Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-06

Creator(s)

Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin supports the renomination of President Roosevelt and believes the actions of railroad corporations who also support Roosevelt’s renomination as a means to defeat his railroad regulations are going about it in the wrong way. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

Paul Morton, President of Equitable Life Insurance, does not want President Roosevelt’s position on the railroad to be misunderstood. Morton explains that railroad officials are being threatened by legislators who want their special privileges to continue. Morton clarifies that at the end of the letter he did mean the Harriman investigation, but Roosevelt knows the best course of action to pursue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-25

Brooks Adams writes to President Roosevelt to express his concern and offer advice in regards to Roosevelt’s attempt to “force through a new policy” that is opposed by titans of industry, finance, and the press. Adams also details how opponents support making Joseph Benson Foraker president by capitalizing on the Brownsville Affair. Adams’s primary advice for Roosevelt is to fight relentlessly at every opportunity to eventually force a popular vote on the issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-06

Paul Morton, President of Equitable Life Insurance, clarifies E. P. Ripley’s stance on President Theodore Roosevelt and the railroads. Morton points out the false information Roosevelt has received regarding the prosecution of the Standard Oil corporation. Railroads are seeing an increase in expenses and a decrease in net earnings. Morton hopes that Roosevelt approves of his letter to Ripley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-04

Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a dispatch about the Colorado River break. The situation is serious.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-14

Secretary of War Taft updates President Roosevelt on his progress through Idaho, where he has been speaking on behalf of Republican candidates. The longer he is in Idaho, the more he believes that the Western Federation of Miners has been working to defeat Senator Frank Robert Gooding. He describes Gooding’s involvement related to the lawsuit against Charles Moyer and William Dudley “Big Bill” Haywood. Taft feels somewhat doubtful about Gooding’s election. Another issue of note in Idaho relates to the Mormons and their stance regarding polygamy. He also comments on elections in other areas of the country, and reiterates what he has previously said regarding the importance of Roosevelt’s influence in this election.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-04

Senator Lodge feels that President Roosevelt’s denunciations of demagogues and agitators are often subsumed by his denunciations of trusts, and urges Roosevelt to pay attention to both in the upcoming elections. The question is how to defeat them without making the public feel they are just as dangerous as the demagogues. As an example, Lodge mentions General Stephen Minot Weld, who is the kind of man they depend on for support and who they do not want to frighten into thinking, rightly or wrongly, that they are as extreme as the Hearsts and Morans are.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-13

Ambassador Griscom discusses Edward Henry Harriman, Alice Roosevelt’s trip to Japan, and relations between Japan and Korea.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-12

Alex Millar informs William Loeb that Edward Harriman is glad to accept the President’s invitation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-08

Benjamin Ide Wheeler asks President Roosevelt to consider meeting with Edward Henry Harriman and explains the reasons behind Harriman’s behavior.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-29

University of California President Wheeler thinks that President Roosevelt and Edward Harriman need to talk face-to-face about the impending railroad legislation. Wheeler says that, contrary to rumor or gossip, Harriman prefers Taft as the next president to anyone else.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-19

Mr. Miller, of behalf of Edward Henry Harriman, asks for clarification on whether President Roosevelt referred to Edmund Wells or another candidate in his recent letter. Harriman’s people have no objection to Wells.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-30

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.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-07

Whitelaw Reid reports to President Roosevelt on the recent visit of railroad executive Edward Henry Harriman. Although Harriman said he would soon visit George B. Cortelyou and Cornelius Newton Bliss, he expressed no opinion about Roosevelt’s nomination acceptance letter. Harriman also expressed confidence in the outcome of the New York State elections, including Governor Benjamin B. Odell’s control of the party and Frank Wayland Higgins’s pending nomination for governor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-15

Joseph Hellen informs William Loeb that Edward Henry Harriman will be staying at the new Willard hotel when he arrives in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-15

Joseph Hellen informs William Loeb of Edward Henry Harriman’s travel plans for the following day and asks when Harriman will meet President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-14

Paul Morton, Vice President of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System, informs President Roosevelt that he has heard excellent comments regarding Representative Victor Howard Metcalf. Morton mentions that he has informed Edward Henry Harriman of this. Metcalf was being considered for the post of Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and would be appointed by President Roosevelt later that month.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-08

The assistant secretary of Edward H. Harriman, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, wires that Harriman accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to dine with him next Wednesday at 8 p.m.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-19

Edward H. Harriman, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, accepts Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation to dine.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-19