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George E. Miller understands where Roosevelt stands, but explains that people are disappointed in President William H. Taft’s leadership and remember all the good Roosevelt did. With how it is looking in Michigan, Miller would not be surprised to see a “Roosevelt Renaissance.”
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1911-10-11
George N. Wise has written an enclosed article on the Republican situation in the South and he hopes Theodore Roosevelt will indorse the article so that it can be published and aid in the cause.
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1911-10-10
Editor of the Ohio State Journal Robert Frederick Wolfe informs President Roosevelt’s secretary that Wolfe met with Charles Phelps Taft, Representative Theodore E. Burton, and Secretary of the Republican National Committee Elmer Dover. Wolfe engaged in these meetings to learn about Taft’s interests and a possible compromise with Senator Joseph B. Foraker, but says that Dover tried to improperly influence Wolfe’s newspaper. Wolfe claims to have uncovered a plot involving William Randolph Hearst to control both the Democratic and Republican national conventions and the presidential election. Wolfe claims that Franklin Rockefeller told him in an off-the-record interview that moneyed interests from New York were planning to create a financial panic to disrupt Roosevelt’s policies. Wolfe says he is coming to Washington, D.C., to discuss this, but asks that Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield not be told.
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1907-04-08
William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, informs President Roosevelt of his concerns about a new order that gives congressmen hiring and firing power over rural postmasters. White is worried that politicians he considers corrupt, like Representative Justin De Witt Bowersock, will misuse the order to fire their political opponents. White is not as concerned that this power will be abused immediately under the Roosevelt Administration’s watch or by elected officials he finds upright, like Representative William Alexander Calderhead, but that it will be abused when the Roosevelt Administration is out of power or distracted. White asks Roosevelt to assure Calderhead that the editor holds him in high regard, as White worries a rumor has made Calderhead think White considers him as corrupt as Bowersock.
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1905-01-19
Jacob Gould Schurman sends an editorial from the Springfield Daily Republican on President Roosevelt’s recent address to Congress. Schurman hopes to serve Roosevelt’s cause in any way he can and believes he will keep the Republican party moving “forward and upward.” Includes typed transcription.
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1904-12-21
Theodore Roosevelt inquires if W. T. Beeks saw Roosevelt’s statement on the tactics used by President Taft’s people to replace Roosevelt’s delegates at the Washington State Convention. Roosevelt believes that the National Republican Committee will not dare to seat Taft’s delegates for fear of dividing the Republican Party. Roosevelt thanks Beeks for his work.
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1912-05-27
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William R. Nicholson for the support and is glad Nicholson agrees with Roosevelt’s support of Charles Evans Hughes.
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1916-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt sends William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, two articles from the New York Times that he says represent the opinions of President Woodrow Wilson’s friends towards William Barnes. Barnes is a leading member of the Republican National Committee and editor of the Albany Journal. Roosevelt notes that the New York Times and Wall Street generally support Wilson, and that many Democrats support Barnes while many Republicans do not. Roosevelt notes that no thinking man can consider Barnes honest after Roosevelt successfully defended himself against Barnes’s libel suit. Roosevelt wishes well to White’s wife Sallie Moss Lindsay White, who helps White run the newspaper.
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1915-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt tells Charles McCarthy that he does not believe they can give up the Progressive Party, and joining the Republicans under William Barnes would be folly. Roosevelt believes Woodrow Wilson is the worst president since James Buchanan. He thinks the Progressives of Wisconsin are wrong to find fault with candidate George W. Perkins, whose work on the Palisades Interstate Park Commission was “the best practical experiment on the socialization of government…”
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1915-08-26
President Roosevelt has spoken with George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, about the subject in William Duncan Connor’s letter. Roosevelt believes that the Republican National Party should stay out of the “fight within the party in Wisconsin” and should only stand for the National Republican Party.
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1904-10-06
President Roosevelt asks United States Postmaster General Payne for all relevant information regarding the post office appointments in Lima and Napoleon, Ohio. He says that the local Republicans support the appointments of W. A. Campbell in Lima and Elmer Alton Palmer in Napoleon. Roosevelt thinks the appointments have been held up long enough and says would like to complete the appointments unless there is an excellent reason to the contrary.
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1904-01-23
House Speaker Cannon informs William Loeb that he will be on the campaign trail for at least a month. Cannon believes that Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers will come into his district to campaign against him. He is glad Edgar E. Clark is looking after the railroad union.
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1906-09-16
A commentary on the character of William Randolph Hearst in relation to how he has used his newspapers to shape public opinion about people in public office and current events. Focuses especially on the political cartoonists Hearst has employed, the editorials featured in his papers, and how he has used his ability to report and shape the news to aid his political efforts.
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1906-10-06
Francis C. Travers thanks William Loeb for his favors and for the letter from Rooney. Travers believes that the judgement in the San Domingo Improvement Company case can be good for the campaign and thinks they have “a good chance” helped by the support of others.
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1904-07-23
The tariff slogan of the Republican Party for the coming Congressional campaign will be “stand pat,” as decided by several members of the Republican Congressional Committee and approved by President Roosevelt. While no attendees gave quotes of the proceedings of the luncheon at Roosevelt’s home, all expressed satisfaction with the conference, and confidence that the Republican party can stand on its record. Republican campaign headquarters are to be opened in New York shortly. The article additionally reports on Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon’s travel plans.
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1906-07-23
The writer discusses the need for balance in selection of presidential candidates so they come from differing parts of the United States, rather than from the same state, to make sure demands of one state are not regarded as more important.
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1904-04-11
Article describes current standings for the upcoming elections and is against the use of patronage to manipulate politics.
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1904-03-04
Senator Beveridge’s speech, delivered at the Hotel Astor, New York City, on February 12, 1913, discusses the current state of confusion and division in both the Republican and Democratic political parities. Beveridge argues that state of affairs requires a new party, the Progressive Party, and contributes its establishment to Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout, he invokes the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Progressive Party’s fulfillment of his aspirations and principles.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1913-03
Newspaper article discusses the possible effects the post office scandal will have on the upcoming national campaign.
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1903-06-19
Charles M. Harvey congratulates President Roosevelt on his succession to the presidency and claims to be one of the earliest Roosevelt presidential “boomers.”
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1901-09-26