Your TR Source
President Roosevelt thanks William W. Copeland for the letter and says he would like to expose the methods that Copeland mentions. Roosevelt asks if Governor Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa could write to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-02
President Roosevelt sends the letter to William H. Taft for corrections. He has also sent copies to Representatives J. S. Sherman and William Brown McKinley, Republican Committee Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock, and Secretary of State Elihu Root for comments. Roosevelt suggests Taft also review it with a western radical.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-01
Senator Lodge was alarmed to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s fall and sends his love. He has limited information on the Honduran and Nicaraguan treaties but will send copies to Theodore Roosevelt. Lodge does not approve of Senator Cummins’s idea for a Senate-appointed commission as part of the arbitration treaty. He believes that it would be better to have no commission than to protect their interests by such a method. Commissions are also too slow and selecting commissioners opens everyone involved to political attacks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-06
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt discussing the deteriorating health of his sister-in-law. He also discusses the potential candidates for the 1908 presidential election and their various levels of support.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-07
President Roosevelt stands behind a fence and tosses an extremely large pair of “Roosevelt’s shoes.” A number of men standing waiting to catch them: Secretary of War William H. Taft, Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou, Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes; and former cabinet secretaries Leslie M. Shaw and Philander C. Knox.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-13
President Roosevelt sits on the springboard dipping his feet in the water as Secretary of War William H. Taft, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins, and Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette stand behind him on the board waiting. Former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw stands on land in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt objects to Senator Kenyon’s statement that the Progressives hope to usurp the Republican party power from Senator Kenyon in favor of William Barnes, Winthrop Murray Crane, and Boies Penrose. Roosevelt contends that neither Albert Baird Cummins nor Herbert S. Hadley could have won the Republican nomination over President Taft. Roosevelt also negates Cummins’s comments about Roosevelt’s hope to win the Republican nomination himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-24
Theodore Roosevelt writes John C. Kelly about the organization of a Progressive party movement in Iowa and expresses his frustration with those aligned with the Republican party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept Herbert H. D. Peirce’s invitation. He suggests that Senator Lodge cooperate with John Callan O’Laughlin to bring pressure on Senators Borah and Cummins.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-09
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was injured after falling from her horse and was unconscious for over twenty-four hours. There is no serious danger but she is in great pain. Theodore Roosevelt requests information on the Central American treaties which he supported. Senator Cummins will support the arbitration treaty if the Senate can confirm the commissioners. Roosevelt is not satisfied with Senate confirmation as it avoids several prominent arguments against the arbitration treaty and appointing commissioners would inevitably become a political matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-03
Theodore Roosevelt generally favors the initiative and referendum but cautions against forcing acceptance of these reforms. There is a wide range of views on these reforms, and Roosevelt wants progressive support to be broad-based before moving forward.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-02
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-10-19
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
2025-07-31
Hadley, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer), 1872-1927
2018-06-28
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Image
President Roosevelt agrees with Benjamin Ide Wheeler regarding the nomination of J. S. Sherman for Republican Vice-Presidential candidate. Roosevelt had hoped to get Jonathan P. Dolliver or Albert Baird Cummins if Herbert S. Hadley was not available. Roosevelt expects the Republicans to carry the United States east of the Mississippi, but is not sure about the states west of it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-22
President Roosevelt thinks Benjamin Ide Wheeler’s letter of the 15th was very wise, saying that he summed up the situation regarding Secretary of War William H. Taft’s candidacy very well. Roosevelt says he was surprised at the conservative nature of the delegates, but supposes that the cause is due to the fact there was no fight on a principle made in choosing the delegates
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-17
President Roosevelt tells Senator William B. Allison that there is no reason Allison should not publish the previous letter that Roosevelt sent to him. He did not think it was wise to write explicitly for publication before the result of the Iowa primary. Roosevelt has been concerned by the division in Iowa, but has been on good terms with both Senators Allison and Jonathan P. Dolliver, as well as Governor Albert Baird Cummins.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-15
President Roosevelt acknowledges the invitation of the governors of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, to make a trip on the Mississippi River with the Inland Waterways Commission. He reflects on the importance of the nation’s rivers as “highways” for products to supply any inadequacy of means of transportation over land. He intends to travel with the Commission down the Mississippi for three or four days in October. A note at the bottom of the letter indicates that it was sent to each of the governors who signed the invitation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-16
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Treasury Shaw a letter similar to several others he has received from Congressmen dealing with Shaw’s lack of support for Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins. Roosevelt does not wish to force Shaw to back Cummins against his conscience, but requests that if Shaw cannot support him, that he take no part in the political campaigns in Iowa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-22
President Roosevelt has been distressed by some interviews regarding the tariff. Roosevelt would like Senator Allison to join him on his trip across Iowa so that they may discuss the tariff.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-19
Vice President Roosevelt shares his opinions about Senators Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Matthew Stanley Quay, Thomas Collier Platt, and George W. Dunn. His main supporters are farmers, upper class mechanics, small businessmen, and others who oppose populism.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-27