Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton captures the tension between Governor Charles A. Deneen (1905-1913) and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Edward D. Shurtleff, both Republicans, during the tense deadlock over the 1909 Senate election, known as the Lorimer scandal.]]>
Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton satirizes the prolonged deadlock in the Illinois House of Representatives over the 1909 Senate election, which lasted from January 19, 1909 through May 26, 1909.]]>
Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton's graphic depiction captures the tension between Governor Charles A. Deneen and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Edward D. Shurtleff, both Republicans, during the tense deadlock over the 1909 Senate election, known as the Lorimer scandal. The title refers to a 1878 poem by George Thomas Lanigan.]]>
Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton captures the tension between Governor Charles A. Deneen and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Edward D. Shurtleff, both Republicans, during the tense deadlock over the 1909 Senate election, known as the Lorimer scandal.

This cartoon is related to "Shurtleff Forever," also in this collection.]]>
Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton captures the tension between Governor Charles A. Deneen and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Edward D. Shurtleff, both Republicans, during the tense deadlock over the 1909 Senate election, known as the Lorimer scandal.

This image relates to Harold Heaton's cartoon "The Animals in Springfield Take a Sunday Off," also contained in this collection.]]>
Tension between Governor Charles A. Deneen and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Edward D. Shurtleff, both Republicans, exploded in 1909 when Democratic representative Lee O'Neill Browne and other Democrats were approached by Speaker Shurtleff's faction and accepted a thousand dollar bribe to elect William Lorimer to the U.S. Senate. Democratic legislator Charles A. White later told the Chicago Tribune that he had accepted a thousand dollar bribe to assure his vote for Lorimer, throwing the city and the nation into scandal. The U.S. Senate held a series of hearings in which Lorimer was exonerated; however, new evidence convinced the Senate to invalidate Lorimer's election in 1912.]]>
Though Theodore Roosevelt and sitting president William H. Taft were once friends and political allies, ideological differences drove the two against each other. Roosevelt established the Bull Moose Party (Progressive, 1912) and ran on his own after failing to capture the 1912 Republican nomination from Taft.]]>
La Follette, a Progressive Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ran unsuccessfully for president in 1912 as a Republican and in 1924 under the Progressive Party ticket.]]>
In 1911 the Illinois legislature signed a bill abolishing deputy game wardens, or rabbit shepherds, and granting their powers to local law enforcement officials.]]>
President William H. Taft surveys the fractured political landscape in Illinois, likely after the bitter Republican presidential primary, in which ex-president and progressive leaning Theodore Roosevelt, and progressive/socialist senator Robert Maron La Follette of Wisconsin, both challenged Taft. Taft was unable to mend the political fences and suffered defeat at the hands of the Democrats.]]>
Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton depicts the two warring Republican factions, those supporting University of Chicago political scientist Charles E. Merriam and sitting governor Charles S. Deneen (1905-1913), blocking the path to the capital, while the Democrats look on from the sidelines.]]>
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