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David B. Hill has an “I am a Democrat” feather and rides on Alton B. Parker’s shoulders as he walks from “Esopus” to the “White House.” Parker holds the “Constitution of the United States” while Hill has two papers—”Herrick for judge” and “Stanchfield for governor”—in his back pocket.
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1904-09-04
On the left side, D. Cady Herrick is depicted as an angel. Caption: Herrick, the candidate. On the right side, Herrick wears a suit with a number of tags: “a desperate political operator” (The Sun), “an impropriety, a scandal,” (The Times), and “the associate of low and disreputable ward politicians” (The World). A “stuffed ballot box” runs after him and says, “You can’t lose me, D-Cady.” Caption: Herrick, the boss. The Angelic Herrick refuses to shake the hand of the political boss, who asks “What! Have you forgotten ME?”
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1904-10-03
Several newspaper articles highlight the large margins by which President Roosevelt won the recent presidential election, including in his home state of New York, and calls Roosevelt’s victory “one of the most significant victories for enlightened popular government that the world has ever known.” Roosevelt has dealt with many questions while in office, including the Panama Canal and the anthracite coal strike, and the people approve of him and the men in his administration. Given the magnitude of Roosevelt’s victory, another article muses on the future of the Democratic party and William Jennings Bryan, who may be ascendant in the party with the defeat of presidential candidate Alton B. Parker.
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1904-11-09
President Roosevelt writes Frank Wayland Higgins regarding Higgins’s candidacy for governor of New York. Roosevelt urges Higgins to announce his candidacy as soon as he is able, and to make sure the voters know who he is and what he will do. The Democrats are putting the Republicans on the defensive, and the Republicans should push back by attacking D. Cady Herrick, the opposing Democratic nominee for governor, for his actions as a judge. Roosevelt links Higgins’s candidacy with his own, and believes they should emphasize the national issues, rather than being on the defensive with state-level issues.
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1904-09-30
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.
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1904-10-11
President Roosevelt believes New York Republicans should be able to wage “a most successful aggressive fight” against Democratic gubernatorial candidate D. Cady Herrick. He believes that William Barnes is particularly able to “show him up,” and only needs to recite the facts regarding Herrick’s scandals.
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1904-09-22
President Roosevelt insists that he never said that he believes Joseph Wingate Folk to be a better man than Cyrus Packard Walbridge, the candidates for Governor of Missouri. Roosevelt fully supports Walbridge as the Republican candidate, but still believes Folk has done some political good in the past. Because of this, Roosevelt thinks Folk’s support of Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker and Democratic candidate for Governor of New York D. Cady Herrick either a “grave error or a grave wrong,” as Roosevelt does not have a high opinion of either of them. Roosevelt believes it would be absurd to expect a Democrat to support a Republican in any election, or vice versa. Finally, Roosevelt expresses his belief that a Presidential election is ultimately of far more consequence than a gubernatorial election, and lists the accomplishments of his administration over the last three years.
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1904-10-25
President Roosevelt believes the nomination of John Thomas McDonough for Judge D. Cady Herrick’s place is most desirable.
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1904-09-26
President Roosevelt will write Governor Benjamin B. Odell regarding his support for John Thomas McDonough’s nomination to fill D. Cady Herrick’s vacancy.
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1904-09-26
President Roosevelt is not pleased with the actions of the Treasury Department. He has received several nominations for the squadron and will consult Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton regarding Harry. Roosevelt believes Frank Wayland Higgins will win the election for New York governor over D. Cady Herrick.
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1904-09-24
President Roosevelt likes Joseph Bucklin Bishop’s statements about New York candidates for governor D. Cady Herrick and Benjamin B. Odell.
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1904-09-24
William Emlen Roosevelt should feel no obligation to contribute more to the campaign fund, but all funds should go to George B. Cortelyou. D. Cady Herrick has been nominated for governor in New York but President Roosevelt does not know what effect his nomination will have.
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1904-09-23
President Roosevelt would like to begin a sharp, aggressive campaign against Justice Herrick.
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1904-09-22
President Roosevelt believes that they can wage a successful fight against D. Cady Herrick and that William Barnes would be “particularly able to show him up.” Roosevelt thinks Herrick’s nomination is an outrage due to the “scandalous combination” of his judgeship and the party leadership for the county, and that a “plain recital of the facts” is enough to counter him.
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1904-09-22
Dr. Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews explains the delay in receiving and responding to the latest letter from President Roosevelt is due to it being misaddressed. The correspondence regards to their ongoing dispute over whether or not Roosevelt said that Cyrus Packer Walbridge is a better man than Joseph Wingate Folk (opposing candidates for Missouri governor). Shaw explains that Roosevelt had been quoted frequently in Missouri as favoring Democratic candidate Folk for governor, and that Shaw was attempting to correct this by stating that Roosevelt knew Walbridge to be a man of high character. Shaw recounts that Roosevelt wrote to him explaining that he wished to maintain a position of non-interference in state politics, and Shaw meant by his letter to correct what was being stated by Folk and the Democratic Party. Shaw continues to explain why it is wrong that Folk’s people claim Roosevelt’s endorsement and why it should be corrected.
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1904-10-27
Joseph Bucklin Bishop continues to assure Theodore Roosevelt of winning the upcoming election citing political canvasing work showing that Republican Frank W. Higgins will win the New York state governor’s race. Additionally, Bishop writes of someone who walked Democratic presidential nominee Alton B. Parker to his hotel where he admitted personally he had no chance of winning the upcoming presidential election.
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1904-10-14
Joseph Bucklin Bishop assures President Roosevelt that he will win New York state in the upcoming 1904 presidential election regardless of the outcome of the New York state governor election between Frank Wayland Higgins and D-Cady Herrick. Bishop also cites evidence of gambling odds changing in favor of Roosevelt as proof.
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1904-10-11
Thurlow Weed Barnes reports to President Roosevelt on his visit with Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou “concerning steps to be taken in view of the recommendation by Judge Herrick, the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, that wages and hours of labor should be regulated by a State Commission.” Barnes reports that while Cortelyou did not know much about the matter, he “grasped the matter very rapidly.”
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1904-10-01
Joseph Bucklin Bishop writes to President Roosevelt with an update on the Republican campaign in New York. He notes that there is widespread feeling against Governor Odell across the state, which is a potential danger for Lieutenant Governor Higgins’s candidacy, but Bishop remains confident that both Roosevelt and Higgins will win in New York state.
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1904-09-30
William Emlen Roosevelt informs President Roosevelt that although he cannot make another campaign donation, he has given $500 to Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou for the campaign in Nassau County. He goes on to discuss Judge Alton B. Parker’s Democratic nomination letter and expresses his opinion that Parker will not win the election.
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1904-09-26