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According to Governor Odell, New York will send an instructed Roosevelt delegation to the Republican National Convention. Odell has worked several weeks “harmonizing” party differences.
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1904-01-25
Governor Odell expects the delegates-at-large from the state convention and the delegates from the Congress conventions to support President Roosevelt.
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1904-01-25
Richard Wilson Knott plans to follow Kentucky Republican John Watson Yerkes in hoping to secure a delegation to the Republican National Convention in support of President Roosevelt.
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1904-01-26
Senator Lodge encloses a note from Massachusetts Governor John Lewis Bates regarding his district delegates to the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-27
Augustus Everett Willson discusses Commissioner of Internal Revenue John Watson Yerkes’s wish to be both a member of the Republican National Committee and a Kentucky delegate-at-large for the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-27
Otto Gresham tells all of the Illinois candidates to “declare” for Roosevelt.
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1904-01-28
Benjamin J. Davis suggests that Theodore Roosevelt may want to reconsider allowing federal office holders to nominate Roosevelt at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Davis states the Democratic Party may use the nomination as a weapon against Roosevelt’s campaign.
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1904-01-18
Paul Morton sees news of railroad executives supporting Mark Hanna and growing support for Hearst as advantageous to President Roosevelt. He asks to be a delegate at the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-18
Prominent Kentucky Republicans will be meeting to discuss how to secure the Kentucky delegation to the Republican National Convention for President Roosevelt and ensure John Watson Yerkes’s reelection as national committeeman.
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1904-01-22
William O’Connell Bradley writes that numerous delegates in Kentucky are supporting Mark Hanna, while claiming to support President Roosevelt. Bradley has sent four letters concerning post offices and has enclosed newspaper clippings.
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1904-01-20
Lunsford L. Lewis consults President Roosevelt about whether he should attend the Republican National Convention as a Virginia delegate. If he were to do so, he would resign as district attorney. He believes that the president’s interests are better served by his remaining in his position and not becoming a delegate. Lewis also discusses the possible replacement of the current Chairman of the Republican State Committee, Park Agnew, Collector of Internal Revenue, with a non-officeholder.
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1904-01-21
John H. Mitchell asks President Roosevelt to encourage newspaper editor Harvey W. Scott to do what he can to prevent former Oregon U.S. Senator Joseph Simon from gaining control of the Oregon delegation at the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-12
Joel Prescott Heatwole, owner of Northfield News, will not be a candidate for office or a delegate to the national convention.
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1904-01-16
Powell Clayton reports of strong support for Senator Hanna in Arkansas. Clayton speculates that the trusts are working to block Roosevelt’s nomination. He encloses a letter from Secretary Hitchcock to a land officer concerning federal office holders’ involvement in political matters. Clayton resents this “political emasculation” of land officers and believes they have been unjustly singled out, which is probably the work of Mr. Foreman.
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1904-01-15
The New York political situation is favorable to Theodore Roosevelt, with Mark Hanna losing support. Winthrop Murray Crane recommends former New York Governor Frank Swett Black as temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-15
Marshal Johnson writes to President Roosevelt that friends have urged Register of the Treasury Lyons, Collector of Internal Revenue Henry A. Rucker, Henry Lincoln Johnson and Johnson to serve as Georgia’s delegates at the Republican National Convention. This means that Harry Stillwell Edwards could be defeated. To avoid this, Johnson suggests that William Loeb send Rucker a letter asking him to withdraw in order to preserve harmony in the party.
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1904-01-16
The newly organized “The Roosevelt Club of Santa Fe, N. M.” plans to organize clubs “all over the Territory” to ensure a Roosevelt Delegation at the upcoming Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-16
The unknown author claims that the “anti-Roosevelt scare in Minnesota” was created by Governor Van Sant so that he would be the biggest name in the Minnesota delegation to the Republican National Convention. Van Sant wanted to be viewed as the only trustworthy Roosevelt supporter in the state and cast doubt on the pro-Roosevelt credentials of other prominent Minnesotans.
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1904-01-20
Inquiries of Governor Van Sant’s friends could not substantiate reports that Van Sant was interested in attending the Republican National Convention as a delegate at large. It is unknown if the senators are also interested in being delegates as is customary.
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1904-01-20
A. D. James encloses clippings that have been sent to him and others in Kentucky. James assures President Roosevelt that Kentucky Republicans endorse him, and that he will send a delegation for his renomination.
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1904-01-11