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The Roosevelt administration will be supporting the Houk following in Tennessee against the Brownlow-Austin following. John Houk appears to be winning the contest, and James Sullivan Clarkson has sent instruction not to form a faction but to attempt to unify the Republican Party in Tennessee.
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1902-08-11
James Sullivan Clarkson is working to have the Texas State Convention declare in favor of President Roosevelt.
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1902-08-11
General Corbin forwards a letter and accompanying documents from General Chaffee.
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1902-08-11
Cleveland H. Dodge offers President Roosevelt the use of his yacht, “Hester.”
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1902-08-11
Willie’s pet Bozzie has died but the family had fun at the automobile races.
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1902-08-11
Robert E. Ford encloses a report on a convention of Catholic societies.
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1902-08-11
Elisabeth Susan Buring Sampson, widow of Admiral William Thomas Sampson, encloses a formal application to the United States Naval Academy for her son, Ralph E. Sampson. When he was fifteen, Ralph performed poorly on sections of the examination but Mrs. Sampson cannot imagine Admiral Sampson’s son as anything other than a naval officer.
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1903-02-09
Theodore W. Noyes does not believe that Henry Litchfield West is qualified to be a District Commissioner.
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1902-08-11
Commissioner Partridge forwards a $300 check from 1896 that needs to be endorsed by President Roosevelt due to his former capacity as President of the Board of Police. The money is from James Stokes and is to be used to establish a library for the 19th Precinct.
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1902-08-11
Senator Platt has made an arrangement that will eliminate Sherman as a candidate and leave the field to Ray.
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1902-08-11
Felix Alexander Reeve does not recommend confronting the Roosevelt administration over the friar controversy in the Philippines. The main opposition to the friars comes from the Filipinos and under such circumstances the friars can achieve little good.
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1902-08-11
Reverend Schick would like to publish President Roosevelt’s photograph and signature in a yearbook for 1903.
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1902-08-11
John A. Sleicher will take lunch with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, New York any day this week.
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1902-08-11
Wilhelm Snyman defends himself from accusations by Thomas Alfred Beddy regarding embezzlement of funds collected for the benefit of Boer women and orphans affected by the South African War.
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1902-08-11
Francis C. Travers heard a speech from an “American Jesuit” that was very complimentary towards President Roosevelt.
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1902-08-11
Eugene F. Ware thinks that a newspaper should publish a history of President Roosevelt’s volunteer regiment, the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders).
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1902-08-11
William Allen White sends President Roosevelt a book entitled “The Simple Life.”
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1902-08-11
William Williams hopes that President Roosevelt will be pleased with the enclosed.
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1902-08-11
There has been difficulty sending President Roosevelt’s letter to Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson as Wilson is currently traveling in the Midwest.
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1902-08-11
Smith Cox and John M. Dimon have accepted President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch.
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1902-08-11