Hitchcock, Frank H. (Frank Harris), 1867-1935

President Roosevelt tells Republican National Committee Chairman Hitchcock about the steps that are being taken to counteract the bigotry that the American Protective Association is threatening. The Association is attacking William H. Taft for being a Unitarian and supporting Catholics and is also bringing up old accusations that Puerto Rico Governor Regis Henri Post was pro-Catholic.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt asks Frank H. Hitchcock to forward campaign literature, party platforms, and anything else he believes necessary to Secretary of State Elihu Root to help him prepare an address to the New York State Republican Convention. Roosevelt thinks Hitchcock should consult with William H. Taft as well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt forwards to Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman of the Republican National Committee, a letter written by John Williams, labor commissioner of New York. Roosevelt agrees with most of what Williams has written regarding labor organization. Roosevelt believes that rather than sending political literature, which is a waste of money, states need organizations of the sort that New York has been trying to establish. He asks Hitchcock to see Williams about this.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt congratulates Frank H. Hitchcock on being named Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Roosevelt will help any way he can in the campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt congratulates Frank H. Hitchcock on the way he ran the campaign, and thinks that he followed the only course possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt was pleased by Frank H. Hitchcock’s telegram of the previous evening, and thinks that Pearl Wight acted in a patriotic matter. He thinks that if any of Wight’s associates tried to appeal to the convention, they would only bring disaster.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt sends a telegram to Frank H. Hitchcock at the Republican National Convention hoping that the Louisiana case can be settled on its merits. He says that he instructed Pearl Wight, who he holds in high regard, to make sure that colored men were put on the delegation because he thought it was right and equitable, and because failing to do so would jeopardize the case being judged on its merits. Nonetheless, he hopes that Wight will abide by the decision of the committee and accept Hitchcock’s judgement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has communicated with both Pearl Wight and Francis Bennett Williams, but believes he does not have enough knowledge of the case to intervene. He hopes that the case will be treated exactly on its merits, and that he has no personal request to make of them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt sends a telegram to Frank H. Hitchcock encouraging him to read the telegram Roosevelt previously sent to Frank B. Kellogg. Roosevelt thinks it would be a mistake not to include the injunction plank in the Republican Party platform, and says that they should neither yield to the extremists of the Manufacturers’ Association nor the extremists of the labor party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt encloses a letter he wrote to Judge Alston Gordon Dayton and instructs Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock to show it to any delegates who have pledged their support to Secretary of War William H. Taft, but show signs of weakening. Roosevelt believes that Taft will be nominated on the first ballot, but sends the letter in case the necessity of using it arises. He does not want to make another public statement in the matter, and instructs Hitchcock to keep the letter out of the newspapers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thinks it is wise for Frank H. Hitchcock not to show this letter to anyone unless he and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge both deem it necessary. He warns Hitchcock to keep the matter “absolutely secret” and not to reference it in the press.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has received Frank H. Hitchcock’s letter of resignation and thanks him for his service as assistant postmaster general. Roosevelt praises Hitchcock for his accomplishments while part of the postal service.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt instructs Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock to not worry about the article and reassures Hitchcock that Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer values his work in the department.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-24

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Recipient

Hitchcock, Frank H. (Frank Harris), 1867-1935

Language

English

President Roosevelt informs First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock he has been selected as part of a committee to investigate how to make the business of the government more efficient. The committee will also include Commissioner of Corporations James Rudolph Garfield, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor Lawrence O. Murray, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles Hallam Keep, and Chief of the U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot. Roosevelt lists several considerations he particularly wants the committee to examine, including how to eliminate “useless letter-writing.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

William H. Taft writes to Chairman of the Republican National Committee Hitchcock to ask for the resignations of both Treasurer of the Republican National Committee George Rumsey Sheldon and Head of the Speaker’s Bureau T. Coleman DuPont, on the grounds that Sheldon solicited funds from trust affiliates and DuPont is currently involved in a trust suit. He suggests possible replacements for DuPont, and asks for a system of campaign funding that solicits small subscriptions through western cities.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-22

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

President Roosevelt forwards to Republican Committee Chairman Hitchcock a letter to show to any delegates who may be disposed to nominate Roosevelt instead of Secretary of War William H. Taft for President at the Republican National Convention. The letter is from Roosevelt to Judge Alston Gordon Dayton. It is to be kept secret unless absolutely necessary.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-06-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919