Gray, George, 1840-1925

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-27

Creator(s)

Harrison, Duncan B., 1862-1934

Recipient

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Lyman Abbott discusses the Lake Mohonk Conference with President Roosevelt. The Conference recommended a general arbitration treaty to be framed by the next Hague Conference and entered into by all the nations there represented.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-05

Senator Lodge agrees to visit the White House and relays Judge George Gray’s request that President Roosevelt visit him as he cannot scale the White House stairs in his condition.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-20

President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his editorial. He also discusses the Democratic Party’s possible nomination of Gray for president and shares his opinion of why he does not think George Gray will be chosen as the Democratic candidate.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1904-02-08

President Roosevelt appears as a dog in the “Republican Kennels,” with his trainer Mark “Hanna.” In the “Democratic Kennels,” an old woman labeled “Dem. Party” pats Alton B. “Parker” on the head and offers him a biscuit labeled “Political Sanity.” Other Democratic dogs George “Gray,” Richard “Olney,” David B. “Hill,” and Arthur P. “Gorman” labeled “Senatorial Leadership” and “Panama Issue” are kenneled nearby. Hanging on the wall is a picture of “Cleveland” with ribbons labeled “1884” and “1892,” and in the lower left is a cage labeled “Distemper” with William Jennings Bryan as a dog bandaged with “1896” and “1900” sitting inside before a small dish labeled “Free Silver.” In the center is a small dog labeled “Yellow Journalism Willie Hearst.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

This cartoon appeared in Puck in the second week of February 1904 — five months before the actual Democrat Party presidential nominating convention. Pughe’s cartoon of a dog show mirrored Puck Magazine’s editorial desires, as per the depictions, dignified or mocking, of possibles candidates; and the nature of the labels. Also the expressions of the dogs in the kennel show reliably reflect the confidence of the various candidates. Further, the kind attentions to the otherwise obscure New York Judge Alton Brooks Parker — the eventual nominee, pushed by back-bench conservative Democrats — by the old spinster representing the Democratic Party, is prescient.

Theodore Roosevelt cannot give the exact facts on the appointment of Mr. Nields. Nields is a Democrat that Roosevelt was willing to appoint.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-31

President Roosevelt does not understand how his refusal to sanction “the tyranny of capital over labor” could be contradicted by his refusal to allow labor to tyrannize. He highlights “a square deal for every man” and clarifies his stance on issues, particularly unions, for Ray Stannard Baker.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-27

President Roosevelt tells railroad owner Frederick W. Whitridge that he has sent Whitridge’s previous letter, in which he offered to help circulate speeches by Secretary of State John Hay and former Secretary of War Elihu Root, to Republican strategist and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, with whom Roosevelt will consider the offer. Roosevelt reflects on Whitridge’s statement that Roosevelt’s reelection is near-certain by guessing that the Democratic Party might nominate someone similar to Roosevelt, such as U. S. Court of Appeals Judge George Gray, who had been appointed by McKinley. Roosevelt wishes Whitridge luck on his upcoming grouse hunt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-28

Judge George Gray has advised to wait until the Coal Strike Commission makes its final report before bringing a lawsuit against the coal companies. President Roosevelt also wishes to wait until the Interstate Commerce Commission suit is complete so that they can learn from it. Attorney General Philander C. Knox does not think the government could win a suit based on the current evidence.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-28

After speaking with Judge Gray, President Roosevelt came to the conclusion that Florence La Farge’s advice was correct. The situation in Delaware is horrid with no satisfactory solution. Roosevelt states that the shipbuilding matter justifies his course in dealing with trusts and big corporations.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-14

President McKinley writes to accept the Republican Party’s nomination for President and accepts the platform. He discusses his desire to uphold the gold standard and refutes the opinions of those who support the silver standard. He also comments on international affairs, including the territorial government in Alaska and Hawaii, war loans from the Spanish American War, neutrality policies in the Boer War, law and order in Cuba, and holdings in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. He also comments on domestic issues including civil service reform, the volume of United States currency, and domestic shipping. Finally, McKinley comments on insurrection and peace treaties in the Philippines, asserting his desire for peace and that no person be “deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-09-10

George Gray showed Senator Du Pont Theodore Roosevelt’s letter regarding the bill increasing the pension of General Hamilton Hawkins’s wife, Annie Gray Hawkins. Du Pont would be grateful to have Roosevelt provide the suggested statement of Hawkins’s service during the Spanish-American War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-05

Representative Townsend returns to William Loeb, Judge Gray’s letter to President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-17

William Jennings Bryan, William Randolph Hearst, and Alton B. Parker are at the starting line of a race. Bryan wears weights on his legs that read “Kansas City platform” and “Chicago platform” and has a feather in his hat that reads, “I got a new job,” Hearst rides a “regular in both campaigns” barrel with deflated wheels, and Parker rides a donkey with “1896” and “1900” on his legs. David B. Hill gives Parker advice while Grover Cleveland watches Democratic National Committee Chairman James K. Jones write down odds. George Gray, Richard Olney, Arthur P. Gorman, and Dame Democracy watch from a covered box. Uncle Sam watches from behind.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-27

A number of men sit or stand in a “political waiting room—the presidential possibilities and impossibilities”: President Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Arthur P. Gorman, Alton B. Parker, William Randolph Hearst, Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Missouri Senator Francis Marion Cockrell, and George Gray. The date—March 4, 1904—is on one wall while another wall has a sign that reads, “Smoking allowed.” Roosevelt reads “How to Ketch a Catamount” while Cleveland’s book—”Fish I Have Caught”—is upside down. There are some hand-drawn additions by “REL.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-04

In the first cartoon, William H. Taft with a large “R” on his shirt charges ahead of Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, and New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes. Taft says, “They can’t catch me.” In the second cartoon, William Jennings Bryan with a large “D” on his shirt charges ahead of Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson and George Gray. Bryan says, “What an easy snap.” Caption: Winners of the trial heats.

comments and context

Comments and Context

With two weeks to go until the Republican National Convention in Chicago, and another three weeks after that before the Democrats would gather in Denver to nominate their presidential candidate, cartoonist John Colman Terry dismissed the somewhat hyperbolic suspense that fellow artists invested in commentary about the nominations. Barring genuine surprises, two Williams — Taft and Bryan — would be their parties’ nominees.

The document contains a list of United States judges who may retire and be replaced during the next presidential term.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-26

An article in The American Review of Reviews reflects on the current political situation in Congress, especially lamenting that both houses are controlled by powerful cliques who work in their own interests, often at the expense of legislation that would benefit the people. In particular, tariffs and appropriations for the construction of battleships are discussed. The author also speculates about the outcomes of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the upcoming presidential campaign, as well as the necessity of a good man to run the Republican convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-21

In a note between Secretary of State Root and Charles Ray Dean, Root inquires if Senator George Gray, John William Griggs, and Judge Melville Weston Fuller have been made aware of their appointment to the Hague Tribunal. When Dean replies that they were notified in November 1906, Root replies, “No! We are not so pithecoid as we look.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-01

The article outlines the previously unknown ways that ex-President Grover Cleveland aided President Roosevelt in mediating the Anthracite Coal Strike. In response to accusations that Roosevelt exceeded his powers as president, the writer of the article discloses that Cleveland wrote to Roosevelt in support of his actions and offered to chair the commission that would mediate an end to the strike. Cleveland ultimately was not chosen because the coal mine operators objected.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-15