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President Roosevelt had a satisfactory letter from Nevada N. Stranahan and discussion with Nicholas Murray Butler. He does not want a challenge to the congressional seat vacated by Mayor McClellan as it is a hopeless contest.
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1904-02-01
President Roosevelt congratulates Seth Low on the “overwhelming triumph” of his election as mayor of New York, New York.
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1901-11-05
President Roosevelt received the same kind of letter from Frank Wayland Higgins, who is a trump. He is happy to say it looks as if Seth Low will be elected.
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1901-11-04
President Roosevelt thanks Frank C. Travers for his gift of a pianola to the White House. Roosevelt hopes Seth Low wins the election to become mayor of New York City; he feels this election is important for that city, the state of New York, and the United States. He also commends Governor Philbin’s work.
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1901-10-28
President Roosevelt tells Governor Odell about his talk with Seth Low. Roosevelt feels they must all work together and Odell should be nominated again next year.
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1901-10-25
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt explains to Josephine Shaw Lowell that he has been doing all he can by correspondence to get the Republicans to endorse Seth Low. However, he cannot be publicly involved in the campaign. Roosevelt wants her to know that his new position allows him to do better work than was afforded him in the New York Police Department.
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1897-09-27
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt urged the people in his department to work quickly, and sends the enclosed document to Joseph Bucklin Bishop. He hopes it will give Bishop the information he was looking for, and that it will encourage him to back Roosevelt in his push to build up the navy, “not as a war measure but as a peace measure.” Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Bishop and hearing about the mayoral candidacy of Seth Bullock.
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1897-06-15
Judge Lindsey provides details on the progressive victory over the Evans-Guggenheim machine in Denver, Colorado.
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1912-05-31
Judge Lindsey provides an update on the various progressive campaigns in Denver, Colorado.
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1912-05-19
Judge Lindsey is feeling confident about the political situation in Denver, Colorado. He declined to accept a nomination to run for mayor but is up for election as a juvenile court judge. Lindsey is confident of victory as there is great enthusiasm for the progressive cause and his opponent has accepted bribes. He concludes with a request for Theodore Roosevelt’s endorsement.
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1912-05-12
Judge Lindsey encloses statements from Edward Prentiss Costigan and Hiram Johnson regarding the presidential nomination. He reviews the political situation in Denver, Colorado where he has decided to not run for mayor as a third party candidate but is facing two elections to retain his judgeship on the juvenile court.
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1912-04-24
Charlotte Louise Watt Bogle admonishes The Outlook and editor Elbert F. Baldwin for a letter encouraging Theodore Roosevelt to endorse William W. Seymour in the Tacoma, Washington mayoral election. She provides some local political context, and cautions The Outlook to be more careful with crediting statements by Tacoma politicians in the future.
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1911-05
E. L. Moriarty encloses a clipping from a Tacoma paper that quotes the Outlook on the Tacoma mayoral race. He gives an account of the race and blames enfranchised women for ousting Mayor Angelo V. Fawcett. He explains how, during Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Tacoma, locals were gauging his support of the candidates. He and the people would welcome an official statement from Roosevelt to clear up the rumors.
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1911-05-08
George B. Burke informs Theodore Roosevelt that William W. Seymour was elected mayor of Tacoma, Washington, by a majority of one thousand over Angelo V. Fawcett.
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1911-04-18
A. George wishes to introduce Theodore Roosevelt’s father, former president Theodore Roosevelt, to J. Stitt Wilson, the socialist mayoral candidate in Berkeley, California. He is convinced that Wilson has a significant chance of winning the position, and believes that the socialist party will have great success in the future.
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1911-03-13
Meyer Lissner, on behalf of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League, urges Daniel A. Ryan to withdraw from the San Francisco mayoral race and support the candidacy of Edward Robeson Taylor. Lissner believes that Ryan should put aside any personal or political grievances and support Taylor for the cause of good government and anti-corruption.
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1907-10-17
Nicholas Murray Butler describes the recent election in New York and urges President Roosevelt to speak at the City Club during a public dinner.
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1905-11-09
Robert Wilson Patterson, editor of the Chicago Tribune, asks William Loeb to update President Roosevelt on the status of the Chicago mayoral race, saying John Maynard Harlan is unlikely to win due to his poor campaign style and the fact that he is “too conservative for the radicals and too radical for the conservatives.”
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1905-03-14
F. Norton Goddard thanks President Roosevelt for his recent hospitality. He plans to get a letter from the company employing Joseph Watkinson to send to Roosevelt to aid in his intention of appointing Watkinson as Inspector. Goddard believes that Roosevelt should speak to Elihu Root regarding the Mayorality of New York, and will remind Roosevelt when Root is back in Washington, D.C. Goddard is interested in being the next Anti-Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York, and has been supported in this by Eugene A. Philbin.
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1904-10-19
John Wallace Springer discusses the election for mayor of Denver, Colorado, noting that although he was nominated by a great majority of Republican voters, the election was manipulated by the Democratic machine. After the state Republican convention adjourned, the managers of four public utility corporations insisted that an Anti-Wolcott ticket be named, and the Democratic ticket “sold out” to these corporations. Springer thought that he deserved President Roosevelt’s support and wants to know if anyone told him to keep his “hands off of this fight.” Springer points to the appointment of D. A. Barton and George Engs Randolph, who had been Republican candidates for office, to prominent positions by Democratic Mayor Robert Walter Speer as evidence that traitors were working to defeat the Republican ticket.
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1904-08-19