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Pennsylvania Senator Matthew Stanley Quay and John P. Elkin both whisper to President Roosevelt as he sits in front of the United States Capitol building. Caption: Elkin—”Don’t trust him; he promised me a governorship.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-19
A woodpecker with the face of Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker uses an “anti-trust amendment bill” to peck at a sign that reads, “Sherman anti-trust law—Iron clad. Cannot be punctured.” President Roosevelt rushes away from the United States Capitol building and toward the woodpecker with his gun.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-20
President Roosevelt carries two logs—labeled “financial legislation”—towards Washington, D.C., and a special session of Congress. Pinned on the logs is the note, “hewn at Oyster Bay.” Already stacked near the Capitol building are other logs that read, “Cuban Reciprocity” and “Canal.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-28
On the left side of the cartoon, President Abraham Lincoln takes off the shackles of an African American man and holds the “Declaration of Independence.” On the right side, President Roosevelt gestures to the “U.S. Govt Printing” office to a man who is kneeling at his feet. Roosevelt holds a portion of one of his letters that reads, “In the employment and dismissal of men in the government service I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him than I can recognize the fact he is a Protestant or Catholic, a Jew or a Gentile, as being for or against him.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11
President Roosevelt leads a small “Cuba,” holding a “reciprocity treaty,” by the hand and gestures to the United States Capitol building with a “special session” sign. “Panama” watches from behind a fence and says, “Hey! Mister, give me a chance.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11
In the first vignette, President-elect William H. Taft walks into the “White House” and waves good bye to President Roosevelt who carries his big stick. In the second, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks walks away from the “Capitol” holding a jar of “buttermilk” and “to Indiana.” In the third, New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt sits at an “Express Co.” desk and writes “memoirs.” In the fourth, Colorado Senator Henry Moore Teller walks out of the Senate saying, “I’ve been there 30 years.” Caption: Senator Teller will take a rest. In the fifth, Secretary of State Elihu Root sits down in a chair labeled “New York Senatorship” and says, “I guess I’ll take it easy now!” In the sixth, Philander C. Knox climbs into a “State Dept” chair. In the seventh, Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker holds a “lawyer” piece of wood and walks “to Cincinnati.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-01
President Roosevelt looks over a fence covering his mouth and nose, as Postmaster General Henry C. Payne stirs a pot of soup labeled “Post Office Department” with a stick labeled “Investigation.” Steaming out of the pot are “Foul Oders,” “Postoffice Scandal,” “Corruption,” “Dishonesty,” and “Fraud.” Caption: “Say, Payne, don’t stir that pot any more than necessary. I’m afraid the odor might undermine my political health.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-22
Perry S. Heath sits on a “higher up” stake as August W. Machen, James N. Tyner, the Bureau of Promotions, and “Rural Free Delivery” are swept along in the current of the river. The United States Capitol building can be seen from afar.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-22
People look at a ruined United States Capitol building standing next to a volcano that has just erupted.
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1908-12-20
President Roosevelt drops a “Secret Service message to Congress–to be delivered Monday” into a U. S. collection mailbox as the “House” and the “Senate” look on, asking, “Wonder what’s in it?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-03
President Roosevelt bangs on the Senate side of the United States Capitol building and music notes come out. Caption: There’s music in the air.
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1909-01-08
Minnesota Representative James A. Tawney and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon use a crosscut saw and Iowa Representative Walter I. Smith uses a hatchet to cut “Roosevelt’s big stick” into pieces. “Congress” holds a gun to a “Secret Service” dog and says, “Halt” while a group of men look on: Edward Henry Harriman, a “gov’t grafter,” a “trust,” a “gov’t land grabber,” and a “timber thief.” The United States Capitol building is in the background.
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1909-01-09
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01
President Roosevelt leans on his big stick with “On Hunting in Africa” strapped around his shoulders. He looks across the “Potomac” at the United States Capitol Building and “T. R.’s presidential” and “twilight zone” as the darkness of “March 4th” descends.
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1909-01
A “Congress” groundhog jumps in the air as it sees President Roosevelt’s face in its shadow. Meanwhile, Roosevelt’s face is depicted on the sun. Caption: Weather forecast for Washington: Continued storms and colder until March 4.
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1909-01-02
President Roosevelt looks at Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon who holds a “Congress” suitcase and says, “Come on and get busy. This’s my last chance at you!” The United States Capitol building is in the background.
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1908-12-03
President Roosevelt’s head is on a spider’s body that sits near the center of a web with the United States Capitol building. Off to the left in the Washington Monument and a democratic donkey fly that says, “You haven’t got me yet!” The “G. O. P.” elephant fly is close to the center and says, “I give up!!” Caption: Washington is laid out like a cart wheel, or it is a spider’s web?
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-03
On the left side, President Roosevelt holds a “message” firearm that shoots projectiles at “The Capitol.” Caption: The president’s message was loaded after all. On the right sign are two different vignettes: a scene of men looking at papers with the caption of “scene in Senate after hearing of the Secret Service paragraph” and a drawing of Vice President-elect J. S. Sherman. At the bottom, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon bangs two gavels at different times and damages them. Caption: Speaker Cannon smashed gavels in rapid succession.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-16
President Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan use a big stick and knife—each labeled “publicity of contributions” respectively—to kill the “corporations” goose. Herman Ridder and George Rumsey Sheldon each hold money bags. The United States Capitol building is in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-10
Uncle Sam sits on a fence and looks at nominees for president and vice-president of various parties: William H. Taft and J. S. Sherman of the Republican Party, William Jennings Bryan and John Worth Kern of the Democratic Party, Thomas E. Watson of the People’s Party, Eugene W. Chafin of the Prohibition Party, and Thomas Louis Hisgen of the Independence Party. Uncle Sam says to a teddy bear, “Well, they all know they’re it now!” The teddy bear replies, “But the worst is yet to come to most of ’em.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-26