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James Sullivan Clarkson met with Senator Quay and discussed statehood for New Mexico and Arizona and the relationship between Quay and President Roosevelt. Clarkson recommended that New Mexico and Arizona be brought into the Union as a single state, and Quay said that he could support this if the Democrats went along with it.
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1902-12-18
Election pamphlet supporting the Democratic Party and white supremacy. The primary focus of the pamphlet is to repudiate President Roosevelt for having dinner with Booker T. Washington at the White House.
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1902
List of congressional nominees, arranged by state, for the November 4, 1902, election.
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1902-10-29
Representative Babcock encloses a list of legislators elected to Congress, of which at least 206 are Republican.
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1902-11-05
John Edward Charles O’Sullivan Addicks discusses Delaware politics and promises to remain a political candidate.
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1902-11-06
Edward Schnick blames Theodore Roosevelt for the Democrats gaining control of New York and the United States and releases his indignation at Roosevelt and his politics. He complains about the activities of Roosevelt at the 1912 Chicago Republican Convention. He thinks that Roosevelt sold President Taft out on account of his ego. He says that Roosevelt’s return from Africa looked like a “Barnum Circus.” He promises never to vote for Roosevelt again and urges him to retire from the public sphere.
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1912-11-08
Charles Moore would like to know if President Roosevelt wants Representative Corliss elected. Several Sound Money Democrats are willing to support Corliss if Roosevelt believes his election is desirable. Moore can make arrangements for Donald McDonald Dickinson not to manage the Democratic campaign.
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1902-10-21
James Sullivan Clarkson is concerned about a customs collector in Texas who might be violating election law to fight the Republican Party. Clarkson suggests that a border agent be sent to prevent the Democrats from “importing” Mexican citizens to vote the Democrat ticket.
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1902-10-23
Norman Edward Mack, Democratic committeeman from New York, proposes Grover Cleveland as the Democratic presidential candidate with a platform of tariff for revenue only. Mack believes that Cleveland can win New York against President Roosevelt and that William Jennings Bryan would support a nominated Cleveland.
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1903-05-13
John Byrne opposes the socialism of David B. Hill’s policies just as he opposed the socialism of William Jennings Bryan’s policies in 1896 and 1900. He cannot support anyone who supports Bryan and he feels that the Democratic Party has fallen low to accept Hill’s policies as part of its platform. Byrne urges Francis C. Travers to oppose such men for the sake of the country.
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1902-10-29
Alfred L. Tyler forwarded a letter regarding the political situation in Alabama from H. L. McElderry. McElderry is distressed at President Roosevelt’s opposition at efforts to “form a respectable Republican party in Alabama.” He is also contemptuous of Joseph C. Manning. Tyler agrees with McElderry’s views on the oligarchy of Democrats ruling Alabama.
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1902-10-18
In the most recent Commoner, William Jennings Bryan provides the history of the Democratic reorganization movement and portrays Grover Cleveland as the primary disruption in the party.
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1903-05-13
The writer considers the probability of Grover Cleveland being nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate. They dismiss William Jennings Bryan, and argue that it is unlikely that the Democratic Convention will endorse Cleveland. The writer also makes a comparison between Cleveland’s current position and the situation faced by Ulysses Grant at the 1880 Republic National Convention.
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1903-05-13
Newspaper article arguing that Southern Democrats need to support a presidential candidate that can win a national election. If they do not, continued Republican control of the national government will lead to more anti-Southern policies. The only nationally viable Democratic candidate is Grover Cleveland and the South must decide between “Clevelandism and Rooseveltism.”
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1903-05-13
Newspaper article dismissing Grover Cleveland’s potential nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate as “impossible and absurd.” The party organization is against Cleveland and supports William Jennings Bryan.
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1903-05-13
A series of brief articles from across the country suggesting that Grover Cleveland could be the Democratic presidential candidate in 1904 and that he could successfully challenge President Roosevelt.
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1903-10
Booker T. Washington expresses his concerns over the lack of voting rights for African Americans in the South. He places the blame on Democrats and “lily white” Republicans.
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1902-09-15
Grover Cleveland is unsure if he would accept the Democratic presidential nomination if it were offered to him. Charles Foster, one of Cleveland’s friends, believes that Cleveland does not want the nomination but would accept it out of duty to the Democratic Party.
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1903-05-13
Senator Lodge comments on a letter from the “Committee of Supervision” which was sent to President Roosevelt. Lodge notes the writers are all members of the N. E. Anti-Imperialist League which has just announced it will be backing Democrats in the next election though the committee will support Roosevelt. Lodge assures Roosevelt he has nothing to worry about from them as Lodge and Root were painted as the villains in the piece.
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1902-07-28
A newspaper article discusses the consistency of the Negro vote for the Republican party, while the Democratic party continues to try and sway them. The article breaks down the percentage of Negro voters and their impact on elections. Included is a table showing the percentage of Negro votes by numbers in all of the northern Republican states. The article questions if the elimination of these votes would impact the presidential elections.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-25