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Theodore Roosevelt thanks J. B. Yellowby for his telegram and the story of when Roosevelt met Yellowby at Governor Edmond Favor Noel’s house.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt thinks Judge A. H. Whitfield would make a good federal judge. Roosevelt believes Mississippi is in good hands with a senator like LeRoy Percy and a governor like Edmond Favor Noel.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-19
President Roosevelt introduces an enclosed letter summarizing the conclusions of the recent White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children, and a program of its attendees. One conclusion was that Roosevelt should send each governor a copy of the proceedings for state governments to reference. While the proceedings are being published, Roosevelt sends these enclosures for immediate use. He hopes that the governors will actively promote the Conference’s cause. The names of the governors who received this letter are then listed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-02
President Roosevelt has received James E. Shepard’s letter, as well as the various letters attesting to Shepard’s character and praising his work. While Roosevelt cannot speak personally about Shepard’s ability to establish the school he proposes, he says that the plan is an admirable one and wishes Shepard success.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-18
President Roosevelt writes Richard Watson Gilder a lengthy refutation of an article in the Evening Post in which William Garrott Brown misconstrues his actions in the Republican Party. Namely, Brown accuses Roosevelt of neglecting Republicans in the South and of doing a poor job of making nominations to local offices and positions. Roosevelt asserts that where the Republican party is not strong in the South, he has had to appoint Democrats who were quality men, rather than incapable men who are Republicans. Where he believes the party has a chance to compete with Democrats, he does all he can to support it. Roosevelt also writes that he did not use his influence on officers to get William H. Taft the nomination, but rather Taft was nominated because Roosevelt’s policies were popular, and Taft is the man who will continue those policies. Roosevelt believes that Brown is either ignorant or willfully ignorant of a number of facts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-16
John W. Mathis has previously corresponded with Theodore Roosevelt, and hopes that Roosevelt has a good visit to his state of Mississippi. Mathis feels that the Mississippi Governor Edmond Favor Noel is a better governor than his predecessor, James Kimble Vardaman. He hopes that Roosevelt’s visit to Mississippi will have a positive effect on the state. While Mathis does not feel that he had any sectional hatred towards the north, Vardaman’s “whole aim is to prey upon the prejudices of the ignorant classes of the voters,” and he worries about their impact.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-09
Grosvenor Dawe informs Theodore Roosevelt that six other governors are heading representative committees at the Southern Commercial Congress, with more expected. The Congress “typifies a new union of the South along the constructive lines of commerce and business” compared to the unity of fifty years ago during the Civil War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-16
James Kimble Vardaman failed to receive a plurality of votes in the Democratic primary for Governor of Mississippi. Vardaman’s policies against African Americans and his “unquotable vulgarities” have made the election simply between justice and injustice. Vardaman’s opponents, Judge Frank Archibald Critz and Senator Edmond Favor Noel, received more combined votes, and Noel, who finished in third place, has instructed his supporters to vote for Critz.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-22