Farmers--Political activity

Letter from Paul V. Collins to Theodore Roosevelt

Paul V. Collins hopes to visit Theodore Roosevelt in New York sometime in the fall or winter. He will be speaking at the State Grange meeting at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, and at the First National Conference on Social Center Development with the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. He doesn’t believe that the current administration realizes how Northwestern farmers are feeling and mentions that papers are not discussing the issue. He did recently read a related article in the Minneapolis Tribune.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-21

Letter from Samuel W. Church to Paul V. Collins

Samuel W. Church expresses his support for Paul V. Collins to run for Congress, emphasizing the need for a representative who will advocate for farmers. He criticizes past politicians and assures Collins that the farming community will support his candidacy.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-11

Letter from James Wilson to William Loeb

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports to William Loeb on President Roosevelt’s standing in Ohio, based on the opinion of W. I. Chamberlain, a farm journal editor who has visited every county. Wilson asks Loeb to inform the Roosevelt that he will be visiting whiskey distilleries and will be gone for a week.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to F. N. Godfrey

Theodore Roosevelt writes to F. N. Godfrey concerning Godfrey’s recent conversation with Judge Hotchkiss and the farmers’ questions about the pre-convention campaign. Roosevelt invites Godfrey to meet with him at Oyster Bay.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-07-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. A. Crofoot

Theodore Roosevelt sends his thanks to H. A. Crofoot for the letter and assures him that he always has and always will do everything in his power to help the farmers of this country.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cantwell Wallace

President Roosevelt instructs Henry Cantwell Wallace to hold meetings in rural areas with farmers and other people who live there and do work related to farming. The aim is to ascertain the general conditions of “the open country,” and to figure out how best to represent the people living there.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Walter Hines Page

President Roosevelt instructs Walter Hines Page to hold meetings in rural areas with farmers and other people who live there and do work related to farming. The aim is to ascertain the general conditions of “the open country,” and to figure out how best to represent the people living there.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kenyon L. Butterfield

President Roosevelt instructs Kenyon L. Butterfield to hold meetings in rural areas with farmers and other people who live there and do work related to farming. The aim is to ascertain the general conditions of “the open country” and to figure out how best to represent the people living there.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Timothy L. Woodruff

President Roosevelt discusses the best strategies for Republican victories in the upcoming elections in New York with Representative Woodruff. Roosevelt believes that gubernatorial candidate Charles Evans Hughes represents his policies “as regards internal affairs of the nation” and sees the possible election of William Randolph Hearst “as a smashing defeat.” 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to J. S. Sherman

President Roosevelt discusses the best strategies for Republican victories in the upcoming elections in New York with Representative Sherman. Roosevelt believes that gubernatorial candidate Charles Evans Hughes represents his policies “as regards internal affairs of the nation” and sees the possible election of William Randolph Hearst “as a smashing defeat.” 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert Parsons

President Roosevelt discusses the best strategies for Republican victories in the upcoming elections in New York with Representative Parsons. Roosevelt believes that gubernatorial candidate Charles Evans Hughes represents his policies “as regards internal affairs of the nation” and sees the possible election of William Randolph Hearst “as a smashing defeat.” 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James Wolcott Wadsworth

President Roosevelt has been receiving delegations from the National Grange. Roosevelt believes the man they are seeking should also be someone who is in touch with the real farmers.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Benjamin B. Odell

President Roosevelt believes that Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and Assistant Secretary Joseph H. Brigham will be “of great use to the farmers” and advises Governor Odell to keep them in mind for the New York campaign.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-06

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt

Gifford Pinchot was away and then involved in an important legal matter. Regarding the farmers, Congress and executives should not be the only ones in control. Rather, farmers’ organizations should be supported and their input welcomed by the government. Pinchot also leaves notes with page numbers next to topics relating to labor and business; with more time he could have done more. Pinchot thinks a first draft is “not a fair subject of criticism” but does not feel the letter measures up to Roosevelt’s usual level of writing. Pinchot concludes by remarking that he enjoyed Roosevelt’s article on the League of Nations.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-12-15

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Will H. Hays

Gifford Pinchot sends recommendations for an agricultural plank to the Republican platform. Pinchot would appreciate Republican Committee Chairman Will H. Hays’ feedback on the plank.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-10-08

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Will H. Hays

Without the support of farmers, the Republican Party cannot carry the next election. Gifford Pinchot outlines for Republican Committee Chairman Will H. Hays a number of strategies for securing the support of the farmers, including that the Vice-Presidential candidate in 1920 should be a farmer.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-09-18

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Will H. Hays

Gifford Pinchot writes to Republican Committee Chairman Will H. Hays to see who in the Senate would be the most effective voice to present their point of view. Porter McCumber is a farmer and represents that interest. However, there may be a more “effective mouthpiece.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-09-10

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Will H. Hays

Gifford Pinchot writes to Republican Committee Chairman Will H. Hays about the importance of farmers to the Republican Party. He believes it is the farmers of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, and Illinois that will be most vital to the next presidential election, not those of New York and Pennsylvania. Pinchot feels the danger that the Democratic Party may end up becoming the progressive party in the United States, particularly if it draws in the returning veterans of World War I. For the Republicans to attract them, the party must offer more than policies that the veterans will accept; Pinchot says that it must “label those policies with the names of men whom they will follow.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-09-04

Letter from L. H. Bailey to Theodore Roosevelt

L. H. Bailey responds to Theodore Roosevelt’s request for a statement on the farmer’s interest in political platforms. Bailey characterizes the farmer’s interest as primarily personal. He highlights several policy areas in which he believes farmers might be interested, but overall he believes the “attitude of a party toward the farmer is more important than specific promises.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-07-06

Telegram from Walter Roscoe Stubbs to Theodore Roosevelt

The farmers of Ohio are overwhelmingly supporting Theodore Roosevelt and it will be important to get them to vote in the primary. Governor Stubbs suggests that Roosevelt make a special appeal to farmers in his speech in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-18