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President Roosevelt was pleased to nominate James E. B. Stuart to the United States Marshals Service, and does not think there will be any difficulty having him confirmed. In a handwritten postscript, he asks Stuart to speak with Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou before removing the present deputy.
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1904-12-27
President Roosevelt apologizes to Senator Spooner for missing their meeting due to spending too much time talking to Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou. Roosevelt presents several times he can meet with Spooner and promises to “keep to the minute” any time Spooner selects.
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1904-12-17
President Roosevelt clarifies a previous statement to Charles Gates Dawes, saying that all he meant was that if Illinois Governor Charles Samuel Deneen plans to come to Washington, D.C., Roosevelt would love to see him. Roosevelt had heard from Frederick E. Coyne that Deneen wished for an invitation, and considered it important that they speak.
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1904-12-21
President Roosevelt is concerned by Catherine McLean New’s letter. At Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou’s request, Roosevelt has already offered the Mexican ambassadorship to someone else because Roosevelt believed Harry S. New was in the Senatorial race. The president asks if the News can come and visit sometime this year because he would like to discuss the situation in greater detail in person.
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1904-12-05
President Roosevelt tells Catherine McLean New he plans to tell Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou he hopes New’s husband, Harry S. New, can be made acting chairman of the Republican National Committee if Cortelyou returns to the cabinet. Roosevelt expects to talk to Cortelyou in March.
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1904-12-09
President Roosevelt regrets he cannot attend the dinner of the Saint Nicholas Society, and asks Guy Van Amringe to extend his good wishes to the members of the Society at the dinner. The president also observes the Dutch were “very much ‘in it’ the last election.”
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1904-12-03
After inviting Finley Peter Dunne and Margaret Ives Dunne to the White House, President Roosevelt spends the rest of his letter discussing Finley Peter Dunne’s recent article entitled the “Anglo-Saxon Triumph.” Roosevelt takes umbrage with Dunne’s belief that individuals should look down on particular Americans due to their ancestry and specifically references those of Irish and German ancestry. In a postscript, Roosevelt states the current temptation is toward Anglophobia, not Anglomania, and the easiest thing for a politician to do is find fault with England. The president prides himself in getting a greater portion of Irish and Catholic Americans to vote for him than any previous Republican candidate without any significant attack on England.
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1904-11-23
President Roosevelt applauds Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou’s efforts for this canvass and requests to see Justice Clarke and Secretary of War William H. Taft at dinner sometime soon.
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1904-11-16
President Roosevelt feels very bad about having to refuse Cornelius Newton Bliss’s request to go to the Chamber of Commerce or to the Philadelphia Union League Club, especially in light of Bliss’s work during the recent political campaign, but it is impossible for him to attend either of these while performing his official duties. Roosevelt asks Bliss to speak to Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou about scheduling a dinner for the people most involved in Roosevelt’s reelection campaign, as he would like to honor them.
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1904-11-09
President Roosevelt thinks that Howard Pyle’s letter is admirable. It has been difficult for Roosevelt not to respond to Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker’s allegations, since it is a matter of record that Roosevelt asked many other people to serve as the chairman of the National Republican Committee before selecting George B. Cortelyou. Roosevelt hopes Pyle will not get in trouble, and feels like he should not let him take part in the current presidential campaign, but he appreciates everything that Pyle has done.
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1904-11-03
President Roosevelt congratulates Elihu Root on a recent speech, and believes that it was a firm refutation of the allegations recently made by Democratic candidate Alton B. Parker against Roosevelt and George B. Cortelyou. He hopes that Root will stay in contact with Cortelyou and Cornelius Newton Bliss to help refute any further slander.
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1904-11-05
President Roosevelt thanks Donald McDonald Dickinson for the letter. Roosevelt expresses his disappointment with Judge Alton B. Parker during the recent political campaign, and says that while his personal relations with Parker have been friendly, the attacks on National Republican Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou have made Roosevelt indignant. He feels that Parker is hypocritical for making a public show that “he was ‘advised’ that no corporations had contributed to his campaign” while personally retaining close political connections to prominent businessmen.
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1904-11-07
President Roosevelt tells George B. Cortelyou that he has been elected, and praises the work that Cortelyou’s father, Republican National Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou, has done during the campaign.
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1904-11-08
President Roosevelt sends Senator Lodge copies of letters between himself and Augustus Peabody Gardner, and says that while he is willing to have the letter be published, he thinks it should wait until after the election. He is looking forward to being finished with his current political campaign, and remarks on some of the rumors that have been circulating, as well as polling figures for several states. Roosevelt was recently injured while riding his horse, but was able to avoid mention of it in the press.
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1904-10-31
President Roosevelt praises Senator Knox’s statement about Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker, and encourages him to expand his remarks into a speech. Roosevelt offers suggestions on how Knox might address the issue, showing that there was no wrongdoing by Roosevelt or George B. Cortelyou, and attacking Parker in turn for his hypocrisy regarding the men who are his most prominent backers.
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1904-11-02
President Roosevelt has sent George B. Cortelyou a letter that he would like Lyman Abbott to see and advise him about. He asks if Abbott will be able to see Cortelyou soon, and says that he should use this telegram to show that Abbott has permission to read the letter.
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1904-11-03
President Roosevelt is glad to have heard from Major Wadsworth. He assures Wadsworth that George B. Cortelyou will happily receive anything he sends him.
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1904-10-28
President Roosevelt tells Whitelaw Reid he has “done up the World and the Times completely” regarding the matter of George B. Cortelyou, and anything else the papers have to say on the topic can be ignored.
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1904-10-21
President Roosevelt appreciates what Senator Scott is doing and knows that he is working “to the very last limit.”
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1904-10-12
President Roosevelt finds value in Judge Campbell’s letter, and he will send it confidentially to George B. Cortelyou.
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1904-10-14