Pennsylvania

John P. Elkin would be pleased to go over matters pertaining to Pennsylvania affairs with President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-06

Albert J. Beveridge quotes a letter from John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, who recently purchased the Dayton Journal. Shaffer plans to unequivocally endorse President Roosevelt and his policies. Beveridge has been traveling in the depths of the Maine woods, which he feels has restored him and urges Roosevelt to rest over the summer. After he opens the Maine campaign, Beveridge plans to go on another long trip with Gifford Pinchot.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-08

Senator Lodge is sorry that President Roosevelt has reached the time of life where physical exercise has ceased to be a rest. Lodge thinks that if William Randolph Hearst runs in any way in New York, the Republican party will be able to carry the state. The political situation in Massachusetts has revived Lodge’s hopes of retaining control of the House. The reciprocity revision movement appears less militant than last year, and higher wages in the cotton and wool industries has weakened agitation against Republicans on behalf of changing the tariff. Lodge thinks the unknown quantity in the Congressional elections is the labor vote under the direction of Samuel Gompers. Lodge agrees with Roosevelt that there is more baseless praise poured out over Thomas Jefferson than any man in our history.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-08

George Shiras is glad that President Roosevelt has taken an interest in his wildlife photography, and he describes the circumstances under which a large number of his recent prints were acquired by National Geographic Magazine. Shiras tells Roosevelt that his previous appeal did not “fall on deaf ears,” and he will decline to be nominated for Congress this year. Shiras hopes that Roosevelt will “keep within reasonable distance of the eight hour law.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-28

John A. Sleicher updates Theodore Roosevelt on the overall political situation of New York. Governor Black is not interested in “sitting down in a game” with people who have “cards up their sleeves” or who use “double-dealing methods.” Sleicher reminds Roosevelt that he once said the party needed to do “housecleaning,” and believes that Roosevelt’s hand on the scale brought about such housecleaning in New York, which ultimately prevented consideration of many “unwholesome” bills. Sleicher also believes that the revival of William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst’s desire to be a key Democratic politician in New York show that the Democrats are struggling.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-01

Boies Penrose writes to set up a meeting between President Roosevelt, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, and Pennsylvania oil magnate Theodore N. Barnsdall to discuss “serious complications in Indian Territory over gas and oil matters.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-02

Nicholas Murray Butler is giving a dinner in honor of the establishment of the Theodore Roosevelt Professorship at the University of Berlin and will arrange another as suggested by President Roosevelt. Butler also believes the polls tomorrow will be strange.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-06

Senator Philander C. Knox is planning to make a statement on the importance of voting the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania, and he would like permission from President Roosevelt to include a statement about Roosevelt’s thoughts on the topic.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-28

The term of James F. Penman as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Northeastern District of Pennsylvania was completed last year, but his bonds do not expire until April 1906. The conditions are such in the district that it has not been possible to find a candidate to replace Penman.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-07

Commissioner of Labor Wright responds to President Roosevelt’s note about an editorial. He does not think that there will be a strike of any magnitude in the anthracite coal region. Wright discusses the situation in Colorado.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-11

Attorney General Knox informs President Roosevelt of his resignation from office in order to accept the appointment of Senator from Pennsylvania.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-23

This brief biography of Gifford Pinchot recounts his accomplishments as first Chief of the United States Forest Service, as well as later in life. Pinchot participated heavily in Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party, and was later elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922 and 1930 as a Republican. Pinchot helped found many associations focused on forestry and conservation, and was additionally a founder of the Roosevelt Memorial Association.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1987

John W. Furlow asserts that Gifford’s Pinchot later career as a politician, most notably as Governor of Pennsylvania, is often overlooked in favor of focusing on the time when he was ascendant in the American conservation movement. Furlow closely examines Pinchot’s time as Governor, and he stresses the role of his wife, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, as an important influence on Pinchot. Pinchot favored prohibition and the building of farm to market roads as Governor, and Furlow argues that Pinchot’s political career focused on the preservation of human resources. Though he supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Pinchot remained active in Republican politics, but he never held elective office again after 1935.

A photograph of Gifford Pinchot on horseback in 1925 and two photographs of Cornelia Bryce Pinchot appear in the article. In addition to endnotes, the article also features a paragraph that lists a number of studies and biographies of the Pinchots and their home, Grey Towers.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Letter to the editor of Public Ledger. Thomas H. Ball represents the Woolen Industry of Philadelphia by writing of the impact the proposed Underwood tariff bill would have on the woolen and worsted industries throughout the United States. He believes that the tariff would “annihilate” the industry and supports his analysis with examples.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-12

C. Eugene Montgomery requests that Theodore Roosevelt deliver a speech to the people of Pennsylvania on “good citizenship” sometime in June or July. Montgomery has asked Senator Moses E. Clapp to write an endorsement of the arrangement to ensure its legitimacy to Roosevelt. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-23

Benjamin K. Focht addresses the Hummel family reunion. Focht discusses German immigration to Pennsylvania, starting with a history of Germany and leading to the contributions that German-Americans have made to public life in the United States. This is a published version of a speech that Focht gave August 28, 1907.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908

The article provides various positive economic reports from around the nation, including railroad expansion plans, a big export surplus, and a plan to provide agricultural workers with four to five months of work for good wages. A highlighted portion of the column notes that the Philadelphia Workingmen’s Protective Tariff League endorsed President Roosevelt for president and Senator Boies Penrose for National Republican Chairman.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-06

A “Penn G.O.P.” elephant carries a “Roosevelt” flag and a number of men playing trumpets with the word “harmony” coming out as the elephant walks toward the White House. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-31

An injunction was issued by Judge John B. Wilkinson, of Huntington, West Virginia, restraining the Triple State Gas Company from merging with the United States Natural Gas company, which would have monopolized the natural gas supply of West Virginia and eastern Ohio. The injunction affects Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup, who was named to the board of the United States Natural Gas company. However, Grosscup is well known for his writings against monopolies.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-18

First Assistant Secretary of State Loomis summarizes for William Loeb the situation regarding the removal of Aaron Homer Byington from the Consulship at Naples, Italy, and how Jerome A. Quay came to be appointed there, including the influence of Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt and friends of the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay in the matter. Loomis suggests alternate posts for Byington.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-28