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Harmony rules Iowa convention

Harmony rules Iowa convention

The article reports that the Iowa Republican convention was largely harmonious, with a contentious “shelter to monopoly” plank removed from the platform. Although Governor Albert Baird Cummins did not get all of his supporters onto the resolutions committee, the convention was mostly free from conflict.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-02

Why not the Supreme Court?

Why not the Supreme Court?

Charles Emory Smith editorializes that the European powers’ insistence on the United States arbritrating their dispute with Venezuela might be solved by having a United States Supreme Court justice serve as arbitrator. This would have the advantages of having American issues arbitrated by Americans (rather than Europeans, were the Hague Tribunal to be involved); keeping the judicial and executive actions of the United States separate; and allowing for succession to another justice if the negotiations were protracted beyond the term or life of the one named (succession being a concern if President Roosevelt were named).

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-24

Letter from Archibald McNichol Stevenson to William Loeb

Letter from Archibald McNichol Stevenson to William Loeb

Archibald McNichol Stevenson believes that D. B. Fairley’s letter to President Roosevelt about the appointment of Joseph W. Milsom as chief melter at the United States mint is evidence of Fairley’s bad faith toward Stevenson. Fairley had agreed to arrange the appointment of Iliff instead, but did not do that. Stevenson believes that no one can disprove the claims he has made about Milsom’s campaign money.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-08-05

Long says Roosevelt

Long says Roosevelt

John Davis Long expects President Roosevelt to receive the Republican nomination in 1904 and to be reelected. He believes third term sentiment will be a disadvantage for Grover Cleveland, who would lose a general election to Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-13

Summary of letter from F. Norton Goddard

Summary of letter from F. Norton Goddard

F. Norton Goddard provides insight into New York politics. He believes that Senator Thomas Collier Platt is false to President Roosevelt. Goddard has not been taken into the confidence of Governor Benjamin B. Odell. He does not believe that Mayor Seth Low can be reelected and should not be renominated.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-24

Letter from Donald McDonald Dickinson to George B. Cortelyou

Letter from Donald McDonald Dickinson to George B. Cortelyou

Donald McDonald Dickinson offers his opinion on the prospects for President Roosevelt’s administration and the attacks being made on him. Although popular sentiment is with Roosevelt, the organization is likely to oppose him in strength at the next election, and the time to begin preparing for that fight is now. The Booker T. Washington incident and his speech at Arlington hurt him. If Roosevelt could make some statement this fall about his desire to find a solution for the negro problem, it might assuage those in the South who were offended. Dickinson also urges that Abram S. Hewitt and others with large investment interests be made advisers to the president.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-07-11