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Letter from Anna Roosevelt Cowles to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Anna Roosevelt Cowles to Theodore Roosevelt

Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad President Roosevelt is at Sagamore and done with all of the hand shaking. Her husband William S. Cowles was home for the Fourth of July but has returned to Washington, D.C. Cowles recommends to her brother the volume Heretics by G. K. Chesterton. The Chinese minister mentioned while visiting that he plans to give suffrage to land owners based on a conversation he had with Roosevelt. Cowles’s son William Sheffield Cowles Jr. has been homebound much of the summer to avoid catching the whooping cough which is being passed around children in town, although he is canoeing, playing tennis, and vegetable gardening. The Chinese minister and Cowles both agree that horses are preferable to automobiles, as she is “in deadly terror of running into some one.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-08

Judge Parker on the Fourteenth Amendment

Judge Parker on the Fourteenth Amendment

Judge Alton B. Parker, the Democratic nominee for the presidency, gave a speech about the Fourteenth Amendment which neglected to address the political consequences surrounding suffrage and discrimination. Rather, Parker focused on whether or not the Supreme Court would void legislation that aimed to “fetter and degrade State Governments.” The writers of the article point out that the second section of the amendment allows Congress to make laws ensuring equal protection for black and white voters.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-08

The purpose of the agitators

The purpose of the agitators

Newspaper article suggesting that the goal of disenfranchising African Americans is to remove them as a powerful voting bloc in northern states. Without these northern votes, southern politicians will be able to elect the president and control all national legislation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06