McKinley/Roosevelt Campaign Button

This pinback campaign button features portraits of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt with the slogan "A Full Dinner Bucket". Campaign button is from the 1900 presidential campaign. The illustration is of a metal lunch pail (dinner bucket) with portraits of the candidates, topped with an upside-down drinking mug and the phrases "Employment for Labor" and "Sound Money-Good Markets". The "full dinner bucket" was a classic Republican slogan in 1900 symbolizing economic prosperity, steady work and high wages under the McKinley administration.

Measures 2" across