Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918

An “exasperated” admirer of President Roosevelt writes to William Loeb regarding Senator Benjamin R. Tillman’s behavior in Congress.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-18

Creator(s)

Unknown

An anonymous “Democrat” writes to President Roosevelt, discussing a man’s right to force people out of his home. The author mentions he is referring to Senator Benjamin R. Tillman. The author also claims that most daily papers are owned by “Wall Street gamblers.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-18

Creator(s)

Unknown

R. E. Holloway sends President Roosevelt background information that bears on the character of Laura A. Hull Morris. Holloway indicates that Morris was previously married to J. D. Highleyman (actually Samuel Locke Highleyman). While Mrs. Highleyman, Morris allegedly occupied a sleeper berth on a train with a man who was not her husband. Holloway believes it proper to provide this information in case there is an investigation. He includes names of individuals who will corroborate this story.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-18

Creator(s)

Holloway, R. E.

Elizabeth Jane Dugan (under the pseudonym “Rosa Pearle”), editor of Rosa Pearle’s Paper in Sedalia, Missouri, writes to Benjamin F. Barnes, providing extensive detail about Laura A. Hull Morris, the woman at the center of the Mrs. Morris incident. Dugan discusses Morris’s immoral and adulterous behavior, drunkenness, and “loud” manner. She supports President Roosevelt and criticizes Senator Benjamin R. Tillman for his derogatory statements concerning the president and the situation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-18

Creator(s)

Pearle, Rosa, 1848-1911

Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission, will be giving a speech to the Merchants’ Club of Boston, Massachusetts, regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. He is upset at recent comments by Senator Tillman.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-16

Creator(s)

Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 1847-1928

The Constitution argues that Senator Benjamin R. Tillman’s antagonism to President Theodore Roosevelt’s reaction to the Brownsville affair is “inexplicable on any other ground than that it is, simply, Senator Tillman.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-14

Creator(s)

Unknown

John B. Ashbaugh examines Theodore Roosevelt’s complicated views on race and charts his history with various ethnic and racial groups, including Native Americans, African-Americans, and Jews. Ashbaugh highlights the influence of Roosevelt’s southern born and raised mother and her brothers, both of whom served the Confederacy during the Civil War. Ashbaugh stresses that Roosevelt’s views evolved over time, and he demonstrates how Roosevelt believed in and promoted the Progressive views of his time such as the assimilation of Native Americans, but that he also respected many aspects of Native culture and had enduring friendships with individual Native Americans. Ashbaugh presents Roosevelt’s views on Jews and immigration, and he details many aspects of Roosevelt’s feelings toward and relationship with African-Americans, including his condemnation of lynching, his White House dinner with Booker T. Washington, and the Brownsville incident.

Five photographs and two illustrations appear in the text.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2020

In a letter to Secretary of State Root, President Roosevelt expresses his concern over relations with Japan, specifically the need to check Japanese immigration. Roosevelt vents his frustration with members of the United States Senate who do not appreciate the need to build up the navy and treat the Japanese with respect. Roosevelt cites the need to send the navy’s battleship fleet on a worldwide cruise, and he provides details of his meeting with members of the Japanese diplomatic corps.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1907-07-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Uncle Sam riding atop a hybrid between a donkey and an elephant, labeled “Railroad Rate Bill.” The creature is being driven by Benjamin R. Tillman, holding a pitchfork, and prodded from behind by Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906

Creator(s)

Bartholomew, Charles Lewis, 1869-1949

Alton B. Parker leads a number of men out of the “populism” wilderness while William Jennings Bryan is stuck on one of the cliffs. The men include, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, Arthur P. Gorman, William Francis Sheehan, Mississippi Representative John Sharp Williams, and Joseph W. Bailey. “High Priest Cleveland” points them forward.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07

Creator(s)

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931

A heron wearing a “Parker” crown picks up a frog with the face of Martin W. Littleton. Other frogs watch, including Joseph W. Bailey, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman with his pitchfork, William Jennings Bryan, David B. Hill, and Charles Francis Murphy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-22

Creator(s)

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931

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

Creator(s)

Gillam, F. Victor, 1858?-1920

President Roosevelt wears an olive branch crown and rides in a chariot followed by “Trusts,” “Morgan,” “Foraker,” “Bryan,” “Rockefeller,” “Tillman,” “Harriman,” “Haskell,” “Hearst,” “Pulitzer,” “Congress,” a “stork,” “undesirable citizens,” “grafters,” “muckrakers,” and “nature fakirs.” A dove tries to escape the “peace” cage.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-07

President Roosevelt holds a large “popularity” roll as he sits atop a G. O. P. elephant. Underneath the elephant is the likely 1904 Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan on a small donkey. Caption: Man on the elephant:–“I wonder where that bray comes from, anyhow.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-04

President Roosevelt wears a mask and sits at a desk with Secret Service reports. On the wall are “Rogue’s Gallery no. 1–Members of Congress,” a “list of undesirable citizens–Harriman, Rockefeller, Foraker, Haskell, and Tilman,” and a March 1909 calendar. On the other wall is a sign–“Old Sleuth Hawkshaw & Co.: Private Investigations. Shadowing”–and some disguises, including “mollycoddle masks,” “Ananias masks,” “malefactors of great wealth,’ and a coat “for the frivolous judge disguise.” On the ground are “gum shoes” and a “Muck Rake” cat.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-10

This cartoon makes an equation: President Roosevelt plus (made with the “big stick” and a pitchfork) South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman equals question mark.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-11

President Roosevelt attempts to send a message while South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman has his pitchfork in the line to intercept the message. Tillman says, “I’ve struck a live wire with my pitch-fork.” The “Senate” and “House” watch from the window as they hold rifles. Caption: Washington’s revival of the grand old melodrama.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-11

Uncle Sam dances as he watches President Roosevelt and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman fight each other with a big stick and pitchfork respectively. The United States Capitol building and the Washington monument are in the background. Two other men are on the ground.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01

President Roosevelt sits on a rock holding his big stick and watches South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman marching toward him with a paper that reads, “Oregon land grab charge by T. R.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-11

In the first vignette, President Roosevelt uses his big stick to push South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman into the “Undesirables Club.” Caption: As seen from the White House. In the second vignette, Tillman uses his pitchfork to hoist Roosevelt into the “Ananias Club.” Caption: As it looks from the Senate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-12

Creator(s)

Harding, Nelson, -1944