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President Roosevelt wants to investigate the political activity in the Porter-Wadsworth district, including all its postmasters. He asks Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou for suggestions about who should conduct the investigation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-27
President Roosevelt sends Secretary Cortelyou information about John A. Merritt, who is causing trouble for Representative Peter A. Porter in his district. Roosevelt asks Cortelyou to contact Merritt about the matter. In a postscript, Roosevelt asks Cortelyou to contact Archie Dovell Sanders as well, to convince him to stop causing trouble in the election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-11
President Roosevelt’s information suggests that the charges against John A. Merritt and Archie Dovell Sanders do not warrant their removal, but he will let James Wolcott Wadsworth know if anything suggests otherwise. He congratulates Wadsworth on his work in the last election. He also assures Wadsworth that he does not take the charges and insinuations against him seriously, but that he cannot appear that he is championing people who oppose Governor Charles Evans Hughes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-09
President Roosevelt provides Richard Henry Dana with his thoughts and details on the case surrounding Archie Dovell Sanders, a New York civil servant who refuses to stop his political activity while in office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-02
Senator Lodge asks President Roosevelt to wait to take action regarding Merritt and Saunders until he can speak to him about the political conditions in Lockport.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-07
Ex-Mayor of Batavia, New York, Harvey J. Burkhart advises William Loeb to immediately formulate a plan to elect Roosevelt supporting delegates to the Republican National Convention. Burkhart warns that the same forces keeping Archie Dovell Sanders in office as the Collector of Internal Revenue are “interfering in post office matters” with Assemblyman James Wadsworth supporting them. Burkhart will help President Roosevelt in any way possible and offers to meet with Loeb to speak with him about the matter if he feels he cannot write about the issue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-15
James Wolcott Wadsworth sends his opinion to President Roosevelt regarding the political situation in Western New York State. Wadsworth reports that in order to avoid bitterness there in the wake of the incident with Archie Dovell Sanders, Assemblyman Jesse S. Phillips should be appointed in Sanders’ place rather than Harvey J. Burkhart.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-29
New York Superintendent of Public Works Stevens attempts to explain a misunderstanding that has arisen over his having urged that President Roosevelt quickly name a replacement for former Collector of Internal Revenue at Rochester, Archie Dovell Sanders. Sanders’s resignation had been requested several days before Stevens wrote, and it was not therefore Sanders’s removal that Stevens was seeking but the filling of his place. Stevens regrets if he caused Roosevelt any embarrassment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-25
New York Superintendent of Public Works Stevens informs William Loeb that a good nominee to become the new county treasurer of Genesee County, New York, has been found, and he might be supported by New York State Senator Samuel P. Hooker and Assemblyman Fred B. Parker if Archie Dovell Sanders were removed as Collector of Internal Revenue at Rochester, New York, and someone else nominated to replace him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-17