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Secretary of War Taft reports that the names of Catholic prelates were accidentally published under the heading “Diplomatic and Consular Representatives” on a social list created for the convenience of officers. Taft encloses a copy of the Northwestern Christian Advocate.
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1904-08-10
Military Secretary Ainsworth asks James Franklin Wade if the names of Catholic prelates have been published under the heading “Diplomatic and Consular Representatives” or in any lists printed by military authorities at Manila. Secretary of War Luke E. Wright would like an immediate answer.
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1904-08-08
Eugene A. Philbin asks William Loeb if he would have President Roosevelt sign two photographs to give as presents to Monsignor Edwards and Father John J. Wynne. Philbin thinks this will be beneficial to Roosevelt and reminds Loeb that he will help in Roosevelt’s campaign in any capacity that he is needed.
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1904-07-11
Correspondence between James Francis Smith, Secretary of Public Instruction in the Philippines, and Bishop Frederick Zadok Rooker, the Bishop of Jaro, regarding concerns over the use of a certain textbook in public schools.
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1904-05-11
Franklin Matthews writes a letter of apology and explanation to President Roosevelt why an interview given by Roosevelt and the article written by Matthews did not appear in Harper’s Weekly. Matthews believes Harper’s Weekly management may have been afraid to print the article due to the possibility of offending Wall Street investors related to the magazine.
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1904-05-22
Archbishop Ireland writes to President Roosevelt about the lack of discretion shown by Associate Justice John Thomas McDonough of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Ireland indicates that he had warned the Judge to take care not to say anything that would reflect badly on the Roosevelt administration. Ireland asks that the Judge’s replacement be someone of the Catholic faith. Ireland also praises the selection of George B. Cortelyou as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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1904-05-23
Amasa Pierce Thornton suggests that Cardinal Francesco Satolli’s steamer be met in New York by a revenue cutter with Father Doyle and friends on board.
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1904-05-20
Charles Fletcher Lummis asks President Roosevelt to send a telegram acknowledging the launching of the Los Angeles chapter of the Sequoya League, an Indian rights organization founded by Lummis. The mission of the chapter is to improve conditions for Indians in California. The men chosen to lead the chapter include: Wayland H. Smith, Episcopal Bishop Joseph Horsvall Johnson as president, and Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas James Conaty as vice president.
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1904-05-19
Maria Longworth Storer has heard that Pope Pius X declined to promote Archbishop John Ireland to Cardinal after interference from Cardinal Raphael Merry del Val, who asserted that President Roosevelt had also advocated for the promotion of Archbishop John M. Farley. As Farley represents a “foreign and reactionary spirit,” Storer does not believe that Roosevelt would have asked for his advancement. If the assertions she heard are untrue, she asks Roosevelt to write the Pope to say so.
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1905-11-20
Secretary of War Taft thinks that it would be wise to wait until the report from the Army’s Board on Church Claims in the Philippines is completed before taking any further action.
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1906-03-10
The Outlook criticizes President Roosevelt’s position on authorizing the expenditure of Indian trust funds for sectarian schools and discusses why it is flawed.
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1905-02
In a speech, Jacob Gould Schurman, President of Cornell University, spoke in favor of independence for the Philippines and advocated for the government buying the land owned by the friars and selling it back to the Filipinos.
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1903-12-23
A full-page newspaper article about the “church problem” in the Philippines. The problem of anti-church sentiment among Flipinos, particularly against friars, was already existing and inherited by the United States government. Secretary of War William H. Taft, formerly Governor-General of the Philippines, takes a commission to The Holy See to seek solutions to these problems in common interest. Issues of land ownership and the establishment of a school system are negotiated successfully by Taft’s commission in the Philippines.
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1904-10-22
Addison B. Atkins reports that, amid fears of the schism caused by Gregorio Aglípay y Labayán and general anti-Catholic sentiments in the Philippines, Catholics are supporting Republicans over Democrats following candidate Alton B. Parker’s letter stating his belief that the United States should leave the islands and grant Filipinos self-government.
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1904-09-06
Addison B. Atkins reports that, amid fears of the schism caused by Gregorio Aglípay y Labayán and general anti-Catholic sentiments in the Philippines, Catholics are supporting Republicans over Democrats following candidate Alton B. Parker’s letter stating his belief that the United States should leave the islands and grant Filipinos self-government.
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1904-09-06
Anastasia Swift asks John J. Wynne to send The Messenger to the above address. She is old, but her daughter plans to keep up the magazine after she dies if she can afford it. However, the Swifts live in Hawaii, and their financial situation has become much worse since it was annexed to the United States. Swift believes that if President Roosevelt knew more about the situation he would do more for Hawaii.
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1904
The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore wishes to make it clear that when a newspaper has a bishop’s name connected with it, this does not mean that the bishop sanctions or condones everything that is published in that newspaper. Rather, it merely designates that when a bishop has to publish an official document, it will be published in that newspaper.
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1866
James Cardinal Gibbons explained to President Roosevelt that he signed the petition in favor of Philippines independence with the understanding from Governor Taft that their independence would be given when the government so determined that they were ready. He also indicated that he had contacted Bishop Hendricks.
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1904-04-27
Eugene Philbin suggests that Theodore Roosevelt confer with the Governor of Puerto Rico William Henry Hunt concerning complaints about the treatment of the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico. Philbin adds that Bishop James Herbert Blenk has no complaints about Hunt’s administration.
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1904-04-22
Chaplain Gleeson thanks Francis C. Travers for his good wishes after surviving an explosion on the naval ship the USS Missouri. Gleeson praises the conduct of the ship’s Captain William S. Cowles, President Roosevelt’s brother-in-law. He had hoped the Missouri would be ordered to New York for repairs, and that would allow him and others from the ship to tell the story in New York of Captain Cowles’s bravery and strong leadership in the crisis; but the ship has been ordered to Newport News. Gleeson comments that Roosevelt is a friend to the Catholics and that the Archbishop of New York, John M. Farley, and he support Roosevelt’s re-election.
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1904-04-24