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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert S. Hadley

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert S. Hadley

Theodore Roosevelt agrees that he needs to make a public statement regarding his views on potentially accepting the Republican presidential nomination. However, Roosevelt will wait until after the governors’ meeting next Saturday. He also wants to delay until after his speech at the Ohio Constitutional Convention. Roosevelt requests Governor Hadley’s opinion on this plan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-02-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

President Roosevelt informs Attorney General Bonaparte that Oklahoma Governor Frank C. Frantz will meet with Bonaparte on Monday and encloses a telegram from the attorney for the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention to Frantz. Roosevelt has already informed the men that Bonaparte had advised him not to express his opinion of the Oklahoma constitution. He would like to talk over the decision of Judge John L. Pancoast with Bonaparte. Roosevelt also encloses “two letters addrest to representative Watson about the Oklahoma constitution.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Herbert S. Hadley to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Herbert S. Hadley to Theodore Roosevelt

Governor Hadley is pleased that Theodore Roosevelt agrees that a public statement regarding his views on potentially accepting the Republican presidential nomination is needed. Supporters of President Taft are using the confusion surrounding Roosevelt’s position to spread misinformation. Only a statement from Roosevelt can clear up the confusion. Hadley will discuss at the Chicago meeting whether the statement should be made before or after Roosevelt’s address at the Ohio Constitutional Convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-02-09

Creator(s)

Hadley, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer), 1872-1927

Letter from William H. Andrews to William Loeb

Letter from William H. Andrews to William Loeb

William H. Andrews encloses a letter from Charles F. Hoff, President of the Democratic Joint Statehood League of Arizona. The people of Arizona have decided to unite into a Joint Statehood League encompassing both parties, not for political purposes, but for the sole purpose of achieving statehood. Andrews asks William Loeb to pay special attention to what has been said about Territory Governor Joseph H. Kibbey. Andrews believes President Roosevelt should appoint General Thomas F. Wilson as the new territorial governor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-10

Creator(s)

Andrews, William H. (William Henry), 1842-1919

Letter from Joseph Gurney Cannon to James Schoolcraft Sherman

Letter from Joseph Gurney Cannon to James Schoolcraft Sherman

Joseph Gurney Cannon recounts for J. S. Sherman his recent trip through Indiana with local Representative James E. Watson. Watson has recently returned from Missouri where he feels hopeful for the election of Frank B. Fulkerson and Cassius McLean Shartel, and recounts a political fight between Senator William Joel Stone and Governor Joseph Wingate Folk for the same seat. Watson went over the situation in Indiana as well, where demand for free hides like in Massachusetts are fueled by the independent press. Watson would like to take up President Roosevelt on his offer to write a letter on the matter. Cannon hopes the president will address the letter to Watson directly.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-30

Creator(s)

Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926

Report from Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1834

Report from Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1834

Representative McKinney argues to the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1834 that free black people are worse off than slaves because they neither have social and political equality with white people, nor have any sort of social safety net or people to care for them. He alleges that abolishing slavery in Tennessee would simply result in the slaves being taken out of Tennessee to other Southern states where they would still be enslaved and would be in worse conditions than if they had stayed in Tennessee. If, on the other hand, they contrived a law to free slaves and make sure they stayed in Tennessee to be freed, McKinney sees a world where the now-free black people would rise up to free slaves in other states by violent force. McKinney prefers instead to work towards ending slavery by returning black people to Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1834

Creator(s)

McKinney, John A. (John Augustine), 1781-1845