Politicians--Public opinion

Alvan F. Sherrill comments on recent addresses by William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson at Atlanta Theological Seminary, and compares the size of the crowds they drew. While Bryan’s audience was lacking, Wilson generated a great deal of interest. Sherill believes that if Wilson gets the democratic nomination for president, Roosevelt may be the only one able to contest him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-23

Cabot A. Yerxa, postmaster at Sierra Madre, California, praises Theodore Roosevelt as being the personification of the principles of a “square deal,” and says that this makes him the “idol of the Western people” of the United States.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-23

Joseph L. Murphey, a former resident of New York, welcomes Theodore Roosevelt to California, and provides him with some details about the political situation in the state. Murphy greatly approves of Governor Hiram Johnson as a progressive, and believes the state legislature as a whole is good. Similarly, Los Angeles has “one of the best city governments perhaps in the world,” although he looks negatively on San Francisco’s municipal government. President William H. Taft only has middling support in the state, as most Republicans are Progressive.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-20

John L. Patterson is a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, and tells him of a portrait of Roosevelt that he has hung in his office. He voted for Roosevelt in the past and hopes to be able to do so again in the future.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-20

Creator(s)

Patterson, John L., 1842-

John E. Griffin tells Theodore Roosevelt that his train will stop for fifteen minutes, and that many citizens–including public school students–will be waiting at the depot to see him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-15

Charles H. Goffe sends Theodore Roosevelt some poems that were written several years ago, and which were previously sent to him while he was a candidate for Governor of New York. Goffe believes they still “express the esteem and admiration in which [Roosevelt] is held” by many people in the South.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-11

William E. Cunningham expresses his admiration for Theodore Roosevelt and recalls meeting him while he was president. Cunningham comments that he was removed from his former political position because his contribution to the campaign of William H. Taft was “not satisfactory,” and believes his replacement to be a corrupt agent of the railroads. He reiterates his support for Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-09

Lowell M. Gates feel that the entire nation is watching New York because of the recent events which saw both parties voting for corrupt or discredited politicians. Gates wishes that the honorable people of both parties could work together to elect honest men, both at the state and federal level.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-05

Creator(s)

Gates, Lowell M. (Lowell Mason), 1852-1938

Frederick Klinger hopes to have a chance to greet Theodore Roosevelt when he travels through Washington. Klinger previously lived in New York City when Roosevelt was beginning his political career, and takes pride in having helped Roosevelt to his early positions.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-05

Evanette F. Osborn has carefully read Theodore Roosevelt’s speeches, and frequently is inspired to wish that she was thirty instead of eighty in order to be able to join in his cause. Her old age, however, emboldens her to admonish Roosevelt’s recent overuse of the phrase “as regards” in his addresses.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-06

George W. Oster writes to Theodore Roosevelt with the hope of inviting him to attend the Granger’s Picnic of Bedford County, Pennsylvania. They expect large crowds to gather, and would be delighted to have Theodore Roosevelt address them, as the county gave Roosevelt “an overwhelming majority for President.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-06

Creator(s)

Oster, George W. (George William), 1860-1924

D. Rush Wood is annoyed by the “schemers and tricksters” opposing Theodore Roosevelt and his policies. Roosevelt remains popular with the public and Wood believes he will once again serve as president.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-06

Albert Halstead, United States Consul in Birmingham, England, tells Theodore Roosevelt of a recent sermon preached by Reverend John Henry Jowett in which Jowett described Roosevelt “as a man not unworthy of being placed next to John the Baptist in his zeal for national righteousness.” Jowett will visit the United States soon, following “a call to a great New York church.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-02

Louise P. Jewell’s mother, Mary Almeda Pond, asked her to send a newspaper clipping to Theodore Roosevelt reflecting how he is viewed in the south, which Jewell now does.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-03

Alban W. Purcell, a veteran of the Civil War, tells Theodore Roosevelt that he and many other soldiers voted both for Abraham Lincoln and for Roosevelt. He conveys their admiration for Roosevelt, and praises the example Roosevelt has given in many different arenas. Many veterans believe that war may be coming again.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-04

Henry Beach Needham strongly praises Theodore Roosevelt’s editing of a recent article which gave “a great deal of ‘punch’ to the story” and which he feels will be very influential. Needham recently spoke with several people after seeing Roosevelt, all of whom believe that Roosevelt retains strong support from the common people.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-01

J. A. Grant considers Theodore Roosevelt’s life as valuable to both the United States and the world as a whole, and offers to provide him with medical advice to keep him in the best of health. Grant encloses a form for Roosevelt to fill out, and cites his experience of helping J. Pierpont Morgan as a means of convincing Roosevelt of the efficacy of his advice.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-16

Adelia W. Newell encloses a clip from the Woman’s National Daily in which the author praises Theodore Roosevelt’s work. She hopes that it makes him glad to know that people support him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-13

E. Nathan expresses admiration for Theodore Roosevelt’s tireless work and invites him to visit Rome sometime this year.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-13

Isabel W. Niles wants Theodore Roosevelt to know there are many people who admire and have unlimited confidence in him, despite the results of the recent elections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01