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A rugged American sailor wears a cap labeled “U.S. Navy.” He leans on a ship cannon, with an American flag behind his right shoulder and the ruins of the Spanish fleet in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-07-13
William Jennings Bryan and William H. Taft stand aboard a ship applying for the job of “First Mate” to “Captain” Uncle Sam. Bryan has a pocketful of “Promises,” whereas Taft has “Records” of his world travels to prove his experience. Caption: Captain Sam — Yes, I’ll be wanting a First Mate, and a good one. I’m off for a rough, hard v’yage, and the man who’s had experience is the Mate for me.
“The Safer Choice” might be one of the softest endorsements in American political history, perhaps second only to the reluctant editorial about Theodore Roosevelt on the eve of the 1904 presidential election, simply: “Theodore, with all thy faults…”
Several men are on a ship at sea, with a waterspout labeled “Western Republican Silver Sentiment” and looking like Thomas H. Carter bearing down on the ship. At the helm, labeled “Sound Money,” is John Sherman. Others on deck are “Platt, Allison, Reed, McKinley, Quay, Morton, Hackett, Wellington, Chandler, Burrows, Clarkson,” and an unidentified man who may be George F. Hoar.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-03-25
An American Sailor stands on the deck of a battleship, holding the American flag. In the water around the battleship are the ruins of the Spanish fleet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-06-01
Print shows the dream of an “Anti-Expansionist” where Admiral George Dewey, General Elwell S. Otis, a sailor, and a soldier come ashore in the Philippines to offer their weapons and the American flag in surrender to Emilio Aguinaldo and a poorly armed, ragged, but haughty, group of Filipinos.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-19
Print shows George M. Robeson dressed as a sailor and labeled “Leader of the Republican Party” and “Republican Champion,” leaning on a large duffel bag labeled “Surplus $150,000,000.” A group of men standing on the left appear to be denouncing him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-07-26
Grover Cleveland, as Christopher Columbus, holds a map labeled “Route to Reform,” aboard a ship surrounded by mutinous sailors labeled “Bayard, Whitney, Eustis, Sterling, Hedden, Pulitzer, Blackburn, Hill, McLaughlin, Jones, Thompson, Gorman, Grady.” Unidentified are Thomas A. Hendricks, John Kelly, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, and Charles A. Dana. A bird arrives from the left carrying a piece of paper that states “From Land of Reform.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-11-04
Charles F. Murphy is proudly sitting on the bow of a ship with an albatross labeled “Tammany Rule,” its wings labeled “Graft” and “Patronage,” that he has shot with an arrow labeled “Murphyism.” Caption: And I had done a hellish thing, / And it would work ’em woe.–Coleridge “The Ancient Mariner.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-11-26