On verso: "Mrs. Lee C. nee Cameron, Tolman was born in Hancock Co. Ills. 2/14-1834. Daughter of John and Elizabeth, nee Lee, Cameron she married Jas. Tolman. She died in Kenoma, Mo. (Barton Co.) 5/22-1916."]]>
Residents in Springfield flee the Lincoln League's rhetoric, in this political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon. The Lincoln League was a coalition of progressive Republicans in the early nineteen hundreds dedicated to reforms such as direct primaries, child labor laws, direct Senate elections, forest conservation, regulation of big business, and women in the workplace. McCutcheon captures conservative Republican/Democrat sentiment regarding the trust busting, or anti-monopoly tactics of the Lincoln League and other like-minded progressives in both parties.

On verso: "William Lorimer & The Lincoln League, Chicago, ca 1912[.]"]]>
Caption: "Under one: Not this kind [with hand pointing up] but this kind [with hand pointing down]".]]>
Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon, the fortieth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1903-1911), welded massive control over house rules as Chairman of the Rules Committee and had unlimited power to appoint people to all house committees. Cannon used his exceptional powers to control the divergent sects in the Republican party in the early nineteen hundreds, thereby appointing only conservative minded committeemen and undermining the progressive Republicans. On March 17, 1910, however, a coalition of progressive Republicans and 142 Democrats took absent Cannon supporters by surprise and succeeded in removing Cannon as Chairman of the Rules Committee, also taking away his power to appoint committee members.]]>
Republican machine politics drove the city of Philadelphia during the early twentieth century under party boss Israel Durham and those that followed. As the power of the Republican bosses waned during the twenties and corruption unveiled, the city revolted against Republican machine politics and moved toward Al Smith for president, a progressive Democrat.

Captions: "First Gang Politician - 'Hark I hear a noise! Second Gang Politician' - 'Maybe they won't discover us. We need two hundred more votes in this ward.'"]]>
Lawmakers debate the anti-trust proposals of the Woodrow Wilson administration, in this political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon. Wilson, the twenty-eighth president (1913-1921), moved forward with an ambitious, progressive legislative agenda that included the creation of a Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act, an income tax, and implemented antitrust legislation and child labor reforms. His second term was marked by U.S. entry into the First World War.]]>
Captions: "Under one: He professes his indignation. Under  two: Will he vote his indignation?"]]>
Likely referring to President Woodrow Wilson, political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon makes light of Professor Windjammer's military policy in the years leading up to World War I. Wilson kept the United States neutral during his first term in office, but due to America's fledgling navy and army, Germany had little incentive to honor neutrality and commenced unrestricted submarine warfare in January of 1917, sinking American merchant vessels. Republicans, particularly General Leonard Wood and former President Theodore Roosevelt, started a Preparedness Movement, calling for an increase in military strength and numbers. At first opposed to the idea and having the backing of popular opinion, Wilson was forced to relent in the end.]]>
Kansas Senator Joseph L. Bristow locks his sights on Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. As the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate and as a representative of the conservative wing of the party, Aldrich was often at odds with progressive Republicans like Bristow. In this cartoon, John T. McCutcheon articulates the debate over the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909, which increased tariffs on certain imports like rubber, a commodity in which Aldrich was heavily invested.]]>
In 1893, U.S. forces overthrow Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and established a Provisional Government, establishing a U.S. territory on July 7, 1898 under controversial circumstances. This cartoon by John T. McCutcheon possibly refer to the Massie Trial, in which an intoxicated Thalia Massie, a white navy wife, asserted she had been raped and assaulted. The police arrested five plantation workers, whom Massie positively identified. Plantations workers tended to be any combination of Japanese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Pilipino, and Portuguese, and many believe she accused them based on their race. One of the five was later severely beaten and another murdered. The murderers served an hour sentence in the Territorial Governor's executive chambers.]]>
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The R.M.S. Lusitania was the largest ship in the world when she set sail in 1907. Equipped with new turbine engines, the Lusitania and her sister ship, the R.M.S. Mauretania, broke the record for crossing the Atlantic several times during 1907. The R.M.S. Lusitania ultimately sank at the hands of a German U-boat in 1915.]]>
Political cartoonist John T. McCutcheon demonstrates how the Senate turns its back on foreign affairs in the Philippines during the early twentieth century, but is more than willing to debate a ship subsidy bill with the vigor only money can buy.]]>
The U.S. Senate usurps the will of the people, press, and the president in this political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon.]]>
Caption: "The men at Rockford are an object lesson to the tight wads who are willing to accept the sacrifices of others without making any themselves."]]>
On March 11, 1911, the Secretary of the Interior under the Taft Administration (1909-1913), Richard A. Ballinger, resigned over his reversal of land conservation policies implemented under the Roosevelt administration (1901-1909), but broken in the interests of big business and hydroelectric power.]]>
John T. McCutcheon's "Cartoons of the Day," commentating on regulations and government spending.

Captions: "Under one: These dogs of war may be worth keeping after the war if they prove to be good watch dogs. Under two: The wheat Pit is quiet, prices holding steady. Under three: We used to think a billion dollars was a right smart amount of money."]]>