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Due to a dispute among Colorado Republicans, President Roosevelt asks Postmaster General Payne not to make any more appointments until after the election.
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1902-10-22
Alford Warriner Cooley is a personal friend of President Roosevelt and “can be trusted in every way.”
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1902-10-24
The Congressional Committee is short of funds and President Roosevelt would like Postmaster General Payne to assist them. Representative J. W. Babcock, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, will be contacting Payne.
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1902-08-19
President Roosevelt asks Postmaster General Payne when he will be coming to Oyster Bay, New York.
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1902-07-25
President Roosevelt asks Postmaster General Payne to inform Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough that Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and Secretaryof the Interior Ethan Allan Hitchcock have determined that the interviews are fictitious.
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1902-07-09
President Roosevelt addresses southern party politics and believes it is necessary to accept former Democrats into the Republican Party if the Republicans are to appear respectable in the south. Roosevelt is also having difficulties with a New York Times correspondent that he describes as a “particularly malicious and slanderous liar.”
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1902-07-08
President Roosevelt recommends that three post offices in Missouri “should be taken up anyhow.”
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1902-07-02
Senator McEnery recommends Carney for postmaster at New Orleans.
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1902-06-18
The protests of William Allen White have convinced President Roosevelt not to appoint Wiggam as postmaster of Emporia, Kansas.
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1902-06-21
President Roosevelt would like Henry C. Payne’s conclusions regarding the Tennessee marshalship.
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1902-06-21
President Roosevelt encloses the interview and has informed Sutherland that Senator Kearns’s nominee for Ogden has been submitted.
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1902-06-23
Andrew J. Locke, postmaster at Eufaula, Alabama, has received considerable support for his reappointment and President Roosevelt is favorable.
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1902-06-14
President Roosevelt encloses letters from John G. Capers and Charles H. Simonton recommending Wilmot Lewis Harris as postmaster at Charleston.
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1902-06-14
President Roosevelt and ex-Congressman Jacob Yost want the present postmaster of Lexington, Virginia, retained.
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1902-06-14
William Allen White is protesting the appointment of Wiggam as postmaster at Emporia, Kansas. President Roosevelt is leaning towards stopping Wiggam’s appointment and requests that Henry C. Payne hold the matter up until August 28.
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1902-06-16
President Roosevelt encloses, and agrees with, several letters endorsing D. R. Anthony for reappointment as postmaster at Leavenworth, Kansas.
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1902-06-16
President Roosevelt would like to give “a first-class white man from North Carolina” a position of at least $3000.
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1902-06-05
Mr. Graves has information regarding an improper agreement at the Russellville post office prepared by Mr. Remmel. Roosevelt suggests an immediate investigation.
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1902-05-31
President Roosevelt considers the protests against Russell Alger to be serious and wants Postmaster General Payne to take up the matter.
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1902-06-02
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Major Llewellyn regarding certain articles that are being published. Roosevelt would like to know if Postmaster General Payne thinks these articles should be counteracted.
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1902-06-02