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“With All His Faults, We Love Him - Still

Topic:
Theodore Roosevelt: Pro and Con
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
William Allen Rogers
Date:
August 27, 1904, p. 1303
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This Harper’s Weekly cartoon parodies the usually Democratic New York Sun’s endorsement of President Roosevelt’s reelection, “Theodore! With all thy faults.” The Sun had been an advocate of labor in earlier decades, but as unions grew in number, the newspaper became more pro-business. In selecting Roosevelt over his Democratic challenger, Alton B. Parker, the Sun explained, “We prefer the impulsive candidate of the party of conservatism to the conservative candidate of the party which the business interests regard as permanently and dangerously impulsive.”

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