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This article discusses why Postmaster General Payne did not name a post office after Governor Vardaman. Payne says that Vardaman published an editorial which is “highly insulting to the President and his mother.” The article also includes a reply from Vardaman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-02
This report explains that Postmaster General Payne did not name a post office after James Kimble Vardaman because Vardaman published an article which contained indecent statements about President Roosevelt’s mother. The report includes a statement from Payne, an excerpt of the offending passage, an affidavit affirming that the language in the article is identical with that quoted by the Crits Club, and Vardaman’s reply when questioned about Payne’s assertion.
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1904-08-02
President Roosevelt sends an editorial from the Evening Post to Robert Means Thompson, saying that it shows the damage done by articles appearing in The Navy, a magazine published by the United States Navy. Roosevelt criticizes articles in the magazine, saying it contains statements from disgruntled officers and men who are fighting among themselves, and these articles give newspapers like the Post fodder for attacking the Navy.
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1907-08-02
President Roosevelt thanks Uri Mulford, George W. Pratt, and Harry H. Pratt for their “admirable” editorial in the Corning Journal.
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1906-12-26
In an editorial for The Century, Editor Richard Watson Gilder defends President Theodore Roosevelt’s actions on the “colored question” in the South. Gilder reminds readers that Roosevelt’s mother hailed from the South and suggests patience to Roosevelt’s critics, encouraging them to “judge the President by his whole conduct toward the South” and by all of his appointments, regardless of their racial makeup. Gilder asserts that the minority appointments Roosevelt has made are not radical or threatening but are in line with his “especial endeavor to appoint good men to office everywhere.” In concluding, Gilder qualifies his remarks with a reminder that the magazine has not agreed with every Roosevelt appointment and that its chief aim is to champion fair play.
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1903-02
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit that Secretary of War William H. Taft’s victory in the presidential election seems assured, despite the American Protective Association’s movement among Protestants who are against Taft because he is Unitarian. Roosevelt also lashes out at some of the newspaper men he says spread lies. He closes by saying he was interested in Kermit’s letter to Mother.
1908-10-24
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the news about Guffey. Roosevelt also appreciates the editorials, one from the Detroit News, one about vice-presidential candidates, and one about Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt wishes he could see George E. Miller.
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1912-08-15
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Homer Folks for the editorial letter he sent. Roosevelt agrees with Folks’s position but does not wish to include Folks in the committee to draft his platform, preferring that Folks remain unofficially connected to the Progressive Party.
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1912-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Thomas J. Healy, expressing his appreciation for the Chicago Tribune editorial and his dislike of the Record Herald editorial. He contends that the Record Herald editorial is dishonest in its portrayal of the Progressive movement and of his contender, William Howard Taft. Roosevelt is showing his letter to Senator Dixon and asks if he may also show it to Medill McCormick.
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1912-07-16
Theodore Roosevelt sends his thanks to Gilbert B. Daniels for the editorial and for his work he did in bringing victory in California. Roosevelt was particularly appreciative of the support from the women.
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1912-05-27
President Roosevelt has been indignant at the attacks against General Wood and would be appreciative if Richard Davis wrote an article about him.
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1903-11-14
President Roosevelt wants to see a Republican victory, not necessarily a Roosevelt victory. Roosevelt suggests that Richard Wilson Knott editorially release this information, but make sure not to quote directly. Roosevelt hopes for the success of Colonel Morris Burke Belknap in Kentucky.
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1903-09-15
In a letter to the editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the writer takes exception to an editorial which criticized President Roosevelt for publishing his letter to William Henry Jackson. He argues that the president should not be expected to refrain from speaking on matters of public concern.
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1907-05-06
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt concerning an editorial to be printed in the next issue of the The Outlook.
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1905-02-11
Charles O. Bishop explores the origins of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Bishop traces the relationship to the time when Roosevelt served as a police commissioner in New York City, and Joseph Bucklin Bishop publicized Roosevelt’s work in his newspaper editorials. Bishop notes Joseph Bucklin Bishop’s disregard for Andrew D. Parker, another member of the police commission, and he highlights Bishop’s work on the Isthmian Canal Commission and Roosevelt’s request that Bishop write his biography.
Four photographs of Joseph Bucklin Bishop supplement the text.
An article detailing Theodore Roosevelt’s denunciation of Harrison Gray Otis.
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1911-06-19
Theodore Roosevelt discusses the charges brought upon Samuel Gompers and Harrison Gray Otis in the Los Angeles Times.
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1911-06-17
Newspaper article describing Theodore Roosevelt’s statement on Harrison Gray Otis.
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1911-06-17
William F. King provides justification for the building of new postal service facilities in New York City and reviews the Merchants’ Association of New York’s efforts to secure the necessary legislation.
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1904-04-01
William Allen White offers his views on recent events in Kansas politics. White finds the Republican party at present to be in better condition than at any time in a dozen or more years because it is now without factions or cliques. He credits the change to a “head-on collision” comprised of the mutually timed withdrawal of Governor Willis Joshua Bailey, “a good man,” and the indictment of Senator Joseph Ralph Burton, “a bad man.” He speculates on the future of the party, predicting a shift from the “House of Albaugh” to the “House of Hoch.”
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1904-02