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President Roosevelt assures Governor Stokes that he does not pay attention to such headlines. It was kind of Stokes to write.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-14
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.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-10-11
William Randolph Hearst, as a jester, tosses newspapers with headlines such as “Appeals to Passion, Venom, Sensationalism, Attacks on Honest Officials, Strife, Distorted News, Personal Grievance, [and] Misrepresentation” to a crowd of eager readers, among them an anarchist assassinating a politician speaking from a platform draped with American flags. On the left, men labeled “Man who buys the comic supplement for the kids, Businessman, Gullible Reformer, Advertiser, [and] Decent Citizen” carry bags of money that they dump into Hearst’s printing press. Includes note: “The time is at hand when these journalistic scoundrels have got to stop or get out, and I am ready now to do my share to that end. They are absolutely without souls. If decent people would refuse to look at such newspapers the whole thing would right itself at once. The journalism of New York City has been dragged to the lowest depths of degradation. The grossest railleries and libels, instead of honest statements and fair discussion, have gone unchecked.”– From Mayor Gaynor’s letter published in the New York Evening Post. Caption: Those who feed it and those whom it feeds.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-10-12
Newspaper editors Whitelaw Reid and Murat Halstead try to distance themselves from Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa holding newspaper headlines that indicate their earlier support. Caption: They liked him before election – they disown him now.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-02-04
A large ape labeled “Irish Vote” sits on a ballot box, holding a shillelagh. He is being pumped up by a bellows labeled “Demagogery” manipulated by Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa and others. Behind them stands James G. Blaine with a copy of “Irish World” in his pocket, and kneeling nearby is John Kelly. A crowd of congressmen are supplicating themselves to the “Irish Vote,” including John Sherman, John A. Logan, and George F. Edmunds. Caption: The reason why we cannot expect legislation on the dynamite question.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-02-04