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Theodore Roosevelt encloses notes concerning Oscar S. Straus and his suspected arrangement of a trade agreement. Roosevelt explains that Straus exercised not the slightest influence on the agreement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-03
Theodore Roosevelt has asked E. Mont Reily to travel to Texas and work with Cecil Andrew Lyon on the state’s campaign. Roosevelt hopes that Senator Dixon can arrange to pay Reily’s expenses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-29
The letter’s author laments Cecil Andrew Lyon’s relapse “into bed again,” a fact they heard from Frank Knox. The author asks Lyon to respond with “a line as to the situation in Texas” and explains that they asked E. Mont Reily to aid Lyon’s campaign. The letter is a fragment; its subsequent pages are missing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt requests that Senator Dixon contact E. Mont Reily, a strong supporter of the Roosevelt campaign who has been doing good work in the Kansas City area. He suggests that Reily could be used effectively in a speaking tour of New England.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-05
Vice President Roosevelt shares his opinions about Senators Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Matthew Stanley Quay, Thomas Collier Platt, and George W. Dunn. His main supporters are farmers, upper class mechanics, small businessmen, and others who oppose populism.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-27
Former Kansas City Treasurer J. Scott Harrison has requested to join the Roosevelt Club led by E. Mont Reily. Although Harrison is a traveling auditor for the United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia, he still considers himself a resident of Kansas City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
A Roosevelt club composed of African Americans, the 1904 Colored Roosevelt Club No. 4, has been formed with around 100 members. E. Mont Reily, the founder of the first Roosevelt club, presented the new club with a constitution and bylaws.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-28
Theodore Roosevelt met with E. Mont Reily because he had William Rockhill Nelson’s letter. The Kansas City Post has been unfriendly towards Roosevelt but Nelson’s Kansas City Star has been supportive. Roosevelt invites William Loeb to spend the night on Tuesday.
1910-08-05
David Webster Flanagan reports to President Roosevelt on the political situation in Texas. He feels confident in predicting that the state convention will be called early in favor of Roosevelt. Flanagan does predict that there may be some difficulty from the Eighth Congressional District, because one of the possible delegates is discontented at not being reappointed Postmaster, but he hopes to be able to muster a unified delegation from Texas who are all enthusiastically in favor for Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-23
Guy W. Lodwick, Assistant Secretary of the Roosevelt Club, encloses a pamphlet written by the Club’s president, E. Mont Reily.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-03
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary requests Senator Dixon’s opinion on the suggestion that Roosevelt write personal letters eliciting the support of officers of the Railroad Trainmen’s Union. He also encloses a letter from E. Mont Reily regarding the situation in Texas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-01
Senator Foraker encloses a letter from Emmet Montgomery Reily of Kansas City, Missouri, as a sample of the mail he has been receiving. Foraker responded to Reily that his club would help assure success.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-20
William Allen White thanks President Roosevelt for introducing him to several different politicians, particularly Joe Harris. White states Harris is a good man, but is fixated on Mr. Kerns and his belief that his friend, William Warner, is now working with Kerns. White complains that Senator Hanna has treated Missouri like a southern state which is preventing the Republican Party from winning in Missouri. He suggests that local control of federal patronage should be established.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-29
J. S. Welch encloses an article by E. Mont Reily which appeared in the Missouri State Republican and was subsequently picked up by the Kansas City Star and other papers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-12
William Allen White will be traveling to Washington, D.C., in a few days and would like to help Max Yingling leave the army. He will also be visiting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York. White will be meeting with E. Mont Reily to “straighten out” his efforts at starting Roosevelt clubs across Kansas. He recommends avoiding David Winfield Mulvane until the truth of an ugly story can be investigated.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-31
William Allen White received a letter from E. Mont Reily who is distressed that Kansans are not responding to his Roosevelt clubs. White plans to “straighten him out” with a visit on his way to Washington, D.C. He requests a letter of introduction to Comptroller of the Currency Charles Gates Dawes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-04