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Two men and Carl Schurz, holding hands and labeled “C. & H.”, sit on James Gillespie Blaine who is lying on the ground wearing armor.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-26
A glum Thanksgiving Day feast is occurring with the downtrodden Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine and his supporters “W.W. Phelps, [Roscoe Conkling at an open door], William Mahone, Cabot Lodge, [John Logan], Robeson, Dorsey, [W. Reid, Benjamin F. Butler], Elkins, Platt, [Cyrus W. Field, and] C.A. Dana” gathered around a table, and with John Kelly as a dog next to a plate with a small bird labeled “Compliments of N.Y. Citizens.” Reid is removing the top of a platter labeled “Campaign” where there is a “Crow” that is “Compliments of the People.” Through a window, where Puck is looking in, can be seen Grover Cleveland carrying a large turkey labeled “Presidency” over his shoulder, and across the street is Jay Gould offering his “Congratulations.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-26
A group of Democrats sit on a log raft that is breaking up within sight of land, with two logs labeled “New Jersey [and] New York” coming loose and drifting away. A small sail on the raft is labeled “Democra[…] Record.” Some are fighting amongst themselves. Allen G. Thurman is about to hit George Hoadly who is holding a paper labeled “Dem. Nomination for Gov. Ohio Hoadly”; John Kelly is fighting with Hubert O. Thompson who is holding a knife labeled “County Dem”; and behind them is Alexander V. Davidson labeled “Irving Hall” and holding a knife. Others seem on the brink of despair, including Abram S. Hewitt gnawing on a bone labeled “Tariff,” Charles A. Dana defiant of fate, Thomas F. Bayard sitting with his elbows on his knees, Winfield Scott Hancock who appears to have succumbed, Thomas Hendricks chewing on his fingers, an unidentified man searching the horizon, Henry Watterson, and Samuel J. Tilden. Only Benjamin F. Butler shows any sign of hope as he points toward shore and the U.S. Capitol labeled “1884.” Caption: The Democrats have their regular shindy just as they come in sight of land.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-09-26
Score and lyrics “dedicated to the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt” calling for him to run again for President in 1908. A sample for another piece of music is included on the back cover.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1908
Score for a march celebrating Theodore Roosevelt winning the 1904 Presidential election. Arranged by Professor F. Mueller.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
James Gillespie Blaine, dressed like a farmer with a patch labeled “Vindication” on his pants, stands next to John Alexander Logan who is dressed as a girl. They are on a beach looking out to sea, watching the waves labeled “Revolt, Revolt in Connecticut, Iowa Doubtful, Ohio Uncertain, Michigan Doubtful,” and “Wisconsin, N. Jersey, [and] Indiana” are going “Democratic.” Blaine is holding a rope attached to an anchor labeled “To Windward.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-01
Sheet music for “A Toast to Roosevelt” by Jules Jordan, supporting Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential campaign. The cover displays the title in bold black letters at the top of the page with a flourish underneath and a black and white, 1902 photograph of Roosevelt standing three-quarters to his right, left hand on waist. Roosevelt is wearing a long coat, striped pants, vest, tie, and pince-nez glasses.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
James Gillespie Blaine is dressed as a knight, with the plumes of his helmet labeled “Dodger, Speakership Record, [and] Mulligan Letters.” He holds papers labeled “Aggressive Cash Campaign” and has his other hand in a bag of money labeled “Vote Persuader.” He is riding in a wagon labeled “J. G. Blaine, Unlicensed Vendor, Stocks, Political Influence, etc.,” the seat of which is labeled “Compressed Magnetism.” William Walter Phelps is riding on the back of the wagon, sitting on boxes of “Condensed Fireworks” and “Campaign Lies, Scandals.” He is holding a portrait painting of George Washington labeled “J. G. Blaine.” At the front of the wagon, “Dorsey, Brady, [Robeson, and] Keifer” are pulling, and at the back “Gould, Clapp, [and] Clayton” are pushing. Whitelaw Reid marches alongside as a one-man band playing a horn labeled “Brag,” a drum labeled “Bluster,” an organ labeled “Blaine Organ,” a bellows labeled “Campaign Wind,” and firing a cannon labeled “Blaine Orgun.” Stephen B. Elkins, in the background on the left, waves a whip that spells “Enthusiasm,” and former Vice President Schuyler Colfax, with a “Credit Mobilier” plume in his cap, carries the standard that states, “Westward The Star of Corruption Fakes its Way.” They are passing a sign that states “To Ohio.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-01
James Gillespie Blaine is pictured as Tantalus chained to a large rock labeled “Mulligan Letters” and standing on rocks labeled “Guano” and “Northern Pacific R. R.,” yearning to reach a table laden with food and drink labeled “Presidential Cake, Patronage, [and] Spoils.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-08
James Gillespie Blaine is pictured as Apollo playing a lyre labeled “N. Y. Tribune” fashioned from the body of Whitelaw Reid, before a gathering of the gods on Olympus. Among those present are Cyrus W. Field as Mercury, George M. Robeson as Neptune, Charles A. Dana as Minerva, Jay Gould as Zeus, Thomas Collier Platt, Robert Green Ingersoll, and Rutherford B. Hayes as angels, Chauncey Depew, W. H. Vanderbilt as Pluto, Russell Sage, William W. Phelps, John Roach as Vulcan, Stephen B. Elkins as Dionysus, Joseph Warren Keifer as Hercules, John Alexander Logan as Mars, Benjamin F. Butler as Venus, Stephen Wallace Dorsey and Thomas Jefferson Brady as putti, and John Kelly as an owl.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-08
James G. Blaine, badly bruised after boxing a round against the “Ohio Secretary of State,” is slumped against the ropes. William W. Phelps and Whitelaw Reid attempt to revive Blaine with a bottle of “Monopoly Mixture,” as Grover Cleveland hops into the ring, ready to go the next round with Blaine. Caption: Grover Cleveland – “You weren’t fighting me that round, my fine fellow! Now come up to the scratch, if you can!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-22
James G. Blaine, wearing a top hat with three plumes, a sack labeled “For the Plunder” hanging from his neck, and a paper tied at his waist that states “20 Years on the Make,” attempts to break into the “White House” through an open window. He is being supported from below by Benjamin F. Butler who is sitting on the back of Charles A. Dana who is holding “The Sun” newspaper dated “June 16, 1884,” on which is written “Turn the Rascals Out!” Puck’s figure for the Independent Party has just come around the corner carrying a stick labeled “Independent Vote.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-22
The spirits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln look at a throne draped with an American flag beneath a sign that states, “This coming term will end the first hundred years of the American presidency. Shall the century begun with Washington at the head of government end in disgrace with James G. Blaine in that sacred chair?” Below is Blaine, tattooed with scandals and frightened by the shades of past presidents, his hat labeled “Corruption” falling off, with his foot on the first step toward the presidency. Leaning against his back is Jay Gould holding a paper that states “Four Supreme Court judges to be appointed by the next president.” Also behind Blaine, on his hands and knees, is Stephen W. Dorsey, next to a paper on the floor that states, “Honesty No Requisite for the Presidency (Blaine’s Theory).” On the right stands Benjamin F. Butler as a court jester labeled “Barcain with Blaine.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-29
At the entrance to the “Republican Headquarter,” a foot extends out the door, having given the boot to a barrel dressed as a cleric labeled “Clerical Slanders,” a bag labeled “British Gold” with a hole spilling “Sand,” and a “Bloody Shirt.” A large flag waving nearby is labeled “Me and Jack,” and a wagon passing in the street is weighed down with “Slanders.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-05
Columbia stands with Puck’s figure for the “Independent” party/vote and Puck who is holding a design drawing for a statue labeled “Reform,” which is under construction behind them by “D. W. Everett, Rev. J. F. Clarke, Beecher, Col. The. Lyman, Schurz, H. White, G. F. Williams, Curtis, [and] Jones.” The building blocks are labeled “Scratchem 1879, Anti-3rd Termism 1880, Tidal Wave Elections 1882, Civil Service Reform Bill, [and] Republican Revolt 1884.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-05
Jay Gould, as Shakespeare’s Shylock from the Merchant of Venice, races past the Doges’ Palace in the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice, being hounded by several men labeled “German Vote, Merchants Cleveland Club, Independent, Banker, Irish Vote” and Labor. On the Palace, above, is a bust of Grover Cleveland and a sign that states “Cleveland. Elected by the Independents in spite of ‘Republican Soap’ and Democratic Treachery in N. Y. City.” Gould has his arms raised overhead, carrying a cane in one hand and a paper that states, “Bond for one pound of Uncle Sam’s Flesh, Signed by J. G. Blaine,” in the other. Puck, carrying his lithographic pen, runs alongside him. Caption: “Thou stick’st a dagger in me – I shall never see my gold again!” [Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene I].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-12
Print shows Chester A. Arthur dressed as a dandy, walking on a sidewalk with a young woman labeled “Republican Party” who is carrying a small dog labeled “Protection.” Standing behind them, on the sidewalk, is Roscoe Conkling, also dressed as a dandy, with a medallion with the number “306” (a reference to the number of delegates who voted for U.S. Grant at the Republican Convention), in the background is the U.S. Capitol labeled “Congressional Club House”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-09-26
Near a wetland labeled “Campaign Swamp” are William M. Evarts and John G. Carlisle as two cranes on the left. Several frogs identified as “Lincoln, Arthur, Robeson, Edmunds, Cameron, Sherman, Logan, Grant, Davis, [and] Blaine” perch on the right. Another small frog, labeled “Me Too,” who may be Jay Gould, rides piggy-back on a larger frog that may be William H. Vanderbilt. “Lincoln” is making a leap over “Arthur” across a bit of water toward a board labeled “Presidential Nomination 1884” that is part of a dock or wharf. Caption: It would not surprise us to see the above acrobatic feat performed by this rising young frog.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-03-26
Samuel J. Tilden, pictured as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his forehead, stands with his back to a mountainside where some rocks look like barrels labeled with “$”, and a sign that states “This Stream Stopped Running in November 1876.” He is confronted by a group of parched (for funds) political aspirants labeled “Hewitt, Watterson, Dana, [Hendricks], Cox, Bayard, Randall, N. Y. Democracy, [Kelly], Payne, Lamar, [and] Thurman,” and one man holding a jug labeled “For Campaign Funds.” They implore him to strike the rocks and make the money flow.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-04-02
Chester A. Arthur is a Greek Danaid pouring water labeled “Popularity” into a barrel labeled “Arthur Boom” filled with holes labeled “Stalwart Record,” so that the water pours out as fast as he pours it in. Behind him is a water pump labeled “Patronage.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-04-09