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His shield of defense

His shield of defense

President Roosevelt holds “the law” sword and an “anti-trust shield” that has several arrows headed toward it: “sugar trust,” “ship yard trust,” “Wall St. promoters,” “oil trust,” and “steel trust.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01

A rocky road to travel

A rocky road to travel

In the corner, President Roosevelt gallops toward the presidency in “1903,” but the larger cartoon shows Roosevelt at the bottom of a “1904” mountain with labels of “Hanna,” “Panama affair,” “Wall St. opposition,” and “a sane democracy.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-15

Roosevelt for 1904

Roosevelt for 1904

President Roosevelt jumps through a “N.Y. Sun” hoop that a “Wall Street magnate” holds and onto a “Republican presidential nomination 1904” horse. Caption: Roosevelt for 1904. And all Wall street cannot stop him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-10

Sport

Sport

This cartoon summarizes a number of important political events in 1903, including presidential and vice presidential aspirations, the Panama Canal, Tammany Hall, equal rights, and the Post Office scandal. President Roosevelt is in the center with his gun in his hands and his foot on a dead “graft” bear.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11

Say nothing and saw wood

Say nothing and saw wood

Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna puts his finger to his lips as he stands on a stage beside a sign reading “Hanna for president.” Several raised hands are positioned below him: “Rathbone,” “trusts,” “subsidies,” and “Wall Street.” The “trusts” holds a top hat labeled “watered stocks.” Hanna’s hand is outstretched, either to wave away the cheering supporters below, or to take the offered hat.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11

Mr. Morgan—”I guess that will derail it, all right.”

Mr. Morgan—”I guess that will derail it, all right.”

A “Roosevelt Ltd” locomotive appears around a bend while traveling on a set of railroad tracks that lead “to nomination.” Crouched in the foreground behind a rock, J. Pierpont Morgan has placed a large log labeled, “The Sun New York,” on the tracks and holds back a bulldog—”Wall Street.” Caption: Mr. Morgan—”I guess that will derail it, all right.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-15

As it looks today

As it looks today

Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna holds an “opposition” broom and runs away from the “Roosevelt tidal wave” that has “endorsement by state conventions” in the crest of the wave. “Trust opposition” and “Wall Street” barriers break down in the water.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Richard Keith Culver’s political cartoon could stand as a picture of the nation’s, or the Republican Party’s, approbation of President Roosevelt. More than a year before the nominating convention, the United States was experiencing peace and prosperity, and the young president’s personality and reform policies captured the public’s affection. It was rather unprecedented that state parties were declaring their endorsement of Roosevelt’s re-nomination so early.

A little trouble on hand

A little trouble on hand

President Roosevelt attempts to climb the “1904 second term” train with Uncle Sam as the conductor. A large “Wall St.” bear growls in his face.

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Comments and Context

This Boston Traveler political cartoon looked ahead to the 1904 presidential election and correctly forecast that Wall Street was generally unhappy with President Theodore Roosevelt’s reforms and trust-busting initiatives. The landmark and iconic anti-trust case, United State vs Northern Securities, was before the Supreme Court but would not be decided until early in 1904.

Something of a pioneer himself

Something of a pioneer himself

President Roosevelt drives the G. O. P. elephant who is attached to the “Washington or Bust” wagon. They are headed toward “renomination 1 mile” and followed by “Wall St.” and “Hanna.” Caption: “Across the Continent came the ox-drawn, white-topped wagons bearing the pioneers * * * * who entered into this country to possess it.”–President Roosevelt’s speech at Portland, Oregon.

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Comments and Context

The dateline on this cartoon, clipped and pasted into the White House cartoon scrapbook, makes for confusion, as it was typeset “1901.” Yet May 23 fell on a Saturday that year, and President Roosevelt was indeed on a speaking tour of the Pacific Northwest.

And he bought it!

And he bought it!

A man offers President Roosevelt a glistening “steel merger” on “Wall St.” and Roosevelt reaches his hand into his pocket.

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Comments and Context

The suggestion of this political cartoon was that President Roosevelt was duped by big business during the resolution of the Wall Street Panic.

Wall Street’s revenge?

Wall Street’s revenge?

President Roosevelt types on a typewriter as a “scout” stands nearby. On the ground is a paper that reads, “The game has all left the country. Mumbo, the scout, reports cigarette boxes thicker than ever on the trail ahead. Looks hopeless. ($22.00)” Beside Roosevelt’s desk is a box of “asbestos message paper.” Caption: It is reported that three New York men are going to hunt in Africa ahead of Mr. Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-10

Never was such a drought

Never was such a drought

President Roosevelt watches an elephant drink from the “Old Wall St. Spring.”

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Comments and Context

Cartoonist W. A. Rogers illustrated a situation most voters accepted as fact; that despite reforms, scandals, exposures, laws, trust-busting, Muckraking articles, congressional hearings, and party platforms pledging finance transparency, the major political organizations maintained connections to Wall Street and relationships with trusts.

There’s nothing in it!

There’s nothing in it!

Chair of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou and Chair of the Democratic National Committee Thomas Taggart roll barrels of money toward their respective party’s headquarters. Behind them is a doorway to “Wall St.” They tell each other, “There’s nothing in it.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-15

One of the things the light showed up

One of the things the light showed up

President Roosevelt’s “letter of acceptance” spotlight sheds light on a “Democratic mule” with a number of tags on its jacket: “free trade fallacy,” “absurd theories,” “unsettled financial policy,” “shifting foreign policy,” and “promises to Wall St.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-13

American affairs

American affairs

In an article for the National Review, A. Maurice Low analyzes the possibility that Germany would come to the protection of the Atlantic Coast while the Great White Fleet travels to the Pacific and highlights the recent developments in the relationship between Germany and the United States. He argues that Roosevelt should seek another term of office, and that William Jennings Bryan has nothing to offer the American people, while deriding the failure of the Democratic Party at large. Finally, quoting financial representatives from several banking houses, Low explains that the fall of securities prices is a natural course correction. As an example of the bright future of American growth, he describes the construction of Gary, Indiana, a city built for the manufacturing of steel.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George B. Cortelyou

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George B. Cortelyou

President Roosevelt is ready to make a counter-attack against the Democratic Party. Roosevelt is especially frustrated by Alton B. Parker’s plea about the common law being sufficient. According to Roosevelt, Parker will not use the federal powers of the U.S. to take a firm stand against the trusts. Roosevelt suggests to George B. Cortelyou that they should have people at party headquarters who can “receive all people and talk to them pleasantly.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-01