Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

President Roosevelt wishes for Nicholas Murray Butler to visit and concurs that William J. Calhoun is worthy of esteem. Roosevelt comments at length on an article in Collier’s Weekly, one he assumes was written by Norman Hapgood, and desires Butler to “know the exact facts.” On careful reading, Roosevelt believes the article was written with malicious intent due to its numerous falsehoods regarding the construction projects at the Capitol and the White House, the hiring of the architects completing these jobs, appointments of others to government posts, and other matters. In his explanation, Roosevelt makes analogies to many political situations, past and present.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-03

According to notation on the first page this letter was not sent. President Roosevelt believes that Carl Schurz has performed great service to the country, but he has more recently represented “undesirable tendencies and principles.” Roosevelt has kind feelings for Schurz but he will not work to secure a “signal honor” for him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-15

President Roosevelt agrees with Owen Wister’s thoughts. Roosevelt is grateful to the American people even though he has had a great deal of work as president. Roosevelt notes his cabinet has been a huge support to him and is glad he owed the election to “Abraham Lincoln’s ‘plain people.'” The president expresses his frustration with certain journalists and newspapers who criticize Roosevelt about having too close of a connection with “the wicked” but who ignored Alton B. Parker’s “hand-in-glove intimacy” with James J. Hill, William F. Sheehan, and Thomas Taggart. Roosevelt acknowledges he has made mistakes, but many of the criticisms leveled at him are due to ignorance.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-19

President Roosevelt thanks James Sullivan Clarkson for sending Carl Schurz’s article.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-24

Mark Sullivan praises the speech President Roosevelt gave at the Abraham Lincoln celebration in Kentucky. Professor Abbott of the New York Law School thought it one of the three best pieces ever written about Lincoln. Sullivan includes two newspaper clippings that also praise Roosevelt’s speech.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-15

Andrew Dickson White discusses the political turmoil in Russia and the problems Russians cause in the United States and abroad. White thinks it wise that Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine, has avoided involvement with Maxim Gorky, and he wishes that Mark Twain and William Dean Howells had done the same.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-18

Joseph Bucklin Bishop discusses his reaction to President Roosevelt’s correspondence with Carl Schurz. Schurz has been challenging Roosevelt consistently, since the time of the Spanish American War up to the last campaign. According to Bishop, Roosevelt has always had the argument on his side.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-04

Senator Lodge confirms that he will visit President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, New York. He wishes that Choate would accept the post of ambassador to Japan, but given his age, the president has done well to get him for Morocco. Lodge was pleased with the president’s letter to Schurz.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-17

Elbert F. Baldwin writes to President Roosevelt regarding a prospective replacement for Lloyd Carpenter Griscom as ambassador in Tokyo. The prospect taking this position after having held a higher one would be like Roosevelt becoming Mayor of New York on leaving the presidency – a possibility Baldwin would welcome. Baldwin appreciates having been able to review Roosevelt’s correspondence with Carl Schurz regarding the war between Japan and Russia, and he hopes to be able to publish it some day. He also asks permission to publish a comment by Roosevelt that the Navy does not need more ships or personnel.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-12

Albert V. De Roode, assistant secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League, informs Civil Service Commissioner Cooley that Carl Schurz believes Judge Alton B. Parker “would strongly support civil service reform in his letter of acceptance.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-10

Secretary of State Hay encloses a letter from Edwin V. Morgan. He laments what “a dotard” Carl Schurz has become and gives his opinion about the type of person who would vote for William Jennings Bryan.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-27

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

In a letter to James Ford Rhodes, President Roosevelt asserts that the South was in the wrong on every issue in the American Civil War, and argues for the buildup of the Navy to avert war. Roosevelt also believes that there exists a serious movement to reestablish slavery in the Southern states in the form of peonage, and he criticizes various politicians and intellectuals in the North for either supporting the South or being ineffective in their criticism of it. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1904-11-29

In a speech given shortly after Theodore Roosevelt’s death, George Haven Putnam discusses his friendship with Roosevelt, and he highlights aspects of his character, leadership ability, and episodes from his political career. Putnam details Roosevelt’s role in the 1884 presidential contest, his dispute with the Postmaster General during his time as a Civil Service Commissioner, and examines the effort to secure the election of Charles Evans Hughes as Governor of New York in 1908.

A photograph of Roosevelt in 1905 appears on the first page of the speech. A listing of the members of the executive committee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) supplements the piece along with a text box with the heading ” A Membership Honor Roll” that lists members of the TRA who have enrolled in three premium membership categories.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Roger A. Fischer examines the emergence of Theodore Roosevelt as a subject for political cartoonists in the years 1883-1884. Fischer highlights Roosevelt’s battles with the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City and his role at the 1884 Republican National Convention. Fischer argues that Roosevelt received a lot of attention because he was from New York City where the major magazines of the time had their offices.

The article features seven cartoons depicting Roosevelt and others, and it also includes a listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association along with the members of its executive committee.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

James Sullivan Clarkson encloses an article about the “negro question” by Carl Schurz, which he highly praises and is also sending to Booker T. Washington.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-23

President Roosevelt encloses Senator George Frisbie Hoar’s letter. Roosevelt has asked Hoar to let him know if there is anything against Oliver Wendell Holmes or any reason why anyone else should be named to the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt is choosing to ignore the “foolish letter” of Carl Schurz, Charles Francis Adams, and Herbert Welsh, but would like to make anti-imperialism a major issue in the congressional campaigns, because it gives the Republicans an advantage over the Democrats. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt notes that there has been a “ferocious Catholic” outbreak against William H. Taft, Governor-General of the Philippines, on behalf of the friars.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-07-30

Arthur von Briesen suggests that both the German and the U.S. government recognize the 75th birthday of U.S. politician and German immigrant Carl Schurz.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-13

“Dr. Schurz” holding a large carving knife and sharpening tool, “Dr. Grace,” and “Dr. Parkhurst” holding a saw examine a sick tiger labeled “Tammany.” A medicine case in the foreground contains a drill, pincers, and a bottle of “Giant Powder – Reform Brand.” Caption: Cut him up into small pieces; – don’t let any of his nine lives get away!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-11-06