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John M. Leach asks Theodore Roosevelt to confirm that if William H. Taft is nominated, he will lose the presidency to the democrats. Leach does not understand why Taft would not step aside, and urges Roosevelt to take up the leadership of the Republican party and run for president.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-14
President Roosevelt will do what he can to stop the parade form happening but encourages Representative Parsons to talk to others involved and to do his part to stop it himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-01
President Roosevelt agrees with journalist Henry L. Stoddard. While it will do damage to nominate New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, it will do more damage not to nominate him. Although Hughes has offended other politicians, Roosevelt believes he should be renominated as long as there is nothing against Hughes’s personal integrity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-29
President Roosevelt has carefully avoided involvement in state officer nominations. He asks James A. Lavery if he has written to Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the New York Republican State Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-24
Roosevelt despairs of the issues surrounding renominating Governor Charles Evans Hughes, discussing with Lyman Abbott “how the theory that a man in public office should not try to do anything but fulfill the duties of his public office breaks down in practice.” Roosevelt does not want to dictate that Hughes be renominated, but believes he should be and has told Republican party leaders his views.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-21
President Roosevelt views George H. West’s letter as important and inquires if he could send it to men such as representative Herbert Parsons, Timothy L. Woodruff, Francis J. Hendricks, and representative J. Sloat Fassett.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-18
President Roosevelt discusses his thoughts concerning the renomination of Charles Evans Hughes as governor of New York with Samuel W. Marvin. Roosevelt says that if Hughes is renominated, the Republicans will lose the votes of of working men, but if he is not, then they will lose the votes of “cultivated people.” Roosevelt doubts his interference in the matter would be welcome by party leaders and feels strongly that the people should decide whom to nominate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-14
President Roosevelt is impressed with William A. Prendergast’s letter, and has taken the liberty of forwarding it to Timothy L. Woodruff. Roosevelt is at his “wit’s end” over the division regarding Charles Evans Hughes’s re-nomination for governor of New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-08
On behalf of Governor Timothy L. Woodruff, Scott Sinclair encloses box tickets to the first day of the International Aviation Meet and hopes Theodore Roosevelt will enjoy the air show. He includes a map of the event.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-16
Charles Dewey Hilles informs William Loeb that the “rank and file” of New Jersey Republicans are loyal to President Roosevelt and William H. Taft but that prominent officials are not. Francis Hendricks believes that if Charles Evans Hughes becomes an active candidate, he will have a large following even though Taft is regarded highly right now.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-19
William Barnes returns a letter from New York Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff to William Loeb and says it is unfortunate that Loeb did not tell Woodruff about his meeting with Barnes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-16
Ambassador Reid sends President Roosevelt an article from a British newspaper discussing the American presidential campaign that, unlike most others, “shows a more intelligent knowledge of the situation.” Reid shares that Liberian President Arthur Barclay is in London concerning foreign interests and Liberia, a matter which Reid previously reported on to Secretary of State Elihu Root.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-30
President Roosevelt holds his big stick as he watched a blindfolded Benjamin B. Odell stand on the gangplank. Timothy L. Woodruff puts up his hand and says, “Give him time!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-23
Article discusses the Speakership position and Brooklyn Republicans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-22
Charles M. Pepper reports on the political situation in New York, specifically focusing on the upstate region. Overall indications are that the Republicans will be very successful in the state, with the Democrat Alton B. Parker failing to inspire support in rural voters there. It is likely that Elihu Root will be nominated as the Republican gubernatorial candidate, although he has expressed that he is not interested in the nomination.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-14
Articles states that the Chicago convention was “theft”, that it “precipitated the ruin of the Republican Party.” Discusses Timothy L. Woodruff, William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1912-07
In a battle scene, President Roosevelt is about to make a final charge on “Fort Democracy” labeled “Peace, Constitution, [and] Prosperity.” Performing various functions in Roosevelt’s camp are “Foraker,” “Morton” spying from a balloon, “Allison” raising a flag labeled “Up with the Trusts,” “Woodruff” attending to wounded T.C. “Platt,” “Higgins” and “Odell” with cans of money from a box labeled “Groceries N.Y. State,” “Cortelyou” sharpening a sword, “Shaw” with binoculars, “Bliss” and “Fairbanks” loading a small cannon labeled “National Committee Gun,” and “Rockefeller” with a hod full of money bags labeled “Standard Shot.”
Timothy L. Woodruff is chained from behind to rocks labeled “Petty Ward Politics, Dadyism, [and] Guden Job,” making it impossible for him to reach a bunch of grapes on a vine labeled “United States Senatorship” hanging just beyond his grasp. The U.S. Capitol is in the background.
Timothy Woodruff, New York Lieutenant Governor under Theodore Roosevelt, was one of several New York State Republicans in the 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century who had competing ambitions within the state (gubernatorial, senatorial, and presidential) and therefore clashed in intra-party squabbles. Governor Benjamin Odell, who was elected governor after Roosevelt — Woodruff being the only New York to serve as lieutenant governor under three different governors, Frank S. Black; Roosevelt; and Odell — sought to remove minor office-holders in Kings County, including a sheriff named Gruden and allies, the brothers Dady, all of whom were tainted with scandal and defied a court order issued by Supreme Court Justice William Gaynor. Woodruff allied himself with that trio, to his discredit, at least in the eyes of Puck. The style of dress assigned by cartoonist Pughe casts Woodruff as a common ward-heeler. Roosevelt’s position regarding Woodruff and Odell was delicate, as both were generally competent and honest, and both were consistently strong supporters of him.
President William McKinley, standing, leads a toast to a dejected William Jennings Bryan, who is sitting in a chair labeled “Guest of Honor.” Seated around the table are, among others, Governor “Teddy” Roosevelt, Senator Mark “Hanna,” Benjamin B. “Odell,” Jr., and “Tim” Woodruff. Caption: Toastmaster McKinley. — Let us conclude our Thanksgiving Dinner with a toast to the man who made it so easy for us!
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Special Easter edition centerfold shows President William McKinley as a rooster standing next to a broken egg labeled “Vice-Presidential Aspirations” from which several chicks have emerged, identified as: Lodge, Black, Bliss, Teddy, Root, Beveridge, and Timmy Woodruff.
Less than five months before this cartoon was published, Vice President Garret A. Hobart died in office. Especially given President McKinley’s popularity, the speculation about his running mate, later that year, was rife. Of the “chicks” depicted by cartoonist Louis Dalrymple and viewed approvingly by McKinley is, most prominently, Theodore Roosevelt. He was then Governor of New York and a popular war hero and famed as a cowboy, drawn with a Western hat. Interestingly, other Vice Presidential possibilities seen here were also New Yorkers: former Governor Frank S. Black, Secretary of War Elihu Root, Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff; and former Secretary of Interior Cornelius N. Bliss. Roosevelt’s friend Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is pictured, as is Indiana Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, later a strong ally of Roosevelt in the Progressive party campaign.