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Theodore Roosevelt writes Charles Howard Thompson about Reverend Coburn of Vermont, a recent convert to the Progressive Party. Roosevelt recommends Coburn for his speaking ability if Thompson needs talented speakers in Vermont.
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1912-08-17
Former President Roosevelt sends his thanks to A. P. Burton for the telegram and for Burton’s work in helping Roosevelt win Ohio. The state has now “joined in the great procession of Republican States where the voters have had a chance to express their preference.”
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1912-05-24
President Roosevelt details various strategies for the Republican candidates in the upcoming elections in New York to Lieutenant Governor of New York and New York Republican State Committee Chairman Woodruff. Roosevelt believes William Randolph Hearst will carry votes in Upstate New York, therefore the focus should not be only on the cities.
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1906-10-04
M. B. Reilly praises Theodore Roosevelt’s recent interview. Reilly believes that they could do wonders in the Massachusetts 14th district if they had some assistance.
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1911-02-08
Representative Loudenslager sends President Roosevelt the data gathered by the Republican Congressional Committee regarding districts and their favorability towards the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.
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1906-11-03
Phillips Lee Goldsborough asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte if he believes President Roosevelt will permit him to be chairman of William H. Jackson’s congressional campaign even though he is a collector for the Internal Revenue Service. Goldsborough believes he will be granted permission based on a conversation he had with Commissioner John Watson Yerkes in which Yerkes confirmed that Roosevelt had allowed a collector to act as chairman of a state committee.
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1906-09-15
S. Brown Allen summarizes events in Virginia’s Tenth Congressional District and the attempts of Jacob Yost to disrupt the party organization. Allen argues that he supports Colonel Slemp and that most of the Virginia Republicans do not support Yost. Yost’s machinations led to his declining of the nomination of Virginia Republicans at the Buchanan Convention in 1898.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-12