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The New York World criticizes the Evening Post for withholding support from both of the candidates for the New York governor’s race, Judge D. Cady Herrick and Frank Wayland Higgins.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-11
President Roosevelt is glad Cecil Andrew Lyon anticipates a good run by John Nicholas Simpson, candidate for Governor of Texas. Roosevelt will send for the report from Special Investigator Nevius.
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1908-09-15
President Roosevelt laments Governor Frantz’s defeat but notes that he made a gallant fight. Roosevelt wants to appoint a Choctaw man named Samuel Downing to succeed George K. Prichard as US Marshal for the central judicial district of Indian Territory. Roosevelt had to remove another man, a Chickasaw named Benjamin H. Colbert, so he would like to appoint another Native American.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-19
President Roosevelt tells Governor Frantz that he saw his brother Orville G. Frantz at lunch that day. Roosevelt invites the governor to dine at the White House as soon as the current congressional session ends. He closes by wishing Frantz luck in his upcoming reelection bid.
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1906-12-17
President Roosevelt wishes Albert Baird Cummins good luck. Roosevelt expects to see Cummins in November.
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1901-09-25
Representative Fassett asks Secretary of War Taft how long he will be in Oyster Bay, and if they could meet in person soon. Recently Fassett heard a rumor about himself in Buffalo, that he was in support of Governor Charles Evans Hughes. Fassett only supported Hughes against Frank Wayland Higgins and Benjamin Barker Odell. Before appointments are made for collector of internal revenue or district federal marshal, Fassett would like a meeting with President Roosevelt. At present, Fassett has not yet spoken with Senator Frederick C. Stevens, though he has seen Senator William J. Tulley who is undecided.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-01
The writer responds to a letter written by Charles Emory Smith which endorses Lewis Emery for governor of Pennsylvania; they argue that while Emery has in fact fought against Standard Oil and other trusts, and has expressed support for President Roosevelt’s policies in that arena, he is in fact a worse candidate than Edwin S. Stuart.
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1906
Edward Henry Harriman tells President Roosevelt what he knows about Benjamin A. Fowler and believes that Edmund William Wells would be a better choice for the position of Governor of Arizona Territory.
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1905-01-30
Lieutenant governor Frank Wayland Higgins thanks President Roosevelt for his congratulations on being elected governor of New York, and congratulates him in turn on being elected to another term as president.
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1904-11-09
Seth Low joyfully congratulates President Roosevelt on his reelection as president, and is glad that New York “is not only in the column, but at the head of it!” Frank Wayland Higgins has also been elected governor of New York by a wide margin.
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1904-11-08
Patrick F. MacAran, pastor of the Church of St. Anastasia, asks the recipient of this letter to vote for Frank Wayland Higgins as governor of New York. Edward Henry Harriman, who several years back helped repair the Church of St. Anastasia, also vouches for the candidacy of Higgins, who MacAran characterizes as a “distinguished and upright candidate.”
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1904-11-07
Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis Thomas J. Akins informs President Roosevelt that he has complied with Roosevelt’s recent letter regarding the letter from Dr. Albert Shaw, and that the letters will not be published. Akins tells Roosevelt that he has worked to guard the interests of the Republican party during the present election, and believes that Roosevelt should have no problems winning a national victory. He hopes that his actions have been enough to add Missouri’s electoral votes to Roosevelt’s total, and feels that the Republican Party is in a better position in Missouri now than it has been in the past.
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1904-11-07
F. Norton Goddard took President Roosevelt’s advice to collect endorsements for Marcus M. Marks’s candidacy for the Postmastership of New York, and has collected over 2000 endorsements from businesses. Goddard attests that these endorsements are from major businesses and believes he will have quite a few more by the time he visits Roosevelt. New York state senator Nathan Elsberg and prominent Republican Cornelius Newton Bliss have also endorsed Marks. Goddard admires a recent statement by Roosevelt.
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1904-11-05
Albert Shaw clarifies matters regarding a letter that he sent to William F. Saunders. While President Roosevelt approves of Cyrus Packard Walbridge’s candidacy for governor of Missouri and stands with the Republican ticket, he did not say that Walbridge is a better man than Democratic candidate Joseph Wingate Folk, who he previously praised for his work as Circuit Attorney. The letter that Shaw sent to Saunders with this sentiment was meant to be entirely confidential.
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1904-10-31
Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis Thomas J. Akins does not believe that Dr. Albert Shaw’s letter is in the possession of any member of the Missouri Republican State Committee, but will do his best to see if he can locate it. Akins has worked to bring the Republican party of Missouri together, and believes there will be a large increase in voters in the upcoming election. While he is not sure if President Roosevelt will win the state he has a chance of doing so. In a handwritten postscript Akins notes that he has just received Roosevelt’s letter, and will follow the instructions.
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1904-10-31
As Roosevelt runs for governor, a fellow soldier’s anecdotes of the battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War are reported in the newspaper.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-08-03
In light of the Democrats attacking him for his stance on race issues, President Roosevelt is taking an active hand in the Maryland elections. He would like to see Stevenson A. Williams elected governor and has met with a number of Maryland Republicans at the White House to achieve party unity and elect Williams. In particular, former Postmaster General James Albert Gary and Governor Lloyd Lowndes had lunch with him in the White House. Lowndes’s name has been mentioned in connection with the vice presidency.
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1903-10-12
President Roosevelt will instruct Secretary of War William H. Taft to go to Idaho to speak in support of Governor Frank Robert Gooding against “those dynamiters and thugs” as he seeks reelection.
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1906-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt was sorry to hear of Governor Aldrich’s electoral defeat. Roosevelt prefers an independent Progressive Party rather than continuing the fight as progressive Republicans. He believes that many Progressives would refuse to return to the Republican Party.
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1912-11-12
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry to hear of Governor Bass’s health; however, he is pleased to have a straight ticket (referring to Winston Churchill’s decision to run for governor of New Hampshire). Roosevelt sends separately the Senate report on Barnes.
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1912-08-21