Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929

Julius Horvath tells Theodore Roosevelt he has read several articles in foreign languages and they are taking great interest in Roosevelt becoming president in 1912. Horvath has been politically active since coming to the United States by helping over 800 immigrants become naturalized and maintaining relationships with prominent Republican politicians. With his skills of language and connections with immigrants in the U.S., Horvath is sure they will support Roosevelt for president.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Creator(s)

Horvath, Julius

President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Judge John Campbell. The Republican National Committee seems to be running smoothly and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon has been aiding Treasurer of the Republican National Committee George Rumsey Sheldon. Roosevelt outlines his optimism about the campaign, but admits that New York may be difficult and that he has received a worried letter from Representative Theodore E. Burton about Ohio. Roosevelt does not plan on speaking, other than potentially on labor, and he asks for William H. Taft’s input on postmaster appointments.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt shares his thoughts on the difficulty of dealing with Ohio Representative Theodore E. Burton and the reasons for his African safari with William Allen White. Roosevelt asks White if William H. Taft will win the upcoming presidential election in Kansas.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Myron T. Herrick for the letter, and says he has encouraged Representative Theodore E. Burton to accept. Roosevelt asks if Herrick can come to Washington, D.C. in September or October.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-03

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Former Ohio Governor Herrick sincerely appreciates the duplicate letter President Roosevelt sent. Herrick says he would have accepted the position offered, but felt obligated to defeat Tom Loftin Johnson then, and feels sure Theodore E. Burton can do the same now. He asks to delay the meeting Roosevelt requested in order to attend the dedication of the McKinley memorial in Canton, Ohio.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-17

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Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy), 1854-1929

Myron T. Herrick believes Representative Theodore E. Burton can defeat Cleveland Mayor Thomas L. Johnson, and that this victory will assist Secretary of War Taft. Herrick will be in New York and would like to tell President Roosevelt in person how he influenced his friends on the court to vote in favor of the state endorsing Taft.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-01

Creator(s)

Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy), 1854-1929

Editor of the Ohio State Journal Robert Frederick Wolfe informs President Roosevelt’s secretary that Wolfe met with Charles Phelps Taft, Representative Theodore E. Burton, and Secretary of the Republican National Committee Elmer Dover. Wolfe engaged in these meetings to learn about Taft’s interests and a possible compromise with Senator Joseph B. Foraker, but says that Dover tried to improperly influence Wolfe’s newspaper. Wolfe claims to have uncovered a plot involving William Randolph Hearst to control both the Democratic and Republican national conventions and the presidential election. Wolfe claims that Franklin Rockefeller told him in an off-the-record interview that moneyed interests from New York were planning to create a financial panic to disrupt Roosevelt’s policies. Wolfe says he is coming to Washington, D.C., to discuss this, but asks that Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield not be told.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-08

Creator(s)

Wolfe, Robert Frederick, 1860-1927

Leslie M. Shaw details the conflict in Cleveland, Ohio, over the use of local sandstone in a federal building project and the resulting resolution currently pending in Congress. Although Theodore E. Burton has changed his mind since introducing that legislation, Shaw has committed to a course of action and must depend on the passage or rejection of that bill by Congress.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-05

Creator(s)

Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932

President Roosevelt holds a “cable to W.H. Taft (special)” and speaks to Ohio Representative Theodore E. Burton who holds a crutch–“Roosevelt’s support”–and has his right arm in his sleeve–“Cleveland Electric Railway Help.” His head is bandaged and labeled, “Taft’s endorsement” as he says, “I-I-did the best I could under the circumstances.” In the background, William Loeb says, “I’m to blame.” There are a number of telegrams to the right of Roosevelt’s chair: “Johnson’s plurality: 8000–,” “Johnson wins,” and “Good-bye, Con Con.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-07

President Roosevelt pushes William H. Taft holding a pennant, “Taft Boom.” Behind Roosevelt is Representative Theodore E. Burton and a group of men with the pennant, “Radical Freshmen.” In front of Taft are the “Conservative Sophomores”: Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, Philander C. Knox, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, and Senator Joseph Benson Foraker.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-26

Creator(s)

Russell, Kirk L, -1934

Eight men sleep in a bed with sweat on their forehead as they all dream about “third term sentiment.” The men include Ohio Senator Theodore E. Burton, Benjamin B. Odell, South Carolina Benjamin R. Tillman with a pitchfork, William Randolph Hearst, Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, Edward Henry Harriman, and John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit about his battles with Congress to get four battleships. Roosevelt says some senators are indifferent or unpatriotic. He fears war with Japan and that pushes him to build the navy. Roosevelt adds that Ted was home with a sore throat but is now better, and also says that he and Edith went riding.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-04-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A list of Republican and Democratic Representatives, probably related to some piece of legislation under consideration.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-05

Creator(s)

Unknown

Edward Atkinson sends President Roosevelt a pamphlet dealing with “ignorance and illiteracy” as the “main source of the race problem” in the United States. He believes that Republican representatives such as Charles E. Littlefield, Samuel W. McCall, or Theodore E. Burton could introduce a bill to remedy the problem.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-08

Creator(s)

Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905

Theodore Roosevelt gives Angus McSween his opinion about the current political candidates and asks that McSween not quote him. He believes that Theodore E. Burton is a less desirable candidate than Elihu Root because he is against national defense and only supports it as Woodrow Wilson does.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-11-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt advises Senator Knox, who will be president-elect William H. Taft’s secretary of state, on the importance and fragility of the relationship between the United States and Japan. Roosevelt explains why he believes that there is a real possibility that Japan will declare war on the United States, although this is by no means certain. Currently, many Americans are pursuing ineffectual and offensive strategies in an effort to prevent Japanese immigration to the United States. Roosevelt supports their goal but not their means. In Hawaii, meanwhile, Roosevelt disapproves of sugar planters encouraging large numbers of settlers from China and Japan to come work on their plantations. Roosevelt feels that the settlement of Hawaii by individuals from Southern Europe should be encouraged. His more general policy is threefold. He wants the government to prevent Japanese citizens from settling in America, while treating Japan “so courteously that she will not be offended more than necessary,” and building up the navy as a preventative measure. Although the value of this policy should be self-evident, Americans “are shortsighted and have short memories.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt will act according to Albert Shaw’s wishes in the matter of Gustavus A. Gessner, the man Shaw indicated should be renominated as postmaster in Foraker, Ohio. Senator Theodore E. Burton, Representative Grant E. Mouser, and Thomas J. Maxwell all oppose the renomination, because Gessner actively supported Senator Joseph Benson Foraker over president-elect William H. Taft in the past election. However, Gessner is a good postmaster, and Roosevelt had already promised Shaw to reappoint him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs President-Elect Taft of what he has done about the Ohio senatorship. Taft’s brother Charles Phelps Taft recently remarked to Roosevelt that he nearly believes it would be better for Ohio to continue to have Joseph Benson Foraker as its senator than to have Theodore E. Burton. Roosevelt rebutted this belief, saying it is imperative that Ohio no longer have Foraker as its senator in order for Taft’s upcoming administration to succeed. Roosevelt later told Gustav J. Karger the same thing–that the most important piece of the Ohio senatorial contest was that Foraker lost.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt believes that President-Elect Taft’s sweeping victory proves that, with the possible exception of New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, he was the only Republican who could have defeated William Jennings Bryan. Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Taft at the White House, and will invite Secretary of State Elihu Root to visit them. They will discuss what to do about finding away to oppose Joseph Gurney Cannon as Speaker of the House.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt agrees with William H. Taft about Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon. He believes that the ideal result in the election would be a Republican majority so small that neither Cannon nor James A. Tawney can be Speaker. Roosevelt discusses election prospects in Ohio and New York, where he believes Governor Charles Evans Hughes will win re-election. He is angry about the attacks on Taft’s religion by certain Protestants. Roosevelt does not believe he needs to do anything else in the campaign, unless he needs to speak to labor men. He invites Taft to stay at the White House when he is in Washington, unless he and his managers think it will hurt his campaign.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919