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From a paper on socialism, this excerpt states how Theodore Roosevelt saw the danger of a strong socialist party, but also understood the party had grown from real discontent. Roosevelt effectively ended the movement by addressing the issues that drove people toward socialism, and acted as a president for all the people,
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1911-11-22
Theodore Roosevelt invites Representative Gardner to dine with him to discuss party matters.
1916-11-14
Theodore Roosevelt writes about the Progressive movement and the choices he made regarding the direction and future of the movement. He also discusses his disagreements with those who wish to take the Progressive movement in a different direction. Roosevelt mentions the libel suit brought by William Barnes.
1914-07-29
President Roosevelt responds to William Jennings Bryan’s public letter by comparing Bryan’s platform with those of the current administration and of William H. Taft’s campaign. Roosevelt lists the cases that have been brought against the trusts, the railroads, and the shippers under his administration. He explains his actions in relation to the panic of 1907, outlines the reasons the trust magnates will support Bryan, and defends his actions related to campaign funding. Roosevelt critiques Bryan’s defense of Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathan Haskell by reiterating the extent of his corruption, and determines that it reflects directly on Bryan.
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1908-09-27
President Roosevelt thanks Columbia University President Butler for alerting him to a particularly disagreeable plank in the Nebraska Republican Party’s platform. Roosevelt believes these ideas are “the worst type of Jeffersonism.”
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1907-09-27
President Roosevelt disagrees with the Nebraska Republican Party’s platform, as he believes the restrictions it proposes placing on the federal judiciary would be tantamount to eliminating the federal government. The resolution is as bad as secession, even if it was well-intentioned. He does not want Senator Burkett to publish his letter and bring greater attention to the matter, but he may share it with leaders of the convention as needed.
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1907-09-27
President Roosevelt returns the enclosures to Secretary of War Taft and agrees that George W. Goethals’ plan seems best. Taft’s speech is admirable, and Roosevelt hopes the Republican Party will choose Taft.
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1907-08-19
President Roosevelt tells Speaker of the House Cannon what he said to Representative James E. Watson in his letter to him last year, and stresses he was “speaking for the Republican Party and for the Republican majority in Congress.” Roosevelt hopes the House of Representatives will soon pass a bill addressing railway employees and limiting their hours of employment.
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1907-01-16
Benjamin Ide Wheeler sends a lengthy excerpt from a letter written by Professor Mezes, a Democrat living in Texas. Mezes states the South will change its allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party due to changes President Roosevelt has made in the Republican Party.
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1904-12-07
Elihu Root urges President Roosevelt to make tariff revision the first priority of his term. Root wants a special session of Congress to be convened immediately following the inauguration. Root is worried that the Republican Party will be considered incapable if the legislation is not passed before the next election cycle in 1908.
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1904-11-16
Two birds who are drawn as President Roosevelt, holding a “big stick,” and William Jennings Bryan stand on a “platform.”
At the time of this cartoon’s publication, the Brooklyn Eagle had two political cartoonists, William K. Starrett and Nelson Harding. The former withdrew in favor of Harding, and drew for several papers in New York State and Philadelphia before entering the comic-strip field; Harding remained for two decades with the Eagle, winning two Pulitzer Prizes before leaving for Hearst’s New York Journal.
Alton B. Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis operate a “St. Louis platform” handcar as a “Republican express” locomotive with President Roosevelt’s face on the front advances toward them.
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1904-10-29
President Roosevelt writes that he will accept the Republican nomination for president and goes on to discuss the Republican party platform and his goals for the presidency.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904-09-12
Republican ticket and platform for the state of Nevada.
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1902-09-27
Platform of the American Federal Party of Porto Rico which was adopted in July 1902.
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1902-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit about the results of the 1912 presidential election and the future of the Progressive Party. He says he is content to never be involved in politics again.
1912-11-05
Senator Knox’s views on Alton B. Parker and the Democratic Party platform are discussed and generally praised. Knox’s point that Parker’s advocacy of the gold standard is actually a testament to a Republican achievement and is an affront to many Democrats who support William Jennings Bryan is particularly commended.
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1904-07-15
Article describes the Progressive and Democrat party platforms, and William H. Taft.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1912-09-17
Benjamin Ide Wheeler sends news from the Republican National Convention; including how Senator Fairbanks won the vice-presidential nomination, the resolution of a matter surrounding the Wisconsin delegation, and Wheeler’s opinion on the party platform.
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1904-06-22
Theodore Roosevelt stands at center, beaming, with several supporters (Elihu Root, Thomas Collier Platt, William H. Taft, Charles W. Fairbanks, Joseph Benson Foraker, and J. S. Sherman) and a bunch of hands pointing toward him. Caption: The sum and substance of the Republican platform.
In mid-term years of administrations in these days, state political parties often “endorsed” the president and his policies; or, of course, if out of the White House, would nod to the most recent positions of the parties. In 1903, Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio embarrassed his in-party Ohio rival Marcus Hanna by drafting an extreme, not generic, endorsement of President Roosevelt and actually promoted his renomination.