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Several Democratic Party leaders ride on a train together, including August Belmont, Patrick Henry McCarren, David B. Hill, Charles Francis Murphy, Henry Gassaway Davis, Thomas Taggart, William F. Sheehan, and William Jennings Bryan. Alton B. Parker wears several bandages, including a “$50,000 law job from Belmont” around his head and a “Solid South” bandage on his hand.
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1904-11-09
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt appreciated C. P. Connolly’s letter about his article. He agrees that it is ridiculous to condemn an entire class of people based on the misdeeds of a few. He cites examples of his working with people from various backgrounds as an assemblyman in New York. As Civil Service Commissioner, he equally supports Catholics and Protestants.
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1894-04-11
President Roosevelt thanks Donald McDonald Dickinson for the letter. Roosevelt expresses his disappointment with Judge Alton B. Parker during the recent political campaign, and says that while his personal relations with Parker have been friendly, the attacks on National Republican Committee Chairman George B. Cortelyou have made Roosevelt indignant. He feels that Parker is hypocritical for making a public show that “he was ‘advised’ that no corporations had contributed to his campaign” while personally retaining close political connections to prominent businessmen.
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1904-11-07
President Roosevelt praises Senator Knox’s statement about Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker, and encourages him to expand his remarks into a speech. Roosevelt offers suggestions on how Knox might address the issue, showing that there was no wrongdoing by Roosevelt or George B. Cortelyou, and attacking Parker in turn for his hypocrisy regarding the men who are his most prominent backers.
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1904-11-02
President Roosevelt sends Senator Lodge copies of letters between himself and Augustus Peabody Gardner, and says that while he is willing to have the letter be published, he thinks it should wait until after the election. He is looking forward to being finished with his current political campaign, and remarks on some of the rumors that have been circulating, as well as polling figures for several states. Roosevelt was recently injured while riding his horse, but was able to avoid mention of it in the press.
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1904-10-31
President Roosevelt is sorry to hear that Senator Lodge has been feeling unwell and tells him that he liked his article in the North American. He asks if Lodge noticed that William F. Sheehan’s article, while nominally about Democratic presidential candidate Alton B. Parker, is actually about Roosevelt himself.
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1904-09-05
President Roosevelt is frustrated at the newspapers for condemning the Republicans for their view on sound money. The Democrats’ candidate is boasting that he has supported the cause of free silver in the last two elections. Roosevelt believes that his campaign has no apology to make.
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1904-07-11
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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1904-11-19
Ernest Harvier updates Theodore Roosevelt on New York politics. Recent up-state elections show a Republican lead. Tammany Hall arranged with the Republicans to defeat the upstate Democratic insurgents. This division in the Democratic party brings a new element to the presidential election. Harvier recently spoke with the Mayor of New York City, William Jay Gaynor, about the political situation.
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1911-11-11
Joseph K. Van Denburg asks Theodore Roosevelt to denounce the proposed decrease in salary for male teachers in New York in his upcoming address. Van Denburg believes this proposition to be disastrous for male teachers in New York.
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1911-05-09
State senator Franklin D. Roosevelt discusses the current election for United States Senator from New York. Matters remain deadlocked, but he believes that ultimately William F. Sheehan will be defeated.
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1911-02-03
Willard A. Marakle asks Theodore Roosevelt to attend and speak at the Rochester News Writers’ Club’s “Roastfest,” as a personal favor and to endear him with the newspapermen.
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1911-01-28
A “messenger” brings a message for “the boss” but does not know to whom to give it. Victor Dowling, Thomas Taggart, De Lancey Nicoll, William F. Sheehan, George B. McClellan, and David B. Hill hold out their hands for the message.
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1904-08-30
Uncle Sam reads Alton B. Parker’s telegram to William F. Sheehan about the gold standard and looks at Parker’s votes for William Jennings Bryan in the ballot boxes of 1896 and 1900.
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1904-08-13
Alton B. Parker with a head shaped like a sphinx holds a telegram to William F. Sheehan in which he discusses the gold standard.
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1904-08-12
A Democratic donkey carries “the trusts,” August Belmont, David B. Hill, and Alton B. Parker. “The trusts” pull the Tammany tiger along. Caption: In his time he has carried heavy loads, but this is the worst he ever got under.
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1904-07-25
Uncle Sam looks disapprovingly at August Belmont who holds a money bag. On the wall is a telegram to William Francis Sheehan from Alton B. Parker about the gold standard.
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1904-07-24
Alton B. Parker leads a number of men out of the “populism” wilderness while William Jennings Bryan is stuck on one of the cliffs. The men include, South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, Arthur P. Gorman, William Francis Sheehan, Mississippi Representative John Sharp Williams, and Joseph W. Bailey. “High Priest Cleveland” points them forward.
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1904-07
A Republican elephant laughs as it watches a Democratic donkey read a letter from William Francis Sheehan in St. Louis, Missouri. Caption: O wad some power the giftie gie us,/To see oursels as others see us!/It wad frae monie a blunder free us,/And foolish notion!
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1904-07-17
A number of men stand around an ailing mule with two brands: “W. J. B. 1900” and “W. J. B. 1896.” Alton B. Parker tries to feed the mule “Parker golden corn” and ponders, “I wonder will he swallow this?” William Francis Sheehan has a telegram, August Belmont holds “clippers,” William Bourke Cockran has “ginger,” David B. Hill holds a “whip,” and Patrick Henry McCarren holds a “knife.” Henry Gassaway Davis comes running toward the mule and says, “I’ve got the remedy.” The train at the “Esopus Station” has smoke that reads, “from West Virginia.”
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1904-07-17