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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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-07
Postmaster General Payne informs William Loeb of the response he sent to Senator Penrose regarding Penrose’s request that James Rankin Young be selected for the Chief Clerkship of the Post Office. Payne also tells Loeb of his plans to travel to New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-09
Postmaster General Payne sends William Loeb a letter from Senator Boise Penrose to show to President Roosevelt about the appointment of a postmaster at Dallas, Texas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-06
C. F. Heckler informs President Roosevelt that he would prefer to relay the information he has to Roosevelt in person. Heckler mentions Senator Boies Penrose, Congressman Irving Price Wanger, and Assistant Attorney General Henry Martyn Hoyt as people who can attest to his character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-27
Richard Robbins details Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on his fifty-sixth birthday on October 27, 1914. Robbins explores the political scene that found Roosevelt in western Pennsylvania campaigning for Gifford Pinchot for a U.S. Senate seat on the Progressive ticket. Robbins quotes extensively from the city’s newspapers anticipating Roosevelt’s visit, and examines Roosevelt’s itinerary, the parade in his honor, and his speech.
A photograph of Roosevelt speaking in Uniontown in 1914 and one showing the same site in 1984 accompany the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983-07-03
Following a number of legislative items, including voting on an amendment to a bill and a motion to investigate participation in international expositions, Senator Robert M. La Follette delivers a speech beginning with proposed tariff reciprocity with Canada, but quickly turning to his view that President William H. Taft has abandoned his campaign promises to continue the progressive policies of his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt. La Follette excoriates Taft on his stances on taxes and conservation, among other issues.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-15
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-06
Telephone message from Senator Albert J. Beveridge, stating that “Sen [Nathan Bay] Scott has stated to Sen [Stephen B.] Elkins that the President told him he did not care anything about the standard bill.” Beveridge wishes Roosevelt would “straighten Sen Scott out.” Beveridge also wants President Roosevelt to see Senator Boies Penrose and encourage him to act further.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-15
The tariff slogan of the Republican Party for the coming Congressional campaign will be “stand pat,” as decided by several members of the Republican Congressional Committee and approved by President Roosevelt. While no attendees gave quotes of the proceedings of the luncheon at Roosevelt’s home, all expressed satisfaction with the conference, and confidence that the Republican party can stand on its record. Republican campaign headquarters are to be opened in New York shortly. The article additionally reports on Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon’s travel plans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-23
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George von Lengerke Meyer for the salmon and for what he said regarding the libel suit. Roosevelt would like to arrange a visit with Meyer and Frank B. Kellogg, but does not see what can be done about “getting the Republicans and Progressives together.” Roosevelt feels that the Progressives are “sundered” from the Republican Party by two causes. The first is the “utter dishonesty” of men such as Boies Penrose, William Barnes, Winthrop Murray Crane, Elihu Root, and their associates who “stole the convention” last summer. The second cause is that the Progressive Party, unlike the Republican Party, have in their platform “applied the principles of Abraham Lincoln to the present day.” Roosevelt will never again work with a party controlled by the men guilty of the theft last June or with any party that “does not take in their entirety the principles of Abraham Lincoln applied to the needs of the present day.”
Massachusetts Historical Society
1913-06-09
Theodore Roosevelt tells George von Lengerke Meyer he is not sure there is anything to be done to make things better in politics. Roosevelt believes Republican leaders “stole the nomination” in Chicago, Illinois, and that such action “creates a train of evil consequences so extensive that it is almost impossible by any single act afterwards to undo the evil.” It was extraordinary to see men such as Bishop William Lawrence and President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University “explicitly or implicitly, endorse the lowest forms of political immorality.” Roosevelt compares the Progressive platform to that of Abraham Lincoln and the early Republicans, and accuses the men who object to these principles of being the “spiritual heirs of the Cotton Whigs.” He believes that what happened in Chicago makes it likely that Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic Party will win the fall presidential election. When Roosevelt returns, he would like for Meyer and Frank B. Kellogg to visit him.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1913-10-07
Nicholas Murray Butler discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Boies Penrose and his suitability for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Butler highlights the political corruption occurring in Penrose’s native Philadelphia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-25
James Sullivan Clarkson recommends George J. Corey as president of the national organization of commercial travelers’ clubs supporting the Republican campaign. Clarkson warns that Ferdinand Ziegel, who is promoting Corey’s cause, is becoming disaffected. Clarkson also suggests several candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee and discusses campaign strategy, including states to target to secure the election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-15
Louis N. Hammerling requests that Theodore Roosevelt ask Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senators Matthew S. Quay and Boies Penrose to name Thomas H. Watkins as a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-12
Senator Quay hopes President Roosevelt has reconsidered Boies Penrose as a possible appointee to the Panama Canal Commission. If Penrose is not to be appointed, Quay argues that someone else from Pennsylvania ought to be. He hopes Roosevelt will wait to speak to him before acting on an appointment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-17
Democratic postcard featuring Theodore Roosevelt driving a runaway moose-drawn carriage toward a sign reading “To Democracy,” shouting “Whoa, bull, nice bull, they’re all Progressives and friends of mine.” Behind the carriage are figures of men labelled “Wall Street,” “Penrose,” “Barnes,” and “Hughes.” While Roosevelt endorsed Hughes as Progressive Party nominee in 1916, other well-known Progressives did not. They supported Wilson because Hughes was not a vocal supporter of what they considered basic Progressive ideas, such as the income tax and the eight-hour day. That is why Hughes is shown here along with other truly non-Progressives such as Wall Street and Republican political boss from Pennsylvania Boies Penrose.
1916
Theodore Roosevelt notes that Lemuel Ely Quigg’s views coincide with his, and that Quigg perfectly understands his position and intentions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-10
Theodore Roosevelt finds that the old parties of Massachusetts are “wedded to their idols” and do not offer any hope to the “man of vision.” He feels that there was “no surer touchstone of Bourbonism” than the support of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. He urges the people of Massachusetts to remember that the present Wilson tariff, or the Revenue Act of 1913, was rendered possible only by the passing of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act and that the men who supported it represented the “extreme of reactionary Bourbonism within the Republican Party” against the interests of the American people. Roosevelt warns the people of Massachusetts that the man who supports the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act “has his face toward the past” and will lead the state “backward against the current of proper political development.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914
A group of men, scoffers, labeled “Tillman, Elkins, Penrose, Crane, Lodge, Depew, Gallinger, Aldrich, [and] Sherman” watch four men labeled “Cummins, Dolliver, Gore, [and] La Follette” construct an ark labeled “Principle.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-07-28
President Roosevelt, as a hurdy-gurdy player, grinds an organ labeled “Party Harmony” among a group of bears labeled “Elkins, Parsons, Dick, Platt, Penrose, Woodruff, Foraker, Barnes, [and] Odell,” each holding a large club across their shoulders.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-10-07