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Jane Addams thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the note from Mr. Lee. She hopes to get to know Lee in the future. Addams is pleased with the “tremendous impulse” that the Progressive campaign has provided for social reform measures. She hopes to discuss the matter with Roosevelt at the meeting in New York on November 26.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-20
Jane Addams has received the forwarded telegram from Millicent Garrett Fawcett and is pleased with Fawcett’s commendation of the Progressive Party. She has sent the telegram to Frances Kellor for distribution to the press. Addams will be writing several articles on the party’s social economic planks drawing on her “experience with poorer people.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-24
Natalie A. Naylor charts Theodore Roosevelt’s support of women’s suffrage from his writing an essay supporting equal rights for women as a Harvard student, to his tepid support of the movement as president, and his embrace of the right of women to vote in his 1912 Progressive Party campaign for president. Naylor notes the unsuccessful efforts of pioneer suffragettes like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to move Roosevelt on the issue while president, and she shows how the 1912 campaign saw a change in Roosevelt’s attitude that he would maintain until the end of his life. Naylor details Roosevelt’s efforts in support of women’s suffrage in the years surrounding World War I, including the successful passage of women’s suffrage in 1917 in New York State.
The article includes a transcript of Roosevelt’s undergraduate essay “Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law” along with a one page hand-written excerpt from the essay. Two photographs of Roosevelt speaking and a drawing by Roosevelt supplement the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020
This article announces the publication of The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party by John A. Gable, the Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The article recaps the history of the Progressive Party, describes the contents of the book, and quotes from a favorable review of the work.
A political cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt shaking hands with California Governor Hiram W. Johnson, Roosevelt’s running mate on the 1912 Progressive ticket, accompanies the article.
Theodore Roosevelt describes the conditions of a lodging house he visited recently in New York with Frances Kellor. Many of the men there are unemployed simply because there is no work available. There is a distinction, Roosevelt says, between those who desire work but are unemployed and those who are unemployable. He argues that it is the government’s responsibility to provide relief measures for the unemployed by creating work, and he makes recommendations for charitable actions that can be taken by local organizations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-26
Theodore Roosevelt discusses the conditions of a lodging house he visited recently in New York with Frances Kellor. Many of the men there are unemployed simply because there is no work available. There is a distinction, Roosevelt says, between those who desire work but are unemployed and those who are unemployable. He says it is the government’s responsibility to provide relief measures for the unemployed by creating work and he makes recommendations for charitable actions that can be taken by local organizations. Typed draft with handwritten edits.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-26
Minutes of the August 7-8, 1912, meetings of the Progressive National Committee. Committee organization was discussed. Oscar K. Davis was elected secretary and George W. Perkins was elected chairman of the Executive Committee. Appointment of most other officers was referred to the chairman, in consultation with the party’s candidates for president and vice president. Jane Addams, Frances Kellor, Isabella W. Blaney, and Jean Gordon were appointed as members-at-large of the Progressive National Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-08