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This article prints a letter from Mexican General Venustiano Carranza de la Garza addressed to United States Consul J. O. Caruthers in response to a message from Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan. Carranza criticizes the United States for landing troops at Veracruz and for dealing with the presidential usurper Victoriano Huerta.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-04-22
Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter from Bishop Currier as well as a copy of his reply. Roosevelt thinks every objection obtained in recognizing Victoriano Huerta when Woodrow Wilson came into office now obtains with ten-fold greater force against recognizing Venustiano Carranza. The good that would have come of recognizing Huerta will not be achieved by recognizing Carranza. Roosevelt thinks if Wilson is right in his action now, he should have taken the action two years and a half ago, which would have saved two years and a half of “pointless bloodshed.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-10-25
Theodore Roosevelt agrees that all they can do is “remain in cold storage for a year” and see what happens. They may need to support a third candidate, and Roosevelt does not expect many of their former associates to support them. Roosevelt also feels that Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan have behaved dreadfully.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-26
Theodore Roosevelt is informing C. W. Barron of his views on “The Audacious War.” Roosevelt criticizes President Wilson for putting in Huerta’s place a government “stained with infinitely more blood.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-26
John Campbell Greenway outlines a potential itinerary for Theodore Roosevelt’s trip to Arizona. There was a recent battle over Naco, Sonora, Mexico, with the town and federal troops falling to General Obregon. Sonora is generally against the Huerta government but the rumor that the populace wants to join the United States is erroneous. Robert Harry Munro Ferguson is on the “highroad to recovery” but Isabella Ferguson is suffering from overwork.
1913-04-15
John Campbell Greenway welcomes Theodore Roosevelt back home and hopes to hear about his South American trip. Greenway continues to be disappointed in how the government is handling the situation in Mexico. He would like to see the United States intervene strongly in Mexico. The Progressive Party in Arizona has refused to return to the Republican Party. Greenway suggests that public sentiment will once again force Roosevelt to run for president as the Progressive, and maybe the Republican, candidate.
1914-05-21
The angel of peace sits on a rocky ledge, playing a large horn, with a dove sitting on her feet. Around her in the night sky are discordant images emerging from the horn, such as Marianne knocking over the “French Cabinet,” Turkey and Greece as Jack-in-the-boxes shooting at each other, King George V and “Lords” dealing with a firecracker labeled “Ulster” and the “Home Rule Bill,” a man carrying a large stick labeled “Interstate Commerce” about to strike a menacingly snake-like railroad train, and “Huerta” and “Villa” fighting atop a pile of dead bodies.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-18