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Uncle Sam, as a rooster crowing, stands next to Dame Democracy as the hen that laid the egg which has just hatched, producing a chick labeled “Wilson.” Caption: After twenty years of unproductive eggs.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-06
Uncle Sam wakes up in bed, hung over, with everything in his room caught up in a whirlwind of bottles of alcohol labeled “Stand Pat Booze, Bull Moose Bitters, [and] That’s All Wilson,” a pitcher of “Debs Dope,” a ballot box, playing cards, chips, cigars, and furniture. Within the whirlwind is another whirlwind with the Democratic Donkey, Republican Elephant, and a Bull Moose buzzing around his head.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-06
Woodrow Wilson, as a farm-hand on Uncle Sam’s farm, drives a horse team labeled “Democratic Senate” and “Democratic House” toward a plow labeled “Tariff Reform Pledges.” Uncle Sam is leaning on a fence, talking to Wilson. Caption: “At last, by Crackey, we got a team that’ll pull together, so the sooner we get to plowin’ the sooner we’ll get through.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-27
Theodore Roosevelt is beginning to plan the organization of a division of the military and has directed mailed applications and letters accordingly. He updates Anna Roosevelt Cowles on Archibald Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt at Plattsburg, and discusses his frustration with President Wilson and the recent Republican National Convention.
1916-07-23
The “G.O.P.” elephant, as an emperor during the Manchu Dynasty, sits on a throne looking at men labeled “Wilson, Champ Clark, Foss, Harmon, [and] Underwood” armed with large knives or swords.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-15
In the desert, five men, Woodrow Wilson, Judson Harmon, Champ Clark, Oscar W. Underwood, and William Jennings Bryan, and a donkey overburdened with “Pledges,” follow a star labeled “Tariff Issue” that has appeared in the east. Caption: If they are wise men, they will follow it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-02-14
Theodore Roosevelt critiques the Neeser book and offers his thoughts on the United States Navy compared to those of Germany and Japan.
1915-04-02
Theodore Roosevelt has had breakfasts with Platt and Governor Odell, but does not think the events have been viewed as important by the judge, of whom Roosevelt does not think highly. Roosevelt also does not approve of President Wilson’s and Secretary of State Bryan’s relations with Germany.
1915-05-14
A hawk labeled “Teddy” flies over a frightened mother hen labeled “Democratic Party” and a group of chicks running for cover labeled “Gaynor, Dix, Kern, Foss, Bryan, Clark, Underwood, Wilson, [and] Harmon.” One chick, “Bryan,” is pulling on a long worm labeled “The Commoner.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-04-03
William Jennings Bryan tries to open a safe labeled “The Presidency” using a combination from a sheet of paper labeled “16 to 1, Populism, Anti-Imperialism, Predatory Wealth, [and] Anti-Everything.” Standing to the right are four men, “Underwood, Clark, Wilson, [and] Harmon,” holding pieces of paper labeled “Tariff Reform.” Each wants an opportunity to open the safe. Caption: The Peerless One — I can’t open it, Gentlemen. You try.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-05-15
In a boxing ring, Uncle Sam is the referee for a boxing match between Theodore Roosevelt, with his campaign manager Joseph M. Dixon, on the right, and President William H. Taft, with his campaign manager William Brown McKinley, on the left. Standing at the back of the ring are challengers to the winner of the match: “Harmon, Clark, Wilson, [and] Underwood” as the Democratic hopefuls in the upcoming presidential election. William Jennings Bryan, between the ropes, appears to be climbing out of the ring. Caption: Referee Sam — It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that Battling Wilson of New Jersey, Kid Harmon of Ohio, Fighting Underwood of Alabama, and Scrapper Clark of Missouri, will challenge the winner of this bout!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-05-29
Theodore Roosevelt promises to investigate where William S. Cowles might go turkey shooting on his vacation, even though it will be late in the season. Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt will leave for their sailing trip shortly; he is glad for a vacation from politics as he is disgusted with both Democrats and Republicans for not differentiating themselves from each other through their policies. Two of his books will be released next month.
1916-01-27
Former Governor of Massachusetts, William L. Douglas, appears as a courtier, gesturing toward a woman labeled “Democratic Victory” on a bed “Asleep Since 1892,” and asking Oscar W. Underwood, Woodrow Wilson, Champ Clark, and Judson Harmon which has “a better chance of waking her.” Douglas holds a shield with the message “Record: Tariff reform Democrat. Elected Governor of Massachusetts by 35,995 when Roosevelt carried that state against Parker by 92,076.” A lady-in-waiting, the Democratic donkey, has fallen asleep at the foot of the bed. The room is filled with cobwebs labeled “Defeat in 1896, Defeat in 1900, Defeat in 1904, [and] Defeat in 1908,” and is becoming overgrown with tree roots.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-06-19
A nurse labeled “Mack” opens a window to the “Democratic Maternity,” outside of which are several storks carrying newborns labeled “Gaynor, Bryan, Douglas, Harmon, Clark, Wilson, [and] Underwood,” as well as what appears to be the Democratic donkey.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-06-26
A swarm of mosquitoes labeled “Trust” flies over a swamp labeled “High Protective Tariff.” An insert shows an oil can labeled “Revision Downward Oil – Wilson Brand.” Caption: Pour oil, and plenty of it, on the thing that breeds them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-24
Illustration shows Woodrow Wilson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-24
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.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-31
Woodrow Wilson pulls a leg labeled “The Tariff” that is caught in a woodpile labeled “The Trusts.” The Democratic donkey observes from the far end of the woodpile. Caption: “The tariff is the center of the problem of the Trusts and of the present cost of living.”–Woodrow Wilson.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-07
At a bullfight, Theodore Roosevelt is the bull surrounded by picadors and banderilleros labeled “La Follette, Root, Taft, Sherman, Bryan, Watterson, [and] Crane,” and William Barnes, who is unidentified. The men are thrusting lances and banderillas into the bull, while the matador, Woodrow Wilson, waits in the upper right background to finish it off. Caption: When the picadors sufficiently puncture him, the matador will finish him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-21
In his telegram to the 1916 Republican National Convention, Theodore Roosevelt expresses his opinion of several issues, the “gravity” of selecting a candidate for the party nomination, President Woodrow Wilson, and relations between the Republican and Progressive Party. Item includes several drafts and copies of the missive.
1916