Cowles, William Hutchinson, 1866-1946

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-06-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Cowles, William Hutchinson, 1866-1946

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Hutchinson Cowles for his letter, which described a plan similar to that in a letter Roosevelt received from Senator Miles Poindexter. Roosevelt has given Cowles’s letter to Senator Dixon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-07-30

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Hutchinson Cowles for his letter and the editorial from the Oregonian.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-07

Theodore Roosevelt tells William Hutchinson Cowles that the Associated Press dispatch was a fake, and that he believes something about it. Because of it, Roosevelt felt that he should not accept an invitation from President William H. Taft. Roosevelt expresses consternation with the Associated Press’s recent actions and reporting.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-13

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs William Hutchinson Cowles that Roosevelt knows he is in town and would like to know if Cowles could come to Sagamore Hill for lunch on Wednesday or Thursday. If that is not possible, Cowles could visit Roosevelt at The Outlook office on Tuesday or Friday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-24

Theodore Roosevelt denounces the interview as false. He explains to William Hutchinson Cowles that he is giving a speaking tour because he wants to visit each state and acknowledge them as the former president. Roosevelt hopes to see Cowles during his visit to Spokane, Washington.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-14

The articles that William H. Cowles has sent Theodore Roosevelt are “capital” and highlight the problem with “the fatal and dangerous point of the proposition.” Roosevelt is comforted that Cowles also supports universal service.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-10-30

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Hutchinson Cowles for the articles and remarks it was nice seeing him the other day. Roosevelt fought hard for universal service and has included articles of his own in return to Cowles.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-10-25

Theodore Roosevelt cannot approve of William Hutchinson Cowles’s editorial and opposes universal arbitration. Each nation and community has issues which they would refuse to arbitrate. The Wilson administration has signed thirty arbitration treaties and refused to abide by the treaty with Germany when the Lusitania was sunk. The public approved of President Wilson’s decision. Promises should not be made that the nation, its leaders, or the public do not intend to keep. The nations of Europe are fighting for their existence and will justifiably ignore calls for arbitration and pacifism from America. The United States needs to prepare for war and learn to keep promises.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-06-17

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Hutchinson Cowles of the Spokesman Review for his support in the campaign and invites him to visit whenever he is in New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-11-25

President Roosevelt informs William Hutchinson Cowles that he has gone over the matter Cowles wrote about with Franklin K. Lane of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Roosevelt also writes that he believes that Oregon will instruct for Secretary of War William H. Taft, and now that Colonel Cecil Andrew Lyon of Texas has gone for Taft, he will be nominated on the first ballot.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-04

President Roosevelt is unsure what to tell William Hutchinson Cowles about the Spokane case that Cowles mentioned. Roosevelt says that Senator Jonathan Bourne is a bit of a fanatic in taking a third-term attitude, but that all of Roosevelt’s other friends are strongly in favor of Secretary of War William H. Taft’s campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-18

President Roosevelt would be pleased to accept confidential information from William Hutchinson Cowles regarding the qualifications and character of the incumbents in the larger Washington offices.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-21

Theodore Roosevelt praises William Hutchinson Cowles and The Spokane Review for publishing a pamphlet advocating for universal military training and “liability to service” during wartime. Roosevelt hopes the pamphlet will be widely circulated.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-06-07