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President Roosevelt sends Secretary Cortelyou information about John A. Merritt, who is causing trouble for Representative Peter A. Porter in his district. Roosevelt asks Cortelyou to contact Merritt about the matter. In a postscript, Roosevelt asks Cortelyou to contact Archie Dovell Sanders as well, to convince him to stop causing trouble in the election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-11
New York Republican State Committee Chairman Woodruff counters William Loeb’s suggestion that John A. Merritt visit President Roosevelt in mid-October, stating that it will be too late for Merritt and James Wolcott Wadsworth to influence political matters this fall in order to strengthen their position in the spring when the National Convention delegates are elected. Their success would ensure the elected delegates support Roosevelt. Woodruff believes Roosevelt and Loeb should meet Merritt and especially Wadsworth, as he is an independent man of means who can aid the cause.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-26
President Roosevelt asks Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Keep to intercede with New York Representative Peter A. Porter and Frederick C. Stevens, New York Superintendent of Public Works. Roosevelt knows Keep is aware of New York Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth’s bad behavior in “legislative matters” and believes Wadsworth’s own son Jim could instill wisdom onto him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-20
President Roosevelt has received a letter from Thomas Welch recommending Peter Porter as postmaster of Niagara Falls, New York. Roosevelt favors the appointment of Porter but will take no action without Congressman Wadsworth’s consent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-09
Ex-Mayor of Batavia, New York, Harvey J. Burkhart advises William Loeb to immediately formulate a plan to elect Roosevelt supporting delegates to the Republican National Convention. Burkhart warns that the same forces keeping Archie Dovell Sanders in office as the Collector of Internal Revenue are “interfering in post office matters” with Assemblyman James Wadsworth supporting them. Burkhart will help President Roosevelt in any way possible and offers to meet with Loeb to speak with him about the matter if he feels he cannot write about the issue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-15
New York Superintendent of Public Works Stevens attempts to explain a misunderstanding that has arisen over his having urged that President Roosevelt quickly name a replacement for former Collector of Internal Revenue at Rochester, Archie Dovell Sanders. Sanders’s resignation had been requested several days before Stevens wrote, and it was not therefore Sanders’s removal that Stevens was seeking but the filling of his place. Stevens regrets if he caused Roosevelt any embarrassment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-25
Henry F. Tarbox writes to President Roosevelt about the election of Congressional representatives from his district. Tarbox hopes that Roosevelt will not express a preference for James W. Wadsworth, as Tarbox and his associates prefer Peter A. Porter. (Porter would go on to be elected that year.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-10
William Austin Wadsworth sends President Roosevelt information on a friend of his, who comes with strong endorsements from Bell Weston Burton and S. Schofield. Wadsworth asks Roosevelt to tell Edith Roosevelt that he rode her favorite horse yesterday and thought of her. Wadsworth reports that James Wolcott Wadsworth, his representative in Congress, is sure of reelection, and does not care what his opponent Peter A. Porter does. Representative Wadsworth has said that the Honorable George Aldrich believes James Goold Cutler, the mayor of Rochester, can be elected governor and later become president. Wadsworth encloses a picture of Katherine Coolidge with Eleanora Randolph Sears.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-08
New York Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth is said to be planning his candidacy for Congress again next year. The details of his plan to regain his seat through “pulling wires” in the Republican Party and “handicapping” Representative Peter A. Porter are given.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-05