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Secretary of War Taft encloses letters from Francis C. Travers regarding a contract for manila rope which was awarded by the Quartermaster’s Department. Taft includes a report from the Quartermaster’s Depot in Jeffersonvillle, Indiana, on the quality of a rope sample submitted by J. P. Nawrath.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-03
President Roosevelt twists a “Roosevelt policies” rope that “the Senate” donkey is eating. Caption: Ocnus, in the fable, was always twisting a rope of hay with unwearied diligence, and a donkey at the other end perpetually eating it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-13
J. B. Solomon writes to Francis C. Travers in regards to a bid for Manila rope the company lost to another bidder. Because the contract was awarded to a company who bid a higher price on a different grade of rope than what the Quartermaster requested, Solomon thinks that Travers should investigate the matter further.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-01
President Roosevelt, a Republican elephant with an “and Fairbanks” tag, and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon are all attached to a rope system that Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou controls. Roosevelt receives a paper that reads, “Take notice: you’re it. Uncle Joe.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-28
Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed unrolls rope labeled “Debate” from a spool labeled “Rope for Democrats” and feeds it to congressional Democrats who use it to tie nooses around their necks in the House chamber labeled “Fifty Fifth Congress.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-02-02
The Statue of Liberty, her torch spewing the smoke of “Lawlessness” and her tablet stating “The Unwritten Law,” is holding a handgun and a rope labeled “Lynching.”
Puck Magazine occasionally took aim at lynching — still not uncommon in the United States — and frequently condemned bigotry and prejudice in America, and pogroms and ethnic massacres overseas.