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President Roosevelt is dressed as an angel and blesses Louis Frisbie Payn. Beside Roosevelt is a “list of the forgiven”: “Morgan. Hill (J. J.) Gould. Harriman. Addicks. Platt. Black. Odell.” The door reads, “White House private—admittance by invitation only. T. R.”
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1904-07-01
A showman points to President Roosevelt, who holds a sword in his teeth and stands on a Republican elephant, which is on top of a flattened J. Pierpont Morgan and “J. S. Hill.” Roosevelt shoots off part of the elephant’s trunk and tail. A sign to the right reads, “Continuous performance—The strenuous one.”
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1904-02-05
Uncle Sam puts his hand on President Roosevelt’s shoulder as Uncle Sam holds a paper that reads, “states pledged for Roosevelt.” Various men are around them: James J. Hill, Perry S. Heath, a “grafter,” and “Wall Street.”
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1904-01-19
Various prominent citizens including, President Roosevelt and multiple senators, justices, and cabinet members, state their support of endowing a department of political science in Western Reserve University in memory of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
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1905-01-27
Attorney General Knox’s filed objections will prevent Edward Henry Harriman from grafting his case against the Northern Securities Company onto the government’s case. Knox takes no side in the dispute but will not allow Harriman and James Jerome Hill to litigate their private differences with a government case.
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1904-04-13
Joseph William Blythe has been asked to take charge of the Roosevelt campaign in the Western states. Blythe would need to give up his connections to the Burlington system and the Hill railroad interests.
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1904-03-01
Albert T. McNeal appeals to Stuyvesant Fish to write to President Roosevelt or Secretary of War Taft on his behalf. McNeal would like to be appointed to the Shiloh Park Commission. He names numerous mutual friends who can vouch for him.
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1904-02-15
Newspaper article supporting President Roosevelt’s antitrust policy, including an anecdote about Roosevelt easily and rapidly ending a conference with a concerned J. Pierpont Morgan.
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1902-05-11
Theodore Roosevelt reflects on the importance of leadership and service in a democracy. He argues that great leaders should be recognized and compensated adequately for their service, whether in government or industry. Among farmers’ cooperatives and laborers’ unions, unless leadership is encouraged and compensated, the organizations will attract leaders that are second-rate. Great leaders are needed in the arts and sciences as much as in other fields of endeavor.
1917-05
At the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Theodore Roosevelt is passing the pike of “Policies” to William H. Taft, as “The New Mahout,” sitting on the “G.O.P.” elephant. Seen through the left lens of Roosevelt’s spectacles, labeled “Before Taft is Nominated,” are James J. Hill, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Fortune Ryan, John D. Rockefeller, Edward Henry Harriman, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Joseph Benson Foraker, and Nelson W. Aldrich looking very somber. Seen through the right lens labeled “After Taft is Nominated,” the same group is cheering. In the lower right, Roosevelt refuses another curtain call. On the lower left he offers “Taft Bitters” to a cowboy. Across the bottom is Roosevelt’s familiar toothy grin.
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1908-06-10
Moses, holding the Ten Commandments, is confronted by an angry mob of capitalists, businessmen, and politicians, some shaking their fists at him. Caption: Chorus of “Conservatives” – Dangerous, socialistic, un-American doctrines!
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1908-03-11
Theodore Roosevelt stands on a hill in the background, as two large bears labeled “Interstate Commerce Commission” and “Federal Courts” break up a crowd of Wall Street capitalists and stock market manipulators, causing them to scatter in all directions. The men include Charles S. Mellen, William K. Vanderbilt, Henry Huttleston Rogers, J. Pierpont Morgan, James J. Hill, George Jay Gould, John D. Rockefeller, James McCrea, William H. Newman, Edward Henry Harriman, and Joseph Benson Foraker.
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1907-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt, as a hayseed from “Oyster Bay,” is being greeted by Edward H. Harriman, as J. Pierpont Morgan and James J. Hill look on from around a doorway in the background. Caption: “Well, if this ain’t Uncle Ted Roosevelt! How’s all the folks at dear old Oyster Bay?”
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1907-04-03
A four-headed, eight-armed monster, formed out of the upper torsos of James J. Hill, Edward Henry Harriman, J. Pierpont Morgan, and George Jay Gould, juggles New York State and municipal services and federal influence in Congress, while stepping on a red liberty cap. Three diminutive figures stand in the left foreground: the center figure represents Theodore Roosevelt, the one on the left is labeled “You,” and the one on the right is labeled “Me.” Caption: Messrs. Hill, Harriman, Morgan and Gould, sole managers and proprietors.
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1907-02-06
Nicholas Murray Butler encloses Wall Street Journal clippings. Butler forewarns President Roosevelt that he may be hearing from a furious Samuel Hill, who claims that he witnessed Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Cowles engaging in executive intimidation of the judiciary when they were present in the Supreme Court room during the Northern Securities hearings.
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1904-01-06
Harry Thompson Dobbins wants to ensure that the next Nebraska delegation is composed of Theodore Roosevelt supporters. Dobbins expresses concern about the railroads “despotic control” of Nebraska’s Republican Conventions.
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1903-12-30