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Representative Parsons returns the letter from New York City Police Commissioner Theo. A. Bingham. Prentice and George Cromwell have been to see Bingham, and everything is proceeding favorably. Alderman James Cowden Meyers visited the Mayor, and Parsons thinks that rumors of fraud will not amount to much.
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1906-09-14
Congressman Parsons returns Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman’s letter, and he hopes William Loeb will show it to President Roosevelt. Parsons believes that William Randolph Hearst will get the Democrat nomination for New York Governor, as there are not many supporters for William Jerome Travers. Several politicians have alerted Parsons that their constituencies would support Charles Evans Hughes as the Republican nominee, but Parsons is wary of a man with so little political experience and is afraid that his election could provide an opportunity for Benjamin B. Odell to gain a stronger hold on state politics.
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1906-09-06
Charles William Anderson informs William Lobe that the New York Age, a prominent black newspaper, is supporting Benjamin B. Odell and Lemuel Ely Quigg. Anderson also notes that Odell and Quigg aim to challenge Anderson’s membership to the Republican State Committee in New York.
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1906-08-31
Charles William Anderson writes to William Loeb about the meeting of the Republican State Committee in New York. Anderson disputes a report that Chairman of the Committee Benjamin B. Odell had intended to question Anderson’s right to vote in the Committee. Anderson suggests that a future meeting between President Roosevelt and New York Representative Herbert Parsons will “clear up the atmosphere” concerning rumored indifference on the part of Roosevelt toward Parsons.
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1906-08-30
William W. Cocks has written to Truman Handy Newberry about appointing William Perry to the Naval Collier service. Cocks saw William Barnes yesterday and discussed the situation in New York City. Cocks hopes William Loeb will help Representative Herbert Parsons over Lemuel Ely Quigg. Cocks also believes it necessary to support Governor Frank Wayland Higgins, since indifference on the part of President Roosevelt will be construed by Republican State Chairman Benjamin B. Odell’s people as opposition to Higgins.
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1906-08-24
Representative Parsons informs President Roosevelt that Charles Evans Hughes is reluctant to accept the Republican nomination for Governor of New York, but that he could be convinced to do so if there was unanimous demand and it was agreed that he was the only candidate who could beat William Randolph Hearst. The incumbent Republican Governor Frank Wayland Higgins has become so unpopular among members of his own party and the press that it seems advisable to replace him, but Higgins still might be able to win if the Democrats nominate William Travers Jerome instead of Hearst, thus making the governorship a three-way race between Hearst, Jerome, and Higgins.
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1906-08-17
Former New York representative Rowland B. Mahany writes to President Roosevelt regarding the appointment of William Loeb as chairman of the state committee.
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1906-01-17
Mr. Hill and Mr. Simpson, state chairmen of the Republican party in Maine, were pleased by how Chairman Cortelyou received them in New York, and at a recent meeting of the State Committee, a “much more hopeful feeling was shown.” Secretary Hale believes the Republicans will do well in Maine in September.
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1904-08-12
At the direction of the chairman of the Republican State Committee, James G. Graham requests that certain places in the Custom House credited to John Stiebling be vacated and the appointments given to Jacob A. Newstead.
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1904-08-04
Jacob Gould Schurman has been invited by Governor Benjamin B. Odell to be chairman of the New York State Republican Committee. Schurman extends his best wishes for Theodore Roosevelt’s success in the upcoming presidential election. He expresses the hope that Roosevelt does not support a permanent colonial policy in the Philippines.
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1904-05-10
After having lunch with President Roosevelt at the White House, former New York governor Frank Swett Black reports that Roosevelt is certain to win the delegates from New York. The article also discusses the potential of Black becoming the newest U.S. Senator from New York.
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1904-02-06
Jacob Sloat Fassett encloses a copy of resolutions he introduced at the New York State Committee meeting. He informs President Roosevelt that Harry M. Glen will be interviewing him soon. Fassett will be writing Secretary of State Hay concerning the recent Russian takeover of American mines.
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1904-02-29
Chairman of the New York State Republican committee Benjamin B. Odell will inform Frederick William Holls about the meeting in Yonkers. Governor Roosevelt plans to send a letter to Lemuel Ely Quigg about the possibility of Roosevelt and Holls being speakers at the Cooper Union meeting.
1898-10-11
Lafayette B. Gleason of the New York State Republican Committee would like Attorney General Knox to speak at a meeting at Burlin’s Academy.
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1902-10-23
The New York Republican State Committee has received President Roosevelt’s contribution of $500.
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1902-10-22
Attorney General Davies wants to know if Postmaster Nelson E. Ransom can also serve on the New York Republican State Committee. He hopes to be the Republican nominee for justice of the New York Supreme Court.
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1902-09-16
Benjamin B. Odell, Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee, informs Governor Roosevelt that he has just returned from six weeks abroad, saying that travel makes one a better Republican. Odell will be in Manhattan soon, and he invites Roosevelt to join him and a senator for dinner.
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1899-08-08