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Charles Emory Smith encloses a letter discussing unspecified points of President Roosevelt’s domestic policy. Smith suggests more of his foreign policy should be clarified and assures Roosevelt he has not discussed these issues with anyone else.
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1905-02-06
Senator Hanna is the only credible Republican that can challenge President Roosevelt for the 1904 presidential nomination. However, Hanna has declared that he will not be a candidate and a successful Roosevelt administration should end all Republican opposition.
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1902
An analysis of antitrust and anti-combination policies of President Roosevelt and other government figures.
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1902
Mayor Weaver stated that President Roosevelt agreed with his position on newspapers, namely that there is no machine so dangerous as a newspaper machine.
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1906-10-08
Charles Emory Smith returns the letter of Mayor John Weaver and is glad the misuse of President Roosevelt’s remarks is at an end.
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1905-10-13
Charles Emory Smith believes that Mayor Weaver is misrepresenting President Roosevelt and has enclosed a copy of Weaver’s remarks at a recent conference.
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1906-10-08
Charles Emory Smith encloses an article he wrote on the election of Republican congressmen.
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1906-10-02
Charles Emory Smith congratulates President Roosevelt on his letter accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency, which is a “resistless broadside.”
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1904-09-12
Charles Emory Smith is glad that President Roosevelt approves of the article titled “The Policy of Dishonor.” He will discuss the matter of Postmaster McMichael at their next meeting.
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1904-08-04
Charles Emory Smith suggests that President Roosevelt send a naval squadron commanded by Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick to Tangiers in response to the recent kidnapping of Ion Hanford Perdicaris by bandits led by Raisuli. Smith writes to Roosevelt at the urging of Dr. Williams, a friend of Perdicaris and an individual familiar with the geographic area and its customs.
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1904-05-21
Charles Emory Smith is coming to Washington on a separate matter, but will bring the rough draft that President Roosevelt asked him to prepare.
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1904-05-03
Charles Emory Smith encloses an article concerning made by Seymour Wilcox Tulloch, an ex-cashier in the Washington Post Office involved in the post office scandal.
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1904-03-15
Charles Emory Smith writes to President Roosevelt regarding the Republican campaign in Iowa and Ohio. Smith discusses the Bonaparte-Conrad report and the issue of allowing laborers to do clerical work, referencing a conversation between Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Commissioner William Dudley Foulke. Smith expresses confidence that Senator Hanna and Governor Warren G. Harding will secure a Republican win in Ohio against Democratic candidate for Governor Tom Loftin Johnson.
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1903-10-26
Charles Emory Smith encloses a letter on the Conrad-Bonaparte report. The more he examines the report “the more unjustifiable on many points it seems.”
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1903-10-13
Charles Emory Smith writes President Roosevelt regarding Roosevelt’s possible attendance at the national convention of Colored Baptists in Philadelphia. Smith believes that if Roosevelt can stop briefly after his visit to Antietam, this would do much good.
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1903-09-10
Former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith encloses two memorandums on the work of the Post Office Department. Smith is disappointed with the postal scandals but does not want them to overshadow the “general good work” of the department.
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1903-08-14
Charles Emory Smith writes to Secretary of War Root regarding the service of General Corbin during the Spanish-American War. Smith writes of changes within the organizational structure of the army.
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1903-08-12
A published copy of a letter in which Charles Emory Smith defends his administration of the Post Office Department, particularly the classification of employees involved in rural free delivery.
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1903-07-14
Charles Emory Smith informs President Roosevelt that he intends to vigorously respond to charges made by John Robert Procter about Smith’s service in the department.
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1903-07-17
Charles Emory Smith thanks President Roosevelt for the appointment of Walter C. Hamm as Consul at Hull. Smith writes that his investigations regarding the Tulloch inquiry are proving successful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-02