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Theodore Roosevelt would like to see William Draper Lewis and talk over the situation. Roosevelt is pleased with Lewis’s speech and his dinner in Philadelphia but points out that enthusiastic crowds at dinners and meetings do not always equal votes.
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1915-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the gift of preserved figs. Roosevelt also agrees with Pearl Wight’s analysis of the vote.
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1915-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt does not think any good would come from William Osborne McDowell’s proposed ballot. Roosevelt thinks it would be quite impossible for people holding his views on peace to vote as McDowell suggests.
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1914-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt wishes Harry S. Armstrong good luck with his efforts to bring American and immigrant settlers into southwestern Louisiana to take up farming. Roosevelt notes that he has traveled to the region and was impressed with the rich soil, good climate, and friendly people. He believes that this area of the south provides a good example of freedom of political belief. In his discussion he mentions “Free Traders” and “Protectionists.”
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1914-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Gilbert B. Daniels’s comparison between voters of the eastern and western states. He was sorry to hear of Frank Honey’s defeat, but is otherwise happy with the results in California. Roosevelt also wishes to thank Daniels for the editorial he wrote.
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1914-12-03
Theodore Roosevelt believes he should have a holiday and wants to know what new members he should vote for.
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1914-11-17
Theodore Roosevelt thanks L. A. Ellis for a previously received note. Votes from the November 3, 1914, elections are mentioned.
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1914-11-09
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to receive Samuel Crothers’s essay. Roosevelt agrees that divine right is not something that fits with the democratic character of the United States where ballots change rulers.
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1914-11-14
Theodore Roosevelt discusses the Progressive vote in various states and thanks Leslie Combs for his hard work.
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1914-11-07
President Roosevelt thanks John F. White for writing to him and congratulates him on his large family. He is glad to hear that White’s sons, sons-in-law, and grandsons will all be voting with him in three weeks.
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1908-10-13
President Roosevelt thanks Gleason L. Archer, principal of the Suffolk School of Law, for the letter describing an event of the school’s Debating Club. Roosevelt is gratified by the vote that the club took.
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1908-01-18
President Roosevelt will not pardon Douglas W. Hickman on the basis of restoring his citizenship and right to vote as Representative Williams had requested. Roosevelt never pardons any man he considers guilty, although he might consider restoring voting to an individual who has spent at least a year as a good citizen.
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1907-11-29
President Roosevelt has received William Emlen Roosevelt’s letters, and says the current financial situation gives him concern. The president will be traveling to Oyster Bay, by special train to vote, and hopes that Emlen will be with him.
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1907-10-24
President Roosevelt thinks he should drive to the polling place with William Henry Seaman, but still wants to see Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt before he returns to the train station.
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1906-10-17
President Roosevelt sees that Territorial Governor of Arizona Kibbey is doing everything possible to ensure a fair election, and that is all Roosevelt wants.
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1906-10-19
President Roosevelt believes that the members of the New York Stock Exchange should support New York Representative Herbert Parsons and the Republican candidate for governor of New York Charles Evans Hughes and failing to register or to vote in “support of these men is a betrayal of decent citizenship.”
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1906-10-14
President Roosevelt takes issue with some criticisms that Lincoln Steffens has made of his efforts to get Congress to ratify the Santo Domingo treaty. He points out that several Democrats are opposing the treaty merely to be obstructionist, rather than because of an honest difference of opinion. In contrast, Roosevelt believes that there is more room for honest differences in opinion in the railroad rate bill. Steffens’s idea that Roosevelt should refuse to make any concessions and to let the voters decide who is correct in the next election is flawed. Roosevelt cites evidence of voters supporting men who are on two sides of the same issue.
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1906-02-05
President Roosevelt agrees with Henry S. Pritchett’s sentiment about Abraham Lincoln, calling him “the most real of the dead Presidents.” Roosevelt has tried to follow the policies Lincoln established, although he does not like to say that in public as it seems presumptuous. Roosevelt’s view of the Southern question is fundamentally the same as Pritchett and James Ford Rhodes’s beliefs. The president wonders if the increased invitations to Southern cities suggests they have started to not see him as their enemy. Despite bitterness in the South against Roosevelt, however, it has had little impact on the Southern vote, as Roosevelt notes.
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1904-12-26
President Roosevelt sends his sympathies to James H. More regarding the death of More’s father. The president thanks More for informing Roosevelt about his father’s participation in the last election.
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1904-12-19
President Roosevelt thanks William J. Patterson for his interest in Roosevelt’s election and wishes him a merry Christmas.
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1904-12-19