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Theodore Roosevelt thinks zoologist William T. Hornaday’s advice about “crowding” President Woodrow Wilson is sound. After Roosevelt’s article appears in the Metropolitan he will avoid “slashing” him.
1916-04-04
Despite the efforts of Senator Fairbanks, Indiana Republicans support President Roosevelt for the 1904 Republican presidential nomination.
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1902-10-11
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop to ask if Bishop or Colonel George W. Goethals need him to insist upon anything on their behalf. Roosevelt also discusses William H. Taft’s presidency.
1913-03-11
Jacob Gould Schurman and his family have settled in their summer home but he is at President Roosevelt’s disposal as needed. The approval of Roosevelt in the area has not diminished, and the public’s faith in Roosevelt in regards to the trusts and the Philippines is well placed. Schurman goes on to say that while Roosevelt has made mistakes as President, his record is impressive and well appreciated by the nation.
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1902-07-18
Whitelaw Reid informs President Roosevelt that he heard a member of the discontented “Morgan crowd” express strong support for Roosevelt over dinner. Reid agrees with the State Department’s move about China.
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1904-02-09
Mayor Rhett is frustrated with newspapers writing harmful articles “built up on conjecture.” Rhett hopes to discuss the issue with President Roosevelt, though it is likely that he is already aware of this problem.
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1904-02-01
Joseph R. Leeson expresses admiration to Senator Lodge for President Roosevelt’s course of action during “unusually trying and difficult occurrences of the past year.” It is his feeling that the general public is pleased with the president’s action and he asks Lodge to convey that to Roosevelt.
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1904-02-02
Thomas R. Lounsbury is having success with a petition in support of President Roosevelt.
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1904-01-23
Henry Clews assures President Roosevelt that the majority of those in Wall Street support him. Clews believes that even if Roosevelt has antagonized a few of the capitalists, that will only serve to make him more popular with the masses because to them it means the “same antagonism as labor vs. capital.”
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1904-01-19
Thomas R. Lounsbury wants President Roosevelt to know that the petition from Yale University transmitted by Senator Hoar does not reflect the general sentiment of the university.
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1904-01-14
Senator Platt includes an excerpt from a letter he received from a prominent New York banker. The banker believes that businessmen in New York and the West fear Roosevelt’s “erratic method,” and that therefore Roosevelt would not succeed in winning the presidency if running against a “normal Democrat.”
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1904-01-07
James Bronson Reynolds is concerned whether or not President Roosevelt will be able to carry New York in the fall. He advises addressing the lack of office space for letter carriers in the New York Post Office. Reynolds offers to share the findings of his upcoming visit to Chisinau (Kishinev), Russia, and Romania where he will look into the condition of Romanian Jews.
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1903-12-31
Horace Porter expresses his support for President Roosevelt and hopes for his election in 1904.
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1903
Edward F. Hurd, secretary of the Akron, Ohio, chapter of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, writes to President Roosevelt concerning the William A. Miller case and organized labor’s reaction to Roosevelt’s decision concerning the case.
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1904-01-02
An unknown author discusses the animosity towards President Roosevelt over his appointments of Negroes in civil service positions. There is also mention of The Montgomery Evening Times support of Roosevelt and his appointments.
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1903-12-15
Douglas Robinson will not be attending Broadway Improvement Company’s meeting as every time he makes a suggestion it is voted down by the Roosevelt contingent. He encloses a note from Floyd B. Hurt which he believes is a “typical letter of a Virginia Democrat.” He asks if Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt received the gloves he sent her. He reports that his son, Stewart Douglas Robinson, will arrive on Saturday and that Corrine Roosevelt Robinson is feeling better.
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1903-12-24
Oregon state Senator Brownell telegraphs Senator Mitchell that all 72 Republicans in the Oregon state Senate supported Brownell’s resolution endorsing President Roosevelt and his administration.
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1903-12-21
Maurice Francis Egan was asked by Walter George Smith to send a copy of Smith’s book about his soldier and diplomat father, The Life and Letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, to President Roosevelt. Egan reminds Roosevelt that he had promised to send a letter from Philippine Commissioner James Francis Smith. Egan also remarks that the Cardinal extends his “admiration and respect” to Roosevelt.
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1903-12-15
President Roosevelt’s determination to hire civil service workers based on merits rather than political motivation has alienated the party machine and lost him support in the South. In particular, Roosevelt’s focus on civil service reform has led to the removal of many unqualified party machine appointees, including many African American workers. These same actions, however, have won Roosevelt support elsewhere, and no one is likely to oppose him successfully for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1904.
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1903-12-18
James Jeffrey Roche plans to be in Washington, D.C., in January or February. Though he could not join President Roosevelt in California, everyone he spoke with along the coast admired the president. Roche hopes that Roosevelt will see William Butler Yeats when he visits Washington, D.C. Roche encloses a Boston Pilot article from eight years ago to show that he was “among the first of the prophets.”
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1903-12-04