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President Roosevelt agrees with the recommendations from Senator Depew and Senator Platt to nominate Henry G. Ward as circuit court judge for the second circuit.
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1907-05-22
President Roosevelt recounts the recent Congressional election wins across the country. He applauds the replacement of some Republican leaders in New York and Idaho. He is glad several border states near the South have also done well. Roosevelt and his wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are heading to Panama soon. Their son Ted has come home from Harvard after six weeks there and seems to be “deprest.” He cannot play football on account of his leg and is not popular among his classmates due to his arrest, but he appears to be doing well in his studies.
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1906-11-07
President Roosevelt asks Edward Hubert Butler, editor of the Buffalo Evening News, if he received his letter about Lyman Metcalfe Bass and if he plans to write Senator Thomas Collier Platt. Roosevelt believes that Charles Evans Hughes will be successful in the race for Governor of New York.
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1906-10-11
President Roosevelt confirms that Lyman Metcalfe Bass will be appointed as the United States Attorney of the Western District of New York but Frances M. Wolcott, his mother, must say nothing until after the election.
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1906-10-13
President Roosevelt asks Edward Hubert Butler, editor of the Buffalo Evening News, if he has written Senator Thomas Collier Platt about Buffalo lawyer, Lyman Metcalfe Bass. Roosevelt plans to appoint Bass as United States District Attorney for the Western District of New York.
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1906-10-08
Roosevelt expresses to Senator Lodge his thoughts and concerns for the upcoming gubernatorial and congressional elections. Roosevelt is worried about Hearst’s influence in New York and the changing attitudes in the labor movement. Roosevelt also gives updates on activities of Secretary of State Elihu Root and Attorney General William H. Moody, as well as his son, Ted, whose letter is enclosed.
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1906-10-02
President Roosevelt is pleased with how Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is handling the packing men. The Congressional situation in Iowa concerns him. He comments on the political conditions in various states, concluding that upsets in local matters will lead to suffering in the general government. He feels Congress was unwise in its treatment of the labor people. Roosevelt believes “in refusing any unjust demand on labor just as quickly” as any such demands on capital.
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1906-09-11
President Roosevelt thanks Secretary of State Root for the humorous translation of a Spanish newspaper. He provides updates on the successful naval review, recent state elections, and the boiling pot of New York politics. Roosevelt finds that William Jennings Bryan’s eagerness for popularity causes him to commit “to preposterous positions,” as revealed by his recent speech.
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1906-09-04
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of State Root a letter of greeting and congratulations on the success of his recent trip to Central America. Roosevelt has enjoyed the rest he has had over the summer and is now beginning to work on the fall electoral campaigns. While the recent Congress has been very productive, Roosevelt fears that “the time has about come for the swinging of the pendulum,” and mentions some areas he believes the Republicans are weak. Secretary of War William H. Taft has decided to not accept a position on the Supreme Court, which may put him in the ranks of possible presidential candidates. Local New York elections for governor have shown Benjamin B. Odell as having an advantage over Governor Frank Wayland Higgins.
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1906-08-18
President Roosevelt was delighted by Judge George C. Holt’s letter, and informs him that his support for Judge Charles M. Hough was one of the deciding factors prompting Roosevelt to stand by him in the face of opposition. Roosevelt asks if Hough has shown Holt any of Roosevelt’s correspondence with Senator Thomas Collier Platt concerning the nomination, as he has asked him to do so.
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1906-07-06
President Roosevelt congratulates United States District Judge Hough on his confirmation. He sends some copies of his correspondence with Senator Thomas Collier Platt for Hough to read and return, asking that he keep them strictly confidential, and only show them to United States District Judge George C. Holt and Charles C. Burlingham.
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1906-06-29
President Roosevelt congratulates Attorney General Moody on the recent conviction and indictments that he won. He believes District Attorney Henry L. Stimson’s letter is satisfactory and returns it, promising to write to Senator Thomas Collier Platt on Monday.
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1906-05-26
President Roosevelt would be pleased by Nicholas Murray Butler’s plan to have Roosevelt nominated as a senator after his term as president is over, but worries it would cause opposition to the ticket from both Thomas Collier Platt and Benjamin B. Odell.
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1906-05-31
President Roosevelt assures Charles M. Hough that if he decides to pursue Hough’s appointment as a judge, he will use the knowledge of the letter between Frank Hinchman Platt and Senator Thomas Collier Platt. Roosevelt is not sure what he will do yet, because while he has heard many good things about Hough, he is somewhat uncomfortable about the effect Hough’s connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad may have on public opinion.
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1906-05-31
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of State Root that on March 19 he will send the Senate Charles S. Francis’s nomination for Ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and recall Bellamy Storer. Storer has not responded to Roosevelt’s three most recent communications, despite the fact that Roosevelt knows that he received them.
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1906-03-15
President Roosevelt knows Lang, the young man referenced in the attached letter from Senator Thomas Collier Platt. He informs Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte that another midshipman has been allowed to do what Lang is requesting, and hopes that Bonaparte can grant the request to Lang.
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1906-02-26
President Roosevelt informs New York Secretary of State O’Brien that Daniel W. Moran’s appointment as postmaster was a recess appointment, and thus his name will still have to be put before the Senate. Roosevelt did not know there was opposition to Moran until he received O’Brien’s letter. If Senator Thomas Collier Platt objects to Moran, Roosevelt is sure the Senate will not confirm him.
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1905-12-08
President Roosevelt evaluates the conflict between Representative Parsons and Representative Jacob Van Vechten Olcott, who have both declared their candidacy for chairman of the County Committee in New York. Although Roosevelt knows that both men are independent, the public perceives them as being representatives of opposing factions within the state Republican party. If Parsons issues a statement declaring his independence from both Benjamin B. Odell and Senator Thomas Collier Platt, Roosevelt will advise Olcott to withdraw from the race.
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1905-11-27
President Roosevelt tells Representative Olcott that a letter he received from Representative Herbert Parsons seems to cover the case. Roosevelt hopes that Olcott will now withdraw, and says that he can quote his language from the letter to Parsons if he leaves out the personal references to Senator Thomas Collier Platt and former New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell.
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1905-11-29
William Loeb sends Representative Olcott the text of a letter in which President Roosevelt evaluates the conflict between Representative Herbert Parsons and Olcott, who have both declared their candidacy for chairman of the County Committee in New York. Although Roosevelt knows that both men are independent, the public perceives them as being representatives of opposing factions within the state Republican party. If Parsons issues a statement declaring his independence from both Benjamin B. Odell and Senator Thomas Collier Platt, Roosevelt will advice Olcott to withdraw from the race.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-01