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Major Byrne, president of the Democratic Honest Money League, writes to President Roosevelt about a speech Grover Cleveland made at Carnegie Hall in the fall of 1904.
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1904-12-06
Representative Hill responds to President Roosevelt’s questions on laws governing currency. Hill is very concerned about fiat money. Hill is a proponent of a bill, presently in committee, that will move the United States back to the gold standard.
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1904-11-14
William Wingate Sewall sends congratulations to President Roosevelt on the recent election results. Sewall is extremely pleased by the outcome. He also includes a sarcastic commentary about the Democratic candidate, Judge Alton B. Parker, to amuse Roosevelt.
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1904-11-12
President Roosevelt sits on a pier and fishes with “real live bait” and says, “I object to wasteful destruction.” Grover Cleveland says, “I am opposed to fishing hoggery” with a book beside him entitled “True Sport.” In the background there is an “Anglers’ Club” with “Rev Dr Van Dyke” as president.
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1907-11-13
President Roosevelt celebrates his forty-ninth birthday with a variety of friends. In the upper left hand corner at the piano are New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes and Thomas Fortune Ryan singing, “Oh let us be joyful.” Booker T. Washington tells Henry Watterson, “Henry, I hope you’ll come down and visit me at Tuskegee.” Senator Joseph Benson Foraker says to Secretary of War William H. Taft, “I heard a good story today, Will.” Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon and Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks look at a picture of George Washington, and Fairbanks says, “That picture makes me sad. It reminds me of cherries.” William Randolph Hearst, James Roscoe Day, and Secretary of State Elihu Root look at a book of “Snapshots in New York.” William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland play a game of checkers, and Bryan says, “After you, Grover.” J. Pierpont Morgan watches over the game with his hand on Bryan’s back. Henry Huttleston Rogers, F. Augustus Heinze, and Thomas William Lawson sit together. Lawson says, “Rogers, my boy, you must come over to Boston and visit me.” John D. Rockefeller points at Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s chest while President Roosevelt presents a bouquet to James J. Hill as William J. Long looks on. Finally, James T. Harahan, Edward Henry Harriman, and Stuyvesant Fish read “Snap Shots Along the Illinois Central.” Harriman remarks, “Very nice album, Stuyvesant, is it not?”
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1907-10-27
In the “Governor’s room,” Theodore Roosevelt holds a large paper of “reform bills” that New York Governor Grover Cleveland signs. On the ground is a book of “law and order” and a newspaper that reads, “Cincinnati: The court, judges, and juries denounced by the people. Riots, blood, troops.” On the wall is a picture of Lady Justice, blindfolded and holding a scale and a sword; and a larger crest of a landscape with the word “reform” and “excelsior,” or ever onward, on it; all forming the Seal of the State of New York.
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1884-04-19
President Roosevelt rides a Democratic donkey pulled by a member of the “Iroquois Democratic Club” as crowds cheer. There are illustrations of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, and William Jennings Bryan in the background.
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1905-05-12
Senator Richard F. Pettigrew writes to Theodore Roosevelt after a previous conversation in which Roosevelt suggested to appoint James Wilson as Secretary of the Interior. In this letter, Pettigrew argues that Wilson is an excellent Secretary of Agriculture and that he should not change office.
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1905-06-02
According to Frank Campbell, state Democratic party chairman for New York, Judge Alton B. Parker will not be a candidate for president if David B. Hill decides to run. Parker and Hill are longtime political allies.
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1903-02
New York Herald, September 7, 1901, pages 3-14:
Page 3: Banner headline: Anarchists Shoots the President — Six of Clan/Arrested in Chicago — Doctors Are Hopeful – Black ink drawing the interior of the Temple of Music and portrait of William McKinley – “Leon Czolgosz, Pole, Fired the Shots While He was Shaking Hands with His Victim” – Details of the shooting – “Leading Interests Will Support the Market” – Statement by James Stillman, president of the National City Bank (cont. on pages 4-5)
Page 4: Banner headline: Vice President Roosevelt Hurrying on to Buffalo – Drawings captioned: Bird’s Eye View of the Pan-American Exposition Grounds; The Service Building – The President was Taken to the Hospital in This Building – “Description of the President’s Wounds” – Statement by George B. Cortelyou
Page 5: Banner headline: Mrs. M’Kinley Brave When Told Her Husband was Hurt – Drawings captioned: McKinley’s Birth Place; The Old Sparrow House, Poland, O., Where McKinley Enlisted in 1862; Mrs. Nancy A. McKinley, Mother of the President; McKinley, As a New Recruit – “Mrs. M’Kinley Bravely Receives Terrible News” – How Mrs. McKinley was told – “Mr. Roosevelt Hurries to President’s Bedside” – How TR found out about the shooting and got to the train headed to Buffalo – “William Jennings Bryan Says, Wipe Anarchy from the Earth” – Statement by Bryan – “Police Cannot Trace Either Assassin’s Past or Friends” – Attempts to locate where Czolgosz came from – “All Nations May Join In Stamping Out Anarchism” – Reaction of foreign diplomats in Washington and proposed actions
Page 6: Banner headline: Leading Financiers Plan to Meet the Shock to Wall Street – Seven portrait photographs of Mrs. McKinley through the years; photograph of William McKinley at the time of his marriage; McKinley home in Canton – “Members of the Cabinet Hurrying to Buffalo” – Where various current and former Cabinet members were when they heard the news – “Consternation at the White House” – How the news of McKinley’s shooting reached people in the White House – “Mr. Roosevelt May Be President on Ground of ‘Inability to Act'” – Speculation about any transfer of power – “Herald Sends News to Liner at Sea” – One example of the unique ways the news spread – “News of Tragedy Levels All Ranks at Washington” – How news spread in Washington and comments from some officials – “Precautions to Guard President” – General discussion of the President’s security
Arguments against President Roosevelt breaking with the Republican Party over Cuban reciprocity.
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1902
President Roosevelt rejoices that Mayor Wells has given him the keys to the city of St. Louis. A teddy bear holds the keys while a policeman prevents Thomas Henry Carter, Henry Clark Corbin, and former President Grover Cleveland from exiting a building.
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1903-05-02
President Roosevelt, dressed in fringed buckskins, shakes hands with former President Grover Cleveland at the St. Louis Exposition. Both presidents are carrying large, full game bags, and guns. Roosevelt’s bag is labeled “Universal Popularity.” Cleveland’s bag has many tags hanging off of it: “Brooklyn Eagle Boom, Negro Question Speech, Grover Grover Four More Years of Grover Maryland, Bryan Opposition, New York World Boom, Popularity.” Caption: Grover–How are they comin’? Teddy–All my way–How is it with you? Grover–Booming!
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1903-04-30
Former President Grover Cleveland escorts a woman wearing a crown labeled “St. Louis” and a sash labeled “Popularity” past President Roosevelt and David R. Francis, President of the St. Louis World’s Fair (also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition). (Mr. Cleveland made a speech at the Fair, and it was thought that he might become a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President and run against Roosevelt.)
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1903-05-01
This poem encourages the public to vote for President Roosevelt in the presidential election. The author states that Roosevelt “has proved himself a true defender” and notes that the country was not prosperous when the Democrats were in power.
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1904-08
This advertisement for a subscription package for both the New York World and the Citizen announces the impartiality of the World in covering the upcoming elections.
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1904-08-27
Newspaper article discussing the invitations of membership sent out by the Constitution Club to well-known men, including President Roosevelt.
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1905-11-10
The writer of the article suggests that some political candidates are elected by their merits, and other through the “accident” of being broadly popular and facing an unpopular or bad candidate as an opponent. President Roosevelt has reached his office on his merits, and the writer argues against attempting to nominate Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna to replace him.
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1903-11-07
Report of the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House, emphasizing the mild mannered nature of Benjamin F. Barnes, Assistant Secretary to the President, during the event.
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1906-01-12
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop regarding a remark made by Walter Wellman in the Chicago Record-Herald about the appointment of former President Cleveland to the Coal Strike Commission.
1903-06-25