Oregon

President Roosevelt tells Senator Bourne that any statements that have been made about agreements with Senator Charles William Fulton toward a delegation in Oregon, or attempts from the administration to affect the Oregon legislature, are untrue. Instead of sending a confidential accusatory letter, Roosevelt asserts that Bourne should have openly stated his confidence that the statements were false.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-05

President Roosevelt sends the telegram and letter from Senator Jonathan Bourne to William H. Taft. He warns Taft that Bourne’s relations with Standard Oil and his usefulness in Oregon are questionable.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-01

President Roosevelt asks Senator Bourne to make such requests to William H. Taft. Roosevelt found Bourne’s analysis of the situation in Oregon to be interesting.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-01

President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft that he admires his willingness to sacrifice his own interests for a principle, but encourages him to avoid talking about delicate subjects where his words could be twisted. Roosevelt is glad that Taft understands the situation with another potential presidential candidate, Governor Charles Evans Hughes, remarking that he has a “distinct strength with the people.” The president believes that Taft will get the majority of the delegates in the West on the first roll and that the majority of people in New England are for Taft. Finally, Roosevelt notes that the New York papers are “almost insane” in regard to his actions, suggesting that Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold were “pretty good citizens by comparison.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-19

President Roosevelt enjoyed Senator Bourne’s letter and the quotations from his wife, Lillian Elizabeth Wyatt Bourne. He appreciates Bourne’s support of sending the fleet to the Pacific, which will happen regardless of the approval of Senator Eugene Hale.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-13

President Roosevelt was impressed with the account of a German military attaché in Japan that German Ambassador Sternburg recently sent him, especially in the assessment that racial tensions are driving relations in the Pacific. Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Sternburg and his wife this weekend.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-03

George Haven Putnam writes Theodore Roosevelt to ask him a favor concerning Putnam’s brother’s son, George Palmer Putnam. George Palmer Putnam is a newspaper correspondent currently residing in Oregon but recently returned to New York to get married, and will travel back to Oregon soon via the Panama Canal whilst writing news reports on the canal’s status. George Haven Putnam hopes Roosevelt might still be in contact with people involved in the Panama Canal and connect Putnam’s nephew with these individuals. Putnam also knows of a book concerning war photography being published soon that Roosevelt might find interesting.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

W. P. Chase acknowledges he is a stranger to Theodore Roosevelt, but Roosevelt knows some of his relations and this can prove his legitimacy. Chase has become a contracted seller for Arthur W. Arnold’s patented stove damper, which he says regulates combustion on stoves and furnaces to save on fuel usage. He hopes Roosevelt would consider becoming a business partner, and presents this from a philanthropic viewpoint to appeal to Roosevelt’s appreciation for philanthropy, as he claims the damper will benefit the poor the most. Chase hopes to meet Roosevelt in New York.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-12

Senator Bourne was pleased to see Theodore Roosevelt’s favorable comments on the five principles of the “Oregon system of Popular Government” which appeared in The Outlook.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-25

Similar to the land fraud prosecutions in Oregon and Montana, Benjamin H. Tallmadge, of the C. L. Tallmadge Southwestern Land Company, has been arrested on the charge of subornation of perjury. It is the first of many prosecutions that will be brought for alleged fraud in land entries and deals in New Mexico. Tallmadge maintains his innocence.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-24

President Roosevelt crosses out names for the appointment of the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, as a number of men, including Francis J. Heney, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, Oregon Senator Jonathan Bourne, and Senator Charles William Fulton, look on.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Harry Daniel Murphy, the most modest of political cartoonists (at this stage of career he signed his with almost microscopic initials, compensating with huge, flourishing signatures when he drew for Los Angeles newspapers) correctly depicted the position of President Roosevelt regarding the United States Attorney position in the Eastern Oregon office in 1908.

President Roosevelt holds a rifle as he and Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who holds a “U.S. game bag,” walk on the “Oregon Hunting Grounds” toward the “big game section.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-02

President Roosevelt approves of how Joseph Bucklin Bishop handled a letter from William H. Taft. He also mentions that he heard about an interaction between Bishop and John J. McCook. Roosevelt discusses the views of Congress and big financiers on currency reform and sends Bishop a copy of a letter he sent to the Senators from Oregon.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-08-23

The front page of Leslie’s Weekly includes “What Roosevelt’s Nomination Means,” which discusses President Roosevelt’s unanimous nomination for president at the Republican National Convention, “Bogus ‘News’ from Washington,” which corrects several false stories about Roosevelt and his administration that have been reported in other newspapers, and “The Plain Truth,” which discusses the dominance of the Republican Party in Oregon.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-23

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, Travers D. Carman sends Senator Dixon direction regarding Roosevelt’s traveling itinerary, to ensure the Progressive Party makes the most effective campaign stops in New Hampshire and Nebraska. Oregon is to be abandoned, since they have not had time to organize there.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-04-07

President Roosevelt claims primary responsibility for appointments and the subsequent actions of appointees. Roosevelt wants to appoint “a thoroughly good type of man” and reserves the right to decide who meets this qualification. In this particular case, Roosevelt has decided that Knowles is too easily influenced and cannot be register at La Grande. Edward W. Davis has been selected for the La Grande position. The Register and Receiver at Lake View also need to be replaced and the Senators should send their recommendations at once.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-25

George B. Cortelyou sends Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock communications regarding forest reserves in Oregon. President Roosevelt would like a report on the matter from the Department of the Interior.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-28

Frank Harper encloses a letter from Henry Waldo Coe that calls for immediate action.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-12

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Hutchinson Cowles for his letter and the editorial from the Oregonian.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-07

Theodore Roosevelt hopes the delegates to the State Convention of Utah will align with other states to overcome “boss rule and the rule of special interests” to ensure democracy and “the cause of progressive Republicanism.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05