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New York City Mayor George B. McClellan and Police Commissioner William McAdoo are pictured washing the Tammany Tiger labeled “Corruption” and “Graft.” In the background, Tammany Hall boss Charles F. Murphy is posting a notice for the “Democratic Convention” on July 6 in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-05-04
Alton B. Parker sits in a chair strapped to the back of David B. Hill, who is carrying him up a narrow, treacherous, rocky trail on the edge of a mountain “to [the] St. Louis Convention.” Hill’s walking stick, labeled “Trickery” and “Peanut Politics,” has been broken and mended. Caption: Parker — I think I’ll get out and walk.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-05-25
Inside a convention hall, an over-sized Theodore Roosevelt leans forward at a podium, holding a gavel raised in his right hand. In the foreground are the delegates attending the Republican National Convention, June 21, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois.
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1904-06-15
William Jennings Bryan, his hat falling to the ground and with one foot braced against a water trough, tries to pull a donkey labeled “Democracy” to the trough where the water is labeled “Bryanism,” the trough is labeled “Kansas City Platform,” and the pump is labeled “Populism.”
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1904-02-03
A scarecrow in a corn field, labeled “Nomination,” is fashioned out of pieces of cloth labeled with the names of several states: “Indiana, Illinois, Mass., Mich., Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, West Virginia, [and] New Jersey.” It wears a sash labeled “Repudiation.” Standing in the background is a farmer wearing a hat labeled “Democracy” and carrying a rifle labeled “Nat’l. Convention.” A crow labeled “Bryan,” with the face of William Jennings Bryan, is sitting on a fence, eyeing the corn field. Caption: The Democratic Farmer — If that doesn’t keep him out, I’ve got something here that’ll fix him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-09-23
There is a difference of opinion on whether Theodore Roosevelt’s supporters bolted the Republican National Convention. Taft partisans support this accusation. However, from the viewpoint of a Roosevelt supporter, the convention was illegally constituted and Roosevelt’s delegates left to hold a convention of legally elected delegates. With this in mind, his secretary suggests that Dickerson McAfee and his friends call their bet off.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-10-03
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks James Bronson Reynolds for his letter and for his participation in the recent State Convention which resulted in the nomination of Mr. Call.
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1912-09-09
Theodore Roosevelt writes to F. N. Godfrey concerning Godfrey’s recent conversation with Judge Hotchkiss and the farmers’ questions about the pre-convention campaign. Roosevelt invites Godfrey to meet with him at Oyster Bay.
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1912-07-16
Theodore Roosevelt agrees that the Democratic “crooked bosses” in Baltimore are no better than the Republican ones in Chicago.
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1912-07-09
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, Ted Roosevelt asks John Milliken Parker to be the Louisiana representative for the call for a Progressive Convention.
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1912-07-02
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Arthur Ackland that Roosevelt does not know whether he will have to attend the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, but will do whatever is in the best interests of the American people.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-12
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Norman B. Wood for his letter and apologizes for being unable to provide Wood with a ticket to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, as he does not even have “a single one” for his own friends and family members.
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1912-06-10
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary believes that William H. Taft’s supporters have used trickery in Ohio. He suggests someone William W. Bagley could contact to get tickets to the convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-07
Theodore Roosevelt was reluctant to contest the selection of the Temporary Chairman of the Republican National Convention. However, Mr. Barnes’ telegram has forced a challenge. Supporters of Senator La Follette would have made a challenge anyway and Roosevelt supporters would have been discouraged without it. Roosevelt was “prepared to support any good La Follette man,” such as Governor McGovern or Senator Gronna, against Senator Root.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-04
Theodore Roosevelt was reluctant to contest the selection of the temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention. However, William Barnes’s telegram has forced a challenge. Supporters of Senator La Follette would have made a challenge anyway and Roosevelt supporters would have been discouraged without it. Roosevelt was “prepared to support any good La Follette man,” such as Governor Francis E. McGovern or Senator Asle Gronna, against Senator Elihu Root.
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1912-06-04
Theodore Roosevelt did not want the newspapers to think that he had given up by not protesting the appointment of Senator Elihu Root. Roosevelt is ready to support good men such as Governor Francis E. McGovern or Senator Asle J. Gronna against Root.
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1912-06-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks James H. Brown for his work in Denver and hopes that the delegation will change by the convention in Chicago. Roosevelt also believes that if the primary had been preferential in Colorado it would have shown that Republican voters are with them.
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1912-06-05
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates John Campbell Greenway and hopes that there will be a separate convention if their men are unseated.
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1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt discusses the number of delegates from Ohio and Massachusetts that should be demanded from William H. Taft if Taft steals the Ohio men.
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1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges Abram M. Tillman’s letter to Roosevelt. He informs Tillman that there will be no compromise and that any delegates from Tennessee who wish to be in support of Roosevelt ought to do so on the first ballot.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-29