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C. P. Connolly asks if Theodore Roosevelt can speak freely to him about Frank B. Kellogg’s appointment as a government prosecutor. If so, Connolly will stop by his office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-21
A brief itinerary of events planned for Theodore Roosevelt’s stop in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08
Governor Eberhart sends Theodore Roosevelt a proposed program for his visit to Minnesota. The committee will comply with Roosevelt’s request that the entertainment be small and informal. However, it was suggested that several governors and members of the committee and Conservation Congress be invited to the luncheon, even though this exceeds the preferred number of guests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-13
Attorney General Bonaparte reports to President Roosevelt on conversations he has recently had with several people. Bonaparte has received a draft of a decree in the Standard Oil case and will submit it after reviewing it, but is not sure when negotiations will conclude. John Carter Rose is likely to decline, but is waiting to hear from his wife before he makes a final decision. Milton Dwight Purdy is anxious to receive his appointment in Minnesota soon. An investigation into electrical materials that Bonaparte has mentioned to Roosevelt before has become very interesting, and Bonaparte plans to write to Roosevelt later at greater length about the situation. Bonaparte also mentions some of his upcoming travel plans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-03
Attorney General Bonaparte tells President Roosevelt about a recent conversation he had with Secretary of War William H. Taft, who mentioned Wade H. Ellis as a possible replacement for Milton Dwight Purdy. Bonaparte thinks he can replace Frank B. Kellogg if necessary, although he will be sorry to lose him, but does not want the department to stand in the way of Taft’s campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-30
William H. Taft had thought that he had figured out an issue pertaining to Ohio, but now realizes that any move he makes will leave some faction discontented with him. Arthur I. Vorys is upset at Frank H. Hitchcock being made Chairman of Taft’s campaign. Taft has been in contact with many people, asking them to come visit him in order to discuss strategy. He has also been golfing and working on a draft of his acceptance speech, which he plans to submit to President Roosevelt for advice before he actually gives it. Taft also briefly remarks on an ongoing investigation into the Brownsville incident.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-04
Jonathan Bourne believes that a settlement of the Standard Oil matter will be made through the executives—President Roosevelt, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, and John D. Archbold—and not through the attorneys for the government and the company. Bourne agrees that working through him is inadvisable at this point, but he takes credit for having started negotiations and for convincing Archbold and others that Roosevelt would be fair to both labor and capital.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-07
Henry Clay Frick and Elbert H. Gary have an idea for how to handle the antitrust suit against the Standard Oil Company, which Frick maintains is contributing to the current financial insecurity in the United States, and would like to discuss the matter with President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-30
Attorney General Bonaparte will not be able to attend the cabinet meeting scheduled for Friday. Bonaparte reiterates that in his annual report he did not make any suggestions of anti-trust or interstate commerce law changes outside a few minor procedural changes and believes it would be outside the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice to do so. Bonaparte has also asked Mary Grace Quackenbos to prepare a report on her charges of peonage against Orlando B. Crittenden to be delivered to the Italian government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-27
John D. Rockefeller sits in a rocking chair and talks to a group of children–President Roosevelt, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, Ida M. Tarbell, Frank B. Kellogg, Thomas William Lawson, and a “muck rake” cat. A “Standard Oil” lamp lights the room. Caption: “Now, children, I’ll tell you the story of my life.”
“Spin Doctors” and the machinery of public-relations campaigns are not new to the twenty-first century. John D. Rockefeller had become well known and well off — reportedly the world’s richest man — since discovering oil in western Pennsylvania as a young man. He then discovered, as did others, what could done with oil, gas, gasoline, petroleum, and many byproducts. On his path to wealth, he controlled and often monopolized other businesses, in “vertical” and “horizontal” means; as well as people, banks, and politicians.
The recipient is to ask Attorney General William H. Moody for Frank B. Kellogg’s address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-17
President Coolidge, recognizing that several areas of ruins intended to be included in Theodore Roosevelt’s original proclamation establishing Chaco Canyon National Monument were left out, expands the boundaries of Chaco Canyon National Monument.
Chaco Canyon National Historical Park
1928-01-10
Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt about the work of United States Attorneys throughout the country. He delivered an address at the University of Chicago, where he was questioned about the conduct of United States Attorney William H. H. Llewellyn. Oklahoma is about to gain statehood and Bonaparte would like to discuss the matter with Roosevelt, given his earlier opposition. Many people Bonaparte met in Chicago support a third term for Roosevelt. He believes they would accept Secretary of War William H. Taft as president if necessary, but would oppose Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-20
Theodore Roosevelt tells George von Lengerke Meyer he is not sure there is anything to be done to make things better in politics. Roosevelt believes Republican leaders “stole the nomination” in Chicago, Illinois, and that such action “creates a train of evil consequences so extensive that it is almost impossible by any single act afterwards to undo the evil.” It was extraordinary to see men such as Bishop William Lawrence and President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University “explicitly or implicitly, endorse the lowest forms of political immorality.” Roosevelt compares the Progressive platform to that of Abraham Lincoln and the early Republicans, and accuses the men who object to these principles of being the “spiritual heirs of the Cotton Whigs.” He believes that what happened in Chicago makes it likely that Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic Party will win the fall presidential election. When Roosevelt returns, he would like for Meyer and Frank B. Kellogg to visit him.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1913-10-07
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George von Lengerke Meyer for the salmon and for what he said regarding the libel suit. Roosevelt would like to arrange a visit with Meyer and Frank B. Kellogg, but does not see what can be done about “getting the Republicans and Progressives together.” Roosevelt feels that the Progressives are “sundered” from the Republican Party by two causes. The first is the “utter dishonesty” of men such as Boies Penrose, William Barnes, Winthrop Murray Crane, Elihu Root, and their associates who “stole the convention” last summer. The second cause is that the Progressive Party, unlike the Republican Party, have in their platform “applied the principles of Abraham Lincoln to the present day.” Roosevelt will never again work with a party controlled by the men guilty of the theft last June or with any party that “does not take in their entirety the principles of Abraham Lincoln applied to the needs of the present day.”
Massachusetts Historical Society
1913-06-09
President Roosevelt confides in Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer the reason for Henry Clay Frick’s dissatisfaction, information he learned from Frank B. Kellogg. Frick had requested that Kellogg postpone the trial on the Edward Henry Harriman suit and was “greatly irritated” when Kellogg said that not only was such a postponement impossible but it was also improper for Frick to make the request. Kellogg feels certain that Frick planned to use the time for dealings on the stock market.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1908-07-02
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with Senator Penrose and thinks that Senator Knox is making “a pretty bad showing of himself.” He is glad he wrote to Senator Lodge on behalf of Frank B. Kellogg.
1917-03-21
Theodore Roosevelt has decided that it would be better for him to take the letter books to the committee. William Loeb can submit copies and should travel to Oyster Bay, New York, to find and examine the letter books. Loeb should not copy the letters from Frank B. Kellogg related to political contributions from the Standard Oil Company. Roosevelt will submit these letters himself. Roosevelt does not believe that Loeb was present at the John D. Archbold interviews but he was present during the Edward Henry Harriman interview. He recalls Harriman requesting funds from the National Committee for Mr. Higgins’s election, as well as requesting that Chauncey M. Depew be appointed Ambassador to France. Roosevelt asks if Loeb’s recollection of the meeting is similar.
1912-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt asks William Loeb to find the letters at Sagamore Hill and submit them to the committee. He also requests that Loeb search for evidence that Roosevelt wrote to Mr. Sheldon and William H. Taft protesting against contributions from the Standard Oil Company before the 1908 election. Loeb should also testify about the Edward Henry Harriman incident and the meetings with John D. Archbold if he recalls them.
1912-09-11
Theodore Roosevelt wants several letters looked up regarding when Frank B. Kellogg notified William Loeb about the Standard Oil Company. Kellogg is convinced that the notification did not take place in 1904.
1912-09-05