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Alton B. Parker and David B. Hill with a “peanuts” feather sit in the conductor’s car of the “Belmont Never Git There Line.” Henry Gassaway Davis stands in a car with a “Davis bar’l $40,000,000” and operates the brake.
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1904-08
A woman wears a Rough Rider uniform and a “Roosevelt” hat while “Dame Democracy” attempts to select a hat. There are several options: “The ‘Dave Hill’: Any old price,” “The Parker: A new thing,” “The ‘Bryan’: In stock 8 years. Marked down from 16 to 1. Shop worn,” “The Cleveland: A star-eyed daisy.” “Dame Democracy” holds “The ‘Hearst’: Made of the yellowest material.” Caption: Miss Strenuous Republican to Dame Effete Democracy:—You seem to have trouble over your new Easter hat, my dear. Mine’s picked out, and it is the ruling style, I tell you!
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1904-03-20
William Jennings Bryan, William Randolph Hearst, and Alton B. Parker are at the starting line of a race. Bryan wears weights on his legs that read “Kansas City platform” and “Chicago platform” and has a feather in his hat that reads, “I got a new job,” Hearst rides a “regular in both campaigns” barrel with deflated wheels, and Parker rides a donkey with “1896” and “1900” on his legs. David B. Hill gives Parker advice while Grover Cleveland watches Democratic National Committee Chairman James K. Jones write down odds. George Gray, Richard Olney, Arthur P. Gorman, and Dame Democracy watch from a covered box. Uncle Sam watches from behind.
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1904-03-27
President Roosevelt wears a sultan’s turret, sits in the “White House,” and holds a rope attached to a Republican elephant. David B. Hill—”I am a Democrat”—is depicted as a rooster and stands on top of “Wolfert’s Roost.” In the background, a large sun with Alton B. Parker’s face and “safe and sane” rays shines while a “Bryanism” cloud covers part of the sun.
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1904-04-04
Grover Cleveland, who wears a “What and where am I?” feather; Arthur P. Gorman, who wears a “I am out in the cold” feather; and David B. Hill, who wears a “I am still a Democrat—very still” all hold down the lid on the “Democratic political pot.” Two lobsters—William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst—are inside. They each hold papers. Bryan’s reads, “Bryan the apostle of poverty. Income $50,000 a year.” Hearst’s reads, “God bless out home. Hear$t who pleads for the suffering poor while he enjoys his life on his mother’s $50,000,000.” There is a picture of Thomas Jefferson on the wall. Caption: Democratic chorus—”If they e’er take off the lid the worst will be yet to come!”
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1904-03
President Roosevelt wears Roman military attire and leans on a “sound honest govt” sword while Arthur P. Gorman, Perry Belmont, and David B. Hill push Alton B. Parker—also dressed in Roman military attire—toward Roosevelt. The White House is in the background. Caption: (Carnegie please take notice.) The backers—”Go ahead, Parker! You’ll be a great hero IF you lay him low.”
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1904-06
President Roosevelt flexes his bicep as he watches several boys leaving “Miss Democracy Select School”: David B. Hill, Alton B. Parker, New York Mayor George B. McClellan, Arthur P. Gorman, Richard Olney, and William Randolph Hearst.
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1904-06-26
A number of men in the Democratic Party march forward: Grover Cleveland with his fishing rod, William Randolph Hearst with a small bag of money, William Jennings Bryan with a “Lincoln Neb.” drum, Alton B. Parker with the face of a sphinx, David B. Hill, Charles Francis Murphy, and George B. McClellan, who rides a Tammany tiger.
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1904-06-30
The top left-hand corner includes a cartoon from the New York Herald on July 9, 1904, in which William Jennings Bryan takes the “money” plank away from a platform where William F. Sheehan and David B. Hill are nailing different planks down. In the larger cartoon, Alton B. Parker tells Bryan to return the “money” plank. Sheehan, Hill, Charles Francis Murphy, Thomas F. Grady, William Bourke Cockran, and a Tammany tiger look on.
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1904-07-12
A number of men stand around an ailing mule with two brands: “W. J. B. 1900” and “W. J. B. 1896.” Alton B. Parker tries to feed the mule “Parker golden corn” and ponders, “I wonder will he swallow this?” William Francis Sheehan has a telegram, August Belmont holds “clippers,” William Bourke Cockran has “ginger,” David B. Hill holds a “whip,” and Patrick Henry McCarren holds a “knife.” Henry Gassaway Davis comes running toward the mule and says, “I’ve got the remedy.” The train at the “Esopus Station” has smoke that reads, “from West Virginia.”
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1904-07-17
A number of men are in a wagon driven by a donkey. General Nelson Appleton Miles looks backward while the trusts hold Alton B. Parker in his lamp. August Belmont and David B. Hill are up front directing the donkey. A Tammany tiger sits beside Parker.
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1904-07-21
A heron wearing a “Parker” crown picks up a frog with the face of Martin W. Littleton. Other frogs watch, including Joseph W. Bailey, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman with his pitchfork, William Jennings Bryan, David B. Hill, and Charles Francis Murphy.
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1904-07-22
David B. Hill stands in a tree labeled “Wolfert’s Roost” and looks out. There is an “exit ladder” leaning against the tree and a nearby sign that reads, “If you really want to aid Judge Parker, pull in your ladder for four months.”
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1904-07-22
A giant “the trusts” man, dressed in a grass skirt, holds Alton B. Parker in his arm. David B. Hill looks away as a much smaller August Belmont stands beside “the trusts.”
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1904-07-23
President Roosevelt, Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Arthur P. Gorman, Grover Cleveland, and David B. Hill stand under the “presidency 1904” mistletoe and look at “Miss Democracy” and “Miss Republican.”
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1903-12-25
William Jennings Bryan holds a “commoner” blunderbuss and walks toward cliffs with men’s faces carved into it: David B. Hill, Arthur P. Gorman, and Grover Cleveland. New York Governor George B. McClellan rides a Tammany tiger.
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1904-01-28
A goat with a head that resembles David B. Hill rams its head into the “administration’s Panama policy” brick wall. Three goats watch in the background. One asks, “Are you going to try it, Billy?” Another says, “How do you like my Panama accordian pleat?” A bald eagle and “Panama” watch from the top of the brick wall and chuckle.
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1904-01-05
This cartoon summarizes a number of important political events in 1903, including presidential and vice presidential aspirations, the Panama Canal, Tammany Hall, equal rights, and the Post Office scandal. President Roosevelt is in the center with his gun in his hands and his foot on a dead “graft” bear.
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1903-11
The “Democratic Tower of Babel” features a number of Democratic hopefuls for the presidency. Alton B. Parker, William Jennings Bryan, holding a “commoner 53 cent a year” paper, and David B. Hill who wears a “I am a Democrat” feather are on the left of the tower. Cleveland Mayor Tom Loftin Johnson and Maryland Senator Arthur P. Gorman, who tries to catch a “bee,” are in the center. Grover Cleveland sits at the top of the tower with “lunch” and “bait” and tries to catch a boot that Henry Watterson holds up.
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1903-11
Several men—David B. Hill, William James Conners, Charles Francis Murphy, William Jennings Bryan holding a “reform” paper, Roger C. Sullivan, Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell, and Alton B. Parker—read the handwriting on the wall: “(Extract from Taft’s letter of July 20-’07) I don’t care for the presidency if it has to come by compromise with Senator Foraker or anyone else in the matter of principle. Taft.” Caption: What a contrast.
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1908-09-23