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Prominent Kentucky Republicans will be meeting to discuss how to secure the Kentucky delegation to the Republican National Convention for President Roosevelt and ensure John Watson Yerkes’s reelection as national committeeman.
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1904-01-22
William O’Connell Bradley writes that numerous delegates in Kentucky are supporting Mark Hanna, while claiming to support President Roosevelt. Bradley has sent four letters concerning post offices and has enclosed newspaper clippings.
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1904-01-20
James T. Earle states if Theodore Roosevelt selects Governor William O. Bradley as his running mate he can “count on Kentucky.”
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1904-01-21
Basil Wilson Duke has spoken to Augustus Everett Willson regarding President Roosevelt’s desire to meet with them. Duke and Willson have business dealings to attend to at the beginning of the month and want to conclude their efforts at securing an understanding among the Republicans of Kentucky before seeing Roosevelt. Duke will write to Roosevelt before they leave for Washington, D.C.
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1904-01-01
A. D. James encloses clippings that have been sent to him and others in Kentucky. James assures President Roosevelt that Kentucky Republicans endorse him, and that he will send a delegation for his renomination.
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1904-01-11
William D. Johnson discusses Republican politics in Kentucky. He considers the state a Republican state in large part due to the following of Governor Bradley. He writes against the patronage system and the effect it has on the party.
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1904-01-11
William O. Bradley announced his candidacy for delegate at large from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention. He will support President Roosevelt at the convention.
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1904-01-20
William O. Bradley announced his candidacy for delegate at large from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention. He will support President Roosevelt at the convention.
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1904-01
Richard Wilson Knott encloses an editorial from the Louisville Evening Post about politics in the South. He discusses political support in Kentucky for President Roosevelt and believes that Roosevelt’s Panama policy will “strengthen” him in the South and in the West.
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1903-12-19
William M. Catron informs President Roosevelt that the Congressional Candidate of the eleventh district of Kentucky, Whiteside Godfrey Hunter, and other Kentucky politicians plan to launch a presidential effort in support of Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Catron suggests Roosevelt consult with John Watson Yerkes of Kentucky.
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1903-11-18
William O’ Connell Bradley discusses the Republican loss in Kentucky in a telegram to President Roosevelt.
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1903-11-04
Leslie M. Shaw informs President Roosevelt of public support for Roosevelt’s campaign in Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, and Chicago, IL. Shaw accepts a luncheon invitation extended by Mr. Edwards and plans to see Colonel Henry Lee Higginson as requested by Roosevelt.
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1903-10-27
William O’Connell Bradley has been ill but plans on assisting with the Kentucky gubernatorial campaign. Bradley believes that Morris Burke Belknap will be defeated and that Augustus Everett Willson could have been elected if he had won the nomination. Whatever the case, Bradley will work for the “success of the ticket.”
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1903-09-25
William O’Connell Bradley relays his support to President Roosevelt for the governorship of Morris Burke Belknap in Kentucky. Bradley complains of receiving a letter from George Washington Clarke urging him to vote for the Republican Party. He affirms to the President that he has never failed to do his duty to the Republican Party.
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1903-09-29
Richard Wilson Knott informs President Roosevelt that he believes conditions have improved for the Republican party in Kentucky since a recent letter he wrote to the president. Despite the factions in the Republican party, a Republican party victory is more important than a “Roosevelt” party victory.
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1903-09-12
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw requests permission to participate in election campaigns in Ohio, Kentucky, and Iowa. Shaw believes that Ohio will be a key state in the upcoming election.
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1903-08-27
Colonel Belknap writes to President Roosevelt regarding an enclosed clipping from editor Knott’s newspaper and about the elections in Kentucky.
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1903-09-01
Resolutions passed by a convention of Kentucky Republicans. The resolutions primarily pertain to Kentucky politics but the eleventh resolution is in support of President Roosevelt and his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1904.
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1903-07-22
Richard Wilson Knott discusses the status of Kentucky politics and the workings of the different factions of the Republican Party in that state.
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1903-07-25
John Watson Yerkes writes to President Roosevelt to describe the Kentucky Republican State Convention, and he includes the resolutions adopted for Roosevelt’s review.
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1903-07-22