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Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the New York State Assembly, his political campaign, the City Reform Club, and reviews of The Naval War of 1812.
1882-1883
Puck, holding his lithographic pen, and the Independent Party figure, holding an axe labeled “November Election,” stand inside a cabin next to the head of Roscoe Conkling that has been cut off a large rattlesnake labeled “Stalwartism,” its rattle labeled “Stalwart Office Seeker.” In the background, a large fire labeled “Government Patronage” burns in a fireplace. Caption: Puck – What! Isn’t it dead? Independent New Party – Oh, yes! but it hasn’t got sense enough to know it!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-01-03
Whitelaw Reid, dressed as a dandy, turns away from a young woman labeled “N. Y. State” who is carrying a bucket labeled “Reform Milk” and headed in a direction indicated by a sign “To Reform.” He is turning down a marriage proposal before it has been offered. Caption: “I cannot marry you, my pretty maid!” / “Nobody axed you, sir!” she said.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-12-03
William M. Evarts is pictured as a knight on horseback with Whitelaw Reid as his page. Reid is blowing a horn labeled “Evarts Letter” outside the “Albany Legislature” castle to announce Evarts’ arrival. Reid’s clothing is labeled “Old Issues, Bloody Shirt, [and] Blainiac.” Evarts has a plume labeled “Blaine Influence” tied to his helmet and he carries a pike with banner labeled “Barkis is willin’,” from Dickens’ David Copperfield, chapter 5.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-12-31
Henry Ward Beecher, as Gulliver, holds on his knee a small building labeled “Plymouth Church” and reaches his left hand out, in a friendly gesture, toward a crowd of “Liliputians” who are scampering about, some with ropes labeled “Partisan Rope, Caucus Rope, [and] Political Slavery,” others with signs that state “Down with him. He defeated Blaine!!, No freedom Allowed in Politics, [and] Edict of Ostracism.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-01-07
New York City Mayor William R. Grace is a rooster crowing over a defeated and demoralized John Kelly, Tammany Hall boss. Grace, an anti-Tammany Hall politician, was just re-elected mayor of New York City after being out of office for the previous term.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-12
Three men labeled “Wadsworth, Davenport, [and] Genl. Carr,” hanging onto each other, stand on “The One Solid Plank” labeled “Financial & Civil-Service-Reform Resolutions” of a shaky platform that includes rotten boards labeled “The John Roach Issue,” “Protective-Tariff Fanaticism,” Bloody-Shirtism,” “Trumped-up Charges Against Cleveland,” and “Sham Patriotism.” A sign on the left states “Mugmumps Cordially Welcome” and one on the right states “Please Don’t Look at the Platform, Look at the Men,” and a sign in the background states “A Sound State Ticket – Three Honest Men.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-09-30
Allen G. Thurman stands on one side of a man labeled “Liquor Interest” and John Sherman on the other side. Thurman represents “The Ohio Democracy is the liquor dealers old friend!!”, while Sherman expresses “Ohio Republicans only wish to regulate the liquor traffic thats all!!” as they try to win the “Large Vote” the man is holding in his right hand.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-06-27
Print shows John Kelly carrying a basket labeled “27,000 Votes For Sale,” accosting passengers on a “New York Train,” seeking buyers. Around the car, men are seated beneath windows labeled “Democratic Nomination Hewitt for Gov.,” “Cornell for Gov.,” “Folger for Gov.,” and “Wadsworth for Gov.” They are reading newspapers labeled “Half Breed,” “Greenback,” “Independent Puck,” “Stalwart,” and “Machine Paper.” Caption: John Kelly Here you are! I’ll sell to anybody else, except “blind pool men.” How much for the lot?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-30
A black Labrador retriever labeled “Jack” sits on a life preserver labeled “Re-election to U.S. Senate” on a board propped up against the bank of a lake. Sitting on the shore in the lower right corner is a frog that looks like Benjamin F. Butler. Caption: Mr. Logan’s enthusiastic friends have already nominated him for the presidency – in 1888.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-06-10
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed William Roscoe Thayer’s poem to President Wilson. He believes that the election results will allow others to speak with similar frankness.
1918-11-08
Full color political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt leading the “Regular Republican Party Ticket,” in the form of an elephant, along the road to the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Behind them on the road is a keg-shaped wagon mired in mud and being confounded by obstacles. The wagon is being urged on by William Jennings Bryan and driven by Lewis Emery. A donkey labeled “Democratic Destructive Party” pulls the wagon along with a giraffe labeled “Lincoln Obstructive Party.”
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1906
Full color cartoon of Puck hanging two portraits for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees. New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes is being placed in the Republican position and Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson is being placed in the Democrat position. On the floor are other portraits, including one of Secretary of War William H. Taft.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1908-01-08
Theodore Roosevelt requests the support of the voters of New York’s Twenty-first Assembly District.
1881-11-01
Political flyer recommending Theodore Roosevelt’s election to the New York State Assembly as representative for the Twenty-first Assembly District.
1881-11-01
Theodore Roosevelt will continue to support Canadian reciprocity. He is not surprised that New York supported Charles Francis Murphy and William Barnes. Roosevelt informed Barnes that he “had no intention of making war upon him,” and that he hoped Barnes would act decently.
1911-02-03
Theodore Douglas Robinson has been cheated out of an electoral victory by Mr. Petrie and the administration. Robinson has the support of the Republicans of Herkimer County, New York, and Theodore Roosevelt believes that the administration’s opposition to Robinson is foolish.
1911-10-03
Theodore Roosevelt knows that Ethel Roosevelt Derby and Richard Derby are having a difficult time, but he thinks of them often and is proud of their efforts. Roosevelt is sick of the Wilson administration’s neutrality and has said so in an article. Richard Derby Jr. has been a great comfort and they call him “Littlejohn Bottlejohn.” As Roosevelt expected, the Progressive Party went down in an “utter and hopeless defeat.” He does not believe that the Progressives can remain a party for much longer, and he will be relieved when the party disbands. They are concerned about Kermit and Belle Roosevelt and hope the newlyweds boarded the earliest possible ship.
1914-11-04
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that Admiral Cowles has been nominated and hopes for his election. He is not optimistic about New York but thinks there is a “fighting chance.”
1910-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt states that he has always supported George Leavens Lilley because Roosevelt believed Lilley faced a “very corrupt gang”. Roosevelt is also amused by what Anna Roosevelt Cowles has told him about the Reids, and he is unsure how William H. Taft will handle the situation. He and Edith have also enjoyed William Sheffield Cowles’s visit.
1908-11-10