, Thomas F. Grady, William Bourke Cockran, and a Tammany tiger look on.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-12
Several Democratic leaders pull at ropes tied together. Senator Arthur P. Gorman and Representative William Bourke Cockran pull against each other on the “tariff question,” William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland pull against each other on the “money question,” and August Belmont and William Randolph Hearst pull against each other on the “trust question.” Caption: Think of Gorman agreeing with Cochran on the tariff question. Think of Bryan agreeing with Cleveland on the money question. Think of reconciling the words of their platform and their candidate on the Philippine question. Think of Belmont harmonizing with Hearst on the trust question.—Senator Beveridge’s Tomlinson Hall Speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-10
A highlighted article in Leslie’s Weekly notes the support President Roosevelt is receiving for renomination in 1908 in spite of his protestations against running for another term. Other articles on the page include criticism of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge for joining the outcry against the meat-packing industry and an evaluation of the election of 1860 which saw Abraham Lincoln come to the presidency. On the verso is the cover image of a nearly finished battleship.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-12
The angry countenance of Father Knickerbocker looks down from storm clouds on a flood that has broken up “Tammany Hall” with the Tammany Tiger sitting on a partial building labeled “Tammany” and a group of Natives sitting on a ladder resting against the other half of the building labeled “Hall.” Other Natives are treading water. A bolt of lightning is labeled “Popular Condemnation.” Among those depicted as Natives are Richard Croker, Roswell P. Flower, William B. Cockran, James J. Martin, and Hugh J. Grant. Also shown are Charles A. Dana, Edward Murphy Jr., and George B. McClellan, and the top hat of John J. Scannell.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-05-09
Emilio Aguinaldo stands at center, wearing military uniform, and holding a flag and a sword. Around him are many old men dressed as women, supplicating themselves and tossing roses at his feet. Among them are Carl Schurz, John P. Jones, Charles A. Boutelle, Edwin L. Godkin holding a paper labeled “N.Y. Evening Post,” William B. Cockran, Eugene Hale, George G. Vest, Donelson Caffery, George F. Hoar playing a lyre labeled “Sen. Hoar,” William Lloyd Garrison Jr. reading his “Ode to Dear Aguinaldo,” George F. Edmunds, Joseph Pulitzer, Oswald Ottendorfer, [and] William Jennings Bryan. A bundle of “Editorials” lies on a rock in the left foreground.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-10
William Bourke Cockran, labeled “Democratic Sound Money League,” delivers a speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during which he presses down upon the back of William Jennings Bryan who is lying on papers that state “The Financial Fallacy of 16 to 1.” Caption: Falsehood crushed to earth will never rise again!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-09-09
Print shows a large monument constructed “A.D. 1898,” showing statues of President William McKinley labeled “Administration,” General William R. Shafter labeled “Army,” and Admiral George Dewey labeled “Navy,” and a plaque that states “To Commemorate the Spanish-American War which has raised the United States Army and Navy to a proud position not only in the eyes of Americans but in the eyes of the World.” Also, a gang of “Old Women” with ropes are shown trying to pull down the statues. Among the identified women are “Schurz, Boutelle, Hoar, N.Y. World [Pulitzer], Cockran, Tillman, Caffery, Gorman, Vest, Jones, Hale, Bryan, Godkin [turning a crank for the] Evening Post, Sherman, Ottendorfer, [and] Edmunds”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-03-22
Eleanor Butler Roosevelt at a garden party at the William Bourke Cockrans. From left to right: unidentified man, Anne Louisa Cockran, Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Roosevelt, William Bourke Cockran. A note written under the picture says Eleanor’s hat was from Paris and of the latest fashion.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Eleanor Butler Alexander’s parents’ friends at a party at W. Bourke Cockran’s on Long Island. Left to right, back row: Joseph Grace, John Bryce, Helen Benedict Hastings, Edith Cooper Bryce, Winifred Ives, Lloyd Warren, Thomas Hastings, [unidentified woman]. Bottom row, seated: Robert H. Russell, [unidentified man], Lloyd Bryce, [unidentified woman], W. Bourke Cockran.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Unknown
William Bourke Cockran supports American involvement in the Philippines, to the dismay of Anti-Imperialists.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-12
Illustration shows two views of William Jennings Bryan sitting at a desk working on his campaign principles. The lower scene shows Bryan preparing for the 1896 presidential election. To the right are Carl Schurz, Henry Watterson, William Bourke Cockran, Richard Olney, and David B. Hill, all in disagreement with Bryan, each holding a sheet of paper disclaiming his principles. In the upper scene, Bryan has crossed out 1896 and replaced it with 1900, adhering to, and remaining consistent with, his earlier principles. To the right are the same five disclaimers. This time they bow to Bryan and offer only one comment: “We do not believe you will do what you promise to do, and we admire you because we think you are insincere. Hill, Olney, Cockran, Watterson, Schurz.”
Cartoonist Dalrymple engages in hyperbole — the mother’s milk of many political cartoonists — in characterizing the positions of William Jennings Bryan as presidential candidate in 1896 (e.g., “Down with the Supreme Court”). Yet he was right to depict that fact that Bryan had changed few of his positions four years later when he was re-nominated. His in-house Democratic dissenters of 1896 indeed supported him in 1900 when this cartoon was published week before the election. In fact, three factors had changed: Bryan adopted a severe anti-Imperialist stance that attracted new adherents, his “radical” prescriptions of 1896 slowly were becoming palatable to voters, and four years out of office (“in the wilderness”) had Democrats yearning to support the only candidate in the race. Beyond the characterization of Bryan’s positions, the cartoonist’s point of view is reinforced by his caricature of the candidate — scruffy hair, needing a shave, a rough farmer’s hat.
William Jennings Bryan stands in the stirrups of his mount, a donkey labeled “Democracy,” directing the honor guard led by Adlai E. Stevenson, and including Henry R. Towne, Joseph Pulitzer, and Carl Schurz carrying a large flag with a portrait of Emilio Aguinaldo under the heading “The George Washington of the Philippines.” Also included are Oswald Ottendorfer, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, William Bourke Cockran, John Peter Altgeld, and William Sulzer.
Emilio Aguinaldo’s revolutionary campaigns for Filipino independence from Spain began in the 1890s, variously as a guerilla and conventional armed insurrection, through the Spanish-American War, ultimately with and against the victorious American liberators. As a rebel leader his forces sustained and committed atrocities. He was captured and then released by President Theodore Roosevelt as part of the United States’ general amnesty, a putative end of hostilities. Aguinaldo became a hero to his countrymen and a symbol for the cause of American anti-imperialists. Of William Jennings Bryan’s ragtag “army” on this political issue, their professions provide a hint of the American movement’s constituents: Stevenson was Bryan’s running mate, committed to the Democrat party plank; Pulitzer, Schurz, Ottendorfer, and Godkin were editors and publishers; Towne was an industrialst (Yale locks); Bouke Cochran a politician and orator of unorthodox consistency; Altgeld the radical Governor of Illinois (famous for partiality to the Haymarket bombers); Sulzer a New York politcian who eventually became Governor, only to be impeached. Cartoonist Pughe clearly considered the leadership of Bryan (on an undersized donkey) and the number and prowess of the “guard” to be targets of ridicule.
President Roosevelt, pictured with a cigar in his hand, greets guests at the White House. Many other guests appear in the background, dancing, smoking, and visiting.
Representative William Bourke Cockran (both Bourke and Cockran were spelled different ways during his lifetime) was a Democratic congressman, known as a great orator, who bolted his party in 1896 to support William McKinley, but returned shortly thereafter to the Democratic Party. In 1903, Cockran was one of several congressmen who criticized President Roosevelt for spending too much money on the White House refurbishment and on White House entertainments. Hence this cartoon, which shows a keg of beer instead of fine wines, a fiddler instead of an orchestra, men in hobnail shoes instead of dress boots, and guests with their feet on the table.
Frank Harper informs Governor Post that Theodore Roosevelt would prefer to see William Bourke Cockran be nominated for Congress from Post’s district. Roosevelt promised Mr. Bonheur that he would write Post with this information.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-23
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary sends the names of Judge James Fitzgerald, Commissioner Ernest Harvier, M. J. Costello, and William Bourke Cockran as possible members of a new Independent Democratic League to be started in New York. The letter also mentions the Polish newspaper owner, W. Rulski, as a possible contributor to the organization.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt invites Jane Addams to an Abraham Lincoln birthday dinner on February 12, 1913. Roosevelt, Addams, Albert J. Beveridge, and William Bourke Cockran are to be the speakers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-14
President Roosevelt read Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Young’s report and sent the papers to Representative William Bourke Cockran. Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield agrees with Roosevelt concerning E. C. Waters, whose lease has been canceled and will not be renewed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-29
President Roosevelt confirms that Lyman Metcalfe Bass will be appointed as the United States Attorney of the Western District of New York but Frances M. Wolcott, his mother, must say nothing until after the election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-13