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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Winthrop Chanler

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Winthrop Chanler

In the next issue of Metropolitan Magazine, Theodore Roosevelt goes after German Americans “without gloves.” If the United States goes to war with Germany, he believes he could raise enough men of German ancestry to “put down all the traitorous citizens at home and also fight the Germans abroad.” Roosevelt is feeling warlike and thinks there is “good fighting material” in the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-13

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

President Roosevelt asks if statements should be provided in response to two editorials in order to “prevent a misconception.” In a postscript, Roosevelt suggests that a memorandum be on file that will show General Miles’s “intriguing disloyalty” and will make it clear that he is a “traitor to the army.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-11

Where they belong!

Where they belong!

Three men are trapped in a small cage hanging outside the “Democratic National Headquarters.” The cage is labeled “Gorman Brice Smith, Jr. – Exposed Here – As a Warning, For All Time – These Traitors to Democratic Principles and Satraps of Trust and Monopoly.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-11-21