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George Gilmour sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of an address on The Press and Social Progress given by Harry C. Withers in which the unused possibilities of the newspaper are discussed. Gilmour hopes the address might make it into The Outlook.
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1911-12-16
William Loeb forwards Secretary of War Taft the recent letter that Chicago Record-Herald editor Frank B. Noyes sent to President Roosevelt concerning the Brownsville affair. Roosevelt would like an immediate report on the topic from Major Augustus Perry Blocksom.
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1906-12-19
President Roosevelt asks the Interstate Commerce Commission if there’s any way to address the issue detailed in a letter from The Lakota American newspaper editor Avard McIntosh Beveridge to North Dakota Representative Asle J. Gronna. Beveridge’s letter concerns the coal and fuel shortages in North Dakota.
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1906-12-13
During his first week in office, President Roosevelt writes to Charles Ransom Miller, editor of The New York Times, to see if he or Henry Lowenthal might be able to come by the White House to discuss policy.
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1901-09-16
Whitelaw Reid writes Theodore Roosevelt about his impending appointment to the Court of St. James as the U.S. Ambassador. He denies rumors that he will sell the New York Tribune. He discusses the people in consideration to become editor of the newspaper.
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1905-01-20
The figure of Puck, the magazine’s mascot, points at two men and tugs at the robe of Justice, who is raising the blindfold from over her eyes and giving the men a stern look. One is a ruffian holding a bomb and a red flag labeled “Anarchy.” The other is a well-dressed editor or journalist holding a yellow flag labeled “Yellow Journalism” and newspaper sheets labeled “Incendiary editorials ‘The president is the creature of the Trusts'” and “Assassination is the only remedy,” and he carries a satchel with sheets labeled “Seditious Editorials.” The ground is strewn with newspaper sheets covered with quotes that condemn President McKinley. Caption: Puck. — Don’t forget that they are two of a kind – equally responsible for the death of our President!
There are two foundation-stones of this cartoon, which was published shortly after the death of President William McKinley at an assassin’s hands. The first is that the murderer, Leon F. Czolgosz, was an avowed anarchist and follower of the violence-advocate Emma Goldman. The second is an indictment of the sensationalist press, although the malignant figure resembles neither William Randolph Hearst nor Joseph Pulitzer, the two most prominent of such publishers (New York Journal and World, respectively)… and the usual whipping-boys of cartoonists. Shortly before the assassination, the Hearst papers ran a poem (anonymous, but reportedly by Ambrose Bierce) and referring to the recently murdered governor of Kentucky: “The bullet that pierced Goebel’s chest / Cannot be found in all the West. Good reason; / It is speeding here To stretch McKinley in his bier.”
William Jennings Bryan is a large spider labeled “Free Silver” with three flies labeled “White, Schurz, [and] Godkin” caught in his web labeled “16 to 1,” “Anti-expansion,” “Chicago Platform,” and “Bryanism.”
The radical economic policies and agrarian roots of William Jennings Bryan kept many Eastern, aristocratic liberals from making alliance with his Populist-based campaigns. The old-line liberal reformers Horace White, Carl Schurz, and Edwin Godkin — all on the staffs of the New York Post and The Nation magazine — were tempted to support Bryan in his presidential candidacy of 1900 on the issues of Expansionism and anti-Imperialist views. The cartoon’s layout and labels indicate that cartoonist Pughe saw Imperialism as an issue that would lead to their doom.
A huge Uncle Sam gets a new outfit made at the “McKinley and Company National Tailors” with President William McKinley taking the measurements. Carl Schurz, Joseph Pulitzer, and Oswald Ottendorfer stand inside the entrance to the shop and Schurz is offering Uncle Sam a spoonful of “Anti-Expansion Policy” medicine, a bottle of which each is carrying. On the right are bolts of cloth labeled “Enlightened Foreign Policy” and “Rational Expansion.” The strips on Uncle Sam’s trousers are labeled “Texas, Louisiana Purchase, Alaska, Florida, California, Hawaii, [and] Porto Rico.” Caption: The Antis. — Here, take a dose of this anti-fat and get slim again! Uncle Sam. — No, Sonny!, I never did take any of that stuff, and I’m too old to begin!
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Lose weight or be measured for new clothes? The three men offering Uncle Sam reducing serums are Carl Schurz, a liberal Republican who moved to the United States in 1848, was named a Union General by Lincoln, and supported Horace Greeley, Grover Cleveland, and other reformers; Oswald Ottendorfer of the German-language New York Staats-Zeitung newspaper and head of the Anti-Imperialist League, and Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World.
Advertising card for Allen & Ginter cigarettes from the 1880s. Features a picture of John Arkins, editor of the Rocky Mountain News. Card number three of a fifty card series highlighting American editors.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1880-1890
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John Edgar Rhodes for his telegram and appreciates his work at the Tacoma Tribune.
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1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary informs Herman Bernstein that Theodore Roosevelt has received Bernstein’s previous letter and has consulted the editors of the Outlook concerning his question.
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1911-10-13
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Herman Bernstein for his letter and has submitted it to the editors. Roosevelt also invites Bernstein to see him at any time.
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1911-09-01
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates John P. Whitman’s letter but feels it inappropriate to write the letter to his brother, Russell R. Whitman, as requested. He suggests they meet at a club the next time they are both in New York to discuss the matter further. Roosevelt condemns much of William Randolph Hearst and his papers but finds him less loathsome than some of the other editors of New York newspapers.
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1911-07-31
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary replies to F. S. Starrette that Roosevelt does not attempt to influence editors and newspaper publishers. He further notes that editors look at the quality and appropriateness of an article above all else. Roosevelt would quickly become overwhelmed if he took on the job of submitting articles for authors and is not able to do as requested.
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1911-07-03
Theodore Roosevelt writes to publisher S. S. McClure that no one was interested in publishing the letter from Count Albert Apponyi. They published the letter from Baron Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár. Many people give articles to Roosevelt, which he passes along to newspaper men who sometimes publish them. Roosevelt will pass on interesting articles to McClure.
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1915-01-22
Theodore Roosevelt is concerned about Lyman S. Holmes’s situation following the campaign. He will try to help Holmes find a position at another newspaper.
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1912-12-03
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Judge Nortoni for writing to him in such detail about the Progressive Party. Roosevelt is pleased with the work The Star and Frederic B. Warren are doing.
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1912-11-26
Theodore Roosevelt thanks David B. Alleman for his letter and the work he did in the campaign.
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1912-11-26
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Evening Standard editor, William Glasmann, for his support of the Progressive Party and is pleased with the outcome of Progressive voters in Ogden, Utah. He wishes other newspapers had been as supportive.
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1912-11-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks The Nanicoke News editor Thomas R. Callary for his letter and continued support of Progressive principles.
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1912-11-18