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John E. Wilkie, chief of the Secret Service, has received the box and papers about Leon F. Colgosz that George B. Cortelyou sent him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-10
Cornelius V. Collins sends George B. Cortelyou a picture of the brother-in-law of Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated President William McKinley. A Mr. Sutton from the post office had requested it, but Collins does not know how to find him to send him the picture.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-22
Jacob A. Riis warns George B. Cortelyou not to let President Roosevelt see Flora Golsch, who sympathizes with the William McKinley’s assassin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-01
Cornelius V. Collins, the superintendent of the New York State Prison Department, sends George B. Cortelyou the letters and papers received by William McKinley’s assassin Leon F. Czolgosz while he was in prison.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-14
President Roosevelt responds to Representative Williams’s claim that he does not understand the South. Although Roosevelt is “greatly puzzled” by some difficulties he has encountered in the South, he has tried to treat the Southern States fairly. Roosevelt believes there are no issues with what he has done in the South but how he has been misrepresented in the South. The president is fine if people disagree with his policies, but he does not like when the facts are misrepresented. He mentions statements made by Alabama Senator John Tyler Morgan and Williams himself that were incorrect. Roosevelt does not appreciate the application of base motives to the president of the United States, and believes if the people of the South have been misled, it is because Southern leaders have misled them. Roosevelt also does not appreciate white men in the South trying to get their vote to count more than those in the North, and believes African American men should be judged by the same tests as “ignorant, vicious and shiftless whites.” Roosevelt closes by saying that what the South “really needs” is for her leaders to tell the truth.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-05
President Roosevelt rebukes Richmond Pearson Hobson and Alabama Representative James Thomas Heflin for their comments that amount to inciting assassination of the president. Roosevelt says Hobson and Heflin should realize such language, which is “equivalent to incitement to assassination,” is “deeply discreditable to the man using it.” A handwritten addition says, “File. Do not send.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-12
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about the funeral of former President McKinley’s widow Ida McKinley. He then describes his trip on the train out west as he passed through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Michigan. Roosevelt closes by saying he needs to talk to Kermit about his hunting trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes to George B. Cortelyou about making a new appointment to the First Assistant Postmaster General position. Roosevelt also lets Cortelyou know that it is possible for him to resign as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, yet still remain in control of the situation. Roosevelt closes by discussing the political situation in West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-05
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that J. B. Bishop is taking an “effective interest” in the campaign. Roosevelt is concerned that people who attack “Odellism” may vote the Democratic ticket. Congressman Heflin of Alabama also told the Washington Post “that if some Czolgosz had thrown a bomb under the table at which I sat with Booker Washington, no great harm would have been done the country!” Roosevelt clarifies his relationship with Carl Schurz, who has been opposed to him for years.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-05
Eleven topics vie for attention in the “Reviews” section, including six book review essays, three of which are written by John A. Gable. Harry N. Lembeck revisits Jacob A. Riis’s 1904 biography Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen and finds it especially valuable for learning about Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as Police Commissioner of New York City. Jeremy M. Murphy says that Eric Rauchway’s Murdering McKinley goes against the prevailing trend that sees Roosevelt’s progressivism as genuine, and he disputes Rauchway’s conclusions about the fate of the Socialist Party in the United States. Gable notes that James Chace’s 1912 makes no use of primary sources, but he recommends it “as a good place to start on the election of 1912.”
In his review of Daniel J. Philippon’s Conserving Words, Edward Renehan focuses on Roosevelt, his writings about hunting and ranching in Dakota, and his founding of the Boone & Crockett Club. Gable notes that John P. Avlon identifies Roosevelt as a model centrist in his Independent Nation, and he says that Richard D. White’s Roosevelt the Reformer provides a biography of Roosevelt during his years as a Civil Service Commissioner. The section also has an excerpt from the writings of Douglas Brinkley, notes the passing of Edward Wagenknecht, author of The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, and announces that the 2004 meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) will be held in Portland, Oregon. An article on the vice presidential candidates in the election of 1904 and two letters to the TRA praising its journal close out the section.
Photographs of Roosevelt and Avlon appear in the section along with a text box with a quote from Roosevelt about the 1904 campaign.
Jack C. Fisher, a medical doctor, examines the misguided treatment of President William McKinley following the attempt on his life on September 6, 1901. Fisher notes that Vice President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay both had premonitions that McKinley would not survive, and he traces Roosevelt’s movements in the days surrounding the assassination.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2002
Leonard Schlup examines the vice presidential candidates in the 1900 presidential campaign: Theodore Roosevelt for the Republicans and Adlai E. Stevenson for the Democrats. Schlup explains that Roosevelt was a younger, more dynamic figure than his running mate President William McKinley while Stevenson was an older, more reserved personality than his running mate William Jennings Bryan. Schlup looks at the background of each candidate, and he notes their approaches to the office for which they were vying. He highlights their very different positions on the topic of imperialism, with Stevenson adopting an anti-imperial position.
A Republican campaign poster, a photograph of Stevenson, and two political cartoons from the 1900 campaign illustrate the article. A listing of the leadership of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears on the second page of the article.
This article notes the 75th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s elevation to the presidency following the assassination of President William McKinley in September 1901. It traces Roosevelt’s movements and actions in the days surrounding McKinley’s shooting and death, and additionally provides a history of the Ansley Wilcox House in Buffalo, New York that served as the site of Roosevelt’s swearing in ceremony. The article concludes with a look at the state of the nation in 1901, and how Roosevelt addressed the many issues confronting the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1976
This Times article discusses President Roosevelt’s campaign against anarchism in the United States, especially in light of several recent anarchist attacks in the United States in 1908. The article suggests if Roosevelt can figure out a way to suppress anarchist doctrines, he will be doing a great service to mankind.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-10
Buffalo Courier from September 7, 1901, the day President McKinley was shot while at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. There are articles about the assassination attempt, McKinley’s status, and the arrest of Leon F. Czolgosz.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-09-07
The Daily Inter-Ocean from September 14, 1901, the day William McKinley passed away and President Roosevelt was inaugurated.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-09-14
The Winsted Evening Citizen includes the events surrounding President McKinley’s funeral, such as tributes from royalty and U.S. citizens. Details of the state funeral and discussion of Leon Czologosz’s anarchist creed are included.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-09-16
The Winsted Evening Citizen includes details of McKinley’s state funeral, a description of a manual on assassination techniques found on Leon Czolgosz, and accounts of McKinley’s boyhood days.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-09-17
The Winsted Evening Citizen includes the details of President McKinley’s state funeral in the Rotunda of the Capitol. It also gives an account of the funeral train, the arraignment of Leon Czolgosz, and how Theodore Roosevelt has asked McKinley’s secretaries to remain in office through 1904.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-09-18
The Winsted Evening Citizen includes analysis of the bullets from McKinley’s assassination declaring there was no poison on them, but possibly an infection. The exposition resumes and the details of “Big Jim” Parker’s heroic actions and a biography of Dr. Charles McBurney, the physician tending to McKinley, are covered in the issue.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1901-09-23