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Two Republican clubs, the Austro-Hungarian Republican League and the Colored Republican Club, will be factors in the coming campaign, in support of President Roosevelt’s re-election.
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1904-08-04
President Roosevelt informs Booker T. Washington that he no longer wants to have anything to do with Timothy Thomas Fortune of the New York Age. He encloses an editorial by Fortune about a speech given at the Tuskegee Institute.
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1905-11-10
President Roosevelt thinks Booker T. Washington’s editorial for the Outlook is admirable, but that he should have used the Democrat Edgar S. Wilson’s name in writing about the Indianola, Mississippi, affair.
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1904-10-15
President Roosevelt would like Timothy Thomas Fortune to report to Commissioner General of Immigration Frank P. Sargent.
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1903-03-16
Charles William Anderson informs William Loeb that Roscoe Conkling Simmons, Booker T. Washington’s nephew by marriage, has started a newspaper in New York that aligns with the political leanings of Benjamin B. Odell and Lemuel Ely Quigg. Other friends of Washington have also expressed political opinions contrary to Roosevelt, and Anderson intends to tell Washington that he ought to stand by the President.
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1906-09-12
Charles William Anderson informs William Lobe that the New York Age, a prominent black newspaper, is supporting Benjamin B. Odell and Lemuel Ely Quigg. Anderson also notes that Odell and Quigg aim to challenge Anderson’s membership to the Republican State Committee in New York.
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1906-08-31
Booker T. Washington assures President Roosevelt that Fortune‘s editorial will be republished in colored newspapers throughout the country and little influence of the first editorial will remain.
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1905-11-15
Booker T. Washington says that Mr. Durham will be doing a lot of the editorial work for Timothy Thomas Fortune’s newspaper, The New York Age.
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1904-09-13
James Sullivan Clarkson would like to speak with President Roosevelt about a prominent Iowa newspaper and other newspapers that he believes are attempting to divide the Republican Party. Clarkson also encloses clippings from Timothy Thomas Fortune’s New York Age, the most prominent African American paper, which he finds to be doing good work for the Roosevelt administration.
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1902-12-27
Newspaper article faulting The Washington Post for referring to Timothy Thomas Fortune as “a professional Negro.”
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1902-12-25
Two articles from the New York Age discuss political meetings and resolutions by various African American societies and meetings. The first reports on a visit of New York Age editor Timothy Thomas Fortune to San Francisco, where he spoke about the need for political unity among African Americans, and praised President Roosevelt’s statesmanship. The second reports on a meeting of the Union League Republican Club of Detroit, which upholds its support of President Roosevelt after he wrote a letter condemning those who opposed his nomination of the African American William Demos Crum for Customs Collector in Charleston, South Carolina. The club also speaks against the “lily white” Republicans and the invitation of Senator Benjamin R. Tillman to speak in Detroit.
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1902-12-25
Francis E. Leupp brings four separate matters to the attention of George B. Cortelyou: enclosed papers from Timothy Thomas Fortune who is seeking an appointment, the appearance of two newspaper articles that have “wrought havoc with the feelings of the President’s warm friends” in New York and Philadelphia, a request from Ernest Lee Conant to speak to President Roosevelt regarding the Cuban question, and Rollo Ogden would like to pay his respects to the President.
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1902-01-16