Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Judson Swift
Theodore Roosevelt agrees to “stand by” Judson Swift.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-06-01
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Solidarity
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to the Italian-American League of New Jersey
Theodore Roosevelt declines to be Honorary President of the Italian-American League of New Jersey. Roosevelt believes the country should not have clubs devoted to German-Americans, French-Americans, English-Americans, or Italian-Americans because “[w]e must all be Americans and nothing else.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-12-07
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“United we stand for civilization and peace!”
Uncle Sam and John Bull, holding rifles with fixed bayonets, stand atop a fortified barrier with the American and British flags behind them.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-06-08
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The siren song of partisanship
A galley labeled “Government Of, By, and For the People” sails past rocks labeled “Bossism” where other ships have wrecked, drawn by “Party Solidarity” sung by Republican sirens “Connors, Aldrich, Cox, Penrose, Woodruff, [and] Lodge” and “Partisanship” sung by Democratic sirens “Mack, Conners, Murphy, [and] Taggart” sitting on rocks above the crashing seas. Caption: The old stuff doesn’t go any more.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-06-01
Creator(s)
“Hurry, William, and hook me up!”
President Taft struggles to dress the Republican elephant in a dress labeled on one side “Reactionaries” and on the other “Insurgents.” He is unable to bring the two sides together in the back in order to fasten them.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-03-16
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The charge of the Black Brigade
The “Black Horse Cavalry,” under the leadership of “Woodruff” wearing the red suit of the Devil, is about to charge through a valley toward the “People’s Heavy Artillery,” with the “Taft National Battery” on one side and the “Hughes State Battery” on the other. Overlooking the scene is a cloud with the face of Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: Woodruff’s Albany Dragoons have a hunch that “some one has blundered.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-04-06
Creator(s)
The little god of love
President Taft, as a blindfolded cupid labeled “Party Solidarity,” wears a quiver labeled “Harmony” and stands against a backdrop of a large red heart. He is holding strings attached to four birds labeled “Root, Wickersham, Knox, [and] Aldrich,” and two strings attached to arrows that have been shot through hearts labeled “Insurgent” and “Reactionary.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-02-09
Creator(s)
Memorial day
Two older men, a former Confederate soldier and a former Union soldier, walk arm in arm to purchase tickets for a double-header baseball game. A young boy in the foreground tips his hat, and in the background, a line is forming at the ticket booth and the grandstand is already crowded. Caption: One national flag. One national game.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1913-05-28
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“It’s comin’ after us!”
The ghost of the Republican elephant rises from behind a tombstone that states “Sacred to the memory of a united Republican Party.” President “Taft” and “Teddy” Roosevelt believe that it is coming after them and are fleeing in fear. Caption: A graveyard is no place to be on Hallowe’en.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1912-10-30
Creator(s)
The judgement of Solomon Taft
President Taft, as Solomon, holds a baby elephant labeled “G.O.P.” aloft in one hand and a large sword labeled “Party Cleaver” in the other. One man labeled “Stand-Patter” pleads for Solomon Taft to spare the elephant. Another man labeled “Insurgent” stands to the right looking concerned, but not pleading for mercy.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1911-11-29
Creator(s)
The confusion of tongues
A disagreement has broken out among Republicans who were working to construct a tower labeled “Republican Harmony.” They have broken off into small factions clustered around building blocks labeled “Progressivism” with the Republican elephant sitting against it sniffing “Smelling Salts,” “Radicalism” over which “Munsey” and “Woodruff” are engaged in a discussion, “Conservatism” on which President Taft sits gesturing toward “La Follette” who is standing on his head and “Pinchot” trying to make a point to “Barnes” who is facing a diminutive “Job Hedges,” “Standpatism” around which “Cummins, Cannon, Sherman, Penrose, [and] Root” are involved in a heated discussion, and “Meism” upon which Theodore Roosevelt is jumping up and down and gesturing wildly. Others present are “Dixon [and] W.B. McKinley” who appear about to come to blows, as are “Perkins [and] Garfield.” “Lorimer,” wearing a bandage labeled “Vindication,” addresses “Lodge [and] “Gov. Stubbs” and, in the background, on the right, the man standing on a block addressing a crowd may be Charles W. Fairbanks. The few tools visible sit idle. Caption: Sad finish of the Republican tower of Babel.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1912-06-12
Creator(s)
“And the waters were divided”
Woodrow Wilson, as Moses, stands on a rock with his left arm raised at the parting of the seas labeled “Republican Split,” through which a horde of Democrats labeled “Marshall, M’Combs, Bryan, Kern, Williams, O’Gorman, Harmon, Mack, Gore, Underwood, Clark, Watterson, [and] Harvey” escape the “Predatory Pharaohs” caught on the far shore as the sea closes between them. Caption: The walking is good to the Promised Land.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1912-07-31
Creator(s)
Some class to this rail-splitter
President Taft uses an axe with the handle labeled “Tax Reform” and the head labeled “Argument” to drive a wedge labeled “Reciprocity” into a log labeled “Party Solidarity.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1911-07-19