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William W. Jermane encloses the editorial page of The Minneapolis Journal “as evidence of good faith.” He desires the “active work of the campaign to begin” so that he can travel to places “of actual conflict.” Jermane informs William Loeb that he supports President Roosevelt whether he is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-23
William Allen White reports gossip that indicates President Francis owns certain stock and is interested in “other money making schemes about the Fair,” most likely referring to the 1904 World’s Fair. White does not have proof of these stories, and although he heard this gossip from reliable people, he emphasizes that he cannot believe the stories are true.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-18
Richard Harding Davis and his wife Cecil Clark Davis are settled in Tokyo like it is home. Davis’ contract with Collier’s Weekly was only for three months, but he does not want to return home without seeing the front lines of the Russo-Japanese War. Davis complains that the newspaper correspondents have been treated poorly by the Japanese authorities who have restricted their access to the front, read their private correspondence and had them spied upon. As an example of the unfair treatment they have been subjected to, Davis recounts the story of Jack London who has been arrested and tried by court martial after getting into a physical altercation with a servant who was caught stealing correspondents’ supplies. Davis knows that President Roosevelt likes to hear of United States representatives abroad, and praises the work of LLoyd Carpenter Griscom, Charles Carlton Marsh, and James Wheeler Davidson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-26
William Penn Nixon details Mary H. Krout’s career as a member of the Inter-Ocean editorial staff, including her time as a correspondent in the Pacific and London. He attests her work is accurate, and she is “a forcible and brilliant speaker.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-25
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On June 18, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City after a fifteen-month tour abroad, having travelled through Africa and western Europe. An elaborate city celebration drawing a million people marked his homecoming. Aboard the ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ex-President and Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt were met by a revenue cutter, the Manhattan, carrying the Roosevelt children. Roosevelt then went aboard a larger cutter, the Androscoggin, and officially became a guest of the city. After boating up the Hudson River along the New Jersey shore to West Fifty-Ninth St., the Androscoggin moved back along the Manhattan shore to Battery Park, followed by a water parade of almost one hundred vessels. Roosevelt was greeted by Mayor William J. Gaynor at the Park, where both briefly spoke to an assembled crowd, with notables seated on a flag-draped stand expanded for the occasion to hold 600 people. Battery ceremonies were followed by a parade up Broadway and Fifth Avenue to the Fifty-Ninth St. plaza, where it dispersed. In the parade Roosevelt, Mayor William J. Gaynor, and chairman of the city’s welcoming committee, Cornelius Vanderbilt, together rode in an open carriage, preceded by Roosevelt’s regiment of Rough Riders, First United States Volunteer Cavalry. Also in the parade were approximately 2000 other veterans of the Spanish-American War. On the film are views of the open harbor, with various vessels assembled for Roosevelt’s visit, including the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, the Androscoggin, and the Manhattan; Roosevelt alone on the lookout station of what appears to be the Androscoggin as it moves into port; street scene in which photographers scramble to get clear view of carriages as notables pass through street cordoned off with greenery; Roosevelt and Vanderbilt move toward Battery speakers platform, beside which is visible the stand erected for Roosevelt’s family and dignitaries; Roosevelt and Mayor Gaynor, who steps forward to greet Roosevelt, ascend platform; men mill around base of platform; side view of Roosevelt speaking from written notes, with Gaynor behind him; scenes of crowds and tents in what appears to be Central Park south; parade moves toward camera and passes in front of decorated stands; Roosevelt, standing in carriage, pauses in front of stands; shots of mounted police, mounted band, carriages, marching band.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1910
Charles Fletcher Lummis speaks highly of journalist and writer William E. Smythe.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-13
President Cleveland is at the center, hounded by newspaper reporters who try to run the government. Puck suggests that they should resolve to leave the running of the government to those elected to do so. In the surrounding vignettes are instances where people should make resolutions to stop doing the things that most annoy those around them, such as bringing crying infants to the theater, trying to get change for large bills at the train station during rush hour, or leaving the door open after exiting a building.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-01-02
A “Sensation Press” reporter stands on the shore near “Gray Gables,” Grover Cleveland’s summer home at Cape Cod, pointing to a sea serpent labeled “3d Term Twaddle.” Caption: The latest and most improbable feat of the sensation-newspaper man’s imagination.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-07-31
Print shows General Nelson A. Miles, oversized, sitting at a desk, holding in his left hand a book titled “How to Become President [by] Gen. Miles.” Around him are many newspaper reporters and photographers, representing such newspapers as “The Yellow Yawp, Daily Whoop, The Scare, The Blow, Morning Bluff, Daily Slush [and] Staats Klatsch [with a reporter that looks like Oswald Ottendorfer].” On the wall in the background is a telephone labeled “To the Administration” that is covered with cobwebs.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-03-15
Theodore Roosevelt, pictured with three reporters.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
President Roosevelt addresses journalist Ernest Harvier’s editorial in The Sunday Democrat involving his handling of an incident related to Maria Longworth Storer.
1906-04-18
Police Commissioner Roosevelt writes a letter of introduction to The Atlantic Monthly for Lincoln Steffens.
1895-08-06
Robert J. Collier asks President Roosevelt to write letters to the Secretary of State on behalf of photographers preparing to cover the “Eastern Crisis.” Collier recalls Roosevelt and his father running with the Meadowbrook hounds at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-31
John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie’s Weekly, says to not invite the Blacks at this time. Adds that “the situation is progressing.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-16
Richard Watson Gilder extends condolences concerning the death of Theodore Roosevelt’s close friend John Robert Procter, president of the U.S. Civil Service Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-13
Moses A. Gunst informs President Roosevelt that if he is well, he will go as a delegate in June and vote for Roosevelt. In Gunst’s absence, Milton Herman Esberg will “attend to matters of importance” in the fall. Roosevelt can also depend on the California delegation; if Gunst is unable to go, he will attempt to ensure the rest of the delegates will vote for Roosevelt. Gunst also mentions seeing San Francisco Chronicle journalist, Michael H. De Young.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-08
Charles M. Harvey indicates he will meet with President Roosevelt when he visits Washington, D.C., in January 1904. Harvey offers to print anything Roosevelt would like to say in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat or share information concerning conditions in Missouri. Harvey indicates the information would be unbiased as he belongs “to no faction of the party.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-06
Senator Hanna informs President Roosevelt that he was pursued by several reporters the previous evening but “absolutely declined” to comment on his meeting with the president.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-05
Governor Odell has President Roosevelt’s note concerning William Edward Foster, managing editor of The Buffalo Commercial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-04
Joseph Bucklin Bishop comments on information from President Roosevelt concerning a conference. Bishop also encloses a cartoon that will give Roosevelt “much amusement.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-03