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A “Medicinal Spring” with water labeled “A Clean-Cut Progressive Platform” flows from a stone figure shaped like Theodore Roosevelt. “Sherman, Woodruff, Wadsworth, [and] Barnes” are standing by the spring, holding glasses, with dubious looks on their faces. Caption: You can lead them to the waters, but can you make them drink?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-09-21
On the left is Theodore Roosevelt, hand resting on a sledgehammer labeled “My Policies,” standing at the entrance to his shop “T. Roosevelt Horseshoer & Wheelwright” with “Dr. Abbott” at his side. A sign on the wall states, “Autos, Air-ships & Bicycles Repaired.” Road signs labeled “Republican Turnpike” are pointing into the background. At center and right is a jumble of ruined vehicles. A small wagon labeled “Direct Primaries” is being pulled in opposite directions by “Gov. Hughes” and “Wadsworth.” “Beveridge” gestures toward a wagon labeled “Indiana Campaign” that has lost a wheel. President Taft is driving a sulky labeled “Aldrich Tariff,” drawn by the Republican elephant, that has lost the rim to one wheel. A woman labeled “Woman’s Suffrage” is holding a bicycle with damaged tires. “La Follette” is pointing to the foot of a horse labeled “Wisconsin Campaign.” “Parsons” and “Woodruff” are in an automobile that has had an accident, while “Murdock” appears to be kicking one of the tires. An airplane labeled “Conservation,” with “Pinchot” and “Garfield” on board, has crashed into a tree labeled “Ballinger.” Also in the mix is a man labeled “Poindexter,” and in the background is “Penrose” walking away from an automobile accident labeled “Pennsylvania.” In the lower left corner is the shadow of the Democratic donkey.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-08-03
A wave labeled “Republican Voters’ Revolt” crashes into the dining room of a ship where “Cannon, Payne, Taft, Knox, Sherman, Root, Aldrich, Woodruff, Dalzell, Crane, Wickersham, Lodge, Parsons, Hitchcock, Depew, Hale, Elkins, Ballinger, Smoot, Penrose, [and] Cox” are dining, and upsets a dish of “Party Plums,” as well as a bottle of “Stalwart Grog.” Caption: “We were crowded in the cabin, / Not a soul would dare to sleep; / It was midnight o’er the waters, / And a storm was on the deep.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-20
A galley labeled “Government Of, By, and For the People” sails past rocks labeled “Bossism” where other ships have wrecked, drawn by “Party Solidarity” sung by Republican sirens “Connors, Aldrich, Cox, Penrose, Woodruff, [and] Lodge” and “Partisanship” sung by Democratic sirens “Mack, Conners, Murphy, [and] Taggart” sitting on rocks above the crashing seas. Caption: The old stuff doesn’t go any more.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-01
A comet labeled “Allds Investigation” strikes a planet labeled “Albany Legislature,” causing it to explode among planets labeled “Aldrich, Penrose, Payne, Vreeland, Dalzell, Cannon, Hitchcock, Woodruff, Ballinger, Root, Platt, Depew, Parsons, Sherman, Bliss, Black, Cortelyou, Odell, Lodge, Hale, [and] Elkins.” A lone planet showing the face of Theodore Roosevelt hovers on the far right. Caption: A comet that has cut loose in the Republican constellation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03-09
The “Black Horse Cavalry,” under the leadership of “Woodruff” wearing the red suit of the Devil, is about to charge through a valley toward the “People’s Heavy Artillery,” with the “Taft National Battery” on one side and the “Hughes State Battery” on the other. Overlooking the scene is a cloud with the face of Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: Woodruff’s Albany Dragoons have a hunch that “some one has blundered.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-06
Theodore Roosevelt offers suggestions and changes to an article being written by William Roscoe Thayer. Roosevelt particularly wants a change regarding the events surrounding his acceptance of the vice presidential nomination.
1915-04-19
Theodore Roosevelt will continue to support Canadian reciprocity. He is not surprised that New York supported Charles Francis Murphy and William Barnes. Roosevelt informed Barnes that he “had no intention of making war upon him,” and that he hoped Barnes would act decently.
1911-02-03
A white cat wearing a bow labeled “Nomination” is being courted by other cats who represent potential candidates in the upcoming presidential election. Two other cats peer over walls in the background. Those depicted are Philander C. Knox, Leslie M. Shaw, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles W. Fairbanks, William H. Taft, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Joseph Benson Foraker, and George B. Cortelyou. In the background are Timothy L. Woodruff and Albert J. Beveridge.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-02-05
A disagreement has broken out among Republicans who were working to construct a tower labeled “Republican Harmony.” They have broken off into small factions clustered around building blocks labeled “Progressivism” with the Republican elephant sitting against it sniffing “Smelling Salts,” “Radicalism” over which “Munsey” and “Woodruff” are engaged in a discussion, “Conservatism” on which President Taft sits gesturing toward “La Follette” who is standing on his head and “Pinchot” trying to make a point to “Barnes” who is facing a diminutive “Job Hedges,” “Standpatism” around which “Cummins, Cannon, Sherman, Penrose, [and] Root” are involved in a heated discussion, and “Meism” upon which Theodore Roosevelt is jumping up and down and gesturing wildly. Others present are “Dixon [and] W.B. McKinley” who appear about to come to blows, as are “Perkins [and] Garfield.” “Lorimer,” wearing a bandage labeled “Vindication,” addresses “Lodge [and] “Gov. Stubbs” and, in the background, on the right, the man standing on a block addressing a crowd may be Charles W. Fairbanks. The few tools visible sit idle. Caption: Sad finish of the Republican tower of Babel.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-06-12
President Roosevelt replies to Samuel W. Marvin’s inquiry on New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes and his position on the drafting of legislation relating to the railroads. Roosevelt gives his opinion on Hughes’ divisive effect within the Republican Party and advises that he will pass along Marvin’s letter to the New York Republican State Committee Chairman, Timothy Lester Woodruff.
1908-08-14
A campaign poster supporting Theodore Roosevelt for Governor and Timothy L. Woodruff for Lieutenant Governor of New York. Roosevelt is shown wearing his Rough Rider uniform.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1898
Frederick Norton Goddard writes to President Roosevelt about the potential appointment of Secretary Woodruff to the position of Postmaster General. Goddard notes that there are “three or four Post Office favors that need doing” quickly in his district and he hopes that the Postmaster General appointee will be open to discussing them with him. Goddard also expresses his opinion that feeling against Lieutenant Governor Higgins’ candidacy is waning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-07
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou suggests that President Roosevelt set up separate meetings with Judge Woodruff, Julius M. Mayer, and Frank Munsey to encourage them to support the Republican campaign efforts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-03
C. L. Perkins asserts that the reason for the New York Sun‘s opposition to Timothy Woodruff (former NY lieutenant governor) is because he married a woman of questionable morals. “Such a man with such a wife” might make a fine addition to Washington society, but the couple is not accepted in New York. Woodruff thinks he is “a power,” but as long as he is the leader of the party in Kings County, the county’s support cannot be counted on.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-12
After the attempted assassination of President McKinley, Francis C. Travers recommends that Vice President Roosevelt have someone with him at all times while in Buffalo, New York. He thinks this would make the public feel more secure. Travers is praying for McKinley’s recovery and is at Roosevelt’s service whenever needed. Travers believes that Eugene A. Philbin would win the New York City mayor’s race if nominated as the Republican candidate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-10