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Senator John C. Spooner will be bringing the Archbishop of Milwaukee, Sebastian G. Messmer, with him to meet President Roosevelt. Spooner thinks that Roosevelt should know in advance that Messmer is especially influential among Germans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-16
William Loeb thanks Maurice Francis Egan for his letter and writes that President Roosevelt enjoyed meeting with Father Doyle and DeLacy. Loeb writes that he would like Egan to send him letters from Archbishop Messmer and Bishop McFaul and that Roosevelt will want to meet with him regarding the Storer incident.
1906-04-01
Secretary to the President Loeb informs Maurice Francis Egan that President Roosevelt has received his letter. President Roosevelt enjoyed the letter from Archbishop Messmer and hopes to meet him should he visit Washington, D.C.
1906-02-14
Maurice Francis Egan writes to President Roosevelt to present a letter Egan received from Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-12
Maurice Francis Egan tells President Roosevelt that the people in Minnesota would welcome him “with enthusiasm” if he came to hunt ducks or moose. Egan sends Roosevelt a photo of a moose, an extract of a letter from Archbishop Sebastian G. Messmer of Milwaukee, and returns a paper on the ethnology of the police.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-12
John Ireland, archbishop of St. Paul, praises President Roosevelt’s courtesy in sending a sympathy message to the College of Cardinals on the death of Pope Leo XIII, noting that it will incline the Vatican to respond positively to future requests from him. Ireland recently talked with Archbishop Quigley, who reported that many Catholics in Buffalo support Roosevelt. Ireland discourages the President from accepting an invitation from the Federation of Catholic Societies, which is controlled by bishops and monks who are stirring up sympathy for Catholics in the Philippines. Ireland hopes for a “great landslide” of Catholics to the Republican Party next year.
Father Vattmann encloses a letter from Bishop Messmer for President Roosevelt to read. Vattmann would like to note Messmer’s changing view on Philippine policy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-08