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Thomas A. Fulton of the Citizens Union of the City of New York requests that President Roosevelt influence Robert Fulton Cutting to agree to be a candidate for mayor of New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-16
Eugene A. Philbin is willing to be the anti-Tammany candidate for mayor of New York, New York, and has stated that he would not serve as district attorney again. Several of Philbin’s friends have been working towards his nomination for several months.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-10
William S. Van Keuren requests a small donation from Vice President Roosevelt to help him get back on his feet. He campaigned so hard last year that his health was ruined. Van Keuren is also in the process of starting a weekly anti-Tammany newspaper but lacks the funds to have the first issue printed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-23
Frank Moss is enthusiastic about the New York State Legislature amending the law to prevent the possible privatization of New York’s water supply. He believes the legislature should act quickly, capitalizing on public sentiment which is “deeply disgusted with Tammany.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-09-08
Thomas Roberts Slicer writes about developments in two fraud cases, one dealing with an attempt to pack the Grand Jury list and the other pertaining to election fraud in the Ninth District.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-10-06
Rudyard Kipling writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asking him to meet with his friend Sidney Low, editor of the London Gazette, when he visits the United States in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-21
Henry Cabot Lodge discusses the impact on the Republican and Democratic parties of the debate over the gold vs. silver standard. He also considers the level of support in various regions of the nation for several likely presidential candidates. Lodge responds to Theodore Roosevelt’s critique of Representative Thomas B. Reed for not speaking out firmly enough in support of the gold standard when he cast a vote on legislation dealing with gold bonds. Lodge asks Roosevelt to “straighten out” George W. Smalley, the American correspondent of the London Times and a personal friend and promoter of Roosevelt’s, on the true American sentiment regarding the Monroe Doctrine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1895-08-10
Vice presidential candidate Thomas E. Watson writes Police Commissioner Roosevelt regarding Roosevelt’s recent article in the Review of Reviews, which criticized Watson’s populist platform. Watson explains his position as tied into his advocacy for the poor, upon whom the burdens of government most often fall. He believes Roosevelt has misjudged him and asserts that if the two spent time together, Roosevelt would see that they have much in common.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1896-08-30