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William Grant Webster writes to William Loeb requesting an audience with President Roosevelt. Webster intends to declare as a candidate for the United States Senate in Illinois for 1908, and he hopes that Roosevelt will endorse the notion that federal office holders in Illinois will allow the people to have a say in the election process.
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1907-02-12
Douglas Robinson is pleased about Monroe Douglas Robinson’s election. He also thanks President Roosevelt for the letter.
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1907-02-01
General Wood needs to take a leave of absence to take his son home to the United States to put him into school at Groton Academy, and details his plans for travel during his absence. Wood encloses a response from Adjutant General Fred C. Ainsworth authorizing Wood’s return home. Wood is glad to continue on duty in the Philippines and considers it the best command in the service.
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1907-01-18
William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, expresses his hurt at President Roosevelt criticizing him to Kansas Representatives Philip Pitt Campbell and Charles F. Scott for supporting Senator Robert M. La Follette. Roosevelt’s criticism was based on White’s having invited La Follette to Kansas to fight the railroad interests and the senatorial candidacy of Charles Curtis. White likens the situation to that of Roosevelt working with Tammany Hall operative Patrick Divver and with Pennsylvania Senator Matthew Stanley Quay. In each case, White notes, Roosevelt was working to achieve a good end, while differing greatly with the other person on politics. White asks Roosevelt to withhold judging him for working with La Follette and to not become directly involved with the political fight in Kansas.
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1907-01-02
Published under the title, “Are you for President Roosevelt? Here is his political representative’s indictment of Arthur M. Brown,” this letter from George Robert Carter to Peter Cushman Jones speaks out against the nomination of Brown for sheriff of Oahu. While Carter also disproves of the nomination of Richard C. Lane for Deputy Sheriff, he says this is a minor office and that Lane will likely be defeated anyway. Carter speaks out against Brown’s candidacy for sheriff because he believes that, based on past experience, Brown’s administration would be “weak, corrupt, and lawless.” Carter elaborates on what he sees as Brown’s moral failings, and explains his own actions in not speaking out sooner.
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1905-06-14
Thomas K. Niedringhaus received the Missouri Republican caucus nomination for Senate. The caucus nomination reached stalemate after supporters of the opponent Richard C. Kerens questioned Niedringhaus’s integrity. Thomas J. Atkins supports Niedringhaus and sees him as an ally of President Roosevelt’s administration.
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1905-01-19
Representative Hill telephoned to report that a majority of New England Republicans polled do favor consideration of the tariff question before the next Congressional election.
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1905-01-12
Colorado State Republican Chairman Fairley summarizes recent political matters in Colorado and believes the state will go to President Roosevelt in the 1904 election.
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1904
Senator Alger sends President Roosevelt the official results of the Michigan popular vote for the presidential election in November 1904.
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1904-12-19
Andrew Hussey Allen informs Secretary of State Hay that the Department of State cannot publish “a bulletin of the popular vote for Presidential electors.” He goes on to support his opinion, citing the Acts of February 3, 1887, and October 19, 1888, that define the duties and powers of the Secretary of State. Allen tells Hay that he advised the managing editor of The Washington Evening Star that his paper must publish “everything in full.”
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1904-12-19
John Carter Rose writes to President Roosevelt to ask whether a uniform way of reporting final election results can be established, to encourage him to use his recent mandate to push through policies to regulate big corporations, and to express the concern of an acquaintance of his currently serving in the Consular Service.
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1904-12-12
John Edward Addicks describes to President Roosevelt the behavior of a minister, Robert Arthur Elwood, whose inflammatory rhetoric has led to a lynching, for which he was censored by his presbytery. Addicks says that Elwood, in opposing Addicks’s bid for office, claims to speak for Roosevelt, and he hopes Roosevelt will make a statement disavowing such interference in a local election.
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1904-12-05
Attorney General Moody responds to Richard Wilson Knott regarding jurisdictions involved when investigating election fraud. Knott had written to President Roosevelt and Moody is responding at Roosevelt’s request.
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1904-12-01
Armand Romain reminds President Roosevelt that last August, a committee of Republicans from Louisiana entered a formal protest against the “policy of inaction and of ostracism” adopted by the “Lilly White” leaders of the Louisiana Republican Party. Romain recounts the injustice and partisanship with which they lead the party, which has led to dismal election results. Some fear that the party is “in a state of complete demoralization and on the eve of annihilation,” and Romain and others hope to get some “word of encouragement and hope” from Roosevelt, as well as assistance if the party collapses. Still, Romain is hopeful, as there is a “strong change of sentiment” in Louisiana and in the South generally, in political matters, and people are beginning to believe the Democratic Party has “outlived its usefulness.” Romain reminds Roosevelt of his offer to consult both factions within the party when the time came, and Romain believes that the time is now. An announcement of Roosevelt’s proposed trip to the area “created an honest and hearty enthusiasm” among Republicans there.
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1904-11-21
Governor Bates thanks President Roosevelt for writing to him following his defeat at the Massachusetts polls. Bates congratulates Roosevelt on being elected president.
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1904-11-15
Joseph Bucklin Bishop sends President Roosevelt a report on independents’ voting patterns in the recent presidential election. Bishop is annoyed both with Republican party officials claiming their influence swung New York and with Democrats whom he found “offensive” during the campaign.
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1904-11-14
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt he was mistaken about the president’s communication with Massachusetts Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner being published. Only Gardner’s correspondence with Attorney General William H. Moody had been published. Given that Gardner carried his district by over 9,000, Lodge believes no good “can come by reopening it.”
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1904-11-10
Governor Brodie of Arizona reports to William Loeb the actions he has taken related to foundling children at Morenci and Clifton. He decided that given the impending election it would be best to delay any action for a couple days and set out a plan for the Catholic society to follow if they want to take possession of the children. Brodie feels that “it was a very nasty case from the beginning,” and suspects that the press was trying to mislead President Roosevelt and the public.
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1904-11-09
Lyman Abbott plans to interpret the results of the election for the readers of the Outlook, but if the results are what he expects and President Roosevelt is reelected, he does not think the interpretation will be difficult. Abbott believes the Republican party should initiate revision of the tariff. He would be pleased to visit the White House along with his son, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, any time it is convenient for Roosevelt. Abbott would like Roosevelt to talk with Ernest because he thinks Ernest understands the feeling in the South on the question of race, and believes that they need to recognize this if there is to be any progress made on the issue.
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1904-11-08
George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, tells President Roosevelt that following a discussion of the matter with Elihu Root, he believes it would be fine for Roosevelt to issue the statement he outlined in his recent letter after making the suggested changes. Senator Philander C. Knox, on the other hand, advises against making the statement, so Cortelyou will discuss the matter further with Root. Root will give a speech attacking Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker regarding his recent speeches. Reports from across the United States seem to be in Roosevelt’s favor.
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1904-11-03