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Illinois Representative Robert R. Hitt holds up his hands as he hides behind a bush. President Roosevelt holds a firearm and stands on top of an elephant that has a “president” and “vice president” seat. In the background, several other men run away into the woods. Caption: Congressman Hitt—”Don’t shoot, I’ll come aboard.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-18
New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell and President Roosevelt stand on a “G. O. P.” rug. One head of Odell labeled “governor” looks away while the “chairman” head looks toward Roosevelt. Likewise, one head of Roosevelt labeled “boss” looks toward Odell while the “president” head looks away.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05
President Roosevelt sits on a Republican elephant, puts one hand on a “for president” seat on the elephant, and reaches the other hand down to Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. Caption: The man on the elephant—Oh, yes, come right up. I think we can make room for you!
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-22
A Republican elephant points to a “Roosevelt” rock and a hill that has a summit labeled “presidency” and looks at Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, who puts up his hand to say no.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12
A goat with a head that resembles David B. Hill rams its head into the “administration’s Panama policy” brick wall. Three goats watch in the background. One asks, “Are you going to try it, Billy?” Another says, “How do you like my Panama accordian pleat?” A bald eagle and “Panama” watch from the top of the brick wall and chuckle.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-05
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna tells his carriage driver to stop driving “Hanna’s presidential boom” carriage headed toward the White House because the bottom is falling out.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-16
This collection of cartoons predominantly addresses President Roosevelt’s foreign policies, particularly pertaining to Panama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-24
New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt and New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell wait pleasantly at a table for President Roosevelt to serve the “presidential meat.” Platt sits on “the leadership end” while Odell is at the “something equally as good end.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-28
President Roosevelt sits at his desk as a North Carolina man stands on a rug in the threshold. There is a picture of Grover Cleveland on the wall.
A very early cartoon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman, before the cartoonist switched from the Washington Post to his long-time perch at the Washington Star, depicts President Roosevelt startled, and evidently upset, by the presence of a Black man calling at his office.
Brer Bear looks at a panther and another bear. Caption: The bear–The president just wants to see us and we just want to see the president–I don’t see as our case needs to go to The Hague.
This cartoon by “Bart,” reprinted in an Ohio newspaper from the Minneapolis Journal, has significance beyond its tepid humor. It appeared in the middle of a very long presidential “swing” through the upper Midwest and Plains, vast parks and American wilderness, and major addresses to be delivered in the Pacific Northwest. Eventually he proceeded to California, Kansas towns like Salina, Nebraska, the Grand Canyon, attending Cheyenne, Wyoming’s Pioneer Days, and through Illinois to Washington. Mixing business and pleasure, President Roosevelt also had an eye on exposing himself to the public in advance in the next year’s presidential election.
President-elect William H. Taft swings at the “Roosevelt policies” golf ball on a green labeled “administration line.” Philander C. Knox is behind him and holds the caddy and two other golf balls–“Taft policies” and “Republican policies.” Knox says, “If that ball gets lost I’ve got others!!”
Many political cartoonists, especially those antagonistic toward Republicans, were downcast (as many admitted in ink) that their favorite subject, Theodore Roosevelt, was retiring from the political scene. With the planned African safari, Roosevelt would not merely be out of office, but off the national stage for at least a year.
Uncle Sam attempts to drive the “U. S.” wagon as “the Roosevelt administration” horse and “the Cannon Congress” horse fight with one another. Caption: “Hey there, pull together, can’t ye?”
The Roosevelt administration horse snorts and races forward; the (Joseph Gurney) Cannon Congress refuses to move. In fact Jay N. “Ding” Darling’s depiction of the obstreperous horse could have been labelled the “House and Senate;” Old Guard Senate leaders like Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island were hardly less recalcitrant than Speaker of the House Cannon was, as Uncle Sam urged the wagon on.
President Roosevelt leans on his big stick with “On Hunting in Africa” strapped around his shoulders. He looks across the “Potomac” at the United States Capitol Building and “T. R.’s presidential” and “twilight zone” as the darkness of “March 4th” descends.
F. Victor Gillam, after leaving Judge magazine, a reorganized and Republican version of Puck magazine that was led by his older brother Bernhard, freelanced for a variety of newspapers. As a consistent Republican partisan with Judge — it was he who invented the iconic campaign symbol of the Full Dinner Pail to boast of Republican Prosperity — it is odd that his subsequent career was with Democratic or independent papers. This drawing, for instance, is more of an editorial cartoon, not a political cartoon attacking nor attempting to persuade, merely inviting readers to be as pensive as President Roosevelt, as the Administration’s days dwindled down to a precious few.
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10
Secretary of State Elihu Root will shortly be welcomed to Belém, Brazil, on his way to visit the capital of Brazil. The article describes the reception Root will be greeted with during his visit of a few hours, and highlights the importance of such a visit, as Root is acting as the representative of President Roosevelt. American presidents do not leave the United States during their presidency, the article explains, and highlights several other facts about the office of the presidency.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-07
President Roosevelt thanks General Sniffen for a letter of Andrew Jackson’s and praises Old Hickory, saying “there has never been a more genuine and rugged American” than he.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-14
Sepia-tone photograph of President Roosevelt and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge in a carriage in Lynn, Massachusetts, en route to Nahant, Massachusetts. Roosevelt can be seen in conversation with an unidentified male.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1901-1909
An exemplary ballot of the Republican Party for the presidential primary of April 30, 1912, issued by the Taft League of Massachusetts. The ballot includes names of candidates as well as instructions for casting a vote.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation
1912-04-30
Senator Beveridge writes to President Roosevelt with his opinion on which family photograph would be best.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-26
Hamilton Fish comments on the outcome of the conference held regarding the leadership of the Republican party in the state of New York, with Senator Platt supporting the chairmanship of Governor Benjamin B. Odell. Fish suggests that there is “little reason to doubt” President Roosevelt will secure New York’s electoral vote, now that this matter has been settled.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-21