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Governor Hunt responds to a letter from Bishop Blenk concerning a conflict between the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican government.
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1903-12-16
Senator Foraker expressed his support for President Roosevelt’s renomination for president and believes Senator Hanna’s statements that he will not be a candidate.
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1903-11-25
Curtis Guild discusses the state of Republican politics in Boston and relays his appreciation for President Roosevelt’s position on Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. Guild describes Governor John Lewis Bates’s recent speech in New Bedford, in which he admonished William A. Gaston. Guild asserts that the summary of Bates’s speech published in the Boston Herald was insufficient. Guild discusses the bills regarding the Wakefield water loan and the fireman workforce and describes Gaston’s image as marred by association with Edward F. McSweeney.
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1903-10-22
Acting Secretary of State Loomis informs President Roosevelt that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker approves of appointing Judge Daniel Thew Wright of Cincinnati to the district bench in November.
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1903-07-27
There is a debate over the Ohio State Republican Convention endorsing the nomination of President Roosevelt as the Republican presidential candidate. Senator Foraker favors the endorsement and Senator Hanna is opposed. Hanna favors Roosevelt’s nomination but does not believe it is appropriate to introduce the presidential issue until next year. All Ohio Republican leaders support Roosevelt and Hanna’s opposition is only raising questions of his own presidential ambitions.
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1903-05-24
Newspaper article portraying President Roosevelt’s nomination as the 1904 Republican presidential candidate as “irresistible and inevitable.”
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1903-05
Newspaper article claiming that Senators Hanna, Foraker, Fairbanks, and Platt are all supporting President Roosevelt’s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate.
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1903-06-01
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis writes to William Loeb regarding the possibility of President Roosevelt’s re-nomination for the presidency in Ohio. Friends of Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna have given a series of interviews to the press, bringing the question of who will be nominated to the forefront.
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1903-05-23
Senator Lodge discusses the ongoing investigations of the Post Office scandal. He asks President Roosevelt to review a copy of a newspaper article by Walter Wellman of the Chicago Record-Herald. Lodge asserts that the publication is critical of him because of his defense of Assistant Postmaster General Robert John Wynne, who, the article seems to imply, might lose his position because of the scandal. Lodge describes having met the president’s wife and sister when he spoke at the Groton School. Lodge also refers to the Ohio intrigue over the state Republican Party’s resolution to nominate President Roosevelt as their candidate in 1904. It pitted Senator Foraker against Senator Hanna.
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1903-05-30
Senator Lodge refers to the Ohio intrigue over the state Republican Party’s resolution to nominate President Roosevelt as their candidate in 1904. The situation pitted Senator Foraker against Senator Hanna and Hanna lost face. Lodge comments on business men and Wall Street people who support Roosevelt, but he also discusses the fears of others who believe Roosevelt sides with labor and wants to destroy businesses like the railroad system. Lodge also mentions concerns about the Post Office sandal.
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1903-06-02
An article discusses the opinions of Republican editors on whether they should endorse President Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination. The views ranged in support and opposition with concerns over declaring his nomination too early. The majority of editors stated they supported Roosevelt.
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1903-05-22
Secretary of State Hay has had a difficult meeting with Senator Hale and believes that Hale longs for war with England because God will judge them for their dealings with the Boers. Hale is generally opposed to war. Senators Frye, Foraker, and Beveridge were more calm in their discussions with Hay.
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1902-12-14
Summary of a Republican rally held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Senators Foraker, Hanna, and Beveridge were the primary speakers.
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1902-10-23
Secretary of State Hay discusses potential changes in the diplomatic service.
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1902-08-03
Henry S. Culver was appointed Consul at London, Ontario, on the recommendation of Senators Foraker and Hanna and eleven members of the Ohio congressional delegation.
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1902-05-05
The unknown writer was pleased to hear of Col. Shepard’s appointment and congratulates President Roosevelt on the recent Supreme Court decision. The writer was distressed with several political disputes being played out in public.
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1904-03-15
Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna’s objection to the appointment of Judge Daniel Thew Wright as judge in the District of Columbia is the clearest indicator that George Barnsdale Cox has left behind Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and allied with Hanna.
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1903-07
Reports received from Washington, D.C., indicate that Senator Hanna objected to the appointment of Judge Daniel Thew Wright as the Judge of the District of Columbia because he knew the appointment would be opposed by the Hamilton County Republican organization and George Barnsdale Cox.
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1903-07
Senator Hanna protested against the appointment of Daniel Thew Wright as a federal judge. Wright has been highly recommended by Senator Foraker.
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1903-06-26
Senator Hanna’s protest against the appointment of Judge Wright as judge of the District of Columbia indicates that Hanna’s alliance with George Barnsdale Cox is both offensive and defensive. Hanna will likely leave the Republican National Committee and focus on Ohio politics. The Hanna-Cox alliance will be a force in the realignment of Republican politics in Ohio.
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1903-06-27