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President Roosevelt tells Senator Knox about personnel issues with the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. He hopes to see Knox soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-23
Nicholas Murray Butler relays to President Roosevelt some suggestions that William Barclay Parsons made to him about the Isthmian Canal Commission. Among these suggestions is the idea that the Commission should be cut down to three members and contain no engineers.
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1905-01-16
Note with the mailing address of Henry Clay Frick.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop to discuss meeting with Secretary of War William H. Taft and Henry Clay Frick. Roosevelt says he is unsure of Frick’s position on the railroad rate matter and he has asked Senator Philander C. Knox to come down in hopes of communicating with Frick through Knox. Roosevelt also mentions that, according to William Loeb, the Washington Post will not be sold.
1905-06-08
President Roosevelt informs Joseph Bucklin Bishop that he will speak with Edward Van Ingen. He also asks Bishop to write to Henry Clay Frick.
1903-07-24
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis provides suggested text for a letter to Henry Clay Frick and Judge Elbert H. Gary. Loomis is asking to be considered for an adviser position concerning foreign matters and acquiring and expanding new markets.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-16
John D. Rockefeller, as Belshazzar, sits on a throne above a group of capitalists and politicians enjoying a feast of such dishes as “Draw Back Bon-Bons, Fruits of Monopoly, [and] Rebate Plums.” The festivities are interrupted by a hand appearing from above holding “The Big Stick” and writing the words “Rate Legislation.” Caption: “And the King saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the King’s countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him.” [Daniel 5:5-6]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-05-31
President Theodore Roosevelt stands on a reviewing stand, holding hat in raised right hand as a large group of capitalists, industrialists, and financiers wearing the tattered clothing of tramps, march past the stand. Some carry placards with such statements as: “Irrigate the Trusts,” “No place to go but the Waldorf,” “We want the earth,” “Free quick lunches,” “Pity the poor banker,” “Dividends or we perish.” At the front of the group, J. P. Morgan carries a wooden bucket labeled “The full water pail.” Caption: “Aggregated wealth largely represented among Parker’s Supporters”–New York Tribune.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-09-14
The secretary of Theodore Roosevelt acknowledges the receipt of W. S. Scarborough’s letter requesting a letter of introduction to industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Roosevelt’s secretary promises to give Roosevelt the letter when he returns from campaigning in the Midwest, but doubts that Roosevelt will provide a letter of introduction for Scarborough as Frick no longer supports Roosevelt and such letters have created problems for Roosevelt in the past.
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1912-10-09
President Roosevelt has received Ralph M. Easley’s letter about the labor leader John Mitchell, and asks if Henry Clay Frick could help him. He also wonders if Easley could go directly to Elbert H. Gary, whom he believes has a “genuine interest” in the matter.
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1908-06-04
President Roosevelt informs Attorney General Bonaparte of a meeting he had with Judge Elbert H. Gary and Henry Clay Frick regarding the potential failure of an important Wall Street firm, Moore and Schley. The firm is heavily invested in the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. Gary and Frick propose that the United States Steel Company purchase that stock from the firm to prevent its failure. This purchase could expose United States Steel to an antitrust attack from the government, but Gary and Frick explain why it would not constitute a monopoly, and feel strongly that preventing the firm’s failure would be in everyone’s best interest. Roosevelt told them that while he could not advise them to take the proposed action, he felt it was not his duty to tell them not to.
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1907-11-04
President Roosevelt does not remember having gone into “old misdeeds,” as John Ellis Roosevelt mentions, and states that there is no need to bring them up unless they come up in regard to recent crimes.
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1907-03-20
From everything President Roosevelt has heard, Mr. Woods is “a fine fellow,” but with only one vacancy left on the Interstate Commerce Commission, Roosevelt does not believe it can go to someone from another northeastern state.
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1906-08-06
President Roosevelt hopes Cornelius Newton Bliss has not taken personally the baseless accusations thrown at him of late. Roosevelt does not believe there was any unusual or excessive expenditure in the 1904 election, and in fact there was less than what the British parliament spends on their elections. It was half of what was spent on the 1892 and 1896 elections, but the more important point is that the money was spent legitimately. Bliss has only given the president advice when he asked, and asked for nothing in return, and for that the president is grateful.
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1906-03-26
President Roosevelt will adopt some of the suggestions Senator Knox gave for his speech. He also asks if he could get a copy of the book about Andrew Carnegie that was supposedly inspired by Henry Clay Frick.
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1905-10-08
President Roosevelt believes that the best thing to do is remain quiet about any controversy regarding campaign funds. He tells Wayne MacVeagh that he has never accepted funds if he knows that the donor expects favors in return. However, he believes that there is no good way of deciding whether to return contributions, or which ones to return. He also expresses concern about the current state of Federal supervision of insurance companies but does not see a way out of it.
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1905-09-23
President Roosevelt tells Joseph Bucklin Bishop he will speak to Secretary of War William H. Taft at once. He is trying to figure out how to speak with Henry Clay Frick, and Roosevelt is seeing if he can communicate with him through Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox. Roosevelt tells Bishop that William Loeb was told “there is not the slightest chance of the Post being sold at all.”
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1905-06-08
President Roosevelt shares with Fairfax Henry Wheelan his approach to filling various kinds of appointments.
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1905-01-25
President Roosevelt acknowledges receipt of Governor Odell’s letter and explains he plans to see James H. Hyde that week. The president will write to Odell in greater detail after he has seen Hyde.
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1904-12-12
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Knox for his telegram and wishes to see him again the next time Knox visits. Roosevelt also states that it is too early to express his opinion about the effect of their opponents’ (the Democrats) actions and notes that they did not look united or happy at the Democratic National Convention held in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-10