Morgan, John Tyler, 1824-1907

Triggs, Floyd W. (Floyd Wilding), -1919

Creation Date

1903-11-12

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Statement by William Nelson Cromwell

William Nelson Cromwell issues a press release attempting to quell rumors surrounding payments made by the United States government for the Panama Canal. Cromwell states that he has previously made a full report on how the money was paid and vehemently denies that there was any corrupt American syndicate that bought Panama Canal securities at a low price to sell back at a profit.

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Cromwell, William Nelson, 1854-1948

Creation Date

1908-12-09

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Southern Democrats in a quandary

The Democrats in the South face a “quandary, because they are still upset at President Roosevelt’s allowing Booker T. Washington, an African American, to have dinner at the White House, but want and need to solicit Roosevelt for political appointments and official favors.

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Creation Date

1903-10-21

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Unknown

“Let us have peace”

President Grover Cleveland and British Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, are dressed as Native Americans, smoking peace pipes filled with “Common Sense Tobacco.” Sitting with Cleveland, also dressed as natives, are Richard Olney, Robert R. Hitt, Charles A. Boutelle, Nelson Dingley, George Frisbie Hoar, William E. Chandler, John T. Morgan, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Sitting with Salisbury are Joseph Chamberlain, Arthur James Balfour, George Joachim Goschen, and the Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish. In the foreground is a hatchet in a hole, to be buried, possibly over the Venezuela boundary dispute.

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Creation Date

1896-01-22

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The “ki-yis” can’t rattle him

President Cleveland drives a stagecoach carrying a female passenger labeled “National Credit” and a trunk labeled “Gold Reserve.” The horse team is labeled “Firmness” and “Common Sense.” A pack of dogs is trying to rattle the horses. The dogs are identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Frye, Bland, Sickles, Peffer, Reed, Boutelle, Wolcott, Pugh, Stewart, Jones, Morgan, Teller, [and] Lodge.”

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Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Creation Date

1895-03-13

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“Give it another twist, Grover – we’re all with you!”

President Grover Cleveland, wearing military uniform, gives a twist to the British Lion’s tail as it stands on a small island labeled “Great Britain” just off the coast of the “United States” where Cleveland and his backers are standing. Among Cleveland’s backers are Thomas B. Reed, Charles A. Dana doing a headstand on the “N.Y. Sun,” George F. Hoar holding a rifle, William E. Chandler wearing a grenadier’s bearskin hat and holding a sword, Henry C. Lodge with a sword, John T. Morgan, and Charles A. Boutelle also wearing a bearskin hat.

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Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Creation Date

1896-01-08

Creator(s)

Another shotgun wedding, with neither party willing

A shotgun wedding between Uncle Sam and Hawaii is being presided over by a minister labeled “McKinley” who is reading from the “Annexation Policy.” A former Confederate general labeled “Sen. Morgan” with a “Jingo” feather in his hat stands behind them holding a shotgun labeled “Bluster.”

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Creation Date

1897-12-01

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The “peanut” Hagenbeck and his “senatorial courtesy” animal show

David B. Hill as the animal trainer Carl “Hagenbeck” performs a circus act with trained animals labeled “Murphy, Pugh, Chandler, Peffer, Morgan, Coke, Higgins, Stewart, Teller, Cullom, [and] Hoar.” Hill is standing at center with a bag of “Peanut Politics” at his feet. He holds a whip in his right hand and a string in his left, which is attached to a ring in the nose of “Murphy” as a dancing bear. “Pugh” as a monkey sits on the floor. The other animals are standing on short pedestals arranged around the rear of the cage.

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Creation Date

1894-02-07

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Through the jungle

President Cleveland appears as an explorer, with cabinet members John G. Carlisle and Walter Q. Gresham, in a jungle, where they have come across a band of monkeys labeled “D. Hill, C. Dana, W. Reid, Blackburn, Vest, Jones, Pugh, Foraker, Wolcott, Teller, Morgan, Peffer, [and] Stewart.” Caption: Pioneer Cleveland is bound to carry political enlightenment forward, even if the simian statesmen don’t like it.

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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Creation Date

1893-11-22

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May the country be spared this pitiful sight!

A group of Democrats, identified as “Hill, Murphy, Vest, Bland, Matthews, Morgan, Harris, Crisp, Tillman, Altgeld, Campbell, [and] Stevenson,” stand near a bier labeled “Dem. Free Coinage Platform” on which lies the expired “Democratic Party” donkey. A ladder labeled “Chicago Convention” has been placed against the bier and the “Chicago Nominee,” wearing the black shroud of a widow, climbs to the top. Benjamin R. Tillman places more straw on the bier with a pitchfork, while John Peter Altgeld and James E. Campbell use torches to ignite fuses to burn the donkey. David B. Hill and Edward Murphy console each other.

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Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Creation Date

1896-07-08

Creator(s)

Fizz! Boom!! Ah!!!

A fireworks display is being prepared. An “Anarchist” and John Peter “Altgeld” are lighting a rocket labeled “Altgeld Anarchistic Boom,” and several men identified as “Bland, Crisp, Teller, Waite, Blackburn, Wolcott, Morgan, [and] Stewart” are lighting rockets around a large medallion labeled “Free Silver Coinage Craze” with a silver coin labeled “In 16 to 1 We Trust.” Blackburn is holding a rocket labeled “Silver Speech” and on the ground are fireworks labeled “Snap Silver Resolutions.” At a table on the right, labeled “Coin’s Financial Hocus Pocus Game,” is William H. Harvey operating a shell game, and behind him is William A. Peffer, the “Windy Man from Kansas.” Caption: They are making great preparations for their Populistic Pyrotechnical display; but it will be only another fizzle.

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Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Creation Date

1895-07-03

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The wars that never come

George F. “Hoar” sits with a broken drum labeled “Hawaiian Bluster,” Henry Cabot “Lodge” holds a broken rifle labeled “Behring Sea War Thunder,” and John T. “Morgan” sits with a bent and beaten-up bugle labeled “Nicaraguan War Blast.” A large female angel of “Peace” stands behind, spreading her wings over them.

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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Creation Date

1895-05-29

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A few pleasant recollections of the fifty-fourth Congress

A large group of members of the Fifty-fourth Congress are pictured. Many are dressed as natives, with some wearing grass skirts. Most are armed with spears or clubs, while some have shields. Four are reading the “Reminiscences of John Sherman,” one turns the crank on a spit where John Bull is being roasted, and Thomas B. Reed is standing on a platform on the left. A statue labeled “Jingoism” appears at center. Grover Cleveland appears in effigy with several spears or arrows stuck in him. Joseph G. Cannon sits on the floor on the right.

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Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Creation Date

1896-05-27

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The bugaboo of the anti-expansionist

President McKinley rides an elephant driven by Marcus A. Hanna. The elephant is carrying Russell A. Alger, Nelson Dingley, William R. Day, and William T. Sampson. A second elephant follows, and a group of men that includes “Nelson A. Miles, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Wheeler, Fitzhugh Lee, Henry C. Lodge, William R. Shafter, Winfield S. Schley, John T. Morgan, Cushman K. Davis, George Dewey,” and others, march alongside under the standard “Imperialism for Ever.” A group of disgruntled men sit on the roadside, watching the procession.

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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Creation Date

1899-01-18

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They are away off the track

Presidential hopefuls labeled “Davis, Tillman, Chandler, Lodge, Quay, Frye, Wolcutt, Turpie, Hoar, Morgan, [and] Hill” are wading through a swamp labeled “Financial Buncombe, Jingoism, Blunders, Demagogism, [and] Brag,” chasing a glowing chair with wings labeled “Presidency.” Puck, standing on the side of “Statesmanship Highway,” tells them they are taking the wrong way to the White House. Caption: Puck–My short-sighted friends, none of you will ever reach the White House by that road!

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Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Creation Date

1896-03-04

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He keeps them worried

Former president Grover Cleveland and his wife Frances play with their children, Ruth, Esther, and Marion, in the backyard of their residence. Several men labeled “Morgan, Daniel, Pugh, Faulkner, Vest, Dana, [and] Gorman” spy on them from behind a fence, bushes, and over a hedge.

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Creation Date

1897-06-09

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Telephone message from Senator Hanna

During a meeting of the Canal Committee, Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna announced that President Roosevelt was having an unnamed matter finalized by the Canal Commission. Members of the committee are going to be calling on Roosevelt to discuss the matter.

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