Letter from John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of State Hay asks President Roosevelt to approve and send a letter to Ambassador Choate.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-09-27
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Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918
Letter from John Lowndes McLaurin to Theodore Roosevelt
Senator McLaurin, in a personal letter accompanying his formal letter declining a position on the Court of Claims, explains his deep sorrow at the charges leveled against him and his conviction of his having lived a “clean and unselfish” public life.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-17
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Trading in judgeships
South Carolina Senator John Lowndes McLaurin appears to be getting his way with the judgeship he has wanted to name. The writer of the editorial disagrees with President Roosevelt’s agreement to this appointment, as there should be enough good Republicans to fill seats without making the seats a reward. The situation has led to a conflict where the Senate must decide between honoring McLaurin and confirming his candidate, or honoring Senator Benjamin R. Tillman by refusing the confirmation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07
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Articles from the New York Age
Two articles from the New York Age discuss political meetings and resolutions by various African American societies and meetings. The first reports on a visit of New York Age editor Timothy Thomas Fortune to San Francisco, where he spoke about the need for political unity among African Americans, and praised President Roosevelt’s statesmanship. The second reports on a meeting of the Union League Republican Club of Detroit, which upholds its support of President Roosevelt after he wrote a letter condemning those who opposed his nomination of the African American William Demos Crum for Customs Collector in Charleston, South Carolina. The club also speaks against the “lily white” Republicans and the invitation of Senator Benjamin R. Tillman to speak in Detroit.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-25
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Letter from Silas McBee to Theodore Roosevelt
Silas McBee sends clippings from The Churchman regarding Senator Benjamin R. Tillman and the Schley-Sampson case. McBee praises President Roosevelt’s policy in Cuba and his decision to ban Tillman from the White House.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-07
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Letter from J. W. Hamilton to Theodore Roosevelt
Episcopal Bishop Hamilton praises President Roosevelt for his integrity and good morals. He applauds Roosevelt for inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House. Hamilton is pleased that Roosevelt has stood up to the “unworthy and disorderly conduct of the Southern sample” represented by the “good manners” of Preston S. Brooks and Senator Benjamin R. Tillman.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-02-25
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Letter from C. C. Nott to Anna Roosevelt Cowles
C. C. Nott suggests that President Roosevelt verbally respond to Senator Tillman’s “scrupulously civil” comments, remarking that rudeness can be ignored but not civility.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-02-28
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Letter from William Emlen Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
William Emlen Roosevelt cautions President Roosevelt about visiting Charleston, South Carolina at the risk of “receiving insult.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-03
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Letter from John Lowndes McLaurin to William Elliot
Senator McLaurin requests Representative Elliott’s help to secure funding for the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition by pushing the necessary legislation through the House.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-12-03
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An earnest appeal for the maintenance of the national honor and the suppression of sectionalism, repudiation and mob rule
Major General Sickles urges United States military veterans to set aside partisan differences to oppose the election of the Democratic Party’s candidate for the 1896 presidential election, William Jennings Bryan. Sickles primarily denounces Bryan on the issue of replacing the gold standard with a looser silver standard, which will, according to Sickles, allow debtors to pay off creditors and government bonds with less valuable currency, defrauding many veterans and army widows of the value of their pensions. Sickles considers this an unconstitutional attack on the public credit, a move towards Populist mob-rule. Sickles also accuses Bryan of encouraging the type of sectionalism that sparked the American Civil War. Although Sickles identifies as a Democrat himself, he denounces the platform and candidate, Bryan, approved at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and voices support for the Republican Candidate, William McKinley.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1896-07