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List of votes for Republican, Democrat, and Socialist presidential candidates for the election of 1912 published in the Toledo Weekly Blade. The list shows more Ohioans voted for Theodore Roosevelt over President William H. Taft, the Democrats, and the Socialists combined.
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1911-12-07
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1911-12-06
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-06
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At a recent meeting on international peace, New York Chief Justice Isaac F. Russell provided the main speech. War is frequently held in high esteem and is seen as glorious, and spurs on associated benefits. There are parallel views of war as expensive and wasteful on one hand, and as spurring growth and renewal on the other. Arbitration, Russell says, is necessarily limited, and has substantial difficulties in being imposed between nations who do not wish it. Countries who willingly choose to arbitrate, however, can be very successful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
At a recent meeting on international peace, New York Chief Justice Isaac F. Russell spoke on the limits of arbitration with regards to international relations. There are also difficulties in creating an international tribunal because of the inequalities between nations. Even if judgements could be made in such a court, there would be substantial difficulties enforcing them. Nevertheless, arbitration can be useful and can help avoid military conflict when nations work together to pursue it.
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1911-12
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1911-12-05
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Theodore Roosevelt recently spoke at Carnegie Hall on the Conservation of Motherhood and Childhood. During the course of his speech, he deviated away from this topic and additionally opined that the people should be given more power and the courts should have less. The author of this piece says that the women in attendance should have asked whether “the people” in this instance included women.
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1911-12
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1911-12-04
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-04
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Frank S. Roberts has been appointed district judge of the twenty-second judicial district of Texas. Roberts is a native Texan who joined Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and then attended law school in Indiana. He returned to Texas to practice law and was quickly elected country attorney. Roberts has impressively risen from janitor to lawyer to district judge in seven years.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-04
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-04
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-03
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-02
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1911-12-02
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1911-12-02
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Marquis Jutarō Komura, who served as a Japanese diplomat and Minister for Foreign Affairs, recently died. Several governments with which he worked, including Great Britain and the United States, sent messages through their ambassadors expressing condolences at the news of his death.
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1911-11-27
Among other articles on this fragment of a newspaper page, an article commenting on President William H. Taft is highlighted. Taft, when interviewed by a sympathetic partner, speaks freely and concisely. The newspaper opines that even if he lacks some insight, vision, and skill, Taft is doing the best he can.
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1911-12-01
Among other articles printed on a page of the Kalamazoo Gazette, an article reporting the visit of a party of politicians to the Nazareth Academy is circled. During the visit, Michigan Governor Chase S. Osborn remarked that Roosevelt Hall, from which many of the students came, was named for “the greatest American living.”
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1911-11-30
Newspaper article reporting on the concert at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Masonic Home of Utica which consisted of professional performers as well as children from the home dancing and performing music. The concert raised over $5,000 for the Masonic Home and the children enjoyed their trip to New York City. Letters received by William J. Wiley, superintendent of the home, are also printed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-29
Wharton Barker, during recent testimony in front of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, alleged that he had been told that financiers supported Theodore Roosevelt in the 1904 election because he had made a bargain on the railroad question. Barker additionally alleged that Roosevelt was made aware of the impending 1907 financial crisis, but did not act to save the country. Senators present at the meeting were skeptical of Barker’s claims.
The “railroad question” refers to the antitrust discussion surrounding the monopolistic railroad corporations.