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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Lawrence Godkin for publishing Dr. White’s statement. Roosevelt states the German American propaganda reflected poorly on President Wilson’s administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-09-01
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in starting some sort of propaganda to promote a Swiss-style military system in the United States, and would like to discuss it with William Cary Sanger. He proposes having lunch with Sanger on Sunday, November 29.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-23
Gifford Pinchot is “puzzled” over what is to be done in terms of U.S. politics. He would like to visit Theodore Roosevelt as soon as he returns from Europe. When he returns, Pinchot will also discourse “peace for peace’s sake” with Germany.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-05-05
John A. Sleicher discusses the upcoming New York gubernatorial election, telling President Roosevelt that “the tide is still running strongly” toward Charles Evans Hughes, but William Randolph Hearst plans to “flood the rural districts with money.” Sleicher also informs Roosevelt that Hearst’s editor Arthur Brisbane does not want Hearst elected to the governorship, because he believes Hearst should “devote himself to his propaganda for the elevation of the masses.” Sleicher still does not believe that Hughes will be defeated. He also notes that he is glad Secretary of State Elihu Root will speak in New York and that former Governor Frank Swett Black is involved, and he hopes Secretary of War William H. Taft will also be able to speak.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-17
Ambassador Meyer reports that the conference at Peterhof, presided over by Czar Nicholas II, went well. One speech indicated that the Romanov dynasty would be overthrown in revolution unless there were reforms. Reformers fear that peace may delay reforms and revolutionaries have been distributing literature to the peasants.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-09
An article in the Canton paper encourages Chinese merchants to stop buying American products, and they should sell the American products they have already bought.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-22
The plan is to hold a meeting, create a society, and advocate the boycott of American goods until the Exclusion Treaty is no longer enforced and America repeals the Exclusion law.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-24
This article outlines the proceedings of the meeting held in China for the “Society for devising means to retaliate the vexatious Exclusion Treaty by boycotting American goods.” It describes the society’s rules and plans, one of which is to publish the names of businesses who do sell American goods in order to scorn them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-24
Ambassador Anderson describes an anti-American act to the flag at the American Consul in Amoy, China, as a result of the movement to boycott American goods. Anderson describes the meetings, leadership, and overall agitation in detail as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-25
The two-page handbill includes “Camp Satire on Wilson,” a reprint of an article originally written for The Evening Post. The article describes the posting of a “bitter political satire on President Woodrow Wilson” on a military training camp bulletin board. The satirical placard apparently included Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and other prominent political figures as characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The second page of the handbill is a dramatis personae, listing the characters and the political figure used to represent them in the satire.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1916-09-16
Theodore Roosevelt informs Moreton Frewen that he feels very strongly about the “German business,” but that the rest of the United States does not agree with his stance. Roosevelt tells Frewen that he will read his article with great interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-06-01
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune newspaper, types headlines that appear on ticker tape that is being read by a stalwart Republican. The headlines include: “The Country on the Brink of Hopeless Disaster, Dem. Congress Behaving like Wild Horses, The Business Situation Growing Worse – All Owing to the Dem, Democratic Juggling with the Finances of the Country, Division in the Democratic Ranks, Democratic Pandering of the Goldbugs of Wall Street, [and] Dem. Panic.” Caption: Nothing is too improbable for the fanatic Republican to swallow, if he gets it from the Tribune.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-10-11