Your TR Source

Gates, John Warne, 1855-1911

Search by Date Range

Clear Filters

2 Results

Letter from John Warne Gates to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from John Warne Gates to Theodore Roosevelt

John Warne Gates asks President Roosevelt to speak to New York State voters to prevent “such burning disgrace as the election of Hearst to the Governorship.” Gates encloses a letter from Senator Joseph Gurney Cannon, who agrees that Roosevelt’s intervention would go a long way to ensuring the election of Charles Evans Hughes, and urges Roosevelt to speak in Albany, Buffalo, and New York City.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-23

Letter from John Warne Gates to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from John Warne Gates to Theodore Roosevelt

John Warne Gates shares with President Roosevelt his assessment of the upcoming New York gubernatorial election. The Republican Party finds itself financially limited by the new law on corporate contributions. According to Gates, “one man, and one alone . . . can come into this campaign and turn the tide for Hughes,” and thus he entreats that man—Roosevelt—to join the campaign in New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-17