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President Roosevelt has met with Senator Edward Oliver Wolcott, who had negative things to say about Archibald McNichol Stevenson. Wolcott is “all right” about the new appointments but is unsure about whether charges should be laid or Stevenson should be removed from his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-04
Lieutenant Harold G. Garwood seeks information about the Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard that is comprised of former students of American universities. They have a similar organization in Denver. Garwood once “had the honor” to help carry Roosevelt on his shoulder when he stopped briefly in Boulder in 1901.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-03
Charlotte W. Bates requests Theodore Roosevelt meet with her briefly to discuss a personal issue while in Spokane, Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-04
John Wallace Springer discusses the election for mayor of Denver, Colorado, noting that although he was nominated by a great majority of Republican voters, the election was manipulated by the Democratic machine. After the state Republican convention adjourned, the managers of four public utility corporations insisted that an Anti-Wolcott ticket be named, and the Democratic ticket “sold out” to these corporations. Springer thought that he deserved President Roosevelt’s support and wants to know if anyone told him to keep his “hands off of this fight.” Springer points to the appointment of D. A. Barton and George Engs Randolph, who had been Republican candidates for office, to prominent positions by Democratic Mayor Robert Walter Speer as evidence that traitors were working to defeat the Republican ticket.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-19
Henry Cabot Lodge discusses topics for the Republican Party platform. He discusses politics in Illinois, tariff revisionism, and reciprocity with Canada. The former senator from Colorado Edward Oliver Wolcott has informed him that James Hamilton Peabody will be the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado. Lodge will write after talking to Mr. Hall about what the Boston “reciprocity people” are going to do concerning reciprocity with Canada. New England appears to be showing support for Roosevelt in the upcoming election with support being shown to Charles W. Fairbanks as Roosevelt’s vice-presidential choice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-06
Justice Campbell writes that the ten delegates from Colorado have been instructed to support President Roosevelt at the 1904 Republican Convention. Campbell also asks the President to discreetly intervene, through the use of a third party, to remind certain local federal officials of the importance of supporting the regular Republican ticket in the fall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-07
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that Congressman Franklin E. Brooks of Colorado has not consulted him about Randolph since last spring. Roosevelt believes that if Edward Oliver Wolcott will take Randolph, Roosevelt could convince Brooks to take him as well. Roosevelt asks Lodge to see how Wolcott feels about it.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903-12-09
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Henry Van Kleeck to represent the numerous letters he receives regarding the activity of federal office holders in recent political campaigns in Colorado. Roosevelt concedes that office holders supported Edward Oliver Wolcott but Wolcott did not have the support of the majority of Republicans.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903-02-14
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt urges Secretary Long to advise President McKinley not to conduct a joint investigation with Spain into the sinking of the USS Maine. Roosevelt believes that, in spite of opposition, Long should recommend that Congress authorize the building of as many as four battleships.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1898-02-19
John Wallace Springer informs President Roosevelt that he has been selected as the Republican nominee for Mayor of Denver. He warns of David H. Moffat’s “Anti-Wolcott Republican ticket” and describes him as disloyal to the Republican Party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-30
Posey S. Wilson expects Theodore Roosevelt to carry Colorado during the upcoming presidential election. He discusses former Senator Edward Oliver Wolcott’s control over patronage in Colorado and its subsequent impact on state politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-10
John Campbell reports that Colorado’s delegation will support President Roosevelt at the Republican National Convention. He comments on the recent resignation of Colorado’s former U. S. Representative John F. Shafroth.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-16
Photograph showing full-length portraits of Governor Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Edward Oliver Wolcott of New York, standing outside near trees.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-07-18
President Cleveland drives a stagecoach carrying a female passenger labeled “National Credit” and a trunk labeled “Gold Reserve.” The horse team is labeled “Firmness” and “Common Sense.” A pack of dogs is trying to rattle the horses. The dogs are identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Frye, Bland, Sickles, Peffer, Reed, Boutelle, Wolcott, Pugh, Stewart, Jones, Morgan, Teller, [and] Lodge.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-03-13
Edward Oliver Wolcott flies toward the “White House” after getting booted home from England on the foot of Lord “Salisbury.” Caption: “President McKinley’s bimetallic commission has started for home” – Daily Papers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-17
President Cleveland, a railroad engineer, drives a locomotive labeled “Administration R.R.” that is roaring out of a tunnel labeled “Business Depression Tunnel,” and knocking out of the way legislators who are placing “Dilatory Admendments” and “Teller’s Dilatory Tactics” on the tracks, trying to derail the train. Among the legislators are Francis M. Cockrell, James Z. George, James L. Pugh, William A. Peffer, George G. Vest, James D. Cameron, William M. Stewart, Henry M. Teller, John P. Jones, and Edward O. Wolcott.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-10-11
President Cleveland appears as an explorer, with cabinet members John G. Carlisle and Walter Q. Gresham, in a jungle, where they have come across a band of monkeys labeled “D. Hill, C. Dana, W. Reid, Blackburn, Vest, Jones, Pugh, Foraker, Wolcott, Teller, Morgan, Peffer, [and] Stewart.” Caption: Pioneer Cleveland is bound to carry political enlightenment forward, even if the simian statesmen don’t like it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-22
Senators labeled “Stewart, Peffer, Vest, Jones, Teller, [and] Wolcott” are being thrown out of windows in a building labeled “U.S. Senate” by laborers and other citizens. Papers labeled “Anti-Repeal Drivel” and “Obstructionist Nonsense” have been thrown out with them. Caption: What a pity this is only a fancy sketch!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-01
Several men dressed as maids and holding brooms stand on shore or awash in huge waves labeled “Business Revival” and “Sound Money.” The men are identified on their bonnets or on their brooms as “Hoar War Tariff,” “Bland Free Silver,” “Wolcott Silver,” “Teller Free Silver,” “Jones Free Silver,” “Reid High Protection,” “Stewart Free Silver,” “Carter,” “Peffer,” “Crisp,” and “Blackburn Free Silver.” “McKinley” holds the largest broom labeled “Prohibitory Protection.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-08-14
Republican politicians wearing Roman togas are seated around a banquet table with a skeleton that is holding a standard labeled “McKinley’s Shaky Financial Record.” Gathered around the table are John “Sherman,” Stephen B. “Elkins,” Russell A. “Alger,” Charles H. “Grosvenor,” William “McKinley,” Mark A. “Hanna,” Christopher L. “Magee,” William M. “Hahn,” Joseph B. “Foraker,” Cornelius N. “Bliss,” Herman H. “Kohlsaat,” Edward Oliver “Wolcott,” and Whitelaw “Reid.” Caption: The ancient custom of the Romans of seating a skeleton at their banquet-tables, to remind them of death, is now being revived by our Republican friends.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-06-10