Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927

Otto Gresham informs President Roosevelt that he has advised the Indianapolis financier Volney T. Malott to call on Roosevelt the next time he travels east. Gresham mentions that Volney declined Senator Albert Beveridge’s offer to chair the Indiana State Finance committee and resigned from the executive committee of the American Bankers Association. Gresham adds that Volney is opposed to “asset currency” and holds Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw in high regard. He ends by assuring Roosevelt that “certain Democrats” have said that the people are with Roosevelt and that he will not be defeated in the election.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-05

Albert Shaw thinks it best to allow Senator Beveridge to be the first to make a seconding speech at the Republican National Convention. He will be “very direct and terse and to the point” while the other speakers will be “oratorical.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-06

Albert Shaw sends President Roosevelt a copy of a letter from Senator Beveridge. Shaw discusses potential vice-presidential nominees. He says that there is “absolutely no public sentiment” for Charles W. Fairbanks and recommends Illinois congressmen Robert R. Hitt or Joseph G. Cannon as vice-presidential choices.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1904-06-03

Postmaster General Payne informs William Loeb that the Post Office Department did not make any changes to the rural free delivery districts that are included in Indiana. He further states that the district includes Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Because the district is so large, there has been no talk of change.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-18

The writer highlights quotes from the speech Albert J. Beveridge gave regarding President Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05

Stephen E. Siry provides a detailed account of the trolley car accident in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 3, 1902 that injured President Roosevelt and killed Secret Service agent William Craig. Siry covers Roosevelt’s travel in New England before the accident; describes the collision between a trolley car and the president’s horse drawn carriage; and details the aftermath of the incident, including Roosevelt’s desire to reassure the nation that he was safe. Siry also examines the treatment of the wound to Roosevelt’s leg and the subsequent travel plans that were altered and abandoned as his condition worsened. 

Four photographs supplement the article, including three from the day of the accident. 

Excerpt from Joseph Bucklin Bishop’s Theodore Roosevelt and His Time about the October 1912 assassination attempt on Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bucklin covers the shooting, Roosevelt’s speech, his hospitalization, and the motivations of the shooter, John Schrank.

A drawing of Roosevelt’s speech showing the hole made by the assassin’s bullet accompanies the excerpt.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

The results of the presidential poll conducted by the Topeka Capital.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-25

The results of the presidential poll conducted by the Valley Farmer in February 1911.

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Creation Date

1911-04

Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge hopes President Roosevelt can see Senators Joseph Benson Foraker, Porter J. McCumber, Henry Clay Hansbrough, and R. A. Alger on the statehood matter before Monday.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-07

President Roosevelt stands at the “Presidency” plate on a baseball diamond, holding a bat labeled “Honest & Upright Government.” David B. Hill is poised to pitch him a “Tricky Politics” ball. “Gray,” William Jennings Bryan, and Grover Cleveland are in the outfield, while “Williams, Captain” talks with catcher Alton B. Parker. August Belmont, as bat boy, carries a “$” bag of bats labeled “Trusts” and “Interest.” Behind Roosevelt in the dugout are his teammates, Chauncey M. Depew, Albert J. Beveridge, Joseph Gurney Cannon, John Hay, George B. Cortelyou, “Black,” and vice-presidential candidate Charles W. Fairbanks. In the stands in the background are kings and other interested fans.

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Creation Date

1904-08

Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna attempts to control an elephant costume that President Roosevelt wears as several men run after it, including Indiana Senators Albert J. Beveridge and Charles W. Fairbanks. The elephant costume has a sign that reads, “GOP campaign of 1904. For Prest: T. Roosevelt. For Vice Prest. ?”

Comments and Context

In a clever graphic representation of the national Republican situation pertaining to the presidential ticket in 1904, despite the convention being more than a year in the future, cartoonist Luther Daniels Bradley assumed President Roosevelt would be re-nominated — a common assumption.

But he shows Republican National Party Chairman Marcus Alonzo Hanna, fresh from being thwarted from his own pursuit of the nomination, still attempting to influence events. Being summoned, and chasing the role of Number Two — vice-presidential running mate, the rear end, so to speak, of the ticket — are Senator Albert J. Beveridge, a new ally of Roosevelt; Old Guard stalwart Charles Fairbanks (whose own ambitions were palpable, and who ultimately was chosen by the convention as the running mate); and others.

In the first cartoon, a “Beveridge” bottle with a label “not to be uncorked” sits on a shelf labeled “Republican National Committee.” An animal points down at it saying, “They certn’y have missed a treat.” Roosevelt goes to pour another bottle labeled “Burrows” into the “temporary chairmanship” goblet and says, “Ugh!! They’ve opened the wrong bottle.” In the second cartoon, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks looks at a goblet and says, “Buttermilk for my beverage.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

Cartoonist Ole May made two unconnected points in this drawing — except for the puns on the name of Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana — both in reference to the news of the week.

Several Democratic leaders pull at ropes tied together. Senator Arthur P. Gorman and Representative William Bourke Cockran pull against each other on the “tariff question,” William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland pull against each other on the “money question,” and August Belmont and William Randolph Hearst pull against each other on the “trust question.” Caption: Think of Gorman agreeing with Cochran on the tariff question. Think of Bryan agreeing with Cleveland on the money question. Think of reconciling the words of their platform and their candidate on the Philippine question. Think of Belmont harmonizing with Hearst on the trust question.—Senator Beveridge’s Tomlinson Hall Speech.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-10

An ice pitcher features Alton B. Parker’s face while a coffee pot features President Roosevelt’s face. “The working man” is seated and has a coffee cup and glass in front of him. Caption: “I thank Mr. Bryan for his suggestion of the water pitcher. It puts the party difference in their proper contrast—the Republican party and coffee pot; the opposition and the freezing water pitcher, and let the voter take his choice.”—Senator Beveridge at Evansville.

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1904-11-06

The author of the article analyzes Republican losses and the Democratic victory in Indiana following the 1908 election, where James E. Watson was defeated in his Senate race. This defeat is attributed to a number of things such as the local temperance movement and Governor J. Frank Hanly’s determination to call an ill-advised special session of the legislature. However, more broadly the author points to a lack of unity within the party, poor organization on the part of the Republican party, and a resistance to machine rule.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-07

Telephone message from Senator Albert J. Beveridge, stating that “Sen [Nathan Bay] Scott has stated to Sen [Stephen B.] Elkins that the President told him he did not care anything about the standard bill.” Beveridge wishes Roosevelt would “straighten Sen Scott out.” Beveridge also wants President Roosevelt to see Senator Boies Penrose and encourage him to act further.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-15

Various prominent citizens including, President Roosevelt and multiple senators, justices, and cabinet members, state their support of endowing a department of political science in Western Reserve University in memory of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-27

The tariff slogan of the Republican Party for the coming Congressional campaign will be “stand pat,” as decided by several members of the Republican Congressional Committee and approved by President Roosevelt. While no attendees gave quotes of the proceedings of the luncheon at Roosevelt’s home, all expressed satisfaction with the conference, and confidence that the Republican party can stand on its record. Republican campaign headquarters are to be opened in New York shortly. The article additionally reports on Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon’s travel plans.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-23

An article in The American Review of Reviews reflects on the current political situation in Congress, especially lamenting that both houses are controlled by powerful cliques who work in their own interests, often at the expense of legislation that would benefit the people. In particular, tariffs and appropriations for the construction of battleships are discussed. The author also speculates about the outcomes of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the upcoming presidential campaign, as well as the necessity of a good man to run the Republican convention.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-21