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Will Howe, a literature professor at Indiana University, contacted Lucius B. Swift to urge Theodore Roosevelt to accept the invitation to speak at Bloomington. Swift agrees that it is an ideal place for Roosevelt to give an address.
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1911-11-14
Lucius B. Swift conveys a request from Chinese Vice-Consul Kee Owyang to meet with Theodore Roosevelt for a few minutes when he visits San Francisco. Since the election in which John Worth Kern was elected Senator from Indiana rather than Albert J. Beveridge, Swift has considered it prudent to bide his time. He believes Beveridge would have been elected “except for the liquor people, who would sacrifice anything in order to sell more beer.”
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1911-03-02
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1910-05-05
Swift, Lucius B. (Lucius Burrie), 1844-1929
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Lucius B. Swift considers President William H. Taft a “damn, pig-headed blunderer.”
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1910-03-04
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1910-02-17
Swift, Lucius B. (Lucius Burrie), 1844-1929
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
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Lucius B. Swift reports to William Dudley Foulke about some of the preliminary results of the National Civil Service Reform League’s investigation into charges that William H. Taft or President Theodore Roosevelt improperly appointed people to civil service positions in order to nominate Taft as the Republican candidate for president. There has been no evidence found connecting Taft or Roosevelt to such a scheme, and Swift says that he agrees with Roosevelt’s sentiment that the office holders simply felt what was a broader popular sentiment in favor of Taft. Roosevelt’s efforts to remove the classified service from politics, in fact, have been very successful.
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1908-11-30
After reading President Roosevelt’s letter and draft, Lucius B. Swift does not believe that it would do any good for him to dignify Delavan Smith and others like him by signing his name to a statement denouncing him. Swift tells William Dudley Foulke that it would be better if the matters could be dealt with before the public and notes that the Panama allegations may be dealt with by Congress. Roosevelt’s vindication came from the great electoral victory, which was a landslide in everywhere except Ohio and Indiana.
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1908-11-05
Lucius Swift writes to President Roosevelt to express his continued confidence in Roosevelt as President.
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1904-09-20
Lucius B. Swift thanks William Loeb for copies of letters concerning affairs in Oregon and Philadelphia and for two volumes of the writings of President Roosevelt.
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1904-08-31
Since Lucius B. Swift missed President Roosevelt’s letter, it is too late for him to come to Washington, D.C., but he would be able to visit Oyster Bay, New York. He is relieved about the Byrne matter. James Rudolph Garfield has sent Swift the information he requested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-19
Lucius B. Swift is honored to be invited to come to Washington to speak with President Taft about conditions in Indiana, but unfortunately cannot afford the expense of traveling. He believes the population of Indiana support Taft’s determination to call a special session of Congress to ratify the Canadian treaty if necessary, and overall back Taft’s policies. Indiana Republicans as a whole are progressive, and Swift believes they will continue to hold power in the state organization, and that those Republicans opposing them will fall in line. Swift approves of Taft’s actions to remove postmasters from being political positions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-02