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Clifford G. Twombly, an acquaintance of Gifford Pinchot from Yale, invites Theodore Roosevelt to speak to a club of the five leading churches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on the topic of “Civic Righteousness.” He explains that the clergymen of Lancaster “are trying hard to arouse this boss-ridden community to a higher sense of its responsibility.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-27
Captain Williard writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp about an issue that came to his attention recently. Father Anselm Weber notified him that the Indian Rights Association was protesting about Leupp and Superintendent William T. Shelton about their actions against Navajos that resulted in several being killed. Williard explains that he has become involved because he believes that he is responsible for the matter, and he defends the choices he made that resulted in the deaths.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-29
Reverend Williams proudly tells President Roosevelt that he “jacked up” Democrat Charles A. Edwards, Secretary of the Democratic Congressional Committee, most likely referring to a letter he (Williams) sent Edwards in which he defended Roosevelt. Williams explains to Roosevelt that he finds Edwards’s rhetoric about Roosevelt to be “vile political vomit” off of which anarchists feed, and cites his experiences as both a pastor and a soldier to defend himself against Edwards’s claims that he is a “fool” and from the “woods.” Williams also tells Roosevelt that he took the Cincinnati Post to task for publishing Edwards’s “vile utterances.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-06
J. Henry Smythe met a man, James H. Norman, in St. Louis, who said that he is a friend of Reverend J. M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate, and that Buckley will do anything for him. Smythe tells President Roosevelt’s secretary William Loeb that Buckley can do big things for the Republican Party if he helps in New York. William A. Quayle, who was Charles W. Fairbanks’s pastor in Indianapolis, will vote for President Roosevelt in Missouri.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-06