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John Houk apologizes for “anything improper” that he may have said during an intense congressional contest for the Republican nomination in his Tennessee district.
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1904-03-13
After U.S. Marshal Richard Wilson Austin’s speech incited a riot causing four deaths in Tennessee, John Houk asks if Roosevelt’s administration can afford responsibility for Austin’s behavior.
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1904-02-09
Tennessee politician and U.S. Marshal Richard Wilson Austin is planning to run against Nathan Wesley Hale for Congress. John Houk cautions that Austin would be a traitor to President Roosevelt’s administration.
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1904-01-14
J. M. Dickinson updates Eli Shelby Hammond on his efforts in Tennessee and Mississippi to ensure ratification of the Panama treaty.
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1904-01-08
John Houk encloses original resolutions passed within his congressional district to show “the direction of the winds” in that district.
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1904-01-04
Abram M. Tillman requests permission from President Roosevelt to let Tennessee office holders know who among them Roosevelt wishes to have appointed as delegates to the Republican National Convention.
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1903-12-19
Abram M. Tillman discusses the possible Tennessee delegates to the Republican National Convention of 1904. He suggests that it would be in President Roosevelt’s best interests if few office holders were selected as delegates, and asks for Roosevelt’s opinion on the matter.
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1903-12-14
In a telegram to President Roosevelt, Albert J. Beveridge encloses a document from a prominent figure in Tennessee, who, despite his support from Marcus Alonzo Hanna, respects Roosevelt.
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1903-11-21
Newell Sanders discusses the recent Ohio election and Senator Hanna. Sanders reassures President Roosevelt of his and his peers’ support of Roosevelt’s candidacy in the 1904 presidential race.
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1903-11-14
Editor of the Galveston City Times William H. Noble discusses the need to appoint African Americans as Republican party representatives in Texas.
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1903-10-18
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou asks President Roosevelt to be careful what he says in a future meeting with a man appointed from Tennessee. Cortelyou states that the Postmaster General has further information on the investigations.
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1903-08-25
The Roosevelt administration will be supporting the Houk following in Tennessee against the Brownlow-Austin following. John Houk appears to be winning the contest, and James Sullivan Clarkson has sent instruction not to form a faction but to attempt to unify the Republican Party in Tennessee.
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1902-08-11
The Republicans and Democrats of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia are pleased that President Roosevelt has recognized H. C. McDonell’s merit and ability. John Fox’s father and uncle are both “Roosevelt men.”
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1901-11-20
John Allison has close relations with the Republican party of Tennessee and offers his services to President Roosevelt’s administration.
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1901-09-23
J. N. Lotspeich has read that Vice President Roosevelt will be making a November trip to the South and offers to arrange some stops in eastern Tennessee, a “strong hold of Republicanism.”
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1901-08-24
James H. Worman encourages President Roosevelt to visit the south, especially Tennessee, and show he is “a friend and well wisher.” In Worman’s experience, “the educated Southerner admires a man of frankness and respects a manly antagonist,” and he believes Roosevelt will receive a warm welcome.
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1905-01-27