Qor sii socodka faqradan - Sheekadu waxay ku saabsan tahay boqortooyada wargeys ee khayaaliga ah ee jilayaasha walaalaha ah Caroline iyo Blaise Sanford. Sheekadu waxay ku ciyaartaa jilayaashaas oo ay ka soo horjeedaan astaamaha nolosha dhabta ah ee sanadihii 1898 ilaa 1907, sheekadu waxay muujineysaa isku-dhafka dowladda iyo warbaahinta bulshada ee abuurista Ameerika casriga ah. Sida buugaagta kale ee Vidal ee taxanahiisa "Sheekooyinka Boqortooyada", sheekadan waxay bixisaa aragti ku saabsan saxaafadda waqtigaas, iyadoo la raacayo guulaha William Randolph Hearst ee dadaalkiisa ku aaddan inuu u rido Theodore Roosevelt madaxweynaha sanadkii 1904. Ka dib dhacdooyinkii ka hor iyo kaddib markii Theodore Roosevelt uu madaxweyne noqday kadib dilkii William McKinley
, waxaa ku jira sawirro muuqaal ah oo ka mid ah shaqsiyaad caan ah oo caan ah sida Roosevelt, Hearst, Henry Brooks Adams, Henry James, Xoghayaha Arimaha Dibada John Hay iyo Madaxweyne William McKinley. Buuggan, farcanka Charlie Schuyler, oo ah halyeeyga ugu weyn ee khayaaliga ah, waxay sii wadaan sheekada Mareykanka ee dhismaha boqortooyada. Si kastaba ha noqotee, jilayaasha sheekadan badankood waa kuwa aan khayaali ahayn oo taariikhi ah.