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In his Real Estate and Ideal Home Show lecture, Arthur E. Horton regards Theodore Roosevelt as “the most illustrious character ever born into this world.” He comments on how Roosevelt’s reforms influenced the recent back to the country movement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-15
On behalf of her and her sister Louisa Lee Schuyler, Georgina Schuyler sends Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt Easter greetings. She looks forward to Roosevelt’s speech on behalf of the Berry School. She sends a pamphlet she wrote about preserving the old Schuyler Mansion, the purchase of which was approved by Governor John A. Dix.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-16
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George G. Bradley for the invitation to speak. However, he receives many similar requests and cannot accept them as they drain his time.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-27
Theodore Roosevelt expresses to Secretary of the Navy Meyer how greatly relieved he is to never have to make another speaking tour. Roosevelt fears that it may be too late for the editors of The Outlook to use Meyer’s article, but he thanks him for sending it. Roosevelt reminds Meyer that he and his wife are invited to spend the night with the Roosevelts on their journey East. He will read Ballou’s paper with interest.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1911-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Herbert W. Elvidge’s invitation to speak, but is not able to due to the large volume of requests he regularly receives.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-25
William H. Moody addresses Joseph Cannon, William H. Taft, William Jennings Bryan, and other lawmakers. Standing at the end of a trail of footsteps leading from Oyster Bay, he tells them, “It would pain Mr. Roosevelt to run for president again.” Rejected title is crossed out at the top: “A few others would be pained, too.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
Photograph showing the immense crowd gathered to hear Theodore Roosevelt speak.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-12
An old gentleman in full dress navy uniform addresses a group of well-dressed people. He says, “Ladies and Gentlemen. Pardon me for mentioning it, but this is Navy Day and we’ll now talk of birds and flowers.” The cartoon was drawn for Navy Day, a day for celebrating the United States Navy, sponsored by the Navy League and held on October 27, the birthday of long time navy supporter, Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1931-10-27
Theodore Roosevelt stands, one arm aloft, holding his speech with a bullet hole through it in one hand, while holding a bloody handkerchief to his breast in the other.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-16
A senator, probably William M. Stewart, with papers in his pocket labeled “Silver Mine Owner,” addresses the Senate, though all the senators are asleep.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-10-18
William Jennings Bryan stands on a tree stump labeled “Demagogism” and waving a flag labeled “Repudiation.” On the left is an anarchist labeled “Dynamite” holding a “Bomb” and a torch, and standing on papers labeled “Law” and “Order.” On the right is a man with a long beard, who may represent a western silver mine owner, standing on papers labeled “Contracts” and “Debts.” Caption: The stump-orator candidate and his allies.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-08-05
A “Silver Mine Owner” depicted as a “silver-tongued ventriloquist” sits on a box labeled “16 to 1” on a stage, with William Jennings Bryan as a dummy sitting on his lap, holding papers labeled “Free Silver Harangues.” In two boxes at the mine owner’s feet are dummy Arthur “Sewall” on the right and dummies William A. “Peffer,” Benjamin R. “Tillman,” John Peter “Altgeld,” and George Fred “Williams” on the left. Caption: If the show succeeds, he’ll get all the profits.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-08-12
President William McKinley stands on a road leading to the White House, in the background. He is delivering a speech, with a group of newspaper editors and congressmen, to the left and right, who have broken into small groups, talking amongst themselves. In the right foreground, William Jennings Bryan is inflating his “Anti-Annexation Issue for 1900.” American flags are on islands beyond the White House. The flags and/or islands are labeled “Porto Rico, Ladrone Islds., Cuba, Hawaii, [and] Philippine Islds.” At McKinley’s feet is an excerpt from his “Speech at Banquet of Board of Trade and Associated Citizens” in Savannah, December 17, 1898.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-01-11
William Jennings Bryan stands on the back of a railroad caboose using a bellows labeled “16 to 1” to blow paraphrased fragments from speeches at rural citizens as the train passes. Some of these include, “[Our people] do not need the lessons of history!”, “They know it all!”, and “The popular intuition is better than reasoning and what the people say goes.” Traveling with Bryan are several newspaper reporters.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-09-16
William Jennings Bryan stands on one side of a scale, cranking out speeches labeled “Wind, Weak Speech, Cheap Oratory, Boy Talk, Silly Speech, Free Silver Sophistry, Dangerous Propositions, Mercenary Reasoning, Silly Speech by Bryan, Bryan’s Blatherskite Oratory, Foolish Speeches by Bryan, Bryan’s Demagogic Speeches, [and] Bryan’s Inflammatory Talk,” which land at the feet of William McKinley, standing on the other side of the scale, holding a paper labeled “Gold Standard.” Caption: The more he talks, the more McKinley weighs.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-10-21
A group of boxers stands behind a large boxer who is giving Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary a jeweled belt labeled “Championship.” Papers, probably from Peary’s lectures, extend from a pocket of his fur coat. They state “Cook’s a faker,” “I’ll show him up,” and “Bluff.” (Cartoon probably refers to boxers being known for their pre-fight taunting bluster.)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-10-06
President William H. Taft speaks from the back of a railroad caboose to a large crowd of skeptical mid-westerners that also includes Jonathan P. Dolliver, Robert M. La Follette, and Albert Baird Cummins. One man is holding a sign that states, “We’re from Missouri also Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota & Iowa. Show us!” Taft is holding papers behind his back that state, “Notes for speech how new tariff will benefit the West.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-09-15
Print shows William Jennings Bryan standing on his toes on a platform, with his coat spread to the sides, trying to hide a huge female figure labeled “Prosperity,” who is pouring money from a cornucopia onto the platform; standing in the foreground are a businessman, a laborer, and a farmer. Caption: “It’s no use, Billy Bryan; – it’s grown too big!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-17
Print shows a vignette cartoon with a carriage at center in which Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and William H. Vanderbilt are riding with large money bags; the wheels are labeled “Corporations” and “Monopoly.” The carriage is driven by an eagle dressed like Uncle Sam wearing a top hat labeled “1882” and carrying a whip labeled “Revenue Tariff.” The carriage is pulled by an “Underpaid Workman,” a “Starving Laborer,” a “War Widow,” a “Sewing Girl,” an “Old Merchant,” a “Poor Clerk,” and a “Cripple,”among others, with ropes labeled “Tax.” The surrounding vignettes show scenes of corruption, misfortune, presidential office seekers, Valley Forge, and “Charitable Institutions for the poor and unfortunate” from “Maine” to “California” showing buildings labeled “Poor House” and “Jail.” Featured in these vignettes are such figures as Chester Alan Arthur, George M. Robeson, Samuel J. Tilden, Roscoe Conkling, John Kelly, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin F. Butler, and Joseph W. Keifer, as well as “Honest Labor, Patriotism, [and] Integrity.”
Schuyler Colfax stands at a lectern labeled “Speaker Colfax – Pious Hypocrite and Credit Mobilier Bribe-Taker.” James G. Blaine stands at a lectern labeled “Speaker Blaine – ‘Magnetic’ Blusterer and Railroad Stock-Jobber.” Joseph W. Keifer stands at a lectern labeled “Speaker Keifer – The Corrupt Tool of Robeson et al.” Blaine gestures toward three portraits hanging on the wall in the background, of former Democratic Speakers of the House, labeled “Kerr, Randall, [and] Carlisle.” Caption: The three last speakers of the “Untrustworthy and Disreputable Democratic Party,” and the three last speakers of the “Grand Old Republican Party of Moral Ideas.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-07-16