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Senator Proctor writes to President Roosevelt that there are many senators and representatives who want the decision on the Smoot case deferred.
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1906-05-07
On behalf of Senators Jonathan P. Dolliver and Joseph W. Bailey, S. H. Cowan sends President Roosevelt the amendment written by Attorney General William H. Moody. The amendment refers to Congress regulating interstate commerce.
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1906-02-28
Governor Cummins writes to President Roosevelt regarding an article in the Chicago Record-Herald. Cummins denies the article, which claimed he gave a speech attacking a bill, Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver and the President. Cummins is frustrated and exasperated by this false attack in particular.
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1906-01-01
Nicholas Murray Butler writes President Roosevelt concerning two topics. The first is the choice of a new judge to preside over the Oregon Land Fraud case after the death of the District Judge. Butler recommends Judge Hanford from the Washington District. Secondly, Butler informs Roosevelt Senator Dolliver will support Roosevelt’s railway rate program. Butler also assures Roosevelt that if Senator Millard’s vote can be changed Roosevelt will have majority support among Republicans for the program.
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1905-05-29
Chairman Cortelyou forwards President Roosevelt a letter from Senator Dolliver.
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1904-08-30
Christopher Columbus Shayne reviews candidates for Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Vice President of the United States. For chairman he favors the selection of someone with passion and energy, and not just loyalty and ability. He recommends Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortelyou as chairman. For vice president he suggests selecting someone who will get out votes in the next election. He recommends Senator Jonathan Dolliver of Iowa or former Senator from Nebraska David Henry Mercer as vice president. Shayne also provides suggestions on the Republican Party platform.
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1904-05-10
Booker T. Washington writes to President Roosevelt regarding the visits he made to many United States senators during his trip to Washington, D.C. Washington states he will continue to visit senators in person as he believes it is the best way to influence them.
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1904-04-21
The Des Moines Daily Capital reports on the Polk County Republican convention in Iowa on Saturday. After reports on corruption in the vote counting process in favor of S. F. Prouty, John A. T. Hull was given the nomination for the House of Representatives. In addition to nominating Hull, the convention named delegates to the state convention and issued a resolution calling for a reform of the primary voting process, expressing support for President Roosevelt’s renomination, and commitment to the Republican platform. A second article contains an allegory about a young politician who lost a race and learned that he should not “squeal.”
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1904-03-07
John Hay reports that Senators Fairbanks, Dolliver, and Allison favor the Alaskan treaty.
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1903-02-07
This article reports on the failure of the “Iowa Idea,” which had previously called for a modification of the interstate commerce act to fight against monopolies and discrimination. The platform as it stands now has been moderated and diluted to such an extent that it cannot be taken seriously. Although Governor Albert Baird Cummins has put forth this compromise platform, he still seems to hold a personal belief in the older Iowa Idea. There is still contention about the compromise among other people, as well. The article also details several other aspects of the Iowa Republican state convention.
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1903-07-02
The Iowa Republican state convention is having problems maintaining party unity. Governor Cummins is trying to maintain control over the convention, and has spoken against William P. Hepburn remaining as permanent chairman of the convention. Cummins is trying to show that he has not abandoned the “Iowa idea,” and will likely write the platform, or at least the part related to tariffs. The governor’s opponents have dug up an old letter from Cummins in which he supports free silver, rather than the gold standard.
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1903-06-30
The article reports that the Iowa Republican convention was largely harmonious, with a contentious “shelter to monopoly” plank removed from the platform. Although Governor Albert Baird Cummins did not get all of his supporters onto the resolutions committee, the convention was mostly free from conflict.
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1903-07-02
Wilbur L. Davidson invites President Roosevelt to be present at the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone at the McKinley Memorial-Ohio College of Government at the American University. The ceremony had been postponed due to a severe winter and is now scheduled for May 14. Roosevelt declined the previous invitation, but Davidson hopes that he can attend the re-scheduled event. Davidson tells Roosevelt he knows of the President’s interest in education and that President McKinley had promised to lay the cornerstone before his death. Senator Dolliver and Governor Nash of Ohio are to attend.
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1902-04-23
Julius Wurzburger states that Representative Richard Barthold attempted to recruit him before the 1900 Republican National Convention to secure the Missouri delegation’s support for Representative Jonathan P. Dolliver as vice president and not Theodore Roosevelt.
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1901-11-29
This article describes President Roosevelt as the “overwhelming choice” of state legislators in South Dakota and Nebraska, as illustrated by the results of a poll.
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1907-03-02