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Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports that he will travel to the South to assess boll weevil damage to cotton crops. Wilson will arrive in Washington, D.C., to meet with the United States Congress regarding Cuban legislation. Wilson is confident of Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna’s win in the upcoming election and mentions railroad men and labor unrest.
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1903-10-25
Justice Spring believes that President Roosevelt’s nomination and election are assured but he believes it is important for New York to be in the “Republican column.” If the New York election is about national issues, Spring is confident of a Republican victory. If state issues are prominent, the election is much more uncertain. The best national issues candidate for governor is Secretary of War Elihu Root and the best state issues candidate is Lieutenant Governor Frank Wayland Higgins.
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1903-10-15
Ralph Trautmann is the Fusion Party’s candidate for sheriff of New York County. The nomination was urged by the Republican County Committee and Trautmann wanted to inform President Roosevelt, as he values Roosevelt’s opinion.
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1903-09-26
Richard Wilson Knott informs President Roosevelt that he believes conditions have improved for the Republican party in Kentucky since a recent letter he wrote to the president. Despite the factions in the Republican party, a Republican party victory is more important than a “Roosevelt” party victory.
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1903-09-12
James Sullivan Clarkson requests that President Roosevelt meet with Revenue Collector Thompson and Captain Charles H. Scott as they can provide good advice relating to Republican support in Alabama in the upcoming election. Clarkson informs Roosevelt that these men wish to support Roosevelt and not those who tried to set up the “Lily White Republican Party” in Alabama.
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1903-09-17
Charles Vezin comments on the popularity of President Roosevelt among all classes and parties, in reference to a speech made at the annual dinner of the Society of American Fakirs of the Salmagundi Club in New York. Vezin also expresses his desire to vote for Roosevelt in the next election.
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1903-09-09
Colonel Belknap writes to President Roosevelt regarding an enclosed clipping from editor Knott’s newspaper and about the elections in Kentucky.
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1903-09-01
Joseph Bucklin Bishop writes to President Roosevelt regarding articles relating to financial legislation, the election of Mayor Low, and Oregon senators. Bishop returns the letter from Edward King.
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1903-09-01
Seth Low writes President Roosevelt about the possibility of Low’s being renominated for mayor of New York. While no mayor has yet been re-elected, except for non-consecutive terms, Low believes that a strong fusion ticket might be nominated, and if that were so, the possibility of winning the election would be in reach.
Senator Hanna apologizes for the delay in replying to President Roosevelt’s letter. Hanna has been traveling and he wanted to meet with labor leaders before responding to the president. Hanna discusses the printers and pressmen’s organization as well as William Randolph Hearst’s aspirations to candidacy for president. Hanna then talks about the notion of socialism in conjunction with the Democratic Party.
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1903-08-04
Acting Secretary of State Loomis writes to President Roosevelt to inform him that Cardinal Sarto was elected the new Pope in Rome.
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1903-08-04
The writer of the editorial warns of the dangers to the Republican Party due to an alliance between the Democratic Party and labor unions.
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1903-07-16
Report on the Republican vote in 1900 for several states.
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1903-07-30
Basil Wilson Duke endorses Morris Belknap as Kentucky gubernatorial candidate. Duke speculates that the result of the election will be a Republican victory, as the Democrats are divided, discontent, and have engaged in fraud. He also concludes that the Republican party is fractured, especially the African Americans whom he thinks will not vote in the polls.
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1903-07-28
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou encloses a letter from an unnamed “candidate,” noting that he does not expect to receive similar letters from other candidates.
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1903-07-17
This article examines the question of whether President Roosevelt will call Congress into a special session to consider the proposed modifications of banking and currency laws. Interviews with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge reveal that a special session is set for November 9, 1903. J. Pierpont Morgan and George W. Perkins do not believe the special session to consider a currency bill is unnecessary, but that if one is called, it should occur as soon as possible. The writer believes that Roosevelt chose November, rather than October, for the special session because of the November elections of local and national importance. Creating a new currency bill is difficult, and anything that comes out of Congress, in order to satisfy the financial interests, Congress, and the American people, will need to be a compromise.
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1903-07-18
Report on the number of socialist votes by state for the elections in 1896, 1900, and 1902.
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1903-07-15
Senator Lodge returns Mr. Randolph’s letters and suggests that when Randolph wrote the first letter he had expected Edward Oliver Wolcott to win.
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1903-03-11
In a statement Richard W. Morgan said he found the anti-Wolcott arguments persuasive, but he remained a strong supporter of Wolcott.
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1903-01-30
Regarding Colorado politics, Sherman Bell believes that the Democrats have an advantage in the Senate and that the election of Henry Moore Teller was rigged.
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1903-01-31