Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932

William Wickham Smith reports a guilty verdict in the trial of the Rosenthal Japanese silk case.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-25

Joseph William Blythe has been asked to take charge of the Roosevelt campaign in the Western states. Blythe would need to give up his connections to the Burlington system and the Hill railroad interests.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-01

Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf received William Loeb’s letter with Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw’s letter to President Roosevelt. He will ensure that part of Edwin Walter Sims’ report about the Revenue-Cutter Service is withheld from publication.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-26

This color postcard features text from the proclamation issued by President Roosevelt announcing the celebration of the Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition in 1907. The postcard also features portraits of Roosevelt and six other politicians involved with the event.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1905-03-29

President Roosevelt assures Senator Allison that Mr. Wilson has been a valuable asset and will be kept in his position. He is very pleased that Governor Shaw decided to accept the position of Secretary of the Treasury.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-26

Composite photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt seated at his desk with Cabinet members superimposed near him. The members are identified as (left to right): Taft, Wilson, Straus, Root, Hitchcock, Cortelyou, Bonaparte, Metcalf and Shaw.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906

Composite photograph of Cabinet members superimposed on a photograph of President Roosevelt’s private office in the executive building. Group with, left to right: George B. Cortelyou, Philander C. Knox, Henry C. Payne, William H. Moody, John Hay, President Roosevelt, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Elihu Root, Leslie M. Shaw, and James Wilson.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-11-19

President Roosevelt briefly speaks at a banquet in Dubuque, Iowa. He discusses his opinions of Iowa’s representatives in Congress, Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, and Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-02

President Roosevelt speaks to the citizens of Denison, Iowa, about the recent natural disasters in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Georgia. He also discusses the need for integrity in the administration of the law and in public officials.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-02

A white cat wearing a bow labeled “Nomination” is being courted by other cats who represent potential candidates in the upcoming presidential election. Two other cats peer over walls in the background. Those depicted are Philander C. Knox, Leslie M. Shaw, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles W. Fairbanks, William H. Taft, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Joseph Benson Foraker, and George B. Cortelyou. In the background are Timothy L. Woodruff and Albert J. Beveridge.

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Comments and Context

As the mid-summer Republican presidential nominating convention drew closer, Puck magazine seemed ever more determined to start a cat-fight between politicians who might otherwise have harbored White House ambitions. But President Roosevelt, having disclaimed interest in succeeding himself in 1908 — and wanting at all costs to secure the nomination for Secretary of War William H. Taft, and avert intraparty squabbles — managed to frustrate any potential rivals to Taft.

President Roosevelt will have Arthur Hamilton Lee announce that Roosevelt has confidence in Ambassador Reid. Roosevelt also shares his opinions about the latest work by the Wards and Shaw.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1906-10-28

The “Tariff Reform” ship is mired in a sea of ice, around which are many glaciers in the shape of the heads of Joseph Gurney Cannon, Leslie M. Shaw, Nelson W. Aldrich, and Joseph Benson Foraker. Other glaciers are labeled “Trust” and “Monopoly.” The “Philippine Free Trade” ship has wrecked on a large block of ice labeled “Protected Trust” and only the hull remains. Survivors from “Tariff Reform” drag a sled labeled “Mass. Revisionists” up a mountain labeled “Stand Pat,” toward a rainbow labeled “Fair Trade.”

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Comments and Context

One cartoon can pack a lot of history and details of a vital historical controversy. In this case, cartoonist J. S. Pughe addressed the progress of (or challenges to) tariff reform, which had been a burning political issue for more than a generation in the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Charles W. Fairbanks, and Leslie M. Shaw all wear dresses for a ball. Roosevelt has selected Taft as the “best belle of the ball” – the best candidate for the Republican Party in the 1908 presidential election.

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Comments and Context

If his physical characteristics had not provided fodder for cartoonists, William H. Taft might have been lost to history. That is strictly not true, of course; his impressive resume, important achievements in the Roosevelt Administration, and — up to the date of this cartoon by L. M. Glackens — the favor of the president assured his presence in cartoons. After that, caricaturists were merely having fun at his expanse.

A woman labeled “Wall Street” appears as a nursery rhyme figure, possibly Little Bo Peep, pulling petals off a paper flower that are labeled “Tight Money” and “Easy Money” as she says “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.” The center of the flower shows a medallion that states “In Shaw We Trust,” but with a line drawn through “Shaw.” The woman’s bodice is labeled “Stock Exchange.” George B. Cortelyou, dressed as an Elizabethan suitor, is looking over her shoulder.

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Comments and Context

George B. Cortelyou was an unsung hero — or at least, a little-referenced figure — in both administrations of President Roosevelt. He is one of those assistants who served in several offices, undertaking many challenges, and of enormous assistance to presidents — including, prior to Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley — behind the scenes.

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has reviewed the case of John C. Lynch, Collector of Internal Revenue at San Francisco, and believes that the only objections are political but it might be advisable to turn the case over to the Civil Service Commission. Shaw would also like to travel to New York to review matters concerning the “big ships” if this does not interfere with President Roosevelt’s plans.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-06

Frederick William Holls offers his opinion on improving methods of baggage handling for incoming European passengers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-12

William H. Lincoln, president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, criticizes Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw for his conduct at a hearing at the Boston Custom House. Lincoln believes that the release bond system is lawful and that something more then a statement from Shaw is required to dispose of a system that has been in place for twenty years.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-01

Newspaper clipping with two articles, “Corporations and Campaign Funds” and “Panama Canal Situation,” from the Wall Street Journal. The first article argues that corporate campaign donations are evil as a law of business. The Panama article suggests that Senate and Colombian opposition to the Panama treaty will eventually diminish leading to recognition for the Republic of Panama and an agreement for an American canal across the isthmus.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-06

Richard Bartholdt writes to Theodore Roosevelt about the Republican State Committee meeting in Missouri, at which time Roosevelt received the members’ endorsement. Bartholdt also discusses a proposed change of appraiser in St. Louis.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-11

Boston merchants are prepared to cooperate with the new customhouse system instituted by Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. After a brief trial, they believe the system will ensure the prompt delivery of goods.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-14