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Theodore Roosevelt explains the comments he made regarding General Pershing’s orders to prohibit alcohol. Temperance leadership had taken the comments out of context and attributed others to Roosevelt that were never made. Roosevelt ends by reporting on the health of Archie Roosevelt’s newborn son.
1918-03-08
President Roosevelt is concerned about what Walter Wellman said in his letter. William H. Taft is facing a “conspiracy of circumstances” in certain states. “Ultra prohibitionists” and “ultra liquor men” are uniting against him, and “avowed enemies of all religions” are uniting with religious zealots to defeat him. Roosevelt hopes that Wellman likes Roosevelt’s two letters on labor. He did not want to be “mealy-mouthed” about Samuel Gompers. Roosevelt believes that both Taft and Charles Evans Hughes will win in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-21
John B. Martin praises Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership and work to improve the civic health of the country, but wonders why he does not take a stronger stance against liquor and for prohibition. Martin describes his own experience working in politics as a prohibitionist candidate, and believes that if Roosevelt agreed to run for president as a prohibitionist, he would be very successful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-14
After disagreeing with Seth Low on the content of an upcoming speech, Police Commissioner Roosevelt writes to John Jay Chapman to inform him that it is best that he cancel Roosevelt’s scheduled appearance. Roosevelt also describes his reasoning for retracting his support of the Good Government Clubs in the present campaign.
1895-10-21