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President Roosevelt comments on the “interesting table of election returns,” and thanks Lewis Milton Swasey for going to the trouble of preparing the statistics.
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1907-01-18
John C. Delaney reports to President Roosevelt on election results in Pennsylvania. Delaney praises John Mitchell and Louis N. Hammerling for their work on the campaign.
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1904-11-29
W. Sloan Simpson tells President Roosevelt that no vote had ever been cast for a Republican in Bailey County, Texas. But in 1904 every eligible voter but one voted for Roosevelt.
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1904-11-27
F. Norton Goddard discusses the election results with President Roosevelt. He includes an amusing story he has heard about Roosevelt’s announcement that he would not seek a third term.
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1904-11-25
Henry Edwin Tremain writes to President Roosevelt about the “Representation Plank” in the Republican Party’s recent campaign platform. Tremain points out that Census data shows eligible voters are not participating. This restriction of civil rights violates the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment and should result in a reduction of representation in Congress.
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1904-11-15
William Barnes thanks President Roosevelt for acknowledging the work of local Republicans during the recent campaign. Barnes outlines the poll results in Albany.
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1904-11-16
F. Norton Goddard gives President Roosevelt voting statistics from districts in New York. Goddard is a Republican Party official. He is proud to be recognized by Governor Odell for recent turnout at the polls. Goddard follows up on his recommendations for jobs and positions.
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1904-11-14
Headline declares, “Roosevelt landslide!”
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1904-11-09
The article summarizes reactions to President Roosevelt’s success in the recent national election as published in newspapers from cities in the South. This clipping was mailed from New York City by Nicholas Murray Butler, who identified the newspaper as The Globe.
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1904-11-15
Nicholas Murray Butler sends President Roosevelt a newspaper clipping about the recent election results, commenting that “nothing develops wisdom so rapidly as a good thrashing.”
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1904-11-15
Joseph Bucklin Bishop, editor of The Globe in New York City, enclosed this article in a letter to President Roosevelt. Bishop wrote this article about the independent vote for Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1904. In all cases, Bishop writes, independent voters seem to have preferred Roosevelt, even in states which elected democratic governors.
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1904-11-14
An editorial argues that Governor John Lewis Bates was criticized for actions that should have garnered praise.
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1904-11-14
President Roosevelt finds the figures that Joseph Bucklin Bishop sent about the election results “most interesting.” He hopes Bishop can visit soon.
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1904-12-13
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear the news that all eligible voters except one in Bailey County, Texas, voted for him in the presidential election. He tells W. Sloan Simpson, “but for Heaven’s sake don’t molest that one black sheep. He sets off the color of the rest of the flock.”
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1904-12-02
According to information collected from the election of November 4, 1902, the Republican Party has a distinct advantage in the electoral college.
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1902-10-06
Walter Butler Atterbury requests a meeting with President Roosevelt regarding the federal offices in Kings County, New York. He claims the county’s political affairs are in poor shape and offers information on the political situation.
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1901-11-12