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Adolphe Danziger explains the difficulties he faced while trying to foster a movement in the Jewish communities of New York on Roosevelt’s behalf during the last Presidential campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-14
President Roosevelt informs Nathan Bijur that Julius M. Mayer will be calling upon him with a suggestion; Roosevelt thinks it is Bijur’s patriotic duty to accept. Roosevelt also asks Nijur to discuss sending the statement on the passport question to the State Department with Mayer and George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-06
Samuel Krulewitch asks Theodore Roosevelt for a letter endorsing Louis S. Gottlieb for the position of Police Court Judge in Washington, D.C. Many prominent individuals support Gottlieb, one of the “best Jewish orators in this country.” Krulewitch understands that the Republican Party has yet to recognize a Jewish candidate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-24
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.
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.”
Marcus Braun suggests that a visit by Secretary of State John Hay to the east side of New York, New York, could greatly increase the Republican vote among immigrants, especially Jews. Hay’s profile in the area has recently increased after his stand on the persecution of Romanian Jews.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-15
Marcus Braun suggests that a visit by Secretary of State John Hay to the east side of New York, New York, could greatly increase the Republican vote among immigrants, especially Jews. Hay’s profile in the area has recently increased after his stand on the persecution of Romanian Jews.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-15