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President Roosevelt informs Philip Battell Stewart that he is pleased with the platform and endorsement. Roosevelt is also pleased that D. B. Fairley was re-elected.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-25
President Roosevelt cannot write a personal letter for Progressive candidate for governor of Colorado Philip Battell Stewart and tells Republican State Chairman D.B. Fairley not to publish his letter. Roosevelt believes Secretary of War William H. Taft will be of help in the gubernatorial races in both Colorado and Idaho.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-17
President Roosevelt asks Philip Battell Stewart if he still recommends D. B. Fairley for a consulship and explains he is having a terrible time figuring out how to fill the vacancies. Roosevelt also inquires more about the hunting trip Stewart has suggested and asks Stewart to follow up with John B. Goff about the conditions. Roosevelt believes this could be the last hunt he takes as president, and he wants it to be under “the most favorable circumstances.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-26
William H. H. Llewellyn was glad to receive General Bell’s reply to his letter asking about the political situation in Colorado. Llewellyn had previously written to the other former Rough Riders living in Colorado to assess the situation there. He has been invited to in Colorado later in the month. Llewellyn comments that there are a number of former rough riders near Trinidad, Colorado, including James D. Ritchie, who “is quite an Anarchist.” In spite of Ritchie’s politics and an incident in which he shot a man, Llewellyn writes that “he is doing everything he can for the Roosevelt Electors in Colorado. I do not think you could pry him away from the Colonel even with a crow-bar.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-17
Llewellyn, William H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1851-1927
John Wallace Springer discusses the election for mayor of Denver, Colorado, noting that although he was nominated by a great majority of Republican voters, the election was manipulated by the Democratic machine. After the state Republican convention adjourned, the managers of four public utility corporations insisted that an Anti-Wolcott ticket be named, and the Democratic ticket “sold out” to these corporations. Springer thought that he deserved President Roosevelt’s support and wants to know if anyone told him to keep his “hands off of this fight.” Springer points to the appointment of D. A. Barton and George Engs Randolph, who had been Republican candidates for office, to prominent positions by Democratic Mayor Robert Walter Speer as evidence that traitors were working to defeat the Republican ticket.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-19
George C. Manly seeks help in unifying Republican factions in Colorado in order to help President Roosevelt win the nomination for reelection. The largest division in the Colorado Republican party is between the anti-Wolcott movement and the rest of the Republicans and this has caused political corruption within the state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-02
Newspaper article supporting Republican State Chairman Fairley’s call to move away from machine politics and select candidates of “high character.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05
Edward B. Field recommends D. B. Fairley for the governorship of Puerto Rico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-28
Extracts from several Colorado newspapers supporting D. B. Fairley’s candidacy for governor of Puerto Rico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-11
John Campbell shares the results for Republican candidates in the most recent Colorado election, highlighting cases of election fraud. He endorses the possible appointment of Colorado Republican Committee Chairman D. B. Fairley as governor of Puerto Rico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-09
Archibald McNichol Stevenson believes that D. B. Fairley’s letter to President Roosevelt about the appointment of Joseph W. Milsom as chief melter at the United States mint is evidence of Fairley’s bad faith toward Stevenson. Fairley had agreed to arrange the appointment of Iliff instead, but did not do that. Stevenson believes that no one can disprove the claims he has made about Milsom’s campaign money.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-05