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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott

President Roosevelt asks Lyman Abbott what he knows about Thomas Taggart, chosen to run the campaign for Democratic Presidential candidate Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt insists he appointed George B. Cortelyou to run his own campaign to be “handled on a high plane.” Conversely, Roosevelt is critical of Taggart who he believes has “succeeded in politics by his finished ability in purchasing votes” and has questionable ethics when dealing with reporters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Owen Wister

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Owen Wister

President Roosevelt agrees with Owen Wister’s thoughts. Roosevelt is grateful to the American people even though he has had a great deal of work as president. Roosevelt notes his cabinet has been a huge support to him and is glad he owed the election to “Abraham Lincoln’s ‘plain people.'” The president expresses his frustration with certain journalists and newspapers who criticize Roosevelt about having too close of a connection with “the wicked” but who ignored Alton B. Parker’s “hand-in-glove intimacy” with James J. Hill, William F. Sheehan, and Thomas Taggart. Roosevelt acknowledges he has made mistakes, but many of the criticisms leveled at him are due to ignorance.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Hamilton Fish II to William Loeb

Letter from Hamilton Fish II to William Loeb

Hamilton Fish informs William Loeb that Louis Frisbie Payn will be visiting the White House and reminds Loeb that Payn can be helpful to President Roosevelt’s presidential campaign. Fish also would like Loeb to tell Roosevelt that John Clay Davies would like to work with George B. Cortelyou on the presidential campaign. Fish believes that Davies can be an asset to Cortelyou.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-28

Creator(s)

Fish, Hamilton, II, 1849-1936

Letter from Hamilton Fish II to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Hamilton Fish II to Theodore Roosevelt

Hamilton Fish is letting the President know that Lou F. Payn thinks that it would not be a good idea to visit the President before the National Committee. Fish states that Payn would be a good ally throughout the presidential campaign due his large constituency throughout the state. Fish states the people suggested by Governor Odell and Senator Platt would not be worth their while or be useful in the financial district.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-26

Creator(s)

Fish, Hamilton, II, 1849-1936

How TR Handled Being Governor

How TR Handled Being Governor

Richard O. Weber examines Theodore Roosevelt’s term as Governor of New York, emphasizing his efforts at reform, rooting out corruption, and protecting natural resources. Weber focuses on Roosevelt’s foes in these varied efforts, Thomas Collier Platt, the Republican boss of New York, and the Democratic political machine Tammany Hall. Weber highlights Roosevelt’s call for civil service, election, and police reforms, and he notes that some of Roosevelt’s initiatives were later implemented by Governor Benjamin B. Odell. 

Two photographs of Roosevelt appear in the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2001

Next!

Next!

President Roosevelt pets a cat with New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt’s face as he holds a “list of smoothed downers” in his other hand: “Morgan. Hill (J. J.) Gould. Harriman. Addicks. Black. Odell. Payn. Platt.” On the wall is a sign: “Oyster Bay. Notice. Smoothing down done with neatness and despatch. T. R.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-17

Creator(s)

Bush, Charles Green, 1842-1909

The sincere ones

The sincere ones

President Roosevelt stands beside a number of men, including Ohio Representative Charles Henry Grosvenor, who holds a book entitled “Lives of the Presidents—A Few Left,” New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt, John Edward Charles O’Sullivan Addicks, Postmaster General Henry C. Payne, Louis Frisbie Payn, New York Representative Lucius Nathan Littauer, and New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell. Roosevelt holds a sign that reads, ‘The principles which we profess are those in which we believe with heart and soul and strength. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Our actions speak even louder than our words for the faith that is in us.’ T. R.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-16

Creator(s)

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931

Gen. Wiley turned down

Gen. Wiley turned down

General Wiley’s surprise defeat in the election of delegates to the Republican National Convention is suspected to have been organized by Louis Frisbie Payn. Payn and John Reed Yale were declared the nominees of the convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03

Creator(s)

Unknown

Letter from Campbell W. Witbeck to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Campbell W. Witbeck to Theodore Roosevelt

Campbell W. Witbeck tells President Roosevelt about a conversation he recently fell into with Edwin M. Cadman, the nephew of Louis Frisbie Payn, about politics. Cadman revealed that there is strong antagonism in Columbia County, New York, to Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination for president, such that party leaders would rather lose other election races than support Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-20

Creator(s)

Witbeck, Campbell W., 1845-1915

Letter from Thomas Collier Platt to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Thomas Collier Platt to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Platt discussed with Governor Benjamin B. Odell the possibility of electing Charles William Anderson to the Republican National Convention. Odell believes that it would be very difficult and that it is hardly necessary or good policy to do so. Platt informs President Roosevelt that the State Committee passed a resolution endorsing his administration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-27

Creator(s)

Platt, Thomas Collier, 1833-1910