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Assistant Secretary of War Sanger believes that Bernard Moses could be removed from the Philippine Commission and that Dean C. Worcester may soon leave to enter into business.
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1902-08-19
Secretary of State Hay is willing to help raise funds in New York but suggests several other prominent Republicans who he believes would be more effective. Hay understands that there are factional quarrels in several states but he believes that President Roosevelt’s popularity will overcome any opposition.
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1902-08-21
White House telegrapher Benjamin F. Montgomery forwards a telegram from Acting Secretary of War William Cary Sanger to President Roosevelt, regarding a request from General Nelson Appleton Miles for permission to travel to the Philippines. Roosevelt had first denied such permission, but later, on consultation with Henry Clark Corbin, granted it. Sanger subsequently became aware that Secretary of War Elihu Root had let it be known that he opposes granting permission. Miles has been notified that a final decision will be held until further notice. Sanger awaits the direction of Root and Roosevelt.
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1902-08-25
Frederick Norton Goddard discusses New York politics. He believes that Attorney General Philander C. Knox and Secretary of War Elihu Root are damaging the reputation of the Roosevelt administration.
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1902-08-12
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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1902-07-11
Secretary of State Hay forwards material pertaining to a dispute between Brazil and Bolivia.
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1902-07-11
Secretary of State Hay would like President Roosevelt’s assistance in convincing Secretary of War Elihu Root to take a vacation.
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1902-07-12
Josephine Shaw Lowell plans to help Miss Taylor bring her case before the courts because her removal sets a dangerous precedent against freedom of speech.
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1902-07-12
The Catholics of Grand Rapids are upset over the treatment of their fellow Catholics in the Philippines.
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1902-07-13
Nicholas Murray Butler commends President Roosevelt for his Arlington speech and has heard a speech from Elihu Root that he believes would have “settled the Philippine question forever.”
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1902-06-06
F. W. Hoppin is a candidate for a position of supervising architect for some work to be done at West Point. He asks whether he could approach President Roosevelt with propriety, to support his nomination with Secretary of War Elihu Root who will make the selection.
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1902-06-09
Senator Lodge wants to send Mr. McDonald President Roosevelt’s letters – the first to Secretary of War Elihu Root, and the second responding to Lodge’s request on McDonald’s behalf – before McDonald writes to inquire the outcome of the request.
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1902-06-04
Henry Cabot Lodge appeals to President Roosevelt to assist in getting MacDonald an appointment in the army. MacDonald has been a captain and has commanded a battalion, and he has conducted himself honorably despite having been “cruelly slandered” by O’Brien.
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1902-05-28
Charles D. Walcott believes he has found a site for the Carnegie Institution and is looking over the site with Secretary of War Elihu Root in the afternoon. Root, Secretary of State John Hay, and Carroll D. Wright all think highly of the site. The Board of Trustees will need to approve a final site.
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1902-05-07
Newspaper article supporting the Roosevelt administration’s actions regarding “charges of inhuman conduct” in the Philippines.
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1902-04-16
Joseph Bucklin Bishop thought President Roosevelt would like to see the enclosed item that he wrote to help Elihu Root and William H. Taft.
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1902-05-13
At the request of Secretary of War Elihu Root, Adjutant General of the Army Henry Clark Corbin encloses letters from General Adna Romanza Chaffee and General J. Franklin Bell, which Root and Corbin believe President Roosevelt will enjoy reading. Corbin asks that the letters be returned.
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1902-05-07
Governor General Taft encloses a passage from a personal letter to Secretary of War Elihu Root that pertains to the Philippines. Taft sent a letter to several individuals on the Taft Commission stating that the United States had no “dollars interest” in the islands, and the recipients agreed that it was the truth.
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1902-04-26
Political cartoon featuring military and government officials attempting to avoid blame for the Samar campaign during the Philippine American War. President Roosevelt holds up General Jacob H. Smith’s order to Major Litttleton Waller Tazewell Waller to “Kill every one over ten years.” Smith, Waller, General Adna Romanza Chaffee, Secretary of War Root, and Lieutenant John H. A. Day stand in a circle while looking at the order and pointing at each other.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Newspaper article on the reaction to atrocities in the Philippines being carried out by American soldiers. The article questions whether a military inquiry will suffice and suggests that Secretary of War Elihu Root may need to resign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-16