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Walter Wellman is tasked with acquiring from President Roosevelt a letter of introduction for William Jennings Bryan to Leonard Wood. Bryan is traveling to Havana to do some newspaper work for Collier’s Weekly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-09
Elisha Ely Garrison recommends that President Roosevelt write a book about his views on current issues. He provides an outline of potential topics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-08
The Inter-Parliamentary Conference occurred recently, with delegates attending from across the world. Of particular note was British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s speech welcoming the delegates and setting out some of his hopes for the unofficial gathering of nations, including that diplomacy and arbitration can help contribute to a lessening of the need for military conflict.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-27
George Harrison Barbour has a high opinion of William Emory Quinby and his paper, the Free Press of Detroit, Michigan. Although he is a Democrat, Quinby bravely sided with the Republican Party on the silver issue and supported William McKinley’s campaign. Everyone Barbour has encountered has confidence in President Roosevelt’s capabilities. He recently met with Puerto Rican delegates and assured them that Roosevelt would offer them rights in the future.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-31
Booker T. Washington reports what he knows about a certain person and his political convictions. He notes that the party voted for John M. Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buckner of the National Democratic Party in 1896, but entered the Democratic primaries in 1900 to help defeat the nomination of William Jennings Bryan. Washington suggests their friends be advised to appoint a Montgomery man to represent the “best class of white people” and to appoint William Demos Crum as internal revenue collector for South Carolina, representing the “best class of colored.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-04
E. Mont Reily congratulates Vice President Roosevelt on his Minneapolis speech and compares it favorably to a Labor Day speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan. He encloses several editorials from the Kansas City Star, a “Gold Democratic paper” that is supporting Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-04
Charles Noble Gregory is a Theodore Roosevelt supporter and discusses why he believes Roosevelt is a viable candidate compared to President McKinley and William Jennings Bryan. He asks that Roosevelt not make any decisions to jeopardize his candidacy should McKinley not run for reelection or not be selected to run.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-08-05
This article describes President Roosevelt as the “overwhelming choice” of state legislators in South Dakota and Nebraska, as illustrated by the results of a poll.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-02
Major General Sickles urges United States military veterans to set aside partisan differences to oppose the election of the Democratic Party’s candidate for the 1896 presidential election, William Jennings Bryan. Sickles primarily denounces Bryan on the issue of replacing the gold standard with a looser silver standard, which will, according to Sickles, allow debtors to pay off creditors and government bonds with less valuable currency, defrauding many veterans and army widows of the value of their pensions. Sickles considers this an unconstitutional attack on the public credit, a move towards Populist mob-rule. Sickles also accuses Bryan of encouraging the type of sectionalism that sparked the American Civil War. Although Sickles identifies as a Democrat himself, he denounces the platform and candidate, Bryan, approved at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and voices support for the Republican Candidate, William McKinley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1896-07