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Massachusetts Senator Winthrop Murray Crane is opposed to Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and President Roosevelt in supporting William H. Taft in the upcoming presidential election. Crane has threatened to resign his seat rather than be forced on the matter. Details of Crane’s objections and state of mind are discussed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-18
Secretary of War William H. Taft seemed to be the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president, but his candidacy is losing support. Even thought President Roosevelt supports him, and he is personally popular with the public, he is a poor campaigner and is losing ground in several states to other politicians, including Roosevelt himself, whom some support for a second elected term.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-21
In anticipation of Assistant Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock making a visit to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, William H. Taft reports a recent conversation a third party had with Hitchcock. The latter expressed his intent to oppose Taft’s nomination for the presidency and to press for President Roosevelt to run for a third term. Hitchcock believes that Taft has made an unfavorable impression on a number of important figures in the Midwest. Taft implies that Hitchcock’s views might be influenced by those of Winthrop Murray Crane.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-29
Frank H. Hitchcock has two competing job opportunities. President Roosevelt and Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer want Hitchcock to stay in his position as Assistant Postmaster General, while Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou wants him to replace the current Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Hitchcock is dismayed that the press makes him out to be the only man who can assess the current political climate in the Roosevelt administration, and swears that he is not currently campaigning for any candidate for president. Hitchcock has traveled around the South, Midwest, and Pacific coast, alarming local politicians who assume he is campaigning. Hitchcock has jurisdiction over several thousand postmasters in the United States, further establishing his influence over the nominating process.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-01
President Roosevelt invites Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge and Senator Lodge to have dinner with him sometime soon. He feels like he will burst if he is not able to talk about a variety of topics without his usual reserve.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903
Booker T. Washington writes to President Roosevelt regarding the visits he made to many United States senators during his trip to Washington, D.C. Washington states he will continue to visit senators in person as he believes it is the best way to influence them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-21
Representative Burton discusses political appointments in Cleveland, Ohio, including the re-appointment of Charles C. Dewstoe as postmaster, and appointments of Edwin A. Batt as Appraiser of Merchandise and Frank M. Chandler, United States Marshal, Northern District of Ohio. Senator Foraker had seemed favorable to the appointments but has since withdrawn his approval. Burton hopes a settlement can be negotiated on these appointments soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-25
Senator Foraker says a clerk in the Department of the Interior has been “engaged in pernicious political activity” in Ohio but has been called back to Washington by Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock. Representative Hildebrant wants to plead the man’s case to President Roosevelt, but Foraker hopes he will not be allowed to stay in Ohio.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-01
Samuel W. Meek recommends that President Roosevelt encourage Senator Joseph B. Foraker to remove his opposition to the appointment of Charles C. Dewstoe as postmaster in the event that Edmund H. Zurhorst is removed from the position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-19
Jesse Bowman Young discusses Republican politics in Ohio and newspaper reports on the opponents of President Roosevelt. Young details reports against Representative Foraker in recent newspaper articles.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-15
The writer claims President Roosevelt’s administration is covertly attempting to influence several state elections including opposing Governor Richard Yates in Illinois, offering George W. Dunn a position in Arizona in order to remove him from New York politics, and supporting Senator Joseph Benson Foraker as the new Republican leader in Ohio.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-13
Nicholas Murray Butler discusses three political issues involving the upcoming Presidential election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-07
Nicholas Murray Butler discusses the articles of Lincoln Steffens that discuss President Roosevelt’s reelection. He writes that he is unsure of Steffens’s political aims but believes he is writing his article about Roosevelt merely for success as a journalist.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-02
Fearing their loss at the Ohio State Convention, supporters of H. M. Daugherty and Representative Theodore E. Burton request help from Ohio native, Secretary of State William H. Taft. Additionally, many claim that President Roosevelt’s invitation to Senator Charles Dick to view the naval maneuvers indicates a particular fondness towards him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-03
The article on page one, “Senator Foraker’s Attack on President Came So Unexpectedly Chief Executive Could Not Retort Effectively,” covers the Brownsville incident.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1907-01-29
President Roosevelt inquires about the post office in Tampa, Florida. Captain Samuel A. Glenn, who has the support of Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, would like to be postmaster.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-19
A large Christmas tree is decorated with ornaments labeled with political offices and presidential appointments. Thomas Collier Platt and Matthew S. Quay, who is dressed as a woman, are standing in front of the tree. In queues on both sides are diminutive figures anxiously awaiting their presents, including from right to left, Jerry Simpson, Joseph B. Foraker, William E. Chandler, William McKinley, Whitelaw Reid, Thomas B. Reed, Levi P. Morton, Benjamin Harrison, William B. Allison, George F. Hoar, John Sherman, Chauncey M. Depew, and Robert T. Lincoln. Caption: The two big bosses have full charge of it, and the most obedient boys will come in for the best gifts.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-25
A large female figure holds a cornucopia labeled “Prosperity 1895,” floating toward rays of light that illuminate industrial facilities. She hovers above a group of men gathered around a platform with a banner that states, “Protection Issue and Victory in 1896.” Several of the men are shaking their fists at her. Among those identified by name and unidentified are “Hoar, Elkins, Tom Reed, Lodge, [and] Hale,” and William B. Allison, possibly Thomas C. Carter, John Sherman, Joseph B. Foraker, William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, William E. Chandler, Whitelaw Reid labeled “Tribune of N.Y.,” Charles A. Boutelle, and Matthew S. Quay.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-09
An elderly woman sits in a chair on a platform, instructing her students in lessons that have probably been taken from the “Republican Campaign Text Book” sitting on a table on the right, or from the “Republican Press” at her feet. Reciting their lessons are pupils identified as “Boutelle, Reid, Reed, Foraker, Harrison, Hoar, Allison, Lodge, McKinley, Sherman,” and “Stewart,” who is standing on a stool and wearing a dunce cap labeled “Silver Dunce.” Caption: The Schoolma’am–Who were responsible for all the cyclones, dry spells, frosts, floods, landslides, chills-and-fever, mosquitos and everything else that plagued the country? / Chorus of Scholars–The Democrats! / The Schoolma’am–To whom does the country owe its present good crops, fine weather, health, wealth and general prosperity? / Chorus of Scholars–The Republicans!! / The Schoolma’am–Correct! – all go to the head!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-08-28
President Cleveland appears as an explorer, with cabinet members John G. Carlisle and Walter Q. Gresham, in a jungle, where they have come across a band of monkeys labeled “D. Hill, C. Dana, W. Reid, Blackburn, Vest, Jones, Pugh, Foraker, Wolcott, Teller, Morgan, Peffer, [and] Stewart.” Caption: Pioneer Cleveland is bound to carry political enlightenment forward, even if the simian statesmen don’t like it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-22