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President Roosevelt with a teddy bear nearby awakes from slumber and sees the ghosts of Edward Henry Harriman, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Huttleston Rogers, and John D. Rockefeller.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-16
A standpatter wakes up sweating and sees a “free trade” ghost shaking Uncle Sam.
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1905-05-20
Senator Jacob H. Gallinger appears as a Dutch girl praying to the angelic spirit of Marcus Alonzo Hanna holding a ship labeled “Ship Subsidy.” Caption: From the gallery of privilege and graft.
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1906-12-26
William Randolph Hearst appears as Shakespeare’s Richard III in a dream-state when various ghosts appear before him. His armor hangs on a nearby wall in preparation for battle. The ghost of William McKinley speaks Clarence’s line, “Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow!”
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1906-10-31
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, sits on his throne. At his feet are an orb, a broken scepter, and a cleft shield showing St. George and the dragon. He is recoiling in horror at being mocked by a gathering of ghosts of the oppressed from ages past, while behind him anarchists with weapons, one about to throw a bomb, are preparing to strike.
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1905-08-09
Three elderly naval officers question the spirit of John Paul Jones regarding the “Navy Dept. vs. Jones” for charges of conduct during the Revolutionary War, such as “Item 962 concerning the charge of cowardice” and “Did you get a rake-off in the Grog contract?” A map on the wall in the background shows “the loop of the Bonhomme Richard.” The cartoonist is spoofing a court of inquiry requested by Admiral Winfield Scott Schley following accusations regarding his conduct during the Battle of Santiago. Caption: Chairman of Paul Jones Inquiry Board — Captain Jones, did you or did you not say, “Damn the Alliance! Let her take care of herself!”
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1905-07-12
The ghost of Louis XVI of France warns Nicholas II of Russia to not make a hasty decision regarding the “Petition” presented by a crowd at the Winter Palace, which was met by police gunfire and the deaths of many in what became known as Bloody Sunday. Caption: Shade of Louis. — Warily, Brother.
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1905-02-08
At center, mannequin models are being constructed as stand-ins for actors. They are surrounded by scenes of price gouging, poorly attended performances, the use of wooden actors, indifference to customers, and haughty attitudes by theater staff, and the resulting failure of business. Above the main scene are the ghosts of past actors labeled “Booth, Gilbert, Forrest, Cushman, [and] Wallack.”
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1903-12-16
The ghost of General Winfield Scott Hancock offers a warning to “presidential aspirants” General Nelson A. Miles, Admiral George Dewey, and Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley, all about to step off a cliff in an effort to reach the chair of the “Presidency” hovering out of reach.
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1902-04-30
The spirits of alcoholism, opium dens, prostitution, gambling, and street crime, as well as the figure of Death, issue from a tenement house. Caption: Not only an evil in itself, but the vice, crime and disease it breeds invade the homes of rich and poor alike.
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1901-03-20
The ghosts of Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley put their hands on President Roosevelt’s shoulders as he uses the “Republican record” and “prosperity” reins. Caption: “The shades of Lincoln and M’Kinley are guiding the nation in the way it should go!” Tenor of President Roosevelt’s Speech of Acceptance.
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1904-07-27
President Roosevelt holds his “presidential letter” big stick over an open box labeled “woman suffrage” that has female ghosts coming out of it. A teddy bear cowers behind him.
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1908-12-05
William H. Taft sees what appears to be a ghost in front of him although it is actually William Jennings Bryan and a donkey hidden in a sheet. Taft says, “That’s the same one that tried to scare Teddy.”
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1908-10-31
The Spirit of the Forest talks to Uncle Sam, pointing to denuded hillsides as a result of the tariffs on the import of lumber and wood pulp. Caption: The Spirit of the Forest.–Will you wait until then to admit lumber free?
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1909-05-19
President William H. Taft sits on a tree branch labeled “Cost of Living,” which bends lower under his weight, above a smiling man labeled “Consumer” lying on the ground dreaming of the commercial products that soon will be within his reach.
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1909-04-28
A ghost depicting Theodore Roosevelt stands behind the figure of Hugh Johnson, who wears the emblem of the National Recovery Administration. Roosevelt holds a hat in one hand, and in the other grasps several figures with labels on them which say “Malefactor of Great Wealth,” “Liar,” “Nature Fakir,” and “Undesirable Citizen.” He speaks to Hugh Johnson, who has two similar figures with labels in his hand, as well as another seven on the table in front of him, and says, “Hugh, you’re just bully! I was only a common piker!” The cartoon seems to suggest that while Roosevelt has a few terms he likes to “pull out of his hat,” so to speak, Johnson has many more that he uses in his invective.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1933-11-29
The spirit of General Winfield S. Hancock holds a paper that states “Governors Island 1880. The Tariff is a Local Issue. Gen. W. S. Hancock.” He stands among congressmen in a congressional chamber where senators or representatives from “Maryland, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Kansas, [and] Pennsylvania” are tearing off sections of a large paper labeled “The Tariff?” that apply to their respective states. Caption: Shade of General Hancock–They laughed at me when I said the tariff is a local issue; but I was right, after all!
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1894-05-02
Richard Croker, a Tammany Hall boss, is pictured as Hamlet, exiting a castle labeled “Tammany Hall,” carrying a moneybag labeled “Pickings” and papers labeled “Deed $90,000 House, Ranch – Racing Stable, [and] Investm[ent] – Stock Farm.” He encounters the ghost of Boss Tweed who stands at the edge of an “Abyss for Smashed Bosses,” holding in his arms a moneybag labeled “Stealings” and papers labeled “‘Diamond Wedding’, Erie Deal, [and] 5th Avenue House.” Croker is headed for the abyss. Caption: Hamlet Croker (to Ghost Tweed)–I’ll follow thee!
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1894-04-11
A cherub labeled “1894” smashes a bottle of champagne as he launches a large, modern ship, the Ship of State, under the banner “Tariff Reform,” with Grover Cleveland and members of his cabinet standing on the bow waving their hats. In the background, the specter of “1893” hovers over a sailing ship labeled “McKinley Tariff.” Among those with Cleveland are Walter Q. Gresham, John G. Carlisle, Richard Olney, and either Daniel S. Lamont or Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson.
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1893-12-27
Uncle Sam sits on a log in a swamp labeled “Spoils System” from which snakes labeled “Quayism, Bardsleyism, [and] Tannerism,” and noxious fumes rise in the form of shades labeled “Raumism – Pension Swindler, Crokerism, McLaughlinism, Tweedism, Prendergast – Political Assassin, [and] Guiteau – Political Assassin.” Also shown among the tree roots is Charles A. Dana. Caption: It will have to be drained to get rid of the noxious miasmas that arise from it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-15