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Democrats and Republicans, capitalists, social reformers, political symbols, and others enjoy a summer outing at a park.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-08-17
Theodore Roosevelt is happy with Charles Dwight Willard’s previous letter and enclosed newspaper clippings. He discusses the issues of clergymen and ministers championing morality but not embodying it, and the complicity of newspapers and the press. He did not know of actions taken against Otis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-15
Seven books, including two memoirs, are examined in six review essays in this edition of the “Book Notes” section. Michael L. Manson reviews two books on Theodore Roosevelt’s 1914 scientific expedition to Brazil; one penned by Roosevelt and the other by Joseph R. Ornig. Manson praises the forewords to both books written by Tweed Roosevelt, and he finds Ornig’s book provides a detailed look at the expedition and the cast of characters besides Roosevelt who made it successful. Stacy A. Cordery notes that journalist Joseph Alsop’s memoirs deal mostly with the major events and figures of the mid to late twentieth century, and she reveals Alsop’s opinions of various senators, presidents, and generals.
Richard P. Harmon faults Peter Collier’s The Roosevelts: An American Saga for focusing too much on the private lives of the two Roosevelt families, and he says that many of Collier’s assertions are not backed by evidence and that the book relies too much on a psychohistory approach. James Summerville asserts that H. Paul Jeffers’s look at Roosevelt’s tenure as Police Commissioner of New York City, Commissioner Roosevelt, disappoints and that readers should turn to Jay S. Berman’s study or to coverage of this period of Roosevelt’s career in biographies. John A. Gable provides a positive and short review of a short book, William H. Harbaugh’s fifty page history of Pine Knot, which Gable says is written with “charm and style.” Robert D. Dalziel, President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), reviews the memoirs of Hamilton Fish, a winner of the TRA’s Distinguished Service Medal. Dalziel says that Fish’s opinions are straightforward and blunt like their author.
Two photographs appear in the section: one shows three members of the Rio Roosevelt Expedition of 1992 and the other dignitaries of the Dutch government at the Roosevelt Study Center in the Netherlands.
Based on his book Police Administration and Progressive Reform: Theodore Roosevelt As Police Commissioner of New York, Jay S. Berman examines Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as President of the Police Board of New York City. Berman looks at the political obstacles posed by Senator Thomas Collier Platt and Police Superintendent Thomas Byrnes, and he notes how Roosevelt’s penchant for action and for assuming a leadership role manifested themselves in his job as Police Commissioner. Berman looks at Roosevelt’s late night, undercover inspections and how Roosevelt used them to improve the police force, and he adds that they also improved Roosevelt’s political standing and reputation.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1988
President Roosevelt responds to a request from Edward Alsworth Ross that he write the preface to Ross’s upcoming book. Roosevelt believes so much in Ross and his work that he has acquiesced, though he has put his remarks in the form of a letter. Roosevelt suggests that the intended title of the book is not dignified enough for such a serious work. (The book referred to is Sin and Society, published in November 1907.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-19
“Dr. Schurz” holding a large carving knife and sharpening tool, “Dr. Grace,” and “Dr. Parkhurst” holding a saw examine a sick tiger labeled “Tammany.” A medicine case in the foreground contains a drill, pincers, and a bottle of “Giant Powder – Reform Brand.” Caption: Cut him up into small pieces; – don’t let any of his nine lives get away!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-06
David B. Hill labeled “Hill-ism,” Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger labeled “Croker-ism,” and Roswell P. Flower, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, labeled “Flower-ism,” stand on “Condemned Row” in the “Prison of Public Condemnation.” They are watching a group of men, on the left, construct a guillotine labeled “Reform Movement.” Puck is standing on the left with “Parkhurst, Grace, Lexow, Godkin, Ottendorfer, [and] Goff,” who is posting a notice on the wall of the prison that states, “Notice! On Election Day, Nov. 6th 1894. Execution of Hill-ism, Croker-ism, and Flower-ism. By Order of the People.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-13
At center, Uncle Sam and President Cleveland shake hands, with a portrait of Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, in the background. The surrounding vignettes feature a cast of characters, identified or referred to in the text as “Croker,” “Parkhurst,” and “Tammany” reform, “Iago Manley” and “Othello Reed,” “Peffer, Lease, Dana, Pulitzer, [and] Depew,” Harrison sitting in his over-sized top hat, and Thomas Collier Platt turning a crank that manipulates George R. “Malby” as “Speaker” of the New York State Assembly, David B. Hill sitting in an over-sized “Senatorial Chair N.Y. State,” and “McKinley” dressed as Napoleon I, riding a “War Tariff” rocking horse. Each scene includes “Valentine” text, such as this for “Peffer” and “Lease,” each holding papers labeled “Speech”: “From bleeding Kansas’s wind-swept plains, / Where whiskers take the place of brains, / You come with all your verbose strength / Of speeches of unending length. / Here, take the hint Puck gives – resign! / Let Mary be your Valentine”; and this for McKinley: “McKinley Bill! McKinley Bill! / Why do you ride that hobby still? / The cause of pool, combine and trust, / And idle mill-wheels red with rust. / Mistaken Man! We’ll never pine / For you to be our Valentine.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-02-14
Charles H. Parkhurst holds a sword labeled “Evidence Against Tammany” and waves the tail he has cut off the Tammany Tiger labeled “Lexow Investigation Exposures,” lying dead at his feet. In the background, holding rifles and spears and waving their hats, are Charles S. Fairchild, William R. Grace, Joseph Larocque, and Oswald Ottendorfer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-11-07