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George B. Cortelyou provides Major Richard Sylvester with the details of President Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to Philadelphia. Sylvester should cooperate with Secret Service chief John E. Wilkie and Post Office Inspector William E. Cochran to take precautionary measures.
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1901-11-25
George B. Cortelyou provides Secret Service chief John E. Wilkie with the details of President Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to Philadelphia. Sylvester should cooperate with Washington, D.C., police superintendent Richard Sylvester and Post Office Inspector William E. Cochran to take precautionary measures.
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1901-11-25
Secret Service chief John E. Wilkie acknowledges receipt of George B. Cortelyou’s letter regarding President Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to Philadelphia and will take the usual precautionary measures.
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1901-11-25
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of State Hay that he cannot promise to be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over a year in advance because he does not know what the future holds. He also cannot meet with Hay after church on Sunday because he has to meet with some “railway people.” Finally, Roosevelt asks Hay’s advice about trying to send former U.S. Minister to Chile Henry Lane Wilson to Europe instead of back to Chile.
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1904-12-06
President Roosevelt informs Senator Penrose that he is unable to excuse Jacob G. Bunn, a financial clerk in the Philadelphia post office who made illegal political assessments. Roosevelt rejects the argument of ignorance of the law put forth by Bunn and the post office on multiple occasions. He has no alternative but to remove Bunn from office.
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1904-10-28
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Flinn for his friendship and political support. Roosevelt had hoped to travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but his doctors have cautioned against any campaigning.
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1912-10-24
Frank Harper encloses a letter and encourages its publication. He believes it will please foreign born voters, particularly those from Southern European countries.
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1912-09-13
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges Ziba T. Moore’s invitation for Roosevelt to speak at the Union League Club banquet in Philadelphia. He has forwarded Moore’s letter to the National Progressive Committee.
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1912-09-09
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks George B. Wells for his letter. He assures Wells that the letter will be brought to Roosevelt’s attention after he returns from his western campaign trip.
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1912-09-04
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary suggests that the best answer to C. H. Hawkins’s question is in Roosevelt’s letter to Senator Moses E. Clapp, which will appear in the newspaper the next Monday.
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1912-08-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Julian LaRose Harris that he has distributed thousands of a clipping of a bull moose from the Philadelphia North American.
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1912-08-21
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Ryerson W. Jennings for his letter and for trying to place Booker T. Washington in contact with Roosevelt. Jennings will see what Roosevelt has to say on the “colored question” in the morning papers, most likely referencing the letter Roosevelt wrote to Julian LaRose Harris on the question of black Southern delegates at the National Progressive Convention, released 1912-08-03 to newspapers.
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1912-08-03
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary states that there is nothing that can be done about an unidentified matter, which will have to be decided by the managers of Roosevelt’s campaign.
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1912-07-31
Theodore Roosevelt disputes a story run by the Sun. Roosevelt explains that while he is an associate editor with the Outlook, he has no contract with Lyman Abbott and is at will to leave or stay. Roosevelt believes that the Sun circulated a story of questionable validity in order to raise prejudice against him.
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1912-07-30
Theodore Roosevelt responds to Bradley Gilman’s letter and discusses the topics of marriage, divorce, and African Americans as voters and legislative representatives. Roosevelt argues the need for federal government to control marriage, divorce, and polygamy. Roosevelt asserts the need to incorporate African American representatives for the Progressive movement from states like New York, Rhode Island, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, or Indiana at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. He writes of the inequality faced by African Americans, particularly in the South, and their absence from legislative bodies in Southern states. In his argument, Roosevelt references Booker T. Washington and writes of the Republican Party’s use of uneducated African American representation as a corrupt tactic that won the candidacy for William H. Taft with William Barnes and Simon Guggenheim.
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1912-07-24
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks L. Ward Bannister for his letter. He suggests Bannister obtain material regarding Roosevelt’s proposition to review judicial decisions in the United States by contacting Dean William Draper Lewis of the University of Pennsylvania and William L. Ransom.
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1912-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Edwin A. Van Valkenburg about the presidential election. He asserts his belief that he should run on a separate Progressive ticket rather than support President Taft’s Republican candidacy in a race against the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson. He contends that Taft’s nomination at the Republican National Committee was won by corrupt means.
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1912-07-16
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Edwin A. Van Valkenburg to introduce him to a key player in the Delaware Progressive movement, Dr. Grier.
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1912-07-13
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells D. W. Wilkie that Roosevelt is unable to attend to all campaign matters. He suggests that Wilkie ask Edwin Augustus Van Valkenburg of the Philadelphia North American how to assist with the election.
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1912-07-15
Theodore Roosevelt writes Charles E. Landis and suggests that he contact Mr. Van Valkenburg.
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1912-07-09