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These clippings from the Louisville Courier-Journal are about the debates between John Watson Yerkes and William O’Connell Bradley over the Republican delegates going to the National Convention and the Republican Party of Kentucky’s stance on supporting President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-04
James R. Sheffield is disappointed by the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention as it lacks “real friends” of President Roosevelt. He suggests some of Roosevelt’s personal friends attend the convention in order to keep tabs on the delegation. Sheffield is confident in the success of the national ticket in New York but has doubts about the state ticket. He feels the party needs a strong candidate for governor, such as Elihu Root, to be successful. Root is reluctant to be a candidate but Sheffield would still like to raise public sentiment in favor of Root’s nomination for governor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-11
Newspaper article supporting John Watson Yerkes’s desire to be temporary and permanent chairman at the Kentucky Republican state convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-04
Louisiana Republicans will send an entirely white delegation to the Republican National Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-04
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Newsreel footage of both 1932 Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention. Herbert Hoover is seen being nominated for president. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt speaks to the crowds from the podium. At the Democratic Convention, delegates march with banners supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1932-06-01
Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt herding a pig “Delegate” into a pen labeled “The Taft Lot.” Cartoon refers to Roosevelt’s efforts to wrangle delegates for William H. Taft in the 1908 election.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
Photograph showing the assembled delegates at the Progressive Party convention in Chicago, Illinois in August 1912. The photograph’s caption provides details about the convention.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1980
The author recounts “fighting Democrat of New Orleans” John M. Parker’s comments during the League Orleans meeting. He assures the audience that the League will give “the most honest and the squarest election” by listening to the people, not the political machine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-28
The author “congratulates” John Milliken Parker’s “Boss-ship” during the successful Good Government League convention and his triumph in Judge Luther Egbert Hall’s nomination. In truth, Parker’s actions are an “inexcusable breach of faith,” and the League’s convention was an “insidious attack on the integrity of the party.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-28
Following a confusing and contentious ballot, Harry B. Smith was elected chairman of the Republican county central committee in Indianapolis. After the counts on the initial ballot were confused, Smith’s rival, Robert Metzger, requested that Smith be elected by acclamation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-08
The state Republican Convention in Connecticut adopted a resolution supporting President Roosevelt for renomination and named its delegates to the National Convention in Chicago. The fact that the president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Charles S. Mellen, and two directors, Charles F. Brooker and Edwin Milner, were named delegates proves that not all railroad interests are against Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-12
Senator Lodge agrees with President Roosevelt that the outcomes in Illinois and Oregon were better than expected, showing that the Republican vote is strong in the northwest. Lodge asks if Roosevelt spoke to Henry C. Payne about becoming chairman, and notes that it would be awkward to turn down now that the matter has gone so far. He would like to see Roosevelt in June, either in Oyster Bay or Washington. In a handwritten postscript, Lodge notes that it will be a shame to lose Philander C. Knox as Attorney General, but Knox’s becoming Senator is a good thing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-10
Senators Joseph Benson Foraker and Marcus Alonzo Hanna disagree on whether or not the upcoming Republican State Convention in Ohio should endorse President Roosevelt’s renomination for the presidency. Foraker supports making such a resolution, while Hanna does not. Hanna claims he simply believes that this should be done in the 1904 convention. Foraker believes that as the party has no other candidate it wishes to nominate, it will do no harm to endorse Roosevelt a year early.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-24
In this letter to the editor of the Boston Transcript, Joseph Bucklin Bishop discusses the unique character of the upcoming Republican Party convention, in which Theodore Roosevelt will be unanimously nominated as the candidate for president of the United States, in opposition to most of the party’s machine politicians. Bishop reflects on Roosevelt’s popularity, which he attributes to his doing what is for the good of the people, independent of party politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06
William Jennings Bryan runs away from Oyster Bay with “the big stick” that has a label: “loaned for convention week only –T.R.”
The suggestion of cartoonist Nelson Harding in this drawing is not that President Roosevelt would have cooperated, or even passively colluded, with William Jennings Bryan. Just the opposite, but the artist’s point was that Bryan might need a Roosevelt-style Big Stick to prevail against rivals the Democratic National Convention, scheduled to open three days after publication of this cartoon.
Senator Lodge reports that everything at the Republican National Convention has gone “most admirably,” with the platform remaining largely as it was, and Secretary of War Elihu Root’s speech and Frank S. Black’s nomination speech going particularly well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-23
An article in The American Review of Reviews reflects on the current political situation in Congress, especially lamenting that both houses are controlled by powerful cliques who work in their own interests, often at the expense of legislation that would benefit the people. In particular, tariffs and appropriations for the construction of battleships are discussed. The author also speculates about the outcomes of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the upcoming presidential campaign, as well as the necessity of a good man to run the Republican convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-21
Senator Lodge agrees with President Roosevelt’s telegram stating that the seating of delegates at the Republican National Convention should be decided on the merits of each case, rather than on compromise. Thus far there have been no dubious cases. Now that Solomon Luna has arrived, Lodge believes it would be unwise for Chairman of the Republican National Committee Frank H. Hitchcock to take another proxy or sit on committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-07