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Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.

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• 12 June 1912; "The Confusion of Tongues: Bad Finish of the Republican Tower of Babel"; allegorical depiction of the discordant voices of the insurgent, progressive, and stand-pat Republican Party factions during the 1912 election.
  
  
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• 17 July 1907; "The Bigger Stick"; T.R. dressed as a baseball player, with his signature "big stick", being intimidated by party stand-patters who want no change to tariff policy.
  
  
• 7 February 1906; "The Latest Thing in Nightmares"; allegorical representation of T.R.'s signature smile haunting the peaceful and restful dreams of the Senate.
  
  
• Depicts William Howard Taft returning from his tenure as Governor General of the Philippines, with a committee of Republicans welcoming him and questioning his views & opinions on key issues for his presumed presidential campaign in 1908.
  
  
• 5 June 1907; depiction of Vice President Charles Fairbanks as a skinny teddy bear, hoping to raise his profile for a potential run at the Presidency in 1908.
  
  
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• 5 April 1905; "A Herculean Task"; T.R. dressed as Hercules wearing a lion skin and holding a sword, facing a nine-headed hydra, each head identified as that of a senator, its tail labeled "U.S. Senate"
  
  
• 1 March 1905; "All His Own"; depicts T.R.'s re-election to the Presidency and his political independence, with a sled in the background showing a broken sled labeled "McKinley's Policy"
  
  
• 20 July 1904; "Time!"; depicts the 1904 Presidential Election contest between T.R. and Alton B. Parker as boxers in a ring, shaking hands before the start of the match; Uncle Sam, as the referee, stands in the background. T.R. was a renowned boxer.
  
  
• 1 June 1904; "Terrible Teddy waits for the unknown"; depicts T.R.'s readiness to fight against the unknown Democratic Party challenger in the election of 1904.
  
  
• 11 November 1903; "The Good Samaritan"; allegorical depiction of T.R. as the biblical Good Samaritan offering the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty a drink of water from a bottle labeled "extra session"; this is representative of T.R.'s calling an extra session of Congress so they could further debate a long delayed commercial and tariff treaty with Cuba.
  
  
• 13 August 1902; T.R., an avid mountain climber, contemplated conquering the mount labeled 'David Hill", named for T.R.'s nemesis and Tammany Hall machine politician.
  
  
• 16 May 1900; four maidens seducing Governor Roosevelt to join the McKinley ticket as vice-president.
  
  
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• 14 February 1906; Cupid on horseback, shooting two handguns into the air outside the North Portico of the White House, on the occasion of the wedding of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth.
  
  
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• 2 May 1906: President Theodore Roosevelt depicted as a volcano erupting and spewing a dark cloud labeled "Tax on Wealth", indicating his effort to tax "swollen fortunes", startling an elephant labeled "G.O.P." to run away; on the left, is a zen-like Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks.
  
  
• 21 November 1906: satirizing President Roosevelt's martyrdom to accept a third presidential term, thus bowing to part and popular pressure despite his avowed rejection of a third term.
  
  
• 1 August 1906: Theodore Roosevelt holding Taft as the heir apparent to an imperial presidency
  
  
• 18 October 1905; during his trip to the South, T.R. and his secretary William Loeb, are depicted as plantation owner and field hand, respectively, and T.R. is compared to Vardaman, the infamous racist southerner and proponent of eugenics.
  
  
• 15 August 1906: "A Tip to Fatima Ted"; allegory of the tale "Blue Beard and Fatima", with Congress as Blue Beard and Theodore Roosevelt as Fatima, the latter given the keys to wholly pursue his agenda, except for the sacred and untouchable "tariff revision".
  
  
• 23 May 1906: Allegory depicting Theodore Roosevelt as the infant Hercules fighting large snakes with the heads of Nelson W. Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller, the great trust barons Roosevelt fought against under his "trust-busting" policy.
  
  
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• 25 April 1906; "Arms & The Men"; depicts Congressional leaders and T.R. applying their respective versions of regulatory strength to the "venus de milo"-like statue labeled "Interstate Commerce Laws".
  
  
• 26 September 1906; Theodore Roosevelt arriving at the White House after a vacation at Oyster Bay; following him, carrying the luggage, is William Loeb. Uncle Sam meets them at the entrance, dressed as a 18th century French butler.
  
  
• 25 May 1904; President Theodore Roosevelt stopping Philander Chase Knox from cutting down a tree labeled "The Trusts" with an ax labeled "Anti-Trust Laws". Illustrative of T.R.'s measured approach to distinguish good vs. bas trusts.
  
  
• 21 March 1906; depicts the Democratic Party donkey mascot dressed as T.R., indicative of how T.R. co-opted a large part of the Democratic Party's platform in the election of 1904 and the subsequent years' legislative agenda.
  
  
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• 31 August 1904; Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt sitting in a chair labeled "Presidency" with a fasces behind his left shoulder and with a gag labeled "Civil Decency" in his mouth; he is looking at a spirit of himself from 1900 when he could speak freely.
  
  
• 21 September 1904; depicts T.R. as the consummate imperialist, and the cartoon is representative of T.R. being constantly accused of trying to create a "monarchical presidency".
  
  
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• 24 August 1904; depicts T.R. as an imperial president, with near dictatorial powers reminiscent on Louis XIV of France.
  
  
• 28 September 1904; T.R. and Alton Parker have different visions during the 1904 Presidential Campaigns of how to grow the "tree of prosperity".
  
  
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• 12 September 1900; "Branded But Not Broken"; depicts T.R. as a centaur that has been branded part of the G.O.P. stable, but his wild tendencies have not been "broken" or brought under enough control before his potential elevation to Vice-Presidential nominee in the 1900 election.
  
  
• 1 January 1902; after McKinley's assassination, Theodore Roosevelt is depicted as dressed for rough seas, standing at the helm labeled "Ship of State", with a firm grip on the wheel.
  
  
• 2 October 1901; depicts President Roosevelt as shedding his Rough Rider uniform for a diplomat's suit, as evidence of his new role as President after taking over for the murdered MicKinley.
  
  
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• 6 November 1901; T.R. as the new President seeks to enforce the civil service rules in federal hiring practices.
  
  
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• 24 February 1909; Theodore Roosevelt prepares to leave the White House, leaving "his policies" in care of nanny Taft, the new President.
  
  
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• 8 May 1907; Elisha Roosevelt sicketh the bears upon the bad boys of Wall Street; Theodore Roosevelt commanding two large bears "Interstate Commerce Commission" and "Federal Courts" to attack stock-market manipulators, including J.P. Morgan, Gould, and Rockefeller.
• 29 March 1905; illustrative of the Great White Fleet, carrying the figure of Peace on the lead ship.
  
  
• 13 January 1904; T.R. with a sword labelled "Public Service" seeks to do battle with the Trusts headed by J.J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, and Rockefeller.
  
  
• 12 October 1904; "Take your choice, gentlemen"; highlights the choices facing voters in the 1904 Presidential Election.
  
  
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• 15 June 1910; depicts T.R. as Hamlet coming back from his African Safari to find his "kingdom" in disarray.
  
  
• 2 October 1889; shows T.R. and his fellow civil service reformers trying to pull Benjamin Harrison and the Republican Party away from the spoils system and toward the campaign promises of civil service reform.
  
  
• 24 July 1895; shows the battle between Police Commissioner Roosevelt, Tammany Hall, and Tavern owners regarding the Sunday Sundry Laws which called for closing bars on Sundays.
  
  
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• 2 November 1904; George B. Cortelyou turning a vice to squeeze money for Theodore Roosevelt's reelection campaign from a bloated man labeled "The Trusts". T.R. was alleged to have accepted money from Trusts in exchange for stopping/slowing anti-trust suits.
  
  
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• 5 October 1904; The warrior's return
  
  
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• 15 July 1903; "Solitaire"; illustrative of how the deck is stacked in favor of President Roosevelt come the 1904 Presidential Election
  
  
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• 29 July 1903; "More Rough Riding"; illustrative of T.R.'s attempt to clean-up the corruption in the Postal Service
  
  
• 22 November 1905; "A Thanksgiving Truce"
  
  
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• 28 January 1903; "Justice vs. Prejudice"; caption reads "Lincoln emancipated you, the people gave you citizenship, and I'll protect your rights."
  
  
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  McKinley's Easter egg
  
  1900 April 18
  
  Special Easter edition centerfold shows William McKinley as a rooster standing next to a broken egg labeled "Vice-Presidential Aspirations" from which several chicks have emerged, identified as: "Lodge, Black, Bliss, Teddy, Root, Beveridge, [and] Timmy Woodruff."
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• 5 February 1902; depicts public appearances as a major distraction to T.R. as he begins his first term as President after the McKinley assassination.
  
  
• 7 May 1902; shows the weight of public opinion tipped in favor of President Roosevelt at the expense of the G.O.P.
  
  
• 8 October 1902;"A Volunteer Crew Wanted"; Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt putting a rescue boat labeled "National Honor" to sea, carrying lifesaving equipment and an oar labeled "Reciprocity" (tariff reciprocity); trying to help a ship labeled "Cuba" that is floundering. Roosevelt looks back toward shore at the "Republican Congressional Station" where several men wearing foul-weather clothing await the wreck of the ship and the flotsam to wash ashore.
  
  
• 17 December 1902; T.R. as a cowboy trying to round-up enough legislative support for his Cuban Tarrif Reciprocity agenda.
  
  
• 1902 December 31; Illustration shows Puck giving a bouquet of roses labeled "With the Compliments of the People" to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
  
  
• 4 February 1903; "A question of duty"; illustrates how Cuba and Puerto Rico were depicted as getting preferntial tariff treatment vs. Filipino products
  
  
• 25 February 1903; Senators Tillman, Lodge, Stewart, Morgan, Quay, and Hoar overshadow a diminutive President; depicts the power of the Senate over the Presidency.
  
  
• 4 March 1903; T.R. forcing the G.O.P. to take his "Trust Legislation Tonic" medicine, thus depicting T.R.'s trust-busting agenda and the G.O.P.'s reluctance to follow its de-facto leader.
  
  
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• 15 April 1903; "A Harmless Tour"; illustrative of T.R.'s many hunting trips, the mother bear indicates that T.R. is on a campaign tour rather than a hunting expedition.
  
  
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• 2 September 1903; "A Timely Warning"; illustrative of the political dangers regarding the protective tariff; cartoon shows the Republican elephant wearing a hat labeled "G.O.P." and "High Protective Tariff" and a swimsuit labeled "Tariff-Protected Trusts", wading offshore toward huge waves labeled "Public Patience". President Theodore Roosevelt is standing closer to shore with one hand on a "Reciprocity Life Line" and the other hand raised, as he calls out a warning about going too far.
  
  
• 30 September 1903: Depicts the growing abuse of large corporations, and their abuse of the law through bribe and graft; T.R.'s podium include the quote: ""If alive to their true interests, rich and poor alike will set their faces like flint against the spirit which seeks personal advantabe by overriding the laws, without regard to whether this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily violence by one set of men or in the form of vulpine cunning by another set of men" - President Roosevelt's Speech, Sept. 7."
  
  
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• 1904 August 17; Puck's mid-summer outing at Harmony Park
  
  
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• 28 September 1904; "What would Lincoln do?"; T.R. contemplating what his hero would have done if he were facing the same problems as T.R.
  
  
• 5 October 1904: depicts T.R. prior to the Presidential Election as being clothed in G.O.P. garb, an allegory on the "wolf in sheep's clothing" tale.
  
  
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• 15 June 1904; depicts the 1904 Presidential election delegates attending the Republican National Convention on June 21 in Chicago, Illinois, with an oversized T.R. pounding a gavel and asking "all in favor of the nomination will say aye!".
  
  
• 1904 November 9; Puck reaches from the Puck Building in New York to the White House to congratulate T.R. for winning the presidential election.
  
  
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• 1905 February 8; President Theodore Roosevelt as cupid surrounded by other valentines.
  
  
• 8 March 1905; depicts T.R. as a circus trainer trying to tame The Trusts, the G.O.P., Panama, Santo Domingo, & the Philippines.
  
  
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• 30 August 1905; depicts T.R. as the sun and his G.O.P. political rivals as planetoids being obscured in a solar eclipse.
  
  
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** Some descriptions are verbatim from The Library of Congress PPOC website.

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