Ohio--Toledo

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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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-19

Acting Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission Judson C. Clements informs President Roosevelt about facts developed from an inquiry into the practices of railroads engaged in interstate commerce.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-20

William Shine tells William Loeb about his visit to the oil fields in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. The oil crews, especially the Standard employees, are against Theodore Roosevelt. In addition, Shine reports that in Cincinnati, all of the Republicans he met were for Roosevelt, and opposed to Taft. Additionally, Congressman Longworth will be renominated, although the Democrats are likely to gain Congressmen throughout Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Shine also notes that he is glad Waldorf has been appointed Collector of the Toledo district, as Waldorf was against former Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, as was the Post Master at Defiance. Shine predicts that the current Republican regime in Ohio “will go all to pieces in the next two years and a new crowd will be in control.” He sends both Loeb and Roosevelt a package, and will send some tonic if Roosevelt makes the trip to Panama.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-09

Freeman L. Dustman writes to President Roosevelt regarding the appointment of a revenue collector for Toledo, Ohio. Dustman urges Roosevelt to use his influence to ensure the appointment of a candidate who shares Roosevelt’s views so that the Republican Party’s policies will be carried out. Dustman suggests Howard Washington as an ideal candidate.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-09

L. V. McKesson thanks Secretary of War Taft for President Roosevelt’s review of his letter. McKesson discusses the political situation in Toledo, Ohio, and states a political appointment for his friend was not the true purpose of the letter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-30

Secretary of War Taft forwards President Roosevelt a letter from a man in Toledo, Ohio. He does not know about the circumstances the author refers to, but can vouch for the author’s character.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-21

President Roosevelt tells William H. Taft “I’m getting disgusted with you, too, Bill Taft,” as he runs from “Oyster Bay” on “Sept. 22” with his big stick chasing Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and Frank H. Hitchcock. In Foraker’s hand is the “Standard Oil exposure.” Meanwhile, Taft says, “Foraker! Foraker! Foraker! Foraker! Foraker!” as he thinks back to “Sept. 2nd at Toledo, Ohio” where he shakes Foraker’s hand and both men say, “There never was any ill feeling between us,” as Roosevelt looks on and says, “Delighted.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

The matter of the ice trust prosecution in Toledo, Ohio, referenced by Harry B. Kirtland has been referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-16

George P. Waldorf, one of the political bosses of Toledo, Ohio, is now billing himself as a force of progressiveness who, the article facetiously claims, “will be, leading the children of the G.O.P. Israel out of the wilderness of machine politics into the promised land that is flowing with milk and honey.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08

Toledo bakers are going on strike because there is an allegation that master bakers are complaining that dead rats and drugs have been thrown into dough. There is no truth to the story.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-25

James Sullivan Clarkson updates William Loeb on powerful influences in the Democratic Party, including Tammany Hall. Conservatives, with former president Grover Cleveland’s support, have retaken the Democratic Party and are nominating Alton B. Parker for president. He suggests an argument that may be effective against Parker’s campaign–namely that he would be indebted to Tammany Hall as president.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-25

Charles Lyman encloses a telegram in answer to the telegram sent to the Collector of Internal Revenue at Toledo, Ohio.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-03