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Theodore Roosevelt sits at his desk contemplating an order naming W. S. McCormick of Utah as Secretary of the Interior while Horace Greeley looks over his shoulder. Ethan Allan “Hitchcock” walks out of the frame in the background. Caption: Shade of Horace Greeley–“Go West, Young Man! Go West!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-06
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John G. Capers for the courtesy of sending the editorial about Abraham Lincoln. However, Roosevelt found the editorial nonsensical and does not understand why Capers thought he would want to read it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-25
Theodore Roosevelt tells Frederick Palmer that he is “sick at heart about Wilson and therefore the American people.” He compares the current situation to what might have happened during the Civil War if Abraham Lincoln had been too proud to fight, but he believes that even then, someone would have roused the northerners in the end. Roosevelt believes he has done everything he can to rouse the American people, and he informs Palmer that he has the beginnings of a Division already planned.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-28
Ralph D. Harbison assures Theodore Roosevelt that he can win the Republican nomination as a Progressive candidate. Roosevelt can still win and President Taft will be defeated worse than when Horace Greeley ran for President because Roosevelt will certainly receive the vote of every progressive. Harbison’s only advice is that Roosevelt not include the word “reform” in the name of his new party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-08
Henry E. Rhoades thanks Theodore Roosevelt for speaking with Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer and asking him to to act on a bill in Congress regarding Rhoades in such a way that would be proper. Rhoades emphasizes that that is all he would ask, and gives examples of how he has always sought to act properly and keep people’s confidence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-03
Henry E. Rhoades reminisces on the ways in which his journalistic career has intersected with the political work of Theodore Roosevelt. He requests a favor from Roosevelt, hoping the former president can request Rhoades’s commendation from the Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer when reporting on proposed Senate bill 2028. The passage of this bill would provide Rhoades with additional pension pay he receives after contracting an illness while in service on the Juniata expedition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
People from Indiana have often thought that their governor during the Civil War, Oliver P. Morton, deserves more recognition, and were therefore grateful to see the recent article in The Outlook praising him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03
Alton B. Parker walks into the “Democratic headquarters” carrying a “big stick” as he finds four men asleep, including Grover Cleveland. There is a picture of Horace Greeley on the wall as a campaign flag with Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis’s faces.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt offers Owen Johnson commentary on his recent article in L’Illustration. Roosevelt believes that President Woodrow Wilson is trying to position himself as the sane politician between the extremes of Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan. Roosevelt compares the situation to building a bridge: you either build it or do not build it; there are no half-way measures. While some have suggested that a debate between Roosevelt and Bryan would be like the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Roosevelt compares Douglas to the more extreme pro-slavery politician William Lowndes Yancey and suggests that men who seem to be moderates are more dangerous.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-04-17
At center, a woman wearing a newspaper dress drinks “Subsidy Brand” champagne chilling in a bucket labeled “Wall Street Cooler,” while a man labeled “Corporate Interests” writes a check. A bust statue of “Horace Greeley” is visible in the background. The entire scene is framed by an octopus with tiny male figures caught in its tentacles. Surrounding vignettes show a newspaper editor as he looks to his staff (larger than life) and to the newspaper owners (diminutive), a “Business Manager” telling an “editorial writer” to tone down comments about a “forest spoliation matter [because] the boss has acquired some interests out there,” and a newspaper reader “who has read the paper for forty years” influenced by the resulting editorial – “I guess that western forest steal ain’t as bad as they made it out. This editorial says it’s been grossly exaggerated.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-09-04