Newspaper editors

An unknown writer reports on the conference of Republican editors of the Eleventh Congressional District held in Logansport, Indiana, on May 10. The conference topics included the outcomes of the General Assembly, newspapers that act in their own interests and not that of the Republican Party, and candidates for the presidential nomination.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-14

Creator(s)

Unknown

Thomas Collier Platt waves his top hat while riding on the back of a bucking donkey. The donkey is labeled “Tribune” and has the face of Whitelaw Reid, and is in the ring at the “G.O.P. Circus.” Among those in the audience is Chauncey M. Depew.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-02-05

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer, as Atlas, supports a globe labeled “American Affairs, English Affairs, African Affairs, Cuban Affairs, [and] South American Affairs” on his back. He is sitting at a desk, drafting “Instructions to Congress,” and handing a “Telegram to Prince of Wales” to a messenger boy. On the floor around him are other communications labeled “Program for the Senate, Advice to the Cabinet, Commands to Sec. Carlisle – Issue a Pulitzer Loan At Once!, How the Country Must Be Run, [and] Orders to Foreign Powers.” A notice hanging on the wall states “Our Motto – Sensation! Sensation! Sensation!!” Pulitzer is perspiring from the burden of his labors.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-01-29

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

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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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-03-13

Creator(s)

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

Presidential candidates are on display in a gallery for the press. Among the candidates are Jerry Simpson, William A. Peffer, Robert E. Pattison, David B. Hill, James E. Campbell, William C. Whitney, William E. Russell, Adlai E. Stevenson, Levi P. Morton, Robert T. Lincoln, William B. Allison, Thomas B. Reed, William McKinley, and Benjamin Harrison who is standing next to a stack of books and a sign that states, “My Friends Say I Am Not A Candidate.” Down the center of the gallery are several newspaper editors, some with magnifying glasses and telescopes. Among them are Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Dana, Whitelaw Reid, Henry Watterson, Joseph R. Hawley, Murat Halstead, and Evan P. Howell, and an unidentified reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-11-20

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Columbia welcomes a group of ragged politicians, mostly Democrats, some no longer in office, and newspaper editors, to come in from the cold winter night and warm themselves by the fire and enjoy some “Christmas Cheer” from a large punch bowl, with the many recently elected Republican legislators, mayors, and governors. All are identified by name, except William B. Allison: “Morton, Goff, Strong, Harrison, Dayton, McKinley, McIntyre, Marvil, Upham, Coffin, Reed, Depew, C. A. Dana, D. B. Hill, Springer, Wilson, Bland, Smyth, Grant, Bynum, Waite, [and] McPherson.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-12-26

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

A man, possibly Joseph Pulitzer, dressed as a jester and holding papers labeled “Income Tax Law,” stands before a woman labeled “Democracy” sitting in a chair labeled “Congress.” “Democracy” holds a quill pen in her hand and appears to be pondering whether to sign the bill. In the background, a man with a ballot box for a head and with one finger raised tells her not to sign the bill.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-02-07

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Newspaper editor Whitelaw Reid sits at a desk, writing editorials condemning the Democrats for the Wilson Tariff Bill, expressing such “Copy for the Tribune” as “The Wilson Bill is meant to increase wages in England and lower them in America!!”, “The country on the eve of fearful financial disaster!! – All caused by the Wicked Democrats,” and “Awful programme of destructive legislation!!!! – Democrats bent on ruining the country.” Three ghosts labeled “The Oldest Inhabitant, Falstaff, [and] Baron Munchhausen,” looking indignant, are standing in the background. Caption: Eminent “Story-Tellers” of Fiction–We thought we were unapproachable in our line; – but we’re nowhere alongside of him!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-01-17

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune newspaper, types headlines that appear on ticker tape that is being read by a stalwart Republican. The headlines include: “The Country on the Brink of Hopeless Disaster, Dem. Congress Behaving like Wild Horses, The Business Situation Growing Worse – All Owing to the Dem, Democratic Juggling with the Finances of the Country, Division in the Democratic Ranks, Democratic Pandering of the Goldbugs of Wall Street, [and] Dem. Panic.” Caption: Nothing is too improbable for the fanatic Republican to swallow, if he gets it from the Tribune.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-10-11

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

David B. Hill is caught in a large claw-type animal trap labeled “Nomination for N.Y. Governorship.” A sign posted next to the trap states, “This trap was set by David B. Hill to catch an Anti-Snapper.” Two groups of men are standing to the right and left. Among them are Charles S. Fairchild, Carl Schurz, Edward M. Shepard, William R. Grace, and Oswald Ottendorfer. They are laughing at him.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-10-17

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

The combined forces of the gold standard supporters, including some newspaper editors, and a reluctant William McKinley, march under the standard “The Nation’s Credit Must Be Upheld,” toward a fort labeled “Fort 16 to 1” flying the banner “Repudiation,” and manned by soldiers armed with pitchforks and scythes. The newspaper editors are staffing the big guns labeled “Sound Money Press.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-07-22

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Charles A. Dana sits at a desk. A diminutive David B. Hill, labeled “I am a Democrat,” stands on the desk next to a large book labeled “Speeches of D. B. Hill.” In a niche in the background is a bust of Benjamin F. Butler. Caption: Editor Dana (enthusiastically)–There he is, fellow citizens of this glorious republic, the greatest statesman the world has ever seen, and all that’s left of the Democratic Party!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-04-10

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Emilio Aguinaldo stands at center, wearing military uniform, and holding a flag and a sword. Around him are many old men dressed as women, supplicating themselves and tossing roses at his feet. Among them are Carl Schurz, John P. Jones, Charles A. Boutelle, Edwin L. Godkin holding a paper labeled “N.Y. Evening Post,” William B. Cockran, Eugene Hale, George G. Vest, Donelson Caffery, George F. Hoar playing a lyre labeled “Sen. Hoar,” William Lloyd Garrison Jr. reading his “Ode to Dear Aguinaldo,” George F. Edmunds, Joseph Pulitzer, Oswald Ottendorfer, [and] William Jennings Bryan. A bundle of “Editorials” lies on a rock in the left foreground.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-05-10

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

President William McKinley stands on a road leading to the White House, in the background. He is delivering a speech, with a group of newspaper editors and congressmen, to the left and right, who have broken into small groups, talking amongst themselves. In the right foreground, William Jennings Bryan is inflating his “Anti-Annexation Issue for 1900.” American flags are on islands beyond the White House. The flags and/or islands are labeled “Porto Rico, Ladrone Islds., Cuba, Hawaii, [and] Philippine Islds.” At McKinley’s feet is an excerpt from his “Speech at Banquet of Board of Trade and Associated Citizens” in Savannah, December 17, 1898.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-01-11

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

A band of street musicians is comprised of yellow journalism newspaper editors/publishers. Two men are playing “The War Wave” on horns labeled Daily Sensation (Joseph Pulitzer) and Morning Exciter (possibly James Gordon Bennett, Jr.). A man (possibly Charles A. Dana) is playing a tune labeled “Rumblings of War” on a bass drum labeled Daily Brawler. Two other men are playing tunes labeled “War Talk” and “War News.” A man with one hand over his right ear is standing at the entrance to a building labeled “Business Interests” and “Commerce and Manufactures”; with his left hand he gestures toward the musicians to stop or move on.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-03-25

Creator(s)

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

William Randolph Hearst, as Sir Hudibras, rides a mule labeled “Maud” being led by a man labeled “Gloomy Arthur” on a quixotic adventure. Papers protrude from Hearst’s pockets stating “The danger of Taft, The peril of Bryan, Philippics for the Peepul, Standard Oil letters, [and] Other letters.” Caption: “Accompanied by a clerk, one of the Independents, he ranges the country after the manner of Don Quixote, with zealous ignorance endeavoring to correct abuses and repress superstition.”–Century Dictionary.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-10-14

Print shows an American soldier carrying a rifle and bag labeled “U.S.V.” walking in a tropical location. Diminutive figures labeled “Bryan, Ottendorfer, Pulitzer, Atkinson, [and] Godkin” are attempting to hold him back, while George Frisbie Hoar, left behind, stands with his right arm raised in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-05-24

Creator(s)

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

A large procession crosses the newly-completed Brooklyn Bridge. At the front, dressed as policemen with nightsticks, are several newspaper editors. Among them are James Gordon Bennett, Oswald Ottendorfer, Whitelaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Dana, and Carl Schurz. Puck follows at center on a white horse, with a group of dandies on the right, one labeled “Freddie,” and a group of “Political Tramps” on the left, including George M. Robeson, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Collier Platt, James G. Blaine, and Roscoe Conkling. John Kelly is at the lead of the “Tammany Heelers,” followed by Hubert O. Thompson with the “New York Street Cleaning Department.” Behind them comes “Puck’s Monopoly Target Company” with Russell Sage, William H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Cyrus W. Field. On the left is a masonic group labeled “F. & A.M.” carrying a goat on a pedestal. Beneath the bridge is a boat labeled “The Dynamiter” filled with angry anarchists. Caption: Puck follows the example of the illustrated newspapers, and gives an accurate picture of the event one day before it takes place – and don’t you forget it!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-05-23

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

At a dog show, a variety of breeds are competing. In the upper left corner, labeled the “Judges’ Stand,” are several newspaper editors, including James Gordon Bennett, Whitelaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Charles A. Dana, Henry Watterson, and George W. Curtis. They are judging two dogs, Winfield Scott Hancock and Samuel J. Tilden. Other dogs depicted are “Sesquipedalian Sleuth Hound Evarts, Mulligan Mongrel, Rossa Runt – take care dangerous, Lap Dogs Monopoly Breed”, also Chester A. Arthur, William Mahone, Thomas Collier Platt, Roscoe Conkling, James D. Cameron, John Logan, “Pointer Bayard, Tammany Tarrier, House Dog Edson, Dachshund, Toby Dog, Poodle, Water-dog,” David Davis, U.S. Grant, “Tewksbury Ratter, Hoar-Hound, Hybrid Hayes” and at center, “Puck’s entry Cleveland [and] S. Low.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-05-09

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

A circus performance is going on under the big top with Uncle Sam as ringmaster for a show with a bucking mule labeled “Tariff Question.” The mule has already thrown one man labeled “Democrat” and is tossing another man labeled “Republican.” In response to Uncle Sam’s question “Who can ride the mule?”, Puck’s Independent New Party figure climbs over the barrier into the ring. On the right, two clowns labeled “W. Reid” and “H. Watterson” glower at each other.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-05-02

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894