Dingley, Nelson, 1832-1899

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Creation Date

1904-12-09

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nicholas Murray Butler

President Roosevelt clarifies for Nicholas Murray Butler his position on a tariff which needs revision but hopefully will not damage protective interests in the process. Roosevelt believes the “reciprocity agitation” in New England is foolish and hopes that he can gain reciprocity from Canada.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Creation Date

1904-08-29

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Letter from William H. Moody to William Loeb

William H. Moody returns Nelson Dingley’s letter to William Loeb and discusses a mistaken inference in the legislation initiated by Dingley in addition to the current status of the bill.

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Moody, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1917

Creation Date

1905-11-22

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Letter from Frank Lambert Dingley to Theodore Roosevelt

Frank Lambert Dingley writes President Roosevelt regarding his late brother, Representative Nelson Dingley. Frank Dingley assures the President that the congressman was against “free hides” and supported protecting American industries. Dingley also shares his brother’s political ideals, including making a tariff bill “symmetrical.”

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Dingley, Frank Lambert, 1840-1918

Creation Date

1905-11-16

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“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.

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Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Creation Date

1896-01-22

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A troublesome infant – he grows faster than his god-fathers expected

A crying infant labeled “Dingley Tariff” wears clothing labeled “Deficit from July 1st to Nov. 15th $44,411,144,” and holds a tiny pair of pants labeled “Dingley Tariff.” A man, possibly Nelson Dingley, holds a bolt of cloth labeled “New ‘Protective’ Measures” and a large pair of scissors and is standing next to the infant’s high chair.

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Creation Date

1897-12-15

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A handicap needed

A bicycle race is underway on the “National Track” with the man in the lead labeled “National Expenses” easily outstripping the second bicyclist labeled “National Revenue.” A man labeled “Dingley” is giving the second bicyclist a push. Caption: As run at present the man behind has no show.

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Creation Date

1898-01-12

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He’d better cut behind

President McKinley drives a sleigh labeled “Prosperity,” drawn by a horse labeled “Administration.” He is towing two small sleds. One labeled “Defective Currency System” is carrying William Jennings Bryan, and the other labeled “Deficit” is carrying a bloated Nelson Dingley. Caption: McKinley–I wonder what makes this pesky thing pull so hard?

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Creation Date

1898-01-19

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The Dingley millennium – it has made everybody happy

“Marcus Aurelius Hanna” is at center wearing robes and a top hat with laurel wreath and ribbons labeled “Senatorship 1898,” standing next to a safe labeled “Hanna,” and holding a whip. Four men, two labeled “Boss Bushnell” and “Boss Foraker,” bow down before him on ground labeled “Ohio.” This vignette is captioned “happiness in Ohio” and “Hanna–‘God reigns and the Republican Party still lives.'” Surrounding vignettes show the working classes and merchants suffering the brunt of the “Reduction in Wages,” overcrowding on public transportation, and no customers. Exporters, “Trust Magnets,” and Tammany Hall’s “N.Y. Democratic Club” appear to benefit the most.

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Creation Date

1898-02-09

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The bugaboo of the anti-expansionist

President McKinley rides an elephant driven by Marcus A. Hanna. The elephant is carrying Russell A. Alger, Nelson Dingley, William R. Day, and William T. Sampson. A second elephant follows, and a group of men that includes “Nelson A. Miles, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Wheeler, Fitzhugh Lee, Henry C. Lodge, William R. Shafter, Winfield S. Schley, John T. Morgan, Cushman K. Davis, George Dewey,” and others, march alongside under the standard “Imperialism for Ever.” A group of disgruntled men sit on the roadside, watching the procession.

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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Creation Date

1899-01-18

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A few pleasant recollections of the fifty-fourth Congress

A large group of members of the Fifty-fourth Congress are pictured. Many are dressed as natives, with some wearing grass skirts. Most are armed with spears or clubs, while some have shields. Four are reading the “Reminiscences of John Sherman,” one turns the crank on a spit where John Bull is being roasted, and Thomas B. Reed is standing on a platform on the left. A statue labeled “Jingoism” appears at center. Grover Cleveland appears in effigy with several spears or arrows stuck in him. Joseph G. Cannon sits on the floor on the right.

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Creation Date

1896-05-27

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He’s back again!

A gigantic, well-dressed pig labeled “Protection Glutton” confidently strides into Congress carrying a paper that states, “We demand a prohibitory tariff on all imports, in the interest of the suffering laborer, the down-trodden farmer, and the struggling infant industries of the country.” Among the Congressmen present are Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Dingley Jr., Matthew Quay, Garret A. Hobart, and possibly Mark A. Hanna.

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Creation Date

1897-01-13

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They can’t be hitched to the same carriage

President William McKinley is at the reins of a carriage labeled “Administration” carrying Uncle Sam and Columbia. Three men labeled “Hanna, Lodge, [and] Dingley” are having difficulty harnessing two unruly horses labeled “Expansion” and “Protection” to the carriage.

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Creation Date

1898-11-09

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A poor marksman and a poor gun

A man labeled “Dingley,” holding a smoking blunderbuss labeled “High Protective Tariff,” stands over a dead sheep labeled “Wool Industries.” He was aiming at a wolf labeled “Foreign Products” that is looking over the top of a fence.

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Creation Date

1898-11-30

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Firing up the wrong boiler

President McKinley holds an oil can labeled “Patronage” and turns the crank on a “Prosperity Engine” while Nelson Dingley shovels coal into a damaged “Protection Boiler” labeled “High Tariff Defeat 1890” and “High Tariff Defeat 1892.” Nearby is a brand new and unused “Sound Financial Policy Boiler.” William B. Allison pulls the handle on a large brass “Republican Whistle.”

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Creation Date

1897-05-19

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Crowning the abomination

A huge figure labeled “Tariff for Trusts,” wearing a quilted cape labeled with products and percentages and holding papers labeled “Concessions,” sits between the Senate and House chambers. Garret A. Hobart sits on the left and Thomas B. Reed sits on the right. Nelson Dingley and William B. Allison, holding enormous pincers labeled “Ways and Means Committee” and “Finance Committee” with a crown labeled “Sherman’s Bluff Anti-Trust Law of 1890” in the jaws, are placing the crown on the head of the devilish figure at center.

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Creation Date

1897-07-28

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