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Senator Platt believes it will be difficult to gratify Booker T. Washington’s request that Charles William Anderson be elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. However, he will make a memorandum about it and will discuss the matter with Governor Odell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-24
New York will send an instructed Theodore Roosevelt delegation to the Republican National Convention. Governor Odell denied rumors that Senator Hanna would capture some New York delegates.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-25
President Roosevelt has given his approval for New York Governor Frank Wayland Higgins’s renomination campaign. The article speculates that Roosevelt weighed Higgins against the various forces opposing him, including Benjamin B. Odell and Senator Thomas Collier Platt, and feels that Higgins is a better ally. Roosevelt’s approval set off a number of moves by Higgins to begin working to improve his chances for renomination.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-08
President Roosevelt writes Frank Wayland Higgins regarding Higgins’s candidacy for governor of New York. Roosevelt urges Higgins to announce his candidacy as soon as he is able, and to make sure the voters know who he is and what he will do. The Democrats are putting the Republicans on the defensive, and the Republicans should push back by attacking D. Cady Herrick, the opposing Democratic nominee for governor, for his actions as a judge. Roosevelt links Higgins’s candidacy with his own, and believes they should emphasize the national issues, rather than being on the defensive with state-level issues.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-30
Theodore Roosevelt sends Elihu Root the answer that Senator Philander C. Knox wrote to Alton B. Parker about the common law. Roosevelt would like to see Root take this issue up in one of his New York speeches. If Roosevelt’s opponents in the election continue to keep “Odellism” as the main issue, then Roosevelt will lose.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-03
President Roosevelt must reinforce the verdict of the Commission in regards to the case. Roosevelt reviews the members of the commission and highlights the Army and Navy representatives that were on the board. Governor Benjamin B. Odell and Judge Hasbrouck have spoken out on behalf of Inspector Robert S. Rodie in regards to his role in the sinking of the General Slocum.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-12
Walter Butler Atterbury denounces Republican political leader Timothy L. Woodruff as “the most tyrannical of all bosses.” He cites evidence for this accusation in a speech to citizens of the Seventeenth Assembly District of Kings County. Atterbury asks citizens to support him and oppose any ticket with Woodruff’s name or those owing allegiance to him in the upcoming primary elections.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-11
Newspaper article describing political infighting during the New York City mayoral election. The Republican party’s “fusion” candidate, Seth Low, is not supported by some of the party and efforts were made to make sure he was not elected. However, the party discovered and warned defectors that party support would be behind Low.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-26
The man on bottom is Theodore Roosevelt. “Odell” on belt of left boxer. “Platt” on belt of right boxer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-04-03
President Roosevelt, as a hurdy-gurdy player, grinds an organ labeled “Party Harmony” among a group of bears labeled “Elkins, Parsons, Dick, Platt, Penrose, Woodruff, Foraker, Barnes, [and] Odell,” each holding a large club across their shoulders.
“The Boss Bear Trainer” is a rare cartoon from the career of President Roosevelt wherein bears are cartooned characters, but related to teddy bears, either as hunting trophies or as children’s plush toys.
Theodore Roosevelt is pictured as an evangelist preaching from “My Policies” in a tent with “Sherman, Cannon, Aldrich, Ballinger, Aldridge, Barnes, [and] Woodruff” sitting on the left, and “Depew, Lodge, [and] Odell” sitting on the right. “Crane”, who had been sitting on the right, has gotten up and is walking out. “Beveridge” is standing in the back at the entrance to the tent, and Dr. Abbott is next to Roosevelt, playing a piano. Across the tent hangs a banner that states, “Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour, but look out for the 8th of November.” Caption: And the sinners who won’t be saved.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-09-07
A comet labeled “Allds Investigation” strikes a planet labeled “Albany Legislature,” causing it to explode among planets labeled “Aldrich, Penrose, Payne, Vreeland, Dalzell, Cannon, Hitchcock, Woodruff, Ballinger, Root, Platt, Depew, Parsons, Sherman, Bliss, Black, Cortelyou, Odell, Lodge, Hale, [and] Elkins.” A lone planet showing the face of Theodore Roosevelt hovers on the far right. Caption: A comet that has cut loose in the Republican constellation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03-09
President Roosevelt will discuss the matter with Governor Benjamin B. Odell. He has advised Odell to consult with Whitelaw Reid and St. Clair McKelway.
1903-02-18
Panoramic photograph of the members of the Republican National Committee gathered at the home of President Roosevelt to officially notify him that he would be the 1904 Republican presidential candidate. Speaker Cannon, with cigar and hat in hand, is to the left of Roosevelt. Governor O’Dell of New York stands to his right.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1904-07-27
Governor Roosevelt gives Anna Roosevelt Cowles his great thanks for her valuable Christmas gifts and shares details about his family’s activities on the day. He is pleased that everyone is healthy and although he is working hard, he is happy. He also discusses the war in South Africa briefly.
1899-12-27
Theodore Roosevelt has had breakfasts with Platt and Governor Odell, but does not think the events have been viewed as important by the judge, of whom Roosevelt does not think highly. Roosevelt also does not approve of President Wilson’s and Secretary of State Bryan’s relations with Germany.
1915-05-14
President Roosevelt encourages James Sullivan Clarkson to arrange a meeting with New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell and expresses his own hopes of seeing Clarkson upon his return from a trip to New England.
1902-08-16
A negative review of Governor Odell’s leadership.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Governor Roosevelt will send in the names to the Senate for confirmation, most likely referring to names for the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. He invites Frederick William Holls to visit on Wednesday, when they will have dinner with James W. Ellsworth, Samuel Frederick Nixon, Jotham Powers Allds and Benjamin B. Odell.
1900-03-17
David T. Day reports that John Mitchell is in New York, New York, and asks whether he should initiate negotiations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-09