Gardner, Augustus Peabody, 1865-1918

Senator Lodge is sorry that President Roosevelt has reached the time of life where physical exercise has ceased to be a rest. Lodge thinks that if William Randolph Hearst runs in any way in New York, the Republican party will be able to carry the state. The political situation in Massachusetts has revived Lodge’s hopes of retaining control of the House. The reciprocity revision movement appears less militant than last year, and higher wages in the cotton and wool industries has weakened agitation against Republicans on behalf of changing the tariff. Lodge thinks the unknown quantity in the Congressional elections is the labor vote under the direction of Samuel Gompers. Lodge agrees with Roosevelt that there is more baseless praise poured out over Thomas Jefferson than any man in our history.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-08

Senator Lodge is much more confident now, after their discussions with Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, that the bills in question will pass. It took some negotiating, but they were able to secure a promise to bring the bill to a vote without making too many modifications. President Roosevelt is to say nothing of this until the next session.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-03

Secretary of State Root is gratified to hear that the Newfoundland government is not preventing American fisherman from fishing and encloses a telegram he sent to Augustus Peabody Gardner.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-23

Ambassador Reid describes the difficult situation regarding American fishing vessels and the Newfoundland treaty coast. He outlines several key issues that should lead to action.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-23

Senator Lodge sends President Roosevelt information regarding Newfoundland fisheries and new measures that may interfere with the Treaty of 1818. Lodge requests a government vessel to patrol the contested waters.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-16

This newspaper article briefly comments on the published correspondence between Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner and Attorney General William H. Moody regarding the Haverhill postmastership. It concludes that President Roosevelt did the correct thing in reappointing Postmaster Horace I. Pinkham on the recommendation of Moody, rather than using the position as political patronage for Gardner.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-02

Following competing claims to the postmastership of Haverhill, Massachusetts, President Roosevelt has settled the issue by reappointing Horace I. Pinkham to the position over Charles M. Hoyt. The issue put Congressman Augustus Peabody Gardner at odds with Attorney General William H. Moody, and the article goes on to explain the controversy and sides of the issue.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-01

President Roosevelt’s decision to extend the term of Horace I. Pinkham as postmaster in Haverhill, Massachusetts, against the recommendation of Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner, who wanted Charles M. Hoyt appointed, is likely to set a precedent in the state. Pinkham’s appointment was insisted upon by Attorney General William H. Moody, who is of Haverhill, and Roosevelt decided a member of the president’s cabinet should have the right to determine the postmaster of their city.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-31

President Roosevelt has sided with Attorney General William H. Moody over Congressman Augustus Peabody Gardner regarding the appointment of the postmaster of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Moody favored the reappointment of Horace Irving Pinkham, while Gardner advocated for Charles M. Hoyt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11

President Roosevelt has suspended the Treasury Department’s 20 percent import tax on pickled sheepskins until after the election. The writer of the article speculates that Roosevelt did this at the request of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, whose son-in-law, Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner, represents districts in Massachusetts that would be heavily affected.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-12

During a speech given at the Methodist Episcopal Church of Africa’s diamond jubilee, President Roosevelt praises white imperialism. Roosevelt in particular eulogizes British imperialism in India, claiming the British administration to be a greater feat than any of the Roman Empire. Roosevelt states that English control prevents tyrannical leaders from oppressing the common masses. The second portion of this article describes the outrage incited by the summoning of the editors and correspondents of the New York World to testify in a case against Joseph Pulitzer for libeling the United States Government. Representative William F. Willett, of New York, went on an angry tirade against President Roosevelt. Once Willett was declared out of order and prevented from continuing, Senator Isidor Rayner, of Massachusetts, explained that the outrage was due to concerns over violation of the freedom of speech and press.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-19

President Roosevelt comments to Senator Lodge on the results of the election. He notes that the West did better than the East because of of the East’s strong reaction against William Jennings Bryan.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-11-06

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that President Roosevelt is doing much better, with a normal temperature and good appetite. The doctors believe that his leg should heal quickly now after the surgery following his recent carriage accident. Edith is very glad that Constance Lodge Gardner is getting better, and supposed President Roosevelt has written Lodge about Constance’s husband, Augustus Peabody Gardner. She promises to write again soon to him and his wife Nannie.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-10

President Roosevelt writes to Senator Lodge regarding the Anthracite Coal Strike, noting that at present he has not been able to find any methods that would allow the national government to influence the strike. Roosevelt compares the tariff and the strike by saying that in either case, if people are not able to get the goods they need, they will blame the government. Roosevelt explains in the postscript that he is done making tours for the year, and will not make more speeches until after the election.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-09-27

Several congressmen labeled “Gardner, Champ Clark, De Armond, Sulzer, Goldfogle, Ollie James, Fitzgerald, [and] Burton Harrison” and others are engaged in a brawl on the floor of the House of Representatives. In the background, Sereno E. Payne is addressing the Speaker of the House, Joseph Gurney Cannon.

Comments and Context

As the sixty-first Congress was seated in March 1909 the Democrat Party had reason to feel confident about their future in the House of Representatives. The party still was in the distinct minority, but a growing restlessness in the electorate presaged political changes; more and more Republican representatives declared themselves anti-Establishment Insurgents likely to resist the House’s Old Guard; and the popular Theodore Roosevelt would be abroad for more than a year, his Republican influence absent from politics.

In spite of a rosy future, party members presaged Will Rogers’s aphorism several decades hence: “I don’t belong to any organized political party; I am a Democrat.”

Theodore Roosevelt is sorry to hear that Judge Waddill has been ill. Roosevelt thanks Waddill for the letters.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-06-05

Theodore Roosevelt believes it was “most unwise from every standpoint” to put his name on the Massachusetts ballot for the 1916 presidential ticket for the Republican party.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-03

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Arthur Dehon Hill for the book and was particularly interested by the chapter about Ernst Lissauer’s “Hymn of Hate.” Roosevelt thinks Charles Sumner Bird and Augustus Peabody Gardner “got what was coming to them.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-03

Theodore Roosevelt says it is illogical to keep the Philippines unless no promises of independence are made and there is a strong military build-up. He questions supporting Charles Evans Hughes for president since he feels no one really knows how he stands on the issues.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1916-05-23

Senator Lodge is worried about the news of President Roosevelt’s surgery and feels guilty about his last letter full of worry about the coal strike. Lodge asks if there is anything Attorney General Knox can do about the situation. Lodge reports on Massachusetts campaign news.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-25