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President Roosevelt informs Senator Piles that he told Representative Wesley Livsey Jones he made no comment supporting any candidate for senator, and that Roosevelt knows the allegation that Piles said this was an error.
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1908-08-13
President Roosevelt informs Representative Jones that he will express no opinion in any Senate race.
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1908-08-13
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Arthur Dehon Hill, reassuring him that Mr. Thompson performed well in Hill’s absence. Regarding a discussion about possible electors, Roosevelt’s guests supported Massachusetts Governor Eugene Foss. Roosevelt supports a plan to elect one ex-Republican and one ex-Democrat for Senator and Governor, such as John Sullivan and Mr. Plunkett. Roosevelt expresses pleasure that ex-Governor of Rhode Island Lucius F. C. Garvin supports the Progressive platform. Roosevelt is also pleased with William Sturgis Bigelow.
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1912-07-23
Theodore Roosevelt discusses his platform for the upcoming Progressive Party Convention to take place in August. Roosevelt asks that Chester H. Rowell relay to Mr. Earl the topics he will discuss in his platform, which are minimum wage, taxation, and the tariff.
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1912-07-20
Theodore Roosevelt asks his friend Andrew A. D. Rahn to make it very clear among officials that Roosevelt does not wish to be a candidate in the Minnesota primaries.
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1916-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt tells John Milliken Parker that the Republicans have returned to power with the most extreme reactionaries but it is not possible for them to permanently win with that leadership. The Democrats also cannot be supported under the Wilson regime.
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1914-11-12
President Roosevelt tells Representative Parsons, member of the New York Republican County Committee, that he believes it was wrong to leave off Judge Otto Alfred Rosalsky from the nominations and furthermore does not agree with the Nominators’ Committee on adding Democrats to the Republican ticket. Roosevelt believes it is the utmost importance that Republicans do all they can in all elections in New York to support a victory against William Randolph Hearst in the “main contest” for governor.
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1906-10-08
President Roosevelt is concerned over the controversy for political candidates in John Clay Davies’s district, Oneida County, for the upcoming elections for New York State Legislature. Roosevelt believes that Davies should consider William Cary Sanger as an alternative to the current candidates, and believes him to be “a man of the highest character, the kind of man whose presence at Albany is a guaranty of courage and good faith.” Roosevelt believes the upcoming race for governor of New York between William Randolph Hearst and Charles Evans Hughes is of great importance and all should be done to uphold the Republican party’s strength.
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1906-10-06
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt about a serious situation developing in Massachusetts politics. At a recent state convention of the American Federation of Labor, the group denounced Lt. Governor Draper and nine of the eleven Republican Congressmen. Lodge believes that “Gus”, his son-in-law Augustus Peabody Gardner, “is a good fighter, but with this labor attack and the character of his opponent he has before him a very severe contest.” His opponent was a man named Schofield, a “Native-american demagogue with a great deal of local popularity.” Lodge spoke yesterday at the state convention in Rhode Island where a “Hearst man” is giving Republicans a tough fight as well.
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1906-10-12
Henry Cabot Lodge discusses the upcoming elections. He thinks the Republican Party will carry the House, but worries about Massachusetts and New York. The Republican National Convention went “without a ripple” thanks to Winthrop Murray Crane, William H. Moody, and others. There are still bad feelings around Representative Charles Curtis, though. Ex-Governor John Lewis Bates, who took his unmerited defeat in “the most manly way,” gave one of the best speeches Lodge has ever heard. Lodge discusses District Attorney John B. Moran’s treatment of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Moran, who is running for Governor of Massachusetts, supports William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst and his platform reads like a “manifesto of a Jacobian Club.”
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1906-10-06
Francis B. Loomis writes from the state convention in Dayton that “matters were very badly mismanaged by those in Ohio.” Bringing in a candidate named Harry M. Daugherty gave them a handicap, which was followed by a series of missteps too numerous and too complicated to recount in a letter. Loomis wishes that he told Roosevelt sooner, now knowing the outcome. Joseph Benson Foraker is the greatest force in Ohio politics and Loomis is interested in gossip about Foraker’s nomination as presidential candidate. Foraker holds more power in the organization than Senator Charles Dick, even though Dick is the named head.
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1906-09-13
Edward B. Vreeland writes to President Roosevelt concerning the election of a chairman for the New York committee. Vreeland states he was urged to support William Barnes of Albany, New York, but others state that Barnes will polarize the effort.
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1906-02-21
This partial memorandum lists endorsements for the appointment of Alva D. Alderman as Collector of Internal Revenue in the Eleventh District of Ohio. Alderman would be replacing the late John Clay Entrekin. Over 50 Ohio politicians, business leaders, and organizations signed in support of Alderman’s appointment, including Senator Charles Dick, President Roosevelt’s son-in-law Congressman Nicholas Longworth, and Governor Myron T. Herrick.
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1905-05-27
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson informs President Roosevelt that he has attended to his appointments in Colorado and is now en route to Missouri. Wilson believes that Colorado will turn out for Roosevelt in the impending election. He hopes that the Republican candidates for the House of Representatives in the states that he has visited will help the party keep its dominance in Congress.
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1904-10-22
Frank H. Hitchcock has two competing job opportunities. President Roosevelt and Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer want Hitchcock to stay in his position as Assistant Postmaster General, while Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou wants him to replace the current Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Hitchcock is dismayed that the press makes him out to be the only man who can assess the current political climate in the Roosevelt administration, and swears that he is not currently campaigning for any candidate for president. Hitchcock has traveled around the South, Midwest, and Pacific coast, alarming local politicians who assume he is campaigning. Hitchcock has jurisdiction over several thousand postmasters in the United States, further establishing his influence over the nominating process.
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1907-07-01
Pamphlet encouraging people to vote for Theodore Roosevelt and other Progressive Party candidates in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Photographs and biographies are included for Adrian Lyon, candidate for state senator, and James Alexander Edgar, Henry Seidler, and Frank Jennings, candidates for assemblymen.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912
Nicholas Murray Butler writes to President Roosevelt of his recent meetings with Joseph Bucklin Bishop and Mrs. Roosevelt and advises Roosevelt to keep political distance from Seth Low during the presidential campaign. Butler discusses the involvement of Frank Hinchman Platt, Lemuel Ely Quigg, and Mr. Van Cott in the Odell-Platt arrangement and mentions newspaper articles on the topic published in The Sun. Butler includes a clipping from The World.
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1903-11-28
Hamilton Fish expresses his disapproval of General John H. Ketcham as a candidate for Chairman of the House Post Office committee. Fish encourages President Roosevelt to meet with Senator Platt regarding The Outlook. Fish assumes that Roosevelt is pleased to hear through Mr. Loeb that he and Mr. Stranahan secured a meeting with Platt.
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1903-11-07
Joseph Bucklin Bishop warns President Roosevelt that “the Jew” has withdrawn and that he will discuss the matter with General Thomas H. Hubbard. Bishop alerts Roosevelt that “the Jew” has the support of Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Iowa Governor Albert Baird Cummins, and that he may run for President in 1904. Bishop believes there is a “Jew syndicate” that wants to control the press.
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1903-10-24