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George B. Baker compliments a work by Emerson Hough, but says that it isn’t periodically commercial. He says that he thinks the agreement with Victor Freemont Lawson to publish an ad is a good gamble.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06
Otto Gresham recounts for President Roosevelt his conversation with Seizaburo Shimizu, the Japanese consul in Chicago. Shimizu was concerned that the major papers in Chicago, especially the Tribune, might “lash the community into anger” against Japan because Eleanor Medill Patterson, daughter of a Tribune editor, had married a Russian nobleman. Gresham assured Shimizu that most Americans look poorly on foreign noblemen who marry American women and do not view such marriages as grounds for alliance. Gresham also mentions that Lord Curzon said the Japanese would try to take the Philippines from the United States. Shimizu, on the contrary, was shocked to hear this because he believes Japan wants the United States to keep the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-26
The Enquirer praises President Roosevelt’s recent speech condemning “the great and sinister moneyed interests,” and writes that in addition to breaking off ties to the Standard Oil Company the Republican party should sever ties with other trusts as well. The article further calls for the Chairmen of both parties to transparently publish receipts and expenditures from all national and state committees to show where donations are coming from. A following article praises William Randolph Hearst for showing the necessity of an Independence party by showing the sorts of relations the Republicans and Democrats have to corporations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-01