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President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that Congressman Franklin E. Brooks of Colorado has not consulted him about Randolph since last spring. Roosevelt believes that if Edward Oliver Wolcott will take Randolph, Roosevelt could convince Brooks to take him as well. Roosevelt asks Lodge to see how Wolcott feels about it.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903-12-09
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Henry Van Kleeck to represent the numerous letters he receives regarding the activity of federal office holders in recent political campaigns in Colorado. Roosevelt concedes that office holders supported Edward Oliver Wolcott but Wolcott did not have the support of the majority of Republicans.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903-02-14
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt urges Secretary Long to advise President McKinley not to conduct a joint investigation with Spain into the sinking of the USS Maine. Roosevelt believes that, in spite of opposition, Long should recommend that Congress authorize the building of as many as four battleships.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1898-02-19
Photograph showing full-length portraits of Governor Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Edward Oliver Wolcott of New York, standing outside near trees.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-07-18
President Cleveland drives a stagecoach carrying a female passenger labeled “National Credit” and a trunk labeled “Gold Reserve.” The horse team is labeled “Firmness” and “Common Sense.” A pack of dogs is trying to rattle the horses. The dogs are identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Frye, Bland, Sickles, Peffer, Reed, Boutelle, Wolcott, Pugh, Stewart, Jones, Morgan, Teller, [and] Lodge.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-03-13
Edward Oliver Wolcott flies toward the “White House” after getting booted home from England on the foot of Lord “Salisbury.” Caption: “President McKinley’s bimetallic commission has started for home” – Daily Papers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-17
President Cleveland appears as an explorer, with cabinet members John G. Carlisle and Walter Q. Gresham, in a jungle, where they have come across a band of monkeys labeled “D. Hill, C. Dana, W. Reid, Blackburn, Vest, Jones, Pugh, Foraker, Wolcott, Teller, Morgan, Peffer, [and] Stewart.” Caption: Pioneer Cleveland is bound to carry political enlightenment forward, even if the simian statesmen don’t like it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-22
Senators labeled “Stewart, Peffer, Vest, Jones, Teller, [and] Wolcott” are being thrown out of windows in a building labeled “U.S. Senate” by laborers and other citizens. Papers labeled “Anti-Repeal Drivel” and “Obstructionist Nonsense” have been thrown out with them. Caption: What a pity this is only a fancy sketch!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-01
President Cleveland, a railroad engineer, drives a locomotive labeled “Administration R.R.” that is roaring out of a tunnel labeled “Business Depression Tunnel,” and knocking out of the way legislators who are placing “Dilatory Admendments” and “Teller’s Dilatory Tactics” on the tracks, trying to derail the train. Among the legislators are Francis M. Cockrell, James Z. George, James L. Pugh, William A. Peffer, George G. Vest, James D. Cameron, William M. Stewart, Henry M. Teller, John P. Jones, and Edward O. Wolcott.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-10-11
Several men dressed as maids and holding brooms stand on shore or awash in huge waves labeled “Business Revival” and “Sound Money.” The men are identified on their bonnets or on their brooms as “Hoar War Tariff,” “Bland Free Silver,” “Wolcott Silver,” “Teller Free Silver,” “Jones Free Silver,” “Reid High Protection,” “Stewart Free Silver,” “Carter,” “Peffer,” “Crisp,” and “Blackburn Free Silver.” “McKinley” holds the largest broom labeled “Prohibitory Protection.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-08-14
Republican politicians wearing Roman togas are seated around a banquet table with a skeleton that is holding a standard labeled “McKinley’s Shaky Financial Record.” Gathered around the table are John “Sherman,” Stephen B. “Elkins,” Russell A. “Alger,” Charles H. “Grosvenor,” William “McKinley,” Mark A. “Hanna,” Christopher L. “Magee,” William M. “Hahn,” Joseph B. “Foraker,” Cornelius N. “Bliss,” Herman H. “Kohlsaat,” Edward Oliver “Wolcott,” and Whitelaw “Reid.” Caption: The ancient custom of the Romans of seating a skeleton at their banquet-tables, to remind them of death, is now being revived by our Republican friends.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-06-10
A fireworks display is being prepared. An “Anarchist” and John Peter “Altgeld” are lighting a rocket labeled “Altgeld Anarchistic Boom,” and several men identified as “Bland, Crisp, Teller, Waite, Blackburn, Wolcott, Morgan, [and] Stewart” are lighting rockets around a large medallion labeled “Free Silver Coinage Craze” with a silver coin labeled “In 16 to 1 We Trust.” Blackburn is holding a rocket labeled “Silver Speech” and on the ground are fireworks labeled “Snap Silver Resolutions.” At a table on the right, labeled “Coin’s Financial Hocus Pocus Game,” is William H. Harvey operating a shell game, and behind him is William A. Peffer, the “Windy Man from Kansas.” Caption: They are making great preparations for their Populistic Pyrotechnical display; but it will be only another fizzle.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-07-03
President Cleveland stands on the steps to the “U.S. Treasury,” holding a large sword labeled “Sound Money Policy,” with left hand raised to stop the progress of an eight-headed, silver-scaled hydra labeled “Free Silver Craze.” The heads are identified as “Jones, Crisp, Peffer, Harvey, Stewart, Wolcott, Bland, [and] Blackburn.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-06-19
Presidential hopefuls labeled “Davis, Tillman, Chandler, Lodge, Quay, Frye, Wolcutt, Turpie, Hoar, Morgan, [and] Hill” are wading through a swamp labeled “Financial Buncombe, Jingoism, Blunders, Demagogism, [and] Brag,” chasing a glowing chair with wings labeled “Presidency.” Puck, standing on the side of “Statesmanship Highway,” tells them they are taking the wrong way to the White House. Caption: Puck–My short-sighted friends, none of you will ever reach the White House by that road!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-03-04
President McKinley, wearing a long cape labeled “Protection Monomania,” sits at a desk working on his “Tariff Plans,” while ignoring a businessman who offers “Suggestions for Financial Reform.” In baskets beneath the desk are papers that state, “Don’t forget the issues of the last campaign. [signed] A Banker” and, “Please give a little attention to the money question. [signed] Businessman.” Caption: Citizen–Mr. McKinley, I have called to offer a few suggestions about some needed reforms of our financial system. / McKinley–My dear sir, you must excuse me; – I’ve turned all that over to Senator Wolcott.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-01-27
Edward Oliver Wolcott as the biblical Joshua rides on a horse labeled “U.S. Senate” at the head of a small infantry comprised of John Sherman, George F. Hoar, George G. Vest, William A. Peffer, David B. Hill, Julius C. Burrows, Thomas H. Carter, William V. Allen, William J. Sewell, John M. Palmer, Roger Q. Mills, Justin S. Morrill, Matthew Quay, and others unidentified. Many are carrying spears or bow and arrows. They are chasing the sun labeled “Gold Standard” and descending upon a small community of farms and factories. One man carries a military standard that states, “Resolved, that some legislation be had by the U.S. Senate looking to an international conference with the nations of the world for the promotion of Bimetallism. Wolcott’s Resolution in Caucus.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-01-06
Philip Battell Stewart encloses a letter from Franklin C. Goudy. John B. Goff had a successful trip to Keystone Ranch. Stewart is meeting with Senator Edward Oliver Wolcott and will learn what Mr. Kent has to say.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-05
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about his and Edith’s visit to Washington, D.C. No society in New York compares to his circle of friends in Washington. He has seen a lot of Representative Reed and criticizes a speech by Wolcott. He compliments Secretary of State Richard Olney and says Smalley has no idea how the people of the United States really feel. Senator Lodge made a good speech about the Venezuela matter.
1896-01-26
Philip Battell Stewart calls for opposition to Edward Oliver Wolcott for United States Senator.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-17
Summary of a meeting of Colorado Republicans and the text of Philip Battell Stewart’s speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902