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President Roosevelt describes the lovely spring weather and the activities the family enjoyed outside. He mentions going to church and how he wishes Johnny Schick’s parents would have disciplined him because he was on a rampage.
1904-05-08
In this excerpt from a letter to his sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Theodore Roosevelt writes of a visit from Henry Cabot Lodge, ending with a comment concerning the importance of the Western states in the upcoming presidential election.
1896-06-28
President Roosevelt has arranged for Kermit to come to the March 4 inauguration. Roosevelt has been playing tennis, riding, and scrambling with Ted, Matt and Granville Fortescue, then reading to Archie and Quentin in the evenings. Senator Lodge is staying at the White House now, and Corinne and Douglas Robinson will come down for Thanksgiving.
1904-11-22
Theodore Roosevelt commends his sister for writing a piece on Senator Lodge’s wife, Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge. Roosevelt also writes that he enjoyed lunch with his sister and Frances Theodora Parsons.
1915-11-05
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s concern about Monroe Douglas Robinson and asks her to keep him updated. Roosevelt also confirms dinner plans with Senator Lodge and his wife.
1915-03-12
Theodore Roosevelt informs Douglas Robinson that his wife loved the port and thanks him for his letter. Roosevelt expresses his relief that Monroe Douglas Robinson is all right and looks forward to dinner with the Robinsons and the Lodges.
1915-03-19
President Roosevelt thanks his sister and her husband for their telegraph. He writes that he was pleased with Secretary of War Taft’s nomination at the Republican National Convention.
1908-06-23
On the Senate floor, several Senators engage in a free-for-all around a signpost labeled “Rail Road Interests.” Watching the melee from the “Visitors’ Gallery” is Joseph R. Burton.
J. S. Pughe’s center-spread cartoon in Puck, 1906, is a reversal of many cartoons drawn through the years (most memorably by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler’s 1889 gallery of moneybags, “Bosses of the Senate.” Pughe’s variation was to draw the floor of the Senate ripped out, and the well reconfigured as the floor of a stock exchange.
Theodore Roosevelt writes to John Callan O’Laughlin noting that “things certainly look better in the William Lorimer case.” Roosevelt has written to both Albert J. Beveridge and Robert M. La Follette.
1911-01-17
Theodore Roosevelt describes to John Callan O’Laughlin his recent attempts to contact Senator Henry Cabot Lodge regarding the upcoming election.
1911-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt acknowledges receipt of letters returned to him by John Callan O’Laughlin. The letters are ones Roosevelt previously wrote to O’Laughlin, responding to questions about the William Lorimer case. Roosevelt does not believe the letters should be published because they contain his personal opinions and his report of what various Senators thought, and they were sent to O’Laughlin confidentially. Roosevelt, however, is willing to speak to the Committee if they would like to ask about his actions regarding the Lorimer case.
1911-07-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes to John Callan O’Laughlin about a recent proposal that was defeated by President Woodrow Wilson’s administration. Roosevelt directs O’Laughlin to a recent telegram he sent to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
1917-05-12
A troop of senators, as Confederate soldiers being led by an officer on horseback labeled “Trusts,” march down a street past the house with “Barbara Fritchie” labeled “Dingley Tariff” leaning out the window, waving a flag labeled “High Protection.” Caption: “Who touches a hair on yon swelled head / Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.
The reference-point of cartoonist Pughe’s cartoon is the famous poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, “Barbara Fritchie.” The legend about the old lady is almost certainly apocryphal — the Union patriot who waved her stars and stripes as occupying Confederate forces rode by her house in Frederick, Maryland.
Seven men dressed as Roman senators are labeled “T.C. Tillman, Lodge, Stewart, Morgan, Quay, [and] Hoar.” George F. Hoar is speaking to the others while pointing at a diminutive President Roosevelt standing in their midst. Caption: Senator Hoar’s Decree–Hereafter, when he wants to talk, let him ask us and say “please.”
At the time of this cartoon, Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts was having one of his perennial dust-ups with President Roosevelt. Their intra-party clashes had begun in 1889, when Roosevelt was appointed to head the Civil Service Commission. Roosevelt always considered Hoar to be honest and acknowledged him as distinguished, but in private correspondence referred to him as a silly and self-absorbed Mugwump. Hoar, a Republican, was nevertheless an ardent anti-imperialist, and in this context he took up the cause of Apolinario Mabini, Filipino insurrectionist. Old and feeble, Mabini was nevertheless denied return to the Philippines from exile unless he declared allegiance to the American-backed administrations there. Hoar was a thorn in Roosevelt’s side on the issue, and the senator went public with his disdain for the young president. In Pughe’s cartoon, one of the senate’s leaders, observing the denigration of Roosevelt was Hoar’s fellow senator from Massachusetts — Henry Cabot Lodge, probably Roosevelt’s closest friend.
Reverend Sherrill updates President Scott on his efforts to secure speakers for the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Symposium.
1957-1958
President William McKinley, standing, leads a toast to a dejected William Jennings Bryan, who is sitting in a chair labeled “Guest of Honor.” Seated around the table are, among others, Governor “Teddy” Roosevelt, Senator Mark “Hanna,” Benjamin B. “Odell,” Jr., and “Tim” Woodruff. Caption: Toastmaster McKinley. — Let us conclude our Thanksgiving Dinner with a toast to the man who made it so easy for us!
comments and context
The defeated Democrat presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, drawn in exaggerated vertical aspect, is “honored” as being the chief cause of the Republican celebration: his policies were toxic to voters. Other celebrants depicted include New York senators Chauncey Depew and Thomas Collier Platt, New York’s former governor Frank S Black, and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. The depiction of Theodore Roosevelt is uncharacteristic — he never was known to have smoked, and he was a famous teetotaler.
Special Easter edition centerfold shows President William McKinley as a rooster standing next to a broken egg labeled “Vice-Presidential Aspirations” from which several chicks have emerged, identified as: Lodge, Black, Bliss, Teddy, Root, Beveridge, and Timmy Woodruff.
Less than five months before this cartoon was published, Vice President Garret A. Hobart died in office. Especially given President McKinley’s popularity, the speculation about his running mate, later that year, was rife. Of the “chicks” depicted by cartoonist Louis Dalrymple and viewed approvingly by McKinley is, most prominently, Theodore Roosevelt. He was then Governor of New York and a popular war hero and famed as a cowboy, drawn with a Western hat. Interestingly, other Vice Presidential possibilities seen here were also New Yorkers: former Governor Frank S. Black, Secretary of War Elihu Root, Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff; and former Secretary of Interior Cornelius N. Bliss. Roosevelt’s friend Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is pictured, as is Indiana Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, later a strong ally of Roosevelt in the Progressive party campaign.
Reverend Sherrill reviews his efforts to find speakers for the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Symposium.
1957-12-06
Cartoon depicts President Roosevelt slamming his fist against a table which is breaking over various government officials. Item is regarding Roosevelt’s return to work following his hunting trip to Mississippi.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-22
Cartoon shows President Roosevelt sitting at a desk, looking up at Senator Henry Cabot Lodge with an axe lying on the ground.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-15