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Theodore Roosevelt will be unable to travel to Tuskegee, Alabama, for the Tuskegee Board of Directors meeting. He would like to speak with Booker T. Washington regarding the injustice done to Washington at the Ulrich trial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-06
President Roosevelt updates Dean of Harvard College Hurlbut on his son Theodore Roosevelt’s well-being after returning home in need of comfort and rest after his arrest. Roosevelt believes that Ted is defending his friend and fellow Harvard student Shaun Kelly by choosing not to press charges against the policemen who wrongfully held and struck Ted. Roosevelt also wants to forgo any further charges because he wants Ted to remain focused on his schoolwork, and wishes him to remain out of future public scrutiny.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-07
Booker T. Washington understands why Theodore Roosevelt cannot attend the Tuskegee Board of Trustees meeting but is pleased to announce that Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck and Company has agreed to join the Board. Washington felt that it was his duty to press charges in the Ulrich assault case even though he doubted there would ever be a conviction. Almost all evidence presented in Henry Albert Ulrich’s defense has been “pure fabrication.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-12
Frederic Jesup Stimson informs President Roosevelt that all the men at Harvard College with whom he has conferred agree that Roosevelt’s son Theodore Roosevelt, has behaved well. Stimson thinks that District Attorney John B. Moran dragging his son before a grand jury is a political stunt. Stimson plans to vote the straight Republican ticket. He also commends Roosevelt, Secretary of War William H. Taft, and Attorney General William H. Moody for the work they have been doing. Stimson regrets missing Moody in Boston, and thinks it is too bad that Moody cannot become a Supreme Court justice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-04
Senator Lodge updates President Roosevelt about his son Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt and his arrest and upcoming trial, commenting that because Ted is the President’s son that he is “natural prey for yellow newspapers and adventurers like Moran.” Lodge believes Ted’s lawyer, Francis Reginald Bangs, is taking good care of the young men and that Police Commissioner Stephen O’Meara did not realize his men had struck Ted. Lodge further discusses whether the labor unions will support the Democratic candidates in the upcoming elections in New York and Massachusetts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-04