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The Illinois Senate President elections of Walter I. Manny on January 22, 1913, and Stephen D. Canady on January 6, 1915, gave the Democrats control of the Senate for the first time since 1893. Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon hints towards…

Senator Joseph L. ALdrich yells "Robber!" at Senator Nelson W. Aldrich who sits contentedly in his seat. The man thinks of another way to attack Aldrich, finally yelling "Rubber!" which shocks Aldrich.Kansas Senator Joseph L. Bristow locks his sights…

Hawaii, in the form of an ethnic charicature, walks with Uncle Sam while holding his hand. A newspaper boy runs up to the pair with a newspaper reading "Extra- All about the epidemic of lynchings! RaceWar! Blacks driven out of town!", shocking…

The top panel shows soldiers on the battlefield firing cannons in rapid succession. The bottom panel shows business men celebrating a business boom in front of an operational factory and mill. A sign on the left side of the lower panel shows a…

President William Taft portrays Mahomet, attempting to attract the mountain of sentiment in favor of further reducing the tariff downward to come to him using a speech on the progress of tariff reduction he gave in Winona, Minnesota. As the mountain…

This three-panel cartoon demonstrates rising financial support for World War I in the United States through the Liberty Loan program as the political atmosphere in Austria-Hungary deteriorates. The top panel shows a man dropping coins into a bucket…

A minister preaches to his congregation and passes the collection plate but has difficulty getting his congregation to follow his messages.

This cartoon parodies the number of speechesDemocratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan made during his November 1, 1900, visit to Chicago. Chairman of the 1900Democratic National Convention, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, hurries William…

Interested parties watch and wait for the 1916 election results. President William Taft sits in the audience reading a book on fishing. Taft was not a candidate in the 1916 presidential election.

A man attends a speech fest at North Side Hall featuring popular Republican reformist Graeme Stewart. Each panel illustrates the man's frustration as the event goes later into the night and Stewart does not appear. The final panel shows the man the…

Billboards advertising cigars, medicines, and bars line the street with figures pointing at pedestrians in an attempt to get their attention. A man wearing a hat reading "Olde" chases a second man down the street while a cart driver stops to watch. A…

Seven men stand in an arena in front of a gentleman labeled "Mr. Larkin." The crowd looks to Mr. Larkin who gives the men the "thumbs down" gesture and signals for them to leave while a policeman rushes forward with a large hook.Political cartoonist…

The top panels show a crowd yelling "What's th' matter with Wilson!!". The middle panel shows a family attempting to eat from bowls labeled "prosperity" while three men in dark clothing line up with bills for payment. The bottom panels show a man…

General Red Tape, Delay, and Swivel sit in a war room as battles rage outside, debating how to handle a mistaken burglary. Captions: "Under one: Gen. Tape - 'A burglar is Trying to break in!' Under two: Gen. Swivel - 'What kind of a gun shall we have…

Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon illustrates paradoxes emerging during World War I in this six panel political cartoon. In the first panel German leaders celebrate the German bombing of London and condemning the Allied bombing of Germany in…

On June 6, 1917, the San Salvador volcano erupted in El Salvador. One day later, the British Royal Engineers detonated nineteen deep mines at the Battle of Messines, destroying the German ridge defenses and leading them to believe it was an…

In the top panel a small boat carrying one person and four cannons is hit by an explosion. In the second panel the man is searching for an unknown target while at sea. The lower panel shows the man rowing his repared boat loaded with a torpedo…

Senator Albert J. Hopkins sits on a chair in the middle of a fenced in area labeled "Direct primary vote." Men representing the Republican and Democratic minorities ride the Illinois G. O. P. elephant as it breaks through the Deneen fence and runs…

Unseen people push Senator Boies Penrose onto a theater stage to explain $25,000 in donations from the Standard Oil Company. Penrose tries to divert attention onto Theodore Roosevelt, but then sees William Randolph Hearst sitting in a box set holding…

A club labeled "Progressive Sentiment" chases three men representing boss rule into the sea of defeat at the New York Republican Convention.

The top three panels show workers lining up to fill large bags of money in front of houses and the Socalists' Headquarters. In each panel the number of bags, size of the line, and size of the Socialists' Headquarters grows while the size and number…

A man reads several newspaper headlines presenting conflicting information on the status of proposals for peace during World War I.

Tax payers watch as the GOP's elephant grazes from the income tax reduction proposal of 1927 as Democratic party leaders pull the donkey away, fearing a trick.

A large line of soldiers stand in line to subscribe for war bonds in front of a baseball-like scoreboard tracking war bond subscriptions by infantry and batallion. A soldier in the lower left corner states "They are willing to give their money as…

The two-panel cartoon shows scenes of Americans arriving at hotels abroad and the greetings the received before and after the Lorimer Scandal. The clerk in the top panel exclaims "Ah! I see monsieur is from Illinois! Zat grand state of Lincoln and…