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A Progressive Party charter membership certificate given as a receipt for contributing $1 to their campaign fund. It features Theodore Roosevelt’s picture as candidate for president, Hiram W. Johnson’s as candidate for vice president, treasurer Elon Huntington Hooker’s signature, and the party slogan, “Pass Prosperity Around.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Theodore Roosevelt informs Joseph Bucklin Bishop that he has written to Colonel George W. Goethals and is glad he is pleased with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Roosevelt comments on the chaotic nature of politics in the United States and mentions that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has been injured after falling from her horse.
1911-10-03
Newspaper article presenting arguments in favor of Republican unity in 1904 behind President Roosevelt in order to secure victory for Republican principles and continued American progress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-08
Francis C. Travers asks President Roosevelt to meet with several people and assures Roosevelt that he is doing good work for him that will secure votes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-08
Whitelaw Reid believes that since Joseph Bucklin Bishop and his newspaper can be so helpful during President Roosevelt’s campaign, it is not wise to encourage him to leave his position. Reid notes that there has been a change in political opinion lately, though a few remain discontented about the “coal strike, the Northern Securities, and certain trivialities like negro appointments, etc.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-09
Acting Secretary of State Loomis recommends deferring John Goodnow’s request for a leave of absence from his position as Consul General in Shanghai, in order to assist in Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign.
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1904-01-23
This article states that Republicans need to “join hands” together to ensure that they maintain control of politics in Delaware.
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1904-02-15
Jeter Connelly Pritchard encloses a letter from John Allison of Tennessee, a democrat who is “perfectly trustworthy.”
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1904-01-21
Tennessee politician and U.S. Marshal Richard Wilson Austin is planning to run against Nathan Wesley Hale for Congress. John Houk cautions that Austin would be a traitor to President Roosevelt’s administration.
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1904-01-14
Powell Clayton reports of strong support for Senator Hanna in Arkansas. Clayton speculates that the trusts are working to block Roosevelt’s nomination. He encloses a letter from Secretary Hitchcock to a land officer concerning federal office holders’ involvement in political matters. Clayton resents this “political emasculation” of land officers and believes they have been unjustly singled out, which is probably the work of Mr. Foreman.
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1904-01-15
George B. Curtiss recommends that Roosevelt’s presidential campaign support the central issue of protectionism.
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1904-01-08
James Bronson Reynolds is concerned whether or not President Roosevelt will be able to carry New York in the fall. He advises addressing the lack of office space for letter carriers in the New York Post Office. Reynolds offers to share the findings of his upcoming visit to Chisinau (Kishinev), Russia, and Romania where he will look into the condition of Romanian Jews.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-31
Though the Post Office Appropriations Bill reduces the number of division superintendents of Rural Free Delivery, Senator Platt strongly recommends that William C. R. Hazard must be kept in his position as division superintendent of Rural Free Delivery for New York and New England. Hazard has been very useful to the State Committee and with the campaign this year, his assistance is “vitally necessary.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903
Nicholas Murray Butler has just returned from a trip out West and details three points about his travels in regards to the upcoming presidential election.
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1904-01-02
There is growing uncertainty regarding President Roosevelt’s nomination at the Republican National Convention. Some states are sending uninstructed delegates and Senator Hanna is a popular opposition candidate.
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1904-01
Harrington Fitzgerald recommends publishing cheerful news to create confidence which would encourage spending and increase prosperity and encloses just such articles. He also recommends that the Tariff Association of New York should compile and distribute such news.
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1903-12-23
Senator Beveridge assures President Roosevelt that his political support is strong in New York City and Philadelphia. If general prosperity continues for a year, Roosevelt will be elected by a wide margin.
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1903-12-19
The Republicans of Seneca County pledge their support for President Theodore Roosevelt, Governor Benjamin B. Odell, and J. Sloat Fassett.
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1903-12-12
James R. Sheffield writes of his conversation with Governor Odell, in which they discussed Odell’s plans to reorganize the New York Republican Committee, potential delegates for the Republican National Convention, and Senator Platt. Sheffield is positive about President Roosevelt’s nomination in Utica, New York and warns of the “chloroforming process.”
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1903-11-27
Ralph Trautmann attaches a newspaper clipping circulated by opponents, asserting the role of circulated articles in the presidential campaign of 1904. Trautmann adds that Senator Lodge’s restrictive immigration bill may hinder success in the 1904 Campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-27