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President Roosevelt is riding the Republican elephant through the Monopoly Wilderness as various Republican lawmakers hang onto its tail. Uncle Sam holds a sign stating This Way Out in the distance.
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1902-12-03
Uncle Sam watches as President Roosevelt tries to ride a bucking elephant labeled the Senate over a bridge towards the Canal and Cuban treaty legislation while prodding it with an extra session of Congress.
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1903-03-07
President Roosevelt keeps prodding the Republican elephant Congress to keep walking to grind away at the urgent bills during an extra session.
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1903-03-04
President Roosevelt holds one end of a wish bone labeled “The Trust Issue.” Holding the other end is a figure labeled “The Trust” standing on a stool labeled “Monopoly.” In the background is the Republican elephant and a hanging picture of Uncle Sam. This is a cartoon representation of President Roosevelt’s anti-trust stance against wealthy corporations.
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1902
Series of three cartoons covering the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike, from the Pittsburgh Dispatch, the Boston Herald, and the Minneapolis Journal. In the first, the “G.O.P.” elephant, with bandages on its head and leg, sits in a chair, smoking a cigar and drinking wine. Caption: Able to sit up and take a little light nourishment since the end of the coal strike. In the second, the “G.O.P.” elephant and team face “The 1904 National Campaign” with “Pres. Roosevelt’s Success in Coal Strike Settlement” in the background. Caption: Prospects not so gloomy. In the final cartoon, George F. “Baer” sits with John “Mitchell,” smoking the “Arbitration” pipe. Behind them are posters proclaiming “Coal to burn – the strike is over” and “Use the President’s arbitration brand.” Caption: His first smoke.
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1902-10-26
The Republican elephant looks out at clouds forming the words “Pres. Roosevelt’s Success in Coal Strike Settlement.”
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1902-10-26
Cartoon depicts Republicans barricaded behind a fence marked prosperity with President Roosevelt atop the Republican elephant aiming a gun labeled arbitration as various groups rush the fence. Item is regarding whether coal mines should be privately or publicly owned.
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1902-10-26
Senator Hanna and the Trust look on as President Roosevelt trains the Republican elephant to beat a punching bag labeled Trusts.
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1902
Cartoon shows President Roosevelt riding a Republican elephant, firing a machine gun of words.
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1902-08-31
President Roosevelt recklessly rides the Republican elephant, waving an anti-trust banner. Gentlemen representing the trusts scramble out of his way.
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1902-08-28
President Roosevelt, atop the Republican elephant wearing a banner stating “Curb the Trusts,” blocks the path of a small vehicle labeled “Republican Machine.”
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1902-09-09
President Roosevelt rides the Republican elephant that has been covered with a map of the United States. The elephant carries a banner labeled “Protection, Prosperity and Plenty,” the 1904 campaign theme for Roosevelt.
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1902-09-20
Cartoon depicts the Republican elephant trying to help Rathbone out of a Cuban prison when President Roosevelt notices the escape attempt.
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1902-04-02
A blindfolded and policy-laden Republican elephant is being led by two blindfolded men towards the edge of a cliff labeled “Beef Trust,” as Theodore Roosevelt dressed as a Rough Rider runs after them.
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1902-04-28
President Roosevelt and Senator Hanna are shown on a merry-go-round trying to capture a ring labeled “Republican nomination for president, 1904.” Caption: Mark – If Teddy misses, the ring is mine.
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1902-05-29
President Roosevelt, holding a whip labeled “Special Message,” tries to make a tired-looking Republican elephant do a trick to the music box labeled “Reciprocity.”
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1902-06-19
President Roosevelt is pointing out the “Path of Duty and Honor to Cuban Relief” to the Republican elephant, but the animal is pointing to the “Sugar Beet Trust” instead.
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1902-06-23
Theodore Roosevelt, depicted in his Rough Rider garb, points back at an elephant labeled the “German Republican Party.” Caption: Roosevelt – I expect that animal to follow me throughout my political career.
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1902-02-21
Theodore Roosevelt rides the Republican elephant towards the presidential nomination of 1904. The elephant has run over a man labeled “Opposition” and is being controlled with a whip by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. In the stands, a band composed of various trusts plays a song called “He’s all right when you know him.”
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1904-06-01
Political cartoon of President Roosevelt and a miniature George B. Cortelyou smiling at a Republican elephant that had been hidden under a hat.
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1904-06-01