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William H. Taft informs President Roosevelt that the influential paper, The Baltimore Sun, supports him. Everyone from Maryland assures Taft he has the state’s electoral vote. The paper’s owner wants a representative to interview Roosevelt for publication. Taft is unsure of Roosevelt’s opinion on the matter but promised he would inquire.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-20
Alonzo H. Stewart, Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, sends President Roosevelt a “third original” copy of the certificate of the electoral college vote confirming his election, “as evidence of long standing friendship.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-17
Senator Lodge discusses a variety of topics including the Wisconsin situation and the La Follette electors. He agrees with Secretary of War Taft that “Parker was stronger the day his telegram was published than he will ever be again,” most likely referring to Alton B. Parker. Lodge mentions that he has been asked to write an article for the North American Review about President Roosevelt and he reiterates his idea about Roosevelt attending the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-25
Representative Smith has spoken with Governor Benjamin B. Odell. As a result, Smith has decided that he would not mind if President Roosevelt spoke with Samuel Decker Coykendall about becoming a presidential elector; however, Smith does not want his name mentioned. He would like to know Coykendall’s response.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-22
J. C. McKnight informs William Loeb that the Governor (most likely referring to Benjamin B. Odell) has met with Judge Hasbrouck. McKnight reports that “matters are now in such shape” that President Roosevelt can speak to Samuel Decker Coykendall about going on the ticket as an elector.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-20
Governor Odell advises President Roosevelt not to meet with Samuel Decker Coykendall until Odell can contact Judge Hasbrouck. Odell suggests that if Roosevelt has already made an engagement with Coykendall, he should “say nothing of the matter of elector and talk to him on general lines.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-18
William B. Allison writes to William Loeb to express his opinion that Major Conger, minister at Peking, “should not be transferred under existing conditions in the East, unless with his consent.” Allison is also disturbed about the situations in Illinois and Wisconsin but does not think they will affect the electoral vote.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-03
Brief notice about Helen J. Scott of Washington state who was the first woman to cast a vote in the electoral college after the election of 1912.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1982
Matthew Quay, senator from Pennsylvania and political boss of dubious character, stands at a podium labeled “Keystone Auction Rooms, Matt. Quay, Auctioneer.” Quay is auctioning off Pennsylvania’s 32 electoral votes, labeled “32 Delegates for Quay,” to the highest bidder. The four men at the foot of the podium are William McKinley, Thomas B. Reed, Henry M. Teller, and a man labeled “Morton.” Caption: Auctioneer Quay–Now then, gentlemen, what am I offered for this lot? – the highest bidder gets ’em!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-03-18
Trading card made of cardstock with a sepia tone photograph of Governor Roosevelt wearing a suit. The reverse has a list of the states and their number of Electoral College votes for the presidential election of 1900.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1900
Uncle Sam and William Jennings Bryan, wearing caps and gowns, attend the graduation ceremonies at the “Electoral College.” Bryan is holding a book titled “Reveries of a Candidate.” Caption: Chairman Sam of the Board of Trustees — Why, hello, Bryan! I thought you graduated back in ’96. / Bryan — No; I was conditioned that year in Free Silver. / “Well, you went out in 1900, surely.” / “Nope; that year I was conditioned in Imperialism.” / “Gee whiz! Well, what are you doing here now?” / “I’m taking a special course in Government Ownership and the Initiative and Referendum.”
The criticism of William Jennings Bryan or one of many “knocks” inside and outside the Democratic Party, as he prepared for a third presidential run, was that his ideas were old. They seemed revolutionary and, to some voters, dangerous in 1896, his first run. Indeed he incorporated planks of the Populist platform as a Democrat, and some of his proposals were as old as the Grange and other radical agrarian movements.
Preparing for 1908, Bryan admitted to very few regrets. Rather he subtly stockpiled revelations along the way. Some ideas he advocated were mildly Socialist, and some were anti-establishment democratic reforms like the direct election of senators, and initiative, referendum, and recall. Today his 1908 candidacy might be called Bryan 3.0 — not deleting much, but adding and refining.
President William H. Taft swims in a sea of “Presidential Surf.” Below the waves, unseen by Taft, are many crabs listed by state of the union, and one large crab with the face of Theodore Roosevelt, that is about to pinch Taft.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-17
Herschel V. Jones estimates the results of the 1904 presidential election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-28
According to information collected from the election of November 4, 1902, the Republican Party has a distinct advantage in the electoral college.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-06