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Booker T. Washington sends William Loeb a press clipping from a local paper to let President Roosevelt see how the people of Greensboro, Alabama, perceive the character of the recent appointee for postmaster.
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1905-02-21
Judge Thomas Goode Jones sends William Loeb a report of a grand jury from Huntsville, Alabama, and hopes that he will show it to President Roosevelt at some point when he is not working. Jones comments that “the great mass of the people are right,” and that although the jury was made up of different political parties, they were unanimous in denouncing the actions of the mob.
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1904-10-25
Joseph Bucklin Bishop observes that Gregor was surely an omen (presumably Gregory Perdicaris, whose son Ion had recently been freed by Moroccan kidnappers after President Roosevelt intervened). Bishop is more certain than ever that the country is with the President.
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1904-06-07
Daniel Edgar Sickles observes a “change of sentiment” in the financial sector toward President Roosevelt’s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. He attributes the change to Elihu Root’s comments concerning Roosevelt’s policy regarding trusts. Sickles believes that Roosevelt will prevail in the upcoming election.
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1904-05-06
Gifford B. Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot’s son and only child, challenges assertions made by Stephen R. Fox in an article, “Gifford Pinchot and His Place in the American Conservation Movement,” that appeared in the Summer, 1987 issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Gifford B. Pinchot argues that Fox’s claims that Gifford Pinchot had no original ideas and that his works were written by others does not withstand scrutiny. Gifford B. Pinchot cites his father’s invention of fishing gear and says that he had a secretary and research assistant, but that he did his own writing. Fox responds by writing that Gifford Pinchot did not produce his own writing when he was working as the nation’s chief forester, and he quotes the historian Samuel P. Hays who says that Pinchot did a lot of damage to the conservation movement.
Three photographs of Gifford Pinchot fly fishing illustrate the exchange of letters.
Charles Freeman Johnson, Acting Secretary of the People’s National Legal Ethics Society, asks Theodore Roosevelt to consider an enclosed letter which has been sent to each of the Supreme Court Justices as being addressed to him as well. The society is trying to gather broad popular support for the impartial enforcement of laws.
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1911
Pamphlet addressing comments and criticisms about Edgar Chambless’s book Roadtown, and the idea it proposes of building a linear town. The pamphlet lists criticism from prominent figures, as well as prominent supporters of the idea.
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1911-07-17
I. K. Russell writes to Theodore Roosevelt to ask if he would be willing to write a letter commenting on the charges that, while president, he was part of a “corrupt alliance” with the Mormon church in Utah. Russell hopes to publicize Roosevelt’s response to show once and for all that there was no such alliance, as well as to help improve the public perception of the Mormon church, which has been slandered by a number of sources.
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1911-02-14
A “beef trust” bull chases a man out of the arena. A hat and a piece of clothing labeled “the public” are on each of his horns. President Roosevelt and Attorney General Philander C. Knox watch from the “U.S. Attorney General” stable.
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1904-03-24
“The naughty trust” has a “Hanna for president” life preserver tied to his back. “The public” stands in the shadows and holds up a shoe.
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1904-01
Edwin S. Conway, vice-president of the W. W. Kimball Co., reflects on exposures of graft and corruption that have recently happened in the United States, his view of great industrial trusts and their effect on morality, and how to improve conditions in the country.
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1906-06-30
This newspaper article discusses Andrew Dickson White’s criticism of President Roosevelt’s appeal to save a murderer in Canada. White believes criminals should be exterminated.
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1904-12-11
The author of this article challenges people who criticize President Roosevelt for sharing a table with Booker T. Washington to show that Washington was unfit to do so. Washington, according to the author, is a man of tremendous ability, and if he cannot share a table with the president, then there is no one else in the nation who is qualified to.
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1904-10-23
This French printing of Secretary of State Elihu Root’s presidential address before the second annual meeting of the American Society of International Law discusses the basis for international law. Like municipal law, international law is best enforced by the sanction of public opinion, as expressed in individual opinions in the nations. Root suggests that the best way to promote international law is to promote public support of international law in lieu of creating armies and navies.
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1908-07
Most members of the House of Commons seem to want to consider the recent matter of an exchange of letter between Edward Marjoribanks, Baron Tweedmouth, and German Emperor William II as finished. No one was quite satisfied with the outcome, but the general feeling was that the issue had been blown out of proportion and that it would be better to accept the assurances of acting Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and Baron Tweedmouth.
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1908-03-10
German Emperor William II feels that the British press has treated his letter to Edward Marjoribanks, Baron Tweedmouth, very unjustly. He resents the implication that he would try to influence British naval policy, but feels that relations between Germany and Great Britain are undisturbed by the recent furor over the letters.
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1908-03-10
Daily Telegraph reporters comment on opinions from Brussels, Belgium, and Paris, France, regarding the recent exchange of letters between Baron Tweedmouth, Edward Marjoribanks, and German Emperor William II. Opinions from both countries seem to think that the fervor over the incident was blown out of proportion, and that tensions between England and Germany regarding the English Navy are high.
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1908-03-10
This excerpt from Guglielmo Ferrero’s work Greatness and Decline of Rome describes an episode in which Catiline is standing as a candidate for the Consulship, and courts popularity by making promises to the crowd. Ferrero compares Catiline, in this, to William Jennings Bryan advocating the silver standard.
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1908-02-20
An article in the Glasgow Herald written in support of President Roosevelt seeking a third term in office. The author assesses the potential for several possible nominees in the event Roosevelt does not seek nomination and concludes that Secretary of War William H. Taft (the article inaccurately refers to him as the Secretary of State) is the most viable alternate candidate. Still, the author is confident that Roosevelt will be chosen as the Republican nominee.
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1907-09
Theodore Roosevelt responds to Colonel Robert W. Leonard about a statement regarding President Wilson.
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1916-04-26