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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Augustus Everett Willson

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Augustus Everett Willson

Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte showed President Roosevelt Governor Willson’s letter, and Roosevelt agrees that the scenario Willson sets forth is grave. Roosevelt believes that free government cannot exist where there is defiance of the law and mob rule, particularly in the case of such secret societies that Willson has mentioned. The first responsibility for policing this sort of criminality lies with the states, Roosevelt says, but if Kentucky is unable to stop the violence and appeals to the federal government, Roosevelt will send federal troops to help.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Wilson Knott

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Wilson Knott

President Roosevelt tells Richard Wilson Knott that he will discuss Knott’s suggestions with Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou. They have had difficulty dispersing money into country banks, since much of it simply makes its way back to New York, as everything is centered there. Roosevelt is happy to hear about the results in Kentucky.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth

Replying to Representative Longworth, President Roosevelt views the election of Republican Augustus Everett Willson as Governor of Kentucky as a positive and seeks to support him. While he likes Richard Pretlow Ernst, Roosevelt does not want Willson to feel attacked. The chance Kentucky votes Republican in next year’s election will disappear if the national administration gives the impression of disagreeing with the state administration. Roosevelt hopes Alice Roosevelt Longworth feels better and wishes to visit soon. In a postscript, Roosevelt outlines Ernst’s options and advises he not make himself an opponent of the newly elected Republican governor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt discusses his thoughts about the results of the previous day’s elections with Senator Lodge, particularly his delight at the defeat of Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts Henry Melville Whitney. Roosevelt is also pleased with wins in Kentucky but saddened by losses in New Jersey and Cleveland. In New York, Roosevelt is angered that Representative Herbert Parsons, who he thinks is a good man, has made an alliance with William Randolph Hearst and Standard Oil.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on the comings and goings of the White House and his thoughts on a recent article that appeared in Outing. Roosevelt had hoped to keep his upcoming visit to Groton School and Harvard University private, but it has leaked. He is having difficulties resolving the segregation of Japanese students from San Fransisco schools and the resulting diplomatic tensions, but has decided immigration from Japan must be curtailed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Eleroy Curtis

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Eleroy Curtis

In response to a letter from William Eleroy Curtis about the quality of his appointments in Alabama, President Roosevelt offers the facts. He asks Curtis to ask people whether the new men he has appointed are better than the ones he replaced. He also clarifies that he did not bar appointees from serving on national and state committees, but that he prefers that appointees do not dominate them. In response to Curtis’s demands that he replace postmasters in Dothan, Andalusia, and Marion, Roosevelt says that one was removed, an inspector recommended that a second be kept, and an investigation into the third is ongoing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay

President Roosevelt suggests that Secretary of State Hay write to Kentucky Governor John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham suggesting that Inspector General Noel Gaines is “obviously of unsound mind,” and should not be in a military position. Roosevelt writes that Gaines’s statement “reads like the utterance of a lunatic Fifth Monarchy man in the days of the Cromwellian Commonwealth.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-03