Your TR Source
Governor Brodie informs President Roosevelt of the regimental guard appointments made by Brodie for Roosevelt’s upcoming inauguration parade in March 1905.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-26
Francis C. Travers forwards a letter from Colonel Edward L. Duffy about the dinner President Roosevelt will be attending for the Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick. Travers has enclosed a newspaper clipping, too. Travers is pleased with the appointment of Robert John Wynne as Postmaster General. He is also pleased about the appointment of William R. Willcox as Postmaster of New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-05
Colonel Edward L. Duffy of the 69th Regiment responds to Francis C. Travers about military escort arrangements for President Roosevelt’s pending visit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-03
Francis C. Travers writes to President Roosevelt regarding the latter’s attendance at a dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. If Roosevelt is able to attend, Travers asks that he and Major John Byrne be able to escort him, and that Colonel Duffy of the 69th Regiment be allowed to provide a military escort.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-27
William Jennings Bryan stands in the stirrups of his mount, a donkey labeled “Democracy,” directing the honor guard led by Adlai E. Stevenson, and including Henry R. Towne, Joseph Pulitzer, and Carl Schurz carrying a large flag with a portrait of Emilio Aguinaldo under the heading “The George Washington of the Philippines.” Also included are Oswald Ottendorfer, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, William Bourke Cockran, John Peter Altgeld, and William Sulzer.
Emilio Aguinaldo’s revolutionary campaigns for Filipino independence from Spain began in the 1890s, variously as a guerilla and conventional armed insurrection, through the Spanish-American War, ultimately with and against the victorious American liberators. As a rebel leader his forces sustained and committed atrocities. He was captured and then released by President Theodore Roosevelt as part of the United States’ general amnesty, a putative end of hostilities. Aguinaldo became a hero to his countrymen and a symbol for the cause of American anti-imperialists. Of William Jennings Bryan’s ragtag “army” on this political issue, their professions provide a hint of the American movement’s constituents: Stevenson was Bryan’s running mate, committed to the Democrat party plank; Pulitzer, Schurz, Ottendorfer, and Godkin were editors and publishers; Towne was an industrialst (Yale locks); Bouke Cochran a politician and orator of unorthodox consistency; Altgeld the radical Governor of Illinois (famous for partiality to the Haymarket bombers); Sulzer a New York politcian who eventually became Governor, only to be impeached. Cartoonist Pughe clearly considered the leadership of Bryan (on an undersized donkey) and the number and prowess of the “guard” to be targets of ridicule.
President Roosevelt regrets that is unable to attend the ceremony surrounding the removal of the body of Vice President George Clinton to his final resting place in New York. He is sending Colonel Chas. S. Bromwell to represent him in the honor guard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-12
President Roosevelt is trying to “fix” Governor Brodie in the War Department and includes a copy of a letter he sent to Secretary of War William H. Taft. Roosevelt praises Brodie for his work surrounding the honor guard and asks for an increase in the representation from Arizona and New Mexico, if possible.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-31
Jersey City Police Chief Benjamin Murphy apologizes for misunderstanding President Roosevelt’s travel schedule and not having the honor guard present for his passage through Jersey City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-01
Alexander O. Brodie sent a copy of this letter to each man appointed as part of the honor guard for President Roosevelt’s inauguration. In the letter, Brodie lists several requirements, including the uniform, appropriate conduct, and how to report to the honor guard before the inauguration. Brodie requests that recipients accept or decline by wire, forwarded to him at Phoenix, Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-26