Newspaper editors

Puck reclines before a table covered with alcoholic beverages, some labeled “V. H. Dusenbury’s P.P. Brandy” and “Puck Punch [No London Punch],” smoking and blowing smoke rings. Among the figures appearing in Puck’s smoke cloud are Chester Alan Arthur labeled “For a Good Veto” and fishing for “Popularity”; George M. Robeson at the helm of a boat carrying a large money bag labeled “Appropriation”; Jay Gould, Russell Sage, and William H. Vanderbilt sailing on a boat labeled “Monopoly”; Susan B. Anthony and another woman, George William Curtis labeled “Civil Service Reform,” Roscoe Conkling, Jay A. Hubbell labeled “Deform,” Ulysses S. Grant labeled “No Third Term,” David Davis, Robert Green Ingersoll boxing with Thomas De Witt Talmage, James Gordon Bennett, “Old Rossa” with “Dynamite,” Cyrus W. Field trying to net a “Coronet,” John Kelly and Samuel J. Tilden on a seesaw, William Russell Grace standing on a rock labeled “Public Esteem” with Seth Low trying to climb up, and James Russell Lowell on a “British Mission.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-08-09

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

At center, a woman wearing a newspaper dress drinks “Subsidy Brand” champagne chilling in a bucket labeled “Wall Street Cooler,” while a man labeled “Corporate Interests” writes a check. A bust statue of “Horace Greeley” is visible in the background. The entire scene is framed by an octopus with tiny male figures caught in its tentacles. Surrounding vignettes show a newspaper editor as he looks to his staff (larger than life) and to the newspaper owners (diminutive), a “Business Manager” telling an “editorial writer” to tone down comments about a “forest spoliation matter [because] the boss has acquired some interests out there,” and a newspaper reader “who has read the paper for forty years” influenced by the resulting editorial – “I guess that western forest steal ain’t as bad as they made it out. This editorial says it’s been grossly exaggerated.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-09-04

Maxim Svagrovsky, a Bohemian-American newspaper editor, writes to President Roosevelt from Panama offering his services as a campaign surrogate who could focus on outreach to communities of Bohemians, Slovaks, Poles, and Germans in the United States. Specifically, he could draw on accounts of his recent travels in Panama to highlight the opportunity for the United States that exists there. He praises Roosevelt’s accomplishments and record of public service and compares him to members of the princely houses of Europe.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-22

Creator(s)

Svagrovsky, Maxim, 1853-1921

Herman Henry Kohlsaat writes to President Roosevelt regarding an opportunity to make a good impression on the southern people with the help of Georgian editor Clark Howell. He claims that he has conversed personally with Howell and is confident he will unveil his true feelings towards the president in an upcoming newspaper article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-12

Creator(s)

Kohlsaat, Herman Henry, 1853-1924

Mr. Scott of the Oregonian will be unable to visit Washington, D.C. President Roosevelt has the “cordial and sincere support” of the Oregonian.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-23

Creator(s)

Bartlett, John

Thomas E. Watson gives Police Commissioner Roosevelt permission to use his previous letter as Roosevelt proposed. Roosevelt does not need to send Watson his article before it is published, as Watson is sure there would not be anything objectionable in it. Watson will unfortunately not be able to come visit Roosevelt in New York because of some important law cases.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1896-11-07

Creator(s)

Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922