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Walter M. Kelley denounces the tendency of partisan prejudices to accuse elected officers of wrong intentions while acting in official capacities. He sends Theodore Roosevelt a clipping on two financial crises which were averted by the men in power.
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1911-08-17
Herman Bernstein shares an excerpt of a letter he received from Sergei Vitte denouncing the rumors that he wrote a pamphlet criticizing Roosevelt’s role in the Portsmouth Conference. Bernstein asks if Roosevelt read his article on the passport question.
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1911-08-15
Charles E. Hunter sends Theodore Roosevelt an article “absolutely made out of whole cloth.” He includes a typewritten copy of his response to the editor and the published version, which differs significantly. Hunter denies meeting a man called “Phillips” and assures Roosevelt he never talked to anyone about the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company merger.
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1911-08-10
Charles E. Hunter provides four statements refuting the truthfulness of the article published in the Daily Oklahoman entitled “Oklahoma Story Brands T. R. as Minion of Trusts.”
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1911-08-07
Former Alabama governor B. B. Comer acknowledges receipt of the letter from Theodore Roosevelt, and will send him the requested copy of Judge Thomas Goode Jones statement soon. Comer defends his use of Roosevelt’s name as being within the realm of typical public use. He additionally defends his action in demanding that Judge Jones verify his statement, as he still believes it to be exaggerated.
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1911-06-30
Judge Thomas Goode Jones acknowledges receipt of Theodore Roosevelt’s letter, but disputes the statements that former Alabama Governor B. B. Comer made to Roosevelt regarding a controversy of several years ago.
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1911-06-30
Gilson Gardner encloses clipping in a letter to Theodore Roosevelt, and states there is a “campaign of deliberate falsehood,” as the Washington Post and the Star are featuring similar content almost daily. Gardner thanks Roosevelt for denying “the lie carried out by the Associated Press.” He states a local paper editor in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, had also seen the story in the Associated Press that Roosevelt had endorsed William H. Taft’s nomination, and the editor had not seen Roosevelt’s denial.
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1911-06-16
Theodore Roosevelt tells Edwin A. Van Walkenburg that it was “outrageous” for the Associated Press to fake a statement that Roosevelt had told William H. Taft he favored his renomination in 1912.
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1911-06-14
Frank Basil Tracy informs Theodore Roosevelt that he has found limited information on Perley B. Doe and no substance to his claim that The New England Gas and Coke Company was fake. Tracy states that the Boston Evening Transcript does not use advertising columns to attack people like other papers do.
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1911-05-12
Caspar Whitney sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter and photograph that he vetoed for publication in Outdoor America because he believes it is a fake. He wonders what Roosevelt thinks of it.
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1911-05-07
Jack Porteous testifies to the truthfulness that Henry E. Huck found a dirtied American flag in the Kandy Kitchen and cleaned it.
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1911-04-29
Advertising Manager William F. Rogers informs Frank Basil Tracy that the New England Gas & Coke Company was not fake, nor was its advertisement in the Boston Evening Transcript. Rogers denounces Perley B. Doe’s claims as the unimportant “wail” of one who had a grievance with the company and even suspects it is a false name. In bringing forth Doe’s claims, Rogers does not accuse Theodore Roosevelt of overstepping.
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1911-04-26
I. K. Russell certifies “that you can’t beat it,” sharing how the newspapers assert that by denying “collusion with the Mormons,” Theodore Roosevelt proves the veracity of such claims. Following advice that Roosevelt’s letter appear in Eastern magazines, Russell contacted Colliers, who agreed to publish it. Fellow “muck-rake” magazines McClure’s and Everybody’s then turned on Colliers for going against them. Russell explains how Harvey Jerrold O’Higgins deliberately misquoted and doctored the comments of Joseph F. Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to appear he approved the continued practice of plural marriage. Russell sincerely thanks Roosevelt for writing the letter.
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1911-04-22
Raymond Brown informs Clayton D. Lee he received the enclosed clipping and avows he did not make the statement attributed to him.
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1911-04-24
Henry E. Huck avows that people have openly said he was not given proper medical treatment and was instead “locked up” in the Colonial building at Homewood Retreat. Harry Woods testifies Huck did not have delusions by witnessing and signing the note.
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1911-04-21
Julia Barnett Rice informs Theodore Roosevelt that the remarks attributed to her in response to Roosevelt’s recent article are untrue. She does not want Roosevelt to believe she would be grossly discourteous.
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1911-04-18
H. K. Williams asks Theodore Roosevelt if he knows T. Augustine Dwyer, an ex-Catholic doing evangelical work in the Baptist Church in South Carolina. Dwyer claims Roosevelt used his article as campaign material and compensated him with a trip to the court of Spain. Williams inquires if this is accurate.
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1911-03-22
John A. Herman read an article in the New York Times where the artist, Howard Chandler Christy, said that Theodore Roosevelt was not present at the Battle of San Juan Hill. Herman stated publicly in an oration that was later published that Roosevelt participated in the charge there. Roosevelt’s book The Rough Riders seems to suggest he was. He asks Roosevelt if he misunderstood the book.
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1911-02-13
Ned S. Kidder is looking at fertile farming land and met a man named George W. Bowden. Bowden claims to have been a government detective who was wounded while single-handedly fighting off a gang of thieves attempting to rob his wagon. He says then-President Theodore Roosevelt sent him a lengthy telegram of congratulations and allegedly offered him the Cabinet position of Secretary of Agriculture. Kidder wants to know if Bowden’s story is true.
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1911-02-13
I. K. Russell follows up on an earlier letter he sent discussing charges regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s attitude with Senator Reed Smoot retaining his seat after he was charged with polygamy. Further charges have been made regarding this and Russell would like a statement from Roosevelt about it. Russell provides information about his journalism background and strong support of Roosevelt’s policies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-08