Rogers, Henry Huttleston, 1840-1909

President Roosevelt says that the article Z. B. Campbell sent is admirable, and he will send it to the National Committee to see if it can be distributed. He agrees with Campbell that the trouble is that corporations and “the great sinister moneyed men” want the Republican party to be beaten. Roosevelt complains about the damage the New York Sun and New York Times are doing to the Republicans.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1908-10-08

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

In the first vignette, an African American man is labeled as the “proposed usher of the black rod.” In the second vignette, Secretary of War William H. Taft is labeled, “a nifty lord-in-waiting–waiting still for the nomination.” In the third vignette, Gifford Pinchot holds a tennis racket and is labeled, “first lord of the inner closet, with insignia of office.” In the fourth vignette, Henry Huttleston Rogers, Edward Henry Harriman, and John D. Rockefeller are labeled, “a group of bad barons in attitutes expressive of deep dissatisfaction and possible rebellion. In the fifth vignette is a “suggestion for royal coat of arms.” There is the big stick–;”Of course there can be but one sceptre.” The coat of arms includes the motto, “In votes we trust to bust the trusts.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1907-11-11

President Roosevelt celebrates his forty-ninth birthday with a variety of friends. In the upper left hand corner at the piano are New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes and Thomas Fortune Ryan singing, “Oh let us be joyful.” Booker T. Washington tells Henry Watterson, “Henry, I hope you’ll come down and visit me at Tuskegee.” Senator Joseph Benson Foraker says to Secretary of War William H. Taft, “I heard a good story today, Will.” Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon and Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks look at a picture of George Washington, and Fairbanks says, “That picture makes me sad. It reminds me of cherries.” William Randolph Hearst, James Roscoe Day, and Secretary of State Elihu Root look at a book of “Snapshots in New York.” William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland play a game of checkers, and Bryan says, “After you, Grover.” J. Pierpont Morgan watches over the game with his hand on Bryan’s back. Henry Huttleston Rogers, F. Augustus Heinze, and Thomas William Lawson sit together. Lawson says, “Rogers, my boy, you must come over to Boston and visit me.” John D. Rockefeller points at Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s chest while President Roosevelt presents a bouquet to James J. Hill as William J. Long looks on. Finally, James T. Harahan, Edward Henry Harriman, and Stuyvesant Fish read “Snap Shots Along the Illinois Central.” Harriman remarks, “Very nice album, Stuyvesant, is it not?”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1907-10-27

President Roosevelt with a teddy bear nearby awakes from slumber and sees the ghosts of Edward Henry Harriman, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Huttleston Rogers, and John D. Rockefeller.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1907-04-16

Edward Henry Harriman and Henry Hustleton Rogers fire Senator Boies Penrose from a cannon labeled “extra dry” at the White House.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1907-04-08

President Roosevelt points to handwriting on the wall, “Regulation or Revolution?”, as he sits at a table with J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Huttleston Rogers.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1907-02

J. S. Sherman collects $1 donations for the Republican Party at a fund raising event in a theater. Theodore Roosevelt and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon can be seen in the audience. “Behind the scenes” are J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Huttleston Rogers, and Edward Henry Harriman pouring coins from large money bags into “The Dough Barrel.” Caption: But the real work of financing the campaign will, as usual, be done behind the scenes.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-08-29

An old man labeled “St. Valentine,” carrying a “U.S. Mail” letter pouch, delivers valentines to “Col. W.D. Mann,” John A. “McCall,” Henry H. “Rogers,” John D. Rockefeller Jr., John D. “Rockefeller,” “Son McCurdy,” Edward L. “Hamilton,” and Richard “Pat McCurdy.” Caption: St. Valentine — Don’t be afraid to take ’em, boys. They’re valentines; not subpoenas.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1906-02-14

A band of pirates on a beach gather around their booty of treasure chest and bags of gold coins. Among the pirates are John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr., Henry Huttleston Rogers, Henry Morrison Flagler, and Frank Rockefeller and William Rockefeller, two brothers of John D. The pirate ship labeled “Standard Oil” is anchored just off shore. Another ship burns in the distance. All these “pirates” were executives of Standard Oil, or connected to J. D. Rockefeller. Ida Tarbell’s muckraking book The History of the Standard Oil Companyrecently had been published, and the nation was interested, and scandalized, by the doings of the Rockefellers.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-02-07

Henry Huttleston Rogers, John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and J. Ogden Armour, sit in a theater box during an opera. Two women labeled “Law” and “Justice” sing and dance on a stage to the direction of a man wearing legal robes and a wig, labeled “The Courts” and holding a violin and bow, in the orchestra pit. Caption: An act that is sure to get a laugh.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-01-31

Thomas William Lawson stands among Christmas gifts and a notice posted on the wall, which states “Christmas Greeting to Lawson Put all insurance proxies in your possession on the State House Steps by 11:15 to night or–!!!” Lawson is surrounded by such gifts as a box of “Dynamite Perfectos Smoke Up! [from] Addicks,” a box of “Poisoned Candy Merry Xmas from McCall,” a large box labeled “Infernal Machine Best wishes of Wall St.,” a large jug with a skull and crossbones labeled “Drink Hearty from PA McCurdy,” a smoking bomb labeled “To Tom from John D.” nestled among flowers “From Rogers,” and a sword “From Hyde.” In the background is a Christmas tree with an oil can and one ornament showing a face.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-12-20

John D. Rockefeller, as Belshazzar, sits on a throne above a group of capitalists and politicians enjoying a feast of such dishes as “Draw Back Bon-Bons, Fruits of Monopoly, [and] Rebate Plums.” The festivities are interrupted by a hand appearing from above holding “The Big Stick” and writing the words “Rate Legislation.” Caption: “And the King saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the King’s countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him.” [Daniel 5:5-6]

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-05-31

Thomas W. Lawson, as Orpheus, plays a lyre while sitting beneath a tree on a hillside in a pastoral setting. In the foreground are John D. Rockefeller, James R. Keene, J. Edward Addicks, and Henry H. Rogers as wild animals that have become entranced by the music. In the middle distance, a sheep lies on its back.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-01-11

President Theodore Roosevelt stands on a reviewing stand, holding hat in raised right hand as a large group of capitalists, industrialists, and financiers wearing the tattered clothing of tramps, march past the stand. Some carry placards with such statements as: “Irrigate the Trusts,” “No place to go but the Waldorf,” “We want the earth,” “Free quick lunches,” “Pity the poor banker,” “Dividends or we perish.” At the front of the group, J. P. Morgan carries a wooden bucket labeled “The full water pail.” Caption: “Aggregated wealth largely represented among Parker’s Supporters”–New York Tribune.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1904-09-14

Frank B. Kellogg, a member of the Republican National Committee, writes to Republican National Committee Treasurer George Rumsey Sheldon protesting the acceptance of money from the trusts and those who run them. In particular he lists the Standard Oil Company, the Union and Southern Pacific railroads, and the Powder Trust, and names the men he knows who are associated with them. He states that it would be wrong for the Republican Party to take money from any trust when these same trusts are violating the law.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-21

Creator(s)

Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings), 1856-1937

Secretary of War Taft updates President Roosevelt on his progress through Idaho, where he has been speaking on behalf of Republican candidates. The longer he is in Idaho, the more he believes that the Western Federation of Miners has been working to defeat Senator Frank Robert Gooding. He describes Gooding’s involvement related to the lawsuit against Charles Moyer and William Dudley “Big Bill” Haywood. Taft feels somewhat doubtful about Gooding’s election. Another issue of note in Idaho relates to the Mormons and their stance regarding polygamy. He also comments on elections in other areas of the country, and reiterates what he has previously said regarding the importance of Roosevelt’s influence in this election.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-04

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt depicted as a schoolmaster holding a big stick behind his back, saying “Will the young lad at the head of the class tell me what he knows about railroads. Med depicted as school boys are labeled Harriman, Morgan, Rogers, Newman, Hughitt, Mellen and McCrea. The students represent railroad officials and the cartoon refers to Roosevelts efforts to regulate railroads.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903

Creator(s)

Cobb, Bert

The author of this article critiques a statement made in Harper’s Weekly criticizing Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles Hallam Keep for changing the status of pickled sheepskins and collecting duties on them. While Keep’s signature was on the order, he is not responsible for it, and criticism should instead fall on Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Armstrong.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-01

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Unknown

The author reviews the recent posthumous discovery of a 1909 manuscript by Mark Twain criticizing Theodore Roosevelt. The manuscript was in connection with Twain’s 1907 letter to the editor responding to James E. Edmond’s editorial criticizing his refusal of Roosevelt’s invitation to Mississippi wherein Twain defends his friendship with Roosevelt. The author speculates why Twain did not publish the 1909 manuscript.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-20

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Unknown

President Roosevelt sits at a desk labeled “Associate Editor” and filled with papers. On the ground is a bear skin rug and two papers: “Onward Standard Soldiers” and “The Science of Rebating.” There are three other offices: “Mr. Rogers, Managing Editor,” “Mr. Rockefeller, Editor and General Manager,” and “Mr. Archbold, Stenographer.” Rogers says, “Tell Teddy to put a four line head on that story defending our rebates!” Rockefeller says, “Tell Teddy to write an editorial on the persecution of the trusts!” On the wall is a picture of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and a sign that reads, “In oil we trust.” Roosevelt’s big stick is in the corner.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1908-11-16