Campaign management

Letter from Elisha Ely Garrison to Theodore Roosevelt

Elisha Ely Garrison offers to create a pocket handbook with extracts from President Roosevelt’s speeches and records of his public acts, similar to one he used during a New York gubernatorial campaign. Garrison will send Roosevelt pages from his novel describing Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War in the summer of 1898. Charles Hopkins Clark of the Hartford Courant is currently reading his novel.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-22

Letter from Harrington Fitzgerald to Theodore Roosevelt

Harrington Fitzgerald, of The Philadelphia Item, encloses articles discrediting President Roosevelt. Fitzgerald recommends that Roosevelt start a press bureau.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-23

Letter from Hamilton Fish II to Theodore Roosevelt

Assistant Treasurer Fish encloses two clippings and offers advice for securing the presidential nomination.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-20

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Henry Cabot Lodge sends President Roosevelt a positive report regarding the outcome of a recent tribunal. Lodge relays that he will make a speech before arriving in Washington and writes a positive review of Mr. Turner’s performance, to which Mr. Root agrees.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-28

General Gary talks

Interview with James Albert Gary regarding Maryland politics. Gary is not interested in being a senatorial candidate and stated that President Roosevelt is primarily interested in Maryland political harmony and will leave it to the legislature to select a senator.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-15

Letter from Alfred Spring to Theodore Roosevelt

Justice Spring believes that President Roosevelt’s nomination and election are assured but he believes it is important for New York to be in the “Republican column.” If the New York election is about national issues, Spring is confident of a Republican victory. If state issues are prominent, the election is much more uncertain. The best national issues candidate for governor is Secretary of War Elihu Root and the best state issues candidate is Lieutenant Governor Frank Wayland Higgins.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-15

Letter from Nathan Bijur to Theodore Roosevelt

Nathan Bijur encloses a clipping from the Evening Post and discusses the likelihood of a Fusion ticket victory. Bijur is the director of the Republican Campaign in Manhattan in the name of borough presidential candidate Myron Sulzberger.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-18

Letter from William Emlen Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

William Emlen Roosevelt encloses a letter to Mr. Davison regarding the election expenses of William W. Cocks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-07

Letter from James Rudolph Garfield to Theodore Roosevelt

Commissioner of Corporations Garfield spoke with Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna regarding the Ohio campaign and believes they will win. Garfield may go to Ohio next month to assist the campaign. Representative Joseph Gurney Cannon has been asked to help out in Ohio and Garfield hopes Cannon can dedicate a week to the campaign. Garfield believes the bookbinders’ union is only receiving formal support from other labor unions in the Miller case.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-21

Louisiana instructs its senators on the treaty

Public opinion in the South supports the ratification of the Panama treaty and the Louisiana legislature has instructed its senators, Murphy J. Foster and Samuel Douglas McEnery, to vote for the treaty. The public widely supports the treaty and the isthmian canal but many Democrats, led by Maryland Senator Arthur P. Gorman, are opposing the treaty in an effort to gain political capital.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09

Fatuous opposition to the canal treaty

The Democrats, led by Senator Arthur P. Gorman, are attempting to make the Panama treaty a political issue. Constitutional issues have been decided in favor of the canal and the public supports its construction. Making the canal a political issues will be a blunder for Democrats.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09

Summary of letter from William Michael Byrne

John Edward Addicks and Senator J. Frank Allee are planning to renominate John Hunn as the Republican candidate for Governor of Delaware. William Michael Byrne fears that this will mean the Democrats will win the gubernatorial election and carry the state in national elections. He believes this could be avoided with a neutral candidate, such as Attorney General Herbert H. Ward. Byrne would like President Roosevelt to help the situation by calling for a “middle course” in Delaware. Byrne concludes with a discussion of his upcoming transfer or resignation.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-10

Democratic Senators and the Panama treaty

Democratic leaders have decided to make opposition to the Panama treaty a campaign issue. The treaty is popular with the public and several Democratic senators objected to the decision.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09

Telegram from Joseph M. Dixon to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Dixon is making arrangements for Theodore Roosevelt’s western trip and needs to know the earliest date that Roosevelt can leave New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-18

Letter from Albert J. Beveridge to Theodore Roosevelt

Albert J. Beveridge has received Theodore Roosevelt’s telegram and will examine conditions when he arrives. He has not seen Roosevelt’s Chicago speech.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph M. Dixon

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Senator Dixon for his handling of the campaign.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912

Telegram from Joseph M. Dixon to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Dixon sends Theodore Roosevelt the statement he made in response to President Taft announcing his support for presidential preference primaries. Dixon’s statement points out several states where legislation to enact primaries is being opposed by Taft supporters. He questions whether Taft will now instruct his managers to support primary legislation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Oscar K. Davis

Theodore Roosevelt suggests organizing the traveling salesmen and railway men.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-07-02

Letter from Charles H. Allen to William Henry Hunt

Charles H. Allen reports that D. M. Field is claiming to be a representative of the National Democratic Committee and is speaking across Puerto Rico about home rule and statehood. These statements should be countered by the Republican Party. Original and typewritten copy.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-17

Letter from Frank Harper to Joseph M. Dixon

Frank Harper forwards a letter from Mr. Terrell requesting contact with a campaign representative regarding delegates from Georgia.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-19