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President Roosevelt asks Secretary of War Wright to look over a letter and report on it. Roosevelt would like to grant Florida Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward’s request if possible.
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1908-08-08
President Roosevelt relays to Senator Lodge that the objection to Judge William B. Sheppard is his successful handling of peonage cases. Roosevelt believes the charges against Sheppard by Horatio Bisbee are not serious, and occurred several years ago.
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1907-08-19
President Roosevelt instructs Attorney General Bonaparte to stop investigating the matter involving William B. Sheppard, and to fill out his appointment as the judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Roosevelt has directed Special Assistant Attorney General Ormsby McHarg to continue the prosecution in New Mexico. While Roosevelt feels that McHarg lacks the experience to handle the case, he understands that halting the prosecution would likely result in the statute of limitations coming into play. He hopes to send Assistant Attorney General Alford Warriner Cooley to new Mexico to help take up the matter. Bonaparte should continue insisting on an immediate separate trial for Senator William Edgar Borah. The press continually attacks Roosevelt and Bonaparte.
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1907-08-15
President Roosevelt tells Alexander Irvine that he intends to appoint William B. Sheppard as Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Roosevelt has sent Irvine’s letter to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, which should make Sheppard and his colleagues proud. Roosevelt says he will do anything he can for Frederick Cubberly.
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1907-08-02
Effie M. Record has just been elected as President of the National Auxiliary, Spanish War Veterans and is writing to Theodore Roosevelt to request help obtaining donations from wealthy Americans to meet the needs of the organization. Record provides many statistics and financial details.
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1911-10-03
Thomas T. Wright expresses to Oscar W. Underwood that the U.S. needs more American ships in foreign trade and urges Congress to pass a ship subsidy bill to support the merchant marine and boost the southern economy.
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1911-09-11
Arthur I. Vorys informs William Loeb that Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon or Leslie M. Shaw are the second choice of Florida Republicans if President Roosevelt does not seek another term. This is unlike the rest of the country, which largely supports Secretary of War William H. Taft after Roosevelt.
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1907-09-09
In the first vignette–“Opportunity No. 1,” President Roosevelt reaches out his hand to shake with the “Florida wild cat.” In the second–“Opportunity No. 2,” Roosevelt chases down the “Florida razor back” with a knife in his right hand and a spear in his left. In the third–“Opportunity No. 3,” Roosevelt holds a “Florida bear” at gunpoint. In the fourth–“Opportunity No. 4,” Roosevelt holds a “warrant” for the “Florida tiger.”
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1907-10-15
President Roosevelt holds a “list of candidates for appointment to the federal judgeship of the northern district of Florida” and wear “party politics” glasses.
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1907-07-27
President Roosevelt, who wears an “1898 San Juan” hat, holds up a “big stick” as he stands on “Florida” and looks at “Cuba.” Caption: He finds inspiration in the president’s alert handling of the Cuban question.
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1906-08
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to give him advice about balancing football and studying. He then talks about his southern trip including injuries he sustained in New Orleans on a ship. Roosevelt adds that Alice Roosevelt returned from her eastern trip and brought presents for the children, including Japanese fencing armor.
1905-11-01
Throngs of people gathered to listen to President Roosevelt
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1906-01-12
President Roosevelt sends his sympathy to the people of Florida after a hurricane. Roosevelt tells Governor Broward to call upon Roosevelt for aid if the Federal government allows him to send any.
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1906-10-20
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Gifford Pinchot for the information, but the arrangements for his Florida trip have already been made.
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1917-01-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges receipt of James I. Munoz’s letter. Roosevelt’s full schedule will not allow him to accept Munoz’s kind invitation.
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1912-10-09
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Floyd Reading Du Bois that the unseating of “colored” delegates from the South had nothing to do with their race, but that they were not legally entitled to their seats. In Florida, both the white and the colored delegates were unseated. In Mississippi, Benjamin F. Fridge had called for a “white” convention based on a misunderstanding, and rather than waiting for an adjustment from the National Committee, the unseated delegates held their own illegal state convention. Richard Washburn Child agrees with Roosevelt that the Mississippi decision was legally, not racially, based. Finally, the unseated delegates in Cincinnati were judged to be associated with the Republican Party machine.
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1912-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks William W. Acheson for the letter to Roosevelt regarding the situation in Florida.
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1912-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Senator Reed Smoot of Utah that he is unable to visit Utah on his tour. Roosevelt is similarly unable to visit Oklahoma, Florida, and Maine.
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1911-01-31
President Roosevelt writes Richard Watson Gilder a lengthy refutation of an article in the Evening Post in which William Garrott Brown misconstrues his actions in the Republican Party. Namely, Brown accuses Roosevelt of neglecting Republicans in the South and of doing a poor job of making nominations to local offices and positions. Roosevelt asserts that where the Republican party is not strong in the South, he has had to appoint Democrats who were quality men, rather than incapable men who are Republicans. Where he believes the party has a chance to compete with Democrats, he does all he can to support it. Roosevelt also writes that he did not use his influence on officers to get William H. Taft the nomination, but rather Taft was nominated because Roosevelt’s policies were popular, and Taft is the man who will continue those policies. Roosevelt believes that Brown is either ignorant or willfully ignorant of a number of facts.
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1908-11-16
President Roosevelt offers John Milton Bryan and his family sympathy upon the death of his son, Florida Senator William James Bryan.
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1908-04-03