The making of a senator. Illustration shows Nelson W. Aldrich standing at the top of a human pyramid on a platform labeled The Senator, on the next level down John D. Rockefeller and a bloated man, typically identified with trusts, are sitting on bags of money on a platform labeled The Big Interests, below them are men with bags labeled Graft and Dough Bag, standing on a platform labeled The Bosses, beneath them comes a larger group of men standing on a platform labeled The State Legislature, and finally at the bottom is a group on a platform labeled The People, who are being crushed by the weight of those above them. Date 1905 November 15. The making of a senator. Illustration shows Nelson W. Aldrich standing at the top of a human pyramid on a platform labeled The Senator, on the next level down John D. Rockefeller and a bloated man, typically identified with trusts, are sitting on bags of money on a platform labeled The Big Interests, below them are men with bags labeled Graft and Dough Bag, standing on a platform labeled The Bosses, beneath them comes a larger group of men standing on a platform labeled The State Legislature, and finally at the bottom is a group on a platform labeled The People, who are being crushed by the weight of those above them. Date 1905 November 15.