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As directed by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur S. Hinman informs W. R. Warner to tell Roosevelt the time and place he will speak in Cleveland, Ohio. Roosevelt also requests railroad travel information.
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1897-10-09
George Kruck Cherrie met with Theodore Roosevelt in Cleveland, Ohio, at the home of James Rudolph Garfield. Cherrie has received Roosevelt’s jaguar skins and has sent them to be made up. Roosevelt may also have Cherrie’s slides.
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1914-09-30
James Rudolph Garfield tells Theodore Roosevelt he was sorry not to have sees Roosevelt this week, but appreciated the demonstration Roosevelt gave on State Street. Garfield believes the Republican National Committee meeting set Robert M. La Follette back and La Follette has missed his chance in Cleveland after postponing his speeches twice.
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1911-12-15
John A. Chamberlain asks Theodore Roosevelt to express his support for upholding and enforcing The Sunday Law in Cleveland, Ohio. A report from the Baptist Brotherhood of Cleveland found two thousand saloons remain open on Sundays despite the law, and the mayor, Herman C. Baehr, and Director of Public Safety in Cleveland have not addressed these transgressions.
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1911-11-22
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1911-10-20
Holbrook, Franklin F. (Franklin Fessenden), 1837-1916
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Frank A. Bare asks Theodore Roosevelt to attend the Ohio Hardware Association Convention in Cleveland on one of the various dates listed.
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1911-09-07
Merrit A. Vinson asks Theodore Roosevelt if he will consider giving a few lectures in the fall.
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1911-06-13
Alfred N. Rodway asks Theodore Roosevelt to send him an autographed photograph. He recalls meeting Roosevelt in Cleveland, Ohio.
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1911-05-11
Margaret Foote Potter recently attended the Golden Jubilee of the founding of a women’s organization in support of foreign missions in Cleveland, Ohio, and has been asked to report on the proceedings to the various Presbyterian churches in Canton, Ohio where she resides. The topic on the day she presents to these groups will be Africa, and she asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to offer his opinion on what the greatest need in Africa is that missionary work can help address.
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1911-02-27
Myron T. Herrick believes that President Roosevelt is correct regarding appointments in Cleveland, and that the matter should be left to President-Elect William H. Taft. Herrick thanks Roosevelt for his courtesy to Mortimer H. Laundon and William S. Fitzgerald.
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1908-12-22
Senator Lodge is glad to hear that Secretary of the Navy Victor Howard Metcalf’s quote about him was misrepresented. Regarding what President Roosevelt says about Comptroller Lawrence O. Murray, Lodge says that the thing to do is “weed out the bad men,” which Murray has not done. Rather, Murray has denounced all men, good and bad, in speeches. In response to Roosevelt’s telegram, Lodge says that he can give speeches for three days this month, but that he will only speak in big cities, because he has to miss meetings to give the speeches. In a postscript, Lodge expresses surprise at a meeting Brooks Adams presided over in Quincy, where he praised Roosevelt and William H. Taft.
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1908-10-17
Charles P. Taft warns Secretary of War William H. Taft that Ohio Revenue Collector Bernhard Bettmann’s office is full of “Foraker people” who work against him, alongside three or four Taft supporters. They plan to get up rump conventions in order to have two sets of delegates in certain districts, including the sixth. Charles P. Taft told his informant to lay the issue before Commissioner Arthur I. Vorys, but they must make it known the Federal offices will not line up on Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker’s side.
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1907-12-24
Charles William Anderson sends William Loeb a clipping from The Cleveland Gazette campaigning against the reelection bid of Republican Representative Theodore E. Burton. He also sends a letter from the Gazette co-founder and owner Harry C. Smith from Judge Mifflin Wistar Gibbs congratulating him on how well the newspaper opposed Burton and hoping that President Roosevelt would receive similar treatment by the newspaper if he were to run. Anderson is concerned by Gibbs’s stance, as his son-in-law William Henry Hunt is currently the Consul to St. Etienne, France.
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1907-11-19
Commissioner General of Immigration Sargent informs William Loeb that he found a lot of support for Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon and President Roosevelt among the union members with whom he spoke. Sargent also tells Loeb that while eating lunch with a few Democratic friends, they expressed the hope that President Roosevelt would be elected for a third term and that if the “Republicans have not the courage to nominate him, the Democrats will.” He thanks Loeb for sending the confidential letter and lets him know he is “in harmony” with the views of the writer.
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1906-09-19
Francis B. Loomis writes from the state convention in Dayton that “matters were very badly mismanaged by those in Ohio.” Bringing in a candidate named Harry M. Daugherty gave them a handicap, which was followed by a series of missteps too numerous and too complicated to recount in a letter. Loomis wishes that he told Roosevelt sooner, now knowing the outcome. Joseph Benson Foraker is the greatest force in Ohio politics and Loomis is interested in gossip about Foraker’s nomination as presidential candidate. Foraker holds more power in the organization than Senator Charles Dick, even though Dick is the named head.
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1906-09-13
Reverend Williams proudly tells President Roosevelt that he “jacked up” Democrat Charles A. Edwards, Secretary of the Democratic Congressional Committee, most likely referring to a letter he (Williams) sent Edwards in which he defended Roosevelt. Williams explains to Roosevelt that he finds Edwards’s rhetoric about Roosevelt to be “vile political vomit” off of which anarchists feed, and cites his experiences as both a pastor and a soldier to defend himself against Edwards’s claims that he is a “fool” and from the “woods.” Williams also tells Roosevelt that he took the Cincinnati Post to task for publishing Edwards’s “vile utterances.”
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1906-09-06
Maurice Latta, aide to President Roosevelt, should bring the telegram on the train to Cleveland to be used in connection with the Major Sylvester matter.
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1905-07-06
Elmer Dover suggests President Roosevelt send a condolence note to Governor Myron T. Herrick regarding the loss of members of the Ohio National Guard in an accident on the way to Roosevelt’s inauguration.
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1905-03-08
Secretary of War Taft has had news about probable majorities for the election in Maine. He has received an invitation to speak in Brooklyn, but cannot make this work, as he already has too many engagements lined up. Taft has read President Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance and approves of everything in it. The process of buying lands from the friars in the Philippines is running into some issues, as one of the companies is threatening to rescind a contract due to a new survey of the lands in question and a decrease in the price.
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1904-09-14
Alexander H. Kaminsky discusses the three main indictments against New York’s lack in Children’s Court work. These include judges, probation officers, and cost.
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1911-11-02