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President Roosevelt wants to hear about W. Sloan Simpson’s trip. He is glad Simpson thinks Oklahoma Governor Frank C. Frantz has a chance, and that he approves of Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou’s actions.
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1907-08-26
President Roosevelt tells Charles E. Hunter that he is pleased that Frank C. Frantz was nominated for governor of Oklahoma, and feels sure Oklahoma will be admitted as a state to the Union.
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1907-08-02
Stanley Wellington Finch informs Attorney General Bonaparte about Special Agent William E. Johnson’s action regarding liquor traffic in Indian Territory. The Department of the Interior does not want to withdraw Johnson from his current work and would not do so unless requested by President Roosevelt.
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1907-09-13
Secretary of War Taft agrees with President Roosevelt on Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech and on the negative press from the New York papers. He describes his trip thus far and makes predictions about his success based on what he has been told. In light of the gerrymandering involving Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell, Taft asks Roosevelt to help defeat an inadequate constitution in Oklahoma. Taft has asked Joseph L. Bristow to form another report on Panama, and he mentions an editor named Joseph Ralph Burton who has been attacking Roosevelt. Taft discusses the political campaigns and conflicts in the states he is passing through, in particular the political campaigns in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Denver. Taft’s mother Louise Maria Torrey Taft is recovering, and although the trip has been exhausting, Taft has a few days of rest ahead.
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1907-08-30
President Roosevelt received the articles William Dudley Foulke sent him and says the statements made by Louis Ludlow are false. Roosevelt comments on his nomination of Samuel G. Victor for the position of marshal in Oklahoma following Senate’s failure to confirm Grosvenor A. Porter. Victor has been strongly recommended to Roosevelt, who has heard that his frequent opponents Senators Joseph Benson Foraker and James A. Hemenway, his frequent opponents, are trying to delay Victor’s nomination. Roosevelt does not know of any charges that would be a discredit to Victor.
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1908-03-14
President Roosevelt informs Judge John H. Shepherd that there is a very serious protest against his appointment in Oklahoma, and wishes for Shepherd to speak to Governor Frank C. Frantz and Charles E. Hunter about the matter.
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1907-10-31
President Roosevelt acknowledges the invitation of the governors of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, to make a trip on the Mississippi River with the Inland Waterways Commission. He reflects on the importance of the nation’s rivers as “highways” for products to supply any inadequacy of means of transportation over land. He intends to travel with the Commission down the Mississippi for three or four days in October. A note at the bottom of the letter indicates that it was sent to each of the governors who signed the invitation.
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1907-05-16
President Roosevelt informs Attorney General Bonaparte that Oklahoma Governor Frank C. Frantz will meet with Bonaparte on Monday and encloses a telegram from the attorney for the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention to Frantz. Roosevelt has already informed the men that Bonaparte had advised him not to express his opinion of the Oklahoma constitution. He would like to talk over the decision of Judge John L. Pancoast with Bonaparte. Roosevelt also encloses “two letters addrest to representative Watson about the Oklahoma constitution.”
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1907-05-16
President Roosevelt responds to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp’s letter concerning the investigation of the Governor of Oklahoma, Frank C. Frantz. Investigators questioned men concerning Frantz and his brother, however it is unclear if the statements are true, or merely gossip. Roosevelt believes the situation reflects poorly on the character of the Governor and ex-Governor of Oklahoma.
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1906-10-02
President Roosevelt was thrilled by Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock’s telegram. While he is disappointed Winston Churchill was not nominated, he counts the narrow loss as a victory of “moral effect.” He has been reviewing the documents regarding the charges against Governor of Oklahoma Territory Frank C. Frantz and comments on the case’s various aspects.
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1906-09-19
President Roosevelt sends Commissioner of Indian Affairs Lepup papers relating to the charges against Governor of Oklahoma Frank C. Frantz. He requests Leupp’s help investigating charges concerning Frantz’s conduct as Osage Indian Agent.
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1906-09-18
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock a letter from Attorney General William H. Moody regarding the accusations against US District Attorney for Wyoming Timothy F. Burke. He also details plans for aiding in Governor of Oklahoma Territory Frank C. Frantz’s case.
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1906-09-15
President Roosevelt follows up with Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock on several cases, in particular that of Governor of Oklahoma Territory Frank C. Frantz.
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1906-09-06
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock letters from Representative J. S. Sherman and Fulton and requests Hitchcock provide a statement about the Cherokee payment. He chastises Hitchcock and Governor Frank Wayland Higgins for publishing his correspondence with them and discusses the potential political fallout.
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1906-08-27
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Moody if it would be possible to send some people to Alaska to investigate North Dakota Senator Porter J. McCumber’s allegations against Alaska District Judge James Wickersham. Roosevelt mentions he may also ask Moody to send some men to Oklahoma to investigate the situation there, as Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock has taken a disliking to Oklahoma Governor Frank C. Frantz and has sent an agent to investigate him who in the past has made a “yellow-magazine report.” He does not wish these sorts of investigations to become over-zealous. Roosevelt does not wish to interrupt Moody’s vacation, but asks him to find out about these two matters.
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1906-07-06
President Roosevelt asks Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Burford to speak with Oklahoma Governor Frank C. Frantz and read the letter Roosevelt recently sent Frantz. Roosevelt promises to not believe any charges against Frantz unless they are proven beyond any doubt, and will punish secret service agent William J. Burns if he has indeed been acting as Burford has written. He wants written statements and affidavits he can use and publish either showing Frantz’s innocence and character, or showing evidence of wrongdoing.
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1906-07-04
President Roosevelt returns Inspector James McLaughlin’s communication, as requested by Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock. In light of the statement, Roosevelt tells Hitchcock that all new appointments in Oklahoma will be suspended pending an investigation, and that Dr. Roger L. Hall will be required to substantiate his charges to an officer of the Department of the Interior. If Hall’s allegations are true, Oklahoma Governor Frank C. Frantz should be removed, but if they are false, Hall himself should have charges brought against him. Roosevelt also comments about allegations made against Cassius M. Cade, and says that if there are no objections to him other than those that have been disproved, he will remove his objections. The anonymous letter McLaughlin reported contain allegations against Frantz similar to ones previously made and then dropped against him by Dennis T. Flynn.
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1906-05-27
President Roosevelt is very pleased by Billy McGinty’s letter and is glad to hear he is doing well. Roosevelt tells McGinty that Franc C. Frantz is all right and asks if he has met John R. Abernathy yet, who is the United States Marshal for the western district of Oklahoma Territory. Roosevelt says that Abernathy “is a crackajack and ought to have been in the regiment.”
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1906-05-01
President Roosevelt tells Judge Burford that John R. Abernathy’s name has already been put before the Senate for U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma. Roosevelt believes the complaints that Abernathy will appoint outlaws to government positions are unjust.
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1906-02-07
President Roosevelt has selected a tutor for his son, Ted, from the four men recommended to him by H. S. Thompson.
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1904-09-27