Telegram from George B. Cortelyou to William Loeb
George B. Cortelyou informs William Loeb that he will spend Monday night in Oyster Bay also.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-08
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Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of War Taft discusses a bill that failed in Panama regarding what system of currency the country should use as its legal tender. Taft also discusses the opinions of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw and Representative Hill.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-13
Letter from Fred W. Carpenter to Benjamin F. Barnes
Fred W. Carpenter returns the letter from Representative Ebenezer J. Hill regarding currency in Panama. The letter has been answered.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-14
Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt asks Theodore Roosevelt for an advance on his allowance so he can go hunting in Maryland.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
Unknown
Letter from Ebenezer J. Hill to Theodore Roosevelt
Ebenezer J. Hill writes to encourage President Roosevelt to advocate at an upcoming meeting that the gold standard and American system of money be adopted in the Panama Canal Zone.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-10
Receipt from Clare A. Cooper
Clare A. Cooper repays President Roosevelt fifty dollars cash for the check he wrote her.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-05-24
Platform adopted by the Republicans of Michigan
This article is the platform adopted by the Republican Party of Michigan ahead of the Republican National Convention. The topics mentioned include foreign trade, monetary and fiscal policies, the state electoral process, and Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-05-25
The man who wins
Magazine clipping of a piece by Lyceum World editor Arthur E. Gringle, who believes that the men who really win “life’s game” are those who focus on things other than earning money.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02
And that is what money can do!
Richard Hargrave, in this song, dramatizes telling his son about the dangers of money. While it can be of use money can also be a corrupting influence, and seeking money should not be anyone’s primary aim in life.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911
The coming revolt
The writer of the article draws parallels between corruption and graft in politics and the corrupt practices that allow big businesses to accumulate and control most of the money in the country. The article quotes heavily from an article in Everybody’s Magazine by Lincoln Steffens that criticizes the few rich businessmen who control most of the capital of the country.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-10
(M)organizing the campaign, or, “The discourager of precipitancy”
President Roosevelt sits gagged in a chair surrounded by money bags while J. Pierpont Morgan, dressed like a pirate, holds a speech and “the big stick.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08
Returning from a friendly visit
President Roosevelt bows to J. P. Morgan, who is departing from Sagamore Hill after their visit. Morgan attorney Charles Steele and Chair of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou escort Morgan to a small boat which will carry him to his yacht “Corsair” in the distance. Cortelyou carries a carpet bag of money initialed “J.P.M.” Morgan has “Knox’s scalp” tied to his belt, along with a note, “No more buttin’ in. T.R.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-09-02
Hon. Henry Giveaway Davis
Henry Gassaway Davis sits on a pile of money surrounded by a barbed wire fence. Caption: And the millions he intends to give the Democratic campaign fund.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-26
Cowed?
President Roosevelt sits in a chair at the “White House” and smiles at a “beef trust” cow, wearing a “strikes” bell, with dollar signs all over it. Caption: There was a young man said, “How can I ‘scape from this terrible cow? I will sit here a while and continue to smile, which may soften the heart of this cow.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-31
The Democratic choir
August Belmont directs choir music in a church full of dollar signs. The choir includes David B. Hill, Patrick Henry McCarren, Thomas Taggart, Grover Cleveland, and James H. Eckels, all dressed in ladies’ attire except Taggart who wears a suit of playing cards.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08-09
The donkey—Here’s another bar’l to get next to!
A Democratic donkey holds an axe and a shovel as it runs toward “Davis $40,000,000 Bar’l.” In the background is a tag for “Hearst $1,400,000.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08
The brakeman—I hope this job of breaking won’t break me
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.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08
Take that plank back!
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.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-12
Horse sense
Charles W. Fairbanks lies in a hammock reading a book as Alton B. Parker, President Roosevelt, and Henry Gassaway Davis all ride horses in the background.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-17
An unnecessary volley
President Roosevelt fires many bags of money from the “G.O.P.” cannon towards a figure representing the “Republic of Panama,” who holds his hat up in an attempt to catch them. Secretary of State John Hay holds a “treaty” sponge to clean the cannon.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-11-21