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Uncle Sam looks skeptically at a “Democratic coin” with Alton B. Parker’s face on it. “Anti-protectionism,” “anti-patriotism,” “anti-expansion,” and “anti-prosperity” are on the four parts of the coin and “doubtful money” is on the bottom.
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1904-10-15
A fortune teller—”Miss Democracy”—holds Alton B. Parker’s hand. Caption: The fortune teller: “You are contemplating a trip to Washington, Judge; you won’t take it.”
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1904-10-13
David B. Hill, Arthur P. Gorman, and Alton B. Parker pull a donkey in several different directions in an attempt to get it off Thomas Taggart, who has been flattened on the ground.
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1904-10-06
Circus performers Alton B. Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis shakily stand on two galloping horses, labeled “free trade” and “protection.” August Belmont walks along as the ringleader, while David B. Hill watches as a clown.
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1904-10-05
Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox, who has one wooden leg, holds Miss Columbia’s hand. Caption: “That order shall not be revoked.” Miss Columbia. Quoted below the cartoon is an excerpt from a speech by Knox saying that an executive order by President Roosevelt benefiting injured soldiers should not be revoked and sent back to Congress to pass legislation on the matter because of the far-reaching consequences such an action could produce.
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1904-01-03
Alton B. Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis hold sheet music and sing two contradictory songs about protectionism and free trade to Uncle Sam. Caption: Special engagement of Alton and Gassaway, the celebrated team of musical daologueists.
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1904-09-29
Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker struggles under the weight of a number of miniature Democratic political leaders like David B. Hill and Richard Olney brawling on his back. The fighters hold sticks and various signs: “Tammany Hall,” “Brooklyn Democracy,” and “Petty Factions.”
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1904-09-19
David B. Hill sits on a doll of Dame Democracy. On the wall is the word, “Saratoga.”
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1904-09-20
Alton B. Parker walks into the “Democratic headquarters” carrying a “big stick” as he finds four men asleep, including Grover Cleveland. There is a picture of Horace Greeley on the wall as a campaign flag with Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis’s faces.
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1904-09-15
A “Democracy” woman is chained to “factional leadership” while a scaled and monstrous “apathy” approaches from below. Caption: Wanted, a Perseus! There she stands, poor soul,/Watching the red-gorged monster’s slow advance—/While ever he nearer and nearer creeps/And the gods laugh and the deliverer sleeps!
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1904-09-15
Alton B. Parker is thrown into the air as “Roosevelt’s letter” bowling ball scatters a number of bowling pins: “dodge,” “bunco,” “guess,” “guff,” “calamity,” “scuttle,” “protection a robbery,” “common law control of monopolies,” “reckless extravagance,” and “irrevocably established.” David B. Hill watches from behind.
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1904-09-13
President Roosevelt fires a revolver in the air as he blasts a “Pres. Roosevelt’s letter” cannon towards the Democratic donkey. A Republican elephant rushes toward the cannon and says, “I’m on,” as Uncle Sam watches from the background. He says, “That noise means something.”
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1904-09-13
David B. Hill holds a note from William Jennings Bryan with the message, “when you want me let me know,” on it as he sits beside August Belmont and Thomas Taggart.
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1904-09-13
President Roosevelt, with a sign reading “Roosevelt, phrenologist” behind him, stands while feeling Dame Democracy’s head. On the wall is a picture of a man with dollar signs on his head and the title of “trust.” Caption: It is difficult to find out from our opponents what are the real issues upon which they propose to wage this campaign.—Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance.
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1904-09-12
President Roosevelt holds up “the big stick” and looks into “the G.O.P. strenuous telescope” as he sees a “2nd term” shooting star pass a “Democratic eclipse.” There is a broken “1st term” star on the ground and a paper that reads, “Explanations of all the mysteries for the universe by T. Roosevelt.” Charles W. Fairbanks is in the background saying, “Give somebody else a chance.”
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1904-09
President Roosevelt and Alton B. Parker, dressed as police men, use batons to attempt to wake up a sleeping elephant and donkey respectively in “Presidential Park.” Caption: “Will the ‘hot-foot’ wake them up?”
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1904-09-08
The article contains text from a speech in which Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts argues in favor of the Republicans, whose policies he says will maintain the United States Navy’s status as the second-best navy in the world.
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1908-10-12
The New York World issues a statement concerning the recent speech by Representative Nicholas Longworth discussing President Roosevelt’s potential candidacy in a future election, in which the paper calls for attention instead to be given to the current 1908 election, which is four weeks away.
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1908-10-06
Senator Edward Ward Carmack expresses his disappointment at the reelection of President Roosevelt, and gives several reasons for why he believes Roosevelt and the Republicans won.
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1904-11-07
Several newspaper articles highlight the large margins by which President Roosevelt won the recent presidential election, including in his home state of New York, and calls Roosevelt’s victory “one of the most significant victories for enlightened popular government that the world has ever known.” Roosevelt has dealt with many questions while in office, including the Panama Canal and the anthracite coal strike, and the people approve of him and the men in his administration. Given the magnitude of Roosevelt’s victory, another article muses on the future of the Democratic party and William Jennings Bryan, who may be ascendant in the party with the defeat of presidential candidate Alton B. Parker.
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1904-11-09