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Senator Beveridge recommends deferring the divisive statehood issue until the term following the election. Original and typewritten copy.
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1903-11-29
Ralph Trautmann, who was born in Germany, offers to represent President Roosevelt’s views at an upcoming Ellis Island Committee meeting. Referencing Grover Cleveland’s previous bill restricting immigration, Trautmann expresses concerns that a similar bill proposed by Senator Lodge may negatively affect Roosevelt’s presidential campaign.
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1903-11-30
Summary and text of speeches delivered by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor John Lewis Bates to the Norfolk Club. Primary topics were the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Lodge’s work on the Alaska boundary tribunal, and defending President Roosevelt from Democratic attacks.
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1903-11-01
L. Clarke Davis encloses an editorial responding to a rumor that Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna and Ohio governor-elect Myron T. Herrick might be candidates for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. Davis expresses regret that his newspaper could not agree with President Roosevelt’s actions regarding Panama. Davis asks for permission to edit and publish a letter Roosevelt sent him, to be used as a campaign piece.
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1903-11-23
Samuel Rinnah van Sant comments on the recent election results in New York. Van Sant expresses hope that the United States government wins its suit against the Northern Securities Company and confidence that President Roosevelt will win the presidential election.
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1903-11-07
Nicholas Murray Butler discusses the recent mayoral election in New York. Butler conveys the public’s positive reaction to President Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington, and the public’s negative reaction to George B. McClellan, Mr. Murphy, and Seth Low. In regard to his recent conversation with Cornelius Newton Bliss concerning campaign tactics, Butler suggests that Roosevelt invite Mr. Kennedy, James Speyer, and James Stillman for lunch or dinner. Butler writes about the Panama Rebellion and editorials on the topic running in The Evening Post and The Times. Butler also discusses the involvement of Marcus Alonzo Hanna, John Edward Addicks, General James Harrison Wilson, and Wayne MacVeagh in the Maryland and Ohio elections. Butler suggests Roosevelt become a professor of American History and Politics in Morningside Heights.
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1903-11-09
Lyman Abbott offers his help in promoting “a rational campaign in the South” to create a more cohesive United States. Abbott discusses Senator Hanna as an unlikely Republican candidate and William R. Hearst as an unlikely Democratic candidate. Abbott includes Rough Rider buttons and congratulates President Roosevelt on his “Cuban message.”
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1903-11-12
Newell Sanders discusses the recent Ohio election and Senator Hanna. Sanders reassures President Roosevelt of his and his peers’ support of Roosevelt’s candidacy in the 1904 presidential race.
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1903-11-14
Charles W. Barnard discusses the politics surrounding the Traveling Men’s Sound Money League.
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1903-11-16
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt about Arthur P. Gorman’s campaign. The Democratic Party plans to “arouse the race prejudice in the South” in order to make the South go against Roosevelt. Abbott would like to send the most persuasive stump speakers into the southern states and have them prove that Roosevelt and the Republican Party stand for the principles of Abraham Lincoln.
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1903-11-04
Joseph Bucklin Bishop writes to President Roosevelt regarding the recent mayoral election in New York City, in which George McClellan defeated Seth Low. Bishop says the election was “bought up by Whitney, Ryan, Belmont, and Harriman.” Bishop also discusses a recent conversation with General Hubbard concerning Leslie M. Shaw and relays that he will not accompany Hubbard to Washington, D.C.
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1903-11-04
Albert J. Beveridge sends a note of congratulations to President Roosevelt for his successful campaign as a Republican candidate.
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1903-11-05
Francis C. Travers discusses election results in New York and the impact of the Tammany machine. Travers writes of a generally negative attitude towards Governor Odell.
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1903-11-05
Jacob A. Riis confirms that he will join President Roosevelt on the train for Election day. Riis predicts that Roosevelt will secure the election in New York and Tammany Hall.
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1903-10-19
Assistant Treasurer Fish encloses two clippings and offers advice for securing the presidential nomination.
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1903-11-20
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson discusses Ohio politics and the upcoming election, predicting Democratic candidate for Governor, Tom Loftin Johnson’s defeat due to his association with socialism, as well as a struggle for Senator Hanna. Wilson comments the Post Office scandal’s lack of attention in Ohio.
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1903-10-23
Charles Emory Smith writes to President Roosevelt regarding the Republican campaign in Iowa and Ohio. Smith discusses the Bonaparte-Conrad report and the issue of allowing laborers to do clerical work, referencing a conversation between Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Commissioner William Dudley Foulke. Smith expresses confidence that Senator Hanna and Governor Warren G. Harding will secure a Republican win in Ohio against Democratic candidate for Governor Tom Loftin Johnson.
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1903-10-26
Leslie M. Shaw informs President Roosevelt of public support for Roosevelt’s campaign in Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, and Chicago, IL. Shaw accepts a luncheon invitation extended by Mr. Edwards and plans to see Colonel Henry Lee Higginson as requested by Roosevelt.
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1903-10-27
Charles H. Treat anticipates the reelection of Seth Low as Mayor of New York, citing canvass results from the New York World. Treat credits Low’s likely success to the Fusionist movement, mentioning Lemuel Ely Quigg and his cohort’s work to support Low’s ticket. As Treat reports, some Republicans support Democratic candidate George B. McClellan for Mayor.
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1903-10-29
Lawrence F. Abbott assures President Roosevelt that he received his letter and enclosures. Abbott will forward the materials to his father, Lyman Abbott. Lawrence Abbott describes the Arthur P. Gorman campaign in Maryland as “extraordinary.”
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1903-10-30