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Robert C. Kinkead tells Theodore Roosevelt of the conditions in Kentucky for “self-respecting Republicans” who do not approve of the current leadership within the Republican party. Kinkead is not the only person in Kentucky who hopes Roosevelt will be the solution to their problem and Kinkead hopes Roosevelt will tell them what they can do to help him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-12
On the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe, Benjamin Wilson Smith publishes a sketch of the battle based on his many years of research. Smith also produces a map of the battle lines of the camp, including modern changes.
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1911-11-07
Theodore Roosevelt reminds Jeter Connelly Pritchard that he believes in, admires, and trusts Pritchard. Roosevelt addresses the points Pritchard made in his letter, beginning with how northern Republicans treat southern Republicans. Roosevelt says William H. Taft has been poorly advised on almost every point. Roosevelt does not want the nomination, and though he will not refuse if he is nominated, he will cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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1911-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept the invitation from Augustus Everett Willson, even though he would like to. Roosevelt sends good wishes to Mrs. Willson
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1911-10-24
Richard Pretlow Ernst sends Theodore Roosevelt two newspaper clippings from the Louisville Evening Post. The editor, Richard Wilson Knott states that William H. Taft has ruined the Republican Party in Kentucky and Ernst agrees.
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1911-12-12
President Roosevelt can not work with the Lincoln Centenary Committee, though he is glad Mayor McClellan and the City of New York are working to properly celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Roosevelt will be going to Lincoln’s home town in Kentucky and giving an address to celebrate the event.
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1908-09-29
President Roosevelt is glad William H. Taft has been going after William Jennings Bryan in the right way. Even though Governor Charles Evans Hughes remains spiteful, Roosevelt is pleased with his renomination. Roosevelt feels they will do well in most states, but cautions against taking chances. Letters are still coming in against Taft’s golfing.
President Roosevelt thanks George W. Clark and will make a point of discussing Kentucky matters with William O’Connell Bradley.
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1901-10-03
Joseph G. Sachs invites Theodore Roosevelt on behalf of the Kentucky Fish and Game Protective Association to come on a hunting trip in Kentucky in November for a few days. The Association hopes to promote legislation conserving Kentucky’s game and match other U.S. state’s game laws.
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1911-10-13
George W. Coons believes Theodore Roosevelt is the only man that might prevent disaster by becoming president. Coons encourages Roosevelt to accept the nomination for president if it comes.
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1911-10-05
William H. Taft has asked the Kentucky lawyer William Marshall Bullitt to write to William Loeb regarding the situation with Internal Revenue Collector Edward T. Franks. Taft has visited Colorado and outlines the situation there for Loeb: Archibald McNichol Stevenson has attempted to manipulate both Chairman of the Republican City Organization John F. Vivian and Taft’s campaign manager Arthur I. Vorys, and he has advocated for the removal of Internal Revenue Collector Frank W. Howbert. Taft has had positive meetings with both Vivian and Governor Henry Augustus Buchtel. They will support whoever President Roosevelt supports.
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1907-08-31
Secretary of War Taft agrees with President Roosevelt on Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech and on the negative press from the New York papers. He describes his trip thus far and makes predictions about his success based on what he has been told. In light of the gerrymandering involving Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell, Taft asks Roosevelt to help defeat an inadequate constitution in Oklahoma. Taft has asked Joseph L. Bristow to form another report on Panama, and he mentions an editor named Joseph Ralph Burton who has been attacking Roosevelt. Taft discusses the political campaigns and conflicts in the states he is passing through, in particular the political campaigns in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Denver. Taft’s mother Louise Maria Torrey Taft is recovering, and although the trip has been exhausting, Taft has a few days of rest ahead.
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1907-08-30
Secretary of War Taft reports to William Loeb that he finds conditions in Kentucky, Missouri, and Oklahoma favorable. However, Edward T. Franks and Joseph Aston Craft, internal revenue collectors in Kentucky, support Charles W. Fairbanks as presidential candidate.
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1907-08-25
Senator Beveridge answers President Roosevelt’s letter regarding a successor to Internal Revenue Commissioner John Watson Yerkes. Beveridge had hoped for someone from his own state of Indiana, but acknowledges that Roosevelt has a better man from Kentucky. Beveridge adds in a handwritten postscript that Lieutenant Governor Hugh T. Miller is to be the next governor.
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1907-04-05
William O’Connell Bradley is requesting, as a favor, that President Roosevelt replace Edward T. Franks with Lawson Randolph Reno for the position of revenue collector in the second district of Kentucky.
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1905-01-19
George W. Jolly seeks an appointment as collector of the Second Internal Revenue District of Kentucky.
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1902-01-02
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about his last speech as President in Kentucky at a Lincoln celebration. Uncle Douglas Robinson is thinking of buying the horse Roswell. The plans for the Africa hunting trip are nearly complete.
1909-02-13
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to ask when Kermit wants Seth Bullock and his family to visit. Roosevelt is glad that Kermit has taken up boxing. Roosevelt talks about seeing family when he went to Oyster Bay to vote and reports on election outcomes in certain states.
1907-11-07
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to describe his trip through Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Texas, including a Rough Riders Reunion in San Antonio. He also details his five day wolf hunt in Oklahoma with General Young, Alexander Lambert, and Granville Fortescue.
1905-04-14
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Leslie Combs for his work in Kentucky on Roosevelt’s campaign. Roosevelt tells Combs that he plans to make speeches all over Ohio, and agrees with Combs about President Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-10