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Richard Randolph McMahon agrees to allow Wm. E. Glasscock to use his name in the press “on behalf of the cause of Justice.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-04
Wm. E. Glasscock appreciates the Richard Randolph McMahon’s approval of Glasscock’s plan to challenge the election of Senator’s William E. Chilton and Clarence Wayland Watson. Glasscock will provide the letter written by McMahon to the press because it argues the case of an investigation so well. Glasscock plans to petition Congress for an investigation at the opening of the next session.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-02
Edward Thompson thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his reply but regrets he can’t follow his advice. He hopes Roosevelt will still help fix what he sees as an unfair situation in the Canal Zone.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-12
President Roosevelt’s former classmate, James Ford Rhodes, reflects on Roosevelt’s administration and how it will be viewed by history. He believes three points will endure: the man whose critics called him a champion of war has become a peace keeper; Roosevelt has set a high standard of honesty in public service, and has inspired good young men to enter into politics; and his presidency has favored neither the rich nor the poor, but administered justice to both. Rhodes also reflects on the lives of the rich, comparing America’s wealthy with others in history, particularly those of the Roman Republic and Empire. He believes the Americans are better because of the use they make of their wealth. While the ancient Romans dedicated themselves to lives of sensual pleasure, the modern Americans live simply and give to educational and charitable causes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-16
Harvard University President Eliot defends himself against newspaper claims that the portion on athletics in his Annual Report was in response to what President Roosevelt had said at the Harvard Union on February 23, 1907. Eliot references the Brownsville Affair and “the difference between College pranks and ‘shooting up’ a town.” He explains that he felt the old college administrative practice of “punishing the innocent with the guilty when the innocent would not bear witness against the guilty” unjust.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-09
C. C. McCabe writes to inquire whether an article reporting that Roosevelt has pardoned two convicted counterfeiters is true. McCabe condemns the decision if the article is correct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-04
President Roosevelt carrying a big stick stands beside a man labeled “Senate” casting a vote into the “Dominican Ballot.” To their left stands a woman blindfolded, holding scales in her right hand and an enormous sword “justice” in her left.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-26
An old and haggard “Justice” sits in a chair on a rock in the East River. Cobwebs have grown over her sword, scales, and an “Indictment.” In the background, the steamship General Slocum is engulfed in flames. (It burned on June 15, 1904, with a loss of over 1,000 lives.) Caption: “Slocum? Slocum? Where have I heard that name?”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-06-14
Justice, wearing a crown labeled “Law” and carrying a sword and scales, rides on the back of a snail, climbing a steep hill strewn with bolders labeled “Certificate of reasonable doubt, Appeals, Change of venue, Injunction, [and] Stays” toward the “Hall of Justice” at the top of the hill.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-12-23
A large, angry female figure representing Justice draws a sword labeled “Law and Order” as she strides toward striking union laborers who, taking the law into their own hands, are beating a “non union” worker and burning another tied to a tree. A factory is in flames in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-03-25
Theodore Roosevelt will be unable to travel to Tuskegee, Alabama, for the Tuskegee Board of Directors meeting. He would like to speak with Booker T. Washington regarding the injustice done to Washington at the Ulrich trial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-06
Theodore Roosevelt asks Nelson H. Henry to consider the case of Robert J. Neppert, a soldier who fought with Roosevelt at Las Guasimo and Santiago, who claims he has not had justice in a recent situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-06
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles Noonan for his letter and the clipping and invites him to stop by The Outlook sometime. Roosevelt comments on movements for peace and the need for justice and righteousness as well as honesty and practicality.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-02
Theodore Roosevelt does not recall the land fraud case involving Dr. Perrin. He will not answer Perrin’s letter but gives Gifford Pinchot permission to inform Perrin that he never “set people” on Perrin’s trail or persecuted him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07
Theodore Roosevelt asks Henry L. Stimson for legal advice regarding a case involving Charles France Bates, stating that Mr. Bates was a very good man who may have been unintentionally slandered due to a past situation from Roosevelt’s presidency.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-01
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates William J. Williamson on the position he has taken as a “leading minister of the Gospel.” Roosevelt does not believe peace should be put above righteousness.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-12-21
Theodore Roosevelt is happy to receive Mr. Finn’s book Wild Animals of Yesterday and Today. He would also like to have a copy of the Zoologist. Theodore hopes that the war will be over soon, but adds that before their lives will go back to normal, something has to be done to compensate the heavy losses that Belgium has suffered.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-04-02
Theodore Roosevelt explains to French Ambassador Jusserand why he communicated differently with Mr. Reed than he did with Mr. Clark. Roosevelt believes Reed will “act with entire justice and impartiality” and that he should make a personal visit to the French lines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-12
Theodore Roosevelt tells Ferdinand von Stumm that his point about Mexico is “perfectly fair.” If he had to, Roosevelt would choose blood-and-iron over milk-and-water, and he thinks it bad to arouse fear but worse to arouse contempt. Roosevelt thanks Stumm for his frank letter and hopes that he understands that what Roosevelt has said and written was with the intent toward justice, which is what he strove for as President. Roosevelt treated other countries with courtesy to increase friendship between them and the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-22
President Roosevelt hopes that Frank B. Kellogg is not moved by the clamor surrounding the injunction plank, as it has been stirred up by the Manufacturers’ Association. The plank will try to call the attention of the courts “to a bad habit into which some judges have fallen,” and Roosevelt expects that they will neither satisfy the extreme labor agitator nor the extreme representatives of the Manufacturers’ Association, but will be seek to be fair to all American citizens.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-16