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Theodore Roosevelt does not want to be put in the position of dictating the nomination of any man. He would just like Republicans and Progressives to combine on some man who can be elected.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-04
Theodore Roosevelt does not want to dictate the nomination of any man. He would just like Republicans and Progressives to combine on some man who can be elected.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-04
Theodore Roosevelt believes it was “most unwise from every standpoint” to put his name on the Massachusetts ballot for the 1916 presidential ticket for the Republican party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in Henry Cabot Lodge’s thought that the way to pick a winner is to pick someone who has no record on the vital questions of the day. Roosevelt encloses a letter for George von Lengerke Meyer from Julian Street that he wants returned.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-10
Theodore Roosevelt tells Meyer Lissner it is not possible to “beat the machine under any ordinary circumstances, when there is nothing much at stake.” Roosevelt also believes the governor is as popular as ever.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-16
Theodore Roosevelt chastises Representative Gardner for putting him in a difficult position regarding the political campaign. If he starts campaigning now there will be considerable backlash. Roosevelt needed to start campaigning in the primaries early and everywhere but decided against contributing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916
Former President Roosevelt walks away from the figure of a woman labeled “Progressive Party” who has been stabbed with a knife labeled “Declination.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1916
A tableau painting, with Whitelaw Reid subduing the Tammany Tiger with a broken knife labeled “Straight Rep. Ticket,” is being displayed on a stage. Thomas Collier Platt, standing on the left, is admiring the painting. Caption: Platt’s “living picture” – an awful fake.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-27
President Roosevelt holds a document stating that the tariff cannot be dealt with in the year preceding a presidential election. A man with a hat labeled “Standpatter” rejoices while a “Tariff Revisionist” exclaims in disbelief, “By heck!” A teddy bear at Roosevelt’s feet holds out a brick and flowers to the revisionist.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907
Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger clutches a large bag labeled “Spoils” and holds a whip labeled “Tammany” and, in his claws, a diminutive man who appears to be holding a paper that states “Robinson. Straight Republican Nomination 1893.” On the ground in front of the Tammany Tiger are bones labeled “1890, 1891, [and] 1892.” “Tom Platt” appears to have tossed Henry C. Robinson to the Tiger and is now fleeing to safety. Five men, one labeled “Republican,” are on the right and left, in the background, behind the safety of high walls. Among them, holding a long spear atop a palm tree, is Chauncey M. Depew. Caption: Rather than stand up and fight, they throw him a sop and run away.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-08
Charles A. Schieren walks toward city hall labeled “Brooklyn,” carrying a book labeled “Business Administration Schieren.” In the foreground, Whitelaw Reid is straddling a trunk labeled “To Salt River,” on which three men are sitting. He implores Schieren not to “forget the boys!!” The three men are of the “boss” or “walking delegate” type and their political careers appear to be over as they are headed up “Salt River,” as the new mayoral administration of Schieren gets underway. Caption: Political Adviser–For goodness’s sake! Don’t forget the boys!!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-12-27
Stephen B. Elkins walks down an aisle in the “U.S. Senate,” holding a “Certificate of Election to U.S. Senate – Stephen B. Elkins.” Seated on the left are “Teller – Senator on Cash Basis” and “Smith,” and seated on the right are “Brice – Senator by Grace of Boodle” and “Jones Bonanza Senator.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-01-23
A prisoner labeled “McKane” sits on a bench labeled “Reserved for Bosses who Steal Elections” at Sing Sing prison. McKane is holding a large pair of scissors, a measuring tape, fabric and thread. He is looking back at the new arrival, Edward Murphy Jr., sitting in a chair labeled “U.S. Senator,” that is being lifted over the wall of the prison by a pair of hands labeled “Justice.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-04-04
Four men labeled “Tracy, Saxton, Morton, [and] Schieren” appear as children fighting to be the first to get up a ladder labeled “Rep. Nomination” and reach a large apple labeled “New York Governorship.” Caption: The boy that gets the ladder is the boy that gets the apple.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-18
T. E. Byrnes encloses a letter from Eugene Gano Hay regarding Canadian reciprocity. Hay reports Minnesota Republicans are dissatisfied with rumors that tariff legislation is being delayed until after the 1904 election. He does not want the postponement to include Canadian reciprocity as this will create further delays until after the 1905 election in Canada.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-06
Uncle Sam picks a puppy labeled “Wilson” from a litter of puppies labeled “Foss, Baldwin, Harmon, [and] Dix.” The mother of the puppies is labeled “Democratic Party.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-30
Puck as Diogenes carries a lantern and a lithographic pen and seeks the perfect mayor for New York City. At center Puck gets the opinion of “The Republican Machine” (Thomas Collier Platt with the tail and ears of a fox) and “Tammany” Hall (Richard Croker with the tail and ears of the Tammany Tiger). In the surrounding vignettes, he hears the opinions of “The Sunday Closers” who respect the Sabbath, “The Reformers” who seek “a man of the highest ideals … and irreproachable character!” and have “Seth Low” at the top of their list, as well as “The Germans” and “The Bicyclers,” before returning to the “Office of Puck,” somewhat dismayed. Caption: Diogenes Puck starts out to find him, and gets a lot of varied information on the subject.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-04
Diary of Theodore Roosevelt for the year 1881. Roosevelt lives in New York City with Alice Lee Roosevelt and attends Columbia Law School. Major events for the year are a summer trip through Europe and Roosevelt’s election to the New York State Assembly from the 21st district. The diary concludes with notes on Roosevelt’s personal finances.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1881
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the New York State Assembly.
1882-1884
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to the 1884 election, Republican politics, civil service reform, and reviews of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.
1884-1891