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Representative Gardner tells Senator Lodge that President Roosevelt should comment on recent resolutions by the Massachusetts Federation of Labor. The Federation has condemned nine Massachusetts Republican Congressmen for their attitudes on child labor and the eight hour workday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-11
Representative Gardner advises President Roosevelt about the steps underway in the current political campaign by the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics. The Council is considering the question of immigration in its local bodies, especially in congressional districts where they are numerous, and where Republicans who voted for the educational test are in danger of defeat, the councils are taking a hand to help him win. Samuel Gompers criticizes Gardner for his policy of voting down the eight hour policy in the Panama Canal Zone. Gardner encloses a list of districts affected. He also remarks on his own re-election prospects and the challenges he expects to face.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-31
Editor of the Providence Journal, Frederick Roy Martin, responds to Charles J. Bonaparte’s criticism of the editorial entitled, “A Lamentable Naval Episode.” Martin notes that if Bonaparte’s “criticism of this editorial had been based upon fact” the paper would no doubt apologize to President Roosevelt. He advises Bonaparte to read the editorial in full.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-03
Lieutenant Colonel Wotherspoon writes to President Roosevelt regarding the one thousand mile march of the U.S. Army’s Sixth Field Battery. The march, while successfully completed, has received criticism from the public and press who claim that the men and animals were exhausted by the ordeal, even causing the death of one individual. The War Department has ordered an investigation in the matter. In light of the criticism, Wotherspoon believes it might be wiser for Roosevelt to delay sending a letter of admiration and congratulations to the commander until the investigation has produced results.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-15
John Burroughs thanks President Roosevelt for his letter and is delighted that Roosevelt spoke candidly to William J. Long’s publisher. He wishes the general public and especially Long’s readers could see these remarks. Criticizing Long’s ideas on wolves, Burroughs notes that he will not read Long’s “preposterous book” and remarks that others view Long as “a notorious liar,” too. Burroughs’ book, Ways of Nature, will be out in October and he will send a copy to Roosevelt. Burroughs read the recently published account of Roosevelt’s bear hunt and found it “full of meat for the naturalist as well as for the sportsman.” In particular, Roosevelt’s description of human traits in animals resonated with Burroughs’ own observations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-30
Board of Commissioners official MacFarland writes to President Roosevelt regarding a letter from Patent Office clerk and critic Benjamin P. Mann.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-06
In Anatole France’s new book, Sur la Pierre Blanche, there is a passage which is not flattering to President Roosevelt. George W. Smalley praises Roosevelt’s personal qualities and professional accomplishments and hopes that France will reconsider his assessment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-15
Thomas F. Woodlock discusses President Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance. Woodlock and Mr. Pratt believe that it was “a little more politic than usual,” although their chief reason for expressing this view is to convince readers that they are “not entirely a partisan organ.” Woodlock offers to give Roosevelt information on financial interests, particularly those at 26 Broadway (the Standard Oil building).
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-01
Secretary of State Hay criticizes the speech that Charles Francis Adams gave at Boston.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-02
This excerpt from Puck includes a piece from Ladies’ Home Journal about Hamilton Wright Mabie and an excerpt from “An Appreciation of William Randolph Hearst,” which satirizes him as “the idol of the proletariat.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-20
Jonathan Bourne expresses criticism towards Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson over their disapproval of recalling elected judges. Roosevelt and Wilson fear if judges are able to be recalled, their opinions will be influenced by political interests, but Bourne argues that judges are already politically motivated to rule a certain way because of renominations and promotions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-05
Abbott Handerson Thayer writes about the critical response to his book “Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom.” Thayer provides several examples to support his argument that all animal coloration is camouflage.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-10
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Peter Zuckriegel that Roosevelt is too busy to read his manuscript and cannot comment on it. Additionally, Roosevelt is not responsible for selecting articles for The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-25
This review of President Roosevelt’s work, Life of Benton, alleges that Roosevelt ends up contradicting his own actions by his words as he criticizes the hostile expansion of the earlier United States, while at the same time driving imperialism in the Philippines in the current day. Roosevelt also delves further into hypocrisy through his mention of Benton’s nomination to commanding general during the Mexican American War, which the author of this piece compares to Roosevelt’s own promotion of Leonard Wood to Major General. Such inconsistencies between Roosevelt the author and Roosevelt the president persist through the book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-29
This editorial calls attention to the fact that President Roosevelt, in his work, Life of Thomas Hart Benton, strongly criticizes Thomas Jefferson to an unwarranted degree, and criticizes him for it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-31
This report records a series of documents, primarily from Admiral W. L. Capps, Constructor of the Navy, answering recent criticisms about some naval vessels in the United States Navy. These criticisms centered on the height of the freeboard of the ships, their water-line armor distribution, and the ammunition hoists used, among other topics. The report contains a statement by Capps, a report of a relevant discussion by the British Royal Navy, a number of diagrams detailing armor distribution, and a record of hearings conducted by the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Capps refutes the criticism by correcting several misunderstandings about terminology, explaining the rationale behind some shipbuilding decisions, and mentioning that several issues have already been corrected in newer ships.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-19
Commissioner Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed the poem. Roosevelt compliments Frances Theodora Dana’s use of language and offers a few small criticisms.
1894-07-16
Commissioner Roosevelt still has a few small criticisms of Frances Theodora Dana’s poem but he greatly admires it overall. He wants to see the poem published without changing a line.
1894-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt relates the chase and capture of three thieves that had stolen his boat. The thieves were captured along the river and then Roosevelt took them overland to the sheriff in Dickinson, Dakota Territory. He read Anna Karenina during the trip and has mixed feelings about the quality of the book but enjoyed Leo Tolstoy’s writing style. Roosevelt requests that Corinne Roosevelt Robinson deliver some flowers to Edith Kermit Carow before Carow travels abroad.
1886-04-12
Commissioner Roosevelt appreciates Colonel Durrett’s criticisms. He agrees that Mr. Marshall and Mr. Green’s comments should be left out. Roosevelt will also incorporate some of Durrett’s language regarding the Yazoo grants. He hopes that it was made clear that he does not implicate Mr. Brown and Mr. Innes with corruption. Roosevelt agrees that a hundred years ago he would have joined Durrett on an expedition to “wrest Louisiana from the Spaniards.” He might even be willing to currently join a “general national buccaneering expedition” to remove the Spaniard from Cuba or the British from Canada. He also favors the annexation of Hawaii.
1894-04-27