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Governor Curry was misquoted during his trip to Washington, D.C. He said nothing about a potential third term for President Roosevelt but stated that the New Mexico delegation to the Republican National Convention will likely be instructed to support the Roosevelt administration and policies.
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1907-12-01
H. C. Plumley warns President Roosevelt that there are politicians in North Dakota who will oppose his nomination for president in 1904. The majority of the Republican Party in North Dakota support Roosevelt.
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1901-11-19
Isaac Melson Meekins is a supporter of President Roosevelt and has enjoyed Roosevelt’s contributions to the American Statesmen Series. At the next Republican National Convention, Meekins promises that the first congressional district of North Carolina will cast two votes for Roosevelt.
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1901-10-19
Newspaper article supporting a statement from President Roosevelt that he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1904 unless he has an endorsement from the people.
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1901
President Roosevelt has announced that he will accept the 1904 Republican presidential nomination but will not cater to any “political clique” in order to secure the nomination. Roosevelt has also stated, regarding his upcoming decision to fill the position of Collector of Internal Revenue, that he will choose the best men for public positions.
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1901-10
M. V. Hemperley supports President Roosevelt but he warns that many Republicans did not want Roosevelt to be vice president and will support other Republican presidential candidates for the next election.
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1901-10-12
Booker T. Washington reports what he knows about a certain person and his political convictions. He notes that the party voted for John M. Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buckner of the National Democratic Party in 1896, but entered the Democratic primaries in 1900 to help defeat the nomination of William Jennings Bryan. Washington suggests their friends be advised to appoint a Montgomery man to represent the “best class of white people” and to appoint William Demos Crum as internal revenue collector for South Carolina, representing the “best class of colored.”
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1901-10-04
The friends of potential western presidential candidates are beginning to say that the 1904 nomination is open. John A. Sleicher believes this is natural and stresses the importance of the New York appointments for President Roosevelt.
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1901-10-01
Robert Chisolm is concerned about the state of the Republican Party in the South and believes that President Roosevelt can improve the situation. However, Chisolm has heard that Roosevelt is considering not being a presidential candidate after he has completed William McKinley’s term. Such a decision is too early. Roosevelt can help matters in the South and should only appoint Republicans to government positions.
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1901-09-22
James A. Metcalf understands Vice President Roosevelt’s position and inability to appoint his father, Festus Robinson Metcalf, as deputy internal revenue collector. Metcalf encloses some editorials from The Red Lodge Picket and will be supporting Roosevelt as the Republican presidential nominee in 1904.
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1901-08-31
Paul Morton recommends that Vice President Roosevelt keep a potential 1904 presidential campaign in the background. Roosevelt should have no antagonisms and no entangling alliances. Morton is prepared to help the campaign when the time is right.
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1901-09-02
George W. Clark has not met one man who does not favor Vice President Roosevelt’s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1904. Clark claims that Democrats and Republicans will support Roosevelt in the West and Southwest.
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1901-09-05
John Luchsinger views Vice President Roosevelt as the overwhelming favorite for the 1904 Republican presidential nomination and the logical successor of President McKinley.
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1901-09-05
Murat Halstead urges Governor Roosevelt to accept the probable nomination for the vice presidency as a vehicle to run for the office of president in the future, pointing out that Daniel Webster missed being president twice by refusing to accept a nomination as vice president for William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. Halstead thinks that Roosevelt should spend the next four years as vice president while working on his writing career and then run for president.
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1900-06-01
Frederick William Holls asked two things of Governor Roosevelt. First, he wants Roosevelt to attend a lunch in honor of Lord Pauncefote at Columbia University. Second, to meet him privately to discuss the upcoming party convention in Philadelphia and the nomination process. Several names have been presented and Holls thinks that although John Long is the best candidate, he would lose Maryland for the Republicans, and repel Germans because of his views on temperance.
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1900-06-02
Transcript of speeches at the Democratic National Convention by August Belmont, chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Governor Horatio Seymour, president of the convention; and William Bigler, temporary chairman of the convention.
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1864-08-29