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President Roosevelt agrees with Lyman Abbott’s position, and says that he went as far as he thought he could go in his public criticism of Judge Daniel Thew Wright. Roosevelt thinks that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis helped corporations by imposing excessive fines, and that Wright did the same service for the worst labor leaders.
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1908-12-29
President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Philander C. Knox that he would like Wendell Phillips Stafford to be his nominee for the next federal judge appointment.
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1904-04-27
President Roosevelt writes Eli Shelby Hammond about the best date for a planned event in which the president is to participate. He suggests several possible dates and awaits Hammond’s response.
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1902-08-30
Attorney General Bonaparte wishes President Roosevelt a merry Christmas, and offers his opinion about how to proceed regarding the recent sentencing of Samuel Gompers. While Roosevelt has the power to pardon Gompers, Bonaparte says that to do so would be inappropriate while an appeal is pending, and so any requests for Roosevelt to pardon Gompers at this point would be premature. Bonaparte remarks confidentially that from his current understanding of the case, the sentences imposed by Judge Daniel Thew Wright are much too severe, even though he does not hold any sympathy for Gompers’s case.
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1908-12-25
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt regarding the recent judgements passed down by Ashley M. Gould and Daniel Thew Wright, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a case involving labor leader Samuel Gompers. Abbott thinks that Gould was correct in issuing an injunction, but is less certain about Wright’s actions. He believes that Roosevelt is correct to not interfere at this point.
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1908-12-27
Senator Foraker supports Judge Daniel Thew Wright’s appointment and does not believe Wright should lose party standing due to his participation with the fusion movement in 1897. Foraker has been surprised at the opposition to Wright from George Barnsdale Cox and Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Foraker opposes Herman Henry Kohlsaat’s appointment as postmaster general.
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1903-07-28
J. H. Woodard encloses letters from Scott C. Bone, managing editor of the Washington Post, and his reply. He commits to working to secure Roosevelt’s nomination and re-election in 1904. Woodard asks to have correspondence burned after Roosevelt has read it.
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1903-12-14
Attorney General Knox recommends Daniel Thew Wright of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, District of Columbia.
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1903-10-19
Memorandum with the names of individuals who have endorsed Daniel Thew Wright for associate justice of the Supreme Court, District of Columbia.
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1903-10-19
Acting Secretary of State Loomis informs President Roosevelt that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker approves of appointing Judge Daniel Thew Wright of Cincinnati to the district bench in November.
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1903-07-27
Senator Foraker endorses the appointment of Judge Daniel Thew Wright to United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Although Wright participated in a local “fusion” revolt from the Republican Party in 1897, even during the revolt, the fusionists supported the state and national Republican ticket. In addition, the revolt was so widespread as to indicate the real need for reform locally. Others who participated, including Nicholas Longworth, have since risen to high office within the party. President Roosevelt should have no hesitation in appointing Wright.
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1903-07-28
Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna’s objection to the appointment of Judge Daniel Thew Wright as judge in the District of Columbia is the clearest indicator that George Barnsdale Cox has left behind Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and allied with Hanna.
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1903-07
Reports received from Washington, D.C., indicate that Senator Hanna objected to the appointment of Judge Daniel Thew Wright as the Judge of the District of Columbia because he knew the appointment would be opposed by the Hamilton County Republican organization and George Barnsdale Cox.
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1903-07
Senator Hanna protested against the appointment of Daniel Thew Wright as a federal judge. Wright has been highly recommended by Senator Foraker.
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1903-06-26
Senator Hanna’s protest against the appointment of Judge Wright as judge of the District of Columbia indicates that Hanna’s alliance with George Barnsdale Cox is both offensive and defensive. Hanna will likely leave the Republican National Committee and focus on Ohio politics. The Hanna-Cox alliance will be a force in the realignment of Republican politics in Ohio.
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1903-06-27