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President Roosevelt informs Senator Foraker that appointing Max Burgheim is inadvisable because locals would prefer he remain on the Cincinnati Board of Public Safety. Instead, Roosevelt has given Bernhard Bettmann a recess appointment to Collector of Internal Revenue for the first district of Ohio.
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1907-09-27
President Roosevelt thanks Colonel Markbreit for his letter. He asks Markbreit to share his opinions with Representative Nicholas Longworth, who is also from the Cincinnati area, so that Longworth and Roosevelt might discuss them.
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1907-09-20
In reference to his earlier invitation to the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes conference, Theodore Marburg encloses a publication of the association.
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1911-09-26
Theodore Marburg invites Theodore Roosevelt to give a speech at the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. President William Taft will be giving an address at the conference.
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1911-09-25
Representative Longworth advises President Roosevelt of the political situation in Cincinnati, Ohio. Roosevelt is more favored than Senator Foraker, but it remains to be seen whether this sentiment can be directed successfully toward nominating Secretary of War Taft for president in 1908. Many Republicans who lost their positions in the election of 1906 place much of the blame on a speech Taft gave at Akron. Longworth believes the attempts of Taft’s brother, Charles, to force a quick resolution of the issue are unwise.
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1907-04-18
President Roosevelt fires a gun with smoke coming out labeled “Cincinnati Federal Appointment” at Joseph Benson Foraker, who holds a knife labeled “Brownsville.”
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1907-02-01
Alice Roosevelt Longworth steps into a carriage while visiting Cincinnati, her husband’s hometown, for the first time.
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1906
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Floyd Reading Du Bois that the unseating of “colored” delegates from the South had nothing to do with their race, but that they were not legally entitled to their seats. In Florida, both the white and the colored delegates were unseated. In Mississippi, Benjamin F. Fridge had called for a “white” convention based on a misunderstanding, and rather than waiting for an adjustment from the National Committee, the unseated delegates held their own illegal state convention. Richard Washburn Child agrees with Roosevelt that the Mississippi decision was legally, not racially, based. Finally, the unseated delegates in Cincinnati were judged to be associated with the Republican Party machine.
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1912-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt will take up an unidentified matter with Senator Dixon and James Rudolph Garfield. Roosevelt acknowledges that Representative Longworth may be correct about Cincinnati, but in general, believes that what is needed is a straight third party ticket.
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1912-08-03
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Dr. Frank Warren Langdon for his letter to Roosevelt.
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1912-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks George E. Schmidt for his letter to Roosevelt.
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1912-06-26
One of Theodore Roosevelt’s children thanks William J. Yerby for the letter he sent. The author also writes that African Americans have supported Roosevelt, even in Cincinnati where President Taft had one of the dismissed Brownsville officers appear.
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1912-06-19
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes to J. E. Miller about the plans for Roosevelt’s campaign trip in Ohio.
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1912-05-13
Theodore Roosevelt tells Walter F. Brown to be sure that nothing is done that will put Roosevelt in opposition to or embarrass Nicholas Longworth. Roosevelt discusses delegates to the Republication National Convention and Roosevelt’s upcoming Ohio speaking tour.
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1912-05-09
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Nicholas Longworth outlining his campaign strategy during the Ohio portion of Roosevelt’s campaign tour.
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1912-05-09
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary will refer C. K. Crawford’s request for employment to Captain Muller. Roosevelt is unable to assist Crawford, but Muller is sometimes able to find employment for former members of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders regiment.
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1912-05-06
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary sends thanks to Reverend Higgins of the Camp Washington Christian Church for sending a copy of the address.
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1911-02-02
President Roosevelt thanks both Reverend Perkins and the Cincinnati Methodist Minsters’ Meeting for the resolutions and the letter.
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1908-02-07
President Roosevelt responds to Secretary of War Taft regarding a recent letter from Charles Phelps Taft. Roosevelt appointed Bernhard Bettmann to the position of Ohio Collector of Internal Revenue, first district, on the suggestions of Charles and Ohio Insurance Commissioner Arthur I. Vorys, against the wishes of Ohio Senators Joseph Benson Foraker and Charles Dick. If the Taft people cannot control Bettmann, then actions against Commissioner of Internal Revenue John G. Capers will not solve it. Roosevelt admired Taft’s speech, even if it could not reach the crowd affiliated with the morning’s editorial in The Sun.
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1907-12-31
Rudolph Forster relays information to United States Marshal Lewis on behalf of President Roosevelt, informing him that Senator Nicholas Longworth has wired expressing the desire for the current deputy marshal be detained.
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1906-10-03