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John Allison writes to Judge Pritchard, expressing concern about a Republican faction in Tennessee beginning to support Marcus Alonzo Hanna for the office of President. He states his friendly motives toward President Roosevelt and wishes Pritchard to warn him of this development.
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1904-01-18
Joseph Bucklin Bishop requests a “straight tip” from President Roosevelt concerning Senator Hanna’s proceedings. He encloses several political cartoons for Roosevelt.
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1904-01-18
Paul Morton sees news of railroad executives supporting Mark Hanna and growing support for Hearst as advantageous to President Roosevelt. He asks to be a delegate at the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-18
James Sweeney reports that a steel company is urging stockholders to oppose President Roosevelt’s presidential nomination by supporting Mark Hanna.
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1904-01-19
William O’Connell Bradley writes that numerous delegates in Kentucky are supporting Mark Hanna, while claiming to support President Roosevelt. Bradley has sent four letters concerning post offices and has enclosed newspaper clippings.
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1904-01-20
John C. Shaffer notifies President Roosevelt that Mr. Ream remarked that financial interests do not want Mark Hanna nominated, and Ream will call on Roosevelt soon.
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1904-01-13
James R. Sheffield will be able to attend the reception and supper at the White House on January 21. However, Edith Tod Sheffield has a previous engagement. Sheffield feels strongly about the Senator Hanna situation and wants to “hit back.” He is glad that Winthrop Murray Crane will be in Washington, D.C., next week and is anxious to hear about the plan of the campaign.
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1904-01-13
Governor Durbin told President Roosevelt that Senator Hanna is Indiana’s favorite candidate for the Republican presidential nominee. If Hanna announces his candidacy, Durbin believes that he will receive the full support of Indiana’s delegation.
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1904-01-13
Powell Clayton reports of strong support for Senator Hanna in Arkansas. Clayton speculates that the trusts are working to block Roosevelt’s nomination. He encloses a letter from Secretary Hitchcock to a land officer concerning federal office holders’ involvement in political matters. Clayton resents this “political emasculation” of land officers and believes they have been unjustly singled out, which is probably the work of Mr. Foreman.
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1904-01-15
The New York political situation is favorable to Theodore Roosevelt, with Mark Hanna losing support. Winthrop Murray Crane recommends former New York Governor Frank Swett Black as temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-15
Bellamy Storer apologizes for his previous letter and provides background concerning the dismissal of Consul General Carlton Bailey Hurst at Vienna.
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1904-01-16
The unknown author claims that the “anti-Roosevelt scare in Minnesota” was created by Governor Van Sant so that he would be the biggest name in the Minnesota delegation to the Republican National Convention. Van Sant wanted to be viewed as the only trustworthy Roosevelt supporter in the state and cast doubt on the pro-Roosevelt credentials of other prominent Minnesotans.
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1904-01-20
Concerning the Republican presidential nomination, T. B. Murdock reports that Cyrus Leland, United States Senator Chester I. Long, and Kansas Governor Willis Joshua Bailey are “setting up Kansas” for Mark Hanna.
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1904-01-08
James R. Sheffield discusses the impact of the “dirty tactics” employed by Senator Hanna’s supporters, a conversation he had with Senator Platt, and the possibility of New York politician Nevada N. Stranahan running for governor.
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1904-01-09
H. Slade writes to President Roosevelt, stating that he heard some time ago from a “prominent Eastern politician” that Wall Street and the trusts were using Senators Marcus Alonzo Hanna and Nelson W. Aldrich to defeat Roosevelt in the election of 1904. Slade would like to write such in a letter to The New York World, in response to an editorial cartoon they published which seems to bear this out, and he asks Roosevelt’s advice.
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1904-01-09
Bellamy Storer discusses the Catholic Church hierarchy’s opposition to the Republican party. Storer also discusses his involvement in introducing Carlton Bailey Hurst to Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna after he was removed from his position as Consul General in Vienna. Storer cautioned that if the removal was due to charges made by Charles V. Herdliska, Secretary of the Vienna legation, such charges were untrustworthy.
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1904-01-10
Orville J. Nave, the Army chaplain and Republican, reports “a radical turn” taken by the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, causing dissatisfaction among Republican readers. He reports a rumor that Democrat John R. McLean has bought the newspaper.
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1904-01-04
In this editorial, Morton Albaugh argues that, while most see the renomination of President Roosevelt as assured, a combination of trusts, railroad interests, and political bosses are secretly planning to prevent it. Albaugh adds that, while most of Kansas firmly supports Roosevent, monied interests and disaffected Republicans are conspiring to steal Kansas’ delegates away from him, partly by calling for a late primary. Morton Albaugh calls for an early Kansas convention in support of Roosevelt which could be helpful to Roosevelt if eastern opposition to his nomination grows.
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1904-01-04
George Sutherland discusses support for President Roosevelt in Utah and a possible challenge for nomination by Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
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1904-01-06
Nicholas Murray Butler has just returned from a trip out West and details three points about his travels in regards to the upcoming presidential election.
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1904-01-02