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Theodore Roosevelt concurs with Daniel Rhodes Hanna about his point on big business. Roosevelt suggests that those on Wall Street would rather any candidate but him, because he insists upon regulation on big business.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-02-05
Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Andrew Carnegie carrying a gun with a barrel shaped like a dollar sign talking to Theodore Roosevelt who is carrying “The Big Stick.” Carnegie offers Roosevelt the use of his gun to shoot a bear “Wall Street” on “Nomination Trail.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
A “Wall Street magnate” holds a “N.Y. Sun” hoop that President Roosevelt jumps through onto a “Republican presidential nomination 1904” horse.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-16
President Roosevelt congratulates Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte for his speech at Chicago, which showed his fair enforcement of the law. His attackers use the press and their wealth to recruit powerful people, like college presidents and corrupt judges, to their side at the cost of the “plain people.” These attackers know that developments like the Hepburn Rate Law, the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and protections for workers have been effective against moneyed interests and criminals, but they are often lawyers or editors who answer to the corporations. The individual men to whom he refers are, however, merely puppets, and the true issue should be taken with the offenders who stand behind them and control enormous wealth. He and Bonaparte are not responsible for the economic panic, but are striving for the right “in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-23
In the cartoon on the left, “Democracy” is a “political hobo” as he walks on the “free silver road.” In the cartoon on the right, “Democracy” greets “Wall Street,” who says, “My brother,” on “Belmont-Hill Road.” Democracy responds, “Yes, I’ve a strawberry mark on my left arm.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09
A man carrying “the bigger stick—’large financial interests'” points it toward President Roosevelt who sits on the “mourners bench” on “Wall Street” with “the big stick” beside him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-13
Two men walk down Wall Street wearing hunting attire and holding guns and bags labeled “Democratic campaign fund” and “Republican campaign fund” respectively. Bulls and bears run away while a sheep with a top hat and an “immune” bow winks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-10
Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou holds a cup and parades a Republican elephant down Wall Street as bulls and bears run away.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-29
Uncle Sam puts his hand on President Roosevelt’s shoulder as Uncle Sam holds a paper that reads, “states pledged for Roosevelt.” Various men are around them: James J. Hill, Perry S. Heath, a “grafter,” and “Wall Street.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-19
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna stands in an “anti-Roosevelt boom” machine while J. Pierpont Morgan pushes him and says, “Let ‘er go, Mark.” The “Wall St. gang” looks on and prepares to let the machine sitting on a “Wall Street” building and a “brokers’ building” go.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna and “Wall Str.” hold blunderbluss guns and stand behind a tree. They watch President Roosevelt holding a “popularity” flag as he rides a Republican elephant walk toward the “Chicago convention.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-14
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-15
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11
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.
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1903-11
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-10
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-15
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.