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Postmaster General Wynne forwards to William Loeb the opinion of the Attorney General stating that details from the Post Office Department to the White House are illegal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-05
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou returns a letter from Tennessee Representative Walter Preston Brownlow along with William Loeb’s note of December 2, 1904. Cortelyou states that it has been customary to do what Brownlow requested, and without other guidance, continuing the practice might be appropriate. Cortelyou suggests checking with Postmaster General Henry C. Payne whether he knows of any objection to such a plan.
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1904-12-14
Mae C. Wood angrily answers a letter from Postmaster General Wynne explaining her absence from the Post Office department for several days in 1903, referring Wynne “to yourself, J. Martin Miller, Mess. Platt, Loeb, et al,” and alludes to “the nasty details of the outrage and scandal.” Wood states that she has “no intention to longer endure the filthy lies and persecutions as engineered and carried out by your coterie, without retaliation.”
(Wood had alleged to be married to Senator Thomas Collier Platt, and claimed to have hundreds of love letters from Platt to her. She had traveled to New York in order to protest Platt’s 1903 marriage to Lillian T. Janeway.)
Message given by President Roosevelt to Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress in which Roosevelt describes his legislative priorities for the year.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1902
Postmaster General Payne offers guidance to postal employees regarding political activity in the classified and unclassified service. Relevant sections of the Postal Laws and Regulations are printed after the letter.
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1902-10-01
Request for a recommendation for postmaster at the Cochetopa office in Colorado.
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1902-09-26
Request for a recommendation for postmaster at the Vega office in Colorado.
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1902-09-13
Harry S. New declines the offered appointment as First Assistant Postmaster General due to business obligations.
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1902-03-01
Curtis Guild requests information about post office appointments President Roosevelt has made in order to dispel rumors that Roosevelt has been party to recent reports of corruption in the U.S. Postal Service.
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1903-06-15
Chairman Cortelyou asks William Loeb to see if the matter regarding the Baltimore Post Office can be held off until he can speak with President Roosevelt. Cortelyou will be traveling to New York the following week and will make a stop in Oyster Bay, New York, but would prefer if that was not widely known. He reports that things have been going well for the campaign. A handwritten note at the bottom adds that he has received Loeb’s message and will accept President Roosevelt’s invitation to dine on Monday.
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1904-07-07
President Roosevelt wants a new document circulated that makes clear that federal employees are under no obligation to contribute funds to Republican political campaigns, thus negating a circular distributed previously by Republican officials.
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1902-09-11
President Roosevelt informs Joseph Bucklin Bishop that he only knows what he has read in the newspapers about an issue with the Delaware Post Office. He also thanks Bishop for his editorial on the speech Roosevelt gave on Labor Day and comments on the press’ response. Roosevelt makes plans for Bishop to meet him at Ellis Island and have dinner with him after.
1903-09-09
President Roosevelt discusses the matter of the post office in Orlando, Florida. O’Neal’s nomination was sent to the Senate. Roosevelt asks Senator Beveridge if he sent a memorandum about Fletcher.
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1902-05-07
President Roosevelt leans over a fence labeled “Southern States” with a stick labeled “Appointments of Post-Masters and Collectors” to poke a sleeping dog labeled “Race Problem.” Item is regarding race relations in the American South and the appointment of persons of color to government posts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-09
President Roosevelt is shown crying next to a grave that represents his hopes for the 1904 presidential nomination as African Americans cry throughout the cemetery. Item is regarding the appointment of African American postmasters and race relations in the American south.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-25
At the direction of President Roosevelt, George B. Cortelyou encloses papers concerning the postmastership at Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.
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1902-03-19
At the direction of President Roosevelt, George B. Cortelyou encloses papers from editor William Caruthers. Roosevelt would like Henry C. Payne’s opinion on the matter raised by Caruthers.
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1902-04-05
Secretary George B. Cortelyou encloses a letter from newspaper editor, William Allen White regarding the post office in Emporia, Kansas.
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1902-04-15
William Loeb expresses to George B. Cortelyou that President Roosevelt has no objection to a Sunday mail, but the Postal Department should be informed that he does not request it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-21
William Loeb encloses a communication regarding a case that President Roosevelt would like called to his attention before any action is taken.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-01