Presidential candidates

Frank Haverty says the people of New York credit President Roosevelt with forcing the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes for the Republican Party, whom decent Democrats could support. He fears, however, that the proposed New York speaking tour of Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of War William H. Taft, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, and Senator Albert J. Beveridge, among others, will cause thousands of Democrats to vote for William Randolph Hearst or to not vote at all.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-10

Attorney General Moody received Secretary of War Taft’s letter forwarding one from Governor Edward Wallis Hoch regarding the appointment of Judge J. T. Dickerson to the District Court. Moody thinks President Roosevelt will not take this matter up until at or before statehood is consummated. Moody further offers Taft a few considerations regarding the appointment of a judge to the United States Supreme Court to fill Judge Henry Billings Brown’s vacancy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-27

John Campbell Greenway feels the country is prospering under President Roosevelt’s administration, with corporations earning plenty of money despite Roosevelt’s “attacks” on them. Greenway wants Roosevelt to run for president in 1907 because the people want him to and because he thinks William Jennings Bryan will give the next candidate a tight rub.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-08

Charles W. Fairbanks relays information, which he believes is satisfactory, regarding the election to President Roosevelt. He believes that Alton B. Parker is rapidly losing ground and that Roosevelt should win in New York by a large margin.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-23

Charles J. Bonaparte agrees to write an article for McClure’s Magazine, most likely referring to a short article about President Roosevelt as a presidential candidate, which would be published alongside an article written by Grover Cleveland about Judge Parker. He found the letter that President Roosevelt enclosed interesting and amusing, although he feels it would not be suitable for publication without the consent of the author. Bonaparte encloses a clipping to demonstrate that part of his letter to Charles Francis Adams has been published.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-18

Ansley Wilcox considers himself an Independent politically, although he has been more in accord with the Republican Party than the Democrats, except for the tariff issue. Although he supports President Roosevelt and Senator Fairbanks in the present campaign, Wilcox is glad that the Democrats “have nominated so able and safe a man as Judge Parker.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-16

Lincoln Steffens would like Secretary of State John Hay to write an article about President Roosevelt for McClure’s Magazine since they plan to publish two short articles on the presidential candidates. Steffens informs Roosevelt that Grover Cleveland has agreed to write an article about Judge Alton B. Parker. Steffens claims that they have been teaching their readers that the fundamental issue of American domestic policies is representative democracy.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-10

Edwin R. A. Seligman congratulates President Roosevelt on his nomination. Seligman believes that Roosevelt’s actions during the revolution in Panama were justified and wise. Although he signed a petition supporting the independence of the Philippines, Seligman is mainly concerned with avoiding exploitation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-11

Political cartoon postcard featuring Theodore Roosevelt emerging from the tall grass with a gun labeled “1912”. President William H. Taft attempts to give Roosevelt a baby labeled “Roosevelt Policies,” stating, “You’re just in time, take back your kid ouch!” as the baby pulls his hair. The White House is in the background.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1910-1912

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-06

Creator(s)

Unknown

Language

English

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt, dressed as a child, eating from a jam jar reading “second term” while reaching for a jam jar reading “third term” as President William H. Taft, Elihu Root, and Senator Winthrop Murray Crane stand by waiting.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-1912

Peter S. Prescott, book review critic for Newsweek magazine, argues that given the troubled state of the nation in 1979, the candidate most likely to succeed in the upcoming 1980 election would be Theodore Roosevelt. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1979

In a letter to Alexander Pollock Moore, editor of The Pittsburg Leader, Theodore Roosevelt clearly states that his friends will see that “no movement whatever is made to bring me forward for the nomination in 1912.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-21

There is a secret, extensive campaign in Washington for Taft’s reelection. Charles D. Hilles, secretary to the President, and George C. Rankin, a national bank receiver, have sent numerous confidential letters with enclosures inquiring about Taft’s popular sentiment, which the article reprints. Rankin responded that his letters “were entirely a personal matter.” Hilles declined to admit authorship of the letters attributed to him

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-13

Charles E. Merriam’s “‘progressive republican’ movement” is actually “anti-Taft propaganda” through which he intends to prevent Illinois from supporting President William H. Taft at the next Republican national convention. Merriam and his committee, comprised of eleven “influential moneyed friends,” will meet to choose a candidate. Potential candidates include Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Robert M. La Follette.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-18

An editorial from the Jewish Morning Journal considers the divergences in the wings of the political parties and the differences between politics in the East and West.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-25

The Transcript reports that President William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt have been in communication, and Taft has commissioned William Loeb to secure the support of New York for his nomination in 1912. It is important to note that Roosevelt approves of this commission as Loeb would not undertake any political movement contrary to Roosevelt’s wishes. This action clearly removes Roosevelt from the list of presidential candidates. The article discusses the mid-term elections and its effects on presidential reelection.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-30

The Democratic State Central Committee of Arkansas rejected the proposition for a presidential primary. J. H. Harrod, president of the Woodrow Wilson Club, submitted resolutions to have candidate names put on the ticket but withdrew it after Senator James P. Clarke and the majority opposed it. Harrod believes Wilson is the only candidate who can defeat Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-04

David B. Hill, August Belmont, and Grover Cleveland coax Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker, whose hands are tied behind his back, toward the “Speakers Stand,” where Uncle Sam stands waiting. Cleveland has a “Speech for Parker” tucked in his back pocket.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-04

In this letter to the editor of The Globe and Commercial Advertiser, the writer discusses the challenge facing the Democratic Party in developing a platform and putting forth a candidate that can win the presidential election against Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-24