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John Wallace Springer asks President Roosevelt to telegram Colorado Republicans urging them to support a straight Republican ticket in the upcoming local election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-14
Justice Campbell writes that the ten delegates from Colorado have been instructed to support President Roosevelt at the 1904 Republican Convention. Campbell also asks the President to discreetly intervene, through the use of a third party, to remind certain local federal officials of the importance of supporting the regular Republican ticket in the fall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-07
Postcard featuring a depiction of President Roosevelt riding a donkey while visiting Colorado. The postcard features a handwritten note from Anna Mylander Faust and George F. Faust to his mother, Christine Faust, about a trip to a gold mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1904
Colorized postcard showing a winding road through trees heading up to a mountain. Text on the reverse of the postcard describes how the road was constructed for automobile travel.
Unknown
Photograph showing President Roosevelt addressing an audience while standing at a flag-draped podium outside of a house in Colorado.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905
Judge Lindsey describes a recent Colorado law putting in place probation for children in cases of misdemeanors. Unlike previously, the law now places the priority on the individual and helping correct their behavior, instead of purely on the property in the case. At present, the laws are so harsh as to make them infrequently applied, letting many people go without any sort of restitution or punishment. This harsh punishment, even when it is applied, does little to prevent similar crimes, and Lindsey predicts that this new method may prove more effective.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-08
Judge Ben B. Lindsey raises several questions that Colorado Attorney General Benmamin Griffith did not address in his recent opinion on the right of the humane society to an appropriation by the state legislature. The present society is a private entity, and threatened to abandon its duty when its funding was questioned. Lindsey hopes the enterprise will be put under a board of directors answerable to the public.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-24
Sheet music for “Three More John Browns” written by William Cosgrove. The lyrics compare the activities of labor movements with John Brown’s actions against slavery. A portion of the proceeds will go to support the wives of Big Bill Haywood, George A. Pettibone, and Charles H. Moyer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907
Arthur I. Vorys, campaign manager for Secretary of War William H. Taft, is glad William Loeb considers the campaign’s outlook favorable. He firmly believes Taft will sweep the country but does not want to be overconfident. Vorys hopes Loeb will continue to write as he values his suggestions and advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-17
Secretary of War Taft responds to President Roosevelt’s letter regarding the candidacies of different Republican Party candidates. Taft thanks Roosevelt for talking to Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou and believes that Philander C. Knox would be a more independent president than his supporters believe. Taft believes Charles Evans Hughes is likely to be the man in the field against him and observes that he has received many expressions of good will while traveling across the continent. Taft mentions that he will set sail for the Pacific tomorrow and encloses a clipping on his speech in Seattle regarding capital and labor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-11
Eugene V. Debs condemns President Roosevelt for his actions in regards to the arrest of Charles H. Moyer, Big Bill Haywood, and George A. Pettibone. Debs claims that Roosevelt is a tool of the “Mine and Smelter Trust” and denounces him as a coward.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Smith Bryan for giving him the opportunity to read sketches from Fitz-Mac (probably Political Portraits, published that year). He enjoyed reading them, as some of the points made in the articles were ones that he himself has tried to make. Roosevelt believes that devotion to what Fitz-Mac terms “‘bric-a-brac’ (not only in furniture, but in literature and habits of thought as well)” is ignoble and is to blame for misgovernment. Roosevelt hopes to meet Fitz-Mac at some point, however, as there are several points he did not agree with, including the influence of money in elections.
1888-11-24
Ray Stannard Baker tells President Roosevelt that he will receive a copy of McClure’s Magazine “a little in advance of publication,” because he wants Roosevelt to read his article on the Colorado labor situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-19
Posey S. Wilson expects Theodore Roosevelt to carry Colorado during the upcoming presidential election. He discusses former Senator Edward Oliver Wolcott’s control over patronage in Colorado and its subsequent impact on state politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-10
Isaac Newton Stevens predicts the triumph of the anti-Wolcott faction and that President Roosevelt will carry Colorado by a large margin in the presidential election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-09
John C. Hutchinson requests President Roosevelt’s opinion concerning Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody’s prospective renomination.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-14
Ted Roosevelt will be unable to visit as he has already accepted an invitation to visit some college friends in Colorado. Everything is “much as usual” at college and Roosevelt recounts some recent sporting events. After college, he hopes to work for a railroad in the West.
1906-1907
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Henry Cabot Lodge about his concerns regarding the butchers’ strike and the Colorado matter. Roosevelt acknowledges that Alton Parker made a skillful political maneuver by coming out in favor of the gold standard during the last moments of the Democratic Convention, and Roosevelt reviews his political strategy for the rest of the campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-14
President Roosevelt would like the Department of Justice to investigate the labor unrest in Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-25
A committee has been formed to draft rules and regulations that will govern the Republican Party of Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11