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Clippings scrapbook, volume four

Clippings scrapbook, volume four

Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the New York State Assembly, his political campaign, the City Reform Club, and reviews of The Naval War of 1812.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1882-1883

Raising the funds to buy the presidency

Raising the funds to buy the presidency

Puck’s Independent Party figure sits on the left next to Puck beneath a sign that states “Independent Road to the White House.” At center, A. M. Clapp, with a cash box labeled “Republican Campaign Fund” and a sheet of paper that states “Permission to Remain in Office,” appears with Green B. Raum, who is holding a box labeled “Absolution” containing papers that state “Indispensable Dispensation,” selling indulgences for absolutions and dispensations to an old woman with a broom labeled “U. S.,” a “U. S. Scrub-Woman,” a “Page,” a “Treasy. Clerk,” and a “U. S. Postman” holding a paper that is a “Guarantee against Decapitation.” In the background, Whitelaw Reid carries a banner that states “The Republican Party is the Party of Salvation,” Thomas Jefferson Brady and Stephen Dorsey carry banners that state “The Republican Party Must Stay No Matter How” and “This is Our Last Chance,” and Powell Clayton drives a wagon carrying a safe labeled “Funds for an Aggressive Campaign.” Also depicted are William Walter Phelps with a paper that states “Its Only a Matter of Money” and Robert Ingersoll holding a paper labeled “Sweet C. O. D.” Caption: In the sixteenth century, Tetzel and his corrupt fellow-priests openly sold absolutions and dispensations, and played upon the fears of the people to fill their coffers, and keep themselves in power and place and shameful luxury. A little later, they were swept under in the cleansing flood of the great reformation. Will the star-route money-leeches please take notice that history repeats itself?

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-08-12

Barkis is willin’

Barkis is willin’

Print shows an Irishman man labeled “Democracy” standing at center, holding a small glass slipper labeled “’84 Presidential Nomination”, with Samuel J. Tilden and Charles A. Dana as courtiers standing behind him. On the left, sitting in a chair is Benjamin F. Butler, as a housemaid, holding up a huge foot, an oversized shoe labeled “Unanimous Renomination” is on the floor next to the chair. Butler claims to be “Cinderella” (and like Dickens’ “Barkis,” he is willing), though the others look with dismay at the size of his foot. Caption: B. Butler “Here’s your Cinderella, gentlemen – you needn’t go any further.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-10-03

Getting them into line for 1884

Getting them into line for 1884

Print shows Benjamin F. Butler as a military officer sitting on a horse, gesturing with his “Programme” to a snickering man labeled “Solid South” to get him to fall into line with Butler’s support for his presidential bid in 1884. On the left, already in line, are “Old Soldiers, Discontented Republicans, Oldtime Democrats”, and “Womens Rights” advocates, also two old men labeled “Greenbacker”, paupers, and prisoners, as well as a group of infants labeled “The Babies Cry for Him.” The horse, who also looks a little like Butler, leans over a pile of hay on which are papers labeled “Notoriety, Sensationalism, [and] Controversies”.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-10-17

In a critical condition

In a critical condition

Print shows a domestic scene with Benjamin F. Butler as the mother of a sick child labeled “Butler Boom” who is being examined by Puck as a physician. Various medicines labeled “Grand Reforms, Tewksbury Investigations, Big Reforms, Big Talk, Wind, [and] Friend of the Convicts” are on a table and the floor. Caption: N.C. Physician “You have almost talked the baby to death, madam; it will require great care to keep him alive until the 6th of November.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-10-31

Dee-lighted

Dee-lighted

This score and lyrics celebrate Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy as a veteran of the Spanish-American War and President of the United States. Lyrics by James Sprague. The back cover has a sample of sheet music by the same authors for “I’m sighing tears of love for you.”

Collection

Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection

Creation Date

1910

Three cheers for our side – he’s coming back

Three cheers for our side – he’s coming back

This sheet music for band and orchestra is “the ‘Official’ Song of ‘Good Times.’” Music by Joe Jordan and lyrics by Julie Jones and Alfred Anderson. The front cover features left-profile photo portraits of Theodore Roosevelt in grey wool suit with twill lining, wearing pince-nez glasses and a flower in his lapel. Floral art nouveau designs are on either side of the portrait, with a feather over the design.

Collection

Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection

Creation Date

1912

“The Mulligan guard lies, but – surrenders”

“The Mulligan guard lies, but – surrenders”

An explosion has occurred at the “Claim Agency, Formerly Republican Head Quarters” with William M. Evarts peeking through the opening in the tent to survey the damage. Several small kiosks labeled “Machine Republicans Meet Here, County Democracy Blaine Exchange, Tribune Blaine Organ, [and] Friends of Tammany Meet Here” have been blown over and damaged. Also knocked to the ground by the blast were “Keifer, [Blaine holding a paper that states “I Claim Everything”], Logan, W. Reid, Butler, Dana, Burchard [labeled “R.R.R.”], Robeson, Elkins, Dorsey,” and an unidentified man lying on the ground next to bags of “Soap.” On horseback, in the upper left corner, is Grover Cleveland holding a scroll labeled “Reform,” and a Puck character carrying a standard labeled “Independents.” Among the ranks are Carl Schurz, George W. Curtis, and Henry Ward Beecher. Strewn on the ground are papers that state “I.O.U. If we win. J. G., I.O.U. Conditional on Success, C.W.F., [and] I.O.U. If you get there, J. Roach”; and several of the downed “Mulligan Guard” hold papers that state “We Still Claim,” whereas Dana’s paper states “I Give Up.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-11-19

The Roosevelt campaign march

The Roosevelt campaign march

The campaign march written for Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential campaign was “published for Theodore Henckels of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., by Hatch Music Co., Philadelphia.” The cover design features a three-quarter length portrait of TR standing beside a chair, hand on hip facing the camera. The photo is from Pach Brothers, New York. The back cover includes a letter from Theodore Henckels to Colonel Thad. M. Chapman, Chairman of the Vermont State Republican Committee.

Collection

Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection

Creation Date

1904

Republican songs: Campaign of 1904

Republican songs: Campaign of 1904

Booklet of campaign lyrics written to the tune of “familiar aires.” Songs include: “We’ll Vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks,” “Roosevelt, my Roosevelt,” “Roosevelt for the Presidential Chair,” “Workingman’s Song,” “Roosevelt Forever!” “The Fame of Roosevelt,” “‘Teddy’ Roosevelt Is Our Man,'” and “He Tried to Change His Record.”

Collection

Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection

Creation Date

1904