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M. O. Gates tells Theodore Roosevelt thousands of men believe Roosevelt needs to step up and rescue the party. If Roosevelt and Albert J. Beveridge are the leaders, Gates knows the Republicans will win, but if William H. Taft is nominated, there will not be victory.
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1911-12-13
Paul V. Collins gives Theodore Roosevelt the names of the men who submitted an article on reciprocity to be published in The Outlook and confirms that Roosevelt gave the men a word limit for the article. Collins writes of his experience trying to get the editor of the Saturday Evening Post to print an article contrary to the line the magazine had already taken on reciprocity and says most publications have only printed one side of the story. Collins thinks there is likely to be a “stampede” at the Republican National Convention and Roosevelt will be nominated.
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1911-12-14
The author of this article argues that the United States Supreme Court is working with the American Tobacco Company to dissolve the illegal company but, in allowing a new company to be created, are forming a monopoly that will drive out independent retailers from the tobacco industry. To avoid the scandal and lawsuits that will come if the Supreme Court continues on their path, the author suggests the Supreme Court request a full inventory of the assets of all the companies forming the new trust and verify all stocks and bonds under the companies, especially the American Cigar Company, are covered. The second suggestion made is to make coupons illegal because the issuance of coupons runs independent retailers out of business.
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1911-12-21
Theodore Roosevelt reviews the first two volumes of Albert J. Beveridge’s The Life of John Marshall, which is about Supreme Court Justice Marshall. The review was published in The Outlook on July 18, 1917.
1917
President Roosevelt tells Frank B. Kellogg that he believes that Senator Albert J. Beveridge, not Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, should be temporary chairman.
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1908-04-23
President Roosevelt updates Secretary of War Taft on his conversation with Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou in which he made clear that the nominee for president will be chosen based on what is best for the party. Men from various states have contacted Roosevelt attempting to convince him to run again and expressing whether they would support Taft. Evaluating the potential candidates, Roosevelt focuses on Governor Charles Evans Hughes, who is the biggest potential threat. Roosevelt says that Bishop Charles Henry Brent recently delivered a ridiculous sermon on the Philippines and that Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte has been doing well this summer despite his difficult work.
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1907-09-03
President Roosevelt likes Arizona Governor Kibbey’s letter regarding Judge Edward Kent. He confides in Kibbey that he is unsure what policy to pursue concerning statehood. While the issue of joint statehood with New Mexico is likely dead, Roosevelt still wants to meet with “leaders of the…fight,” and invites Kibbey. Roosevelt will not accept Kibbey’s resignation as he is doing right by the people, unlike former New Mexico Governor Herbert J. Hagerman.
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1907-08-27
President Roosevelt tells Massachusetts Representative Washburn that he has kept an open mind concerning the child labor bill sponsored by Albert J. Beveridge. While Roosevelt sees arguments in its favor, the letter Washburn forwarded from Mrs. Evans has “equally strong arguments against it.”
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1907-08-03
President Roosevelt informs Representative Bartholdt that he will see Representative James A. Tawney on Monday and do all he can. Senator Albert J. Beveridge wants Roosevelt’s support for his child labor bill, but Roosevelt believes the only way forward with that bill is for Bartholdt to get his bill through the Senate.
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1907-01-19
President Roosevelt tells Edgar Gardner Murphy that his letter arrived at the right time as it helped him decide to refrain from commenting on the Beveridge bill until he can carefully go over it. He discusses the Brownsville incident and says he acted on the principles which he has preached.
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1907-01-17
President Roosevelt returns the article to Albert Shaw, and hopes that Shaw will write an article himself. Roosevelt wishes that Shaw could visit him again so he could express his ideas in person, but is sure that Shaw already knows his views on a number of topics. He states that while he is friendly to England, he is “neither pro-Boer, nor pro-Briton; simply pro-American.”
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1901-10-09
Senator Lodge shares some of a letter from Secretary of the Immigration Commission, Morton E. Crane, in which Crane discusses the positive feelings of the citizens of London toward President Roosevelt’s economic policies, as well as the friendship between Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge and David Graham Phillips, author of The Treason of the Senate. Lodge also shares segments from Baron F. A. Channing’s essay on the Union, which Roosevelt may want to quote.
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1907-09-02
Frances M. Wolcott updates President Roosevelt about the comings and goings among her friends and family in Paris, many of whom are ill with Diphtheria. She also explains the gift she sent him, a thermos.
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1907-02-13
Senator Lodge appreciates Senator Albert J. Beveridge’s letter. Lodge requests that William Loeb tell President Roosevelt that Beveridge spoke to Lodge. Lodge was surprised that Beveridge talked to Roosevelt, but is grateful for it.
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1907-02-02
Senator Albert J. Beveridge requests the number of African Americans President Roosevelt has appointed during his presidency, as well as a short account of the three or four “bitter fights that have been made against him on account of some of these appointments.”
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1907-01-20
Commissioner of Labor Charles P. Neill explains the importance of passing either the Beveridge bill or the Lodge bill to eradicate child labor in the United States. Two-thirds of states and territories already have laws regulating child labor, with a wide variety of laws in place. The lack of uniformity in these laws creates unfair competition between industries and states, and the passage of one of the federal bills would help solve this problem. Neill concludes by asserting that children under fourteen should be pupils, not breadwinners; child labor is indefensible; and intelligence and education are vital to maintain a high standard of citizenship in the United States.
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1907-01-15
President Roosevelt, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge, and Commissioner of Corporations at the Department of Commerce and Labor James Rudolph Garfield James Rudolph Garfield lead a “beef trust” minotaur to a “publicity” pond. There is “the muckrake” alligator on the shore.
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1906-05-29
President Roosevelt puts a “substitute bill” in a suitcase as a “beef trust” hand sneaks a similar looking “Beveridge bill” suitcase into the room through a secret door. The “big stick” leans up against a desk.
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1906-06-16
An analysis of antitrust and anti-combination policies of President Roosevelt and other government figures.
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1902