Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10 December 1902.
This cartoon, originally run in the Washington Post, depicts Samuel H. Vick standing in President Theodore Roosevelt’s doorway as the controversy over Vick’s postmaster appointment drew national attention.
Theodore Roosevelt
Smoking the Pipe of Peace Under Dangerous Circumstances.
News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), 2 December 1902.
The furor around Lily-White Republican Senator Jeter C. Pritchard‘s attempt oust postmaster Samuel H. Vick, who represented “the last vestige of negro office holders in the state,” was covered avidly in state and national press. This cartoon in the News and Observer depicted the issue as literal powder keg.
Hat tip to V. Cowan for alerting me to this graphic, a photocopy of which was passed down in Vick’s family.