Cummins, Albert Baird, 1850-1926

A “U.S. Senate” horse stands and eats cobwebs as “Senator Root,” “Senator Cummins,” “Senator Roosevelt,” “Senator Bryan,” and Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follete push a steam engine that produces steam labeled “umsteen horse power legislative capacity” toward the horse to hitch it up. Meanwhile, the “people” push the “old regime” — “the old family phaeton,” an old-fashioned carriage — including “Sen. Platt” and New York Senator Chauncey M. Depew, as Uncle Sam watches and chuckles in the background.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-15

A variety of individuals jump for joy: Uncle Sam, President-elect William H. Taft, Vice President-elect J. S. Sherman, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins, President Roosevelt, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, and the Republican elephant.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-05

Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins will not oppose Senator William B. Allison’s reelection.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-13

Creator(s)

Unknown

Secretary of War Taft informs President Roosevelt that he has changed his mind about writing a speech on the Brownsville affair. He will write a draft and send it to his campaign manager, Arthur I. Vorys, and Roosevelt to get their opinion. Taft describes his opinion of James Buchanan Aleshire’s fitness for Quartermaster General. Taft encloses letters on William Edgar Borah and Albert Baird Cummins. He relays discussions on the appointment of the Postmaster in New York.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-07

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

In anticipation of Assistant Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock making a visit to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, William H. Taft reports a recent conversation a third party had with Hitchcock. The latter expressed his intent to oppose Taft’s nomination for the presidency and to press for President Roosevelt to run for a third term. Hitchcock believes that Taft has made an unfavorable impression on a number of important figures in the Midwest. Taft implies that Hitchcock’s views might be influenced by those of Winthrop Murray Crane.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-29

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

President Roosevelt goes over his position on tariffs and is concerned about the New York situation.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1903-04-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

The Des Moines Daily Capital reports on the Polk County Republican convention in Iowa on Saturday. After reports on corruption in the vote counting process in favor of S. F. Prouty, John A. T. Hull was given the nomination for the House of Representatives. In addition to nominating Hull, the convention named delegates to the state convention and issued a resolution calling for a reform of the primary voting process, expressing support for President Roosevelt’s renomination, and commitment to the Republican platform. A second article contains an allegory about a young politician who lost a race and learned that he should not “squeal.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-07

Creator(s)

Unknown

A group of men, scoffers, labeled “Tillman, Elkins, Penrose, Crane, Lodge, Depew, Gallinger, Aldrich, [and] Sherman” watch four men labeled “Cummins, Dolliver, Gore, [and] La Follette” construct an ark labeled “Principle.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-07-28

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Supporters of a “Square Tariff Deal,” carried in an ark by “Folk, Clark, Gore, Harmon, [and] Beveridge,” march on Jericho, blowing ram-horns labeled “The Voice of the People” causing the walls of Jericho labeled “Graft Tariff” and “Standpat Republicanism” to crumble. Among those marching are “Bacon, Borah, Bristow, Clapp, Dolliver, La Follette, [and] Wilson” and on horseback “Cummins.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-10-05

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Page four of the July 3, 1903, edition of the Des Moines Daily Capital. Several sections on this page are emphasized, including an article titled “Why These Attacks Upon Cousins?,” another titled “The Head Liners Have Their Ideas,” and a brief poem. The first of these discusses the difference in treatment given to Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins and others who have expressed their opinions about the tariff, and the treatment given to Robert G. Cousins when he did the same. The second compares the different ways that headlines across the country have described the Iowa Republican Convention. The circled poem declares that the “Iowa Idea” is dead and should be buried.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-03

Creator(s)

Unknown

President William H. Taft speaks from the back of a railroad caboose to a large crowd of skeptical mid-westerners that also includes Jonathan P. Dolliver, Robert M. La Follette, and Albert Baird Cummins. One man is holding a sign that states, “We’re from Missouri also Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota & Iowa. Show us!” Taft is holding papers behind his back that state, “Notes for speech how new tariff will benefit the West.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-09-15

Creator(s)

Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933

A “Middle West” farmer is being awakened by Albert B. “Cummins” as a rooster, while a man sneaks into the farmer’s barn and is caught in the illumination of a lantern beam labeled “Tariff Greed.”

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Publication Date

2013-08-22

Period

African Safari (March 1909-1910)

President Taft struggles to conduct an orchestra composed of two groups of musicians. On the left, playing the “Eastern Conservatism” on stringed instruments, are “Root, Crane, Smoot, Depew, Aldrich, [and] Gallinger.” On the right, playing the “Western Conservatism” on horns and percussion instruments, are “Knute Nelson, Dolliver, Cummins, Clapp, Bristow, [and] La Follette.” Caption: Pity the poor leader of the Washington Symphony Orchestra.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-12-22

President Taft, as a railroad brakeman, stands atop a freight car labeled “Administration Route.” He is waving to a woman labeled “Reactionary Politics” driving an automobile. The train is headed for a tunnel labeled “Revolt of the West.” Above the train is a bar labeled “Insurgent Movement” from which strips of rope are hanging, labeled “Burkett, Beveridge, Brown, Nelson, Clapp, Cummins, Dolliver, Bristow, [and] La Follette,” an insurgent group of senators who broke with Taft’s policies. Includes note: “A telltale is a bar to which strips of leather or rope are attached to warn brakemen on freight trains when they are approaching a bridge or a tunnel.” Caption: But there is still time to duck.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-11-17

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

A sword labeled “Nomination” is stuck deeply into a tree, where Theodore Roosevelt and Jacob A. Riis are resting on a large branch. Roosevelt is grinning like the Cheshire cat. On the far right are Albert Baird Cummins and Charles Evans Hughes, and on the left are several other potential candidates for the upcoming presidential election, including Philander C. Knox, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles W. Fairbanks, Joseph Gurney Cannon, William H. Taft, Albert J. Beveridge, and George B. Cortelyou. Caption: Who is the hero with the strength to draw it out?

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-06-12

A disagreement has broken out among Republicans who were working to construct a tower labeled “Republican Harmony.” They have broken off into small factions clustered around building blocks labeled “Progressivism” with the Republican elephant sitting against it sniffing “Smelling Salts,” “Radicalism” over which “Munsey” and “Woodruff” are engaged in a discussion, “Conservatism” on which President Taft sits gesturing toward “La Follette” who is standing on his head and “Pinchot” trying to make a point to “Barnes” who is facing a diminutive “Job Hedges,” “Standpatism” around which “Cummins, Cannon, Sherman, Penrose, [and] Root” are involved in a heated discussion, and “Meism” upon which Theodore Roosevelt is jumping up and down and gesturing wildly. Others present are “Dixon [and] W.B. McKinley” who appear about to come to blows, as are “Perkins [and] Garfield.” “Lorimer,” wearing a bandage labeled “Vindication,” addresses “Lodge [and] “Gov. Stubbs” and, in the background, on the right, the man standing on a block addressing a crowd may be Charles W. Fairbanks. The few tools visible sit idle. Caption: Sad finish of the Republican tower of Babel.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-06-12

Creator(s)

Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933

Albert Shaw encloses a letter from D. W. Norris, owner of the Marshalltown Times-Republican in Iowa, expressing concern about the actions of Joseph William Blythe and the railroads in the state. Shaw also sends an excerpt from a letter from journalist Murat Halstead, who expresses concern about efforts by factions of the Republican party to prevent President Roosevelt’s nomination for re-election.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-13

Creator(s)

Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947

Joseph Bucklin Bishop warns President Roosevelt that “the Jew” has withdrawn and that he will discuss the matter with General Thomas H. Hubbard. Bishop alerts Roosevelt that “the Jew” has the support of Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins, and that he may run for President in 1904. Bishop believes there is a “Jew syndicate” that wants to control the press.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-24

Creator(s)

Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 1847-1928

William A. Connolly writes to President Roosevelt to ask when he can begin organizing Irish American Roosevelt Clubs in Des Moines, Iowa, for the next presidential election.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-13

Creator(s)

Connolly, William A.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports on the 1903 Iowa Republican Convention. The convention was generally harmonious and the resolutions were generous to President Roosevelt. The West is enthusiastic for Roosevelt and Wilson expects large campaign contributions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-02

Creator(s)

Wilson, James, 1835-1920