Editorials

Mercer P. Moseley sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the editorial published in the New York Commercial today.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Creator(s)

Moseley, Mercer P. (Mercer Pamplin), 1873-1928

Oscar S. Straus acknowledges the letter and enclosures Jacob Saphirstein sent him of an editorial from the Jewish Morning Journal regarding the Russian passport question and the endorsement by Straus of Theodore Roosevelt’s proposal for arbitration of the passport question. Straus verifies his support of Roosevelt’s proposal and lists some of reasons for doing so. Straus invites Saphirstein to visit to discuss further details.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

Creator(s)

Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926

Oscar S. Straus informs Theodore Roosevelt he received a letter from Jacob Saphirstein, the editor of the Jewish Morning Journal, containing an editorial responding to Roosevelt’s proposal for arbitration regarding the Russian passport question, which Straus consulted with Roosevelt regarding and fully endorsed. Straus has written back to Saphirstein and is enclosing a copy of his letter to Roosevelt. Straus feels more convinced than ever that arbitration is the way forward to arrive at a satisfactory solution.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

Richard L. Johnson sends Theodore Roosevelt his poem Behold the Man, which he wrote in response to the questions newspapers asked while Roosevelt was in Africa: where is the man? Johnson also sends his interpretation of the Lincoln Statue Roosevelt dedicated.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-04

Creator(s)

Johnson, Richard L. (Richard Lewis), -1918

A copy of a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edwin A. Van Valkenburg, the editor of the Philadelphia North American. Roosevelt thanks Van Valkenburg for the hint as to a proper view of the Democratic Party. He says he agrees all tariff abuses should be cut out, but feels it would damage the country to adopt the theory of free trade.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-01-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Brander Matthews for the editorial, which greatly interested him. Both he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoy the work of Franklin Henry Giddings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks United States Attorney Asa P. French for the editorial, and commiserates with him about delays in an ongoing financial investigation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt sends Secretary of War Taft a marked editorial and notes that he still has a “patent on certain social, artistic, scientific, literary and other issues.” He also observes in a postscript that there is a campaign prepared against Taft due to the government covering the majority of his travel expenses. Roosevelt believes that they do not have a leg to stand on regarding Taft’s visits to the Philippines or Panama but encourages Taft to pay careful attention to all of his expenses as such accusations could be very detrimental to his campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Colonel Thompson for his letter and believes that “The Navy” editorial had done more harm than good. Roosevelt believes the author was either trying to discredit the navy or shared the interests of papers like the New York Sun and Times that want to break down Roosevelt’s presidential administration even if this harms the United States Navy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

In a private letter, President Roosevelt thanks the editor of Puck magazine for the editorial discussing the unfortunate suffering of some who are innocent in any movement to punish the guilty. Roosevelt disdains the belief that businesses must be protected at the expense of honest politics.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt enjoyed the editorial sent by Alfred Henry Lewis. When he returns to Washington, D.C. he will ask Bat Masterson to bring down Lewis’s brother, William Eugene Lewis. Roosevelt agrees that there is a dangerous possibility that any supposed public support for himself could always turn in favor of someone more radical.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Senator Lodge for sending the editorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Helen Newell Garfield, wife of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, for sending the interesting editorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks James Roosevelt Roosevelt for an editorial about American relations with Venezuela. The president fears that someday the United States will have to “spank” Venezuela, but he is more concerned about relations with Japan, and hopes the diplomatic mission from Korea does not visit the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt enjoyed Richard Watson Gilder’s letter and enclosures, he is “glad that the Saga article is satisfactory.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Spectator editor John St. Loe Strachey that he is embarrassed of the way that former Ambassador Bellamy Storer has behaved in the press as of late, but that he ultimately stands by all sentiments he gave in the letters that have been made public. The president muses on the details surrounding the recent controversy regarding the exclusion of Japanese children from San Francisco schools, as well as his proposed plan for the United States and Japan to keep their laborers out of one another’s countries.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells John Carter Rose, the US Attorney for District of Maryland, that he appreciates the editorial her forwarded from the Times, and was proud of the election of the Republican Congress. Roosevelt bemoans that the congressmen who have won their seats based on riding his coattails have later attempted to thwart him, but also notes that it has happened to every other president before him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Ernest Harvier that he appreciated the editorial he wrote, and hopes to see him the next time he is in Washington.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt appreciated the letters and editorials that Albert Halstead sent to him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Guild A. Copeland that he appreciated the letter and editorial. Roosevelt hopes that legislation will be passed in relation to “the currency business;” he remarks that “The New Yorkers do not seem included to accept my recommendations, but demand more,” and that he does not think “they can get more.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919