[*ack 6-19*] ALL QUOTATIONS AND TRADE [?] SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION OF OUR PRINCIPALS ALEXANDER & DUNCAN BROKERS ROOM 1036 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING HAY GRAIN MILL FEED COTTON SEED PRODUCTS A SPECIALTY F. G. ALEXANDER SUCCESSOR TO F. G. ALEXANDER SUCCESSOR TO BELL PHONE 4728 ROBINSON'S REVISED CODE YOPP'S REVISED CODE BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. June 13, 1912. [*27*] Col T. Roosevelt. Oyster Bay. N.Y. Dear Sir. I am an old line Republican, born and voted first in Greenfield, Ind the home of James Whitecombe Reiley, my freind. Punched cows up the old trail from Dodge City before I was of age. Later on in the Wholesale Grocer Business in Sioux City, travelling as far as the Black Hills in the Stage Coach days from Pierre and Cheyenne. Have been an active business man in Birmingham past fifteen years. I control three republican votes, my own and two sons. I have never held an office, have never asked for one and am not looking for one now. I am with you in this race, Col, to the last ditch. With my best personal regards, I beg to remain. Yours for service, H. G. Alexander.LUCIEN HUGH ALEXANDER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 713-714 ARCADE BUILDING PHILADELPHIA 13 June, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Supplementing my letter of the 8th, I want to suggest a very drastic thing to you, but which from every angle from which I view it, I believe would be the best possible thing you could do at this moment. President Taft and you have been before the country for weeks, months, appealing to the people -you have won by an overwhelming popular vote. The thing for you now to do I believe is to challenge -or rather demand that Taft meet you in debate before the National Convention (say one hour for each side) on the question as to whether or not the good of the Republican party and the interests of the nation warrant his re-nomination. You can afford to let him take the affirmative and to take thirty minutes to open and thirty minutes to close after you have spoken, for after you get thru with your hour's speech, it won't make much difference what he says. If he declines the challenge on any ground whatsoever, it is bound to put him in a hole, for nothing could be fairer than such an offer as I suggest. No matter what he does I believe it will make it much easier to stampede the convention. Of course it is going to be stampeded by your arrival in Chicago at the psychological moment. Sincerely yours, Lucien H. Alexander[*Allen U Grant*] Salisbury, N.D. June 18th 1912. Mr. Theadore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir; - During the last few days there has been revealed to my mind more fully what took place in conversation while I was in the roma, and also what took place concerning me while I was in Northern Michigan. Now I feel to say concerning the matter that we should all be patient and wait untill we get a true and full revelation I have been accused of having a feeling of hatred twards you and the Teautonic people; but such is false; for I do not hate you. I have also been accused of giving offence, in writing; trying to show general principles, but I did not purpose to give any offenceThe letters that I wrote that have been chastened to your particular disadvantage, were letters of love to you and not of hatred; but I feel were misconstrued by your false friends. Now please allow me to say that I have no ill feeling, or hatred towards you or any people in earth and in the name of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I must humbly ask forgiveness for all wrongs. I feel that it is best to amplify an apology I have asked before; and that is I must humbly ask forgiveness; in the name of Jesus, for calling you a damb fool Of course I was in an irresponsible coma when I hastily made the remark and then corrected it; after deliberative thought; but I feel that I should ask forgiveness Yours Very Truly Ulysses Grant Allen[*Kansas*] J.C. MERRITT. President. D.M. KENNEDY, Vice President. J.M. MASSEY, Vice President. A.N. Allen, Cashier. W.F. ALLEN, Asst. Cashier. R.A. LIGHT, Asst. Cashier. 3819 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHANUTE, KANS. June 13, 1912. Hon, Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I was fortunate enough to be elected alternate-at-large from the State of Kansas. I enclose herewith a list of delegates and alternates from Kansas. We also succeeded in having our candidate for Congress, Mr. W.M. Gray, made the unanimous choice of the Progressives of the Third District Congressional Conv. of Kansas to make the race against Phil Campbell in the August Primaries. I am enclosing you two letters which I am sending out in Mr. Gray's behalf. We are making our fight as Roosevelt Republicans. My opinion is that of an every-day common Republican, yet I believe it is absolutely necessary that you should attend the Chicago Convention. It looks as if the bunch were going to try and steal enough delegates to defeat you in the nomination unless you yourself get in the game, and with your personality and power before the delegates at the convention prevent the attempted steal. The Roosevelt Club here intends to have a meeting tonight, and send telegrams condemning the actions of Mulvane and the National Committee, and ask for a square deal. Heres hoping that you can attend the Convention, and that you can bring about the defeat of the National Committee and secure the nomination for yourself and can afterward be elected. Very truly yours, W. F. Allen. Hope you can spare time later as to help us beat Campbell.CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ALBERT AMUNDSON, PASTOR PRESCOTT, WISCONSIN. [*B*] June 13th, 1912. Col. Theo. Roosevelt. Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: Your fight for the presidential nomination I have followed with the keenest interest. But I must not take time to say more about that. The crisis is here, and the crooked forces against you must be beaten. But how? It certainly looks as if the Committee is seeing to it that you shall have a minority in the convention. But as I understand, the decision of the Committee is not final; the contents can be brought before the convention. But the Taft forces are going to be in a majority, as it seems; so what can be done? Something must be done! This wrong must not be perpetrated!CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ALBERT AMUNDSON, PASTOR PRESCOTT, WISCONSIN. So it seems to me, you absolutely must bring the contests before the convention. But first you must make a tremendous appeal, personal appeal, if possibly by some one person who would be most likely to have in fluence in each particular case, to each one of the uninstructed deligates (except possibly in a few cases where you possibly knew it could do no good) and also to the fairest of the Taft deligates (for undoubtedly there must be such), to refuse to be partners to a deal to deliberately steal deligates. Appeal to them on the ground that if a nomination is made fraudulently, the nominee cannot be elected next fall. The convention must, absolutely must mete outCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ALBERT AMUNDSON, PASTOR PRESCOTT, WISCONSIN justice, if it is to go before the American people next fall with hope of success. Then when you bring your cases of contests before the convention, begin with the worst. When finally it has been determined how the convention is to be constituted, make another personal appeal to the above mentioned delegates (well, unless you are absolutely certain without a shadow of doubt what so ever that you have a majority. An [?] it might do good; because this victory ought to be decisive), to refuse to vote for Taft and to vote for you, on the ground that Taft cannot possibly be elected next fall. This is a fact that every one knows that is not entirely blinded by prejudice. EvenCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ALBERT AMUNDSEN, PASTOR PRESCOTT, WISCONSIN. Governor Harmon of Ohio, the richest of the possible Democratic candidates, can beat him easily. You know it. I will not take up any more of your valuable time. With best wishes for success in the coming convention, I remain humbly, an interested observer, Albert Amundsen P.S. It may seem strange for me to advise you to appeal to Taft deligates to vote for you. Of course I don't advise you to do it where these deligates really represent the will of the votes they represent. But there are enough Taft deligates that do not, especially in the South. You can appeal to these.PersonalFRED W. BACHO, President T. J. ELLIS, Secretary OFFICE OF Republican County and Municipal Club 58 CONTI STREET FORMERLY 1896--THE CENTRAL CLUB--1908-1911 BELL PHONE 2944 Mobile, Ala.,__June 13-1912________191___ My dear Colonel: Merely for your information I desire to State that I will lay aside my law practices and other business matters and leave here tonight for the Chicago Convention, even though I have been unseated as delegate from the State at Large. I feel, and so does a great majority of the American people that you will be the next President of this great nation. I did my best in your behalf and worked in conjunction with Hon. Oscar R. Hundley, J.O. Thompson and others, and my only wish is that you will be successful. We are with you until the end. Just as soon as you are nominated I expect to stump the country in your behalf. Very truly yours, Fred W. Bacho Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.auc 6-18-12 4 St. Louis, Mo., June 13, 1912 The Outlook: Can you tell me where I may conveniently obtain a copy of the book form of Mr. Roosevelt's Western addresses of 1910 entitled, "The New Nationalism"? This is referred to in first column of page 335 (335) of June 15 issue of the outlook. If you have a copy for sale, kindly advise price, which I will then forward. Geo. H. Barlow 2928 Dodier St.THE CHICAGO HERD MUST LEAD THE WORLD! SUPREME ORGANIZER JAMES J. DAVIS PITTSBURGH, PA. SUPREME DICTATOR ARTHUR H. JONES INDIANAPOLIS. IND. SUPREME SECRETARY RODNEY H. BRANDON ANDERSON. IND. SUPREME TREASURER D. F. CRAWFORD PITTSBURGH. PA. SUPREME COUNCIL M. M. GARLAND PITTSBURGH. PA. HY. D. DAVIS CLEVELAND. OHIO. JOHN B. PRICE CHICAGO. ILL. CURTIS H. GREGG GREENSBURGH. PA. J. G. ARMSTRONG PITTSBURGH. PA. LOYAL MOOSE IN THE UNITED STATES MAY 1, 1912 384,000 --- SUBORDINATE LODGES 1,005 --- Write or call at this office for full particulars regarding the one progressive order that is now attracting the attention of THE WORLD. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE OFFICE OF Harry G. Bartruff DEPUTY SUPREME ORGANIZER TELEPHONES: RANDOLPH 2705 AUTOMATIC 67-168 CHICAGO OFFICE: 1334 MARQUETTE BLDG. DEARBORN AND ADAMS STS. 23 June 13th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Honorable Sir & Brother:- The S. S. Theodore Roosevelt makes the first moonlight excursion of the season on Thursday evening, June 20th under special charter to the joint lodges of our order in this city, and by unanimous vote of our members you are most cordially invited to accompany us as our honored guest. We assure you we will be "dee-lighted with your company and guarantee you a "bully" time. With our very best wishes for your success in the Republican National Convention here on Tuesday next, we beg to remain Yours very truly, in P.A. & P. THE CHICAGO LODGES L.O.O.M. Harry G. Bartruff Deputy Supreme Org.[*ack 6-18-12*] The W. W. Babcock Company (INCORPORATED) MANUFACTURERS OF SPRUCE LADDERS JACKSON CHURNS DIRECTORS: D. L. STEWART, PRES. E. K. DERICK, VICE-PRES W. W. BABCOCK, SEC’Y, TREAS. AND MGR. W. H. CRAIG W. B. HAMILTON BATH, N.Y., June 13, 12 [*5*] Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y., My dear Sir: I am writing you, as Vice-president of the Progressive League of central New York, for the county of Steuben, and I beg to say to you, that the supporters of the Progressive principle, are doubling its numbers each hour. For the past forty-eight hours, a chill has gone over the hearts of the American people, caused by the strong arm measures, which are being used to down this great and good principle. Many prominent, honest and good thinking business men, have made known to me by letter and in person, that they would prefer that the Roosevelt delegates assemble in a convention of their own, and nominate their choice, on the grounds that the existing conditions do not represent the Progressive principle. I feel sure that should such be the case, that you would find the most loyal support of the American people. I am not speaking from the atmosphere of this locality, but in general, for our company have men covering fourteen states east of Indiana, and they report generally this feeling. We have circulated petitions over this country, which are very generally signed, and are in the hands of the delegates from this Congressional district. Assuring you that whatever is done in your behalf, will be embraced in this section, I am Yours very truly, W. W. Babcock WWB-KFirst Pen at Milwaukee, 1911 AT MILWAUKEE'S BIG 1911 SHOW, First Pen, First and Second Cocks, Second Cockerel, Second Hen, and Grand Special for Best Display AT CHICAGO, 1911, 3rd Pen, 3rd and 5th Hen "WAMNA" Winner as a Pullet at Delavan, 1907, at Chicago as a Hen in 1908, at Rockford. 1909, and now smooth in color and almost as dark as when she was a pullet. A wonderful Breeder. A. W. BLANCHARD BELOIT. WIS. SEVENTH SEASON IN ROSE AND SINGLE COMB REDS OF QUALITY June 13th, 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir: I send you the enclosed clipping to show that we are not all La Follett men in Wisconsin. To cut my words to the least possible extent, in the hopes that you may read them, I will simply say: "You must bolt if you don't get the nomination. Don't failto stand by those of us who believe that the only hope of the Republic and, as well, of the Republican party, lies in your election this year. Yours Respectfully, A. W. Blanchard. I remember you in 1881, but you dont recall me, of course. Nevertheless I want to aid you in this election all that is possible, not for "old times" but for the future of our dear Country.[*[6-13-12]*] THE PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY PHILADELPHIA FRANK H. BURDSALL June 13th 1912 My dear Colonel For Gods sake, For the country's sake, & for the sake of the Republican Party go to Chicago & give that Gang of Pirates all the Hell that's coming to them, for damn richly they deserve it. Thine F H Burdsall To Colonel Theo Roosevelt the People are with you Tooth & nailWILLIAM L. CHAMBERS Attorney and Counsellor at Law BOND BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. June 13th 12 My Dear Mr. Roosevelt. It seems to me that I might liable to serve you somewhat in Chicago. If you think to let me know by Saturday morning (I will not be here tomorrow), and I will go, and would be happy to do so without any expense to you if I could afford it, that you know. Two delegates from Ala, one of them I have helped twice to get federal appointments, ought to listen to my advice. They would not think I was at Chicago, however, for that purpose. They are going to steal the nomination to which you are entitled, and every legitimateeffort should be used to circumvent the rascality. My going should not cost your campaign fund anything beyond my expenses - which I am sorry even to mention. You may recall the services rendered by me that insured the character of a young District Atty. and steward his reappointment. Your friend, W. L. Chambers.[*12*] Lockport. N. Y. June 13th, 1912 Col. Theodore. Roosevelt. Oyster. Bay. N. Y. Dear. Mr. Roosevelt:- I feel that I'm taking almost to great a liberty in writing you at this strenuous time, but it is to urge upon you that which seems to me of vital importance. I want to urge you with all the force with which I am capable to be an Independent Candidate for President, should the Convention at Chicago, nominate President Taft. I am not a polition, I am content to be called a plain man. I have studied politics for ten years and have noted many shady things, but nothing in comparison to the works of the Taft forces during the past months. I fail to see how President Taft can have the courage to face the American people for reelection, after the indecent and outrageous acts of the National Committee, and others of his followers. Should he get the nomination, it will mean utter defeat, as no sensible, right thinking American would vote for him. He wouldn't get enough votes to know he was running. I supported President Taft four years ago, because I thought he was a Progressive. I soon perceived, however, as I saw the political Sculptors gather around him, a huge bulk of clay being molded and shaped into any and all designs that suited their artistic fancies. Very clever Artists, these old guard, politicians, they can make a lump of clay look almost human. I believe Boss rule, and Machine politics has nearly reached its end; I believe that right now it is making its last stand, it last great fight, from which if it ever emerges, it will be so scared and crippled, that it will never be able to give battle again. I want this to come about, that is why I urge you to become a candidate, whether or not the Convention nominates Taft. You are the only man who can cause them to take the count, and I hope to see you do it. There is no man who can defeat you for President; even though you were obliged to run independently. Yours With Best Wishes, C.E. Comstock.Anderson Ind. June 13th 1912 [*B*] Hon Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y Dear Friend when we had our primary Election here I voted for delegates for you for I thought you was the strongest man and could be elicted but at Same time I told my friends if taft was nominated I would vote for him. Now since they have Stole all the contested delegates from you. I will not vote for taft if he is nominated and I no lots of other Voters will do like wise. I had two Democrats tell me they would vote for you if you was nominated, andSome of the old pat republicans say that they will not vote for you if you are nominated. The way it looks to me the Stand pats will be no more. now if you get nominated and Elected Pres I hope you will not apoint no stand pat to office. it is a Shame and disgrace the way they are doing. I hope you will pull through. I have two Brothers in Ohio that are for you and I no the whole state Ohio is for you and so is Indiana do your best to get nominated is my Wish and show the Stand pats where they are at. Yours truly James H. Cook 1103 W-4th St. Anderson IndNational Soldiers Home, Tennessee 6/13/12/ Dear Mr. Roosevelt I rec'. your letter today and shall preserve it as I think highly of getting a letter from a Gentleman that was 7 years President of our glorious country and will be again as I feel it in m bones that hell across the pathway cannot stem the tide and I will save your letter to show the folks after you are where you belong in the Presidential chair and where you will be if my vision is right, The old soldiers call Taft old bean belly, Well! who made Taft who2 made him Governor of the Philippines who made him secretary of war, and who made him President, Teddy, and now he says Teddy is a liar and a dangerous man. It would be laughable if it were not so ridiculous Yes, The people can all be fooled some of the time but not all the time and they will show at the Pole's what they think of a man that uses his once friend like that. The Democrats are tickled as they think there will be two Republican tickets in the field and give them the best chance for years, They are not sure out of the boat either. They always were a party ofI here 20 times a day here, He's all right nothing's the matter with, Teddy 3 blunderers forever losing their chance. it will be the same way this time as there will be thousands upon Thousands that will vote for Teddy and there man will slip, If the Taft crowd force him on then run independent, You will have a plurality over all as you will have the biggest vote ever given a Candidate Thousands all over the country are crazy on Teddy and of both parties and dont let them do you out of it as you are the peoples choice. We Know Teddy and know Taft and know what is desired. If you are very busy now no answer is necessary to this letter and none will be looked for but get nominated if Taft crowd holds out and run Independent, The office is waiting for you Respectfully, Alonzo H. Cox: Natl Sol Home Washington Co.- TennesseeALLYN HOUSE HARTFORD, CONN. ROBERT J. ALLYN, PROP. JOHN J. DAMILL, MANAGER June 13/1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay L.I New York Dear Sir, The accompanying clipping from the Hartford Times I take the liberty of sending you. It is significant of the expressions I overhear daily. To-night sitting alone in the dining-room I noticed a party of diners - about a dozen or so - come in and after being seated I could not help but hear several voices discussing the present political situation. What impressed me most was the emphatic declarations made by the diners, one after another saying “I am for Roosevelt” “So am I” “He is the only man I’ll vote for” and such similar remarks. The majority of this party, if not all, was composed of Hebrews & as it so happened I was just creating the letter to the Times referred to. I decided to forward the extract to you & mention the incident of the diners. And I want to say right here that I never voted for a national Republican ticket for my ALLYN HOUSE HARTFORD, CONN. ROBERT J. ALLYN, PROP. JOHN J. DAMILL, MANAGER. #2 leanings have been usually toward the Democratic. I say this so as not to sail, or pretend to sail, under false or misleading colors. But this year and for some time past my thoughts have undergone a change and whether I vote for you or not I cannot help but admire your courage and determination. At least I can say so much without any apology to anybody. I have had some warm if not violent forays at arms with a particularly & particaly violent individual who prides himself upon being always a Republican whose animosity to you has not even the charm of novelty. You have undoubtedly met many of his kind. Ex uns disee onenes. According to impartial listeners I have not come out second best in overturning & demolishing his fantastic [cond] assailment of your activities. His voice is great but so is the braying of an ass. The talk of consistency is so much froth to my way of thinking. You remember what Gladstone had to say on the subject when twitted in the House of Commons on his charge of front & views. There is'nt a business man in the country worth his salt who does not#3 ALLYN HOUSE HARTFORD, CONN. ROBERT J. ALLYN. PROR JOHN J. DAMILL, MANAGER. have to somersault his opinions & position frequently & often. The people who shout about consistency should also remember that ingratitude is a worse sin. The people at large in their hearts trust you & believe that despite of everything you are honest and have an eye single to the good of the country & the welfare of its citizen's As an Irishman I cannot help but admire & extol your fighting qualities. I trust you will not take amiss this sentiment of my esteem & well wishes. hurriedly dashed off. Respectfully Yours. J. W. Darrah.Albert E. Davis ARCHITECT Borough BRONX, N.Y. "Ah, to build, to build!" That is the noblest art of all the arts."—LONGFELLOW Office, Two-Fifty-Eight East One-Hundred-and-Thirty-Eighth Street West of Third Avenue Telephone, Melrose 1238 New York June 13, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir: The tactics being resorted to by your opponents in Chicago prompt me to express the hope and belief that such methods will prove more harmful to them than to you. For the last four years, your portrait has hung along side that of Washington, on my office wall, and as it has not been removed since you announced your candidacy, you can see that one humble Republican (among many) fails to see anything in your course out of harmony with that of our first president. With best wishes for your success, Very respectfully yours, Albert E. DavisThe Phœnix Insurance Company Hartford, Conn. J. W. De MOTT, General Agent for Long Island, 180 MONTAGUE STREET. PHONE: 5750 AND 5751 MAIN. Brooklyn, N.Y. June 13.12 Dear Sir: Permit me to suggest that Mr. Justin McCarthy, whom you well know, has in my opinion a strong influence over the Kings Co. delegation and could influence some of them, at least, to your support. I believe a word or request from Mr. Roosevelt would enlist his earnest support. He leaves for Chicago to-morrow, I believe, and I wish he could be communicated with before he leaves. This is to confirm my telephone message and is to be treated as strictly confidential. With my best wishes, Sincerely yours, J. W. De Mott To: Hon. Theodore Roosevelt,From the German. by A. Knight. June 13, 1912 This correspondent, S.h. Deutsch, says he is a great admirer of Mr. Roosevelt and his political policies; and he has written a little dramatic sketch, which he outlines; the idea of which, he says, came to him during the marriage celebration of his niece on May 30. He outlines the characters; and at the end he writes "Apotheosis; ;Theodore Roosevelt floats over the group of characters, a cherub in each hand, smiling on the group, There is more delineation, but probably this is enough A.K. [*wiping a tear from the heroine's eyes.*]Attached to Deutsch ca 6-13-12PHONE, CENTRAL 4464 L [*[ca 6-13-12]*] S. H. DEUTSCH IMPORTER AND JOBBER OF CROCKERY, CHINA, GLASS AND ENAMEL WARE 511-513 BROADWAY BRANCH {433 BROADWAY {420 WOODLAND AVE. Cleveland, O.,____191__ [*EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT JUN 13 1912 ANSR. Manulutait by NO ANS. MS. June 13 BY A.Chught*] Ein psychologischer Richter Personen des Stückes. I. Reiche Witwe, Millionärin 40 Jahre alt, Katzen und Hundeliebhaberin, gibt Hunde und Katzen [jaurs?] besitzt alle verrückten Einfalls unserer übergeschnappten Society - Damen. II. Kleiner Geschäftsmann, Familienvater von 8 Kindern, Mutter kürzlich gestorben, durch Schicksalsschläge heruntergekommen, ist mit Rent in Rückstande nur [?] von oberwähnter Landlady für Zahlung gegreßt[?] und mit Delegierung bedroht. Alle Bittgänge des Mannes zur fort[?] Gläubigerinvergeblich, wird gar nicht vorgelassen, bloß ein mitleidiger Servant weiblichen Geschlechtes steckt dem mitgehenden Kinde heimlich etwas zu. III. Gerichtsverhandlung. Richter beschließt vor Erlassung des DelegierungsbefehlsATTATCHED TO DEUTSCH 6-13-12 IV. Landlady ger[?]lich vorzuladen. Voller Gerichtssal meistens weibliche Zuhörer. Vater von allen 8 Kindern umringt, Jüngstes schmiegt sich an ihn an, Landlady erscheint mit einem aufgeputzten Kätzchen im Arm. Benimmt sich sehr verrückt, besteht wie [shylock?] auf ihren [?]. Kinder drücken schon zusammen. Verhandlung nimmt ihren Fortgang. Ermahnungen des Richters sichtlich nicht ohne Einwirkung auf alle Anwesenden [?] Richter fragt, ob sie, die ein Herz für Hunde und Katzen hat, denn so gar nichts fühlt für ihre leidenden Mitmenschen. Apostrophierte macht seelischen[?] Kampf durch, Kinder erregt, weiter schluchzen, Landlady vor den Kindern schließlich niedersinkend das Jüngste an sich drückend "Nein, nein, nicht verjagen will[?] ich Euch, will Euch lieber Mutter sein. Nächstes Bild Glückliche Familien[?] Vater jetzt der Husband of the Landlady Jüngstes an der Mutter Schoß hat Kätzchen auf ihrem Schoße,THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER SEND the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Raleigh W 13 June 13th [12?] TO Cap... Roosevelt Bay Your friends have no compromise Sweden delegates learned to sell through men pourel clayton dropped here as aftermath of rebellion. Al DockeryJ. S. DUNLAP MANUFACTURER OF HOUSEHOLD SPECIALTIES 215-217-219 SO. CLINTON STREET TELEPHONE, HARRISON 7137 NUMBER CHANGED TO 334-338 CHICAGO, ILL. Residence, 487 E. 62nd Street Telephone 54 Hyde Park June 13th.1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir: Through the kendness(to me) of your Mr.E.W.Sims, I am emboldened to send the "last"in Coffee Machines for your diversions, and I venture to hope your enjoyment of its product. I hasten to bespeak your forgiveness for Mr. Sims, as many of your people are very enthusiastic over this process, and my attack was made when he was extremely busy. I hope you will be so kind as to have the machine placed in your Auto.when starting for Sagamore Hill.and that ita efficiency will be learned by setting it on the gas range, three to five minutes, as per directions herewith enclosed. I suggest trying an Ounce to the pint of water of the ground coffee packed in the carton with the Extractor. Of course your taste will fix the quantity for you. Excuse me for greatly honoring myself by claiming to be one of your"plain" people. Millions hope and pray, that you are to fully consumate your beneficent plans. I confess that this intrusion is intended in the line of diversion, and I am very grateful for this opportunity, and shall trust that its novelty will be readily mastered. Very truly you obedient servant, J. S. DunlapW. H. FARRELL, 86 John Street Wm. H. Farrell, GRAINER Plain and Decorative Painting and Paperhanging. Canvas and Hotel Ceilings a Specialty. Telephone 989 MAIN STREET. Hartford, Conn.,___________________191 86 John St Hartford CT June 13 - 1912 Dear Colonel i am wrighting you knowing your heart must be heavy with the Dirt and corruption you are receiving from (Part) of the Republican Party i am not afraid but i do ask you in my own humble way to stand to the end the United States and even Connecticut will be in line when the time comes Good Luck and God Speed Wm H Farrell Dont answer i know you are busyWM. FETZER, PRES. AND TREAS. J. FRANCIS MILLER, VICE-PRES. W. H. MINTON, SEC'Y. THE WILLIAM FETZER COMPANY FACTORY ESTABLISHED DAYTON, OHIO SPRINGFIELD, ILL 1858 1908 MOST MODERN IMPLEMENT FACTORY IN THE WORLD THE LARGEST LINE OF GRAIN DRILLS FERTILIZER DRILLS AND SEEDING MACHINERY MADE IN ANY FACTORY IN AMERICA ___ TRANSPLANTERS, POTATO PLANTERS, DISC HARROWS, ETC., ETC. DIRECTORS JOHN C. FETZER CHICAGO JAS. A. EASLEY SAMUEL J. STOUT J. FRANCIS MILLER WILLIAM FETZER SPRINGFIELD, ILL [*R.*] SALES DEPARTMENT SPRINGFIELD, ILL., U. S. A. June, 13th, 12. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay, New York My Dear Mr. Roosevelt: - The enclosed manuscript, I believe will please you. I hope you will find the time to read it carefully. If this article is worthy of your approval you are welcome to use it for such advantages as may seem to you to be practical. With kindest personal regards, I am Very Truly Yours William FetzerJune 13th 1912 Mrs Flora Feuzl General Delivry or 1368 Geary. st Mr. Theadore. Roosevelt I, write to you again and it is some time since I wrote to you- and I would like to have some thing, from you, as I told you before, the public by the whole and a few have for years. tortured me. and with that pension and working at the swet of my3 I am very Bad off. and were my feet are tortured By being made. wear old shoes. I have anoyed my relations who have not money to pay my fare. and now I have not had food. since yesterday, as Lawyer Short ridge said he would have money for me. it [xx] done. By those ? diel with I said before I will not be in any such poor homes and places that I have. to struggle to keep [pure?], I can not - be bodily abused 2 Browe. I have been fooled by Lawyers, and the Last one I went two promised to get money from the u.s. treasery to help me. and in the mean time I [?] for badly inger since I have been here. I have roamed six different times and have worked four different places. Being abused, and such, driveing me around, to keep me distetute, and futher badly riger. planed. I ask your assistince. of you only send me. money for my fare - one hunderd dollers, will help meas I am. any longer I will say. that I care not work any more. and being cornered up. so that I haven't a roof. over my head., and, now I will have to try and work in another private house and will be abused, and stood over. By the women. I just ask you to help me. Now either to pay my fare to Toronto and or to help me with food. and it will be appreciated by me. John A. Hall, President Justin H. Appleton, Vice Pres[t?] Henry M. Phillips, Secretary Incorporated 1851. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Springfield, Mass. A. J. Fowler, General Agent. Little Rock, Ark., June 13th 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear sir;- I appreciate the fact that you have too many things of great importance to take up every minute of your time, without even giving a thought to a letter from humble citizen like myself, yet I must say- I am deeply impressed with your statement of the 8th inst. Caption- " ROOSEVELT ASKS PEOPLE TO PROTEST". Have not theAmerican people protested with their sacred right, the ballot. This right was handed down to us by our fathers and fore-fathers. The people have spoken, we have exercised our moral right, and that has been ignored- our franchise has been stolen from us. Will we submit or will we assert our rights and defend them as free american citizens. Protest - If you had protested when you came fact to face with some of the fierce animals, when you was on your hunting trip in Africa, where would you be today? We are up against a gang of robbers and bosses, equally as unscrupulous as any wild animal that treds the forest. As a native of Ohio, and a veteran of the Civil War, after mature deliberation calmly, and with premeditation, I am ready to go to shooting. I am not a kid without experience. I have marched thro the streets of Little Rock, with six men armed with winchesters byT. R.------2 my side, to the Court House, and deposited our ballots. Immediately following the Reconstruction, I was appointed Sheriff of a county where every officer in the county had been killed, and there were eight hundred men in the woods under arms. During the Brooks-Baxter War in Arkansas, I organized the First Regiment, and was commissioned Colonel, and took possession of the State House, and held it until the contest was over. It has been said many times, that I was the only real U.S. Marshal this District every had, General Powell Clayton told me that every body said I was the --- best marshal they ever had. You know, when you was President, and visited Little Rock, you was put in my care, when you arrived, and you know I handled things then; again, a short time ago, when you visited Little Rock, you know who handled things- so that if any of your managers need a man, and they can use me, they will know something about my experience, and they can call me any minute, and place me anywhere they desire, and I will respond, "Johnny on the spot". I trust you will pardon me for having said so much about myself, but I have already explained why I did this. Yours to command anytime, any place, and under any circumstances, A. S. Fowler[For attachment see 6-13-12][*[For attachment see 6-13-12]*]J. E. Givhan, Physician & Planter. [*B*] Pontotoc, Miss., 6/13 1912 Colonel Roosevelt, Oyster Bay N.Y. Me dear Colonel: I have voted the Democratic ticket Since 1876, but hope this time to be able to cast my vote for Roosevelt. This I [?] I could [?] you could get justice in your National Convention. The people of this Nation want Roosevelt a man who is a Natural ruler of men & a man that does things. I know that your election to the Presidency would mean more for the South than any democrat that could be elected. It’s a shame & disgrace to justice the way youJ. E. Givhan, Physician & Planter. Pontotoc, Miss., 191 Col. R #2 are now being treated by your National Committee. This committee is ruled by demagogs and unscrupulous politicians. I hope the voice of the people will rise up like a clyclone, sweep you into the presidency of the U.S — You have many friends in this state. Yours very truly. J.E. Givhan.Thomas L. James, Pres't, WMA. Simonson Vice Pres't. Chas. Elliot Warren, Vice Pres't. David C. Orant, Cashier John S. Sammis JR., Ass't Cashier Henry E. Stubing, Ass't Cashier. 2,608. The Lincoln National Bank' of the City of New York. 32 to 42 East 42d. Street, New York Cable Address "Lincolnbank" Codes Used Lieber's Anglo-American American Banker's Association June 13, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I am impelled, by what I read in to-day's papers, to ask: Do you favor the incorporation in the National Republican Platform of a plank in advocacy of woman suffrage? Misrepresentation and distortion of fact so mark the conduct of the modern newspaper press, that I am hopeful you have been misquoted in this instance, for I have been most sanguine of having the opportunity again to vote for you for President, as, from the very day of your accession to that exalted office, you have represented my ideal of an Executive for this great Republic. It is to me inconceivable that the day can come when in this country true womanhood, which we have striven to keep on the high pedestal where it properly belongs, shall be dragged down and injected into the turmoil of politics. When that time comes, if it ever do, then shall I be ready to abandon my right of franchise. Very respectfully yours, David A. Grant [*[David A. Grant]*]Boone and Crockett Club [OFFICE OF SECRETARY] 49 WALL STREET, NEW YORK PRESIDENT W. AUSTIN WADSWORTH OF NEW YORK VICE- PRESIDENTS ARNOLD HAGUE OF WASHINGTON D.C WILLIAM D. PICKETT OF WYOMING ARCHIBALD ROGERS OF NEW YORK WALTER B. DEVEREUX OF COLORADO THEODORE ROOSEVELT OF NEW YORK SECRETARY MADISON GRANT, 11 WALL STREET ,NEW YORK TREASURER C. GRANT LA FARGE, 25 MADISON SQUARE N., NEW YORK EDITORIAL COMMITTEE GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL THEODORE ROOSEVELT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY AND TREASURER, ex-officio W. REDMOND CROSS } TO SERVE UNTIL 1913 CHAS. STEWART DAVISON } LEWIS RUTHERFURD MORRIS } TO SERVE UNTIL 1914 EDWARD HUBERT LITCHFIELD } CHARLES SHELDON } TO SERVE UNTIL 1915 WILLIAM K. DRAPER } GAME PRESERVATION COMMITTEE CHARLES SHELDON, Chairman J WALTER WOOD W. REDMOND CROSS EDWARD HUBERT LITCHFIELD CHARLES H. TOWNSEND E. W. NELSON ALEXANDER LAMBERT GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL } ADVISORY MEMBERS LEWIS RUTHERFURD MORRIS } NEW YORK, June 18th, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: I wish to thank you very much for your contribution of $25.00 towards the special fund to be used by the Game Preservation Committee of the Boone & Crockett Club. Very truly yours, Henry G. Gray, Chairman Finance Committee.YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 14 MAIN STREET, YONKERS, N.Y. SECRETARY'S OFFICE. June 13th 1912. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- Pardon me for "butting in" but I can not help but feel that you should be in Chicago next week, you owe it to the Republicans who have voted for you throughout the country to give the cause your personal direction and supervision in these days that are to come. The power of your personality among those thieves will shame them from their present course and win the battle for righteousness. Go to Chicago I pray you, With warmest personal regards, good wishes and earnest prayers, believe me Faithfully yours, Walter F. Haskett.The Springvale Rural Telephone Line Incorporated May 4, 1908 STOCKHOLDERS LEE S. SMITH, President S. R. RUSHY, Treasurer RUBEN LEAVELL, Stockholder A. C. HAMLIN, SEC'Y R. F. D. No. 8, Box 62 Phone 551, Evansville West Line Evansville, Oklahoma Headquarters JOHN VINCENT, Vice President WILSON JENNINGS W. H. POWELL W. M. JARMON Directors Guthrie, Okla., June 13 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York [*B*] Sir: You must excuse me for writing you at this time as I know you are very busy with your Presidental fight But this is to imform you that not only you are watching the outcome of the fight But the most humblest citizens over the actions that are seamingly to be put forth as to defraud you out of your nomination. Pardon me to say but I was Secretary of the Logan County Convention for what we call the Roosevelt side. We then had 10 or 15 more delegates then the Taft side had. Then they would not yeild. But contested us at the State convention but there we had them beat to bad. I was allso a delegate to the (1) first Dis., Convention and they could not make no showing at all. Please pardon me again to say But I am the only colored man that has been elected to the The Springvale Rural Telephone Line Incorporated May 4, 1908 STOCKHOLDERS LEE S. SMITH, President S. R. RUSHY, Treasurer RUBEN LEAVELL, Stockholder A. C. HAMLIN, SEC'Y R. F. D. No. 8, Box 62 Phone 551, Evansville West Line Evansville, Oklahoma Headquarters JOHN VINCENT, Vice President WILSON JENNINGS W. H. POWELL W. M. JARMON Directors Guthrie, Okla., 191 Legislature, in the State of Oklahoma. I was elected at the age of 26 yr's I am what we call in Okla an 1889'er I was elected to the second Legislature from my District with a good, big majority and I served out that term. But the second time I ran [with] the grandfather claus was in force. When they thought sure I would be beat I received a much larger majority then I did, the first time I ran. But what did they do then for me, and others, they between two sun's changed things up then caused me to contest before a Demorcrat Legislature and you know the rest. But the masses of people are tired of of that old gag rule they are trying to put to you dont you think once that the well thinking voters are not with you. They are with you, down here to stay if it takes, a bolt or a tap stay with them and you will find, the people, will Land you, President of This Great Country of our's I write this Colonel because I think at this time you should know how the people all over the Country feals about this contest of yours, I could say more but I shall not delay you any longer. (over)3 But stay with them we are with you to stay yours, neighbors Cerlamlin [Hamlin]B Jacksonville, Florida, June 13, 1912. Dear Sir: As a Southern Republican of a Progressive persuasion, I wish to tell you that the people are with you and your policies in this fight. With all due respects to the high office of President and with all deference to the distinguished occupant, Mr. Taft, I will venture the broad assertion that, if he be nominated at the Chicago Convention, the people by its popular vote will repudiate him at the polls in November. Progressiveism stands practically to-day where Republicanism stood in 1854 when Fremont was its leader; it won four years later. Progressiveism may, by an unwarranted use of Federal patronage in the South, be defeated to-day, but its real beginning will date from its very defeat. It will be the party of the future and may, without indulging in any illusive vission, hope to sway the country as long as the party of Lincoln and Fremont. Whatever happens at Chicago, the country is with you.It seems pretty bad for a man to force his nomination by use of Federal patronage when he has been defeated at the polls in every contest when his policies have been the issue. It would seem that he is deliberately playing the part of a political suicide; and the leaders who will, in face of this pupular verdict, nominate him seem willing to sacrifice the party to attain temporary ends. Methinks that, when Maccauley's New Zealadner shall stand upon the broken arches of London bridge and gaze upon the solitary shepherd tending his flocks upon the green swards of what is now the world's metropolis, the name and memory of some men will have been perpetuated-- while others will have perished from the earth. The hieroglyphics will forget 'em utterly. Policies and foresight are the only really imperishable things. Stick to your policies. Yours for success, Ramon B. Harrison Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.of the proper sort to go to the White House and greet you for a moment with just a word and a hand clasp. Faithfully yours I. B. Hill. 35 Westervelt Ave. Plainfield, N.J. June 13/12. Hon, Theodore Roosevelt Office of "The Outlook" N.Y. City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: To say that I felt most highly honored and more than pleased at the receipt last evening of your note acknowledging my letter seems like a poor expression of my actual gratification.I cannot, however, permit the occasion to pass without letting you know that I appreciate more than you can understand your great kindness in replying. My sole purpose in writing was, as I expressed it in my letter, to help you to know directly how the people's minds are working, by giving you some of my ideas and showing how they are developed by the ideas of people around me. I considered that you are altogether too much occupied and have too many such things sent you to be able to reply to them. You did what I consider is a most exceptional and gracious act for one situated as you are and gave me an insight into some reasons why you have such a personal grip on your fellows. I have informed Mrs. Hill that during next year we shall hope to make a trip taking in Washington and finding opportunityBlankets, Robes, Whips, Metal Polish Lamps ANDREW H HINKSON HARNESS MAKER 2202 WEST THIRD STREET AMERICAN UNION PHONE 531 Veterinary Remedies, Stable Supplies, Repairing [*1*] Chester, Pa., June 13 1912 Colonel Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y Dear Sir. I want to let you know what the voters of my precinct think of Col. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft Delegates to National convention Taft 21-17 Alternate 16-15 Roosevelt 87-88 " 94-94 Delegates to State Convention Taft 18--24--18 Roosevelt 92--95--89 We only needed 1 vote on the state delegate to have had 4 to 1 The majority of these voters would not Vote for Taft if nominated and from the dirt they did at chicago these last few day he will have none only menANDREW H. HINKSON HARNESS MAKER 2202 WEST THIRD STREET AMERICAN UNION PHONE 531 Blankets, Robes, Whips, Metal Polish Lamps Veterinary Remedies, Stable Supplies, Repairing Chester, Pa., ......................................191 who have to be told how to vote. I surely hope you will get the nomination and election and will promise to be on the job early when election day comes. Hoping that you may get a square deal in the convention which I fear is rather doubtful at this time I am Very Truly Yours A. H. Hinkson Lincoln, Ala., June 13th, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, [*15*] Oyster Bay. My dear Sir: Two of your friends, Mr. L. F. Gore and myself, are going to vote for you in November if we have to write your name on the ballot. My opinion is that you would sweep the country and be elected by the biggest majority ever given a candidate for President. I sincerely trust that you will not be cheated out of the nomination, but if you are, I think you should carry it before the people. I have admired you for years and I earnestly hope to see you the next President of the United States. With best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, W. L. Hollingsworth.Form 1871 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO. M. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BOOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER’S NO. 14 TIME FILED 140 p CHECK 30- [?] SEND the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to To Knoxville Tenn 6/13 Viany 6/13 - [1912] Hon Theo Roosevelt Just leaving for Chicago. Why not have Mass Meetings in all the States Between Now and tuesday to protest Against arbitrary and unjust actions of National Committee. Jno. C Houk READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACKNew York City June 13th '12 T Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay Long Island. Dear Sir _____ I am sending the accompany enclosure with the hope that its publication in Chicago papers may arrest the attention of the Negro delegates now assembling there. You have permission to alter or rearrange if you so desire, and I, as a sincere well-wisher, hope it will be of assistance to you. If you think it will be, please send it on to Chicago and I hope I may be favored with a copy of whatever paper it may be inserted in With best Wishes and Success Stephen A Hooker 12 W 133rd St 368 Steinway Ave., L. I. City, NY, [*[Ans. June 13, 1912]*] Dear Col. Roosevelt I am only one, but how many more like me, determined, that you shall be our next President. (I believe you the onlyman) I wish you success also say now nobody but you will get my vote. Sincerely H. E. HowardB Lima Ohio 6/13 12 Hon. T. Roosevelt Oyster Bay NY My. Dear. H. President there are many of the Ohio People most faithful to you and hope that all is to end well. Please parden me you look good to the People you have them with you. they com far & near it apeales to me if you can be at Ohio next week that your admirers should apreciate it vary much at the sam tim you have worked so vary faithful such can hardly be expected. Please kindly parden me addressing you wishg you to be our leader I am yours always. Personal John. HubbardEDWARD SWEET & CO. 34 PINE STREET NEW YORK June 13, 1912. My dear Colonel Roosevelt, I have already written Egan, who is visiting his father in Kansas City, and expect a definite reply within a week. Mr, Egan is Farquhar's representative in South America. He is President of the Farquhar system of railways, a Georgian by birth, a Democrat, and a gentleman. Farquhar, the principal, is a young Pennsylvanian. He began his career as secretary to Col. Sam Thomas, drifted into New York politics, and was sent to the Legislature as a Tammany representative. He did not like his job and gave up politics to join Sir William Van Horne in Cuban and there he made his financial beginning which has grown into a big winning in South America. His backing is entirely foreign, principally French and British. I don't think it would be necessary for you to write either Farquhar or Egan. I am sure a wire from me to Farquhar would secure the position for Kermit, but I did not want to go over Egan's head unless necessary. I feel very hopeful that Egan will be quite willing to give Kermit as good a show as he has given Henry.(2) June 13, 1912. I have given this matter very earnest consideration, and assure you that I conclude it would be a very good step for Kermit to take. Affectionately yours, Leigh Hunt Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[*B*] [Cincinnati?] O. 6/13/12 Mr. T R. Roosevelt. Dear Sir I take great pleasure in writing you a few lines which I truly pray they may encourage you in your battle for the Presidential Chair. The act of this Convention may be the seed that you sowed in 1908 when Mr. Fraker run against Mr. Taft. Be not deceived God is not mocked for what so ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. If this be so of course you know it, and as God has suffered things to be as they are. Their is a remedy yet by experiencing faith in his word we shall be able to bring you through on the victory side.B. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and He delighteth in his way. Mark the perfect man and behold the up right for the end of that man Is [?]. though He fall, He shall not be utterly be cast down for the Lord up holdeth him with his hand. It is true that the wicked plotteth against the Just and gnashes upon him with his teeth. But I pray you in Jesus’s name let not this trouble you in your fight. For the Lord shall laugh at Him, for He seeth that his day is coming God has said in his word that his secrets are with the Just, from this statement is was easy for God's servants to see that He had to move Mark Hannan some years ago out of your way, and God will move some more if it become necessary. I am writing you this letter to encourage you and let you know that some of God's servants which was praying for you then are praying for you now, and if God be for you who can be against you. I refer you to a statement which was said that Lincoln stated before going to war with the South. He was ask if, He was on God's side his answer was that He was satisfy He was, but what trouble [?] was to see if God wasD. on his side. He knew if God was for him, that He would win though Hell be against him. I pray that you will let this thought trouble you until you take it in secret to God that when the time come if your will is his He will give you the victory through his Son Christ. I have seen the wicked in great [power?] and spreading himself like a Green Bay tree, yet He passed away, and lo He was not, yea, I sought him but He could not be found. Our King, has more power than your enemys, and if your motive is to give every man his equal rights, as much asE. be in your former then I say stand still and see the salvation of our God. May God ever bless you in your effort to do his will and give you power to set your face as flint against your enemys, and your continual in secret to talk with God, and when the battle is over thoes that are on the Lord’s side shall have the victory. let the news papers talk we are praying with faith. for the effectual fervent pray of a righteous man awaiteth much paid Christ Through [Ja???] Very Truly Yours For Christ P. E. Johnson 25 Garfield Place [?] O. OWNERS OF THE FAMOUS BRAND OF PLUMON CHILLED STEEL PENS SOLE AGENTS FOR WABASH FILING CABINETS MAJECTIC LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS PERFECTION IMPRESSION BOOKS CHINOOK BRAND OF TYPEWRITER SUPPLIES EUGENE DIETZGEN CO.'S ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS' SUPPLIES Justice Stationary Co. Stationers and Office Outfitters [*10*] 816 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, June 13 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay NY. Dear sir: The republicans of the Northwest, and I think of the nation, are counting on you to lead them to victory. It is up to you to discover the way, and they will follow. Or they would rather go to defeat protesting than allow the present condition to remain. It looks to a small onlooker, as if the republican party and the democratic party are both beyond redemption, and that the time for a new party had come. It may mean temporary sacrifice, but the great things of humanity are built upon sacrifice. I have talked with a great many progressives of both parties, and they are, as a rule ready for a new party. the piecounter progressives are not so enthusiastic, but those who love their country and have no dull axes, are ready and will follow you to the finish, And the piecounter fellows are mainly on the other side, anyway. At a table where all sorts of small politicians gather daily to eat and talk, I passed around a telegram calling the leaders to form a new party, headed by Roosevelt and Wilson. The great majority of those present signed it gladly, and I am confident such a movement would win. Very respectively yours, J.R. JusticeOFFICE OF ROBERT L. KRAUS OVER AMERICAN NAT. BANK MARSHFIELD, WIS. June 13th, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am enclosing to you copy of a letter I recently wrote to Ex-Governor Lind of St. Paul, which probably will serve to acquaint you with the local situation here as well as a letter of equal length. Since the writing of this letter some influence has been brought to bear on the delegate from here, Mr. R. E. winch, while I do not believe that any pressure brought to bear, would cause him to cast a vote for the President, he does not appear to have the same interest in your success that he had a short time ago. I am counting upon being at the convention, but some business of mine may prevent my going to Chicago, and it is for this reason that I am writing you with an outline of the local situation. Wishing you every possible success in securing the nomination, I am, Most cordially yours R. L. Kraus FVD-K [For enc see 5-23-12]Form No. 259. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 24,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. Receiver's No. Time Filed Check SEND the following message subject to the terms} on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to. } Louisville, Ky. 6-13-12 Hon Victor Rosewater, Chairman Republican National Committee Chicago, Ill. I a common Republican and thousands of others will note vote for Taft if nominated because of frauds perpetrated by your committee. W.C. Krutinger [*Copy*] READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK.Paris. France 5. Cité Trevise Telephone 663 Cortlandt Joseph Lassner Importer of Diamonds Maker of Fine Diamond Jewelry 65 Nassau Street New York, N. Y., June 13th, 1912. 191 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, C/o The Outlook Co. Esteemed Sir: At a recent meeting of the Republican Club of the Sixteenth Assembly District, quite a discussion was had as to the advisability of instructing the elected delegates of the Sixteenth Congressional District to support your candidacy for the nomination of President. I herewith enclose my speech on that occasion. I also presented the enclosed resolutions which I made every effort to have passed. Sorry to say that they not carried. With every hope for your success, I am , Sincerely yours, Joseph Lassner[For 2 encs see 6-3-12]Rev. P. V. Leech, The De Soto Washington, D.C. June 13/12 Personal My Dear Theo R: I plead with you to be in Chicago by Monday. The conduct of those 37 committee men is almost devilish. The greedy President lifts no voice of protest. He is totally destitute of high manliness and lofty moral honor. Hold your sightMass delegates - at large. Grip them at once. If Taft is nominated the Repub- party goes to its Waterloo of doom. I have voted for every Rep- president from Lincoln to Taft. I was a member of Tafts' Inaugural Com. God bless you. Always Your Friend, S. V. LeechLINSCOTT MOTOR COMPANY DISTRIBUTORS OF REO MOTOR CARS TELEPHONE 17 TREMONT 163 COLUMBUS AVE. BOSTON, MASS June 13 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, NY My dear Colonel - Please accept my appreciation and thanks for “African Trails” you so kindly sent me. It gave me pleasure to furnish the automobile to help promote the Cause of Righteousness in Politics in Mass. I am one of your many privates in the ranks whose support you can count on to the finish. Faithfully yours J. M. LinscottCHAS. D McGUFFEY COUNSELOR AT LAW ROOM 9 MCCONNELL BLOCK CHATTANOOGA. TENN. 13 June 1912. HOn. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, Dear Mr.President: - I had occasion to know of your thoughtful kindness in writing, the only one day intervened before the presidential election, to comfort your sick friend Gov. Hugh S. Thompson. This recollection emboldens me to write you, even at such a time as the present, to say to you that one of the the governor's sons, Hon. T.C. Thompson, our mayor, has been for some time under the heavy affliction of the desperate illness of his wife who has suffered greatly, and to suggest that if you can find time for a few lines of kindly sympathy to him I am sure it will be highly appreciated, as was your other letter by the governor's family. I have said however, and shall say, nothing to Mr. Thompson about this letter, so if it is not convenient for you to write he need never know that you knew of his wife's illness. An amusing incident occurred here lately at the table where, the your adherents were well represented, one lady was voicing her opposition With that earnestness and emphasis which is the privilege of the fair sex. After failing to secure any modification of her views I led the conversation to Bible matters and told her there was a lecture publisht by the Bible Society of which I was very fond, of which I would give her a copy if she would promise to read it, which she readily agreed to. 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PHONE SENECA 1121 [*4*] June 13, 1912 The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Editor of the Outlook, New York City. My dear Mr. President: The enclosed is a copy of a letter I have prepared for Reinecke and Zesch, Editor and Proprietors of the Freie Presse. They will publish it I think tomorrow, and I will doubtless send you a copy. These are some arguments I have been using right along, and have never failed to find them effective, Wishing you every success, I am, Rowland B. Mahany.For enc see 6-13-12 [*File under Martin*] COPY 6/13/12. Hon. William H. Taft, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir, As president of the U.S. you were highly regarded by the people in general, but those same people while they were willing to let you have one term, they do not want you for a second term. This is the part, unfortunately, that you fail to appreciate. It is certainly too bad that you have allowed the politicians to influence you in this matter, because you must know, and they certainly do know that it is almost as impossible for you to become President of the U.S. again as it is for the writer. Why then, should a great big able men like your good self, stand back of such men as McKinley, Barnes. Crane and Penrose, whom their own states have repudiated, and have then try to shape your destiny for you? I cannot imagine how anybody would want to be President of the U.S. or have any other position if the people didn't want him there, and I think I have heard you make this statement in one of your speeches, I refer to the speech in West Orange, as I have never attended any political meeting, nor have I practically even seen a President of the U.S. until they came right to my door-step. Now, as the people have shown conclusively that they do not want you, isn't discretion the better part of valor? Why not call a halt to these politicians in Chicago, whose work is affecting your character? I appreciate that you will not pay the least attention to this little piece of friendly advice, which I am giving you, but I want you to save this letter, and put it where you can get your hands readily on it, after the election takes place, and you will see how near a business man--who hes never mixed in politics in his life, and who came from the (2) [*?*] Hon. Wm. H. T. country--the outskirts of Philadelphia, having only been in New York five years--comes to sizing up the situation, and whether you wouldn't have been a much stronger man if you had kept out of this business. Very respectfully yours, L. Martin LM/MMF[FOR ENCL SEE 6-11-12]HARVARD CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY 27 WEST 44TH STREET ASSOCIATED HARVARD CLUBS SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING AT NEW YORK CITY JUNE 14TH AND 15TH. 1912 Committee on Arrangements THOMAS W. BLOCUM '90 Chairman JOHN W. PRENTISS. - '98 Treasurer LANDON P. MARVIN - '96 Secretary I. OTTO STACK - '95 Assistant Secretary NEW YORK, June 13th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 280 Fourth Ave. New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- We are looking forward with the greatest pleasure to having you with us at the dinner of the Associated Harvard Clubs on Friday evening. Will you be so kind as to report at the Harvard Club at 6.30 o'clock, or if you prefer, at the Hotel Astor at 7.30 o'clock. I enclose herewith a menu giving the list of speakers. Mr. Choate is to preside. Mr. Olney is merely to say a word of greeting, and in addition there are six speakers not including Secretary Meyer, who unfortunately has been obliged to withdraw owing to illness as he is confined to his room. It is possible that you like some further information about the Associated Harvard Clubs and the arrangements for the dinner in preparation for which you are to say and if you would like to have me come to see you for a few minutes to-morrow I shall be very glad indeed to do so. I shall be at the Harvard Club all day and your Secretary can get me here, Telephone 6400 Bryant. We are looking forward to one of the largest and most important Harvard gatherings ever held and to aHARVARD CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY 27 WEST 44TH STREET ASSOCIATED HARVARD CLUBS SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING AT NEW YORK CITY JUNE 14TH AND 15TH. 1912 Committee on Arrangements THOMAS W. BLOCUM '90 Chairman JOHN W. PRENTISS. - '98 Treasurer LANDON P. MARVIN - '96 Secretary I. OTTO STACK - '95 Assistant Secretary NEW YORK, 1912. -2- delightful Harvard family Reunion. I enclose herewith a Committee Badge for you to wear tomorrow night - also a button & identification card. With my sincere regards - and best wishes always, Very truly yours, Langdon P. Marvin, Secretary. GEO. A MEBANE, President KARL von RUCK, Chairman Board of Directors ASHEVILLE, N. C. J. G. FARRELL, Secretary and Treasurer Wm. SCHOENHEIT, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer Spray Cotton Mills Spray, N. C. [*?*] June 13/12 Dear Col. Roosevelt. Let it be known at Chicago that in case the Baddlers succeed in putting up this ticket they will be opposed for all offices from Congress down & up by Progressive Candidates & that yr. Progressive Party has come to stay put & they will not relish the prospect of being defeated for office Yrs truly Geo. A. MebaneForm 1671 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO. M. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVEDERE BOOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER’S NO. [?] TIME FILED [?] CHECK 28pd SEND the following message subject to the terms} on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to } Nx Chicago Ill 6/13- To Col T Roosevelt at Blackstone Hotel Am on the trigger I don't think the highbinders on the National Committee can come Near Beating us the people are surely for our cause Alex H Moore READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK Fort San Pedro - Iloilo - Island of Panay - Philippine Islands. June 13 1912 Dear Mr Roosevelt The late distinguished Senator Cushman K. Davis in a note on page 14 to section 8 of his International Law edition of 1901 refers to a radical distinction made by Grotius in determining the sources of morality and law. Grotius found these "upon the whole compass of man's human and social as well as animal and individual nature. He bases philosophical morality in the social impulse by which man is actuated in addition to the desire for his individual good. 'This social impulse is 'he holds' the source of [jus ?] or natural law. the basis of property and contract.' 'It is' he says 'too narrow a view to say that utility is the mother of rights. The mother of rights is human nature taken as a whole with its impulses of kindness pity sociality as well as desire of individual pleasure and fear of pain. Human nature is the mother of natural law and natural law is the mother of civil or instituted law'. " Mr Davis adds that "Grotius thus stands favorably distinguished from the later writers who base law and morality on mutual fear and property rights." This expression of the luminous insight of Grotius' mind I recognize as of the truth underlying the grand contention you are making and leading for real popular government and for the overthrow of the boss and burgomaster dictation which corrupts the political management and economic policy of the republic - and sneers at human equities. O Gallant Knight! Knock the heads together of these castoffs & send howling their [?]-bravos led - captains cheap servitors and groveling idolaters! More power to your good right arm! It is no sluggard who it slugs! Hoping fopr your nomination in the next fortnight I am faithfully yours Alexis R. Paxton Colonel U. S. Army To Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Long Island N.Y.214 West 63rd Street, Apartment 15, New York City. June 13th, 1912. PERSONAL Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook Office, 218 Fourth Ave., City. Dear Sir:- I have the honor to address you this communication. I very much desire to be on the ground at Chicago to help win over delegates and arouse sentiment favorable to your candidacy for President. I am experienced in the work, having served as Delegate to the National Convention, Presidential Elector, and thrice National Campaign Speaker. As early as February last I was actively engaged in volunteer service under Mr. Lindon Bates, Jr. - the first, if not the only colored man in this City - distributing cards (straw ballots) among Republican voters both in and out of this City urging your candidacy for President. Later on I delivered a number of speeches appealing to mainly to colored voters to support the Delegates at the Primary Election favorable to your candidacy. Early in March I receive a communication from the Secretary of the National Roosevelt League at Chicago, requesting that i confer with Mr. William L. Ward as to the formation of a National Roosevelt Colored League. I submitted a plan of organization to Judge Duell, the herewith being a receipt of the same - for transmission to Senator Dixon. When Isaac B. Allen left here last Saturday upon your approval for Chiago, my service in your behalf unlike that of Mr. Allen has been first and last volunteer services, bringing to such work experience, training and some ability. The services rendered by me are well know to Mr. Manchester and Mr. Bates, and to Mr. Henry A. Wise, United States District Attorney of this City. I should like to have your advise whether or not it would be possible for me to go Chicago on the Special Train or otherwise. Yours respectfully, G. L. Pryor509 E. 23rd St., Brooklyn, June 13, 1912 Hon. Theodor Roosevlt, N.Y. [*B*] Dear Sir: - The dark days of 1912, in which a Republican Committee can render nugatory the expressed preference of a majority of voters, are fast drawing to a close, and in the approaching dawn can be seen a new order, which must and will result from the gigantic labor you are performing in behalf of the people. It is not the sentimental gush of a sycophant, or the "wish, with interest" of a political aspirant that prompts the expression of unbounded confidence in your ability and a settled conviction that right, with you as its champion, must prevail. The wee voice of Flatbush, assuredly will potently urge its prayer, that God may Bless, keep and prosper you Sincerely Yours Jonathan Rathjen[*[6-13-12]*] The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook Office, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: The rank and file of Erie County Republicans are for you, First, because you are the only man since the Civil War who has effectively exposed the difference between vested rights and vested wrongs. The Republicans of Erie County, as indeed it is true also of the Republicans throughout the Nation, would, if permitted an unhampered choice, vote with practical unanimity in favor of your nomination for President. Secondly, we are in favor of you because of the mighty accomplishments which you brought to pass during your administration, chief of which is the Panama Canal and the securing of the Canal Zone at a minimum of expense and without the loss of a drop of blood, a triumph of diplomacy which will give to the United States the lordship of the western hemisphere, the control of both oceans and our supremacy on all the seas. Thirdly, we are in favor of you because every corrupt boss and discredited financier in the country are opposed to your candidacy, - not only sufficient indication but a proof positive that you represent the people and not the interests. Fourthly, we are for you because of the infamous and dishonorable tactics of William H. Taft, who has not hesitated to be the receiver of stolen political goods, and who desires to be the nominee of the convention made up by a packed committee that has not hesitated to nullify the will of sovereign States, thus making representative party government a farce and bringing free institutions into world wide disrepute. Fifthly, we are for you because it is self evident that had not repudiated national commiteemen and patronage dispensing political bosses interfered, you would have been the choice, as indeed you are, of nine tenths of the Republican party and as we verily believe of a vast majority of the Americanpeople irrespective of parties. We wish you every success, and in doing so we are wishing success to the people of the United States. Very respectfully yours, Reinecke and Zesch, Editors and Proprietors of the Freie Presse.[Enc in Mahany 6-13-12]Ricketson Realty Company J. E. RICKETSON, MANAGER City and Country Property Purchased, Sold and Sub-divided We Have Desirable City Property, Farm, Timber, Pecan and Canteloupe Lands For Sale Place Your Property With Us. We Can Sell or Rent It. II5½ NORTH JACKSON STREET P. O. BOX 3I5 ALBANY GEORGIA June. 13th. 1912. Hon.Theodore Rosevelt. [*3*] Oyster Bay. Mass. Dear Sir:- Being associated in business with. Maj.B.F.Brimberry who was selected as a delegate from this District for your Candadicy as President .I will say that a large number of Colored delegates from the south are purchasable, Some for cash, others for office and various considerations. You may avoid some such corruption by interviewing proper southern friends of yours . No one understands these people like a man reared among them. Maj.Brimberry will not attend because Ga. was directed by the committee for President Taft. Maj. Brimberry intended for me to attend the convention as an Alternate in his stead. This would be useless now as we would have no vote. I am writing this confidential we know from boy hood how the southern colored delegation has been controled and feel that it might be of value to you in such a contest as is on at present. Yours very Truly. J. E. RicketsonW.K. SHECKLER GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FLOUR AND COUNTRY PRODUCE COR. WEBB AND PATTERSON ST. STARK PHONE 147 BELL PHONE 223 ALLIANCE, OHIO June 13th 1912 Col. T.R. Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.J. Dear Sir As I have been a Straight Republican all my life I feel that I should have a congratulation to say you are on the right way to win this convention at Chicago with best wishes stick to your rights which the U.S. has said on thies ballots on the last Election. Your Friend W.K. ShecklerDEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13, 1912. Hon. Theodore roosevelt, Oyster Bay New York. Esteemed Sir:-- Equality of state representation in party affairs is not a requisite, and should not be a perquisite. the prepondering influence of delegates from Southern States in the meetings of the National Republican Convention and its choice of a candidate to head the ticket in then general election is nothing more or less than brazen effrontery to the mass of Republican voters. There is not moral obligation, nor is there the least sense of justice or of right, in the present method of representation in the Party's deliberations. This is a matter of Party and not of the country at large or the Nation, primarily. There is no necessity whatever for state representation as at present. The Party should be governed by the persons constituting its membership. As it is an impracticability to have its total membership express its desires or wishes at any one time or place, a convention is necessary of party leaders or party representatives. These representatives to this convention or delegates should be selected by the people constituting the party by direct primary elections. The basis of representation should be a delegate for each ten thousand [Republican] voters as shown by the preceding Presidential election. (This basis would give approximately the same number of delegates to the National Convention as at present) A state casting five hundred thousandDEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. Sheet 2. Republican votes at the preceding Presidential Election would be entitled to fifty delegates. A state casting ten thousand Republican votes or less (as the case in Louisiana I believe,) would be entitled to one delegate. A state would be this method represent its proportionate strength in the Republican party, and a state never (as in the case of Louisiana and other southern states) casting a single Republican vote in the Electoral College could not offset or checkmate a surely Republican state with a million or more voters in the preliminary selection of the candidate for Presidential honors. I have submitted this proposition by letter to the Hon.Jos. Dixon, and as I consider that the adoption of a regulation or rule of this kind to be necessary to the future welfare if not existence of the Republican Party, I take the liberty of addressing you in the matter. Personally, as a government employee I am by regulation prohibited from taking a active part in political management or campaigns, but as a legal resident of one of the worst boss-ridden or machine-controlled districts in Pennsylvania (the 9th) I can assure you that at the earliest opportunity and when circumstances warrant I shall sever my connections and do all in my power to a redemption of the only district outside of Philad's that failed to select delegates favorable to the Progressive cause and the right of the people to rule. In short I am and have been for some time in 1914 formulating plans for the defeat of W.W. Greist now mis-representingDEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE WASHINGTON, D. C. Sheet 3. that district in Congress, and regret that circumstances prevent my taking advantage of the late political upheavel in the State and make a contest in the general election in November. Very respectfully yours, A. H. Shellenberger (Special Fiscal Agent, U.S. Reclamation Service) Lancaster, Pa. R.F.D. #2Brooklyn June 13/12 Col. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay, L.I. My Dear Colonel Enclosed please Copy of my sentiments as expressed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of todays issue and only hope my Absolutely Certain wish be realized Yours truly Henry A Smith c/o A. D. Mattthews Sons Brooklyn, N.Y. ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN Is Ex-Aiderman Smith of the Colonel's Nomination. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Now while the National Committee is in full swing in Chicago with the Taft steam roller practically in control of political crooks repudiated in their own States by the overwhelming votes of the people in the behalf of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, and now attempting to seat Taft delegates, let me say that their work will never be allowed by the honest delegates. When the roll call is once commenced the way the votes will be announced for Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will give the Taft crowd such a shock that at the end of the roll call there won't be a Taft delegate in Chicago, but everyone will be whooping it up for our Teddy. Where oh where are our Brooklyn delegates at present? Where are our leaders? The answer is we have no leaders. We have not had a leader in Brooklyn since Worth and Nathan's time. Nathan was the best leader Brooklyn ever had and if Colonel Roosevelt after his nomination will send for Mr. Nathan and put the work of his campaign in his hands Brooklyn will give Mr. Roosevelt the largest vote accorded to any candidate who ever came before the people. Of all the so-called leaders, Mr. Prendergast, the Controller, was the only man who was honest enough and had nerve enough to announce himself for Colonel Roosevelt from the beginning. While I have no personal love for Mr. Prendergast, I congratulated him on the Independent stand he had taken. His consistent position is in marked contrast with that of Mr. Devoy, County Clerk of Kings County ,who, as the chairman of the Executive Committee of the County Committee, unanimously voted to support Mr. Taft for a renomination. After Colonel Roosevelt carried most of the States by large majorities, winding up with carrying New Jersey unanimously, Mr. Devoy resigns his position as chairman of the Executive Committee and comes out with the announcement that he is for Colonel Roosevelt and has been since January 1. I consider this political treachery. The Executive Committee should have accepted his resignation at once. There are other so-called leaders who as yet have not shown their hands. Are they waiting for result? What has become of George Roberts, ex-Postmaster; Frank H. Newcomb, ex-assistant postmaster; Bob Sharkey, ex-naval officer? Are they all laying in wait—waiting to see how the winds blow? Why don't they come out like men and show their hands now and say they are either for Taft or Roosevelt, and let the voters of this borough know where they stand and not wait until after the nominations have been made? Let them put on the T. R. buttons at once and say they are for Teddy, instead of doing as Devoy did, give out the buttons and when asked what T. R. meant, say they mean Taft Rooters. In the issue of the Brooklyn Eagle of June 12, I see the picture of Justice Hughes of the Supreme Court as a possible candidate for the nomination for the presidency of the United States. No doubt Justice Hughes made a good Governor in many ways but I do not think he would be the strongest candidate as a compromise. In the first place, we want no compromise candidates. The only man who can win as a candidate on the Republican ticket this year is Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. HENRY A. SMITH, ex-Alderman. Brooklyn, June 12, 1912.W. E. D. STOKES OFFICE THE ANSONIA BROADWAY, 73RD-74TH STREETS TELEPHONE 2492 COLUMBUS CABLE ADDRESS WEDSTOKES - NEW YORK NO ORDERS, RECEIPTS, OR MATTERS INVOLVING PAYMENTS OF MONEY ARE VALID EXCEPT WHEN SIGNED BY W. E. D. STOKES. NEW YORK 13 June, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., City. My dear Colonel; I learn, in fact I have seen, a paper sent out to one of the future, would-be electors for Taft, in which it goes to show it would be a disgrace for him to turn around and repudiate Taft and vote for you in the Electoral College. It also shows that since the organization of this government only threw out of say four thousand eletors have over jumped the traces. This occurred in 1796, when three Democratic electors passed over the preference of their party and voted for John Adams for President, among them being Eldridge Gerry, one of the Massachusetts Democrats, who voted for Adams in preference to Jefferson. Let me quote a section from the paper: Subdivision 3 of Section 1 of Article 2 amended in 1804. At the beginning of this government the electors had the right to vote for two candidates. Part of this section reads as follows: The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed. If there be more than one with such majority and have an equal number of votes, then the house of representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for president;Col. Roosevelt -2- 13 June, 1912 if no person has a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose a President, but in choosing a President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having but one vote. In every case after a choice of president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president; but if there should remain two or more who have an equal number of votes, then the Senate shall decide the vice-president. By this method it can readily be seen that the will of the people could be defeated as the most unpopular won might be chosen president. In this connection I might add that if Roosevelt bolts and runs on an independent ticket and gets a state or a number of states whose total number of electors will be an uneven number it is possible for the remainint two candidates, that is the regular republican nominee and the demoratic nominee to get an equal number of votes, and if the latter two each have a majority, then the house of representatives will choose one of the two, and the house being democratic, they will naturally choose the democratic nominee, but if Roosevelt's number of electors is sufficient to prevent the remaining two, though they have an equal number of votes, from each having a majority, then under the amended law the House of Representatives must choose from the highest three, which would include Roosevelt, and they might select him for President notwithstanding the fact that he had the least number of electors.Col. Roosevelt -3- 13 June, 1912 Hon. L. P. Morton, in a speech in the Senate in 1873 said:- The objections to this constitutional provision need only be stated, not argued, as it is a manifest injustice, In such an election each state is to have but one vote with New York having 104 times as great a population. It is mockery to call such an election just, fair or republican, and this by courtesy has been called republican government." I have it [???] copied. Whether this may be of any service to you or not, I do not know. Sincerely yours, W. E. D. StokesThe Chenoa Clipper G.E. STUMP, Editor and Publisher Guaranteed Circulation over 1800. Published every Thursday. The Chenoa Clipper Established 1893 The Chenoa Gazette Established 1867 The Gridley Herald Establlished 1892 Combined Nov. 9, 1900. [*13*] Chenoa, Illinois June 18th 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York Dear Sir: I send you today under another cover marked copy of Clipper containing editorial concerning the political situation, entitled "The Way It Looks." Read it and you will leave a sample of what I've been publishing ever since you became a candidate for the presidency. If they fix things in Chicago so as to beat you - and the people - I wish you would let us call another Independent National Convention to nominate you and I am sure we can give you Illinois and the entire west. I'll give my time and efforts to your Interests, all you have to do is to say so, Yours Cordially G.E. Stump, L.L.B. [For enc see 6-13-12]HOTEL UTAH SALT LAKE CITY UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF GEO. O. RELF Salt Lake June 13th 1912 Col Roosevelt Oyster Bay My dear Col- It looks as though they were agoing count you out. If they do, run independent. The D— can’t beat you before the people. The next day after the Ohio primary I wore a plug hat that I Wore on Cleavelands first Election, and that was the last. Taft has all the Federal and State officers here. after you did so much for the outfit.I hope you may be able to pull through I am Very Respectfully J. W. Sullivan #1238 1st ave A Roosevelt democrat[*[6-13-12]*] Campbell Hall Orange Co N. York Hon Theo. Rosevelt Dear Sir I write to ask you if you would kindly send me a little donation for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Church at Chester N.Y. any little donation would be gratefully ack-nowledged. If you would send a check please send it in the pastor's name: Revd Jas. A. Maloney Thanking you in Advance & wishing you a brilliant success I remain Respectfully Mary A. Sweeney June 13th 1912Washington June 13 - 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt I congratulate you upon the good service that you have rendered the Republican Party in cleaning out the Crooked Bosses who have fattened by the spoils system at the expense of the Party and I hope you will finish the contract by finishing up Sherman of New York and his Gang who feared that success in 1210 for Governor would bring you to the front and he would be sent to the rear if you got the nomination for President hence the endorsement of Taft by New York County If you find that you cannot make it there put it over on the Gang by forcing Hughes upon them, for next to yourself he is one man they hate: make the Ticket Hughes and [Sherman] Cummins and you will be vindicated and prove that you are a Leader and not simply a (Boss Very Truly D W Thompson [*[Thompson]*]Wash Ezee Herbert L Fowler INVENTOR OF THE TRADE MARK "WASH EZEE," SERIAL NUMBER 35143 U. S. PATENT OFFICE. OFFICE: WEST HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS, U. S. A. NEW YORK OFFICE: 350 BROADWAY. RESIDENCE: 2932 BRYANT AVENUE SOUTH, MINNEAPOLIS. TRI-STATE TELEPHONE 7828 Wash Ezee HOUSEKEEPING LINENS AND WHITE GOODS FOR SALE BY [MILLS & GIBB,] BROADWAY & GRAND ST. NEW YORK Minneapolis, Minn., June 13, 1912. Col. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir: I have just read your dirty rotten stuff respect- ing the National Committee's decisions in Chicago, which verbosity only further sinks you deeper in the rotten cess- pool you have succeeded in digging and filling since you were silly enough to enter into the race for a third term. No greater traitor has ever appeared in the public life of our country than yourself. Benedict Arnold was a patriotic valorous statesman compared to you and your present and very recent history. Your attacks on President Taft are outrageous and indefensible on any ground excepting clear insanity. Personally, I am of the opinion that you should be arrested and tried for treason and disseminating sedition, and I shall make legal information against you at first opportunity. Yours very truly, Herbert Lincoln FowlerHartford Ct June 13th/12 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Please find inclosed clipping should you not see same elsewhere. Myself like the Back Country Republican, my work takes me all over the state and I find conditions the same, only that I would add it is not only Rep. alone but Democrats and independent alike. Very truly yours, an In.-Dem. L. H. Trieschmann 720 Main StANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES VALLEY OF GUTHRIE ORIENT OF OKLAHOMA WILLIAM BUSBY, 33* SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTOR GENERAL FRANK ALVIN DERR, 33* HON. SECRETARY OF ALL BODIES [*B*] 401 East Noble Ave Guthrie Okla June 13th 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Honorable Sir As a Democrat I pray for your success in the National Convention. You are a good enough Democrat for me as you believe in the rule of the people. The people of this city feel that had you been President you would not of permitted the Honorable Mr. Haskell to have stolen our Capital. We all trust that you will not permit a repetition of the Tilden tactics if you are elected, and we know that the voice of the people will so declare. I am an old Soldier and while I court peace yet I believe that too much humility is worse than violence. The bone and Sinew of the land is with you and they are in no humor to tolerate the managers of the Steam Roller. I know you will never accept of anything less than an honorable defeat and if it is otherwise an outraged people will respect your appeal for a Square deal and see the you receive it. If they fail to Seat your Oklahoma delegates it will be a rascals injustice. Your friends Charly Hunter who under Judge Cotterel surrendered his position rather than his honor will tell you who I am and you can rest assured that you have the warmest supports of hundreds of democrats who pray for your success as does your humble friend Capt. John [???mley]405 North. Kentucky. Ave - Lakeland Florida -6-13-12 Col Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay N.Y. My dear Sir -. I am writing to beg you to go to Chicago. This country is on the extreme ragged edge of a most desperate crisis. The people are not going to stand for what the Henchmen, of Mr Taft, are now doing at Chicago, under existing conditions This Country is even now - no longer a Republic, and because of your love of the Country - it is your duty to the people, and to yourself, to be in person - now, and during the Convention - present there. With existing conditions in Cuba, and in Mexico, and the present, and seem to be worse Labor and Capital troubles in the United States. You - with your powerful, and commanding personality and individualism, are the only person in America to day - fit to be, and2) equal to the emergency - of President of the United States. I know thousands of Democrats who, will proudly vote for you - as against in living man, for the peace, and every patriotic citizen of all political faiths - want you. If with your splendid individuality - you go to Chicago. You know, and I know - that every decently, honest members of the Convention - will deliberately exact your nomination. For the love of God, and your Country "go to it", and insure your nomination in the first Ballot. and thereby insure the peace, and prosperity, of every party - and all of the people, of the U. S. I do hope that every condition, and Fate, will combine - to, as it will, pick you up - and take you to Chicago, for when once you are there, and the people see, and feel your presence, it will be all over with every other possible candidate. I do not expect any reply to this letter, I simply beg you out of the fullness of my love of Country to go - Yours faithfully Albertus Vogt1123 Euclid street, N.W. Washington, D.C. June 13th, 1912. My Dear Colonel: The enclosed clippings may have escaped your notice owing to the great demand on you at this time in every way. No. one and two, especially two, is very important, and the summary should be in the hands of the gentleman who places you in nomination I mean number two: "the Facts" from one to thirteen. Again, attention should be called to President Taft's position on the "Recall" of the Commerce Court. The Supreme Court of the United States, in its recent decision -- unanimous -- all the court, emasculating and annihilating this "fifth wheel to the wagon," and Congress, both House and the Senate, legislating it out of existence, and yet, the President, is willing to stop the wheels of the Government, precipitating disorder, disaster, want and misery, in order that a Pet Hobby of his may remain a burden and positive injury to the people. I am preparing this at 11 P.M., in order that it may reach you before you leave for Chicago, for I take it you are going. Your presence is so absolutely demanded there, I am all most sure you will go. I do not expect, and shall not anticipate an answer to this, for every moment of your time and energy are needed on the field of battle; on the "firing line." God bless you and I hope the next time I communicate with you, it will be in terms of sincere congratulation. Hastely and sincerely, ever yours, Chas. E. Vrooman [*signature*] [*Vrooman*]IN RE LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE WALLACE 359 FULTON ST. JAMAICA, N.Y. CITY TELEPHONE 89 JAMAICA June 13, 1912 William Flinn, Esq., Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: I have noticed in the papers numerous rumors in regard to supporters of Mr. Roosevelt "bolting" the Convention. Such a plan being considered, I take the liberty of enclosing a suggestion as to the form which the proceeding should take. A "bolt" always loses strength when it occurs after those who take part in it have previously taken part in the proceedings of a convention, then withdrawing only after they have been defeated. The enclosed suggestion is offered in good faith and a carbon copy sent to my neighbor, Mr. Roosevelt. For fear of possible miscarriage in the mails, I also send a copy to Governor Johnson, of California, with whom I have some family acquaintanceship. My brother Frank is a member of the delegation from California, and my brother Albert is associated with him as Lieutenant-Governor. Of course I cannot know as well what is going on in Chicago as if I were in the city. Sometimes, however, a cool, outside suggestion, free from the hot air of conflict, may be valuable. If not, it can easily be consigned to the waste basket. Very truly yours, George Wallace Enc. [*[?] This is a copy of communication Sent to Mr. Flinn. [?]*]210 High Street, Germantown, Pa., 13th June, 1912. (Telephone 195 L, Germantown, Phila.) My dear Colonel Roosevelt: -- I have seen, in a newspaper, that you are to be in Chicago tomorrow evening for the great Roosevelt Mass Meeting. If I were sure this was not a canard about you, or if I were even certain that the Mass Meeting would be held, I should take the train today for Chicago, and make the definite tender of my Flag to your cause (?) on behalf of the Patriotic People of the United States at the Mass Meeting or at the Convention. But not having heard from you, and having promised to meet you anywhere you say, I am sending a small silk flag, showing my arrangement, to Senator Dixon at Chicago, and the duplicate to you, herewith. I am send you herewith a copy of my letter to him, so that if you do not go to Chicago tonight and he wishes to consult you by wire tomorrow, you will have a mutual understanding of the matter. This is one of several things I could better have placed before you in person. I assume that the date for the Roosevelt Mass Meeting, if held tomorrow night, has been chosen because it is Flag Day and therefore it is the right "psychological moment" to launch the broadest and most patriotic campaign for the people that ever thrilled the country. If you approve of this flag business, I suggest that you let Senator Dixon know, without waiting to hear from him. As I have several other big things to follow this, I renew my offer to place them before you any time you can grant me an interview. Like this Flag and my moving picture campaign, -- they are well worth even your while! Very respectfully and cordially, Wayne Whipple Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.[*Copy of Letter sent today to Senator Dixon at Chgo. in re tendering to you of this Roosevelt Campaign Flag in behalf of the People of the United States.*] 210 High St., Germantown, Pa., 13th June, 1912. My dear Senator:- I have just seen in a paper that you are to have a Roosevelt Mass Meeting tomorrow night. It may not be true, yet I write on that basis. Did you choose the date because it is Flag Day? Then you are doing just what I have advised about taking advantage of patriotic opportunities. I am sending herewith a small silk flag showing my arrangement of the stars. Central (pin-pointed) star composed of thirteen -- for the 13 original States. The circle is composed of 25 -- the number of states admitted during the first century. The 10 outside represent those admitted since 1876, including Arizona and New Mexico -- making the forty-eight. On Flag Day 1909 I visited President Taft, at his request, to receive his congratulations on my “Story-Life of Lincoln,” which he told me he had read during the campaign of 1908. I was then writing my book -- “The Story of the American Flag,” and had evolved an arrangement which should be symmetrical, historical and meet the difficulties of adding stars ad libitum, as the present rows are becoming more and more faint and unsatisfactory. President Taft was enthusiastic about the arrangement and gave me introductions to the Quartermaster General’s department; also to interested officials in the Navy Department, who told me, privately of course, that it was the most beautiful arrangement they had ever seen and that it met the difficulties the best of anything yet submitted. Since then I have issued, besides my flag book, “The American Flag-Calendar” (of which I send a sample herewith) distributed [sold] every year, through Dutton, the greatest Calendar publisher. It has sold all over the country and they have had it in the White House, War and Navy Departments, where it has had such recognition that the Joint Board consulted me almost daily while in session on the Flag change last February. They decided that it would not be wise to make so radical a change during this Presidential campaign and I was advised to let the matter rest until after the election. I am glad now that they did not formally adopt it, for I believe it will have an inestimable [value] influence as a symbol of what Roosevelt is so grandly doing on behalf of the people and the country. As this flag is still mine I dedicate it to Roosevelt for the Patriotic People of the United States. The Taft advocates, in the National Committee are furnishing you with daily illustrations of what mere politicians are willing to do to defeat and stultify the People.2 It is a campaign of People versus Politicians. “We” are the Republican Party. It is the “lame ducks”, the politicians discredited by the people, as Colonel Roosevelt says, who will do the bolting, if any one bolts. If they can’t rule the party and the country they stand ready to ruin it. The people can see that. Therefore, put a patriotic plank, wide and thick, into the platform. Call the people of all parties back with Roosevelt to [our] their “first love”, the principles of Abraham Lincoln -- and a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” As a patriot and an ardent Lincoln Republican I devote my Flag to the Party of Patriotism with full confidence that it will be adopted afterward by the nation. Whether it is accepted or not I dedicate it to Roosevelt without reserve in behalf of the patriotic people of my country. Now have a big flag made -- with the stars arranged like this. Sew [on] a blue field on over the other, like this, and stick on the stars, if sewing takes too long, and hang it over the platform at your mass meeting Friday, (Flag Day) and have some one tell the people what it means to the Roosevelt Campaign. It is not my Flag merely -- it is the flag of Washington and Betsy Ross -- (the circle) the Flag of the U. S. Coat of Arms and the Great Seal (the 13 stars in a 6 - pointed star) -- it is full of history and authority -- (there is no real authority for the rows, though there’s no need of saying so!) -- that is why the officials in Washington were enthusiastic over it. I am sending a duplicate of this little flag to Colonel Roosevelt, with a copy of this letter. Deputize some one to have a Blue canton or union made of this arrangement and served on a large flag. Two women can do it in a few hours. If I were sure Colonel Roosevelt would be in Chicago tomorrow, for that meeting, (or certain that the meeting would be held) I would take the train today and meet you both there and look after this Flag business myself, if you both approved. But I have notified him that I will meet him in New York or anywhere else at any time, so it would not be to wise to go to Chicago unless he would be there. In addition to my moving picture campaign I have offered Colonel Roosevelt Sousa’s patriotic music -- to delay my patriotic opera and compose the martial numbers as only John Philip Sousa can write them, first for campaign purposes. Aside from having Sousa’s patriotic and popular music for bands, [and] [?] the accompanists in the moving picture shows can render the thrilling strains while the silent drama “The Rise and Return of Roosevelt” is going on in tens of thousands of moving picture theaters simultaneously before twenty millions of thrilled and delighted people. In a few weeks the whole country will be ringing with Roosevelt campaign songs. I wrote you about my patriotic opera for which Sousa was to compose the music. There wouldn’t be time to produce the whole opera -- but we can get [the] a Roosevelt March and a new national anthem out by the time all of the moving pictures are ready to grind out the Roosevelt files. We can have a patriotic March or Anthem dedicated to Roosevelt just as “Hail Columbia” was originally dedicated to Washington. As I have written Colonel Roosevelt -- we have no national music! Even the3 tunes for “America” and “The Star - Spangled Banner” are both English, (The Star - Spangled Banner music is an old second-hand drinking song (“America in Heaven") No wonder Americans are criticised for not rising when their National music is played! Why shouldn’t Americans have music of their own? These are among the outer symbols of the Religion of Country that I propose in order to make this the most enthusiastic and patriotic campaign in the history of the country. It will appeal to all [the party] parties, no matter what age, sex, color, race, or “previous condition of servitude!” If the politicians want to bolt, let them bolt. We will win the hearts of the people, and the Roosevelt campaign will have an apparent monopoly of the patriotic enthusiasm of the country. As the interest of the people in the current issues (which Colonel Roosevelt has already fought almost to a finish) begins to flag, during the long months of the election campaign, this patriotic [vote] strain will become a crescendo, and the enthusiasm will sweep the country next November like a tidal wave. So, don’t fail to open the patriotic campaign on Flag Day, if you have the Mass Meeting, with the Flag itself. Then, having [rastized] adopted the Flag, take it into the convention next Tuesday. I will send you a “night letter” to prepare you for this. [letter] If I learn in time that the Colonel is to be in Chicago tomorrow I will start for that city and present myself to you and look after these things myself if my plan is approved. I venture these suggestions because you are in the thick of the battle while I am in a position to survey the entire field. Very respectfully and cordially, Wayne Whipple [*signature*] Senator Joseph W. DixonMr. Ora Williams, Writer Des Moines STAFF CORRESPONDENT TIMES-REPUBLICAN, MARSHALLTOWN TRIBUNE, SIOUX CITY TIMES, MASON CITY TELEGRAPH, DUBUQUE GAZETTE, CEDAR RAPIDS NONPAREIL, COUNCIL BLUFFS June 13, 1912 [*20*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: Whatever may be the outcome of the history making of the next week, and it seems probable that events are in the making that will have large place in world history, I want personally to express to you my thanks for your clear statement of the fundamental issue of the day, in your editorial in The Outlook of date June 15 -- "A Naked issue of Right or Wrong." Whatever may be done by the mass of petty autocrats undertaking at Chicago to sweep back with whisk brooms thetide of the political ocean, your plain statement of the issue will live to remind people that some men were not blind to the truth. I have just read this editorial and in its connection have turned back to The Outlook of Sept. 24, 1910, and have re-read the story of "The Forward Movement in the Republican Party" by the late Jonathan P. Dolliver, and an article in Appleton's Magazine about four years ago on the issues of 1908 by Albert B. Cummins. Taking these three articles together and one gains a view of what has been going on and is going on in American political life as between the forces of progress and the forces of reaction. You and other leaders in the forward movement have already won. It matters little what is done by the remnants of the discarded political machines of the past. The people can be trusted; popular government is not an experiment. From a dozen of the best years of a busy life I have taken what strength I could spare to help along what I have believed to be a cause in which is wrapped up the fate of free government. I am glad that this cause has you as chief among its champions. Yours fraternally Ora WilliamsJAS. N. WILLIAMSON JR., PRES. & TREAS. JAS. N. WILLIAMSON JR., VICE-PRESIDENT WM. H. WILLIAMSON VICE-PRESIDENT. H. C. POLLARD, SECRETARY. James N. Williamson & Sons Co. OSSIPEE COTTON MILLS. POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE HOPEDALE COTTON MILLS. TRADE MARK NORTH STATE FLANNELS GENERAL STORE AND MANUFACTURERS OF COTTON YARNS AND NAPPED FABRICS. BURLINGTON, N.C. June 13th., 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Colonel:- It would seem that the Organized Band of Thieves at Chicago would steal all the delegates that are contested and cheat you out of the Anomination I sincerely hope that there will be some men, and enough of them in the Convention to frown upon such thievery as this and repudiate the action of the National Committee. However, the Roman Catholic Church is behind this move to beat you in Chicago as it seems that President Taft has made some secret promises of overtures to the Catholics and as I see it this is a fight not only for honesty and integrity but also for the furtherance of the cause of Pretestantism, you have always treated the Catholics fairly but it is clear to see that they are trying to take posession of this country. The North Carolina Delegation to Chicago leaves Saturday at 12 o'clock reaching Chicago at 8 o'clock Sunday night and we are going in flying your colors and we hope that we will be able to aid materially after we reach there lining up a lot of the Southern Delegates for you. If the Taft crowd take all the contested delegates then they will lack some unless they buy up all the uninstructed and it will take all of the contested Delegates and half of the uninstructed to give him the anomination, and why he should want the Anomination to go down in defeat is more than I can understand. It would be a mighty good thing about the time the [apa]- Convention begins to Ballote for you to come out and let us march you down the Convention Hall and let us hear from you as to what you think of the Rascality that has been going on in Chicago, such an act would in my opinion do much towards securing the Anomination for you. We just must not loose this fight with all good wishes I beg to remain, Your Ardent Admirer, Jas. N. Williamson Jr. N.B. [?] of [?] take [?] actings [?] with Mc[?] did not think he would step to itattached to Fowler 6-13-12 ca 6-13-12 For fear you may have left home before this reaches you, I know you will pardon me when I tell you I have sent a copy of this letter to Senator Dixon and copy to William Flinn at Chicago.ca June 1912 You are cordially invited to attend the Forty-ninth Annual Commencement of Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio June thirteenth to twentieth nineteen hundred and twelve William Sanders Scarborough President[Enc in Helex 6-26-12] [6-13-12]The Independent June 13, 1912 The New Irrepressible Conflict by Delos F. Wilcox, Ph.D. [Dr. Wilcox is the franchise expert of the Public Service Commission of New York City and is the author of many books on city government. --Editor.] With almost startling suddenness the democratization of the forms of government has flamed up into a great national issue in America. People are still interested in the tariff, the currency the trusts, and conservation, but for the time being these issues are overshadowed by the initiative, the referendum the recall and direct primaries. The radical leaders of all parties are coming to a consensus of opinion that the first thing for the progressives to do is to pool their energies for a persistent "drive" to capture for the people the tools of democracy. That is what ails the Republican party and in a less spectacular way the Democratic party. They are both misfits at the present time. Within each of them there is a division more fundamental than the division between them. It is a new irrepressible conflict that lies between tow theories of government, or, to speak more accurately, between two interests in government. The unpleasant personalities that have marked the Presidential campaign this year must not be confounded with the real issues at stake. Mr. Roosevelt is a hard hitter with a strong personality, but aside from a few mannerisms in his style which give a handle for criticism, the "personalities" of the campaign have their origin in the furious denunciations by the reactionary press and the reactionary political leaders who are "scared our of their boots" by the strength and significance of the progressive movement, and who know that their only hope of heading it off is in reviling its leaders and diverting popular attention from the fundamental issues to their personal foibles. Mr. Roosevelt is regarded as the most dangerous of all leaders, because in addition to his immense personal prestige with the people he is a progressive who knows that the only way to progress is to go forward from where we are. He knows that mere talk is vain and the people can never free themselves from the domination of the corrupt alliance between big business and bad politics except by the use of the political instruments they now have and such new instruments as they can secure by means of those they now have. While others sigh over the sad state of their country, Mr. Roosevelt goes out to get delegates to capture a party, the only instruent other than revolution by which the sad state of the country can be relieved. Even after all the discussions and revelations of this last strenuous decade it is only a comparatively few of the leaders of thought who have "seen the cat." Of course, those to whom "the cat" is an emblem of happy domesticity, a symbol of present prosperity and power, may be supposed to be more or less familiar with its lineaments. But for others knowledge is dangerous, for "the cat" is never seen by an unfriendly eye without knowing that it is seen. Mr. Roosevelt has seen and has been caught seeing. He has been under suspicion for some time, but now the owners of "the cat" "have the goods on him." The New York Times is one of the great journals of the country that represent these owners. Two years ago, when it was first whispered that Mr. Roosevelt was becoming more radical, that he might even openly espouse the initiative and the referendum, the Times published a warning editorial. It said that radicals had come out of the West before now, and would come again. Mr. Bryan and Mr. La Follette and their ilk in both parties might shoot up like rockets against the Western sky, and even give our people little shivers of alarm at times. But after all, we could handle them. Their fireworks might be lurid and disconcerting, but they were not a serious menace to this great country 1309try of ours. But Colonel Roosevelt - keep your eye on him! If he should turn radical and assume the leadership of the people, then war and pestilence would indeed be abroad in the land. The fundamental nature of the issues now at stake is seen in the smug cooperation of the Times, patron saint of respectability and old style civic virtue, with William Barnes, Jr., past master of bipartisan alliances to flout respectability and civic reform in the government of the State of New York. Soon after the Republican standpatters suffered their recent reverses at the primaries in Illinois and Pennsylvania, the Times addressed some pregnant editorial counse's to Mr. Taft's campaign managers. "The reverses suffered in these States stand as evidence of inefficient campaigning. Mark Hanna, Zachariah Chandler, and Arthur P. Gorman were not distinguished as moralists, but at least they knew how to take care of States. [My italics] We say these things, not in reproof or in unreasonable criticism of MR. Taft's managers, but to arouse and encourage them to put heart and vim into their work. To them is entrusted the defense of their party and of the country against a dangerous assault," said the Times. Mr. Barnes has patriotically laid aside his personal feelings and has stepped forward to "put heart and vim" into the fight against the principles for which Mr. Roosevelt stands. Both Mr. Barnes and the Times have a personal admiration for Mr. Roosevelt, and their present fervor in fighting him goes far to show that the campaign is concerned with momentous issues and that Mr. Roosevelt's personality is important only on account of his strength to help the other side. Mr. Barnes reads Mr. Roosevelt out of Republican party. Mr. Cannon - Mr. Joseph G. Cannon - formerly a leading figure in standpat circles, did a similar service for the Western insurgents two or three years ago. Mr. Barnes and Mr. Cannon see clearly enough that standpatters and progressives do not belong in the same party. The talk of compromise originates with people whose political philosophy harks back to the days when political parties could be mere organized hordes of office-seekers and power-mongers, and still live. That day is past. The ancient oligarchy of privilege, intrenched in the strategic positions of commerce and industry and habituated to the use of government and political parties for its own ends, suddenly finds the people snatching at its weapons. Mr. Barnes is well acquainted with the advantages of bipartisan loyalties to the compact interests which regard "Republican" and Democratic" as mere interchangeable pet names for government that serves them. But to the people who look upon government as a public function, bipartisanship is merely a source of division and helplessness. They are tired of it. They wish to play a new game. They demand a progressive party. They do not care about names. They would be willing to be Democrats if there was any use in it. But experience and reflection do not justify the hope that the Democratic party can be transformed into a steady, constructive instrument of progressive government This party suffers from a weak back. Its preponderance depends upon the solid South, where to be a Democrat means nothing in terms of national issues. As long as race fear and race hatred in the bock of States that furnish the solid central phalanx of the Democratic membership in the National Legislature make the party in that section of the country primarily a white man's party, it is hard to see how the Democratic party can be of much use as a dominant organization in the national politics. The Progressives must either capture the Republican party or else organize a new one. The issue is being decided now, and for that reason no citizen having the welfare of his country at heart should let himself be fooled into disgust by the personalities on the surface. A great old party - not to say a grand old party - cannot be transformed or a new part of power organized without discomforts and bitterness. It is no time now to exclaim: "A plague on both your houses!" For, whether we will or no, we belong to one or the other of them. There are things to be done in this country. Talk precedes action. A realignment of parties is inevitable, in order that the progressive movement may not end in talk. ELMHURT, N.Y. Enc in Stump 6-13-12The Chenoa Clipper, ESTABLISHED 1893. The Chenoa Gazette, ESTABLISHED 1867. The Gridley Herald, ESTABLISHED 1892 G. E. STUMP, Editor and Publisher. (PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.) Entered at the Post Office, Chenoa as second-class matter. Address THE CLIPPER, Chenoa, Ill. Subscribers are requested to report at once any irregularity in receiving papers. Subscription Rates. One Year $I.90 Three Months .50 six Months $I.00 Single copy .05 Advertising rates given on application. No advertisement accepted for less than 25 cent per week. To Canada and foreign countries $2.00. The date opposite your name shows the time to which your subscription is paid. If the date is anytime previous to the present your subscription is due and we would kindly ask you to call and pay up. Subscribers will please notice that their RECEIPT FOR SUBSCRIPTION is dated on the wrappers of the foreign list and on the papers for the city lists. The late tells you how you stand. THE WAY IT LOOKS. Ohio at the presidential primaries gave Roosevelt 30,000 majority over Taft. Forty delegates to the national convention were chosen by the people for Roosevelt and only eight for Taft. A few days ago the Ohio State Republican convention met and elected the six delegates for Taft. The convention did that in direct opposition to the expressed will of the people of Ohio at the primaries. The national Republican committee met in Chicago last week to pass upon the contested delegations from the states that affects more than 200 votes in the national convention. The majoritp of that committe is made up of Taft men. They proceeded promptly to deciding in favor of their chief in allowing and ordering the Taft contestants to be seated no matter what the merit of their claims were. To an on-looker it appears to simply political brigandage. With them it is to rule and ruin. It is the ruling of the people by a few chosen or self-styled politicians, whose acts are as treasonable to American liberty as ever was Benedict Arnold. It is as much a case of absolute autocracy as is Russia in her government. It is the same kind of political oppression that caused the overthrow of Diaz in Mexico and his banishment forever from his native land; and the same kind of political oppression caused a successful revolution in China. They display the same brazen fairness that is exhibited by the bandits of Morocco who steal people and hold them until they are paid a big ransom. They have, by their unjust decisions, proved themselves the equal of Lorimer whose right to a seat in the Senate was assured by the buying up of votes in the Illinois legislature. We have always advocated fair treatment in politics. We believe that the people who in theory are the government should have something to say about their affairs of government, and who shall be their candidates. The people can be trusted, and in the end they will prove that no man, nor any bunch of men know more than all the people. If such acts as these recorded continue from the bunch of fellows, demagogues, who seem inordinately concerned from fear the constitution of the United States might be impaired, we might about as well be without a constitution. When the liberty of the people is forced from them by the power of a few office-holders, it is high time that the public should be aroused. It appears that the intention is, to not allow the people to exercise their right of choice, even after they have expressed that choice at the ballot box, or in a fairly conducted convention. If such robbery were done at a school election the criminals would properly be sent to the penitentiary; but unfortunately, there is no law to punish political thieves, robbers and brigands. This kind of plundering may look like a winner now, but the people will be heard from in November, when in all probability, Ohio will go democratic and the entire country will rise and rebuke the shyster politicians who are now over-riding the expressed will of the people, by defeating the entire bunch. At the present time it looks very much as if the national republican convention will be a farce, if it nominates Taft, and that it might as well be abandoned now as to go on and complete the fraudulent work that will only spell disaster for the party.1014 Witherspoon Bldg.,Phila., Pa. June 14, 1912. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- You may remember me as the former editor of the Trenton True American. I am a Democrat, but I am also a good deal of a Roosevelt man. I have this suggestion to make for the good of your cause. The Chicago Tribune has been helping the Roosevelt cause tremendously in a news way as you know, editorially it does not count for such. The Record-Herald is "keeping hands off;" also its editorials do not count much in any event. The suggestion: Why not have two columns of advertising space taken daily in the Tribune and Record-Herald, preferably first two columns on last page, and fill this space with double-column editorials, credited to the Philadelphia North American under is caption. I enclose you two editorials which you have probably seen. Either or both of these could be used to advantage. Mr. Van Valkenburg is in Chicago. At your suggestion he could arrange the matter easily. North American editorials printed on the spot, and read [in the] each morning will be a bugle call for your forces in Chicago. With best wishes, Yours truly, Henry Eckert Alexander. [*signature*]For 1 enc see "Elihu Rooot" clipping 6-12-12][*[6-14-12]*] Chicago, Ill. Friday, Mr. R. M. Powers, St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir: You have been misled by T.R.'s screech. Without knowing the facts and having heard only one side he rushed into print, as he always does, and condemned the committee whose action in the case of the 9th Alabama district would, in my judgment, be upheld by any court in the land. I say this advisedly, after hearing both sides in the case. Remember that all the virtue in the country is not embodied in Col. Roosevelt who has reversed himself on every policy and every promise that ever eminated from him. I want no Third Term in this country nor would I willingly submit to a despot. Yours very truly, Richard Bartholdt.[Enc see Powers 5-1-16][*ack 6-18-12*] [*WE ARE THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF PAINTED ROAD SIGNS IN THE WORLD National Sign Mfg. Co. FACTORY 10TH AND CANAL STREETS BELL PHONE MAIN 364 ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE COMPANY Indianapolis, Ind.*] June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. [*24*] Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I have not been in correspondence with you for some time. The last time we met was on the New York Central. You will remember me best as the Gentleman from Belleville, Illinois, where I was then located, who sent you almost a car load of Beer at the time you occupied the Governors Chair at Albany. Some short time ago, I happened to be chairman of [the] a County Central Committee. We carried the day and it was the parties wish that a certain person be appointed Master of Chancery. I went to the Judge we had elected, for this appointment. He hemmed and hawed for a few months and at last said he would make the appointment with the understanding that if he did not run for office, or was beat in case he did run, that he would be given a half interest in the law practice of the party he appointed and still some people think that the recall so strongly advised by you, is unjust. If it is unjust, it is only so in the minds of the ignorant, of the inexperienced and the corrupt. Those that have been worldly on the subject, know better. You will understand, Brother Roosevelt, that it will be a pleasure to me to vote for you for any office and there is plenty of others. Yours very truly, Wm. Bender Jr [*signature*] WB/MS. I am a DemocratTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 6/14 19[0]12 Hon. Col Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay Dear Col. As the day of the convention approaches we are all more or less excited. Four friends here are all very anxious that you should secure the nomination, and nothing is left undone to secure this end. You deserve it & must have it and anything we can do to help you will be done. Now dear Col. we know that the most important question is that of securing enough votes and of course we realize that every vote counts. Now Col. we have a matter for you that you can decide as you see fit. We will give you the facts and you can then do as you think best. We haveTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 2 here in Phila. A man whom we all think a great deal off. He is a former Baltimorean and while in Baltimore took a very active part in politics. He seems to be a born politician for no matter what arises in politics he seems to know exactly what is to be done to succeed. While he resided in Baltimore he today lays claim to the credit of having turned the state of Md. republican after 30 years of Democratic rule. To him alone this credit belongs and at that time J. Freeman Rasin the then boss of the Dem. Party persenally went to his place of business & offered him $30,000.00 to leave the state for the time the election was being held. He however refused and carried the state by about 16,000THE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 3 majority. He also elected the Hon. Congressman W. B. Baker from the 3rd district which always went Democratic. He persenally stumped the entire county and although 2 of the city wards lie in this district his friends had advised him that they had these 2 wards all right. However when the day after the election the returns were counted it was found that these very 2 city wards had gone Dem. but all of the county that this party went over went republican and Cong. Baker was elected by 160 majority. Cong. Baker only spent $1.20 for all of this work and this was for postage. This man afterwards received a letter from Cong. Baker in which heTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 4 offered him any appointment within his power, but he refused to accept any such position never having any desire to hold any political positions. He still has Cong. Bakers letter and prizes it very highly. Later on he had the pleasure to have his friend Percy C Henninghausen appointed & confirmed as immigrant inspector in opposition to the direct will & wishes of the Hon. Geo. Wellington. The next year he was instrumental in electing a republican state Legislature & senate, which was the first the state had had for 30 years. He always was active in politics and always refused to accept any office, although they wereTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 5 offered to him voluntarily. He is & always has been a staunch Republican and you have no better friend here in the entire state than this man. He is doing all he can for you at home where he is well liked by every one and knows almost all of the prominent politicians throughout the country. He some years ago was the Supreme Secretary of the then well known & all powerful organization known as the A.P.A.’s and this is how he secured his power & knowledge. Now he is very anxious to see you nominated and on Wednesday night last when we were all talking the matter over, he positively produced evidence before us to convince us that he can control & swing fromTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 6 Taft to you 8 delegates. These 8 he can positively guarantee to control, besides he has 6 more that he feels confident of turning over also, if he were in Chicago. Now we all thought so well of the matter that among ourselves we decided to write you and lay all the facts before you and you can then do as you see fit in the matter. This man does not want any pay for his work, not even a position of any kind. The only thing is for him to get to Chicago & when he gets there he will report to any one you say and work for you like no other is doing, & will do good work too. Now all that is necessary is to secure transportation to Chicago for him and he does not care how he goes if youTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 7 want him to go. Moreover his expenses while there will be next to nothing for as he says he will cheerfully sleep at the very cheapest boarding house and take his meals as he wants there are some restaurant. This expense won't amount to $1.00 per day. Now all it would cost you would be his R.R. fare and a few days expenses and you can positively count on 8 votes with a possibility of 6 more. Now if you think well of this proposition make arrangement to get him to Chicago. All you need to do is to write him & say go to Chicago & tell him who to report to and you will find him on hand readyTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 8 to deliver the goods. We all thought that you could not secure 8 or [positively] possibly 14 votes any cheaper than this and the matter is for you to decide. If you desire him to go, write him at once and as soon as he receives your letter, 2 hours thereafter he will be on the way for he will drop everything and go. You would find a more loyal or harder working man on your entire staff and he will do you much good. We have now placed the matter before you and consider we have done our duty. You can now do whatever you think best and our best wishes for success go with you. We all feel that you mustTHE NEW BINGHAM. EUROPEAN PLAN, 300 ROOMS. BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID B. PROVAN, MANAGER. MARKET & ELEVENTH STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA., 190___ 9 come and victorious and whatever we can do here will be done. By the way the name & address of this party is Mr. Wm. Tewes 1924 Marvine St. Phila. Pa. Wishing you all success we remain Your true friends John C. Berlet and Water W. Stewart P.S. If you want to know who this man is, ask Mr. Wm. Stone the Sargent at Arms of the Convention, who is a personal friend of his. J.C.B. God Bless You. GEORGE L. BERRY, Pres. Pressmen’s Home, Rogersville, Tennessee PETER J. DOBBS, 1st Vice-Pres. 74 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. M. H. FLANNERY, 2d Vice-Pres. 2730 Gladys Avenue, Chicago, Ill. JAS. F. MALONEY, 3rd Vice-Pres. 206 New Nelson Building, Kansas City, Mo. JOSEPH C. ORR, Sec.-Treas. Pressman’s Home, Rogersville, Tessessee International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union OF NORTH AMERICA Office of the President [*Pressmen P*] Rogersville, Tenn. June 14, '12. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, #287 Fourth Ave. New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Beg to acknowledge your note of the 11th. I thank you very much for your offer to look into the controversy on between our Organization in Chicago and the Tribune. I await your further pleasure. With kindest regards, I beg to be Yours sincerely, Geo L. Berry President xTEL. CHELSEA 5840 ROBT. A. BROWN Pastor Glad Tidings Hall APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION 454 WEST 42D ST. "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues." Acts. 2 4. "We shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." Matt. 3. 11. NEW YORK JUN 14 1912 191 Hon Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir This is to inform you that we as a people are Praying for you, and will vote solid for your election. Yours in the Cause of Christ and Righteousness. Robt A Brown confidentialTELEPHONE NO. 2668 RESIDENCE PHONE 4845 CABLE ADDRESS "JAX." ESTABLISHED 1892 METROPOLITAN DETECTIVE AGENCY RAYMOND J. HATHAWAY, PRES. WM. H. THEIL, SEC'Y AND TREAS. WM. H. WHITE, ATTORNEY J. E. BURGESS, MANAGER ROOMS 507,508, 509 BISBEE BUILDING CORRESPONDENTS IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD JACKSONVILLE, FLA. June 14th 12 191 Hon. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago Ill. Dear Sir: When Mr. Ormsby McHarg was in Jacksonville on April 13th, last, he engaged me to work on the Palatka Fla. convention proceedings, and in doing so, he stated that you told him to come and see me, knowing that I was a very strong admiring friend of yours, ad he said, that he would not trust the work to be done by any one else. I had never met Mr. McHarg before, and did not know him at all, and only took the case because he said that you sent him to me, he further said, that you knew that I would do the work right, because you had sent me here in the year 1896 from the New York City detective bureau, when Capt. Steve. O'Brien was in command. I went ahead and did the work that Mr. McHarg wanted done, and gave him a detailed report of the same, covering the entire case. Mr. McHarg told me that when I sent him a report of my work, that he would see that I was paid at once for my services but as yet I have not received my money, which amounts to $89.85 and which was money paid out of my own pocket by me. Mr. McHarg has ignored all of my communications and requests, for the payment of this bill, and that is why I sentTELEPHONE NO. 2668 RESIDENCE PHONE 4845 CABLE ADDRESS "JAX." ESTABLISHED 1892 METROPOLITAN DETECTIVE AGENCY RAYMOND J. HATHAWAY, PRES. WM. H. THEIL, SEC'Y AND TREAS. WM. H. WHITE, ATTORNEY J. E. BURGESS, MANAGER ROOMS 507,508, 509 BISBEE BUILDING CORRESPONDENTS IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD JACKSONVILLE, FLA 191___ you that telegram a few days ago, I would never have gone ahead on this case, and paid out my own money, if it were not for the fact that Mr. McHarg told me that you had sent him to me. Now is there any chance to get this small amount paid? if there is not, I will call the matter all off. Awaiting your response, I beg to remain, Very respectfully yours, J. E. BurgessIllinois Civil Service Reform Association FOUNDED 1902 Civil Service Reform Association of Chicago FOUNDED 1862 PRESIDENT CHARLES L. CAPEN, BLOOMINGTON SECRETARY HERBERT E. FLEMING, CHICAGO VICE-PRESIDENTS SIDNEY S. BREESE, SPRINGFIELD A.S. LECKIE, JOLIET TREASURER FRANK D. MARQUIS, BLOOMINGTON PRESIDENT ROBERT CATHERWOOD SECRETARY HERBERT E. FLEMING VICE-PRESIDENTS SIGMUND ZIEGLER RUSSELL WHITMAN TREASURER F.L. HANKEY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EDGAR A. BANCROFT FRANCIS X. BUSCH ALLEN E. POND J. W. RADFORD MERRITT STARR LESSING ROSENTHAL ERNEST FREUND FLETCHER DOSYNE WILLIAM B. HALE FRED G. HOPP HENRY SCHOFIELD BERNARD McMAHON THOMAS W. SWAN LAIRD BELL M. L. McKINLEY W. T. ALDEN OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 961 MARQUETTE BLDG. CHICAGO TELEPHONE RANDOLPH 1782 June 14, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: On behalf of the Executive Committees of the Illinois and Chicago Civil Service Reform Associations, we sent you herewith proposals for a civil service plank in the national platform of the Republican party. This is a non-partisan, non-factional request in response to the widespread demand of the people, is in harmony with former platforms of your party, and is made in the interest of good government, efficiency and economy in the public service. It will be presented to delegates to both the Republican and Democratic Conventions. Very respectfully Charles L. Capen President,, Illinois Association Robert Catherwood President, Chicago Association. Herbert E. Fleming Secretary[For 1 enc see ca 6-14-12 "In news of the ..."]Illinois Civil Service Reform Association FOUNDED 1902 Civil Service Reform Association of Chicago FOUNDED 1862 PRESIDENT CHARLES L. CAPEN, BLOOMINGTON SECRETARY HERBERT E. FLEMING, CHICAGO VICE-PRESIDENTS SIDNEY S. BREESE, SPRINGFIELD A.S. LECKIE, JOLIET TREASURER FRANK D. MARQUIS, BLOOMINGTON PRESIDENT ROBERT CATHERWOOD SECRETARY HERBERT E. FLEMING VICE-PRESIDENTS SIGMUND ZIEGLER RUSSELL WHITMAN TREASURER F.L. HANKEY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EDGAR A. BANCROFT FRANCIS X BUSCH ALLEN B. POND J.W. RADFORD MERRITT STARR LESSING ROSENTHAL ERNEST FREUND FLETCHER DOBYNE WILLIAM B. HALE FRED G. HOPP HENRY SCHOFIELD BERNARD McMAHON THOMAS W. SWAN LAIRD BELL M.L. McKINLEY W.T. ALDEN OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 951 MARQUETTE BLDG., CHICAGO TELEPHONE RANDOLPH 1752 June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook Magazine, New York City. Dear Sir:- On behalf of the Executive Committees of the Illinois and Chicago Civil Service Reform Associations, we send you herewith proposals for a civil service plank in the national platform of the Republican party. This is a non-partisan, non-factional request in response to the widespread demand of the people, is in harmony with former platforms of your party, and is made in the interests of good government, efficiency and economy in the public service. It will be presented to delegates to both the Republican and Democratic Conventions. Very respectfully, Charles L.Capen President, Illinois Association Robert Catherwood President, Chicago Association Herbert E. Fleming Secretary Dayton, Texas. June 14th., 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir: I trust you will run for President, even if you are not given the nomination at Chicago. However, I think you will receive the nomination. If however, it is taken from you by trickery or dishonest methods, you should run any way. You will win in any event. If the nomination is conducted honestly, you are sure to be nominated. if it is not conducted honestly, you should run, as you are the people's choice, beyond a shaddow of doubt. You are the only man the Democratic party fears. The members of that party are making misleading statements to assist in defeating you. Not only this, but they are doing all in their power to secure the re-nomination of President Taft, as they are sure that if he is the standard bearer for Republican party, they, the Democrats will easily win. Now, this is a fact. It is being done all over the United States and especially so here in the South. It is truly disgusting to read the unture statements printed in the papers here regarding you and the political situation. Many dairly good and commonly reputed sane persons believe that you aim to make yourself President forever, as if such a thing is possible. The daily papers pretend to believe that you have not treated the President justly. The justice of the case however is on the other side. I believe with Lincoln that "One cannot fool all the people all the time," so I am sure that right will triumph in the end and that you will not only be nominated, but that you will also be elected by a big majority. You have right and the interest of the people on your side, and I do not believe the interests can deceive and fool enough of the voters of the United States to elect another candidate to the office of President. In any event, you should run for President, as I am sure you will be triumphantly elected. You owe it to the country. The talk of a third term, etc, will not hold. You have been elected President one time only. While there is no law against a third term, yet I believe that had you been duly elected by the American voters on two different occasions President, that you would not accept another term if it was offered you. I am sure that you have no intention of being a candidate again if you are elected president this time, which I believe will be outcome of this race. The American voters want you to run this time. They will elect you if you do run, all the lies, misleading statements and untruthful caricatures in the various unfriendly newspapers to the contrary notwithstanding. This is the advice of a Republican who has the true interests of the Republican party at heart. It is also the humble opinion of one who is a very close observer of political conditions and the sentiment of the American voters throughout the United States of America, Yours Very Respectfully John O. Dauson Alex. Conklin Walnut Grove Farm Grower of Choice Cranberries Proprietor of... Miller Bog Turner Bog Hulshart Bog Homestead Bog Lakewood, N.J. June 14th 1912 My dear Colonel - - It may look little cloudy now but we are firm in the believe that you will win out - We won [?] over here in my Section & its a tough proposition to overcome It seems we cannot here to you not going to Chicago I employ men - with a good manager and however good - or faithful - the men work with more intent when present with them - its a parallel case - only a most mighty important one to the country now that you be there - This letter sent from Joshua Hughes says I'm entirely out of Politics - Joshua Hughes was a Teacher inDelhi N.Y. Academy & we became to know him very well. My father-in-law Judge Cluny controlled the Politics of the Co. of Delaware for 20 yrs: tho' he did not have such character as Barnes to fight - The Country needs you Colonel — You may have thought my letter little [furious?] — when the canvas was Submitted over [el?] States — an outsider could get the expression with more freedom than a Press man - or a home man — & it was a Source of much Satisfaction to me to see it verified — People want you — Sincerely yours Alex Conklin Enclosed - Just to show you that I am one of Col. Boys — Hope Mr Woodford returns in time & takes the stump for you7 Travers St., Haverhill, Mass. June 14, 1912. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook," New York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Many of the leading white and colored citizens of this city and state are protesting against the possibility of any other man than yourself being names as the Republican candidate for president. It is the urgent desire your many friends here that you go to Chicago, and, by your own strong personality turn the tide in your favor, as the people of this country want it to be. If any other man in nominated, many of the Republicans of this city will not vote. I am not a poli- tician, but a minister and a writer, being considered since the death of Dunbar, the leading poet of my race. I am the author of two books and a contributor to various magazines. The "CENTURY MAGAZINE" will soon publish two poems of mine (not dialect) one of which is en- titled "The Negro Singer" and the other is on the late "Paul Laurance Dunbar". I am also to write a book on Dr. Booker Washington's school which is to be submitted to the "Century Co" this fall. My name will be found in "Who's Who in America", in the edition of 1903-'05. I have never been actively interested in politics, but if you are the nominee, I want to work and spead for you. My writings have appeared in the "Springfield Republican"; "Boston Transcript" and other leading papers, as well as in the magazines, and I have been honored with the friendship of the late Miss Frances H. Willard and Frederick Douglass. If I can serve you, let me know. I have a reputation as a speaker wherever I have been. AM no relation to DR. S. L. Correthers. Yours, J. D. Corrothers Pastory Calvary Baptist Church. OLDGATE FARMINGTON CONNECTICUT TELEPHONE NUMBER 80 FARMINGTON June 14, 1912 Dearest dear Theodore It seems absurd to write you at this over occupied moment, but your wonderful Outlook article & Mr Lawrence Abbot’s “Review” just make me feel I must tell you we are following each step of this campaign I feel as though Governor Johnson’seach development - Joe starts as a guest of a delegate tomorrow - Devotedly Anna Roosevelt Cowles not appearing before the National Committee & his written reaason that he could not appear & test the validity to a little of property where the thieves who had stolen the goods here [??] the judges has been more widely read & understood than anything else that has happened in Chicago. I wait eagerly though remotely watching New York, June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Enclosed, herewith, please find article which I wrote for The New York World. While I am a Democrat I wish to take off my hat to you and thank you sincerely for the war you are waging so successfully against Mr. Taft and the political polecats which are back of his candidacy. If Hon. Boles Penrose received his just dues for the political crimes he has committed in my native State of Pennsylvania he would now be in the Eastern penitentiary instead of joy riding on the Taft steamroller with "Pussyfooted" Crane and Charlie Murphy's Siamese twin of corruption -- Boss Barnes. By all means Colonel go to Chicago and wrest the nomination which the people have rightly given you from the thieves who would destroy you and representative government. You very presence will inspire the wavering delegates and strike terror into the steamroller gang who are nothing more nor less than white livered cowards who have about as much courage as the yelping coyotes of the prairies. Hoping with all my heart that you will be successful in receiving the Republican nomination for President, I have the honor to be, sir, Yours very respectfully, John P. Coyle 270-6-Av NY CityMetropolitan Club Washington, D.C. [*File Cramer*] June 14, 1912 Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I tried very hard to talk to you over the ‘phone but the connection was too miserable. Mrs. Miller in charge of your office here was likewise unsuccessful so at your suggestion I sent telegram which I hope you understand, I was afraid to say too much. Senator Root had already gone when I arrived here and Robinson had taken the morning off & I could not get to him till after luncheon. I was with him all afternoon and then tried to reach you immediately. He talked to me very plainly and I succeeded in drawing him out in fine shape. The result in a few words was that he knew Sen. R. still had warm personal feelings of friendship towards you, that the only differences were political - the Senator not being fully in accord withMetropolitan Club Washington, D.C. some of your reform policies, but that there was nothing that couldn’t be straightened out without a great amount of difficulty. Thus he did not like the injection of Barnes & his methods and ventured to say that in any event, if nothing was done now and the nomination came to you that the Senator would again be at your service as of old. But this isn’t what we want now and the time is ripe on account of Barnes and the Senators sense of fair play to have a good diplomat work on him & bring him over. With him on our side the backbone of Mr. Tafts [preten??] are broken and sentiment will be so overwhelming, coupled with the asinine work of the National Committee, that it will be all over Wednesday on the first ballot. If you want me to go to Chicago I’ll go at once. I’m going to see Mr. Machugh today &Metropolitan Club Washington, D.C. return on the Congressional Limited. I should like to put thought my own matter with the present administration now but if I should lose it, I’ll feel fully recompensed by the knowledge that I performed a service for you but a greater one for my country, that needs you. No trouble will be too much or sacrifice too great, if I can be of the slightest service and I await your further commands. Yours faithfully, [?] Honorable Theodore Roosevelt New York Check for two thousand June 14 [1912] Westbrook, Oakdale, Long Island. Station, Great River Telephone, 2-ISLIP Dear Mr. Roosevelt I cannot refrain from telling you with what breathless interest we here are following your splendid campaign. Were Bay [and?] here, hewould want to assist in some way. May I not send you the enclosed as a small help in the campaign work? Be sure that we are full of hope that the right will triumph and that the country may have you again to guide her in these troublous times. Ever sincerely yours Olivia M. CuttingIf necessary — assuming your lieutenants can not do the accomplishments themselves, you must in order that we the 81% of Republican and 46% of the Democratic parties — get T.R. nominated and by child’s play afterwards elected, go to Chicago and put T.R. vigor again into some of the old delegates and by your own appearance on the warfield gain any other delegates not bound by hand and feet to some bosses. Enough to Say yours for Victory Humphrey D. Davy New York June 14th 1912 509-511 Seventh Ave. Theodore Roosevelt Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay L.I. Dear Colonel:- Please keep up the spirit. There are only a few days left, and the National Convention is to get its Steam Rolling Apparatus going and most naturally at its regular speed. This being one of the antiquated methods to be used at a stage in history when the average to-day individual does not ever begin to understand the value of wireless telegraphy or say motion pictures, there should be no trouble in having a T. R. show the progressive Gas Roller going a .65 a minute equivalent to overcoming at least 58 [Tam???musses] an hour. Now in figuring on this basis between Convention and Election week - after nomination is gotten legally or morally by the G.O.P. or by [battery?] and if forced independent nominations — what must be the result? Only this afternoon I overheard an argument at 37th St & 7th Ave (Brady’s) when one amongst a overcrowd of 8 people was explaining - and this right in the heart of N. Y. City where as yet the sentiment is for some reason (unknown to any intelligent man) against the T. R. Movement, but an easy matter of nomination is obtained to lead this big herd of - pardon my inability for not finding the word expressing the sentiment in the dictionary - right up to the T. R. vote - that pardon again the long drawn out interruption - the only one rightly to become our next President must be Teddy. After a few amounting to nothing arguments one after the other of the crowd agreed that - and this is their or more correctly two of the [?] true words that the only logical man and they who will and must rank next to George Washington - even though some outsider asked them whether T. R. had never said a lie whereupon the answer "He does not have to" is Theodore Roosevelt over DAY LETTER Form 3599 B THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Day Letter. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Day Letters, most at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED DAY LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO M. VAIL, PRESIDENT. BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER June 14th (12?) RECEIVED AT 23 Ny n 62 [?] - 1912 B Scranton Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Obay Please go to Chicago with your big stick and be at the National Committee to a pulp. I am a lawyer and one who gets all his substance from Corporations. The country is fighting mad and nothing short of the total extinction of those thirty nine members of the national committee will ever appease its wrath. You can do it, so do it. Arthur Dunn[*[?] 1-25-1913-3c*] BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1849. THE BRADSTREET COMPANY, INCORPORATED Executive Offices, 346 and 348 Broadway, New York. OFFICES IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, CUBA, MEXICO, AUSTRALIA, AND IN LONDON, ENGLAND, WITH AN ESTABLISHED LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE CIVILIZED WORLD. Represented throughout the European Continent by Institute W. Schimmelpfeng. Bridgeport Office, June 14, 1912 Connecticut National Bank Building. EWD/BPR ESLEY W. DUNNING, Superintendent. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My Dear Col. Roosevelt:- Can you, and, if you can, will you advise Me of the present whereabouts of Col. C.J. Jones. I understand the Colonel was with you on your African trip. In my investigation so far, in an endeavor to locate the Colonel, I learn that he is the owner of a large sheep ranch in some Western state - which state I do not know, or have I been able, so far, to locate him. If you will oblige me along the line of my request it will be greatly appreciated by the writer as well as subscriber of our service who is seeking the whereabouts of the Colonel. Thanking you for your kind consideration and attention, I am, Very truly yours, E.W. Dunning Superintendent.FORBES CO. BOSTON EUROPEAN PLAN CABLE ADDRESS NEW WILLARD THE NEW WILLARD, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, FOURTEENTH & F STREETS WASHINGTON, DC. June 14, 1912 19___ F. S. HIGHT, MANAGER Confidential Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I believe that it is absolutely imperative for you to emphatically impress it upon Senator Dixon, and your advisors at Chicago, that they should raise the slogan, I That President Taft can not be elected! II That a "dead sure winner" must be nominated! III That to loose in this campaign would mean the total ruin, smash and destruction of the Republican Party! Because, if the Democrats should win in November, their well laid plot to put through a Constitutional amendment disqualifying a President from a second term, would repudiate the republican policy of retaining in office, the good, efficient and faithful servants of the people; and also, if the supporters of Mr. Taft sincerely believe that he is a good public servant, they are at the same time depriving him of the possibility of any future service by forcing him to defeat now. I earnestly believe that if the President's most loyal supporters (who must know that he cannot be elected) can see this point no further argument will be necessary to line up Senator Root, for whom I have the highest regard, and we can win over the uninstructed delegates, which would mean your nomination. Trusting that you fully understand my trustworthy devotion to you, my honorable loyalty to party, and my intense patriotism for the welfare of the Republic, I am Very truly yours, Victor Hugo Duras P.S. I arrive at Chicago, monday morning. V.H.D. Address Congressional Hotel for it. Allow me to wish you success in your campaign. Very sincerely yours, Campbell Dallas Edgar [*13*] CAZENOVIA NEW YORK June 14, 1912. My dear Mr. Roosevelt, Four years ago you were kind enough to give me an appointment to the Naval Academy. I have just graduated, and I seize the moment, as an opportune one to thank you for the appointment that made my graduation possible. I shall always be grateful H.D.W. English Pittsburgh, Pa. June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: The enclosed copy of letter just mailed to Mr. Pinchot will be of interest to you. I called him up on the long distance phone last night and gave him the contents. He said he would give same to Senators Gibson and Flinn. I am convinced by the morning papers of today that some such programme is the real one. With all good wishes, I am Faithfully yours, H.D.W. English[For enc see 6-14-12]C O P Y June 14, 1912. Hon. Gifford Pinchot, c/o Roosevelt Headquarters, Auditorium Annex, Chicago, Ill. Dear Pinchot: I have reliable information just given me that the whole play of the Taft wing of the National Committee is to name a dark horse. They have no intention of nominating Mr. Taft. But to secure adherence to their programme they must Place the contested delegates under obligation to them by seating them. This scheme comes direct from a New York Taft delegate who does not care especially for Mr. Roosevelt, but says he wants to save the party from defeat and who believes Mr. Taft as the nominee means defeat. He is a big man in the State of New York. He says the New York delegates proposes to swing at the proper time to a dark horse; that the dominant crowd in the National Committee propose to keep both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft from a nomination on the first and second ballot, then if possible swing in for a dark horse. Who that will be he will not say, although when he was told that he could not swing Mr. Barnes for Mr. Hughes he said the delegates to Chicago would not be ruled by Mrs. Barnes, which may indicate the dark horse choice. When asked if it should prove impossible to swing the Convention to a dark horse what would be his attitude and that of his fellow delegates he said in such event it became a question of saving the party, and that as Mr. Roosevelt could win over Mr. Taft every time in an election he and the other delegates he had talked to would in such event vote for Mr. Roosevelt. I have every reason (from the prominence of this man) to believe that this is the programme. The action of the National Committee in risking so much anger on the part of the American people could be explained by men like Senators Crane and Penrose as all done to save the party and secure a man on whom both the Roosevelt and Taft wings of the party could unite and the Senators mentioned could go before the people (even with the basest kind of thieving on their hands) pretending that it was for the ultimate salvation of the party. Don't turn this aside as just gossip. It comes from a source that is worthy of the highest respect and credence, andHon. G. P. #2. the story was told my friend by a delegate to the Convention from New York State. Show this letter to Senators Dixon and Flinn. The reason I do not give you the names is that my business association in Pittsburgh with the gentlemen who gave me this story is so close that the New York delegate could trace it to him. It was not told me in confidence, for my friend is a warm admirer of Mr. Roosevelt, but for business reasons has been unable to take an active part in his behalf, yet the delegate, who is a prominent New York man, could easily trace it. I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Roosevelt for his information. From other business sources I find that this programme as outlined by the delegate from New York to my friends seems to be understood. The real struggle will be too hold Mr. Roosevelt's delegates against all comers, for the play will be on the first and perhaps the second ballot to keep Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft from a nomination in the hope that they can with a wild hurrah swing the Convention off its feet for a third man; New York swinging into line at the proper moment. The delegate mentioned above admits it to a gamblers chance to prevent the nomination of either of the leading candidates, but says a gambler's chance has won in Conventions before, why not now. To prevent this publicity of their programme would place the delegates of Mr. Roosevelt on guard and at the same time notify the real staunch Taft delegate if there by any on guard as well, and if they are real men anger them at such duplicity. Of course Senators Dixon and Flinn will know what is best to do. I could have had it published but they are managing Mr. Roosevelt's fight and should be the ones to settle that. It has also occured to me that if large indignation meetings could be held at strategical points all over the country upon the completion of the reports of the National Committee on contested seats by the outraged voters with notification to the Convention that they demand a reversal of such factional decisions might have a mighty influence on the National Convention as it meets. Say for instance in St. Louis, San Francisco and prominent cities in the States where these steals have been so flagrant. If these meetings of protest could be held Monday night in all these States and their protests addressed to the proper Committees or to the National Convention it would have a wonderful influence upon the minds of the delegates assembled. It would amount to absolute notice that these States do not propose to stand for the steal.Hon. G. P. # 2. This is merely a suggestion and you and your friends will know best. With all good wishes for the cause, I am Faithfully yours, (Signed) H. D. W. English.[Enc in English 6-14-12]DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE Helena, Montana (Place) June 14, 1912. (Date) Sir:- On this patriotic day I cannot refrain from writing you just a line of encouragement in the splendid campaign you have and are making in the interest of the common people, and to wish you unqualified success in the approaching National convention. I am a federal office-holder, but in view of the fact that I am a firm believer in the principles advocated by you, I have had the courage of my convictions from the beginning of the fight down to the present time, and will steadily persevere to the end. And in taking this position I have incurred the displeasure of our machine bosses, Dr. Lamstrum and Thomas A. Marlow, but right is right, and principle stands supreme. Your example in championing the cause of the people in the face of the scandelous and bitter attacks upon you by the enemies, is an inspiration to your supporters to stand by you. If you are in the game to the end, your friends will be there with you, and it is the hope of the latter that there will be no break in the ranks from the General to the lowest private in the line. Very sincerely, Geo. O. Freeman Receiver U.S.L.O. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.Form 1671 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO. M. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVEDERE BOOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER’S NO. 17 TIME FILED [?] p CHECK X2 [*[6-14-12?]*] New York 6/14 [*1912*] SEND the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to To Col Theo Roosevelt Your most sincere friend Believe your presence in Chicago necessary to prevent the Stupendous perfidy Being attempted by the Effete National Committee and that it is your duty to the Nation to go I sincerely hope that nothing will prevent your going Patrick Gan READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK THE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL E. E. GARRISON, BUSINESS MANAGER MADISON, WISCONSIN June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287--4th Avenue, New York City. Dear Colonel:- Enclosed find pamphlet which is to be circulated at Chicago. Very truly yours, E. E. GarrisonW. H. GOLDEY, President and Manager JOHN F. DREYER, Vice President JOHN W. GOODING, Secretary and Treasurer JOHN R. CORBIN COMPANY BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS [*15*] Main Office and Sales Department FOSTER AVENUE AND B. B. R. R. Newkirk Ave. Station TELEPHONE 1900 1901 FLATBUSH Borough of Brooklyn New York City June 14/12 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Mr. Roosevelt It is very wrong the way some of the republican party are acting towards you The country wants you as president. We have had such “hard times since Mr. Taft has been in office, we feel you and you only can bring good times & prosperity to us. If the committee will not nominate you, we beg you to take an independent nomination We must have you at the head of our country Democrats & republicans will elect you You have many friends here in Flatbush Don’t fail us on your nomination We will do the rest. Sincerely yours, W. H. GoldeyBOARD OF EDUCATION H.B. Kiehle, M.D, President E.R. Chapin, Secretary Jas. Monaghan, Treasurer W.H. Stark, Trustee A.C. Sutherland, Trustee SCHOOL FACULTY Wm. E. Gould, Ph. M. Sup't. Mae McLaren 2nd Gram. Elizabeth Pillsbury, 1st Gram. Inez Field, 3rd Primary Lena M. Gould, 2nd Primary Jessie Murdock, 1st Primary ROSE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ROSE CITY, MICH. June 14, 1912. [*B*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: - Reading in the DETROIT NEWS of yesterday that you have decided to give woman's suffrage your unqualified support, I am writing this to commend your action. I believe that the majority of people in Michigan are favorable to woman's suffrage and will also commend your decision. Personally, I would respectfully request you to make the run for the presidency on a progressive ticket if the bosses carry the Chicago convention. Very truly yours, Wm. E. GouldDunkirk, Indiana June 14th. 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Colonel: It is needless for me to assure you that the rank and file of the Republican party are with you in your fight against the Political Bosses and their allies, the of-f ice-holders; if we had the opportunity, here in Indiana, to express our preference for candidate for President by primary, my judgment is. You could carry the state by a greater majority than in other states which have had primary elections--- We deplore the lack of honesty and fair dealing on the part of the National Republican Committee, in wrongfully seating Taft delegates to the National Convention, and thus attempting to pack the convention to Re-nominate the President, when the party would nominate a fearless candidate for President, one whom we could elect; I believe I voice the sentiment of a considerable number of our party when I say, "You should not permit the "Bosses" to steal the Nomination from you without a protest" --You stand for Real Republicanism. The party can not elect Mr. Taft --- If the will of the people is throttled in Chicago; Why not permit Your Friends to place you in the field for the Presidency, on an Indipendent ticket? It matters not by what name the ticket is known, Indipendent, Insurgent progressive, or what not---the principles involved are what interests us, and we must have a leader who has our interests at heart and is fearless --- With a progressive ticket in the field, Those of us who will not indores the disgraceful methods of the National Committee, by voting for Mr. Taft, could save ourselves the humiliation of voting the National Democratic ticket. In writing you these lines I am seeking to acquaint you with sentiment that exists in the party; and to inform you, your efforts in behalf of good government are appreciated and indorsed in this part of Indiana. Very Respectfully, Daniel E. Grimes Ex Practicing Atty of Jay County =Now a Farmer.ERNEST HAMLIN AMBROSE HAMLIN Hamlin Bros. Piling Made and Delivered for all Kinds of Construction Work [*28*] NEW PHONE, ACTON EX. ACTON, IND., June 14, 1912 Colonel Roosevelt Oyster Bay NY My dear sir:- A suggestion with Gov. Of Tenn. as your running mate, would it be plausible! Yours Truly Ernest S. HamlynHUGO HÅRDH, Publisher, "OAHSPE HOME" London, 14, Spencer Mansions, Queen's Club Gardens, W. London, June 14th 1912. Theodore Roosevelt Esq. Oyster Bay, N.Y. Esteemed and Honored Sir, To the next President of the U. S. in ape, and, I feel convinced, also in fact, I beg to place unto notice the book "Oahspe" being of American origin and published the first year 1881 in Boston. The book speaks itself of its merits, I only will mention that attempts in carrying out the teachings for raissing up orphans and castaway children has been going on in U.S.A. from the very beginning with more or less success and especially in the West. The book has by the by floated into indifferent and speculative hands over there, which explains the reason of me taking hold of the republishing of same, being my- self, in a smaller way, independent to living and means, a naturalised citizen of U.S.A., a native of Finland and by trade a graduated Mech.Engineer, at present residing in London and 60 years of age. If the books meets with Your worthy attention, I beg You in the Name of Jehovih to suffer a few lines of appreciation to be sent to Your "Outlooks", in order to submit the Doctrine to the ccritics of more educated class of people, that I also here are striving at, being so far mostly handled in a secluded way, though the book from the first edition was presented to the most important Libraries in U.S. May heaven bless You with strength and selfconfidence in Your Campaign for Peace and Good Will! Yours most sincerely Hugo Hårdh.EVERY YEAR SINCE 1855 EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR The Peoria Herald-Transcript The Great Daily of Central Illinois CHARLES H. MAY, Publisher PEORIA, ILL. June 14, 1912 D. Wardrop, Asst. Sec'y. The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., Dear Sir:- We are in receipt of your letter of the 12th for copies of our issue of Sept. 7th, 19(?) containing the report of Col. Roosevelt's address. Our supply of that date is entirely exhausted, the only remaining copy to be had or seen will be found on file at the Public Library this City. We would suggest that you write them, who would be more than glad to copy the report from the paper for you. Regretting our inability to serve you in this instance, we remain Very truly yours, The Herald Transcript Circulation Dept.[*26*] [*(6-14-12)*] 102 Superior St. Providence R.I. June 14th 12 Hon. T. Roosevelt Dear Sir I hope the enclosed clipping+ may be brought to your attention as in this state there seem to be few who understand and have the courage to express in public their idea of your campaign in behalf of the people. I am sorry to say thatNeither the Rev [?] Carpenter or myself can aid you with our votes, as he has been in State only one year and the law disfranchises him for 2 (which I think an injustice as far as the office of President is concerned) and I am a cripple who cannot get to the voting place With every hope for your success in nomination and election I am respectfully yours Fred JehanThe LITTLE HOTEL WILMOT South Penn Square, Philadelphia Private Office RYERSON W. JENNINGS [*1.*] 6-14-1912 Dear M. Roosevelt: Thinking this might be of interest I enclose it. While I am a Democrat, going in that party when M. Bryan was nominated on account of Hanna buying McKinley’s nomination when the party the “rank and file” wanted Reed, I voted for you when Parker ran, and I believe I was the first person to mention you for President, writing to the New York Herald after you had denounced the War Dept on the canned beef question, while you were in CubaThe LITTLE HOTEL WILMOT South Penn Square, Philadelphia Private Office RYERSON W. JENNINGS While I am a delegate to the Baltimore Convention, if that convention does not nominate Woodrow Wilson and Chicago does nominate Theodore Roosevelt I will vote for the nominee of Chicago Yours faithfully Ryerson JenningsF. S. MANISON TEL. FORT HILL 4109 O. D. KNOX MANISON & KNOX REAL ESTATE AND INVESTMENTS MORTGAGES AND INSURANCE 18 TREMONT STREET 37 COURT SQUARE SUITE 132-133 KIMBALL BUILDING MONEY TO LOAN RENTS COLLECTED ESTATES CARED FOR REFERENCES BOSTON, MASS. June, 14-1912 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Colonel:- I have been watching with great interest and growing indignation, the outrages that have been perpetrated by the National Committee at Chicago and wonder how long you will stand for that sort of thievery before you jump in there and rescue the G.O.P. from the men who would wreck the Party if necessary to nominate a man who has been repudiated by the majority of the Republican Party. I may be wrong in my judgement but it would seem to me that you ought to go to Chicago and take that Convention by storm for you sure can do it all right. I want to see you nominated on the first ballot and believe that you will be. I always welcome an open foe who fights in the open and on the level but for such a fight as been led by McKinley-Crane Barnes & Co I have nothing but contempt. I am a good "Injun" and would like to see them get what is coming to them. With full confidence of your final victory, I am, Very truly yours Ossian D. Knox100 William Street New York June 14 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: Dear Sir: I see in today press that one of your Supporters predict 2 Conventions at the same time in the same hall & that Penn & W.Va. speak of electing delegates to the Electoral College who will cast their votes for you. The best plan that suggests itself to me is that if the National Committee Steal enough delegates to control the Convention, that your regular elected delegates get up and walk out of the convention (all of them) and hold your convention at some other hall. Cant a plank be put in the platform Compelling each and every state to pass a primary law which will read that when the people have spoken once that the secy of State will issue Certificates direct to the delegates and that no state convention afterward will have power to annul the voice of the people. The idea of the Electoral College was that a small state like Delaware or Rhode Island would have a say in the choice of a president, but let the state only speak once and let all delegated be elected at large, had this been the law the National Committee composed of men rejected by the republican party could not interfere with the voice of the people. I am deadly opposed to Mr. Barnes (also to Mr. Penrose & co but he does not belong to my state) Mr, Barnes is an unconvicted criminal and I do not want any such man to lead me or to be lead by any such man. I want all such men taken out of politics. Mr. Taft I consider a hypcrit as he said he was in favor of some kind of primary but you can by the action of the National Committee he does not want the people to speak at all.2nd My daughter said the other night that she would like to see you run against Taft & Bryan and beat both of them. My position this year is just this If you run I will vote for you but the only other two progressives I would place any confidence in are Beveridge of Indiana and Briston of Kansas. If any man is nominated that smells of Taft (like Justice Hughes) I will not only vote democratic on the president but on the Congressman. The Press explained that to us one morning when it said if we did not vote it would only be a loss of one vote for Mr. Taft but if we all voted democratic it would be two against him. A young man in my store said to me “If the do not nominate Roosevelt I will not vote at all.” I said that is not the way to do, if they pit up a reactionary Vote democratic and I know thousands that are going to do that very thing. I am not a strict party man, do not belong to any assembly association. Vote very independent. My brother said the other evening “If they do not nominate Mr. Roosevelt I will Vote the socialist ticket. So you see how the matter stands. I hope you will never have such men on the National Commission either as Harry New & other Persons oh there are a lot of them that have been rejected by the republicans of their state. Hoping you will control the convention. I remain Yours very truly John H, Leach So I thought, from what the papers said, you would be in Chicago I sent my last letter to Sen. J. H. Dixon. I told him I had bothered you enough & now I was going to bother himAMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 500 BOND BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. The summer address (June 25 to September 25) of the Secretary's Office will be SEMITIC MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. After September 25, the permanent address will be changed from 500 Bond Building to 1140 WOODWARD BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. June 14, 1912. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: May I trouble you to sign the two certificates of life membership in this Association that accompany this letter and to send them to Mr. Clarence W. Bowen, 130 Fulton Street, New York, N.Y., who will See that they are forwarded to the proper persons. very truly yours, W G Leland Secretary.N.Y. June 14 - 12 Hon Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Colonel Please send me at once a picture of your self as I am having Two Thousand buttons and One Thousand lithographs mad of you so that I can give them out at the Convention for you. Wishing you all the best in the world. Respectfully Philip Lowenthal 1331 Internale Ave BronxWaukau, Wisconsin June 14th 1912. [*B*] Dear Mr Rosevelt, I hope you have no unkindly recollections of the Methodist Parson who wrote you from Columbus, Ohio twelve years ago that "It was Rosevelt, first, last and all the time" I want to assure you that I have adhered to that slogan consistently down to the present hour. Prompted chiefly by a curiosity to know how our Methodist leaders were aligning themselves in relation to you and Mr. Taft I went over to Minneapolis the middle of May with the view of passing round through the hotel lobbies both to discover Rosevelt sentiment and to create it where it did not exist to the extent of my ability. But I was frustrated in my purpose by an attack of pneumonia which put me into the hospital on the second day after I reached Minneapolis. However my brother2 Naphtali who is one of the new Bishops chosen by the General Conference was with me in the Hospital once or twice each Day and we had several earnest talks over the political situation. I was gratified to find my brother pro Rosevelt He expressed to me the conviction that you would be the choice of the Republican Convention. However I ascertained that your enemies had thrown some dust in the eyes of men who had heretofore championed your policies and even my brother had been influenced somewhat by unfriendly criticisms and I found it necessary "to stir up his pure mind by way of remembrance" of that unscrupulous coterie of unprincipled capitalists who would crucify modern christian civilization as ruthlessly as their prototypes, Annas and Caphas dragged the Man of Galilee to the cross in old Jerusalem on precisely an identical issue nineteen hundred years ago. A millionaire lumber man of northern Wisconsin told me that "Rosevelt was so grossly intoxicated on the occasion of his visit to Milwaukee in 1910 that they had to cancel a number of his engagements." I knew that this was grossly untrue. I want to assure you that I am unshaken in the conviction that you are in a peculiar sense the providential3 man to pioneer the destinies of the American Republic onward and upward , and believing that I am confident that " No weapon that is formed against you will prosper ." However, I am free to confess that my chief solicitude is for the triumph of your policies as outlined so admirably in the columns of the Outlook,but I am unswerving in the conviction that there is no man in America who can be more safely entrusted with the Rosevelt policies than Theodore Rosevelt . If the Almighty thinks otherwise I am willing that He should order it otherwise but I shall be disappointed if you should not be he choice of the American people for President in 1912 . Very cordially yours, Joseph LucesckToledo & Ohio Central Railway Company Corning, Ohio June 14th, 1912. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Hon. Dear Sir:- With apologies for addressing you thus, I wish to direct you to an article written in the editorial column of the inclosed paper by Dr. R.D. Book, Corning, Ohio. which so ably expresses the feeling of thousands and thousands of the honest voters and this and other states in their demand for justice. Dr. Book is not a politician but is and has been a student all his life, hence when his article appeared it aroused spirit in all of us. In conversation this evening he said in part, "If the admirers of Roosevelt throughout the country would telegraph the convention demanding (you) their choice be nominated that the delegates would be bound to act or else your part split and organize "The Progressive Party" with you at the head. This struck me so forcibly that I am writing you with the hope that you place Dr.Book's idea before the campaign manages to see if it will not bring results. Trusting that er'e the year 1912 rolls by we will again see you at the head of our glorious nation, I am, Respectfully yours, Hubert McElroyPAYNE COUNTY ROOSEVELT CLUB WILLIAM McGINTY PRESIDENT M.C. ATCHISON SECRETARY Ripley, OKLA., June 14th 1912 Dear Colonel:- I wish to inform you how things stand in this county and which is a fair sample of the northern half of this state. At our county convention we had a total of 65 delegates there were 5 for Taft and 60 for you. After your nomination, if you can arrange to come to this state and make a few Oklahoma speeches I believe that this state can be turned to the republican columns. If I thought that I could do you an good at Chicago at the present time, I would go there if I had to walk all the way. I am praying and living in hopes for your nomination. I am not afraid of the election. Yours as ever. Wm McGintyCable Address: “CAVRICO” CAPE PALMAS Via MONROVIA Codes { A.B.C. 5th EDITION { BENTLEY’S { PRIVATE Bankers: BANK OF BRITISH WEST AFRICA. MONROVIA AND LIVERPOOL. The Cavalla River Company, Limited. West African Merchants, Exporters, Importers, Contractors, Commission Agents, &c. Registered Office and Secretary, [41 North John Street.] 322 Tower Buildings Liverpool, England. [CAPE PALMAS,] Monrovia, LIBERIA. In reply please quote--- ENCL…. June 14 1912. Agencies-- MONROVIA, GRAND BASSA SINOE. Branches-- KABLEKE, GBOLOBOO. NYANEKE, PADIBOO. PANG. Saw and Rice Mills-- GBOLOBOO, NYANEKE Plantations-- GBOLOBOO, FOUFLA, BEABUSUKEH Imports-- MAHOGANY, CEDAR, PULP WOOD, PALM OIL, PALM NUT KERNELS, KOLA NUTS, COPRA, COCOA, COFFEE, RUBBER, PIASSAVA, COCOANUT FIBRE, GUM, MANGROVE BARK, IVORY, &c. &c. Exports-- PROVISIONS, CLOTHING, HARDWARE, COTTONS, SILKS, SPIRITS, TOBACCOS, MACHINERY, BUILDING MATERIALS, CAMP EQUIPMENT, FURNITURE AND FITTINGS, &c. &c. Col Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. [*3*] Dear Colonel Roosevelt, Writing as i am from the midst of these of this Republic who devoutly pray with me that you may be the President as the result of this arduous campaign, you may be gratified to know that we are all with you. I am to be in New York to meet Dr. Booker Washington in September and I look forward to meeting you once again and to personally wish you all the success possible. As I am leaving for London on the 1st July would you if writing address me c/o The Royal Automobile Club London where all letters will find me till the 24th August after that C[20] Knickerbocker Hotel New York City. I hope Kermit is well and with my kind regards to you both Believe me, Yours very truly, Major R. MacKay- Mackay The Argyll and Sutherland High drs.629 N St. NW. Washington D C. June 14th 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt “The Light of the 20th Century, Oyster Bay New York, My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Bosses, grafters, thieves gluttons and liars are being supported by the world’s greatest Government to defeat the will of the people that their avaricious and pernicious ambitions might be satisfied in the down-fall of the world’s greatest benefactor. The “money trust” probers by special bulletin here announced last night that you let Mr. J. P. Morgan have $23,000,000 during the money panic. If this was necessary to avert the panic I don’t see where there was anything wrong about it. However I can’t plainly see from the manner of it's announcement, it is intended for food to the enemies of the People’s will and those political bosses who only exist in this world for the purpose of impeding and reflecting upon the doings of the2 Peoples benefactors. If your have time to read the notion of an humble one, I will write that if I were you with your popularity I would concede the nomination to a third man or a dark horse, as some style it, when it registers 100 degrees above zero at the North pole. And if by their uncivilized machine methods the grafters should succeed us in controlling the national Convention, then I would graciously permit the Taftites to have the primary states which have declared for you when the end melts off of the Southern part of the earth. Votes for women good motto rights! I am looking for you to throw out another sentiment maker I was never as anxious for anything in my life as I am now to see you and you only nominated and elected President, for you are in very deed the greatest and most resourceful the world has ever seen. I came to Washington DC to keep in close touch with the situation I am your humble servant U.S.M. Maxwell GEO. A. MEBANK, PRESIDENT KARL VON RUCK. CHAIRMAN BOARD OF GOVERNORS ASHEVILLE, N.C. J. G. FARRELL, SECRETARY AND TREASURER WM SCHOENMENT, ASSISTANT SECRETARY AND TREASURER Spray Cotton Mills Spray, N. C. Personal June 14/12 Dear Col. Roosevelt: Force the fight from the start & carry by storm the defeat of Root will settle it & decide the day. His election would have big effect on the waverers. His defeat a stampede. Please pardon my interest. Very sincerely Geo, A. Mebank[FOR ENCL SEE 6-15-12]W. W. Miller Apartado N29 Chilpancingo, Gro. Mexico. June 14, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt c/o “The Outlook” New York City U. S. A. Dear Sir: Although nearly isolated here from the outside world by existing conditions I still take a great interest in my home country, therefore I trust you will succeed in the valiant fight you are putting up for the rights of the American people. I have never had the pleasure of meeting you and possible we may never meet, yet I desire to express to you my admiration of the strong sterling qualities which you so fearlessly represent. I consider the campaign now on in the United States to be of equal importance to the welfare of the nation as the one preceding the civil war. One request I wish to make, perhaps it may appear out of place from one so far away but I am still an American and in my heart I cherish as I ever will the hope for the glorious advancement of our2 country. In the present situation I fear that through the combined efforts of powerful syndicates who are arranged against you, you will be robbed out of the nomination at the Chicago convention, in such event I hope and trust for the welfare of our country that you will accept the nomination for President by an independent progressive party who will hold the welfare, dignity and honor of the American people above illicit gain. 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Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Day Letters, most at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED DAY LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO M. VAIL, PRESIDENT. BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 26 N.Y.N. 28 Blue June 14th [*1912*] Memphis Tenn. 14 Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay You are still a bear Republican of the Sunny South still think you are a bear. You are going to win. Go to Chicago soon as you can. Bob Monat 524pForm 168 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. BELVEDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED at 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d. St., New York. ALWAYS OPEN 214NY NC 36 CHICAGO ILLS JUNE 14 [*1912*] THEODORE ROOSEVELT OUTLOOK OFFICE NYC THERE HAS BEEN A REMARKABLE CHANGE HERE IN THE PAST 24 HOURS IN FAVOR OF THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE. YOU SHOULD COME HERE BUT SHOULD NOT ARRIVE BEFORE MONDAY BEST LUCK ITS A CINCH ALEX P MOORE 1224PNorfolk, Va. June 14-12. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I had the honor to meet you at the first Rough Riders' Reunion in Las Vegas some years ago. During the first week in March I bet $5 with a friend of mine that Mr. Taft's name would not be presented to the National Convention. I based my opinion upon a belief that the American people are an honorable people and that, as such, they could not approve of Mr. Taft. I credited him with very little sense but with enough to keep him from being stood up just to be knocked down. I begin to think I over-rated him. Mr. Roosevelt, you are responsible for Mr. Taft. If it had notbeen for you he would never have been even thought of for president. He has proven himself to be less than Buchannan in ability and courage and as much of a traitor to his country as Benedict Arnold. Furthermore, he is an ingrate. He is the dog that bites the hand that has fed him. He is too low down for a dog and in the slow process of evolution he had to be human!! As you are aware, I do not know your plans, but I do know that you owe it to the American people and to the Republican party to secure the nomination and exert yourself to the utmost to get elected that you may undo the work of this impossible person whom you foisted upon us. Look out for electors who will vote according to their own wishes; it is a good rule and will work both ways. First get nominated. then get elected and then get busy. Yours sincerely, Homer Moore.Form 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVEDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER ================================================= NUMBER SENT BY REC’D BY CHECK Di Mc 18 1eX 3 52 P RECEIVED AT Oyster Bay 6/14 191[*2 *] DATED Johnston City Tenn. 14 TO Theo. Roosevelt Ns Taft Committee state two more votes from you in first district of Tennessee doesn't stand for it. P. E. N. Moore Elector72 Huntington Avenue Boston, Mass., June 14 [*[1912]*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Colonel, Although not personally acquainted, I have a friendly interest in developments at Chicago, particularly in-so-far as they concern you; therefore, I am presuming to address you. As glad to read that the advance of the "steam roller" has been checked, and trust it will now perform a retrograde movement, "Do unto others," etc., Being a member of the theatrical profession, with no permanent habitation: therefore, no vote --- yet I keep touch with all affairs of moment, and you have no stronger rooter than I am. In this my good wife joins me. Born a Southern Democrat, I strongly endorse your progressive ideas. This country needs you, with your go-ahead activeness, your fearlessness. There has been too much politics; we need action. It is but right that you should be President at the opening of the Panama Canal; we need you to put an end to revolutions in Cuba and Mexico -- annex them, if necessary, we need you to accomplish reciprocity with Canada and South America countries, we need an aggressive advocate for popularism. That the Trusts fear you is evidenced by the fight Crane, et al., are making. Men like Lorimer will not forget. Mr. Taft has been misguided and lacks back-bone to represent this great growing Nation. Bossism is a relic of the past, and you are to be applauded for giving it, and them, a good black eye. Keep it going. When you come into your own -- as I feel sure you will-There are two Trusts that will need attention, and I hope to see you take them in hand. One is "organized labor," or unionism. I do not question the right to unionize, but when it is used for a malicious purpose, it is but proper that the United States Government should make an effort to regulate. Every man, union or otherwise, should have the right to work where he pleases, and a wage satisfactory to himself. Furthermore, boys should be permitted the right to apprenticeship -- as in years gone by. Invested capital should have protection against this spread of Social-Anarchism. An employer cannot discharge an incompetent workman; he is threatened with strike unless he re-in states. He is dictated to, and told just what he can do, with his own establishment. I have experienced this in my own dealings with stagehands and electricians. Every strike that is festered, or permitted, brings suffering to the innocent, and is followed by lawlessness and destruction of property. No matter how often the demands of "organized labor" would be satisfied, there would still be grievances unsatisfied; they will always be abused. A check should be made, and it must be done before this country is forced into a revolution. When Socialists can tear down our flag, and have their May-day processions, it is high time [for] that the Government should take some cognizance of it. Another growing Trust is Catholicism. I believe in religious liberty, but the United States is no place for the establishment of a Catholic -- Roman Catholic -- hierarchy. The Pope has his eye on the States -- it is evidenced by the three Cardinals in place of one. The Knights of Columbus are systematically organizing, and are becoming more powerful every day. Masonry is the only stumbling-block.This subject I have been able to study at first hand. Lived for years at Baltimore, and rented from Charles J. Bonaparte, I, also, have a resting-place in Boston, where my wife's family reside. Both cities are hot beds of Catholicism. I know the aim they entertain. In the older countries, where ignorance and superstition have obtained, Catholicism is being rooted out; why should it be transplanted to the United States? Your refusal to be dictated to by the Pope leads me to think you can find a way to check-mate intentions. I know, my dear Mr. Roosevelt, that these are very difficult issues to tackle. I wish I had the power to help you; I do, in my own way, combat the spread of these evils, but it needs the concerted action of a Religious Men and Forward Movement," with a more aggressive campaign. When you are President, I trust you will evolve some measure to touch upon these sores; also make it possible for actors, who are deemed to be "nomads," to have a vote -- no matter where they may be at time of election. I know many who would cast a vote for you if they could. We have been agitating this subject for years but have not been able to get results. Believe me, we read and think, and many of us are taxpayers. And we are in touch with public affairs and know what is being done: we don't need any one to tell us. I hope, someday, to have the pleasure of meeting you personally. I have been tempted to make a pilgrimage -- with my wife -- several times; but being only a unit decided better not. Did send you prescription for a gargle last spring when you were having trouble with your throat. Hope it did you the amount of good it always does us.When I study your methods, and ponder over your desires, I regret that I am not a politician; believe I would desert my beloved profession if I could troop along with you. My dear Colonel, pardon my liberty in addressing this long epistle to you, but you are used to being "bored," so you won't mind another from a well-wishing rooter. With all good luck at Chicago, Sincerely yours, Edwin MordantJune 14, 1912. From Arthur Marion Murphy To Ex President Theodore Roosevelt Dear friend As I have been the recipient of a great many favors from your Councilates in Lorighn lands and a I am the only man who has ever received your Private Seal whilst you were in office as President as a Globe Trotter I now take the Liberty of stating that in my estimation the time is here now when the people of the United States of all classes need your services as President once more, I know for a certainty that you are the people's choice and that you will be elected as President, and I have no fear but that you are the one who can deal with the situations in all its Phases sir I have the honor to sign myself respectfully your servant and admirer always Arthur Marion Murphy Form 168 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. BELVEDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED at 172 Fifth Ave., N. W. Cor. 22d. St., New York. ALWAYS OPEN 438NY JD 18 WASHINGTON DC JUNE 14TH 1912 THE OUTLOOK CO 287 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY IMPORTANT THAT MR ROOSEVELT GETS SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTER SEAL OF METROPOLITAN CLUB ON ENVELOPE ADDRESSED CARE YOUR OFFICE NATIONAL ROOSEVELT COMMITTEE 550PMfeel we are presumptuous in offering this modest invitation? and I am quite sure that golden service and royal chefs would not give you more pleasure than what you would receive from the hands of our ladies in Hightstown! May we hope to have you? And when? We could meet your train at Trenton and bring you here by auto. Our committee will communicate with you, officially, when we learn whether you can accept our invitation, which I assure you, Mr. Roosevelt, comes from the depth of loyal hearts! Sincerely yours Louise Clement Norton Mrs. Richard W. Norton Etra Road Hightstown, New Jersey June 14, 1912 To Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York Dear Mr. Roosevelt, Our Hightstown people all appreciate your great courtesy in giving us such a full and satisfactory statement, in reply to my letter of recent date. Our committee, and other people, are cherishing then hope that you may yet be able to honor us with a visit. One hesitates to intrude upon you at this specially Strenuous time, but we venture to do so because we do want you to come, so very much. As many are ready to greet you as assembled before, and we want you whether you are to be our next president or not, we want you because you are Theodore Roosevelt, the man! Our men want you for they know you to be a man’s man, and our women want you because you are a man’s man! I think our ladies all feel as I do - we don’t want to vote, but are content to have our influence felt at the polls by staying properly at home and providing three good well prepared and well served meals each day for husbands and sons - trusting that by keeping their digestion good, that they will vote right - for if they “eat” right, they will think right. The ladies want a share in entertaining you if you can possibly spare a day to come to our town. The men can gather the crowd and have their band - and give you their votes, but we want to invite you (and Mrs. Roosevelt) to a good old fashioned country dinner, cooked and served by some of the best housewives in New Jersey. Though you have dined with kings, Mr. Roosevelt, I do not think you willTHE ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS PAPER IN PEORIA THE PEORIA JOURNAL H. M. PINDELL, Proprietor PAID CIRCULATION EXCEEDING ANY OTHER PEORIA NEWSPAPER POPULATION 75,000 PEORIA, ILL., June 14th, 1912. Mr. G.D. Wardrop, Asst. Secy. Theo. Roosevelt, % The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir:- Acknowledging receipt of your's of the 12th inst., asking for a copy of The Journal of Sept. 7th 1910. Mr. Roosevelt's speech was not in that issue but was in our issue of Oct. 13th, The President being here on the 12th. I enclose you sheet from the files of The Journal, which I hope will be satisfactory. After you have finished with this, if it is not inconvenient to return it, we will be under obligations to you. Yours very truly, H.M. Pindell[*6-14-12*] Form 1671 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO. M. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVEDERE BOOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER’S NO. 3 TIME FILED 928 a CHECK [?] END the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to To Carollton Mo 6/14 Col T Roosevelt As delget to the Republican National Convention and in Behalf of the Women of California we heartily thank you for your endorsement of a woman suffrage plank in the National Platform. Mrs. Florence Edlina Porter Mrs Isabell A W [Blandy?] READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK#375 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. June 14, 1912 Theodore Roosevelt, Esq., Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: The widespread publicity given by the New York daily newspapers to the announcement through Ben Lindsey, that you favor the addition of a plank to the National Republican platform, having in view the extension of the voting franchise to women in all the states of the Union, is received by the women suffragists of the State of New York with much indifference owing to your former apparent antagonism to the movement having in view that object. The campaign being waged throughout the Nation by women, that they may have a voice through the ballot in framing the conditions under which they labor and live, has not elicited any responsive sympathy from your predecessor Mr. Taft, and not even now when he is so busily engaged in demanding an extension of his term as Chief Executive of this Nation and resorting to any and all expedients toward that end. In order to allay any doubts existing among women as to your attitude regarding this now national political problem, will you over your personal signature, state your views on the matter in question-the extension of the voting franchise to women. I remain, respectfully, Grace A. Raymond Secretary Woman Suffrage Party Borough of Brooklyn.[6-14-12] W.M. Rich Fruit Co. Farm And Mineral Lands For Sale Summerville, Ga 6th 14th 1912 5 Col Theodore Roosvelt Sagmore NY Dear Sir I have noted with Regret the great frauds Being perpetrated on you or the People by the Taft Element in the Rep convention I do Hope that if you are defrauded out of your Right the nomination that you will go Strait to the voters you will get more votes that Taft and the Democratic nominee Booth together and will be the next President if you appeal to the People and God Bless you. Will Rich [For enc see 6-14-12]P.D. MIDDLEKAUFF, PRESIDENT J.W. ZOLLARS, GENERAL MANAGER ACME HARVESTING MACHINE COMPANY NOT IN THE TRUST Manufacturers of Binders, Mowers, Headers, Header-Binders, Sulky-Rakes, Sweep-Rakes, Stackers, Etc. GENERAL OFFICES AND FACTORY, PEORIA, ILL. U.S.A. W.T. ROUSE, General Agent Wichita, Kas., 6/14/12. Hon. T. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir:- I sent a paid wire last night reading as follows: "Chairman National Republican Committee, Colliseum, Chicago, Ill. Republican straight thirty years. Taft steals nomination means sure defeat W.T. Rouse" It may do no good, but enough expressions like this from the voters of the country should make them stop and reflect a moment. It looks as though they would steal the coppers from a Dead Negro's eyes, but if they continue it will only buy for them utter defeat of the Republican Party. The Trusts and the Pope have it in for you. True Americans are all for you. Yours truly, William T. Rouse WTR/k[*[For enc see 6-14-12]*] I wrote the enclosed the other day and if Chicago would sing it with half the vigor that my seven half-American children have during the last week it would Mrs F.H. F. Ruel. Birchy Cove, BAY OF ISLANDS, NEWFOUNDLAND. June 14th 1912 Dear Colonel Roosevelt - I am an American girl married to a Canadian at present manager of the Bank of Montreal stationed at Bay of Islands. carry the convention They are full of the Spirit of their ancester William Williams - one of the Signers and like all good Americans want to see you "home again" — if you can use it in any way I should be very happy - Sincerely yours Eunice T. Ruel .NIGHT LETTER Form 2589 B. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Letters, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO M. VAIL, PRESIDENT. BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT THE WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 Broadway, N.Y. ALWAYS OPEN Y18CH 5X NL 4 EX BARTLESVILLE OKLA JUNE 14/12 [*X97Ins*] HON THEODORE ROOSEVELT CARE OUTLOOK NEWYORK. OKLAHOMA AND THE WEST WILL ASSEMBLE AT DEWEY JULY 4 5 AND SIX AND THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF BARTLESVILLE EARNESTLY REQUEST THEIR PATRON AND FRIEND TO ADD ZEST TO THE OCCASION BY A PERSONAL VISIT OKLAHOMA THE FIRST STATE TO ENDORSE YOUR CANDIDACY DEMANDS YOUR PRESENCE. F A SAUER PRESIDENT BARTLESVILLE COMMERCIAL CLUB 237A841 Halsey Street Bklyn, June 14, 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Hon & Dear Sir:- On the twenty first of June the R.C, church to which I belong, on Putnam Avenue near Ralph Avenue, is to hold a monster luncheon and I am anxious to help make it a great success. It will be the last social event of the season.will be our next president. Sincerely, Florence May Seaman 841 Halsey St.. Brooklyn, N.Y. Now, if you will be kind enough to send me something for this euchre, I would be delighted and I feel sure that the whole congregation would be very grateful to you. Hoping you will oblige your ardent admirer and wishing you every success in the coming nomination, and that you [NO. 1635 W. H. BAKER, PRESIDENT JNO. W. RICE, VICE PREST. & CASHIER J. FEW BROWN, ASS'T CASHIER. SHENANDOAH VALLEY NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL $200.000.00 SURPLUS $130.000.00 WINCHESTER, VA.] [*B*] June 14th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- This is just a note to tell you that the rank and file of the Republicans are in a large measure with you here in Virginia, despite the combined influence of the Federal officials and the Baltimore American which circulates largely through Virginia. This paper is the limit. Gen. Agnus has gone beyond all bounds in this misrepresentations of you and your principles. The Democratic Baltimore Sun is against you in a measure, but FAIR. Legally every Federal office holder, with the exception of one minor post-office clerk, has been whoppingit up for Taft, while the Rep. County Chairman and the State Committeman who lives here are both Tafties. BUT THE PEOPLE ARE FOR YOU. I went to Gettysburg Decoration Day to get a line on things, and I was agreeably surprised to find such a Roosevelt sentiment. If you do not got a square deal at Chicago in the next few days, BOLT. The people are with you and against the bosses. Very truly yours, John I. SloatNew York June 14th [*[1912]*] To the Hon T. R. Roosevelt Oyster Bay NY My dear sir You are making yourself the biggest Laughing stock of any man that has had handed to you the Greatest Honor the American people could hand to you. Remember a few things you have said to the People and during this last few months you have repudiated and in so doing you have made yourself a Damn Liar. Teddy my boy I voted for you for “Gov” of N. Y. State for Vice President and also for President but by the way you have acted lately I would not vote for you to keep Cows, and I was formerly#2 a follower of the Democratic Party by left it when the issue came between Bryan and McKinley, and I voted for the Hon Wm McKnley against Wm Bryan but from the way you have gone in the Political field I have no faith in your [?] must say you are crazy - after you forced upon the American people us Wm. H. Taft for President and then act like a crazy man You have made of yourself before the Voters of these U.S. a Damn fool - Had you done as you promised the American people when you returned from your trip through Africa all would have been well for you to take the Nomination for the Presidency in 1912, and been elected but you made a Damn fool of yourself by taking 3 The position you have since 1910 - you know full well the Position you took in 1910 lost every state you spoke in for the Republican Party, and at the time you stated to the American public when you had returned from your foreign trip you would not enter into the Political question - and you failed to stand by that statement, for the voters must judge you be your past actions and feel you are a liar for you lost every State for the Republican Party in 1910 you spoke and stumpped in, and now you are doing all you can to make out to the American Voters that the man you endorsed for the Presidency 4 years ago “The Hon Wm H, Taft is not fit for the election but that you are [?] with#4 very poor grace from you, and myself [?r] a great number of others who left the Democratic Party to vote for you - think more of our [?tius] welfare than you do of yours and will be glad to go back into the “Grand Old Democratic Party” even though we have to vote for Wm Bryan, If you could prove to us that you known your own mind from one day to another we could have faith in you but [?] you insulted everybody you could on your foreign trip and you have come back to hour own country and made yourself our President and our Whole Nation a Laughing stock to our Foreign relations. For God sake if you Love this country, stop your Dam Mouth#5 You cry aloud about A. Lincoln and the other great men of our country and you profess to be a great follower of A Lincoln - but do you ever stop to think that A Lincoln and the other men that have made our country great would never stoop to so low a level as you have gone. I have talked with business men of the other side and they tell me you have made our beloved country a Laughing stock, For God sake will you shut your mouth and do as our most Honored Statesmen have done [?] quiet and let the American People have their own way. You know in your very heart you cannot do a thing for this#6 nation should you be elected President as our Constitution provides for certain privileges for our President, and outside of these your hands are tied same as our deeply missed Ex President Grover Cleveland. What could he do with both houses against him, and what can you do if your party is against you, you tried it out in 1907 - but you were not successful Now for God sake will you let the business interests of this country alone and let a man assume the Presidency who will muster confidence for you never will — Yours [???tly] Thos. Smith Remember the Jewelers on Maiden Lane were strong for you in 1908 but not so today 11 Maiden Lane N.Y.A. J. SPENCER LUMBER CO., INC. MOBILE, ALA. June 14th. 1912 [*18*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay. New York. My Dear Sir:- I am one of the Roosevelt Delegates from District number one, Alabama. As you know we lost our contest before the National Committee. I have with Doctor Henderson the other Delegate from our District, been watching events in Chicago. At this writing I am of the opinion that we could not serve your interests by going to Chicago to the Convention. You have a large following in this section and can depend upon a large vote if you are not robbed of the Nomination. Should you at any time desire Doctor Henderson and myself to go to Chicago, all you have to do is wire us and we will be on hand. With best wishes and sincerely trusting that you will be our next President, I am Yours very sincerely. A. J SpencerFRANCIS H. LEGGETT & COMPANY 128 FRANKLIN STREET NEW YORK 100 Hudson St. 6/14/12 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay NY Dear Mr. Roosevelt: - I believe you should go to Chgo. at once and take charge of affairs there. Your personality will do the trick if anything will. As sales mgr. for Greater NY for Leggett & Co. I want to tell you that I hold you up to my salesman as the greatest salesman that every lived. If they will only try to follow in your footsteps they cannot help but improve. I only wish I might make the trip to Chgo. with you because I could learn something every minute. I can spout some but I am a baby in arms along with you. Go in and win but weather you do or not you have many friends who will stick. Yours respy Chas. E. StewartJOHN L. STREEVER ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 153 NINTH ST., L.I. CITY, N.Y. June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:- I started as an Abe Lincoln Republican and remember well those strenuous days. I believe our country is now facing an even more serious crisis, the next president must be a strong arm man or there will be trouble, thousands of Democrats as well as Republicans believe you are better equipped than any other citizen to pull us through the next four years. We dont want any compromise candidate, if you are not nominated at the Republican Convention we want you to head a new progressive party and the people will back you up, believe me, Sincerely yours, John L. StreeverOur next President Denver Colo June 14=1912 Colonel T. R. Roosevelt Oyster Bay NY Dear President, Excuse me for writing to you, But I cannot help it. I am a small Business man have been for 20 years, 16 of that 4 class postmaster resigned 4 years ago and now doing Business in Denver, Colo. Been an admirer of your since you were Governor of New York [?]; little fillows sometimes gets nearer to the people than the others. If you are wrongfully defeated for the nomination at Chicago, Run Independent and the country will do with you as we done in Denver. You will be the first and only President realy elected by the people. Very Respectfully yours Mortimer F. Sullivn 3801 Lafayette St Denver, ColoAMASA THORNTON LAWYER 203 BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "AMASTON" June 14. 1912. Hon Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay. N.Y. My Dear Colonel Roosevelt. I duly received yours of June 7th and have studied it carefully. I have agreed with you so generally that it is very unpleasant for me to disagree with you now. Our country owes you so much that it is painful to take issue with you, but to me the question discussed seems to me so vital that you could have no respect for me if I did not hold to my convictions. I stand for social and economic betterment of the people in my small way as firmly as any. In 1899 I wrote a "Brochure" on the Economic Situation, A Barton.Hepburn called me an Anarchist. Things have moved so much since 1899 that I probably am not an Anarchist now, perhaps "Looney". I held then and hold now, that large estates should be broken up by graduated property and inheritance taxes, that a graduated income tax should be levied and collected, that by every means small estates should be increased, as only by small property holders can the Socialists be successfully met. In other words, the fight is to be between Limitationism or Socialism. I prefer millions of small property holders to State ownership of wealth, one of the other is sure to come. In the field of social service and betterment I agree with you on the needs. I am sure that these needs can and will be met by orderly progress under the Constitutionsof our Nation and Sates. I concede you that the New York State Court of Appeals erred in the Workmens Compensation case. AMASA THORNTON LAWYER 203 BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "AMASTON" The United States Supreme Court plainly disagreed with our Court in deciding the Connecticut case. The last New York Legislature passed a resolution proposing an amendment to our Constitution changing the rule laid down by the Court of Appeals, that resolution will go to the people in 1913 and be operative on Jan 1st 1914. That is better than opening the door to Judicial decisions by popular vote. I know that civilization has heretofore held the rights of property more sacred than the rights of man. That a great change is taking place, property is being charged with its duties to man, we must not in adjusting those duties sweep away safeguards that society needs for the protection of all. When we see the tremendous change that have been made in a dozen years, an infinitesimal time in the world's life, you will admit that we are moving upward with great speed, impatience should not take us in paths that are too dangerous. As to the Nations of Europe, the Commonwealth of the Pacific, the Dominion north of us, they are governed by the principles avoided when our Nation was founded. The taking of property by the Sovereign and Legislative acts were deemed subjects for Judicial review by the makers of the Constitution and our system has been pronounced wise by the best thinkers of hte world what is best for man can be obtained under it, and under it has grown a people the most prosperous in the world. In your struggle to improve man's condition I will go with your heart, head and hand, but cannot follow you in having the people vote to over-ride their own courts except by constitutional amendment. I cannot feel that your position is wise, I am sure that it is unwise. Civilization never has had or tried such a system and it would be an abandonment of one of the essentialAMASA THORNTON LAWYER 203 BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "AMASTON" features of civilization of it were adopted. Yours truly. Amasa Thornton DAY LETTER Form 3599 B THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Day Letter. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Day Letters, most at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED DAY LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO M. VAIL, PRESIDENT. BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT Oyster Bay 6/14/12 Tx my N 33 Blue Uniontown Pa Col. T. Roosevelt hs. I had the pleasure of entertaining your good friend Cal Cady while in Our City and he still thinks as I do that you can and should be our next President Sincerely yours, Geo. Titlow 4PSTUDIO OF WILLIAM POWELL TWADDELL CONCERT ORGANIST PIANO-ORGAN-THEORY 1927 NORTH THIRTEENTH STREET PHILADELPHIA June 14, 1912 The Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Outlook Office - New York- Honorable Sir:- We need to have you in Chicago. May I be pardoned for thus expressing my wish?- Respectfully, W.P. TwaddellJune 14 1912 136 MADISON AVENUE Dear Theodore As you know I am conservative and punctilious but the more I hear and [?] the more I feel that you owe no allegiance and are justified in cutting loose. The country has shown it believes in you and it is sick and weary of the old line parties with their packed caucuses and conventions which really stand for nothing. It has no hope from “regular” Republicans or Democrats and would gladly wipe off the slate and start anew for better or worse We have doubtless, differed, as all thinking men must, as to ways at means but we have the same end in view and do not really believe with a mutual friend that this republic is rotten to the core and hopelessly lost I know that an attempt will be made to force a result and then call on yr honor and loyalty to support it and merely write as one who should know about such matters to say that I do not think you are ethically bound to do so Sincerely W A WadsworthWE SELL ATLANTA REAL ESTATE WALKER REAL ESTATE COMPANY EDWARD H. WALKER 35 NORTH FORSYTH STREET--GRANT BUILDING--BELL PHONE 1937.MAIN Renting :-: Selling :-: Investments Atlanta, Ga. June 14-12 Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York [*B*] My dear Colonel,- All this steam Roller business won’t amount to a row of beans. Taft is a Dead Number. This crooked National Committee’s work will be swept away with a unanimous vote of the delegates for you. Or else we’ll call a National Caucus of the progressives from both parties and Nominate you on a non-partisan progressive platform that will sweep every state from ocean to ocean for you next November. Fact is there is no confidence in the leadership of either party, Comparable to the Confidence the Voters have in You. WE SELL ATLANTA REAL ESTATE WALKER REAL ESTATE COMPANY EDWARD H. WALKER 35 NORTH FORSYTH STREET -- GRANT BUILDING -- BELL PHONE 1937.MAIN Renting Selling Investments If the third movement becomes necessary, it will give the entire Southern States an opportunity to support you. You will sweep the South on this Third M movement, as well as the balance of the Country. It looks to me that your election at this Crytical epoch of our Country’s history is a Providential necessity. Like Washington’s and Lincoln’s elections, I feel that yours must be to effect that progressive advancement now so badly needed by our Country, and the other nations so strongly influenced by our’s. With highest regards, I am, Yours Sincerely, Edward H. Walker President Roosevelt Progressive Democratic Club Atlanta, Ga.Commitee on the Regulation of State Business. Thomas Tomlinson. Chairman. Joseph N. Lindenfelser, Treasurer. Elmer Girton, Asst. Treasurer. Harry Stradling, Secretary. William Fawcett, Asst. Secretary. William Vivian, Ex-Officio. M. Broadnic, Ex-Officio. W.R. Sutton, Ex-Officio. Howard Vansant, Ex-Officio. Committee on Banquets. Advertising and Building. Gilbert Wells, Chairman. Chillian LeCompte, Vice Chairman. Frank Linton, Treasurer. Geo. Walton, Asst. Treasurer. Hugh Martindale, Secretary. Aaron Ivins, Asst. Secretary. J. B. Robbins. Ex-Officio. William Reeder, Ex-Officio. James Praul, Ex-Officio. J. C. Stradling, Ex-Officio. Jesse VanArtsdalen, Ex-Officio. J. McQuestion, Ex-Officio. Committee on Parades, Flags, Printing, and Care of the Club Room, and Public Order at Meetings. Leon Wells, Chairman. Robert Leedom, Vice Chairman. William Campbell, Treasurer. Frank Blank, Asst. Treasurer. J. F. Reed, Secretary. Arthur Gillingham, Asst. Secretary. William McCormick, Ex-Officio. A. VanArtsDalen, Ex-Officio. Frank Crosley, Ex-Officio. William Tomlinson, Ex-Officio. Howard McGuire, Ex-Officio. Albert Nadler, Ex-Officio. Arthur Townsend, Ex-Officio. Committee on Initiative and Referendum. Samuel Richardson, Chairman. Samuel Haverson, Vice Chairman. A. L. Heinley, Treasurer. E. Vansant, Asst. Treasurer. Harry Goheen, Secretary. J. Harris, Asst. Secretary. Issac Reeder, Ex-Officio. Charles Welsh, Ex-Officio. Owen Vandine, Ex-Officio. J. Bilger, Ex-Officio. Norman Stradling, Ex-Officio. Joseph P. Duerr, Ex-Officio. James T. Ryan, Ex-Officio. Committee on Public Utilities George Wildman, Chairman. Albert Tomlinson, Vice Chairman. C. H. Wardwell, Treasurer. Howard Mather, Vice Treasurer. Lyman Fassett, Secretary. Theodore Williamson, Asst. Secretary. Dr. H. C. Terry, Ex-Officio. J. Wells, Ex-Officio. Aaron Ahlum, Ex-Officio. Dennis Ryan, Ex-Officio. Committee on Men's Meetings, Veterans and Workman's Compensation. Warren LeCompte, Chairman. Theo. Bennett, Vice Chairman. William Lukens, Ex-Officio. Harry Wessaw, Treasurer. John Nelson, Asst. Treasurer. Herman Fawcett, Secretary. H. McHail, Asst. Secretary. W. F. Kramer, Ex-Officio. H. G. Bilger, Ex-Officio. John Vandine, Ex-Officio. Robert Stradling, Ex-Officio. A. T. Green, Ex-Officio. Marmaduke Saxton, Ex-Officio Fred. Specht, Ex-Officio Committee on Educational Legislation. Harry Rothermel, Chairman. William Newbold, Vice Chairman. William Van Mater, Treasurer. Grant Umberger, Asst. Treasurer. J. N. Wall, Secretary. Frank Walker, Ex-Officio. Geo. Reed, Sr., Ex-Officio. James VanArtsdalen, Ex-Officio. Napolessi VanArtsdalen, Ex-Officio. Alfred Estill, Ex-Officio. William Siphert, Ex-Officio. THE BUCKS COUNTY, PA., PROGRESSIVE STATE CLUB Organized Thursday, May 16, 1912, to propagate in every county through Pennsylvania, the "Wisconsin" Idea of State Government as advised by Theodore Roosevelt. Henry Guy Walters, President. Thomas K. Gumpper, Vice President. Samuel C. Eastburn, Ex-Officio; Geo. T. VanNorman, Ex-Officio; Joseph Kelly, Ex-Officio; Warren LeCompte, Ex-Officio; Geo. Reed, Sr., Ex-Officio; John LeCompte, Ex-Officio. William Donnell, Treasurer. William Taylor, Asst. Treasurer. George D. Hackett, Secretary. Ed. R. Gillingham, Asst. Secretary. Byram Foster, Ex-Officio. P.R.R., and the New York, Philadelphia and Reading R. R.; 20 miles from Philadelphia Langhorne, Bucks Co., PA... June 14... 1912 PUBLIC LEDGER- PHILADELPHIA JUNE 10. 1912. PENNSYLVANIA IDEA VS. "THE WISCONSIN IDEA" Philosophy of the Bucks County Progressive State Club Explained by its President, Henry Guy Walters. To the Editor of the Public Ledger: Sir- As president of the Bucks County, Pa., Progressive State Club I have been graciously invited to explain the club's aim in propagating in Pennsylvania the "Wisconsin" idea- or rather "ideal"- of a State government. As contrasted with the ghastly pessimistic view of human nature as entertained by the Pennsylvania Judicial Oligarch, there is the more amalioristic view of the grander type of Pennsylvania lawyer, whose name is a synonym for all that is lofty and judicially profound in American history. So far as the "Wisconsin" idea is accepted by our Pennsylvania Club it is accepted as an ideal for the State good, not of "society" people or for the Pennsylvania financial classes of special corporate privilege, but for the better welfare of the unrepresented Pennsylvania plain man, the common man, the average man, the toller, the man who has a common joint right (with the Pennsylvania financial classes) to the common ground of the ballot, and the opportunity to reach a nobler state- manhood and human state development; so that the plain and common man may become a greater blessing to his native state of Pennsylvania. First. Obviously, the first philosophical priniple underlying the jurisprudence of the "Wisconsin" ideal of a state government as the idea would apply to the people of Pennsylvania, is as follows: That the "moral" people of Philadelphia and of Pennsylvania as a "moral" whole do in government really and actually constitute an ultimate court of common equity. Moreover, that the "moral" people of Pennsylvania as a "moral" whole are ethically capable of exercising equitable decisions of plain "moral" reasons of right and wrong, particularly when these questions of moral right affect the unrepresented man against whom the privileged classes (at this hour) alam the door of opportunity. Opposed to the above ideal of "moral" capacity of the average Pennsylvanian to perceive a "moral" point of right and wrong in the law is the following idea: All Pennsylvanians are ethically totally depraved except the lawyers, and are irresponsibly morally. The only persons possessing "moral" light are the lawyers. As opposed to the angelic moral lawyer versus moral people idea is the claim that the common moral people-as an ultimate court of equity-are really and actually capable of giving remedy to the Pennsylvanian plain man, the unrepresented man, and in all cases wherein the lawyers have proven them-selves to be morally incompetent. Second. Now, the second philosophical principle underlying the jurisprudence of the Wisconsin "ideal" of State government, as contrasted with that of Pennsylvania is the following: That all our Pennsylvania "decisions" (on civic and economic and industrial matters) are only "relatively" perfect. Committee on Monthly Auditing Credentials; and Corrupt Election Practices in County and State. Fred. B. Tomlinson, Chairman; William Ivins, Vice Chairman; Harry Spencer, Treasurer; George Ridge, Asst. Treasurer; Guy Laughead, Secretary; George Riddle, Ex-Officio; Gilbert Hawke, Ex-Officio; Samuel Harvey, Ex-Officio; George Mather, Ex-Officio; William Cornell, Ex-Officio; Albert Hope, Ex-Officio; William Walton, Ex-Officio; My dear Col. Roosevelt- The club wishes to know if you will come any time before Nov. 1912? Any time? Necessity matters President. [*Over*] and are therefore capable of a more perfect equitable amendment. Therefore, because such "decisions" are (in many cases) unavoidably imperfect and "relative," therefore they should be amended by the people themselves when the lawyers refuse the remedy of equity. Particularly with a view of specially, securing a more impartial and perfect distribution of justice. In reply to this, of course, the Philadelphia Judicial Oligarch says that the only true form of Pennsylvania government is that form of State government in which all power should be taken from the Pennsylvania people as a whole, ans that the supreme power be placed and remain, forever and forever, in the few hands of the lawyers. Because, in the Judicial Oligarch's opinion, the common man has no sense of equity, the average man has no reliable perception of justice; the plain man is not (by his Pennsylvania nature) moral enough to possess spontaneous ethical judgment of right and justice. That is, the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Judicial Oligarch assumes— by reason of the imbecility of the Pennsylvanian's intellect, and the general moral rottenness of his human nature— that the average, plain Pennsylvanian could not correct or qualify a State law when that law has proved defective. Neither could the honest, plain Pennsylvanian assist in the more equitable extension of the judicial words or verbiage of any law bearing on the principal of civics or economics. Now, the Bucks County, Pa., Progressive State Club does not take the above pessimistic view concerning the human nature of the average Pennsylvania voter. In fact, the members of the club look into all these matters for themselves; they realize that an ignorant and unintelligent vote is a profound peril to the State of Pennsylvania, and that our politics should become more and more a self-educational legislative problem. As this article may prove a spur to others who may care to urge the necessity for more educational self-legislation in Pennsylvania, i will give an idea of our work. A an illustration of our mode of working, suppose we voted in Bucks County, Pa., for a given citizen or lawyer to represent the county in the Senate. We should then feel as a club that it was our moral and political duty to get from Harrisburg all copies of bills introduced by the gentleman. We should examine such bills with a view to ascertaining whether any of the people's valuable rights and franchises were being gobbled up—without taxation—for corporations. In our decisions as a club we should in such matter seek the expert judgment of that grander type of Pennsylvania lawyer whose name as I have said, is a golden synonym for all that is lofty and judicially profound in the equities of American politics and history. HENRY GUY WALTERS, President of the Bucks County (Pa.) Progressive State Club, "The Hollyhocks," Langhorne, Pa., June 7, 1912. [*Please file [?]*] PROFESSOR HENRY GUY WALTERS INSTRUCTOR IN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGY METHOD OF WILLIAM JAMES, LL.D., ETC. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE AND OF THE ROYAL PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Under various nom de plumes Prof. H. G. Walters is author of "The Case of Albert le Baron with an introduction by Prof. James of Harvard." "A study of Sensations in Psychic Phenomena" Trubner Company. "The Wisdom of Religious Passion." A study of Emotions as Physiological Forces. Mystic River Book Company, Boston. "The Loves of Great Men." A study of Affection as Hypnotism. "The Mind of the Master or the Nervous System of Jesus." A study of Sensation in its relation to Religious Psychotherapy. "Alma." a novel. A study of the Sociological state of the 30,000 Sioux. T. S. Dennison & Co., Pub., Chicago. "Wicota." A study of the poet-lore of the "Sioux." Parlor and Club Lectures on "Home Taste" and "What is Beauty," and "The beauty of Animal Life, or Philosophical Zoology." WHAT PROF. WALTERS TEACHES IN HIS CLASSES. Your church and minister exist because they wish to influence your Soul, Mind, and Intelligence within your body. I. I help your preacher by teaching you how and in what way your Intelligent Mind and Soul——if you have any——does, and can exist, (as a distinct spiritual thing) "in" your own brain, and "in" your human body. Just as a pint of water "in" a pint bottle has a distinct existence "in" the bottle. Or, as steam has a distinct existence "in" and from the boiler. Just as the water in the bottle. Or as electricity has a distinct existence "in" and "from" the telegraph wire. 2. Prof. Walters teaches "how" your human (intelligent) experience——if you have any Soul or Intelligence—— is possible to be experienced by you at all? This is what is meant by the word "philosophy."LITTLE FARMS MAGAZINE ______________________________________________________________ PROMOTING AN UPLIFT MOVEMENT THAT IS PRACTICAL - EVERY ISSUE CROWDED WITH FACTS SHOWING HOW A LITTLE LAND WILL YIELD A LIVING AND INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY - BETTER THAN A THOUSAND YEARS OF THEORY ________________________________________________________________ SUITE 115 COULTER BUILDING LOS ANGELES, CAL., June 14th 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Maryland. Dear Sir: We hope you know of Little Farms Magazine as the mouthpiece of the back-to-the -land movement. Vigorously as it cries out this gospel of financial salvation, we -- its editors--do not know with certainty who originated the phrase, back-to-the-land, and who first used it as a national slogan. We are anxious to make history definite on this point before the rapidity of the onward movement sweeps its yet living originators into the region of myth. Will you please tell us what you know about it? Did you yourself first use the expression; or -- if not-- whence did it first come to you? We shall be grateful to you if you can throw any light on these questions for us. Cordially yours, Marion Foster Washburne Editor. (Mrs. G.F. Washburne, 107 Bellefontaine street, Pasadena, California.)COLLIER PUBLICATION OFFICE 416-430 THIRTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK Collier's THE NATIONAL WEEKLY P. F. COLLIER & SON, PUBLISHERS 416 SOUTH SALINA STREET [SYRACUSE, N. Y.]. Troy N.Y. 6/14 - 12 My dear Mr Roosevet If they steal the nomination from you I hope you will run on a third ticket. no other man will suit me. I don't want another spoiled plum pudding handed out to me Rather than vote again for that ig angular slob I would vote for any Democrat nominated. almost If you run I will give you some reasons why I am going to vote for you - if I live. Very truly yours Arthur Wellington 882 6th Ave Troy N.Y, over No compromise on a "Dark Horse"Perhaps as an independent candidate you might make a better run than as a Regular Rep. The old "gang" would vote against you anyway and there is a widespread feeling that in neither the Rep or Democratic party is Salvation to be found . A. W.CONGRESS HOTEL AND ANNEX N.M. KAUFMAN, Pres’t MAX L. THICH AND CARL C. ROESSLER MANAGING CONTRACTORS CHICAGO, June 14th, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster By, N.Y. Dear Sir and Friend: My hat’s in the ring for the appointment of Sec’y of Agriculture, it is also in the ring for your election and I can assure you it will have a telling effect. I have known of you since you were police commissioner in New York, because I lived there at that time, but left the East to go out West to grow up with the company. In he fall of 1885 after having reached my 21st year I homesteaded in Thomas Co. Kansas andhave there ever since. I have been honored by my people by being elected county surveyor for two terms. My ambition has been to be recognized as the best farmer in our section of country. My ambition has been realized. In 1903 when you [???dayed] in Sharon Springs I grasped your hand in hearty Western fashion. Not being able to speak to your personally, I succeeded in having an interview with your sec’y, who promised to deliver you my message regarding the needs of our country . At that time I will filled with the desire to be some day the sec’y of agriculture in your cabinet. The fall of 1903 found me a delegate at Ogden Utah to the 11th National Irrigation Congress to see what the department might and could do for us under the then passed “Reclamation Act.”CONGRESS HOTEL AND ANNEX N.M. KAUFMAN, Pres’t MAX L. THICH AND CARL C. ROESSLER MANAGING CONTRACTORS CHICAGO, 2. Am sorry to say that one section of country did not receive recognition as it should have, Sec’y Wilson did not give me any encouragement so my desire to become his successor became fixed, and I know that I will easily succeed. The coming campaign will give me an opportunity to visit the different sections of the country, study at their needs, so as to be of special service to them. “Stay on the farm” “Back to the farm” and “Happy on the farm” Shall be my slogan.[*My 11 year old Teddy will be delighted to meet you. Five sons and one daughter*] The greatest problems before us are, how to provide the daily bread for the nation at such prices that no one need to go hungry, how to bring producer in closer touch with consumer, how to bring the seller of land in direct touch with prospective buyer, how to cash out all speculative tendencies in lands and producers of land, how to bring the differing warring interests into a mutual bond of friendship, how to bring the different nations into an international Union, so that swords may be turned into plowshares and battleships into a merchant marine. A grand and noble undertaking, room for all good men to work shoulder to shoulder irrespective if party affiliation. Patriotic yours, G. R. Werner Next Sec’y of Agriculture WashingtonTHE SPOT CASH STORE W.C. WILKINSON, MANAGER CORNER PRESIDENT AND PEARL STS. JACKSON, MISS. [*16*] Jackson, Miss. June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: Enclosed find clipping from Senator Vardamans paper, “The Issue”. This shows how the wind blows. I am a Democrat and so is almost every native Mississippian, but you are as good a Democrat as we are except in name and we hope to be able to cast a vote for you if we can possibly do so. The ever present fear of Negro domination is all that makes us adhere so strongly together. This is a white mans country and you know that the Negro is not fitted intellectually or morally to exercise the franchise. Why not repeal the Amendment which permits this and leave the Constitution as our Fathers wrote it. Then and then only will the “Solid South be eliminated. Yours sincerely, D. C. Wilkinson"The power is the people's, and only the people's." -Roosevelt Roosevelt Republican Committee of One Hundred of Brockton, Mass. ALBERT M. ROLLINS, ESQ., President HARRY H. WILLIAMS, Secretary DR. C. S. MILLET, Treasurer. 14th Congressional District Delegates: MR. ELDON B. KEITH, MR. WARREN A SWIFT. Alternates - HON. WM. A. NYE, MR. LYMAN P. THOMAS. Brockton, June 14, 1912 [*18*] Colonel Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Col Roosevelt:- Note the enclosed editorial from Boston Globe - Mar. 4, 1909. It seems strange that you could have changed as much as the present attitude of that paper would indicate. I personally rejoice in your triumph in the present crisis, and we are all still with you. With your leadership the people will this Year attain what otherwise might have been 20 years removed. Cordially yours, Harry H. Williams[For 1 enc see Boston Globe 3-4-09][*4940 MORNINGSIDE 404 WEST 116TH STREET*] June 14th 1912 To Col Theo Roosevelt- I cannot wait writing a line before you go to Chicago — your sainted Mother said to me in the long ago — "I know Theodore will dare to do right" Christ said to his disciples - "not to meditate upon what ye shall answer, For I will give you a mouth, and wisdom which all your adversaries, shall not be able to gainsay or resist" Yours Truly S. J. WillisWILLS, DEEDS, BONDS, MORTGAGES AND ALL OTHER PAPERS CAREFULLY DRAWN BELL PHONE LOMBARD 573 ELEVATOR WILL ACT AS EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRATOR OR ASSIGNEE THOMAS S. WILTBANK NOTARY PUBLIC REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSURANCE BROKER ROOMS 405 AND 406 IMPERIAL BUILDING 411 WALNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA June 14th 1912. Col. Theo. Roosevelt, [*B*] Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Sir: - As a worker in the ranks of the Republican party I drop this to ask that you go to Chicago at once and remain there until you are nominated for President of the United States. The men who are pretending to be working in the interest of Mr. Taft are a lot of Bronco Steerers and do not care a cuss for Mr. Taft. They are trying to please the money men of the country in general and Wall street in particular and intend to keep the nomination away from you by any means at their command. This they will do as sure as a gun is made of iron. If you are not on the grounds to look after the interests of the people whom you represent. I am satisfied 80% of the people in Philadelphia feel that you have ample delegates to nominate you if a square deal is dealt, but no man is safe with those three card Monte men playing against him. Hoping you will see your way clearer to go to Chicago and will meet with success, I am Very truly yours, Thomas S. WilthamJOHN C. WORK JUDGE OF THE COUNTY AND PROBATE COURTS SCHUYLER COUNTY RUSHVILLE, ILLINOIS June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: As one of the candidates for Presidential Electer on the Republican ticket in Illinois I wish to express to you my desire to further your candidacy in any way possible. The people of this the 15th District have strongly endorsed you and expect your nomination. We feel that your candidacy is needed for the general good of the party in this state. The course to be followed in the future may be to some extent determined by the action taken at the Chicago convention, but I shall do the little in my power to give expression to the voice of the voters as expressed at the primary election. I served three years in the Army, one during the same time you were in Cuba and have that esteem for you that a Volunteer soldier has for a fair and just Commander. Wishing for the success of yourself and your principles, I am, Very Respectfully Yours, John C. WorkS. P. JONES PRESIDENT HARRY R. COOK VICE-PRES. THE RICHMOND VIRGINIAN S. B. WOODFIN, GENERAL MANAGER RICHMOND, VA. June 14, 1912. [*S*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt The Outlook, New York, N. Y. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I want you to do the people of Virginia and The Richmond Virginian the kindness to write us an article on education for one of the series of special educational sections which we will issue during the summer. I shall be particularly glad to have this for our first number which will be about the last week in June. Please be good enough to have one of your recent photographs and your autograph sent me for use with your article. Yours very truly, S. B. Woodfin SBW/WHPersonal Important E. Orange, N.J. June 14.1912 Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I am positive you do not desire the third term, and we do not wish Mr. Taft - You placing of Justice Hughes in the chair will cover you with double honor. Your success will be abashed, your reputation for splendid common sense & patriotic wisdom will be reinforced, and the Republican party covered with the tr...of an honorable success- With very highest regards for you I Denis Montner[?]Shreveport, La June 14/1912 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Sir exapt Thoese few lines please and to read them carefully as I am so troubled. My sister The only one I have are sick and not ixpected to live I have not seen her since a Child and now I am a wommen, and have three little ones of my own. I wont to see my dear and only sister once more in life my Father is living but is old age 70, and are2 not able to send for me now dear Mr Roosevelt do please help me in some way that I can go home to see her and Papa I have no money but Oh I do want to see my sister I know I never will if some one don't help me now please do some ting to halp me go se her I have prayed to god to spare us so we can meet again once more in life3 I do not want to go there to stay as I want to raise my Children here but I do want to see my dear and only Sister once more and papa They are in Throndfen Norway so far so far. Dear Sir do please halp me in some way that I may go I will watch the lonly hours as they paas by one by one til I can hear from you if I only could talk to you I could till you lots I have wint true 4 so much hard-ship and now that my Sister is so sick and not ixpected to live my my what will I do here I am with three little Children. Oldest only 12 and girl and no money to do with smalist 5 and a Boy 9 years I have raised my Children all alone since birt as there Papa never would do any ting for them hi lately served five years in [Pier] I am not living with him now as i am not5 able to feed him and my babys I am so weakly I am a seemstress but my health so bad [?] its a has susell for me to feed and [a?odt] my self and baby's Only god knows my trouble and I [rigors?] The only rest I will ever git is when he cales me to him I will close hoping that you kind sir will halp me in some way I will sind you my dear sisters litter soyou can see for your self. Pleas do not forget me as I want so bad go home and see her Yours in Trouble Julia Wright Gen el Shreveport La PS I will be so glad if you can halp me only to git a pas wing[?] if I have to go without a penni I will be so glad to see her I do not want childrens Father to know I am going as he may try to prevent it he is mean [?]G. W. MERRICK R. K. YOUNG T. A. CRICHTON MERRICK, YOUNG & CRICHTON, LAWYERS, WELLSBORO, PA. June 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- My wife, my niece, my stenographer who takes this letter, and myself, now agree that you have caught up to, and are in full accord with all of us on every public question, since the Press announced your declaration to Judge Lindsay of your belief in Woman Suffrage. Cordially yours, R. K. Young RKY/S Not read after dictation.Atlanta, Ga.,, June 5 - A strong effort is going to be made to be made this year to put Georgia in the republican column for Roosevelt. Strange to say. Some of the real leaders in the movement are democrats, men regarded as "good democrats" at that W. N. Mitchell of this city, is out for Roosevelt against the field, and it is said that the Hon. Seaborn Wright of Rome is going to take the stump for Roosevelt in Georgia if the colonel is nominated at Chicago.[ca 6-14-12]10 Boston Daily Globe Established March 4, 1872. (Evening Edition First Issued March 7, 1878.) The Boston Sunday Globe. First Issued Oct 14, 1877. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1909. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. THE DAILY GLOBE-One copy per month 50 cents: per year $8. Postage paid. THE SUNDAY GLOBE-By mail, $2 per year. Postage prepaid. THE GLOBAL NEWSPAPER CO. 242 Washington st...................Boston Entered at the postoffice. Boston, Mass, as second-class matter. Manuscripts sent to the globe will not be considered unless return post- age is inclosed. Typewritten copy will always have the preference. Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.-Ausonius. UNSUCCESSFUL MEN THE failures of men in business are due to a variety of causes, but it is now a generally accepted fact that lack of capital has more to do with the collapse of industrial en- terprises than anything else. It is estimated that in every 1000 failures in the United States lack of capital caused 342 of the same. In- competence nd disaster are the next chief causes. Oddly enough, there are more failures from fraud in the middle west than in any other sec- tion. The middle west also leads in the proportion of failures due to speculation. It is clearly shown by all the data THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A name known to more people than that of any other American who ever lived. A name honored by all except those who think they should be intrusted with the direction of public affairs. the plain people being permitted to ratify their wise superintendence. A name for which no American need apologize in any quarter of the earth. A name synonymous with civic effi- ciency and official incorruptibility. A name which has stimulated more people to achievement than that of any other American except Washington, Franklin and Lincoln. A name which signifies preparedness for war. A name which actually has been and is the talisman of peace. A name to be conjured with by those who believe this country should never be governed either by a plutocracy or a mob. A name which signifies the joy of living and doing something worth while. A name with which to larrup the snob, the drone and the grafter. A name which is an inspiration to everyone who wishes to cultivate a sound mind in a sound body. A name the army will remember. A name the navy wil not soon forget. A name which will encourage every man who is now making or may make a fight for government of the people, for the people, by the people. A name which is the refutation of the cynicism that the people will not stand by a man who stands by them. A name which the self-styled judicious affect to view with alarm but which the plain people regard as the equivalent of efficient performance. A name by no means yet erased from the national blackboard. A name you will see in the newspaper headlines now and then. A name which will be written in large type in the history of the United States.[*ca 6-14-12*] In view of the many and decisive expressions of the public will, favoring comprehensive and adequate civil service legislation, for instance, the vote of 411,000 to 121,000 in Illinois in November, 1910, we respectfully urge that you use your best efforts to secure the adoption by the Republican National Convention of a civil service plank: 1. Reaffirming adherence to the principle of the merit system in public employment as opposed to the spoils system; and, 2. Demanding comprehensive and adequate legislation providing for: (a) Extension of the merit system to all purely Administrative positions in the government service, the legislation to this end to be supplemented by appropriate executive action. (b) The improvement of the service and the promotion of economy through systematic and impartial efficiency investigation and records. (c) Tenure during good behavior and efficiency, and discharge of employees by the Civil Service Commision, after fair hearing, for proven misconduct or inefficiency; suitable provision for honorable retirement in case of old age and long service. 3. Demanding an honest and vigorous enforcement of the law.[Enc in Capen 6-14-12]Bring Teddy Home to the Old White House. (To the tune of "When Johnny comes marching home again".) O ! Bring our Teddy home again For Teddy's the Boy! the Boy! O ! Bring him home to the Old White House The Nation's pride and joy! For Teddy's the boy to honor the flag He talks and he works and he doesn't brag, He will stand for the Land and for Liberty And Teddy's the Boy! the Boy! O ! Bring our Teddy home again For Teddy's the Boy! the Boy! He'll fight to the end and he won't give in, For Teddy's the Boy! the Boy! He will wage good war on greed and sin And he won't be bought with money or gin And he ranks in the grand old fighting line For Teddy's the Boy! the Boy! O ! Bring our Teddy home again For Teddy is brave and true, Fling out Old Glory to the breeze, The Red - and White - and Blue. With the stars and the stripes flying over his head The flag for which our fathers bled - O ! Bring our Teddy home again For Teddy's the Boy! the Boy! When Teddy comes back to the Old White House, O ! wire it far and near; The flags will wave - the bands will play the bells ring loud and clear. From ocean to ocean the news will fly And the mothers will wave as we pass them by And America welcome her boy once more When Teddy comes home again. Eunice T. Holbrook Ruel. [Enc in Ruel 6-14-12] Moose Musical Festival Committee LOS ANGLES LODGE, No. 386 W. A. ALDERSON, CHAIRMAN BURREL D. NEIGHBOURS, SEC'Y W. SWETLAND J. S. MYERS FRANK B. CHAMPION N. BANKS CREGIER J. T. BUNN S. YOUNG J. H. McCLINTOCK To Members of Los Angeles Lodge No. 386. Los ANGELES, June 15, 1912. Loyal Order of Moose, Los Angeles, Cal. DEAR SIR AND BROTHER: At its meeting on May 29th, after full discussion and consideration, the Lodge decided by a rising and unanimous vote to give a great entertainment, the proceeds therefrom to be used for lodge purposes, among them sending our drill team and marching club to the Supreme Lodge Convention at Kansas City August next. The motion upon the subject directed and authorized the Dictator, in conjunction with the Board of Governors of the White Antlers, to select a committee whose duty and power it should be to prepare for and conduct the proposed entertainment. The day following the meeting the Dictator and the Board of Governors met and appointed as the committee the undersigned brothers. In pursuance of its duties and the exercise of its powers, we, the Committee, submit the following concerning the proposed entertainment. The Auditorium, Theater Beautiful, has been secured for the week commencing Monday, August 5th, six nights, including Saturday, August 10th, with matinee Wednesday afternoon, at a great reduced rate, give to us specially by Brother Behymer and his affable assistant, Mr. J. L. Allen. The entertainment will be a grand musical event, to be known as the "MOOSE MID-SUMMER MUSICAL FESTIVAL." The program will be out of the ordinary. The leading musical organization of the city will take part. On the opening night, and also on Thursday night, the Handel-Haydn Club, formerly known as the "Land Chorus," three hundred voices, will render a part of the program. Other prominent musical organizations will assist us. During each performance transmitters will be suspended over the stage and attached to telephone wires running into the different hospitals of the city, and so arranged that the patients in such institutions can enjoy the music. There will be other novel features attending the festival. Approximately one thousand people will take part in the entertainment. It is intended that this musical festival shall be in keeping with the great things our Lodge has done and will continue to do, and that it shall be the greatest musical event ever presented in Los Angeles. There will be an orchestra of sixty pieces, the grand organ in the Auditorium will be used, and soloists of national reputation will be on the program. The tickets enclosed herewith are good for exchange for reserved seats for any night, but not for the matinee. The matinee will be a free offering to the children of the city, those in orphan asylums to have the preference of seats. Arrangements will be made of the owners of automobiles to call for and take the children who are in orphan asylums and homes to the Auditorium and return them to their places of abode. Tickets to all seats, excepting the boxes, will be at the popular price of fifty cents. We are sending each member of the Lodge four tickets, at fifty cents each, such number being herewith enclosed for you. These tickets must be exchanged at the box office for reserved seat tickets, without additional cost, unless you desire a box seat, which can be secured by surrendering two tickets, or one ticket and paying the difference in the price of the seats. The exchange must be made before six o'clock p. m. of the day on which the tickets are to be used. The box office will open on July 29th and be open daily thereafter from nine a. m. The enclosed tickets are charged to you in the sum of fifty cents each. It is hoped that you will promptly remit the amount of the Committee. If you cannot take the tickets for yourself and family, then please make all possible effort to sell them. If you cannot take them or sell them, then please return them or such of them as you cannot take or sell, and credit will be given to you accordingly ; otherwise the charge against you will remain until paid. The return of the tickets must be made not later than August twelfth, or the charge for them will remain against you until it is paid. We urge you to make all possible effort to the end that the tickets will not be returned, but the price, fifty cents each, will be sent to the Committee. You will please make remittance for all tickets not returned not later than August twelfth. You may purchase reserved seats at the box office to any number you desire at fifty cents each. Make all checks payable and send all communications concerning the subject of this letter to MOOSE MUSICAL FESTIVAL COMMITTEE, MOOSE HEADQUARTERS, 111 WEST THIRD STREET, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Brother, let your Moose spirit be aroused. Be enthusiastic in assisting the Committee in making the proposed Musical Festival a grand success. Help us to fil the Auditorium at every performance. Remember that ours is the largest fraternal subordinate lodge in the world. The eyes of Moosedom are on us. Let us continue to do things that make us proud of being member of Los Angeles Lodge, No. 386. Fraternally in P. A. P., MOOSE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE. W. A. ALDERSON, Chairman. J. S. MYERS. J. T. BUNN. BURREL D. NEIGHBOURS, Secretary FRANK B. CHAMPION S. YOUNG. W. SWETLAND. N. BANKS CREGIER. J. H.nMcCLINTOCK.[FOR ENCL SEE 6-15-12][*enc 6-19-12*] Baltimore Md. June 15th 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt [*B*] Dear Sir, Wishing to inform you, I am still praying for you to be Elected our next President; and hoping you will be successful with God's help. I am a poor widow age 59 yrs and have very little coming into me, and have been afflicted nearly nine yrs. the other term you were to be President I prayed for your success. I did not ask you for anything you for myself because I was not so poor as I am now. I had to take a Mortgage on my two story house and I have to pay every week $5.45 and one $1.72 for insurance and that comes out of $11. dollars a week and I only 11.00 $7.17 ___ $3.83 and then that leaves me $3.83 to live off! I wish you could help me a little And will be very thankful to you. Respectfully Mrs. Mary M. Brady 754 George St.[*ack - 6-29-12*] [*26.*] Farmers’ Club 26. Whitehall Court London S.W. June 15, 1912 Sir If it be permissible to compare small things with great, a humble citizen of the United Kingdom with the greatest citizen of the United States, perhaps I may be pardoned for my presumption in forwarding you the Enclosed, as from a co-worker with you on behalf of two glorious principles upon which the greatness and permanence four respective countries must - ultimately defend: Nation not Party, and Justice. I have fought strenuously against the injustice done to an American Company in Bombay by Anglo-Indian and English judges, but in vain to the lasting injury to both India and England and to the deep discredit of English politicians. You are fighting a strenuous battle for justice to the American people and areconfronted by the same forces which combined to vanquish me, the bosses of party, the law and the trusts. I wish you better Fortune for your success would mean the rising of your country’s fortunes to still more dazzling heights, as the failure of my crusade has been followed by my country’s sinking into a slough of despondency with Parliament, social discontent and distrust of law which bodes her ill for the coming days. If these can be of use they are at your service gladly in your fight of good faith. Your obedient servant: W. Gentry Bingham U. A. Gray Ex President Theodore Roosevelt c/o The Editor of The Outlook New York U.S.A.[*17.*] Waterbury Conn., June 15 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir:- Enclosed find a poem of my own which I think would make a very good campaign song for you. Kindly read and if you like it let me know by return mail what you will pay me for it and send the cash. I am a great admirer of yourself and am about to put a little article on yourself in the Waterbury Republican in the morning. I remain Yours very truly Charles T. Burke P.S. Return by next mail if not send for and oblige C.T.B.Phila June 15th, 1912 145 N 18th st. Col. T. Roosevelt My dear sir Inclosed you will find a clipping I gleaned from the North American, written by Dr. W. D. Scholl [Se???] Bldg of this city. I am impelled to sendit to you, as I know it is always a pleasure to know who our friends are, and especially when they are such ardent admirers as Dr. Scholl. I am in touch with his sentiments in regards to your career, and we both trust you will be divinely led to carry out high and noble ideals. Very Sincerely Mrs. Brand [T.?] Cavert14 OZARK Ark 6-15-12 Mr Roosevelt Dear Sir I am a Republican (79) years old went through the Sival Wr attended the republican co central community of Franklin County Ark and I am sure you would of got our county if fair play ad bin granted the chair Picked a community of (5) Taft men to select (5) Delegates to meat state convention in little Rock Ark the said (5) selected (2) of theair own body the chair & (2) other Taft Men that was about all Taft men that Wass in the meeting the Teddybolted and held anather meeting & elected (5) Delegates to attend conv at little Rock Now Stick to them & if they defeat you in Chicago come out independant & I will surly Give you my Township you Bet yours for success John P. Davis Ozark Franklin co Ark R # 2 Box 101Eden Mills Vermont 6/15/12 The Outlook New York [*2*] Dear Sir May I trouble you to forward enclosed 25c to a Daily that is favorable to Progressive Principles as advanced by Col. T. R. Roosevelt. I subscribed for The Sun, then the Times, and find neither are favorable to his policy. Greatly oblige Yours very truly Chas. F. EnneryPHOTOGRAPHS OF MEN WHO MAKE HISTORY UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS PHOTOGRAPH SERVICE TELEPHONE MAIN 4703 MAIN 4704 HARRIS & EWING PHOTOGRAPHERS 1311 F Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. [* [6-15-12] *] June Fifteenth Nineteen-twelve [*27*] Dear Mr. Harper: We immediately started work on the photographs described. We will finish one dozen each full size of plates and one dozen cabinet size. They will go forward to this address next week. Will you kindly advise us if these photographs are for the personal use of the Colonel, or for yourself. If so, we will not make a charge on same as we have never charged the colonel for any photographs for his Personal use. If they are ordered by others, the price will be the same as we have quoted to your office force, $.75 each for the largest size and $4.00 per dozen for the cabinet. With best wishes, we remain, Very Respectfully Yours, Harris & Ewing. Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. NO PORTRAITS OF WOMEN PUBLISHED WITHOUT PERMISSION[*(6-15-12)*] [*17*] 1 Col. T. R. Roosevelt Oyster Bay NY Dear Sir I am going to make a plain and unvarnished facts to you I am an old man will be 75 years old the 9th of August am an old Confederate soldier served 4 years and there is no blemish on my character but I am poor & have fought the battle of my life to the best of my ability but in my old age I find myself confronted by want and now my big-hearted Col2 I ask you in the name of God and the great American people to aid me I am living in the overflowed region of the Delta am a watchmaker by trade but on account of the disastrous effect of the flood has made times hard and money scarce. I am getting but little work and not enough to feed myself and wife I know you are to noble and generous to hold any grudge of account of me being a southern soldier3 Just stop and think for once of an old man that is near the grave up against want I have faced death on 21 battle fields and it is more pleasant than it is to face want Now in conclusion I would ask you to get your friends who are able to assist you in aiding one appeal to your Rough Riders They are manly and noble and I believe they will rally to my aid yours with Respect M. S. Guess Inverness Miss June 16th 1912[*B*] Sharon June 15th 1912 My Noble Chief These few Lines to thee I’ve pend To let thee know thou will come of victorious in the End. For this Created thou did be To wield the septer both on Land and sea untill in eternity thou will be and one thing more I must tell to thee in the latter part of 1900 and 1 and 3 Bluddy Battles there will be in our Land and on the Sea And then thou will remember what this day I have written to thee Let not this Election worry thee for in 1900 and 1 and 3 president of these United States thou will be My Daughter Mrs. Hattie Polonus she doe be a spirited claravoiest and great things she doe see. But these messages where especialy given to me for TheeIn the latter part of 1900 and 1 and 3, my Daughter will pay a visit unto thee I then will be glorious happy in Eternety and then thou will remember all I have written to thee James J. Hall 122'A' Sharpsvill Street Sharon Mercer Co PACHAS. WENTWORTH HILL, CONSULTING ENGINEER VICTORIA, B. C. June 15th/12 J. D. Wardrop Esq 287 4th Ave New York City Dear Sir - Kindly refer to yours of May 3rd answering mine addressed to Mr. Roosevelt. I see that Mr. Roosevelt is likely to go to Chicago. If developments render me useful, l;et me know and I shall go as far as my funds permit. Am off for the States July 1st to get in the game. Write or wire me Hotel Portland - Portland Oregon. Mr. Pinchot met me here in Apl. Mr, Griscom may remember me. Capt Boyle, County Sec. surely will. I saw him often in 39th St headquarters. The Capt may be for Taft now but so was I four years ago. I got 160 ballots for Taft Nom. out of a tammany bunch that year and I have got all that’s owing me since. Don’t forget me - Very truly yours C. W. HillSIERRA RAILWAY COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA S. D. FRESHMAN, Gen’l Mgr. And Treas. S. H. SMITH, Traffic Manager A. C. KELLAR, Superintendent C. N. HAMBLIN, Auditor JAMESTOWN, CALIF., June 15th 1912 My Dear Mr. Roosevelt - There are only 2 things can prevent your re-election - Death, or your withdrawal if not nominated - and you run independent. Your election is assured in either case. I’ve some influence in Iowa, Missouri, Ill. Ky & Tennessee and some money and I shall leave here for Iowa and the East in a few days and spend my time and money for your Election - Nebraska too. and So Dakota. My brother Chambers Kellar married Frances Bullock daughter of Mr. Seth Bullock at Lead. I also remember your old [?] the [[shorthand] and [[shorthand]]. So here’s Good Luck to You. Yours very sincerely A. C. Kellar To The next president of U.S.F.W. LIEDTKE N. E. COR. 4TH AND CHERRY STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. June 15th 1912 [*9*] To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- The 23rd National Saengerfest of the Northeastern Saengerbund of America to be held in Philadelphia From June 29th to July 26th 1912, gave rise to my writing and publishing a "Saengerfest-Almanach." I take the honor of submitting very respectfully to you a copy of the same. With profound satisfaction I stated on page 28, that you favored the 20th National Saengerfest, held in Baltimore in 1903, with your presence. The singers will never forget, that you were the only President of the United States, who ever did them the honor visiting a Saengerfest of the Northeastern Saengerbund, thus showing your interest in German male chorus and German song. I hope you will accept my little effort as a token of my sincere admiration for you, the best friend of the American nation and her citizens of German descent. Very respectfully yours, F. W. Liedtke 1991 Columbus Ave., Roxbury, Mass. June 15, 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear sir, I am a young man not quite seventeen years old. My two grandfathers and three uncles served in the Civil War. My father, Capt. F.S. Long Q. M.D. fought in the Filipino Insurrection. I think it is up to me to be in the next one. My father could get me an appointment to the Military Academy if he were here, But he is stationed in the Philippines for three years. It is his greatest wish as well as mine that I become an army officer, and I ask you if you will help us realize it by giving me an appointment next year. Of your election I have no doubt, and though a native born Iowan I hope you will defeat the dark horses.as decisively as you have defeated the light ? one. If you feel as if you can't give an appointment please write to me so that I will at least have your signature to keep. Yours respectively, Frank S. Long.METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH REV. A. O. McGILTON, S.T.D., D.D., PASTOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE 109 HIGH STREET. WESTERLY, R.I. June 15 [*1921?*] Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay L. I. [*B*] Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I have always been a great admirer of you as a man. I had the pleasure of meeting you for the first time, in Fort Edward N.Y. when you were in the race for Governor. I met you again, at the White House, as our President- with the delegates on Education from Maryland...And again, at our General Conference, held in Baltimore 1908, when you addressed us a at the University of Washington. You will remember I was with Bishop Warren when he presented you etc etc. I inclose a clipping in regard to the utterance of John. Wesley Hill D.D. And I may add, I am ashamed that he is a Methodist Minister. Here in Rhode Island, the politicians are all crying for Taft, But, let me tell you the rank and file of the people are with you. And your humble servant is doing all in his power for T.R. God bless, and speed you on to victory. Yours Truly, A.O. McGiltonJ. M. COLBY, PRESIDENT B. A. BENSON, SECRETARY F. A. MARSHALL, TREASURER THE NORTHERN PHOTO COMPANY (INCORPORATED) MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS HIGH GRADE POST CARDS OF ALL KINDS PHOTO SUPPLIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS 1003-1005 FIRST ST. TELEPHONE No. 1720 WAUSAU, WISCONSIN June 15, 1912. Theo. Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir: May we ask you to send us at your earliest convenience a good original photograph of yourself for reproduction on post cards. We will probably be able to place the cards in a large number of towns in our territory. If you can see that we get the pictures we shall appreciate it very much. Yours very truly, THE NORTHERN PHOTO COMPANY[*15*] Clinton, Ky., June 15, 1912. Office of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook Co., New York City. Gentlemen: Please allow me to state that I am deeply interested and anxious for the success of Col. Roosevelt in the Chicago National Convention, and I bitterly detest the action of the National Committee in withholding from him his rights and the wishes of the people of the various states. Confronted with the opposition of Postmaster Geo. W. Bury, E. E. Reid and some others of this place, we found it impossible to carry a convention for Col. Roosevelt here, yet I am a Roosevelt Republican unwaveringly and I sincerely hope the Colonel may be in a position to resist any kind of compromise at the National Convention, for I want Kentucky as well as the other States to have a chance to express by popular vote their preference for Col. Roosevelt at the coming election in November. Count me for Col. Roosevelt always. Respectfully, Webster C. PorterJAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS 151 CENTRAL PARK WEST NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE, 7380 SCHUYLER June 15, 1912. My dear Colonel: I enclose for your files a complete copy of the protest of the New York Roosevelt Committee against the new primary law and the recent abuses in its enforcement by the Republican County Committee. Very sincerely yours, James Bronson Reynolds Enclosure. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[FOR ENCL SEE 6-15-12]6/15/12 Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Thanks for your letter June 3. It is greatly prized and you were most gracious in giving me so much of your valuable time. Sincerely yours Frank W. Rock STANDARD TALKING MACHINE CO. 610 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS FRANK W. ROCK Bridgeport, Mgr. [*25*][6-15-12 P.G. Rose 794 Prospect Place, BROOKLYN, N.Y. Special Representative Woman's Home Companion. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt June 15. 8.P.M.1912 Dear Friend. Your Secretary droped me encouraging word Such as I could not expect. Thanks to God. who I see has put all good in your heart. I would be pleased, if you. go to Chicago That you would. for one hour. attend Church on Sunday. That would stop [dam..?] in all the churches. And non Church goers could find no fault for an hour. and just as much accomplished. And we dont know. How God might change the hearts of Men. We must be, "Wise as Serpents, harmless as doves" This after reading in the Eagle. I must sen. use it, if you please. no one but you will know it till you are President. I hope, it was your intention. If his idea dont reach in time I hope Mrs R will get it to you. I admire Woman's judgment I'll take this up to office try to be in time. Sorry I did not See it before To Mr. or Mrs Roosvelt in the bond of deepest affection (Where the Spirit of love is, there is Liberty) [6-15-12] Colonel Roosevelt Dear Sir - I take the liberty to impose upon your good nature by sending a photo of a little relic of the Spanish War. It is a product of evolution rather than design. As I am neither a gun maker nor a Draftsman The only art that I have ever been taught is that of agriculture among the hills of N.H. There is no special credit due to my efforts; it is a relic and too a usefull and affective one- It has the unique distinction2 of being the only gun that Pleases every women and child that has sees it: and why that is so I do not know. It has been said that "The busiest men are those that can always find a spare moment" I am aware that even insignificant matters do not always escape your notice. Therefore as the work is just finished, I send a photo at this time. Permit me to say this gun is not for sale. I am not a Politician nor a Hunter - and there is no "Shrude" design connected with this. Written at New Kensington Pa JUne 15 1912 E. W. Gould Warren N.H - [6-15-12] To announce the arrival of Roger Edward Smily On 15 June 1912 Weight 7 1/2 lbs Congress Park Illinois.6-15-12 TO THE YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK:- The Executive Committee submits the following report on the methods of choosing delegates to the Republican National Convention. Delegates from the various states in the Union are now chosen upon the following basis: Each state is allowed two delegates and two alternates for each senator and two delegates and two alternates for each representative. As is well known, in certain of the Southern States the Republican party polls a small vote and elects few or none of its candidates. Nevertheless, these Southern States have the same representation in the National Convention as strong Republican Northern States, which have a like number of senators and representatives. The result of this situation is that the delegates and alternates from the Southern States are frequently controlled by irresponsible persons. The situation is those congressional districts and states where the Republican party is practically non-existent, with the inevitable conditions which accompany the selection of the delegates, has become a public scandal. The delegates so chosen may be the determining factor in the choice of the standard bearers of the party. During recent years efforts have been made to remedy the situation by making the representation in the National Convention dependent in some manner upon the republican vote, but heretofore such efforts have not met with success. The only fair basis of representation in the National Republican Convention is that of the republican votes actually cast in an election. This is the basis adopted by the State Committee of New York in apportioning delegates for the various Assembly Districts. We, therefore, propose to the National Convention the following plan of apportioning delegates. (1) Each state shall have four delegates and four alternates at large. (2) The remaining delegates shall be apportioned to the various congressional districts in proportion to their republican vote. We suggest the following basis:-2- Congressional districts which cast less than 2500 republican votes shall not be represented in the National Convention. Districts casting from 3500 to 7000 republican votes shall have one delegates and one alternate. Districts casting from 7000 to 14000 republican votes shall have two delegates and two alternates, and for each additional 7000 votes cast, one additional delegate and alternate. Either the vote for congressmen at the last preceding election or the vote for presidential electors at the last presidential election may be taken. In states where women are allowed to vote for president and congressman, 14000 votes may be taken as the unit for one delegate instead of 7000 in order to preserve the status quo and not give any special advantage to states having female suffrage. Votes cast for congressmen at large shall not be counted in determining the total vote cast at congressional elections. The foregoing plan has the following advantages: (1) Each state is represented by its delegates at large in the National Convention, regardless of its republican vote. (2) The representation from the Congressional Districts is based upon the republican vote of the state. (3) The scandal attendant upon the election of delegates in those districts where there is virtually no republican vote will be eliminated. (4) If the states decide to choose by congressional districts all except the four delegates, the assignment of delegates to the congressional districts will be automatic. If they decide to choose all other delegates at large or through a state convention, it can easily be done. (5) A national convention of approximately the present also will be retained. In furthermore of the foregoing report, resolutions as follows are proposed:-3- RESOLVED: That the present basis of representation for the selection of delegates to National Convention, being proportioned to population and not to republican votes, is unjust and illogical in theory, unfair and demoralizing in practice. RESOLVED: That this Club favors a radical change in such basis, preferably by combining a fixed and equal allotment of delegates to each state (say four) with a pro rata representation by congressional districts, dependent upon the number of republican votes cast by the district at the congressional or presidential election preceding. RESOLVED: That the officers of the New York Young Republican Club are hereby instructed to use their utmost efforts, by publicity and argument with delegates, before and during the Convention, to obtain [a] support at Chicago a plan embodying the principle here asserted. [or for such other plans as will accomplish the same result.]ENCL IN REYNOLDS 6-15-12THE LITERARY DIGEST PUBLIC OPINION (New York) combined with THE LITERARY DIGEST Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company (Adam W. Wagnalls, Pres.; Benj. F. Funk, Vice-Pres.; Robert J. Cuddihy, Treas; Robert Scott, Sec'y), 44-60 E.. 23d St., New York VOL,. XLIV., No. 24 NEW YORK, JUNE 15, 1912 WHOLE NUMBER 1156 TOPICS OF THE DAY ELIHU ROOT NAMED BY RUMOR as the dark horse or compromise candidate for the Republican nomination, selected by the National Committee to be temporary chairman of the Chicago convention, and denounced by Colonel Roosevelt as the tool of Boss Barnes, the figure of Senator Root fixes public attention amid all the distracting developments of the preconvention struggle. The Colonel's reversal of attitude toward Mr. Root is almost as striking as his change toward President Taft, and marks this campaign as one of shattered friendships. It was Elihu Root of whom Mr. Roosevelt in a burst of generous enthusiasm once said, "I would walk on my hands and knees from Oyster Bay to Washington to make him President," and whom he described on another occasion as "the ablest man in the public life of this or any other country." Eight years ago Mr. Root acted as temporary chairman of the national convention which nominated Theodore Roosevelt, and afterward he served with distinction as Secretary of War and Secretary of State in the Roosevelt cabinet, and when in 1909 he was elected to the United States Senate from New York he had Mr. Roosevelt's heartiest indorsement But now that the national committee has again chosen him for the rôle he seemingly filled satisfactorily in 1904, the Colonel offers vigorous objection on the ground that "he stands as the representative of the men and the policies of reaction; he is put forward by the bosses and the representatives of special privilege." As proof that Mr. Root ."has ranged himself against the men who stand for progressive principles within the Republican party," Colonel Roosevelt cities a telegram sent by William Barnes, Jr., to many of the delegates, soliciting their support for Senator Root as temporary chairman and warning them against the menace of Rooseveltism. Says the Colonel in a lengthy statement issued to the press: "This tel gram makes the issue perfectly clear. It is one of the principles, not persons. Mr. Barnes demands Mr. Root's selection as the sign of repudiation of the principles for which I stand and as an indorsement of the doctrines enunciated at the Rochester convention--doctrines not merely reactionary, but of such a character that no party professing them could carry a single State in this Union. These doctrines are so Bourbon and reactionary that in every open primary in every northern State since the Rochester convention was held, after full discussion, the people have overwhelmingly repudiated them." To quote further from the same document: "No man should be chosen as temporary chairman who is put forward by Mr. Barnes and by those men who represent the principles and practices of Mr. Barnes. Under those circumstances Mr. Root's own personality is not the issue, His victory would be the victory of Mr. Barnes; his defeat the defeat of Mr. Barnes." Mr. Barnes retorts that the Colonel's opposition to Mr. Root-- an opposition which, prior to the issuing of this statement, had shown some vacillation -- "is absolute proof of the charge I have made against Roosevelt that his real purpose is the overthrow of our constitutional safeguards." The [Photo] HE HAS LOST MR. ROOSEVELT'S AFFECTION. A few years ago the Colonel enthusiastically characterized Mr. Root as "the ablest man in public life." Now he accuses the New York Senator of ranging himself "against the men who stand for progressive principles." TERMS: $3 a year, in advance: four months, $1: single copy, 10 cents; postage to Canada 85 cents a year, other foreign postage $1.50 a year. RECEIPT of payment is shown in about two weeks by date on address label; subscription including the month named. Instructions for RENEWAL, DISCONTINUANCE, or CHANGE OF ADDRESS should be sent two weeks before the date they are to go into effect. Both old and new addresses must always be given. DISCONTINUANCE: We find that many of our subscribers prefer not to have their subscriptions interrupted and their files broken in case they fall to remit before expiration. 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Other editorial theories are offered in explanation of the Colonel's change toward Senator Root. Some of the corre- spondents say that his hand was forced by the La Follette Progressives, whom he can not afford further to estrange, while others suggest that he fears Mr. Root as a dark-horse candidate _________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | _________________________________________________________________ . SPEED THE PARTING GUEST. -McWhorter in the St. Louis Pioneer Press. and does not want to see him in a position of strategic advantage. The suggestion that Mr. Root is the most available compromise candidate appeared almost simultaneously in a London dis- patch to the New York Sun (Ind.) and in the Washington cor- respondence of the Springfield Republican (Ind.). In the former Andrew Carnegie is quoted as saying: "If I had to name a candidate other than the President it would be Elihu Root, whom former President Roosevelt has repeatedly pronounced to be 'the wisest man I ever Knew.' . . . . "I know there is some fear that Senator Root would not prove to be a popular candidate in the West because he began as a corporation lawyer. This is true, and it is also true that he made a great reputation in his profession, which alone trains judges, and no man has ever even suspected him of dishonor- able conduct. . . . . . . "Two gentlemen, both proprietors of important Western newspapers, told me in New York that, President Taft failing of nomination, their choice was Mr. Root." Turning to the testimony of the Republican's correspondent, we learn that "there has sprung up in Washington a spontaneous and strong undertone of talk favorable to Senator Root's nomi- nation." In the Philadelphia Press, a Republican paper of regular tendencies, we read: "Mr. Roosevelt can not displace Mr. Root unless he has a majority of the convention with him at the start; otherwise the selection of the national committee will stand and a strong friend of the President will make the opening speech of the convention. "Neither President Taft nor Colonel Roosevelt will have an undisputed majority of the convention when it is called to order. There are uninstructed delegates, there are many contested seats, and there are the La Follette and Cummins delegates, whose attitude as regards the preliminary organization has not yet been announced. Before the contested seats have been passed upon, and the alinement of the uninstructed delegates has been indicated, Mr. Roosevelt proposes to force upon the convention a division and a decision so that on the very threshold of its meeting its line of charge and the relative strength of factions will be definitely disclosed. "There is courage and audacity in this, but these are Roose- veltian qualities. He prefers to carry by storm rather than by sapping or mining. If he defeats his former Secretary of State for the privilege of making the opening speech, it may be as- sumed that the halting and the hesitating delegates will cast their lot with the winners of the preliminary struggle and that the convention will be Roosevelt's from start to finish. [*But his wisdom is guiding the wreckers political p[*?????*] G. A? U "If he is defeated in this preliminary brush, will be subside temporarily and prepare for another test of strength later? This would be orderly, but it is not Rooseveltian. Those who look for a Roosevelt bolt should the convention be against him will see new ground for their opinion in his determination to force the issue and test his strength at the very beginning. We prefer to believe that this is a mistake." "Every Republican who goes to the convention to fight on the platform of the people against special privilege must join Roosevelt against Root," exclaims Mr. Munsey's Boston Journal. The Philadelphia North American admits that "Senator Root is an intellectual giant," and that "his personal honor is unstained and his patriotism unassailable." But it goes on to say of him: "He is master architect of the trusts, chief deviser for legality for the unpunishable crimes of Big Business, acolyte of court worship, with justice subordinated to technicalities and alien to all humanitarian legislation and political change feared for any reason by privilege and property. "Coupled with all his wisdom and high ability, there is in- grained in his nature a conservatism which puts him out of harmony with the progressive policies which the people and the party and the times demand. "Reverence for vested rights is part of Root's character. In all matters of economics, finance, and the regulation of corpora- tions he is temperamentally a reactionary, and the man praised publicly by a trust-maker and Wall Street lawbreaker as 'the first lawyer who could always tell me how to do legally what- ever we wanted to do' is unfit to speak officially for and to the progressive Republicanism of 1912." An interesting explanation of Mr. Roosevelt's obligation to Senator Root, suggested by the Philadelphia Record (Dem.), is that the Colonel fears the effect of the Senator's persuasive elo- quence upon the weak and wavering among the delegates. To quote: "Mr. Root's undisputed ability is a factor of danger. . . . He isn't in favor of a third term for our Presidents. . . . Should he be selected as temporary chairman, he would be sure to say _________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | _________________________________________________________________ EASY FOR THE WEATHER-MAN. -Wilder in the Chicago Record-Herald. things which would jar the nerves of the claimant and disorder his bile. "A thorough dissection with the Root scalpel of the pro- gressive policies set forth by the claimant and proclaimed at second-hand by the visionaries and camp-followers who shout hosannas at his heels would be a very different layout from the Taft discussions. Root is a master of clear statement and in- cisive reasoning. The Rough Rider is a baby in his hands. The Rough Rider knows it. He is well advised in bringing all his wiles and wits to bear in keeping Elihu out of the ring when the circus opens."[*ENCL IN 6-15-12*] Not good unless exchanged for (Purchased?) Seat at Box Office No 16635 MID-SUMMER MUSICAL FESTIVAL Auditorium Beautiful Aug 5th to 10th inclusive, Six Nights at 8.15 P.M. LOS ANGELES LODGE NO. 388 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE TICKETS 50 CENTS, Good for one Reserved Seat Without Extra Charge (OVER)mean world! Believe me very sincerely yours H. Rider Haggard P.S. I have been nominated a member of the Dominions Royal Commission which is to investigate the affairs of the British Empire! All being well, my work will take me to Canada one day & then I hope I may see you again. Private 16. June,1912 TELEGRAMS } AND } STATION } DITCHINGHAM DITCHINGHAM HOUSE, NORFOLK. My dear Mr. Roosevelt, I cannot resist sending you one line to wish you success in your arduous fight. I know nothing of American politics which are no business of mine. But I think I do know you & I believe that your triumph would make for righteousness and advance the happiness & prosperity of the dim masses who toil unknown from the cradle to the grave. Therefore, and because, as you once said to me, we hold opinions so similar on many vital matters (especially the law) & its true uses, I earnestly hope that you will win. I confess that the depreciation & even abuse that have been showered on you both privately & in the press of the world, make me angry — But on the other hand the variations of tone – from vituperation to flattery as your chances seem to [rise] fall or rise, make me laugh as they must make you - It is aHavana 16th June 1912. The Honorable Mr. Theodore Roosevelt New York. Dear Sir: As subscriber of the "Outlook" I take the liberty to occupy your attention for a few minutes, giving you (privately) my views regarding the question of "Big Business". If present conditions continue for another 50 years, the U.S. will be a nation of multi-millionaires and paupers. The consequence will be the biggest Revolution the world has seen. If the judges of the Supreme Court are right, the Anti-Trust law is wrong. If the application of the present laws cannot bring a remedy, the Constitution & the laws ought to be changed, radically. Lukewarm measures will bring no results, same have to be "radical", viz: All corporations ought to be dissolved, to such a degree that no single company can have a larger capital than (?) 5 Million dollars, taking out the "watered stocks". All corporations to be under the inspection of honorable Govt employees. Emission of watered stocks to be punished by heavy prison. The Railroads & similar companies, to be taken over by the Govt, as explained in McClure's (March/April?) An income tax - on incomes from $1000.- up - with increasing rates - from 1% to 50% for incomes of $1.000.000 and over. If not properly declared, a fine, equal to double the amounts withheld from the Govt (the people) An inheritance tax, similar to the income tax, beginning at $100.000. Direct descendants (& widows) paying one half of this tax. You will surely consider the above measures too extravagant, but I truly believe there will be no change for the better until radical measures are adopted. I don't believe that a man can earn millions "honorably"! Wishing you the deserved success in the present Campaign, I am, Dear Sir, your admirer and obedient servant (J. A. Brincker) Havana (Consulate 91)[*[For enc see 6-16-12] *] TRANSLATION Madam Roosevelt: With God's help, we beg to let you know that we aim to erect a small church, or have already erected a small church, which it has taken us four [forty] years to build up. We ask all who believe in Christ to donate as much as possible, which would be greatly appreciated. We have decided to make an appeal to you for a little donation. God Almighty will never forget you. Hoping that this appeal will not be any insult to you, we beg to remain, etc., Yours respectfully, [*Return to Secy. Harper with translation.*] (Translation on back of sheet ) June 16, 12, Jamaica L. I. Geehrte Frau Rosevelt. Mit Gotteshülfe arbeiten wir, um eine kleine Kirche unser Eigen zu nennen, Es hat uns 4 Jahre lang genommen um den Bauplatz frei zu bekommen. Jetzt bitten wir alle Freunde in Christo uns ein wenig zu unterstützen. Die kleinste Gabe ist bei uns herzlich willkommen.Pastor Max Hering 22 Canal Str. Jamaica L. I. New York. CARDED Queens Church So haben wir unsere Bitte an Ihnen gerichtet um uns eine kleine Unterstützung zu senden. Denn der "Herr" wird dann nie vergeßen[?] Hoffe hiermit kein Unrecht gethan zu haben schließt mit frdl. Gruß, Mrs. Martha Cordes. 454 South St. Jamaica L. I. [*Queens*] Secy. of the Ladies Aid.New York City June 16. 1912. Dear Mr Roosevelt. President of U.S. I wish you much Success in the future - with my cousin James Laurence O.Donnell of "Chicago Illinois." You will find him an efficient partner in the official duties of the Vice Presidency of our glorious Country I kindly rememberhim to you. I only know the hard word, called duty. “least said better mended” You will find him at his office in the neighborhood of the City Hall where the Lawyers have their offices Yours for Success [?] V. Connelly-Stafford 242 W. 10th St. New York City find Him Write him.Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. June 16 1912 Mr. Frank Harper Secy Col. Roosevelt New York My dear Sir:- Your very kind letter of the 12th inst. at hand in which you say "Dr. Lyman Abbott handed my letter and enclosures to you, and that you had placed them all before Mr. Roosevelt." It is very kind of Dr. Abbott to do so, and I want you to please thank him for me. I think a great deal of Dr. Abbott in fact I love him, ad yet I have never seen him, only his picture. You remember that passage in the Bible where it says "Not having seen yet we love." And yet I am not a goody goody sippy sippy kind of a man either. I am a fighter from the word go. No one but a fighter can fish a pound in the ocean off Fire Island Bar year after year, and keep at it, and still keep going. In fact I 2 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. 19 would not mind hooking up with “Teddy” himself, but I would always like to have him on my side, he is a fighter after my own heart. Unless you received the original card for Col Roosevelt with the enclosures to which you refer, I am afraid the Col does not fully under stand the situation. I know you are very busy but I hope you will read this letter carefully, and then please explain the whole thing to Col. Roosevelt when you have an opportunity. I have always lived at Islip L.I. and my father before me. I was brought up in the Presby. Church of which my father was an elder and joined same when I was about 16 years of age. I was at the conference at Northfield during 1908. I heard a sermon by Dr. R. A. Toney in the auditorium at the 10 o’clock hour on Aug. 15th 1908 that made a profound impression upon me. The enclosed3 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. card is the outgrowth of that sermon. in this way as I began speaking to people, about being a Christian, something I had scarcely ever done before in my life and doing personal work for God themselves, and getting others to do it and so like an enclosed endless chain, even if they were strangers I would kindly ask them to sign their name in my little book and address, and answers to my questions, they would naturally ask me for my name and address and for a card. I would tell them my name but I did not have any card, but they kept asking me for a card. So I discovered that if I kept on speaking to people along this line as I had opportunity, and getting their names and address and making a record of it as I was doing of strangers and all, I would have to have a card, and so I began to think about what kind of a card I would get up that I could give to people when I spoke to them. Now getting up a card was a new line of business for me, as I am only a fisherman I4 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. fish in the Atlantic Ocean instead of the sea of Galilee, I say it very truthfully I believe God him self helped me get up the card, as well of some friends of mine who made some suggestions. The number on the card means the number of people I have spoken to along this line from the time I started Aug 15 1908 until the present time. from No. 1 up to the present time, I have a complete record they all have a card with their number and a page in my little book where their name with their number is, and notes more or less full as to where the conversation took place and so on. I have filled up eight little books, and the 9th book is nearly full. As I completed one hundred names after an other I noticed that the leader or first one of the new hundred would be the leader of that hundred, or in other words Captain of that Company for instance the person who had card 5 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. No. 501 would be the leader or Captain of the 6th Company and so on. More than a year possibly nearly two years prior to Jan. 20, 1912 the thought occurred to me that when I had spoken to a thousand people and given card No. 1000 the person who had card No. 1001 would be the leader of the second thousand or Col. of the 2nd Regiment of God’s Messengers. I decided as I have said more than a year possibly two years prior to Jan 20 1912 to give card No. 1001 to Col Roosevelt if I could possibly get in touch with him, and make him Col. Of the 2nd Regiment I hve selected him out of all he people in the United States, to whom to give this card with tis particular number, true, it is only a card, but in giving this card to him I bestow upon him the greatest honor it is in my power to give. Last Aug. in 1911 when I was around 900. In a very material way through6 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. correspondence, I was brought in contact with Dr. Lyman Abbott for the first time in my life, true, as yet, it has only been by letter, as I have never had the pleasure of meeting the Dr face to face, but I hope too sometime. The correspondence has been very pleasant and beautiful to me. I have as before stated formed a very strong attachment for the Dr. What do your think? Dr. Lyman Abbott 76 years old in reply to my letter wrote me a most beautiful letter seven pages long in his own hand writing, it completely won my heart. Dr. Abbott was so kind and considerate to me who am only a fisherman, that I made up my mind when the time came that I had given out card No. 1000 and I was ready to try and get in touch with Col. Roosevelt to give him card no. 1001 I would try and do so through Dr. Abbott. Absolutely without any scheming on my part what so ever, it7 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y., 19 looks, does it not, as though God himself was showing me the way to get in touch with Col. Roosevelt when the time should come. What better introduction could I have than through Dr. Abbott? On Jan. 19, 1912, I spoke to the thousandth person and give him card No. 1000 and he wrote his name in my little book etc, he is also a prominant man. I had a personal talk with him. Now I was ready to meet Col. Roosevelt so bright and early the next morning about ten oclock Jan. 20, 1912. From Islip I called Miss Hall Secy. Of Dr. Abbott on the phone and asked her, if she would please ask Dr. Abbott it he thought it would be possible for me to meet Col. Roosevelt at this time. Miss Hall was very kind indeed, and said she would speak to Dr. Abbott about it, and let me know. Enclosed I send you letter recd. from Miss Hall shorty after, to prove to you that I was really in communication with the Outlook office at this time. Please return letter to me.8 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. You see by the letter door to Mr. Roosevelt at this time seemed to be closed, and not the time to try and see him. I told Miss Hall I would not try to see or communicate with Mr Roosevelt until such time as Dr Abbott said I might do so. so you see that is about 6 months ago. I never force the door, I only knock and sometimes it seems to me I scarcely knock, only as it even breathe upon the door. I think that is one reason why I have never received an unkind answer from all the hundreds to whom I have spoken. In case there was not a card like the enclosed dated Jan 20 1912 No 1001 among the enclosures Dr. Abbott handed you, please give the enclosed one to Mr. Roosevelt when you have a good opportunity, and please ask him for me to please write yes in ans. to first and third questions if he is willing to do so then sign his name and keep the little card for ever, and not to forget his number. Please tell him I hope[*9 Deep Sea Fish Company. ISLIP, LONG ISLAND, N.Y.----------------------19*] to see him sometime, and have him write his name in my little book on the page reserved for him where his number is. I usually reserve but one page for a name but in the case of Mr. Roosevelt, I have reserved two pages, because he is quite literally inclined, and I think he can fill up two pages without any trouble, don’t you? I am also ending you card no. 1090 which is the number to date you see I have spoken to 90 people since Jan 20/12 This card is for yourself if you are willing [if you are willing], please write yes in ans. to first and third question sign your name and keep the little card for ever and do not forget your number. then if you are willing please drop me a line, and tell me the ans. you have given to the questions. and also Mr. Roosevelt’s answers. Very truly yours, John C. Dorsee[*[6-16-12]. *] [*14*] Mortons Gap Ky Jun 16/12 Hon Theo Roosevelt Chicago Ill Dear Sir In the Name of Justice to my self, my boys and my parents I am writing you this letter. I consider it a Shameful Disgrace to Civilized Americans the way the Rep Commit at Chgo has Done I ask you to [?] the Convention if The Nomination is stolen from you which they are trying to Do. As I Dislike to vote the Dem ticket and will not under any Consideration vote for W H Taft or any other man who steals his way through I have always been a loyal Rep but The way The Commit in Chgo has Done is a shameful Disgrace to The Rep party. Yours to Stay J W Elliott P.S. Hopkins Co Reps are all solid for you and you can Carry The County wheras Taft would Not exceed 100 votes in The County.[*11.*] Anadarko, Okla. June 16/12 Col Roosevelt. Chicago. Legitimately you have been called to the defense of the Nation by the Voice of he Common folk of the Republican Party. Over against you is one who apparently would defeat that expressed will through the villainous action of political bosses desperate despised and damned. Certainly no right lies in the Committee, none in the Convention saw to declare the Choice of the republicans of the Nation and enunciate a platform consistent with the unfaltering progressive patriotism of the Rep. party. Whatever the judgments of the forty or any other number of thieves in Chicago or out, You must respond to the call of the people already made and 'gainst a malignent piracy that would scuttle the party and sink the Nation into unutterable woe. Continue your battle for human liberty - Resp. J. W. HammondJune 16th 1912 Dear Cornal Roosevelt My Dear Comrade I was down at your office with my wife a couple of weeks ago to try and explain but was very sick and could hardly speak and couldent say what I wanted to. Comrade Chairman Walter McCoy of Memorial & Executive Committee promised to look after my rent. He neglected it and I am (5) months in debt to the Landlord.2 and he is threating us with a disspossess. My camp the Philippine 87 Commander Van Buren made out two voches to have me sign for $42.00 I did not sign them so Quarter Master Roe made out the voches for $25.50 I told him I never recieved any funs from the Camp as there was never any funs in the Camp. it was said it was done to help me out so I signed the voches for $25.50 Commander Van Buren wrote me a letter stating I recieved more from3 the camp than what I signed for, so I would be the loser. The Camp. made a collection for me a year ago and there was $4.50 given my wife on Easter Sunday 1911. There was only a few Comrades of us. I showed the letter to Chairman Walter V. McCoy and he wrote a letter to Commander Van Buren witch [Mr] Commander Van Buren says he has on file. The letter stated that he Mccoy was responcibel for my rent and4 that was what is was going for he told me the same thing that the money was to go for my rent and nothing else that no body would handlie it only him. I heard the mony was paid from the city, so I went down to see T.J. O'Donnell Treas Almoner May 20-1912 and asked him about the check and he told me McCoy recieved it April 7th 1912. I and my wife went around to McCoy house and asked him about the check. He told us he turned ten dollars over to my [Cl] Camp.5 as my camp made a claim to him I don't see how he could turn any money to my Camp. McCoy never asked me wether there was a claim or not. He knowed they had no funs. Then he told my wife & I he turned the rest of the money of the check over to his camp. David Wilson No. 59. I am going to ask you if there is not some way of having the rent straighen up as long as Chairman McCoy has promised and claims he is responcible for it. He told my wife and me he goes out of6 office soon, I suppose the Landlord wount get none [at all] of the money. He got us to move over hear from the west side and he would look after us but hasent done so or we would never been so far behind with are rent. I got a dissperses Mar 19 and two friends paid each a months rent for us and my wife manage to pay one and the Agent let us stay here he lost the houses through being promised from McCoy the rent would be looked after and all7. rite. My Commander said the camp comrades are all sore on me as I talked to much. If I hadent talked to the people and told them about the disspersess I would be put in the street as they knowed I got the dissperess and I received no help from them and not after they receiving the ten dollars of witch they have no rite too the money was to go for my rent that was the agreement made by Chairman McCoy when I signed.8 The Landlord told my wife Sunday we will be put in the street Wednesday or Thursday. We haven't a cent to move or to rent a place with. I am not as well as the day you saw me at the office. Fartenully Robert A. Lowe 2082 Prospect Ave Bronx, New York City P.S. Please answer if you can do any thing for us. R.A. Lowe 2082 Prospect Ave Bronx, New York City6-16-12 My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I thank you for your letter of July fifteenth and if agreeable to you I will gladly accept your invitation for luncheon for Friday next, July nineteenth. Sincerely yours, F.S. Luther July the sixteenth 1912. To Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y.[*15*] Ft. Wayne, Ind. 6/16/12 To the Honorable Theodore R. Roosevelt, Chicago, Ills. Dear Sir:- Although I am not acquainted with you personally, nor am seeking self gain if you are elected president (which I pray you will be) yet I admire your manhood, your freedom from moral or political taint. I have voted for you before, and I feel confident that I will vote for you again for president, and that you will be elected. I have sent a dream story Entitled the "Steam Roller" to the Chicago Tribune for publication. It came as an inspiration to me through a consuming desire to do something for you. Please bear in mind there was no mercenary motive back of it. Simply admiration and respect. Yours truly, Darwin S. Myers, #1128 Washington Boulevard, West.Rago Colorado June 16, 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir I was with you in Cuba. (I served in Co. A 10 Infty) and I am with you yet come weal or come woe Clarence Reed Rago, Colo. Washington Co. Delagation favored you in state Convention — C. R.JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS 151 CENTRAL PARK WEST NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE, 7380 SCHUYLER [[shorthand]] June 16, 1912. My dear Colonel: I herewith return the Report on Conciliation, Arbitration and Sanitation in the Cloak Trade in New York, sent to me by Mr. Harper with a request from you for my comment thereon. At the time I lived in the midst of the garment-making industry, conditions were absolutely chaotic. The labor was mostly non-union, with occasional strikes, during which all joined the union and paid two months' dues. I arbitrated some of these strikes, the main proposition usually being to prevent the employer from the too-free use of the steam-roller or the mushroom unions from too exorbitant demands. The strike in the summer of 1910 resulted from the first successful effort to unionize the garment-making industry. During the subsequent negotiations with the employers I was visited by a Committee of the men, and know the situation from the inside. The scheme of adjustment reached and published in the report is fair, flexible and beneficial to both parties. Many of its practical devices have been very JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS 151 CENTRAL PARK WEST NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE 7380 SCHUYLER Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 2. well thought out. Fundamentally, it puts into effect the sovereign remedy for which I know you have always stood, namely, the bringing together easily and frequently of representatives of the employers and of the work-people with each party pledged to play fair. The scheme has worked well, and merits high praise. A particularly excellent feature is the settlement of many difficulties by the so-called clerks of both parties. These men have daily difficulties to adjust, and knowing that a precedent established today in their favor may be worked against them tomorrow, they naturally act with caution and find it wisest and best to stand for fairness and square dealing. Mr. Harper did not state any particular feature upon which you desired my comment. I therefore inferred that you desired a general comment. If there is anything else which you want, I am of course at your service. Sincerely yours, James Bronson Reynolds Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.Aurora, Ill June 16-1912 Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Dear Madam The writer just found the enclosed four leaf cover and sincerely trusts it will be the symbol of good luck Trusting that I will have the pleasurable duty to vote for Colonel Roosevelt in November I am yours truly [?] Schmidt A souvenir of long ago given to the writer by H. Wright Cunay a colored delegate from Texas. Cheer up The Colonel is bound to win everybody against him but the people[*[6-16-12]*] [*24*] 3734 Wall St. Los Angeles California June 16th 1912. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - Enclosed please find a campaign song have written for your good husband Colonel Roosevelt & our next President. I have put no air to it — you may be able to supply it just for fun among your selves & friends. In the present contest there2 will surely be but one outcome. Mr. Roosevelt has passed through the' fire of a people's love and come out refined gold - has been weighed in the ballance and not found wanting - With congratulations Yours Most Sincerely Mrs. Jos. C. Shaffer.For enc see 6-16-12[*(6-16-13)*] We are Sailing Safe With Teddy Oh Teddy is the Pilot brave To sail our Ship of State - He’ll keep his trains and all on board Be strickly up to date - No matter whence the winds may come Or threatening Storms prevail - He’ll stear the craft with master hand And will not shorten sail.. Then ye ho boys — Ye ho boys through extreme or quiet weather Ye ho boys — Ye ho boys We all must pull, together We'll keep the ship a sailing an, We'll keep her sailing steady, Though billows roll - and tempests blow — We are sailing safe with Teddy —2 He Knows each beacon light afar - He needs not any chart The heaven with its guiding star Is written on his heart The parting waves make music grand Beneath the gliding Keel, His country 's flag waves proudly o'er Our Teddy at the wheel Then ye ho boys - ye ho boys. Through storm or quiet weather Ye ho boys - ye ho boys We all must pull together We'll keep the ship a sailing on We'll keep her sailing steady, Through bellows roll - and tempests blow We are sailing safe with Teddy.With Uncle Sam upon the deck And bullion in the hold, And treasure from our vast domains Whose values are untold; Our Ship of State so staunch & strong From highest mast to keel Will weather through the wicked gales With Teddy at the wheel! Then ye ho boys — ye ho boys Through storms or quiet weather Ye ho boys - ye ho boys We all must pull together We ll keep the ship a sailing on We ll keep her sailing steady Through bellows roll — or tempests blow We are sailing — safe with Teddy4 Should foreign foe attempt to board Our noble Ship of State — A broad-side into them he'd pour That soon would seal their fate; And though they crowded on the deck Mid clash of ringing steel Our Teddy's blade would mow them down With one hand on the wheel Then ye ho boys - ye ho boys Through storms is quiet weather Ye ho boys ye ho boys We all must pull together We'll keep the ship a sailing on — We'll keep her sailing steady Through bellows roll — or tempests blow We are sailing — safe with Teddy —5 The cargo is of precious freight He'll guard it with his life The guns he man'd with stalwart men Enured to battle strife To buccaneers, or pirates bold His colors ne'er he'll slip— Be sure while Teddy's at the helm He won't give up the ship! Then ye ho boys — Ye ho boys Through storms or quiet weather Ye ho boys- Ye ho boys We all must pull together We'll keep the ship a sailing on We'll keep her sailing steady Though billows roll — or tempests blow We are sailing safe with Teddy Mrs. M. C. Shaffer 3734- Wall St Los Angeles CaliforniaFor enc see 6-16-12[6-16-12] For the Building Fund of St. Mark's Ev. Lutheran Church 142, 144, 146 NEW YORK AVENUE, JAMAICA, L.I. has sold the following Bricks to M 1 CENT PER BRICK Bricks 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 ____ 100 TOTAL 10 10[*[Enc in Cardes 6-16-12]*] [[shorthand]]Rev. O.S. KRIEBEL, D.D. PRINCIPAL PERKIOMEN SEMINARY PENNSBURG, PA. June 17, 1912 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Sir:- You will receive under separate cover an historical address by Rev. O.S. Kriebel, D.D., Principal of Perkiomen Seminary, which will give you an idea of the work and character of the school. I desire to call your attention to an offer which Mr. Andrew Carnegie made to Perkiomen Seminary a number of years ago. He offered to give a library building which should cost $20,000.00, providing all the debts of the school were paid and $20,000.00 additional was raised to endow the library. The debts of the school amounted to $38,000.00, therefore it was necessary to raise $58,000.00 to make Mr. Carnegie's offer available. Of this amount $52,000.00 has already been raised, so there remains but $6,000.00 between Perkiomen Seminary and a $20,000.00 library and the clearing away of all debts and the beginning of a new epoch and a new lease of life. The realization of this offer will mean the addition of almost $80,000.00 to the resources of the school, which is 3/4 as much as the entire equipment of the school is worth at the present time. Besides, Mr. Carnegie's offer is about to lapse, if the conditions are not met. Many of the subscriptions are contingent upon the whole amount being raised, and one subscription of $10,000.00 is contingent upon the library building being constructed before July 1st, 1913. It will take a year to build the library. Therefore for every reason the crucial and critical time in this campaign is right now. If the $6,000.00 is not forthcoming within the next two weeks, the proposition will in all probability fail and all the energy, time and money expended will have gone for naught. If you are at all interested in seeing this school continue its work and not be seriously handicapped by lack of means, please subscribe now, whatever amount you can, and help to place if upon a firm financial basis for the future. Thanking you in advance. Very sincerely yours, N.N. Arnold.FOR ENCL SEE 6-17-12 6-17-12 6-26-12 6-26-12K Ringtown Pa June 17 -1912 Mr. Theodore Rosevelt I am one of a committee to collect a church debt and our plan is to write to our friends to give us their help by what ever they feel like doing I have send out a no of letters and received a little from every one but President Taft. He may think by contributing towards a church fund won't help him any but let me tell you thisAll these names are read off from the pulpit in the church and it is a great honor to have your name read in the church and besides contributing to the Lords house and I know that it has taken some votes of his no so I was advised to give you a chance as most of our men talk in your favor. If you feel as though you can help us any we wish you success in your great strive and trust you shall win You may think that church work andpolitical affairs do not go together, but be convinced that the Lord doesth all things well. If there is any thing you can do for us we will pray you back a thousand fold at the first opportunity. If you do not trust to send it to me I will give you the pastor's name Rev. C. P. Kell I remain Mrs. Robert Brobst Ringtown Pa..6-17-12 C. T. B. REAL ESTATE TRUST BLDG. PHILADELPHIA My dear Colonel. Have just found the enclosed four leaf clover and am sending it to you with the wish that it may bring you the nomination on that first ballott. Wishing you every success believe me Most Sincerely Chas. T. BrownFor 1 enc. see ca 6-17-12 four leaf cloverCincinnati, Ohio 421 Clark St. June 17th 1912. Col, Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, N.Y. Office The Outlook Co. My Dear Col. Roosevelt, Being in the rank and file of private citizens I am helpless to help you receive the nomination at the convention, but I hope and earnestly, too, that it will be cast upon you - This country needs your services as President another term. I trust I can vote for you. Most respectfully, E. E. Crockett.St. Augustine, Florida June, 17th. 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Sir:- I consider it an honor to write to one who may honorably and justly be called (a modern Ceasar), in the world of political progress and achivement. Knowing as I do the principles for which you stand and the policies you have administered, I write you to day. It is in this period of the times, when the masses are struggling and fighting for a better form of government (a government by the people) that calls upon you as their pilot, to guide them into calm from out of turbulent waters. You have entered the race for the high seat of our Country, not from a personal point of view, but from the voice of a noble race of people. The question of human rights are at stake. Our great and complicated machine of government, needs the attention of one who is skilled in work that deals and treats with political machinery of a gigantic nation. I have read with intense interist your speech "A charter of Democracy, " delivered in Ohio, setting fourth the platform and doctorine, in which you believe will be the best for a government b the people. The part of your speech for which I hold a profound admiration, is the part when you concur with the venerable Lincoln, on self government by the people, it is a stricking example of the part you would play in the coming election. [Then] the Hon. Samuel T. McCall of Massachusetts, when asked his opinion of your Columbus speech, said "the most vivid impression I get from Mr. Roosvelts speech is the complete idenity between himself and Abraham Lincoln which exists in Mr. Roosvelts mind." Mr. McCall is a worthy Representative of his people in Congress, and I trust the time is not far distant, when his vision shall be changed. That the Rulers of several foreign nations believe in you is without the slitest doubt. That they imbide in you their faith and friendship, is taken from receptions showned you, on your visit to their several kingdoms. That the American people want you as their leader and executor will be demonstrated at the coming election. Your own your countrys honor has called upon you for a strong and vigirous campagin, eaven though you should fail, you will become famous to the whole world as a leader of a body politic. It is here, I believe you will profit by your last administration, over a people who look upon you as a leader of men, "a man of destiny." It is to you whom they look upon for their future welfare and prosperity.2 Never before in the history of our government, has such conditions arisen, that require a man of experience, in the sience of government to handle and keep them in the proper channels. The question of government by and for the people must come from the people direct. It is true our forefathers, in the formation of our government determined that the wisest method for its perpetuity, was to provide, as far as possible, first for its intellegant citizenship, and next for such eccentials as would prevent the wild passions of an hour crystallizing into legislation, which might be injurious or fatal to the public welfare. So to effectuate this, they created a representative government. They believed that as the country became more populas, communities more crowded, the struggle for competition for earning a living more severe, government should be delegated by the people, in frequent elections to those whom they could trust, and who would devote themselves to carrying out the measures, which would for the best interest of all - they pinned their faith on representative government. The make this representative government safe, sound and conservative, they had two houses of legislative branch, an execu[ta]tive with large power of reccomendation, and of veto, and written constitution upon broad lines, within which action could only be had, and a supreme court limited in number with a life tenure, removed from the passions and prejudices of the hour. Who should decide, whether the act as finally prefected by the legislative and executive authority came within the powers, granted by the written comstitution. It is the same constitution that our forefathers moulded, that belongs to the people, who have lived up to its previliges, its rights and the princibles and cause for which it was drawn "the people". In the National republican convention being held in Chicago, it is giving the country an opportunity to see Taft and his forces at their best. We can see Boss Barnes and his Lieutenant Penrose of Pennsylvania working side by side for their great chief, these men and others who compose the larger portion of our representative government are working for the interest of special previliges and which has under its heading -" fraud, thuggery, and stolen delegates. There is so much talk of a new democracy, and the same as to a new form of og government - there is none. Like a lost sailor of the sea clinging with a death grip, scanting the horizon for the white sales, so are we clinging to the fragments of the constitution of America that our forefathers left heir to us. It is to this we look forward to for our so called new Democracy and Gover nment, eliminating the interest and special previlige that has been so detrimental to our progress. The people of this country look upon you as the reconstructor of that devine document. If America- 3 - with its Institutions and historic past, is to be promulgated as a progressive nation, that those reforms which you are so militently fighting for, will be to the eyes of the world,- "proud and worthy as the old". Few people realize the good that comes through citizenship, and the better he is educated along Governmental and social lines, the better the citizen. For This is the greatest age and time when citizenship will play a vital and paramount part in the making of a nation. Every citizen should ever bear in mind the part he plays as a nation maker. He should familiarize himself with the platforms and issues of the several parties, that he would himself would consider best for the Countrys welfare. It is his duty to do so, if he fails to live up to the laws of citizenship that our forefathers fought for, conquered and perpetuated, he transgresses a great law, and is like a dead body in living matter, in a world of government. There has been questions that have confronted you, which you have worked out like a master, and with the care of a painstaking student. Some of the questions that will confronts you n your office, are that of the Arbitartion of Treaties, a Conservation of Natural resources, the Initiative, referendum, and recall, the 'problems of a new Democracy', the Tariff and its problems, the working man, the Trusts, the power of wealth over decision, and the delay in our Courts. The pure-food law that you worked so diligently for, was nearly destroyed, had not the worthy Dr. Wiley come to its rescue,. Strict attention should be given our bodies, if they are not to be poluted and ruined by an inferior grade of fooddtuffs, and adulterated drugs which would continue to be sold by its non inforcement, the health of the nation lies at its feet. The race problem needs the attention of one who will regulate and promulgate a great population of our country. You have demonstrated to the people your power and ability, as an executive peace-maker of Nations & Progressive. They, too, are beginning to realize the spirit in which you move, the platform on which you stand, and the doctorine you preach is for their interest. They know know from the bottom of their hearts, that you have worked and are working for the betterment of our social and governmental conditions. What a future we can see looming up in the far distant, the great beyond. What if our dreams, our hopes, and our realizations would only ripen into growth, to reach the highest superbness of a perfected administration, when the farmer has become the scientiest instead of the igorant toiler of the soil. When the laboring class no longer use their hands as a mode of producing a living, when intelligance shall take the place of ignorance, when we overcome the world bacteria, and find the secret of health through right living. When our National Treasury shall filled to its utmost capacity, and we hear in the far distant the rattle of musketry over the grave poverty. What a glorious and illustrious future. It may not be that we, who now inhabit the Earth may live to enjoy or reap its immense harvest, but we can begin now to4 lay the foundation for those who come after us. But in its present state, we may full well enjoy the fruits and greater opportunities of a modern and progressive Republic. Wishing you a world of success in the fight for humane rights, I have the honor to subscribe myself, Most respectfully, your obident servant. Herman Fox Davis To Hon Theodore Roosevelt New York 1. Little Rock, Ark. June 17th 1912 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-President of U.S. Dear Sir:- I take pleasure to write you a few lines as Ex-President of the United States. As you are the right man in the proper place, for me to inform you of the condition of my old people of sixty-years old and upwards, emancipated and2. turned loose, bare and outdoors after hard tailing for years, now going around bending on crutches, trying to make a living but unable to do so. Now I pray that you will be pleased to urge the government to do something for my old people in a financial way let it be ever so little, & myself was twenty years a slave and3. there are others older than myself, who have put up twice that number of years. We have been obedient to all dictates and mandates of this great government also in the subordinate states in which we live, we cut down the timbers and cleared the land for our owners and yet we are almost as we were before and yet my people, don't refuse4. to come at every beck and call of this government, as soldiers Their old mothers and fathers stand back and say, Go ahead boys and protect the Union and the majority of my people believe that you are the man to aid and assist them along this line, having that uttermost confidence in you, I promised them that I would write you to that effect, please take5. this matter under your consideration this is my second letter to you, I wrote you when you were President and didn't receive an answer. I hope that you will consider this one. You are aspiring for the Presidential-ship and likely to become so and if so we believe that you will do your duty in regards to my old people. Yours on the square Rev. Peter Hatchett 910 Victory St. Little Rock ArkCLARENCE M. DAY, C.P.A. 152 MADISON STREET BROOKLYN, NEW YORK [*11*] June 17th 1912 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt. Dear Sir, I thought possibly the enclosed might strengthen your arm. In every state, the constitution has been put up to me, and I have always won with this slogan: --- The constitution of the U. S. was not intended to be a defense for Public Robbers. --- When any man or corporation uses the constitution to defeat justice he is prostituting our greatest institution. (No answer expected.) Yours truly, Clarence M. Day10. CAZENOVIC NEW YORK June 17th 1912. My dear Mr. Roosevelt It gives me great pleasure to be able to tell you my son, Campbell Edgar, has graduated fairly well from the Naval Academy, & I wish to thank you, with all my heart, for havinggiven him the appointment. he lives the service very dearly, & there is every reason why he would makes a fine officer. I hope to see you again some day, to tell you how much I appreciate what you have done. My thoughts & best wishes are with you - & I am Very sincerely yours Matilda Emory EdgarJune 17th 1912 Mr. Roosevelt Dear Sir: The Ladies Aid Society of the Pequea United Evangelical Church are making a quilt and desire very much to have the names of our Ex President and Family on same at ten. 10cts a name hoping you will aid us in our efforts, and oblige yours Truly Mrs. E.G. Farrer Ledger P. O. [?] Pa[6-17-1212] Bryson Texas June 17th 1912 Ack 7-2-14 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt My dear Sir I want to write you another letter as I am a Col. Roosevelt man. Well Colonel I am now living with my children near Boyson Tex They own a farm they are doing well I am at work on the farm. I am making a good hand. Colonel I have 4 children 3 sons and one daughter my sons are all good farmers my daughter teaches school she gets $60.00 per month I have one son a Progressive Republican. Colonel I see from my Paper that you will commence the campaign July 1stI hope you will be our nominee for our next President as I think out ticket will win. Colonel if you should be elected I want you to give me a good Post Office in Texas. I send you and family my best wishes, and hope my letter will find you well. Colonel Please give me your signature to this letter when you aname I will close my letter this time. Please answer Fraternally yours in F. & A.M. Joe S. Foster Bryson, Texas Box. 107[6-17-12] K Port Me. June 17, 1912. Mrs. Lottie M. Gardiner To Mr Theodore Roosevelt. Dear Sir I am sure you will pardon me for the liberty I am taking in thus addressing you. If you are reinstated you will be obliging to ware a coat of mail and Hemlet for a bullet is awaiting for you. In every great and good cause a humane life payes the forfit - Dear Old Abraham also Mr. McKinley, was offered up as a sacrifice. Well you know those split -2 Railler and the large Kock was not the work of the Engine or a lot of Boyes. keep your Eyes opened for my Father God is in need of just such men as you to keep the down troden and oppresed from being swamped. May my Father Bless yor Soule and Spirit and fill it full of his light and his own Blessed Self. Be careful for the Hungry Wolfes are just as blood thirsty as in days gone by. Signed, S. M. GardinerEUROPEAN PLAN MODERN THROUGHOUT HOTEL JACKSON 125 Rooms 40 with Bath GUSTAFSON & FISCHER, PROPS. CORNER FIFTH AND JACKSON STREETS Sioux City, Iowa, June 17 1912. [*13*] Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt headquarters Chicago Ill. Dear Sir Hope sincerely you may win. I am still with you About eight years ago and before the illness of Mark Hanna I bet a box of cigars that you would be the next President the proposal coming from the Hon. Frank Day of Minnesota even before the opening of the convention. I won of course but I have not smoked yet. I think that was a game bet and the satisfaction it gave me was some. I told Mr. Day that I would trust in providence on the theory that if you are not to be our next President you ought toEUROPEAN PLAN MODERN THROUGHOUT HOTEL JACKSON 125 Rooms 40 with Bath GUSTAFSON & FISCHER, PROPS. CORNER FIFTH AND JACKSON STREETS Sioux City, Iowa, ______________ 191 be. I believe that providence is with us this time also. At any rate there shall be no such martyr as the one two thousand years ago. There wil be no such appeal as "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." Lay on MacDuff and you know the rest. Go to it. Very Respy Yours, D.E. Hasly[*EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT JUNE 19 1912 ACK.___ NO ANS.___ ANS.___ BY___*] June 17th-12- [*7*] [*21*] Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Sir. You will excuse a back number in the Political world for addressing you, but in the Morning Standard, I see that Our Dictator - F. A. Hendricks, has dared to give you the Stoney Stare, at Chicago. In the 1880ties, I used to be something of a Boy. Among our Townsmen, and Francis A. H. wished to dictate to our Town who should be the delegates to the Assembly. Hendricks deligates were for C. C. Cole of Elbridge.- W. C. Burn's had represented Our Dist. In the Assembly one Term, in some manner he had failed to follow Dictator Hendricks orders. and he thought C. C. Cole would follow instructions better. He had two men canvassing Lafayette for Cole. Our People liked Burns, but money was sent here to catch the floaters. They were so confident of success They came To me and said “no use for you to try to get votes for Burns.” I said I was sorry for that2/ but instead of sitting down quietly I just rode the town after dark, and saw those I knew were straight fellows. and when the caucus was held, They nominated their chosen one’s. I put my chosen one’s in opposition, and to their surprise Every Delegate. I had presented to the Caucus was Elected. They were surprised enough, Francis A.H. sent for me at once. I called at the Bank, and he offered me a petty office in the co. and what money I wanted to buy the Deligates. They were both declined, & Burns recieved the nomination. Indirectly I was informed that no office, in Town, County or State, was to ever come to me. I was Supervisor at the time. & his Lieutenants with the aid of money got their revenge $10. was offered one of my comrades if he would vote against me. We had stood shoulder to shoulder when there was more at stake for Our Country. than any office in His gift. He stood firm. Last Time Your Honor was at Syracuse. I was very sorry to have you bunked. with F.A.H. He was only a friend. and is only one. When You follow his dictation He3/ surely has a wonderful hold. on our county. and the Lord only Knows. when he will loose his grip. I hope to live to see Him snubed, as He has snubed others. The reason of His giveing you a declination was. He thinks you the “underdog in the fight.” He nominated Himself as Deligate. To the Chicago convention and sent His ballots to this part of the county. The boys have figured out what Each Republican Ballot cost, in this Dist. for His Election as Deligate. twas over $1.00 each. My wish, and a majority of the Republican Voters here, hope you will secure the nomination. This may go to the waste basket, but I was very warm under the collar. When I read F.A. H's declination to call. but His vote at home, don’t count any more than a scrub. That comes of Our Free Country secured in 1776, and [and] preserved by the Boy’s in Blue in. 61,&,5. Wishing the success you deserve I remain respectfully George L. Hoyt Box “B” Lafayette, N.Y.Nantucket, Mass. June 17th 1912 Col Theodore Roosevelt. Dear Sir I am enclosing a cutting from the "Boston Evening Transcript." What does it mean? is it a letter of the enemy? I still have great belief in you, & in fact so have all my people, who I have won over to yourside. I remain Yrs. Faithfully H. P. SalmonHARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE June 17, 1912 SIR: It is with great regret that I inform you of the death of WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, Emeritus, which occurred on the fifteenth instant, in the eighty-second year of his age. Funeral services will be held at Appleton Chapel on Wednesday, June 19, at 10:30 A.M. Your obedient servant, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL[???]RRISON, CHAIRMAN WALKER STREET HOLMESBURG, PHILA. DAVID T. NEVIN, SECRETARY 9 SOUTH 16TH STREET PHILA., PA. JACOB LANG, TREASURER 2014 N. HOWARD STREET PHILA., PA. TWELFTH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT OF THE American Veterans of Foreign Service COMBINED ENCAMPMENT COMMITTEE General Henry W. Lawton Post, No. 1 Sergeant Hamilton Fish Post, No. 9 General Emerson H. Liucum Post, No. 5 Captain Allyns Capron Post, No. 11 Lieutenant W. R. Shipp Post, No. 28 Cuba, Puerto Rico China and Phillipine Wars 1898 to 1902 HEADQUARTERS: Room 311, 1435 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. Philadelphia, Pa., June 17, 1912 [*21*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- We are holding our 12th Annual Encampment in this city the latter of Aug. 1912, and as we are making arrangements with the five leading Dept. stores for a window display of flags, colors, war relics and photos of men prominent in the late Foreign Wars we would ask that you grant us your permission to use for this purpose photos of yourself in the uniform as worn by you during your period of service, we would appreciate very much if you could furnish us with a sufficient number (5) of photos, and if not kindly inform us where we may obtain them, we stand all expenses. After the window display is over the pictures will be distributed and hung in our diffrent Post Rooms. Awaiting your reply I am Very Respectfully Chas. A. Martin Chairman Sub Committee on Window Display reply to 1921 N. Croskey St. Philadelphia[*16*] South Dayton N.Y. June 17, 1912, Dear Sir I am a boy scout. I like the boy Scouts of America I was reading the book Scout book to night. I am a tender foot now. I am studing for to be a second class scout I have a brother that is a patrol leader of troop number two. I am trying to save my money to get a scout suit. Mr. Barnard is are scout master he is a good one. We have 31 boy scouts now and expectto have more. I went seven years without a name and my father's a strong Republican. So he said he would name me after Theodore Roosevelt. So I am called teddy. I live on a little farm I wished you would get pristedent. If I was big enough I would vote for you. be sure and answered this letter and I will read it in scout meeting. Please ans. soon, From Theodore Orcutt My address is Theodore Orcutt, South Dayton N. Y. R. F. D.PHILLIPS MINE AND MILL SUPPLY CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. June 17th, 1912. S.H. Garland, Esq., Fifth and Peffer Streets, Harrisburg, Pa. Dear Sir:-- I received your letter of May 2nd. You are the President of the H.A.P.A., and was, until a short time ago, President of the Company publishing the MOUNT AND STREAM JOURNAL. when you issued the first copy of your magazine, in which the Game Commission was attacked, mainly through untruthful and scurrilous anonymous letters, I felt it my duty, as one of the commissioners and as a citizen of the State, to reply through the public press, over my own signature, telling the truth and giving the actual facts in regard to the matter. Since then I have been made the target for the abuse of your entire organization, and when an article under the heading - PRACTICES OF TWO MEN - appeared in the MOUNT AND STREAM Journal, accusing my of aspersing my friend Senator Hall, Because he owned a private game preserve, and stating that I had acquired title to a considerable body of wild land in southwestern Pennsylvania, and that I had admitted, during a hearing of the $1.00 Resident Hunters License Law, before the House committee on Game, that the State had paid for birds used to stock my private game preserves, I naturally held you responsible, as the head of these organizations, When I was alleged to have made this statement, there were a number of my friends and enemies present, you among the latter. You know positively that I did not make any such statement, but you now attempt to slip out of the matter by saying "if you did make these remarks I didn't hear them." Under your leadership, your organization and magazine have consistently taken the part of the lawbreaker against law and order and have misrepresented the work of the Game Commission. You now try to shift the responsibility for this, but as one instance I refer you to the MOUNT AND STREAM JOURNAL of October, 1911, page 19, in which you state, over your own signature, that "the State is now paying $280, per day for every day of the year, including Sundays and holidays, for the traveling expenses of wardens and special deputies, attorney fees, etc., not including salaries for game protection." This is not the first time you have published this falsehood, well knowing it to be such, for the purpose of belittling the work of the Game Commission you and I talked this matter over about a year ago, and you are aware that the PHILLIPS MINE & MILL SUPPLY CO. Sheet No. 2 Game Commission receives but $55.07 per day for all of the items you enumerate, even including salaries for game protection. In view of this, your statement cannot be regarded in any other light than that of a falsehood utterred with deliberate intent to mislead and deceive, and comes with rather bad grace from a man who is an avowed applicant for a paid position under the Game Commission. Is it any wonder that your followers, deceived by such statements, have gone to such extremes that even you, as your brother informed me the other day, are trying to get from under before the exposure comes as it surely must. You will note from my letter of March 11th, 1911 that I advised you and your friend, Mr. Werner, that at the next meeting of the Game Commission you would be called before it to substantiate your charges against the Game Protector, who, in the line of his duty had searched Mr. Werner when he caught him shooting at meadowlarks. Our Secretary notified you of the meeting, and I was surprised when you sent an excuse and did not appear. Do you call this sportsmanlike? You say that you can see no real good in a Gunners License Law or the extension of our present Game Preserves, and as a private citizen have the right to oppose them with all the vigor you possess and that the same privilege is mine, the difference, if any, being in your favor, as you hold no public office. I have never questioned your rights to your opinions, but I do to your backing them up with false statements. I am not a politician nor an office holder, but have been appointed,without solicitation, a member of the Board of Game Commissioners by three successive Governors, and serve without remuneration. The whole thing in a nutshell is that because you cannot secure a paid position as a Game Protector or the Secretaryship of the Game Commission you are against the Commission and its work. As to my standing in the way of your personal advancement, I would simply ask if you think you deserve a position under the Game Commission. I am answering your letter, not with the intention of trying to stop the work you think you are doing, as the Game Commission welcomes criticism, friendly or unfriendly, but at the suggestion of my friend, Mr. A.R. Hamilton. Yours truly, (Signed) JOHN M. PHILLIPS. C O P YENCL IN PHILLIPS 2-22-13St. Lous, Mo. June 17, 1912 Hon. Richard Barthold Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: Your favor of the 14th, in which you say, “You have been mislead by T. R.’s screech, without knowing the facts and having heard only one side he rushed into print as he always does and condemned the Committee, whose action in the case of the 9th Alabama district, would in my judgment be upheld by any court of the land. I say this advisedly, after hearing both sides of the case.” In reply to this permit me t say that while the antiquated machinery of the laws governing the Committee, may have made it possible to unseat the Roosevelt delegates, not only in the 9th Alabama district, but in California, Texas and in many other places and yet to an outsider an to one who reads the venomous St. Louis papers, and the Chicago Daily Tribune, it looks as though President Taft had no more right to [draw or steal your salary] have these deligates counted for him than I would to draw or steal your salary. Possibly every court in this land of ours (under the circumstances) would uphold the decision of the Committee, but you know heretofore the courts have not been infallible, although they seem to be omnipotent where the courts make or interpret the laws, which is the only country on the face of the globe where they have that power. In support of my contention it will only be necessary to cite a few cases. Chief Justice Tanny’s decision, the numerous four to five decisions and more recent ones of the Supreme Court “reasonable and unreasonable” to say nothing of many decisions of lesser importance. . You cannot be unmindful of the fact that there are very few men in any age that would be strong enough, mentally or morally to withstand the tremendous power that would be brought to bear upon any court who should attempt to render a decision contrary to what this rule or ruin committee wanted them to do (although injustice to them, it can be said that they are acting on behalf of the reactionery part of the once grand old Republican party). The organized predatory interest of the country and for their beneficiaries. I can appreciate your repugnance to being ruled by a “despot”, that is distasteful to any one, but while you are opposed to this, there are millions of your countrymen who seem to like the kind of despotism which Theodore Roosevelt is the embodiment of. Doubtless Professors: Barnes, Butler and Senators: Lorimer, Penrose, Guggenheim, Aldrich, Ballinger, Cannon, McKinley (all of whom are defenders of the Constitution and believe in their kind of government) are shocked and resolved that the country, once and for all, shall be delivered from the hands of that despot, Theodore Roosevelt, but while they are engaged in that business they are simply destroying the Republican party and helping to elect a Democratic President, which they would rather have than to help to elect Theodore Roosevelt. Third term squeak is about as puerile as anything I know of. Yours, truly, R. M. PowersEnc in Powers 5-1-16Indianapolis Ind June 17 -1912 On a street car Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Greeting! I see you are on to your job! "Hang on to the willows" justice must rule. and "Truth crushed to earth will rise again, while error dies amid its friends." I cast my vote for you at the primary here, & I believe you will win. I speak for a ticket to your inaugeration next spring. Don't forget me.2 I heard Beveridge's key note speech here when Tomlinson Hall was full. Save him for your cabinet if you can. I would like to see him made Secretary of State. The people want the right to prevail. Be of good courage, & "Be wise as a serpent, but harmless as a dove." Yours with best wishes. A.S. Priest. 1346 W. 27th St. Excuse hurry & pencil please.Wells Fargo & Co Express Forwarders to All Foreign Countries Money Orders Travelers Checks Our Own Service Throughout United States, Mexico, Alaska and the Yukon Money Paid by Telegraph Clyde, Texas, June, 17th/1912/ Coln/Theodore Roosevelt. BOyster Bay? N.Y. [*J*] Dear Sir: While I do not wish to burden you with an unnecessary work or letter writing I am writing you for some information regarding a pension that we have pending in the pension department since 1883 and the records hold the charge of desertion against my Father Wm. Ralph who was volunteer in the 80th. Ills Co. K and that on or about Febry. 1863 he asked for a furlo but same was refused and that he come home with out it and that in May of that year he returned to ranks and the soon he sickened and died and was buried on the line of Kentucky and Tennisee and one Davis a comrade so advised my mother Matilda Ralph also three Owens Brothers who also were comrads wrote my mother that they helped to burry him this letter was lost and the war department has him charged with desertion and this charge bars our claim from being allowed and I [ha] have gone so far as I know what to do and am asking you for some further steps to take in the matter and see if something cannot be done that will enable us to get what we think is justly due us as children. I have been reading after you and your policies and am pursuaded that in this as in governmental matters you will want fair dealings and we think that the statements of all the officers and comrads he served under and with say in their statements which are on file with the war dept. that he was a good soldier and that it was not his intention to be a deserter and that hisWells Fargo & Co Express Forwarders to All Foreign Countries Money Orders Travelers Checks Our Own Service Throughout United States, Mexico, Alaska and the Yukon Money Paid by Telegraph "2" sudden death caused from exposure while serving his country brought about this charge and still stands against his record and with this removed our claim will be full and complete and our claim allowed Our mother was deprived of the affections and care of an affectionate husband and we his children were deprived of the care and protection of a kind and affetionate Father and wrere thrown out upon the mercies of a cold and indifferent world to baffle the trials of life and to make out own living and this too caused from exposure which brought death to our Father while serving his country when most needed and we think that as the law provides for widows and orhphand of soldiers that we too should be allowed this claim with the record showing that his superior officers and comrades all say that they do not think him a deserter as charged but his failure caused by death brought about this charge and hold us bared until we can have same removed and if you can give me any remedy that will lead to the removal of this charge and clear his record we will be under lasting obligations for same - our mother died march 1901 and my sister Melinda RalphNee Farish [are left] myself are left to to face the charge that our Father was or rather stands charged as deserter and we want this removed if it can be done. Knowing that you are familiar with these matters and can give us some light in the waty so we can porcceed farther and see if any thing more can be done I am appealing to your generosity for a reply to which we will be under lasting obligations. Very truly yours, J. E. Ralph Wells Fargo & Co Express Forwarders to All Foreign Countries Money Orders Travelers Checks Our Own Service Throughout United States, Mexico, Alaska and the Yukon Money Paid by Telegraph "3" The claim number is 3c167cas filed in the pension Dept.[*9*] Philadelphia June 17th 1912 Hon Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir While always an admirer of your theory of strenuous work and exercise I would most respectfully call your attention to the fact that it can be overdone and as you are one of our Most Valued Citizens I would kindly ask you to be careful of overexertion today while walking in our most beautiful Faremount Park I saw two young men in the prime of life cutting down a large buttonwood tree I stopped and watched them and asked them to lend me the axe to try my hand I found in a veryShort time I was out of wind and my heart beating at a high rate I am 52 years of age in good health always worked hard and the thought struck me at your age you want to go a little slow and not think you are as good as at (21) pardon my Suggestion from a great admirer of our next President Yours Respectfully Henry Reiner Jr 2323 N. 33rd st. Phila. Pa.Nezperce, Idaho 6/17, 1912. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I was very glad to receive your letter just now this evening. but felt a little disappointed, when I heard likewise this evening, that Mr. Taft had been nominated at Chicago. It is already late in the evening and I can not enquire right now, whether this is really so. To morrow I have to leave early for several days. therefore I write to you this evening. If Taft is nominated, I do not believe in his election. How could it be, if in case of Tafts nomination you would run for the Presidency on an independent ticket? I do not think, you would have a bad chance, for being elected. We live in a most serious period of history, in very complicated and almost desperate conditions. the people are therefore looking for a powerful and resolute and determined leader. They dont care, to which party he belongs. Having come into contact with all kinds of people, I believe that they see in you such a leader, and that they trust you, though of course I have found also many, that do not. I really believe, you have no bad chance at all, even on an independent ticket. For the people stick to a man, in whom they have confidence. They dont care any more about hte party. You will surely not loose courage after you have went thus far. Hoping you consider my humble but well meant suggestion, and wishing you a well deserved success for the common good and welfare of the country and the people, I beg to remain Yours very sincerely To Mr. Theodore Roosevelt A.W. Rompe, Pastor 52 Wall St June 17 1912 Ny [*8*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir:- In view of the awful slander being directed against you at the present time, it may do you good to know that practically every man in this office is with you even to the extent of a new party (and we all read the "Times" and "World" at that). Sincerely yours, Robert J RossCobden Ill 6/17-12 Col. Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: Will drop you a few words asking a favor of you. I have had bad luck the past year, and am asking for help, if you will pleas send me one thousand Dollars ($1000) or if you dont feel like sending that much I will be very thankful to receive any amount you will send me, and I will remember you this fall at election time and do all thats in my power to help you and Please Dear Sir think this over before throwing it in the waste basket as I will be more thanglad to get your help as I am in need of the help Please Sir ans at once many thanks Sir Yours Resp P.S. My address Albert W. Sanders (Union co) Cobden IllBELL SENECA 2595 - J FEDERAL 3790 THOMAS R. SCOTT & COMPANY REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, INVESTMENTS 22 ERIE COUNTY BANK BUILDING BUFFALO, N.Y., June 17th, 1912 Mr. G. D. Wardrop, Assistant Secretary, "The Outlook" 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. My dear Sir:– Your esteemed favor of the 15th inst. received. In reply I beg leave to say that I wrote to Colonel Roosevelt, not only because I am one of his earnest supporters, but because he is an associate member of Chapin Post, #2, G.A.R. with a membership of over 700 veterans, the largest Post in the United States, of which I have the honor of being a member. If you have not thrown my letter in the waste basket, without showing it to Colonel Roosevelt, kindly return it to me with the clipping which was enclosed, and oblige Yours sincerely, Thos. R. Scott [*2*] CAR LOT RECEIVER OF HIGH GRADE FERTILIZER MATERIALS AND STRAWBERRY CRATES. . . . FREIGHT AND } EXPRESS OFFICE } MT. TABOR JOEL P. STEPHENS GROWER AND CAR LOT SHIPPER OF "THE TABOR BRAND" STRAWBERRIES Tabor, N.C., June 17 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt New York Dear Sir: Under separate cover I am sending you some lines I have written for publication — If you desire to publish the lines (Poem) in your paper please write me an expression of the extent of such desire. I have arrived at the conclusions contained in those lines, after years of unprejudiced study of God's word, with the view of ascertaining mans (not some mens) present – past and future relationship to God; and thank God I find the gospel message to be (not what it has been preached to me throug the creeds - doctrins and precepts of men) what it was announced to to be — "glad tidings of great joy, which shall be (in due time) to all people." Yours very Respectfully Joel P. Stephens.WILLIAM L. COLT, PRESIDENT HARRY L. STRATTON, VICE PRESIDENT FRANCIS L. WURZBURG, TREASURER SYDNEY H. VEAL, SECRETARY GENERAL EASTERN DISTRIBUTORS FOR COLE MOTOR CAR CO. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. COLT-STRATTON COMPANY MOTOR CARS 2000 BROADWAY AT 68TH STREET NEW YORK TELEPHONE 6000 COLUMBUS CABLE ADDRESS: COLSTRA COLE June 17, 1912. Mr. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. N. Y. Dear Sir:- A week or so ago I asked your opinion of one of our advertisements, about which there had been considerable discussion in our office. And every morning since I have gone through my mail for your reply, but I haven't found it. So I am going to ask you again to write me what you think of the ad. As I said in my other letter, most of our salesmen contend it approaches the customer from the wrong angle. They say comfort is only a secondary consideration -- that the motor car buyer is chiefly interested in reliability. I don't agree with this. Nowadays, practically every automobile -- except the very cheapest -- is reliable. And as the motor car buyer is therefore virtually assured of reliability, I believe he is looking for comfort. It is a good deal of an imposition, I know, to ask you to "judge between us." But your suggestions and criticisms will certainly be most welcome. Don't you think you could find time to write me today? Very truly yours, Harry L Stratton Vice-President. HLS-PC 1 Enc.Highland Mills Band Highland Mills, N. Y. MUSIC FURNISHED FOR ALL OCCASIONS HOWARD WEYGANT, PRESIDENT H. K. EAMES, SECRETARY CLARENCE TURNER, MANAGER R. D. GROVER, TREASURER EDSON S. MILLER, LEADER June 17th 1912 [*12*] To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir and Friend It is out intentions of holding what might be termed, a home celebration on July 4th next and what we are most in need of is a speaker for the day. Knowing that it would be most impossible for you to visit so small a town, but would you consider it worth the while, to send us a speaker which I know would help your worthy cause and at the same time would be of great assistance to us. We are not in a position to make any financial offer but would gladlyHighland Mills Band Highland Mills, N. Y. MUSIC FURNISHED FOR ALL OCCASIONS HOWARD WEYGANT, PRESIDENT H. K. EAMES, SECRETARY CLARENCE TURNER, MANAGER R. D. GROVER, TREASURER EDSON S. MILLER, LEADER consider any reply you might make Wishing you success in your worthy cause. I am Respt and Sincerely Yours Clarence Turner Highland Mills Orange Co. N.Y.[*4*] Croton Falls N.Y. June 17th 12 Hon Theo. Roosevelt - Dear Sir: - I thought I would write to you and let you know that I have had my U.S. Emblems U.S. Pension and house of representatives and some other papers stolen from me I wish if you could you would look after it a little I hired Storage from a man by the name of Brown I dont know as he has got them butit looks kind of funny Thanking you Kindly I remain Yours Respectfully X Jas WhittneyMurphy. N.C. June 17th 1912 12. Hon. Theodore R. Roosivelt Chicago. Ill. Dear sir: I am now fifty two years old and have voted the Republican ticket all the time. Seeing in all the papers the gross injustice you have been receiving at the Hands of The Machine Bosses has grated in my nerves until I can relieve myself in no other way than to send you and your delegates a word of encouragement. For God's sake hold your own and bring back the Banner. We can win with the other crowd at the Helm we loose. I remain our Servant J.H. Wood.June 17th, 1912 Hon. Arsene P. Pujo, Chairman, House Committee on Banking Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- Everyone is glad to see the good work you are doing in exposing the methods of the so-called "Money Trust" The following story, given to me by one of the department heads in Wanamakers can easily be verified by putting Mr. John Wanamaker or Mr. Ogden on the stand and if published should arouse the country so that any bill desired could be forced through Congress. During the so-called panic of 1907-8 it was rumored throughout the city that John Wanamaker had failed. It was known that Wanamaker was big borrower, that he was putting up large buildings here an in Philadelphia and he was supposed t have been caught short and helped out by the banks. Here is the story!- Wanamkaer was a big borrower. For some time before the crisis the banks had been putting Wanamaker's leans into call paper. The Old Man suspected some game, and converted as much of his real estate, merchandise, etc/, as he could dispose of into cash. The banks to have a proper representative at his New York office, 10.00 A.M. His attorneys and partners were present. Two stenographers took notes of all the questions and answers. He addressed each bank representative in turn about as follows, from memorandums before him:- Q. I owe your bank ------------ Dollars. Ans. Yes. Q. My security is -----------which should be ample. Ans. Yes Mr. Wanamaker, but we must have the money. Q. If I pay you 50% in case and leave all the collateral behind the balance, will you renew? Ans. No Mr. W. we must have all. Q. You will renew no part of it? Ans. No. The same questions were asked of each bank and the same answers given. Mr. Wanamaker then said:- "Gentlemen, you know as well as I do that I am entitled to all I am asking for and that your action forces John Wanamaker to the Wall. I am well aware that Morgan controls Claflin and through them, McCreery O'Neil-Adams and other large concerns and that he expects to add Wanamakers to the tail of his kite but my receivers are ready to step in here and in Philadelphia. I have forty million dollars of dry goods, Etc., that will be put on the market at any old price they will bring and someone will fail besides Wannamaker. And in addition those two stenographers have taken down every question and answer and these are my witnesses. And tomorrow, over my signature an exact transcript of what has occurred here will appear in every newspaper in the United States, showing that the associated banks deliberately conspired to ruin me. If you can stand it, so can I. I will give you fifteen minutes to make up your minds." And John Wanamaker walked out of the office. He returned in fifteen minutes and every bank agreed to give him the renewals he was entitled to. If Theodore Roosevelt had known of this action when the Steel Trust was after T.C. & I. its probable that the investigation that you are making would have begun then. And T.C. & I. and Morse would have been shown up in a different light. You should investigate the connection between the Banks and the Commercial Agencies also. The public are with your provided you do your work thoroughly. Sincerely, A. WELLWISHER.[*[ENCL IN ARNOLD 6-17-12]*] [*[6-17-12]*] [*V*] Commencement Exercises Program of the Twentieth Annual Commencement and Anniversary Exercises of Perkiomen Seminary Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pa. Wednesday, June Twenty-sixth 9:30 A. M. and 2:00 P. M. Nineteen Hundred and Twelve20th Annual Commencement 9.30 A.M. ORATION - "The Scholar"....Howard Seibert Butterweck ESSAY - "Woman in Her New Field," IRMA ANDERS SCHULTZ ORATION - "Conservation of Health," SAMUEL STEINER SHOEMAKER READING - "Night Rum of the 'Overland," MARY SUZANNAH MELCHOIR ORATION - "Modern Municipal Problems," ABRAHAM METZ KULP ESSAY and VALEDICTORY - "Woman in English Literature"..............ESTHER FUNK SCHULTZ COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS HON. EDWIN S. STUART, Philadelphia, Former Governor of Pennsylvania 20th Anniversary Exercises 2.00 P.M. HISTORICAL SKETCH, REV. OSCAR S. KRIEBEL, Principal THE SEMINARY AND THE COMMUNITY REV. OSWIN F. WAAGE, Pennsburg, Pa. THE SEMINARY AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PROF. J. 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INQUIRY DEPT FOR MISSING AND DEAD LETTERS ROOM 14, SECOND FLOOR, POST OFFICE BUILDING 6/17 1912 Mr. Frank Harper c/o Outlook NY NY Inquiry has been made for a letter said to have been mailed by you June 12th 1912 addressed to James E. Maynard 1438 Meridian St Wash DC containing ? which it is reported has not reached its destination. Before this office proceeds further with the investigation, it is requested that the attached form be filled in with the information called for. Please be particular to furnish the date, hour and place of mailing, and promptly return these papers in the enclosed envelope which requires no stamp. Very respectfully, POSTMASTER, New York, N.Y. Please give accurate description of contents; and if books, their titles. N. Y. P. O. PRINT-1-27-11.For Enc see 6-17-12[*[6-17-12]*] The Principal and Faculty of Perkiomen Seminary request the pleasure of your company at the exercises of Commencement Week. Pennsburg, Pa. Rev. O. S. Kriebel, D. D. Principal Perkiomen Seminary Pennsburg, Pa.ENCL IN ARNOLD 6-17-12[*[ca 6-12-12]*] [*[Enc. in Brown 6-17-12]*] [*16.*] CHARLES T. BROWN C. CLOTHIER JONES & CO. 1333 REAL ESTATE TRUST BLDG. PHILADELPHIA, PA. BONDS AND INVESTMENTS[*[ca 6-12-12]*] [*[Enc. in Brown 6-17-12]*] Here's hoping you win on the First Ballott.Enc in Maynard 6-17-12 6-17-12Post Office Department Official Business Penalty for private use to avoid payment of postage, $300, SUPERINTENDENT, INQUIRY DEPARTMENT, NEW YORK POST OFFICE, N.Y.[*56943*] Form 1510. This form should be completed IN DETAIL by the COMPLAINANT AND THE POSTMASTER AND PROMPTLY FORWARDED to CHIEF POST OFFICE INSPECTOR, WASHINGTON, D.C. REPORT ON REGISTERED SPECIAL-DELIVERY, OR ORDINARY MAIL MATTER, DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN. A THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED BY THE SENDER OR ADDRESSEE ONLY: 1. Date of mailing, day of week hour of mailing, or between what hours 2. Post office, county, and State where it was posted. If at a station post office in a large city, give location and name or number of such station. (If in a foreign country, give post office, province, and State.) 3. By whom was the letter or parcel sent? Give exact local or street address. 4. How was it addressed? If addressed to a large city, the street address should be added; if to a foreign country, the post office, providence, and State (or kingdom) must be given, especially in the case of Austria-Hungary, France, German, Greece, Italy, Russia, and Turkey. (Name of addressee.) (Street and number.) (City and State.) 5. If a letter, describe contents with precision. If money, state total amount and denominations of bills. If a money order, draft, or other negotiable paper, give number and particulars of issue. 6. If a parcel, describe each separate article therein, and state actual value. If books or music, give title. 7. What is the nature of the complaint - loss rifling, damage,, delay, wrong delivery, nondelivery or other irregularity? 8. Letter or parcel 9. Was the letter or parcel registered, ordinary, special- delivery, or parcel post? (If registered give number.) 10. Name and permanent address of the person answering these questions and the dater upon which this inquiry or complaint is made. 11. If complaint is made by sender, have you received information from the addressee that the letter or parcel has not been received? 12. What is the exact present address of the addressee? 13. What was weight of letter or parcel? How much postage was paid? Are you sure that the postage was fully prepaid? 14. Did it bear a request to return if not delivered? If so, state number of days mentioned 15. Was it deposited in the post office, or in a street letter box, or handed to a postal employee? If deposited in a box, give location; if handed to a clerk or carrier, so state. 16. If the letter or parcel was deposited in the mails by some one other than the sender, state by whom 17. If the complaint is of rifling, damage, or delay, submit the envelope or wrapper or state what disposition has been made of it 18. To whom should the matter or its value be delivered if recovered? 19. Has previous inquiry or complaint been made on this subject? If so, on what date and to whom? THIS AFFIDAVIT NECESSARY ONLY IN CASES OF LOSS OF MONEY OR VALUABLES, AFFIDAVIT OF PERSON ANSWERING THE ABOVE QUESTIONS. This affidavit may be executed before a postmaster, assistant postmaster, superintendent of a division of a post office, branch post office, or station, or a post office inspector, without cost. Subscribed and sworn to before me at........... this............. day of............., 191 (Signature of person administering oath.) (Official title.) (Name of person answering the above questions.) 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The reports under this section by the Railway Mail Service shall be made through the respective Division Superintendents of that service. D REMARKS OR EXPLANATION BY POSTMASTER. (Reporting any special features of the case or request of the complainant not indicated elsewhere; especially as to whether other losses in connection with that reported herein occurred on the same date or other dates; and if so, how many; and if they have been properly reported; also as to how the letter or parcel was delivered, and if by carrier, on what trip. ) Postmaster. Affix here impression of postmarking stamp, or write date or report by postmaster c 5--26946-17-12U 6 [*1*] LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE The Record is not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents. New Party Coming. To the Editor of the Record: Fate certainly follows some men and Col. Theodore Roosevelt, the coming president of the United States, is certainly one of them. It was not so many years ago that Mr. Roosevelt was governor of New York and wished another term. The political bosses of New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Ohio could not handle him and so against his will forced him to run for vice president where he would be out of the way. You all know what happened and the bosses who were trying to destroy had to grin and bear him seven years as president. The bosses from those same states are again trying to rob, ruin and destroy him, but in so doing are just as sure as fate is certain, once more forcing the American people to act. If, by hook and crook, they steal enough votes to defeat his nomination they will by so doing force him as the head of a new progressive party that at least 3,000,000 Democrats are eagerly and anxiously waiting to join and once more those bosses in their efforts to destroy will create instead. The tactics now being pursued at Chicago can easily be followed at Baltimore and unless the growing signs fall the bosses of the same states, Cummings of Connecticut, Murphy of New York, Guffy of Pennsylvania, and Smith of New Jersey, all men turned down at home (with the possible exception of the forked-tongued Cummings) will control the Democratic organization and force some candidates, not the choice of the party, on them. Already, these delegates who told me before they were elected that Speaker Clark was their choice after Baldwin have come out openly for Harmon first and second that agent of the steel trust. Oscar Wilder Underwood or rebeldom, a man who does all in his power to stab down the old soldier who helped defend the Stars and Stripes. A progressive party is needed, it is coming, and that mighty soon whether Crane, Penrose, Barnes & Co. will force Roosevelt as its leader, or Guffy Murphy, Cummings, & Co., will force Bryan we care not, it will get the votes. C.B. MONTGOMERY Packer, Conn. June 17, 1912.CONGRESS HOTEL AND ANNEX N. M. KAUFMAN, PRES. CHICAGO, June 18/12 10:30 pm My dear Colonel: When I walked you to the car with you from the auditorium last night I said just as you jumped in “I hope Col. you’ll go into that convention tomorrow and personally challenge every delegate fraudulently seated.” You said : “I will.” I came back here to write you a line to further impress the necessity of doing so, met Sen Dixon, said the same thing to him but he said he didn’t think you could do that, So I dropped the idea awaiting the result today. I rode down to the convention withMr Harper and said to him that I so hoped you would again take the lead of demanding your rights - the right the people have entrusted you with of getting into the saddle they want you ride. Todays result - so far so good. Many who voted for Root will not vote for Taft’s candidacy and bunches will desert after the first ballot. I have carefully canvassed my city leaders and delegates. They are sick at heart. They admit we can’t win with Taft. I’ll go with any body to every one of them and they’ll reiterate what they have already said before a witness. So I believe you’ll find enthusiastic support if you keep on taking the personal lead wherever and whenever you can in this fight until you win a finish. If the bosses stand in the way of the people of the Rep. party a Progressive Party could be formed by getting Mr. Bryan be your running mate, if such a thing could be accomplished it would sweep the majorities of voters of both parties into one. Sincerely M. J. BloomerDate 6-18-12 Name Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Address Chicago Ill. OFFICE HOURS: 12 to 2, 6 to 7P.M DR. H. GROSBY, 1127 OLIVE STREET, Bell Phone, Olive 662-L. ST. LOUIS, MO. My dear Sir: Why are not the people reminded that you have only been elected but once Yours Truly H. Grosby [*9.*]William H Taft June 18 1912 Washington I deem it my duty to renew and remind you in brief that you don't Observe Obligation as the head servant of america but devote to servility of servitude of a political bonded and bandit it is obvious that you ostentatious entice in vampire and corupt and desolve and conjuror with political cruelty added with criminal rectum or asshole punch's and cock sucker as there so many of our in america you devolve and conjuror your self with low violator you and Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M Lafollette prove to be progressive banded and lower then a dog and lower than ash asshole or rectum that slides on the ground dictum of american call it the snaks asshole that slided on the ground T Roosevelt the nomad and R M Lafollette and you are for the next presidential I protest you and T Roosevelt and R M Lafollette election for president of america on the ground that you as W H Taft and T Roosevelt and R M Lafollette are debauch law violator criminal you and T Roosevelt and R M Lafollette aim to subdue by vanity the [owns?] and ado theamerican folk cause themself by attempt to murder me to conceal the term of six years wrongful impressment I had to serve in 1898 [Colabr?] in 18 that Donovan the addle-pated our criminal seal judge of the municipal court of Dane county Madison Wisconsin sent me to the state Prison to Waupun Wisconsin in 1910 I was in Madison Wis I wrote Letter to you you sent the Letters to James O Davidson to Madison Wis Davidson sent the letters to shaughnessy the chief of police in Madison the chief of police sent notice to me to meet him at station concerning to letters I written to you the chief of police said to me if you don't stop writing letters to Taft I al arrest and put you in jail and put you before a Grand Jury for your insanety I said to chief to arrest me and I wanted to be arrested and apper to Grand Jury concerning the Letters I written to you shaughnessy the addle-pated criminal cur of a vampire don't arrest me and I am writing letters to you yet and chief of police the cur never to the day to arrest me shaughnessy aim was to bluff me but he can't bluff me nor arrest me chief of police can't arrest the shit the dung that I leftin the states that part out of my rectum or asshole as most american call it chief of police would own that I was murder so to conceal the term of six year wrongful impressment chief not the onely one criminal in America that aim for to murder me the present tumult of political banded that strive for the Presidential of America our land and carre to the moral and welfare of civilization none of the [tre?] cur criminal can't perform the duty as a public servant when the service so wanted of them the evade well hypocrisy result the present tumultuous is tumulus of devolve to land and vain vanity the tre that strive for Presidential of America deviate them self to banded and we protest them as public servants of america the tre involve are Robert M. La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt, and William H. Taft Most Truly Mr M H Geschka Montreal CanadaJune 18 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Ray New York The duplicate mclose is the same on I sent to William H Taft most truly Mr M H Esch Kor Montreal CanadaTRANSVALL GOVERNMENT GAME RESERVES, Komatipoort, 18th June 1912 Dear Col: Roosevelt, I have received your letter saying you had received the book, and am pleased you think it interesting. Of course it was a handicap being so far from my publisher, and there are a certain number of minor clerical errors. Many of us in Africa are following your political campaign with intense interest, and it is hardly necessary to say that the heartiest wishes for success from all your African friends follow you in it. I received by last mail your article in The Outlook on Projective Coloration and am at present reading it. You certainly make hash of Messrs Thayer. It is unfortunate that some closet naturalists holding theories which, up to a certain point, are reasonable enough, are apt to become so obsessed by them that they end by rendering themselves and the theory alike ridiculous. Dogma in all things pertaining to natural history is the cardinal sin, and the one that the indoor students are most prone to commit. Though the subject being academic does not stir my own fighting tendencies to the extent that artificially nurtured attacks-on the existence of the game for instance- does, it is still one I am intensely interested in. My experience has led me to discard all prejudices on this as on many other subjects connected with wild fauna. I am sure there is always too great a tendency to discuss such matters from the purely human standpoint. We really know very little as to how far animals are conscious of colour. Indeed we know very little at all from their stand point, or how things appear in their eyes. Savages do not seem to have civilised man's power to recognize the finer gradations of shades and tints. and probably the lower animals are even less gifted in this respect. I have even heard they advanced that man in the paltry few thousands of years during which he has been recognized as a dangerous enemy has affected colouration! It is not his colouration which makes the elephant (as you know) so extremely hard to see sometimes even at close quarters in thick bush, and even supposing that he was diversely coloured, what natural enemy has he got to fear? As a fact all animals in covert while they stand quite motionless are very hard to make out, but when they begin to move, anyone can see them, no matter how they are marked. Though the carnivora, being much more intelligent, can pick up and recognize stationary objects are more quickly than the herbivora, I doubt if they are any of them the equal of man in this respect. Once the habit of observation has been acquired to the extent that it is acquired by Bushemn for instance, reasoning power, plays, I think a larger part than keeness of sight. By sitting perfectly still, underneath, but not behind a small sapling tree, I once succeed in getting a whole troop of Hunting Dogs (most intelligent creatures) to approach to a distance of seven paces in perfect unconsciousness of my presence, and it was only when I at last raised my rifle that they became aware of it.Although wild animals probably rely mainly on scent - the carnivora to detect their prey, and the herbivora to warn them of danger, still sight plays no inconsiderable part. Thought to the felines, a dark windy night is ideal, when, as is more frequently the case, there is no wind at all, they must rely on their superior power of seeing in the dark. I don't think they do nearly so much hunting on moonlight nights as during the other half of the month. They are no doubt conscious that though in the former case they can pick up their game even more readily than on dark nights when there is no breeze, the game [case] can in the moonlight see and avoid them in spite of any sympathetic colouration they (the felines) may be possessed of. I think in the event of their being lucky enough to see their enemy [before] first - and all game have as you know a marvellously keen and true perception when they are discovered-the herbivora would stand quite still, trusting to concealment in the first instance. I doubt if the colouration makes much difference compared with the covert and immobility. I am speaking of course not of the great open plains of East Africa, which are after all quite the exception in Africa, but rather of the more or less forested or long grassed country which covers most of the continent between the tropics. In the open plains I dont see how concealment can play anything more than a very subsidiary part at least when the grass has been burned or has been eaten short. Even in a bush country, Blue Wildebeest like at night to get into open spaces where they can see all round them and so notice any approaching enemy, here concealment plays apparently absolutely no part, and is even deliberately discarded. Zebras, standing still among trees on a bright moonlight night are often extraordinarily difficult for the human eye to distinguish, the white light and the black shadows matching their coats so exactly: but I am sure that the zebras rely on their own senses rather than on a sympathetic background to save them. I take it that those who put protective colouration before all else would have us believe that an animal relies to such an extent on his harmony with surroundings that his senses play a secondary part. If this be the case, nothing could be more misleading. White, as you note, is highly advertising. Some months ago, I was informed of the presence of an albino reedbuck, and, feeling sure that ere long it would fall a victim to some hunter, human or natural, I went after it to obtain it either alive or for our Museum. The very first morning after arrival on the ground, I saw from a small eminence, the animal about a mile off, as clearly defined as a patch of snow, on the greenish brown background. On getting nearer, I found it had several companions, which at the distance had been indistinguishable to the naked eye. That the white colouring under the tails and on the rumps especially of some antelopes which affect covert, may play a part in facilitating "follow my leader" to their mates, especially on moonlight nights, seems likely enough: but there appears no particular reason why any individual animal should have survived and perpetuated his species from the fact of being so marked. An animal with a white rump, would, in a stampede be even more likely to be pulled down than one not so marked, while the latter coming behind him, and taking advantage of the white guiding star, would escape to transmit his lack of marking to another generation. Kudus, running through thick bush, always advertise themselves by their turned up tails, white beneath. Another theory ridden to the point of foundering, by some closet naturalists, is that of subdivision of species. I have ventured a few mild remarks about it in my book, but my opinions on the subject are much stronger than those I have put in print. The zebras in the herd close to where I live, and which I am constantly seeing,3 might according to these gentlemen, be classified into half a dozen sub species of Burchell. The same applies to the Hunting Dogs. I dont know why they have not started on the Waterbuck and the Baboons, which also show often marked dissimilarities, within the same area. They get hold of a single skin of some wild animal, handed to them by a returned sportsman as a curiosity, from its display of some feature or features out of the common, and we find ourselves at once introduced to a new type. One too often picks up books of African sport nowadays in which one finds that the author poses, on the authority of Mr "this" or Professor "that", as the discoverer of some new subspecies of larger mammal. It is amusing, but at the same time rather lamentable that scientific men, for the sake of rivalry or advertisement, should so lose sight of proportion. I am not yet sure whether I am coming to Europe this year or not. I went to the Kalahari in April to try for Gemsbuck and Cape Hartebeest. I got the latter, but was not lucky enough to come across the former in the time at my disposal, so if still in the country I hope to make another attempt about the same time next year. The season has to be chosen with regard to the water supply. The duikers I shot seemed to show an approximation to desert type, in their very much lighter colour compared with those of the east coast. With kind regards, Yours very sincerely, J. Stevenson-Hamilton Where I am inclined to believe that protective colouration or harmony with surroundings may play a not inconsiderable part in the economy of Nature, is in the case of the newly born of ungulates, and also of such ground birds and small creatures which have to fear much of their peril from above, that is to say from the birds of prey, which of course rely entirely on their sharp sight, and with exceptions, hunt by day only. Night Jars squatting by day among bare stones and rocks are nearly invisible. It is of course absurd to carry the hypothesis to the lengths that has been done by some people.Form 2289 B. 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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT Cor Jackson Boulevard and La Salle St. Chicago ALWAYS OPEN Ch) J3 250 N L Cash Ch-Chicago Ill June 18th. '12. The Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Congress Hotel., Chicago 7527 I have now been here five days a contested delegate from second Tennessee District and have had until tonight not more than one or two one minute talks with the managers of your fight. The Second District is one of the very best contests here and I was surprised and disappointed that you did not mention this contest either last night or tonight in your speech. Just after I got here I left a two page memoranda at your headquarters as to our contest to be placed before you and the proof in the case is full and overwhelming. Underlying it is a vinile republican party of twenty five thousand white voters. The territory now in the district has not cast a democratic majority since Andrew Jackson carried it. Your delegats from it come elected ten to one. I have spent four solid months working for you and excepting Maryland second for you the only preferentialForm 2289 B. NIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Night Letters, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission: nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER Sheet 2 RECEIVED AT Cor. Jackson Boulevard and La Salle St. Chicago ALWAYS OPEN Ch - J3 250 N L Ch-Chicago Ill June 18th.'12. [*2527*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Congress Hotel, Chicago Ill. primary held in the south which we carried two thousand to seventy. Now to go home and have a lot of political thieves to throw up to us that our case was so trifling our canidate for president would not mention it among the good cases is disappointing in the extreme. There is no better case in the convention. I am willing to stay here six months for you but I would like to wake you up to the fact that the 2nd & 9th Tennessee cases are real cases in your favor. Jno C Houk 3;26 AM 19th.[*[For enc see Ca 6-2-12, 6-4-12, 6-11=12]*] An utterance reported some time ago in regard to women compelled to pay taxes, I did not understand. A more recent report harmonizes admirably. A woman's vote & a man's vote too, is certainly a Duty to God. May that duty influence all your supporters as I believe it does yourself. With sincere respect I am your humble correspondent J. Lloyd Keating 3 enclos. 18. June 1912. Ariston, New Church Road, Hove, England. Honorable Sir, This copy of a telegram to my august Sovereign & copies of letters addressed to Madam Pankhurst & to Mr. & Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, prisoners for conscience sake, will I think interest you. I take the liberty of sending them because I have so invariably admired your justice as regards racial & other wrongs [*[ack 6-18-12]*] [*6*] Then here is to you Teddy, Good wishes and good will, You're still the peerless leader, That led at Sanjuan Hill. And when you were our president, You won a lasting fame, And every star upon our flag, Will cluster 'round your name. We know you are unfettered, To greed you do not bow, The man who never puts it off, But always does it now. The loyal sons of Utah, Will always for you root, In spite of little Artie The bunch and Mr. Smoot, The rank and file, their hats are off. They know you are the man, They recognize in you today, The first American. With Compliments of MULLETT - KELLY COMPANY and EMPLOYEES, Salt Lake City, Utah E.W. KELLY, Pres.-- A.H. Rauhof, Tres. & Mgr.EXECUTIVE BOARD MISS ALICE LAKEY, Chairman, Cranford, N. J. MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY MRS. CHARLES E. H. PHILLIPS LOUISE C. PURINGTON, M. D. MRS. GARDNER RAYMOND JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS LOUIS L. SEAMAN, M. D. IRA S. WILE, M. D. Treasurer, JOHN MARTIN National Consumers' League Food Committee Office: 106 East 19th Street, New York City Telephone, 6460 Gramercy ADVISORY BOARD HARVEY W. WILEY, M. D., Ph. D., Washington. Samuel Hopkins Adams, New York. R. M. Allen, state Food Dep't. Ky. W. M. Allen, State Food Dep't. N. C. Lewis B. Allyn, Chemist, Mass. H. E. Barnard, Food Commissioner, Ind. Lucius P. Brown, Food Commissioner, Tenn. H. Holbrook Curtis, M. D., N. Y. Raymond B. Fosdick, Com'r. of Acct's, N. Y. Richard Fischer, State Chemist, Wis. R. B. Fitz-Randolph, New Jersey. James Foust, Food Commissioner, Penn. Geo. W. Goler, M. D., Rochester, N. Y. Norman Hapgood, New York City. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, New York City. Julius Hortvet, State Chemist, Minn. Chas. D. Howard, State Chemist, N. H. H. Louis Jackson, State Analyst, Kansas. B. W. Kilgore, State Chemist, N. C. E. F. Ladd, Food Commissioner, N. D. Charles D. Lakey, N. J. Albert Leffingwell, M. D., Aurora, N. Y. Daniel R. Lucas, M. D., New York. Charles E. North, M. D., N. Y. Jas. L. Perkins, M. D., N. J. R. A. Pearson, N. Y. Charles A. L. Reed, M. D., Am. Med. Ass'n., O. R. E. Rose, State Chemist, Florida. Henry Enos Tuley, M. D., Ky. Irving A. Watson, M. D., N. H. Henry A. Weber, Chemist, Ohio. Charles D. Woods, Director Exp. Sta., Me. Melvin Village, Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. June 18, 12 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir:- The day before I left Cranford for this our summer home I sent you a letter of which I now enclose a copy. As I have received no reply to the letter, which is one of the utmost importance to our committee and fraught with tremendous meaning to our Nation itself, I ask you if you will allow us to have a reply from you? Coming at this juncture when great issues are at stake a reply from you will have greater meaning than at previous time, not even excepting the time when you were at the head of this Nation. May we hear from you? I have the honor to remain, Sincerely yours, Alice Lakey Chairman, Food Committee, National Consumers' League.Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America E.B. SANFORD, D.D. Corresponding Secretary REV. CHARLES S. MACFARLAND, PH.D. Acting Executive Secretary of the Council and Secretary of the Social Service Commission BISHOP E. R. HENDRIX, D.D. President RIVINGTON D. LORD, D.D. Recording Secretary ALFRED R. KIMBALL Treasurer HUGH B. MACCAULEY, D.D. 216 Y.M.C.A. Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Secretary of the Eastern District CHARLES E. BACON, D.D. 920 Association Building, Chicago, Ill. Secretary of the Central District REV. G. FREDERICK WELLS Assistant to the Executive Secretary NATIONAL OFFICE 1611 CLARENDON BUILDING 215 FOURTH AVENUE (at 18th Street) TELEPHONE STUYVESANT 2321 Executive Committee Wm. H. Roberts, D.D. Chairman Frank Mason North, D.D. Vice-Chairman Baptists Churches, North W. D. Bitting, D.D. John B. Calvert, D.D. Howard B. Grose, D.D. Mr. Henry Kirke Porter National Baptist Convention G. L. Davis, D.D. M. W. Gilbert, D.D. A. Gordon, D.D. J.C. Jackson, D.D. A. R. Robinson, D.D. Free Baptist Alfred W. Anthony, D.D. Christian Church Martyn Summerbell, D.D. Congregational Churches Hubert C. Herring, D.D. Wm. Hayes Ward, D.D. Congregational Methodist Churches Rev. J. Baker Steward Disciples of Christ Rev. Levi G. Batman Prof. Herbert Martin, Ph.D. Peter Ainslie, D.D. German Ev. Synod of North America Adolf Schmidt, Ph.D. Evangelical Association Bishop S. C. Breyfogel, D.D. Lutheran Church Geo. U. Wenner, D.D. Mennonite Church Rev. A. S. Shelly Methodist Episcopal Church C. M. Boswell, D.D. Bishop Earl Cranston, D.D. Mr. Hanford Crawford John F. Goucher, D.D. Wm. I. Haven, D.D. Bishop W. F. McDowell, D.D. Frank Mason North, D.D. Methodist Episcopal Church, South E. H. Pearce, D.D. Mr. Arthur B. Pugh George B. Winton, D.D. African M. E. Church Bishop W. B. Derrick, D.D. John Hurst, D.D. African M. E. Zion Church Bishop George W. Clinton, D.D. Bishop Alexander Walters, D.D. Colored M. E. Church in America Bishop L. H. Holsey, D.D. Methodist Protestant Church F. T. Tagg, D.D. Primitive Methodist Church Rev. John Bath Moravian Church Rt. Rev. Morris W. Leibert, D.D. Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Wm. McKibbin, D.D. S. J. Niccolls, D.D. Mr. Louis H Severance John Balcom Shaw, D.D. Protestant Episcopal Church Commission on Christian Unity Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, D.D. Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D.D. Reformed Church in America P. H. Milliken, D.D. Reformed Church in the U. S. Rufus W. Miller, D.D. Reformed Episcopal Church Bishop Robert L. Rudolph, D.D. Reformed Presbyterian Church James Y. Boice, D.D. Seventh Day Baptist A. E. Main, D.D. Society of Friends Mr. James Wood United Brethren Church Bishop Geo. M. Mathews, D.D. United Evangelical Church Bishop H. B. Harteler, D.D. United Presbyterian Church J. C. Scouller, D.D. Welsh Presbyterian Church Rev. H. C. Griffith NEW YORK June 18th, 1912. [*K*] [*LBT 7/3/12*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Since I last wrote you, a multitude of opportunities have opened up which could only have been met by united action on the part of the Churches of the Nation, and I enclose a little leaflet which gives a few suggestions of the matters in hand. May I ask you to go through it carefully to get some grasp of the significance of this work. When you come to think of it, is it not a hopeful sign that these thirty-two denominations have been held together in Christian Unity, so that when the Second Quadrennial convenes at Chicago in December, the Council comes up with unbroken ranks. The denominational apportionments have been met by all the denominations, but these amount to less than half the running expenses. It was understood that we should seek the balance from men and women who see the importance of that unity of spirit and action of which this is the only actual, practical and effective expression at the present moment. Owing the insistent demands made upon the Council, it was obliged this year to launch a program far beyond the present resources.-2- Will you take a moment and look late the enclosed leaflet. Read between the lines and notice the matters which the Council now has under way. Since this Bulletin was printed a number of important opportunities have opened up to us. Under another cover you will receive the Men and Religion Conservation Program and if you desire that we should send you more literature indicating of the work I shall be pleased to do so. I feel sure that any assistance you ma give us will be a wise investment. Everything depends now on bringing a united Protestantism together at the Second Quadrennial in December. If we receive adequate support up to that time I believe the representatives of the churches of the Nation will plan for a large future in the interest of Christian Unity. Your immediate reply will be gratefully appreciated by, Sincerely yours, Charles S. Macfarland Secretary.30 Falmouth St., Boston, Mass, June 18, 1912. To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Ill. Dear and Hon. Sir: I am preparing an article on the Masonic apron, in which I am describing some of the most interesting ancient and modern Masonic Lambskins. This subject is a barren one and I am obligrd to go to original sources. I take the liberty to ask if you have a photograph of one of your Masonic aprons, would you send it to me and allow me to use the same in this connection. Enclosed find a portion of my article. This article will probably be published in the New England Craftsman, a Masonic magazine and will later be reprinted by the Viscol Company of E. Cambridge, Mass., who manufacture a dry cleaning compound for Masonic aprons. They will distribute the reprints to the officers of the Blue Lodges throughout the country. I hope you will find occasion to furnish me a photograph of one of your aprons, and wish to remain, Your constant admirer, F. Walter Marshall P.S. I am obliged to take this inopportune time to request such favor: because I am preparing my copy as quickly as possible for the publisher. Good Luck at Chicago F. W. M.W.S. SCARBOROUGH PRESIDENT C. C. JENKINS SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT Wilberforce University Executive Office Wilberforce, Ohio. June 18, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, L.L.D., Ex. and Next Present of U. S. A., Chicago, Ill. Dear President Roosevelt:- On yesterday, I sent you a Special Delivery. To-day I send you another letter. While I am much engaged in Trustee, Board and Seminary Board work here, in the 49th. Commencement of Wilberforce University, I am completely impelled to give expression to the deeps of my soul with reference to the great cause of progressive Americanism, in the best sense of the term- in the sense, simon purely, as represented by you, the most progressive manifestly so-son of the home of the free and the land of the brave, and vice versa practically and positively and permanently. I am impelled to call your attention to a few Bible references that come to me this a.m. with references to you, Mr. President, when in prayerful meditations and consideration of your meritorious measures on this day in Chicago. You will please read the following instanter: Psa. 91st, and 121st.; Josh. 1: 6-9, Isaiah 41:8-16.; 42:1, 45 1-7:, 44: 1-8, 45:1-6., 58:1-2, 60: 1-2,;W.S. SCARBOROUGH PRESIDENT C.C. JENKINS SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT Wilberforce University Executive Office Wilberforce, Ohio. I write, Isaiah 61st heard the record to which soul witnesses, "Nuno et semper et amen." Yours for practical progressiveness per se, in our civic cosmos D.S. Moten Associate Editor Allen Christain Endeavor, Dean of Theology, Paul Quinn College, Waco, Texas[*31.*] Sat. June 18h 351 SEVENTH AVENUE Dear Mr Roosevelt As I told Mr Merritt yesterday, Iam very anxious to be of what assistance Imay, in this district. In the old county of Queens, I was onthe Democratic side, but am taking a strictly non-partisan view of the coming election. Sincerely W. H. Neilson Voss.R. LEE PARKER, PRESIDENT PHILIP HESS, SEC'Y AND TREAS. Natchez Dressed Beef Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND SAUSAGE DRESSED POULTRY COLD STORAGE 112-114 NORTH COMMERCE STREET MARKET SALLS NOS. 4-6 NATCHEZ, MISS. TELEPHONES 600-131 UNITED STATES INSPECTED AND PASSED UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 30, 1906. STOCK FARMS WISNER, LA., AND YUCATAN, CLAIRBORNE COUNTY, MISS. HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR STOCK Natchez, Miss., June 18, 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Chicago, Ill [*6.*] "Our Next President" Enclosed please fine crippling from our local paper "The Daily Democrat" which favors "Mr. Taft". This Burhead Cook in question simply amounts to nothing. If the story was told or anything relative to it only done to mislead & hush your cause. I really think a great many Rep in our state oppose you Especially those holding positions. But when it comes to a popular vote Mississippi will show a great increase in the Rep. Ranks. I know of lots & lots of Dem. who will Vote for you Cook lives in Natchez is simply a 2x4 Negro Burhead preacher and is no Influencer Whatever. I do not write you this to Curry favor only want you to know the true facts Regretting to trouble you while things are at fever heat - Believe me your ardent admirer R. Lee ParkerJ.C. Pritchard, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judge's Chambers, U.S Circuit Court of Appeals, Forth Circuit Asheville, N.C. June 18, '12 My Dear Sir:- I have yours of recent date enclosing a letter from Mr. Vanderbilt and in reply beg to say that I have this day written him somewhat at length in regard to the matter to which he refers. While I opposed the amendment to the Constitution of North Carolina at the time it was proposed, and until the time was reached when it applied to white and colored alike, yet, now, that it applies to all races alike, there is very little opposition to it on the part of the people of this State. The better element of the colored people who are able to read and write are permitted to vote. And in this connection,I will say that the majority of them vote the democratic ticket. The white people are gradually leaving the Democrats and joining our ranks. In the Eastern section of the state the democrats do everything they can to secure the negro vote. I have longed for a number of years to see this condition of affairs prevail, feeling as I did that it would do more than anything else to relieve the odium that attaches to the republicans on account of the negroes voting solidly with that party. Whenever I can serve you in any way, please command me. Sincerely yours, J. C. Pritchard Frank Harper, Esq. c/o Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y. P/D-June 18, 1912 Mr. E. W. Vanderbilt, #126 Liberty Street, New York City, N. Y DearxSira:- Yours of recent date to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt relative to the suffrage clause of our Constitution has been referred to me. Un reply I bed to say that in the year of 1900 as I now remember, our Constitution was, by vote of the people, amended to read as follows:- "Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language and before he shall be entitled to vote, he shall have paid, on or before the First day of May, of the year in which he proposes to vote, his poll tax for the previous year as prescribed by article V, Section 1 of the Constitution. But no male person who was on January 1, 1867, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any State in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such person shall be denied the right to register and voter at any election in this state by reason of his failure to possess any of the educational qualities herein prescribed: Provided he shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this section prior to December First, 1908. The General Assembly shall provide for the registration of all persons entitled to vote without the educational qualifications herein prescribed, and shall, on or before November 1st / 1908, provide for the permanent record of such registration, and all persons so registered shall forever thereafter, have the right to vote in all elections by the people in this state, unless disqualified under Section 2 of this Article: provided such person shall have paid his poll tax as above required." At the time this Amendment to the Constitution was submitted to the people, I opposed it upon the ground that at that time it contained a provision which discriminated against the colored race, and especially those who had been in a state of servitude prior to the year 1867. It was also provided that the discrimination should be in favor of those whose shoestorn would vote on or before the -----day of 1867, but this provision was only effective until December 1, 1868. At that time I took the position before the people that this clause rendered the amendment unconstitutional, but no suit was instituted during the time that the clause in question remained in force. Now that the amendment applies to all races alike without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude, there seems to be a general understanding between all parties in the state that it would be useless to make an attempt to change our organic law as it now stands as respects this question.-2- Apropos your reference is to the Penalty Clause, I beg to say that the matter is unadjudicated as yet, and may [b]comebefore me some time for decision, therefore, it would be highly improper for me to express an opinion one way or the other as respects the same. Trusting that this information may be of service to you and with best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Signed J. C. Pritchard.LOS ANGELES, CAL. June 18-1912 12 M Hon Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Sir I congratulate you in advance, of naming, - as Candidate, Hiram Johnson- and Francis J. Heney - as President and Vice President. I am Natures simple letter innocent element, alive child J.H. Godd 1711 Scott Ave.-OFFICE OF- M. H. SEVIS & SON Manufacturers of Fine and Domestic Cigars Orders Promptly Filled Any Brands Made to Order Springvale, Pa., June 18, 1912 Theo. Roosevelt New York N.Y. Dear Sir the Citizens of Springvale, Pa. have pledged themselves, By the help of God and the general Public, that they would strain there efforts, to build an Ev. Church, not to exceed ($3000.00) for the benefit of all concerned in this great work, and the religious training of their young generation. Our Congregation is small and we are compelled to ask the Public for their Support in this great and important work, Any contribution you feel inclined to give will be greatly appreciated by the building committee upon whose shoulders this work hangs. It is always more blessed to give then to receive. Thanking you very much for your consideration of their work. We beg to remain, Yours very truly Rev. J. H. Funer J. H. Lamotte M. H. Sevir Nathaniel Faulk H. G. Barnhart W. H. KyleDAY LETTER Form 2589 B THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Day Letter. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Day Letters, most at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED DAY LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. [*8 15 P*] THEO N. VAIL, PRESIDENT. BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER ------------- RECEIVED AT Oyster Bay 6/14/2 2y me 212 Blue Rush Johnson City Tenn 14 Hon Theo Roosevelt [*ns.*] First district Tennessee 5 to 1 for you ask National Committee why they unseated first district Tennessee regular delegation it is outrageous Edgar Wallin[*[6-18-12]*] Sonnet to Theodore Roosevelt I her a mighty people asking now Who next shall be their captain and their chief. Amidst their towers a Man, as Teneriff Towers from the ocean, and that Man art thou- Thou of the shaggy and the craggy brow. the day of fate comes on; the time is brief; Round the great ship is many a lurking reef; And wouldst thou drive once more that giant prow? Perhaps thous shalt and must! But if the choice Fall on a lower voyager, thou shalt still Be what thou art, thy nation's living voice Wherewith she speaks in thunder. Nay thou art more; Thou art her fiery pulse, her conquering will; Thou art America, Dauntless Theodore. William Watson June 18, 1912Mr. Frank Harper [or Governor Post] Confirming my telegram Chicago, 1[7]8th June, 1912 This should not wait A [long] patriotic note for the [Permanent Organization] Convention. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- I wish to tender, [from] through the Taft side, to the [Permanent Organization] Convention my Flag of Peace, which the President has twice recommended o the War Dept. in the three years during which it has been exploited throughout the United States. I will present a twenty foot banner from the people of our 48 states with a few fervently patriotic words reminding the greatest political convention the world has ever seen that many millions of earnest, patriotic citizens are sitting in judgment on every word and act of their deliberations. In tendering this flag I would demand on behalf of the people a peace plank in the platform, which President Taft is supposed to favor [more than your] as much as yourself. Whether this demand is acceded to or not, it will give a patriotic note which you can adopt and use to excellent advantage when nominated. It will give me political publicity also and, after all I have done for peach through American patriotism, should put me in line for the Nobel Peace prize. As no American but yourself has ever received this worldwide honor it would give me a wonderful prestige in the eyes of the people and multiply the influence and value of my proposed campaign by at least one hundred.The first step in the most brilliant patriotic campaign in the history of the country should be taken now. I [can] will have the large flag ready [for the Permanent Convention] at ten Wednesday A.M. I would like your approval before going to Mr. McKinley, through my cousin, Chas. E. Hatfield, the Republican Manager for Massachusetts. I am [leaving] sending a copy of this letter [with] to Senator Dixon also. The other matters - moving pictures with Sousa's music, the Story-Lives of Lincoln and Roosevelt, etc. can wait till you are nominated, as you kindly intimated, by Mr. Harper. Very respectfully and cordially Wayne Whipple Colonel Theodore Roosevelt I will call on Mr Harper in the morning -- (19th)POSTAL TELEGRAPH - COMMERCIAL CABLES CLARENCE H. MACKAY President TELEGRAM RECEIVED AT AUDITORIUM HOTEL. The Postal Telegraph Cable Company Incorporated transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. DESIGN PATENT NO. 40829 91 CH. M. 25. St-Louis MO. June 18-12 Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Congress and Annex CHICAGO Gov. Francis Wired at ten this morning that in his judgment you had the Nomination and He would not be surprised if it happened to-day.... Ira. E. Wig[g]ht 1245PM/J.A. Zahn Stocks and Bonds TEL MAIN 3106 PENOBSCOT BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN June 18, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- I have some stock for sale in a recently organized Detroit manufacturing company which offers an exceptional opportunity for investment. The company owns outright United States patent covering a machine that saves manufacturers its cost in ninety days in labor alone, and attains an accuracy and perfection utterly impossible by hand. There is a waiting market in every manufacturing city of the country. This offers an opportunity for you to become interested in an industry at just the right time for safety, and at the same time be assured of large profits. This proposition is worthy your careful investigation. Full information will be furnished upon request. I am, Yours truly, J.A. Zahn Hope you will winn this week.; Zahn[Attached to Mowbray] 6-18-12]*] [*[Ca 6-18-12]*] U. S. Registe[red] [mails] go [to] every post office [in] [t]he world. Letters and parcels may be registered at any post office or at any post-office station, and by rural carriers throughout their routes. Letters will be registered by letter carriers in the residential districts of cities. Letter } Parcel } No. _____ June 18, 1912 P.O., New York, N.Y. Madison Square Station. Received for registration 47695, 191__ , from_______ Ohio [?] 2872 addressed to E H Hooker Chicago, Ill 1 class postage prepaid Postmaster, per [?] [*MADISON SQUARE [?] N. Y.*] REGISTRY RETURN RECEIPT. [*T. R.*] Form 1548. [Received] from the postmaster registered article, the original number of which, appears on the reverse side of this card. Date of delivery (To be filled in by person signing receipt.) _________, 19___ 16108 When delivery is made to an } agent of the addressee, both } addressee's name and agent's } signature must appear in this } recei[pt] } Elon H Hooker Esq. (Signature or name of addressee.) [?] [?] (Signature of addressee's agent.) A registered article must not be delivered to anyone but the addressee or the person in whose care it is addressed, except upon addressee's written order or a written order from the sender transmitted by the mailing postmaster and duly verified. When the above receipt has been properly signed, it must be postmarked with the name of delivering office and actual date of delivery and mailed to its address, without envelope or postage.Post Office Department OFFICIAL BUSINESS Original Reg. No. 769 Chicago Jun 19 4-00PM 1912 New York, New York.[*ack 6-25-12*] CLEVELAND NEWTON D. BAKER, MAYOR W. J. MURPHY, SECRETARY June 19, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Ill. My dear Sir: The House of Representatives early in May passed a bill providing for the coinage of three cent pieces. A complement of this bill is now pending before the Senate Committee on Finance. That there is an imperative need for such a coin throughout the country is attested by the multitude of endorsements and requests that poured into the House during the pendency of the bill before that body. In order that the measure may come to a successful culmination, it is necessary that the attention of the Senate be called in the same manner to the bill. Will you, therefore, permit the use of your name, in company with other public-spirited men and women of the nation, in a memorial addressed to the Senate, and will you use your good offices in any manner that seems practicable to you with the following members of the Finance Committee: Hons. Boies Penrose (Chairman), S. M. Cullen, P. J. McCumber, J. H. Gallinger, W. B. Heyburn, J. W. Bailey, W. J. Stone, J. W. Kern, H. C. Lodge, Reed Smoot, C. D. Clark, R. M.. LaFollette, F. M. Simmons, J. S. Williams and C. F. Johnson. The argument of the memorial, for which I ask your endorsement, will read substantially as follows: "The chief advantages of such a coin impress us as being these: First: A three cent piece will be of incalcuable immediate advantage to the communities wherein prices, fares, etc., of various commodities and services are on a three cent basis, or a multiple thereof, e.g. three cent fare in Cleveland, Toledo, and elsewhere on street railways, three cent articles on bills of fare, three cent amusements, etc. Second: A three cent piece will provide a smaller medium with which to purchase hundreds of articles which are now arbitrarily sold for a nickel for want of a smaller coin, thus establishing a juster and more rational relation between value and price. Third: A three cent piece will enable he masses to purchase commodities in smaller quantities, as in European countries, thus encouraging economical buying. There is no valid substantial objection to the coinage of a three cent piece. On the other hand, the advantages to be gained are many and substantial, and we believe a careful consideration of them will win your confidence and the approval and endorsement of the bill." Hoping to have your co-operation and support, I beg to remain, Very truly yours, Newton D. Baker Mayor.Room 1648, The Congress Hotel and Annex, Chicago, June 19, 1912. Dear Colonel: I am sending you an important recommendation for the platform which you are expected to write or approve if you are nominated. You well know how you were responsible for inaugurating a new Pan American movement by sending Mr. Root around South America and by backing me up in my reorganization of the Pan American Union. I need hardly add that its work and scope has grown tremendously as a result of that start which you gave the cause, and today our trade with our sister republics is developing enormously. The importance of promoting closer relations of commerce and friendship with our twenty sister Latin American republics is so evident that it should have at least a brief reference in the platform. It will also gratify the Latin American countries and their representatives, several of whom are in attendance at the Convention, if there is a word also about the Pan American Union as an international organization, in the welfare of which they have the deepest concern. With sincerest best wishes, I remain, Yours very cordially, John Barnett Pan American Union Colonel Theodore Roosevelt The Congress Hotel and Annex. CHICAGO.For enc see 6-19-12THE CHICAGO HERD MUST LEAD THE WORLD LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE OFFICE OF HARRY G. BARTRUFF DEPUTY SUPREME ORGANIZER TELEPHONES: RANDOLPH 2705 AUTOMATIC 67-168 CHICAGO OFFICE: 1334 MARQUETTE BLDG. DEARBORN AND ADAMS STS. SUPREME ORGANIZER JAMES J. DAVIS PITTSBURGH, PA. SUPREME DICTATOR ARTHUR H. JONES INDIANAPOLIS, IND. SUPREME SECRETARY RODNEY H. BRANDON ANDERSON. IND. SUPREME TREASURER D. F. CRAWFORD PITTSBURGH, PA. SUPREME COUNCIL M. M. GARLAND PITTSBURGH. HY, D. DAVIS CLEVELAND, OHIO. JOHN B. PRICE CHICAGO. ILL. CURTIS H. GREGG GREENSBURGH, PA. J. G. ARMSTRONG PITTSBURGH, PA. LOYAL MOOSE IN THE UNITED STATES MAY 1, 1912 384,000 SUBORDINATE LODGES 1.005 Write or call at this office for full particulars regarding the ONE progressives order that is now attracting the attention of THE WORLD. June 19, 1912. Honored Sir and Brother:- The Chicago lodges of our order have chartered the S.S. Theodore Roosevelt for a moonlight lake excursion tomorrow, Thursday Evening, and by unanimous vote extend to you and your friends a most cordial invitation to accompany us. Realizing that the strenuous battle you are waging for the right, may preclude the possibility of your being with us, will you not dictate a word of cheer to the thousands of loyal brothers and citizens who will gratefully appreciate this brotherly courtesy from so distinguished a member of our progressive fraternity. With the sincerest wishes for your ultimate success in the convention today and our firm belief in the unquestioned outcome, we beg to remain honored sir and brother yours in P.A & P. The Chicago Lodges L.O.O.M. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, City. Harry G. Bartruff Dep. Sup. Org.THOMAS H. FULTON TEL. RANDOLPH 5272 HENRY W. LANGE THE FULTON-LANGE AGENCY EMPLOYMENT EXPERTS Office, Sales and Technical Help 29 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET SUITE 554-5-6 NATIONAL LIFE BUILDING OFFICE HOURS FROM 8 A.M. TO 6:30 P.M. CHICAGO, ILL., June 19, 1912 [[shorthand]] To The Honorable, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:- Mr. Alfred O. Girard, who at one time was in charge of your personal body guard while you were in Chicago and who also served under you in the Spanish-American War, has given us your name as a reference. As the agents of one of the largest corporations of this city, we are investigating Mr. Girard's record with the object in view of placing him in charge of their foreign or American business as Chief Sales Engineer. In this position Mr. Girard will close contracts from $500,000.00 to $2,000.000.00 or more. This necessitates a careful investigation upon our part in order that we may be absolutely certain as to his integrity, character and record. Your endorsement of Mr. Girard will carry great weight for him in securing this position. Hoping that we may hear from you at your convenience, we beg to remain Most respectfully yours, THE FULTON-LANGE AGENCY By H.M. BowmanTelephone Douglas 673. Hotel Warner European Cottage Grove Ave and 33rd St. WARNER HOTEL CO. Proprietors FRANK LEDERER Manager 320 OUTSIDE ROOMS 242 PRIVATE ROOMS ROOMS WITH PRIVATE BATHS $100 PER DAY AND UPWARD SPECIAL WEEKLY AND PERMANENT RATES EXCELLENT CAFE FIRE PROOF Chicago, 6/19 -12 Mr. Theodore Roosefelt Chicago Ill Dear Mr. Roosefelt. Enclosed please find a card of 6 real boys who came all the way from Iowa too cheer for Teddy.” They were greatly dissapputed not being able to get in It breaks them all up. Could you arrange to meet the lads for just ½ minute Thanking you in advance, I remain Yours sincerely, Edgar W Casperson of Burlington Iowa Address. Hotel WarnerFor 1 enc see card of Carpensa ca 6-19-12HEADQUARTERS Italian Volunteers of America (MUTUAL AID) 280 [316] MOTT STREET NEW YORK, June 19th 1912 Hon. Col. Roosevelt Oyster Bay L.I. My Dear Sir I have the honor to Inform you that the Italian Volunteers of America We are in the Ring Strong for you. I personally know that no better President than you understands our Worthy Citizenship of our Nation Wishing you a great sweeping on Election day as President of this Country that we ever had before. and all the people will enjoy Prosperity under you I remain faithfully yours Constituents Dominick T. Cavello 95 Huntington St. Brooklyn NY. President of Italian Volunteers of AmericaSERRURERIE EN TOUS GENRES P. CHESNEAU BÉCON (Maine-et-Loire) Bécon, le 19 Juin 1912 Monsieur Roosevelt, Je n'ai pas l'honneur de vous connaître autrement que par le voie des journaux mais cependant je vous envoie ce pli pour vous supplier de me venir en aide: On vous dit généreus et très riche. Nous sommes bien loin d'être riches car depuis quelque aimées les maladies nous ont accablés et de plus j'ai le malheur d'avoir un mari qui a trop aimé boire maintenant il ne boit presque plus mais il n'en a pas toujours été ainsi ce qui fait que nous sommes endellés de plus de 2 mille francs et 1 [an?] [???oir] de pouvoir les prendre le dessus Oh, Monsieur, je vous en prie ayer pitié de moi je vais tout joier le bon Dieu pour vous n'est il pas le maître de nos destinées. Je vais le supplier de vous accorder celle présidence des Etats-Unis et de vous donner le bonheur sur celle pour pour vous et votre famile. Si, comme j'ai bien de le croire ma lettre est lue per votre sécrétaire, je bous en prie, Monsieur qui la lirez ne la [put] pas au feu avant d'en faire part à M. Roosevelt car on lit dit si bon si charitable qu'il me viendrait peut-être en aide. Faites-cela, Monsieur, et Dieu vous bénira pour le bien que vous pouviez me procurer. Daignez agreér, Monsiur, l'expression de ma haute considération L. Chesneau Voici mon adresse: Mme Chesneau serrurerie à Bécon Marne et Loire FranceTELEPHONE, 2705 MONROE J.T. Cowles & Company MANUFACTURERS OF Fire Escapes to Fit & Fire Protection that Protects THE COWLES SELF-ADJUSTING COUNTERBALANCE THE COWLES PATENT STEEL, ICE-PROOF TRUSS STEP WINDOW GUARDS, PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS PREPARED AND ESTIMATES FURNISHED BLACKSMITHING AND GENERAL JOBBING IRON WORKS REFERENCES NINE-TENTHS OF ALL THE LARGEST BUILDINGS IN CHICAGO [*5.*] 180-82 N. Green St. Chicago, June 19th 1912. To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I hope you will pardon me for addressing you for I know that you are a very busy man in defending the rights of the majority of the American people and I wish to congradulate you upon the success that you have met with so far and I am in hopes of having another chance to vote for you for President for the United States. I have always been an admirer of the way that you do things. have often wished that it might be my pleasure at some time to meet you personally with my wife and daughter and if agreeable to you to grant this request while you are in Chicago, I can assure you that my wife and daughter and myself in particular would deem it a great pleasure. I was born and raised in Hartford County, Connecticut, came to Chicago in 1869. Wishing you every success, I am Sincerely yours, J.T. Cowles P.S. Should you wish to write to me kindly address same to 443 E. 45th St., Chicago.Toronto - Ontario - Canada June 19 - 1912 Col. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Colonel:- This clipping is from the Globe, Toronto, of this date. It is in unison with the sentiment of the Entire Canadian people. They like British fair play over here win or lose, and the belief is general in Canada that you have not received it. I belong in Michigan - over here temporarily. I’ll return to Detroit to Vote, and I only hope you are in the field so I can vote for you. And though only a traveling salesman, I stand ready to chip in my mite towards the Campaign Expenses . Believe me Your well wisher A. E. Doeherty 66 Bond StFor enc see 6-19-17DR. GEORGE J. GEENEN OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 221 HAMPSHIRE STREET BELL PHONE 10233 BRYANT BUFFALO, N. Y. June 19, 1912 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt, As a Citizen I sincerely want to thank you for your noble fight which you put up at the convention for the People; Now as they have put in their man by the Chicanery Rout; This places you in a position to demonstrate that they are a pot of crooks; By coming out on the Republican Progressive People’s ticket; If I were a betting man I would venture everything I have That Taft will not be elected this fall; And I am also as positive the Rank and file of the Republican Party will give you three votes to Taft’s one; this would demonstrate that the people did not Rule at Chicago. I have forgotten the name of the Gentleman from Chandler Oklahoma the stated at the Convention, we will stay with Roosevelt until Hell freezes over; and this is just the sentiments of a great many of my Friends; including my self. The Honest people want you, and Right wrongs no man; it is worth the game even though the Democrats do defeat you Sincerely your Friend Dr. George GeenenCLINTON GILBERT, 2 WALL STREET, BANK AND TRUST CO. STOCKS. TEL. 2380 RECTOR June 19, 1912. ASTOR TRUST COMPANY STOCK BOUGHT and SOLD. Offer subject to sale: Pays 25 shares (or any part) EQUITABLE TRUST COMPANY a 538 24 10 shares " NATIONAL CITY BANK @ 430 10 25 shares " CITIZENS CENTRAL NATL BANK @ 185 6 25 shares " CORN EXCHANGE BANK @ 325 16 15 shares " MERCHANTS NATL BANK ($50) @ 190 7 25 shares " METROPOLITAN BANK @ 198 8 25 shares " NATL NASSAU BANK @ 205 8 50 shares " NATL PARK BANK @ 374 16 25 shares " AMERICAN SURETY CO ($50) a 325 15 10 shares " BANKERS TRUST CO a 592 25 shares " GUARANTY TRUST CO a 1030 40 20 shares " TITLE GUAR. & TRUST @ 592½ 20 25 shares " LAWYERS MORTGAGE CO @ 227 12 25 shares " NATL BANK OF COMMERCE a 204 8 25 shares " AMERICAN EXCHANGE NAT. BANK @ 243 10American Civic Reform Union, Inc. INTER-PARTISAN INTER-DENOMINATIONAL Objects. To suppress "graft" gambling, the white slave traffic, cigarettes, intemperance, Sabbath desecration, and other evils. OFFICERS Rev. W. W. Bustard, D. D. President A. L. Boyden Sec-Treasurer Rev. A. S. Gregg Superintendent A. H. White Manager Lecture Bureau Harry Brolaski Chief Investigator Rev. Geo. V. Reichel, Ph. D., Legislative DIRECTORS Rev. J. Edward Kirbye, D. D., Des Moines, In., A. L. Boyden, E. R. Root, Medina, 0.; Rev. W. W. Bustard, D. D.; Rev. R. R. Bigger, D. D.: F. M. Barton, Cleveland, O.; Rev. C. L. Smith, D. D., Hon. J. A. Rice, Mrs. John W. Albaugh, Canton, O.: Judge Hiram B. Swartz, Woos ter, O.; J. B. Miller, Newark, 0. BUSINESS COMMITTEE Rev. R. R. Bigger, D. D., F. M. Barten, Rev, W. W. Bustard, D. D. We work along three lines Civic Education, Legislation, Investigations. We attack graft, gambling, Intemperance, impurity and all forms of vice We furnish detectives, speakers, legal advice and information on civic reforms, Any local, county or state organisation may join this Union by accepting our constitution by-laws and paying $3 a year. An Individual may join so $2 a year. SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS Rev, A. S. Gasoo: "Bad Citizens," "How Lobbyists Make Our Laws" "Rulers of America," Frank S. Regan: "The Fool Taxpayer." HARRY BROLASKI "Graft and Grafters." "The Fool and His Money," A. H. White: "Whose Boy Is He?" "Ten-Five." (Mea.) "Robbers! Six, Seven, Which," "Asleep at the Switch' C. N. Howars: "On the Water Wagon." Adam and Eve and the Baby." Hon. James Allan Rice "Pearis and Swine." "Social Paracltes" "For Man or Mammon' Hans P. France: "Mormonium Euposed." Rav. Geo. V. Reichel; "What a Mayor Cain Do." "White Slaves" Detective O. O. Wian: "Thrilling Adventures In Secret Service," (With Stereopticon Views.) MAIN 2547 CENTRAL 3319 W HEADQUARTERS, 707 CAXTON BUILDING, CLEVELAND, O. Chicago, Ill. June 19, 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt, City, Dear Sir: I am in Chicago for the purpose of asking for a Republican platform declaration in favor of federal control of marriage and divorce, and for the prohibition of polygamy by an amendment to the constitution. Could you give me an interview some time Thursday, so we could talk this matter over? Co-operating with the Reform Union are the Methodists, Presbyterians, United Presbyterians, and the leading organizations of women, such as the Interdenominational Council of Women, of New York; the National D A R and W C T U and the missionary societies. The Reform Union alone has members in 36 states and is growing rapidly. If you should endorse one or both of the propositions named it would swing a large body of influential women to your support. The equal suffrage agitation has aroused a lot of women who are thinking2 as never before. While many of them have not come out as equal suffragists, they are becoming more active in working [a] the men of their families, and you know that such activity means votes for somebody. The country is ready for such a move as I am proposing, and if you act now you will get the benefit of the rising sentiment in favor of better protection for the home offered in a uniform marriage and divorce law, and one to actually stamp out polygamy. Judge Lindsay has been designated as a member of the committee to look after the proposed platform declarations, which we hope to present to the committee on resolutions. You can reach me at the Victoria hotel. Vey truly, A. S. GreggForm 1671 (6-19-12?) The Western Union Telegraph Company Incorporated 25,000 Offices in America. Cable Service to All the World Theo N. Vail, President Belvidere Brooks, General Manager Receiver's No. Time Filed Check 15 1210p 42 Send the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Englewood NJ 6/9 To Theo Roosevelt Just returned last night from St. Petersburg to assist your behalf Chicago Convention. Hope be able duplicate same situation as Phila convention Nineteen hundred My service your command please phone me 305 Englewood today Between Twelve and two Ready go chicago R J Hardman Read the notice and agreement on back[*[ans. June 19, 1912]*] [*B*] Hurrah for Teddy! My late husband was for him - and would be again. He went to Washington as one of a committee of four to invite him to speak at the opening of Central High School - Philada.do the same were I able. May God bless him in his efforts to help us - the "middle class" and lower our prices for food, if he can. Mrs. Harry S. Hopper 1122 S. 51st Street Phila. Pa. My son Zefhanish Hopper - who has through an accident lost the sight of his left eye - will cast his first Presidential vote, being just 21 for the "greatest man on earth" Theodore Roosevelt. I would Rev. S. V. Leech The De Soto Personal Washington, D.C. June 19/12 My Dear Mr R: There is nothing to discourage you in the "make up" of that Root vote, for temporary chairman. McKinley has given out the prophecy that Root would get 618. With nearly 100 stolen votes he only had the little margin ofSenator Root knew very well that he was elected by the manu forti seating of delegates who had no fair right to their seats. But he uttered no word of condemnation against such robbery. S.V.L. 18 over the bare majority of delegates. The 16 Maryland men should have voted solidly for McG. If Taft is nominated by a carload of Southern stolen negro delegates I cannot see how you can pledge loyalty to the ticket. Your Friend, S. V. LeechNATIONAL ROOSEVELT COMMITTEE CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO NATIONAL ROOSEVELT COMMITTEE CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO ALEXANDER E. REVELL, Chairman EDWIN W. SIMS, Secretary ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY, Chairman Detroit, Mich. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE J08EPH M. DIXON, Chairman Washington .D. C. FRANK KNOX, Chicago, Ill. WILLIAM WARD, New York, N. Y. WALTER F. BROWN, Columbus, Ohio CECIL A. LYON, Sherman, Tenn WILLIAM FLINN, Pittaburgh, Pa. ALEXANDER H. REVELL, Chicago, Ill. EDWIN W. S1MS, Chicago, Ill. ALABAMA-Oscar R. Hundley, Birmingham ARIZONA-Dwight B. Heard, Phoenis CALIFORNIA-GoV. Hiram W. Johnson, Sacramento COLORADO-Benjamin B. Grifth, Denver GEORGIA-E. H. Brinson, South Atlanta ILLINOIS-Chauncey Dewey, Edward J. Brundage Herbert B. Duncombe, Lawrence Heyworth Ralph Otis INDIANA-Edwin M. Lee, Indianapolls Chas. H. Campbell, Shelbyville KANSAS-Gov. Walter R. Stubbs, Topeka KENTUOKY-D. O. Edwards, London LOUISIANA-Pearl Wight, New Orleans MASSACHUSETTS-Charies S. Bird, Boston MICHIGAN-Gov. Chase S. Osborn, Lansing MINNESOTA-I. A. Chawell, 8t, Panl MISSOUSI-GoV. Herbert S. Hadley, Jefferson Olty MONTANA-Joseph M. Dixon, Missoula NEBRA8KA-Gov. Chester H. Aldrich, Lincoln NEVADA-Gov. Tasker L. Oddie, Carson Olty NEW HAMPSHIRE-Gov. Robert P. Baes, Concord NEW JERSEY-John Franklin Fort, Newark NEW YORK-Wm. L. Ward, Port Chester NORTH CAROLINA-Richmond Pearson, Asheville NOBTH DAKOTA-L. B. Hanna, Bismarck OHIO-Arthur L. Garford, Elyria OKLAHOMA-J. E. Dyche, Oklahoma Clty OREGON-Frederiok W. Mulkey, Portland PENNSYLVANIA-Wm. Flinn, Pittaburgh TEXAS-Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman WASHINGTON-George H. Walker, Seattle WEST VIRGINIA-Gov. Wm. H. Glassoook, Charleston WEST VIRGINIA-A11an Seymour Bdwarda, Charleston WYOMING-Gov. Joseph Carey, Cheyenne Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill , June 19, 1912 Dear Col. Roosevelt: Unless you accept the inevitable, and strike the blow to boss-manipulation now, the cause of genuine popular rule is lost for at least eight to twelve years, Pin no faith in the Southern Negro delegates. They represent the scum of the Negro population of the South, with exception of two more than those already voting for you. In the name of the colored voting population, north of the Potomac whose feeling in this matter I know as perhaps no other, and in justice to the best citizenship of the colored people of this country, I beg you not to submit to the damnable political piracy which is now, as it has done for nearly forty years, throttling the best interests of our people along all lines. Count on me to secure for you an overwhelming majority of the 890,000 colored voters, north of the Potomac, This is no time for compromise. This evil must be ohecked, or Socialism and consequent anarchy sweep America, I beg you in the name of 9.000.000 honest Colored Americans, whose souls are fast souring under the lash of political injustice, put humanity above partisianship and draw away from the gang of political thieves now in controll at the Coliseum, Signed, Hugh E.MacBeth - Editor The Baltimore TimesWOOD-MOSAIC CO., INC. ESTABLISHED 1883 MANUFACTURERS OF PARQUETRY, HARDWOOD FLOORING, VENEERS AND LUMBER MILLS & YARDS: NEW ALBANY, INDIANA. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY WINNIPEG, CANADA CABLE ADDRESS "LOCHABER" W.A.. McLEAN PRES. AND GEN. MGR. ANGUS McLEAN, VICE PRES. AND TREAS. H.H. BARCLAY, SECRETARY. NEW ALBANY, IND. June 19, 1912 Publishers, New York Commercial, New York City. Gentlemen: Please cancel our subscription to your paper. If you do not want to refund the amount of the unexpired subscription, just keep it and apply it to the Taft campaign fund. We want to let you know that honest people; the people who stand for straight business will make themselves felt and heard this Fall. No man who is honest, and doing business on the square, has anything too fear from the policies of Theodore Roosevelt. We do not want your paper to come into our office again. Yours truly W.A. McLean PresidentJune 19 [*[1912?]*] Mr. G.D. Wardrop, New York City. My dear Sir, Thank you for your favor of the 17th. Will be obliged if you place my communication before the Colonel when he returns from the seat of war. He is doing things -- as usual. Sincerely, Edwin Mordaat 72 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass.June 19, 1912. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Sir:- During a conversation to-day, a heated argument arose as to your height, and I would very much like to know just exactly how tall you are so as this argument may be settled. Of course, I realize that just at the present time you are very busy, but at some leisure moment, I wish you would send me this information. Thanking you in advance for same, and enclosing a stamped envelope for reply, I remain, Sincerely yours, (Miss) Augusta V. Otto.THE IDAHO INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Located at Weiser, Idaho "An Education And A Trade For Every Boy Or Girl Willing To Work For Them" Local Board of Trustees Rev. Edward A. Paddock, Chairman, Weiser Edwin H. Haley, Vice-Chairman, Weiser Hortense A. Ford, Secretary, Weiser Jane M. SLocum, Weiser Alex. Johnston, Treasurer, Weiser Emily Howland, Sherwood, New York Mrs. Dr. Dudley, Weiser Flournoy Galloway, Weiser W.A. Fulkerson, Weiser Advisory Board In New York V. Everit Macy, 68 Broad Street Chas. A. Hull, Insurance, 95 William Street Clinton L. Rossiter, Banker, Brooklyn Long Island Loan and Trust Co. E.G.Richards, Insurance, 76 William Street Wm. Ives Washburn, Lawyer, 52 Pine Street Frederick J. Stanley, Eastern Representative Newburgh, N.Y. Chicago Ill. June 19/12 Dear Mr. Roosevelt: A suggestion from far-away- Idaho may seem pressumptuous - but I am moved to make it though it may prove of little or no value. It now seems evident that the Boss-Stand-Pat crowd in the Convention will ratify the theft of delegates by the National Committee. If the Progressives to-day fail to compel the Convention to purge its roll of delegates, and I fear they will fail, - then what? Here is my suggestion: Do not bolt; this is just what the Barnesites and the whole boss crowd hope you will do; for then they can accuse you of wrecking the Republican Party! You can be nominated by a bolt, but I do not believe you could be elected. The wiser course - I think will be to go before the Convention in person and withdraw your name as a candidate stating strongly your reasons for such action. Counsel your delegates to remain in the convention but to refrain from voting as a protest and let the dishonest boss programme go through. In November the stand-pat crowd will be "snowed under" so deeply by the votes of indignant Republicans - that they will never be heard from again! Bryan will be nominated and elected by the Democrats and in a way he will hold up the banner of the Progressives for the next four years. Meanwhile nearly every state in the Union will adopt a Direct Primary law and in 1916 you will be the unanimous choice of nearly all the states in the Union for the Progressive standard bearer and the principles for which you and all other progressives stand will be victorious. The mills of the gods grind slow - but as Yours for final success E. A. Paddock.New york June 19th 1912 Ex Presented Roosevelt I see be fore the white House that Mr Roservelt will be Presented this comming turm I see all this through the sky in the sun sets I have been reaching this for the passt four weeks I see Mr Roosvelt driveing a long holding his hat in his hand to all passing by and smile I can see poor old men working men holing the dear old amerucan flag in theor hand shakeing the dear old flag at Mr Roosevelt I think I see too if Mr Roosevelt sons I think in time to come they will be seting in the Presented shair in the white House like theor father has Mr Roosevelt will be the next one to sit in the white House Tuesday evenng at the sun set I saw Mr Roosett going up to the white house a lone I hope this will be to day I see the sky at four clock in the after noon a large geathering at a opening out doors - I see Mr Roosevelt speaking befor a croud respectively youres Miss Sarah J Scottaddress 467=60 - St Brooklyn care Mr Haley4 is your faver in votes alwas a strong man for you you are the man for us Pleas helpe me We live in Judg Garlan house he can tell you i ame a poor and hard worken man But he aint no man to help the Poor he ought to be fine man well will you Pleas help us Doctor Bills and bien keep us straped I life to have a little home to call my own only a lit house But oh my if my Poor father had not got killed I Bin Better of poor man my name is James A. Tysen ABerdeen. M. D. Pleas help me Aberdeen. M. D. Rout. H 2 June the .19 .1912 Dear Presendent Roosevelt - I ame a poor women got .13 chrieldren My husband is sick al the time aint able to get along very good I ame poorley to We bothe work hard but times is hard Things so high but it good to. We bin married 33 years but have so meny chrieldren is keep us poor My husband never go off the Pleace But works and to vote and he lik to go to Balto to here the Canventions But cant do it cant spare the time as winter 2 time coming have look a head to my God for help last winter i nearly started out I hope some good person wood help me if we die need not have a cent to Burriey us tok al to live and hardley clothes us al times so hard things so high i hop in the lord will be a Blessing for us soon Read this al true com to se us you se for your self i live for God help he good you mite help me some Pleas Be so mind your faver to help the Poor Dear man 3 My father Died time of war 1861 left me a Baby 6 months old My mother Died soon after wards left me alone friends Raised me my eyes got effected at skool did not get eny more skool so i had to tak the world i fought it out got married I ought to had a Penchen But I had no one to look after it for me i was alone i ask you to help me i ame 51 years old not i like to have some help my man able eather of us to work so hard 6-19-12 Memorandum of Suggestion for Reference in Republican Platform to Pan American Commercial and Diplomatic Relations. The Republican party recognizes the importance of developing closer relations of friendship and trade between the United States and its twenty sister Republics of Latin America, and favors the continuance and extension of the work of the Pan American Union as an International organization devoted to the advancement of Pan American commerce and comity.Enc in Barrett 6-19-12[*[ca 6-19-12]*] Mr. & Mrs. J. F. Binder announce the marriage of their daughter Irene Evaline to Mr. Charles George Klocke on Wednesday, the nineteenth of June one thousand nine hundred and twelve Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniaca 6-19-12 Enc in Casperson 6-19-12 BURLINGTON, IOWA TO BUFFALO, N.Y. BURLINGTON, IOWA, BOY SCOUTS O.L. CHANEY, SCOUT COMMISSIONER NO. C-323 ROBERT E. RIEGEL CYRUS SCHLICHTER JOHN E. EGAN KENNETH E. CASPERSON DWIGHT A. TRUMP ARTHUR R. ZURAWSKI STARTED TUESDAY, JUNE 11TH, 1912Enc. in Docherty 6-19-12The Dice Were Loaded. The writer has no brief for the Colonel's cause. It may be that there appears to be about it too much of a mubptious braggadocio to appeal to Canadian sentiment. But it is impossible for an unprejudiced onlooker to have followed at least the latter portion of the proceedings of the National Convention without recognizing that the dice were loaded and the game was not played upon its merits. The cases of Washington, California and Texas admit of no defence. It may be that Chairman Rosewater and his colleagues were doing ill that good might come, but it was scarcely an opportune time to exploit the doctrine. The people were already suspicious; now they are inflamed. The wild, sweeping charges of dishonesty and theft add to their ugliness something of the color of right, and with a reckless revolutionary spirit in the air all this is likely to lead - whither?[*Encl in W F Long 6-27-12*] [*6-19-12*] DAILY CLARION-LEDGER, JACKSON, MISS., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1912 THREE BOARD OF TRADE NEARLY REACHED THE 500 MARK SECRETARY LUSK SAYS THAT ONLY A FEW MORE ARE NEEDED TO GET 500. Secretary Lusk announces that only a few more names are needed to be added to the membership rolls of the Board of Trade in order to reach the 500 mark and win the prize of $500 which was generously offered by Mr. James H. Brewer, president of the Jackson Railway and Light Company. In the course of his splendid speach, delivered at the great boosters' meeting at the Opera House on the night of May 13. Mr. Brewer was moved to make this generous offer out of a desire to assist the Boar of Trade in the splendid campaign outlined at the booster meeting and also to show our people that his company was always willing to do its part in the progress and upbuilding of our city. In doing this, Mr. Brewer has indeed set a splendid example to our own people, for he is a live, stirring type of the alert and progressive business man of today and knows the immense value and advantage of Intelligent co-operative effort in the building of cities. He saw at a glance that this city was of sufficient size and commercial importance and was growing at a pace that warranted the adoption of the up-to-date metropolitan methods of today and the speedy laying aside of small town ways. Mr. Willard, the affable manager of the company, assured Secretary Lusk yesterday that the $500 was waiting for the Board of Trade when the 500 members had been secured. The Board of Trade asks all to rally to Mr. Lusk's assistance and see that the membership of the Board of Trade not only reaches the 500 mark, but goes far ahead of that number. Moreover, they want our people to realize once for all that Jackson is now a city and that they should stand shoulder to shoulder in this work and see to it that it is made a greater city and finaly a great metropolis. They believe this can be done if our people will forget the past and kep their eyes on the future, quit knocking and kicking and grumbling and all resolve to stand to the rock and maintain a powerful, alert Board of Trade which, in time, will keep its eye trained on the business horizon for every advantage and opportunity. It is manifest to every one that the time has arrived in the history of Jackson when we must adopt the progressive methods of other, live and growing cities of today. The following new members were added to the Board of Trade rolls yesterday: T. P.Barr, Joseph Ascher, Wm. H. Puller Jr., Dr. A. H. Hilzim, W. P. Harrer, R. O. Godwin Lumber Company, Harris M. Carter, J. M. Clark, W. H. Hobart, S.R. whitten Sr., C. E. Hoover. PARTY FROM BOLTON SPENDS DAY HERE MAYOR WILLIAMS OF THAT CITY TOLD OF DEATH OF CATTLE AT THAT PLACE. Quite a number of residents of Bolton were in this city yesterday, having come over in the automobile of Mr. Williams of that cty. The part conssted of J. H. Williams, C. J. Farr, Jack Gaddis and H. D. Williams of that thriving place. Mr. Williams, who is Mayor of Bolton, stated that Commissioner Henry telephoned him Monday night to be on the lookout for the party said to be soliciting insurance in that neighborhood for an unauthorized company and that accordingly he spent some time Monday night on his trail without avail. He says, however, that if the Commissioner wants him they will certainly grab him should he make bold to visit his city. Mr. Williams also told of the loss of cattle in the past few days in his section, saying that a number of cows had died and that the prevailing opinion was the disease was grass poisoning, while some were supposed to have succumbed to Blackleg. He expressed himself as being hopeful that the State Veterinarian would recommend some remedy before leaving that would check the ravages of the unknown ailment. Mr. Williams, in whose car the party came to this city yesterday, makes frequent trips to this place and takes a great interest in Jackson affairs. He has a beautiful home at Bolton and entertains a large number of friends from this place every year. The party remained in this city several hours and left for home late in the afternoon. CONVEYS LUNATICS TO ASSYLUM. Deputy Sheriff Kramer Carried Two From This County. Deputy Sheriff Kramer conveyed two lunatics to the insane asylum yesterday. One of the unfortunates was an aged white man, who was tried some time ago by a jury lunatico de inquirendo and has been confined in the county ail for some time awaiting removal. The other was a negro woman tried this week and found insane. Mr. Kramer has carried several lunatics to the asylum in the past few days, as well as conducting a number of lunacy trials. This seems to be a specialty of that gentleman, and Sheriff Middleton says that with a little more experience Mr. Kramer will be a lunacy expert [?] to testify in any trial where the testimony of an accomplished [?] is required. A number of the unfortunates committed in Mr Kramer's care have made him a great deal of trouble while being conveyed to the hospital; however, he is [?] of a world of patience and handles his charges in a [?] manner. PELEGERA A PROBLEM FOR INSANE HOSPITAL THAT INSTITUTION HAS A NUMBER OF CASES OF SUPPOSED PELLAGRA TO TREAT. Much has been seen in the newspapers recently concerning the spread of pellagra in this State. It has been also a source of discussion as to what the public is going to do with those who are the unfortunate victims of this dread malady. Not only is pellagra a loathsome and vicious disease from a physical standpoint, but it is also one that undermines the mental powers of the patient to a more or less extent--some being more seriously affected that others. Dr. S. L. Rowan, one of the assistant physicians at the Insane Hospital, states that the number of cases of the disease in his department at the hospital is on the increase; that the disease can be seen there in any stage from that of the apeparance of the very first symptoms to that just before death. So far as is known, the doctor says, there is no cure for the malady. He states that the line of treatment being carried out at the asylum consists of hygienic and dietetic measures -- in so far as is possible together with the administration, with the hypodermic needle of the organic preparations of arsenic. This line of treatment is the only one that is supposed to influence the disease to any extent if, indeed, at all. It is, however, the opinion of the asylum physician that if any case of pellagra can be cured with the remedies now at the doctor's command it is a most rare exception, reports of cures to the contrary; not-withstanding. And in this connection it is suggested that the diagnosis of pellagra--in its true form--is by no means easy and, in the opinion of those at the Insane Asylum who have seen the disease in all its phases, it is doubtful if any considerable percentage of the reported cases are those of real pellagra. To Dr. Nolan Stewart, the efficient head of the Insane Hospital, is due the credit for the first suggestion that patients aflicted with this terrible disease be given separate and isolated quarters. In his report to the last Legislature, Dr. Stewart made this recommendation and no man in the State is better qualified to speak on the subject-- and now the public as well as the medical profession is coming to see the wisdom of his ideas. All that is known to be done or can be done is offered the patients at this institution but unless some unforeseen, remedy for be cure of his malady is soon discovered it is only a question of time until the State will be forced to provide measures of relief--in so far as hospital facilities are concerned, at least. FIRST WEEK OF NORMAL HELD AT CLINTON, MISS. ATTENDED BY LARGE CLASS AND MOST EXCELLENT WORK BEING DONE Special to the Clarion-Ledger. Clinton, Miss, June 18--The first week of the normal ended Saturday, with the unprecedented attendance of about three hundred. Those attending the classes seem filled with earnestness, but in reality this great enthusiasm is engendered by the excellent work done by the instructors. This week the work has been entirely devoted to the class-rom, but this week Dr. J. B. Aswell of Louisiana will deliver two lectures, while Dr. T. P. Bailey of All Saints College at Vicksburg will deliver a series of lectures on some phase of pedagogy. The local manager, P. W. Perry, reports that his correspondence indicates a large increase in the attendance for the coming week. Friday night at the Mississippi College Chapel, Mrs. J. D. Cleman, vocalist, and Miss Claud Enger, pianist, gave a recital which as greatly enjoyed by a large audience. The programme was as follows: Johnnye Sturdivant Coleman, Soprano. Claude Landon Eager, Pianists. Scherzo Bbm . . . Chopin In May Time . . . Daily Buck Song of the Soul . . . Breil Love Has Wings . . . Rogers Octave Fantastique . . Godard Valse Db . . Chopin Swan Song, from Lohengrin .. Wagner Elsa's Dream, from Lohengrin. Wagner Minuet, G. . . . Paderewski Sextette from Lucia di Lammermoor ...L][?]tizky Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman ...Offenbach Play-time Songs-- A Tiny Fish.... Jessie Gaynor The Jap Doll ... Jessie Gaynor The Gingerbread Man .. Jessie Gaynor Ballade Gm . . . . Chopin Mattinata . . Needham THANKS MR. ADAMS Splendid Condition of Cemetery Due Largely to That Gentleman. At a recent meeting of the Cemetery Association a unanimous vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Wirt Adams for his faithful and efficient services as chairman of the Cemetery Commission. To his untiring efforts and skillful management is due the present beautified condition of this sacred spot. The thanks of the commission are also due to Mr. Dorch, the accommodating sexton of the cemetery whose many acts of kindness and [?]tion are deeply appreciated by each member of the association. June got another rain to her credit yesterday afternoon in addition to the heavy rain which fell there was considerable wind felt Up [?] a late hour last night, however, there had been no serious damage reported. Special Sale of $3.98 Messaline Silk Underskirts for $1.85 JACKSON'S BEST STORE KENNINGTON'S The 12th Lockhart Mill-End Sale The great success of the Lockhart Mill-End Sale this year shows very distinctly the intelligent comprehension on the part of our people in this community to appreciate the following facts: The Lockhart Mill-End Sale is a thoroughly organized, well managed sale of merchandise, entirely out of the ordinary and in a class absolute of its own creation. It stands alone, head and shoulders above all other drygoods sales, and the oftener attempts ae made to imitate it, the more emphatic are the truisms of this unique business stamped on the minds of our far-sighted people in general. $4 to $10 Less for Our Men's Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits Now $11.45 for Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Strouse & Bros. Men's and young men's finest 1912 Spring Suits that were $15 and $16.50. $14.45 for Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Strouse & Bros. Men's and young men's finest 1912 Spring Suits that were $18 and $20. $17.45 for our very finest Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Strouse & Bros. Men's and young men's 1912 spring suits that were $22.50, $25 and $27.50. ONLY 10 DAYS TO GET RID OF MALARIA FEVER OR LIVER TROUBLE COME TO COOPERS WELL HOTEL AND DRINK Coopers' WellWater FOR BOOKLET WRITE A. D. Spengler RAYMOND MISSISSIPPI OLD-TIME REMEDY DARKENS THE HAIR GIVES COLOR, LUSTRE TO GRAY HAIRI--DANDRUFF QUICKLY REMOVED. For generations Sage and Sulphur have been used for hair and scalp troubles. Almost everyone knows the value of such a combination for keeping the hair a good, even color, for curing dandruff, itching scalp and falling hair, and for promoting the growth of the hair. Years ago the only way to get a Hair Tonic of this kind was to make it in the home, which was troublesome and not always satisfactory. Nowadays, almost any up-to-date druggist can supply his patrons with a ready-to-use product, skilfully prepared in perfectly equipped laboratories. An ideal preparation of this sort is yeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy, in which Sage and Sulphur are combined with other valuable remedies for scalp troubles and thin, weak hair that is losing its color or coming out. After using this remedy for a few days, you will notice the color gradually coming back, your scalp will fell better, the dandruff will soon be gone, and in less than a month's time there will be a wonderful difference in your hair. Don't neglect your hair if it is full of dandruff, losing its color or coming out. Get a fifty cent bottle of Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur from your druggist, and see that a few days' treatment will do. All druggists sell it under guarantee that the money will be refunded if the remedy is not exactly as represented. OTTOLINE RAT-ANT-ROACH PASTE The paste drives them out of the house and dries up their bodies, leaves no odor. It is a sure exterminator of Roaches, Rats, Mice, Ants, Cockroaches and all vermin. Sold everywhere, or sent by express prepaid on receipt of price. Collapsible Tube 25c. A Handy Package One pound can 50c; contains four times the amount of the 25c package. OTTO CHEMICAL CO. 239 Chartres Street NEW ORLEANS, LA. For [?] a Month. You can Have the CLARION-LEDGER Delivered at Your Door Every Morning WATT'S HOTEL ((At Depot.) C. E. WATT[?] .....Proprietor MONTICELLO, MISS. Everything New, Service First-Class. Rates $2.00 per day. Special attention given to Commercial Travelers. The patronage of the public respectfully solicited. JNO W. CRISLER Attorney-at-Law BULTON, MISS. The "Mill-End Sale Has lowered the cost of women's Summer Dresses to almost half price in every instance. There are dresses now on sale at $4,85 actually worth $10. $1.85 for Dresses worth up to three & one-half dollars $2.85 for Dresses worth up to five dollars $4.85 for Dresses worth up to eight & one-half dollars $6.85 for Dresses worth up to twelve & one-half dollars $8.85 for Dresses worth up to fifteen dollars Men and Women Be Cured BY A SPECIALIST Easy payments [?] responsible parties I GUARANTEE SATISFACTION AND MY TERMS ARE REASONABLE I have continuously practiced my specialty here longer than any other in my line. FOR ONE FEE OF TEN DOLLARS, I will furnish My complete treatment for the ENTIRE CASE of any of the following complaints: Chronic Diseases of the KIDNEYS, BLADDER LIVER, STOMACH and other organs: also SKIN DISEASES, MALARIA, CAARRH, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, RHEUMATISM, BAD BLOOD, etc. Complete treatment for SPECIFIC BLOOD POISON or LOWERED VITALITY IN MEN--One fee of $25.00. All other cases without exception, as stated, $10.00. If I promise to cure you and you take my treatment as directed and are not satisfied at the expected time I will refund all you have paid me for the treatment. No extra charges except for medicines which will not be over two or three Dollars per month. Dr. L. D. S. Gaster, Specialist 619 CANAL ST., [?] Exchange Place. NEW ORLEANS, LA. One personal visit is always preferred. But if you cannot call, send for question [?] and you may be treated by mail. When you have anything for sale or want to purchase something you can't find, try a Clarion-Ledger want ad. H. T. HOWARD, President JOS. [?]NNER . Vice President CHAS. RAINNY, Sec'y and Treas. Standard Guano and Chemical Mfg. Co. Manufacturers of Stern's celebrated Ammoniated Rawbone Fertilizers HEAVY CHEMICALS--HIGH-GRADE FERTILIZERS--COTTON [?] PRODUCTS. P. O. Drawer [?] New Orleans, La. MISSISSIPPI'S GREAT HEALTH RESORT Allison's Wells D. C. LATIMER & CO., proprietors Situated One Mile from Way, Miss, on [?] Central Railroad A SOVERIGN REMEDY FOR MALARIA, STOMACH AND KIDNEY TROUBLES. Hundreds Cured at This Famous Resort! During Season Bus Meets All Day Trains;; Night Trains When [?]ed; 25c Each Way in the Day, 50c Each Way at Night. Rates--$2.25 a Day, $14 a Week, $50 a Month of Four WeeksEncl in [??7] Long 6-27-12 6-19-12 FOUR DAILY CLARION-LEDGER, JACKSON, MISS., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1912. The Clarion-Ledger. Published Daily and Weekly by The Clarion-Ledger Co. South President Street OFFICIAL JOURNAL MISSISSIPPI Entered at Postoffice [Post Office] at Jackson, Miss., as Second-Class Matter. Weekly, per Year ... $1.00 Daily, per Year ... 6.00 Daily, per Month ... .50 The only Jackson Paper Taking a Full Associated Press Report. [Union Label logo?] The Clarion-Ledger Has a Larger Circulation Than Any Other Paper in Mississippi. PHONE NUMBERS. Editorial Rooms-- Cumberland, 128 ... Home, 685 Business Office-- Cumberland, 129 ... Home, [?21] R. H. HENRY, Candidate for Congress, Solicits the Support of the Voters of the Eigth [Eighth] District. TO THE PUBLIC: As I must be out of my editorial office a great deal during the Congressional canvass, I have decided to withdraw from the editorship of the Clarion- Ledger till the contest is settled, and for that tim [time] will not be respond-ble [responsible] for the editorial utterances of the paper, whose columns will be in competent hands. R. H. HENRY. The Weather. Washington, June 18.--Forecast for Mississippi: Cloudy, probably showers on the coast Wednesday; cooler in south portion; Thursday fair with rising temperature in the interior. When aviators fall out it generally proves fatal. The Republican dove of peace has become a bird of prey. In the meantime, has anybody been courteous enough to send Mr. Lorimer a ticket to the convention, [.] Zion Cilty [City] will have to make its riots more strenuous -- it expects to get them noticed this week. [??] coupled with a demano [??] could undoubtedly cause more of less [?] talk. Isn't this a rather late [da?] to be starting a row over the nationality of Christopher Columbus? Secretary Wilson may reveal land frauds, but the biggest fraud is still in the Department of Agriculture. If the Roosevelt contestants had been flies the committee would not have swatted them any harder. Chicago is going to add a beauty squad to its police force. They will be imported, without saying. In picking Presidential possibilities Baltimore has a chance to show Chicago that she isn't so many. At a random choice they could not have selected a better city than Chicago for all the "cold theft," "treason," robbery,' 'etc. Dr. Sarah N. Merric of Boston is advoiciating [advocating] scientific marriages. Divorce has long since become a fine science. Maybe it was the Alaskan eruption and not the Republican fight that was responsible for the unusual weather we have been having. The Democratic national committee will meet in baltimore June 20. But what a tame affair it will be as compared with Chicago. After he has picked up all of the 'working points at the Chicago convention, Mr. Bryan will be ready for action in Baltimore. As the average man understands the learned language of the weather bureau we now know that when it rains "it is wet" and when it does not the weather is fine. If women were given suffrage they'd elect a bachelor as President each in the hope that she might marry him and be the first lady of the land. For charity's sake the Democrats of the house will play a baseball game with the Republicans. For charity's sake, also, don't beat the G. O. P. too bad. If the Washington baseball team wins the pennant this year and Roosevelt is elected to serve a third term and the Atlantic ocean goes dry, 1912 will be "some" record smasher, eh? Because he called people "deadbeats" a Chicago collector has been fined $118. Collectors must understand that they are not to be permitted to use such language as one may hear around the headquarters of a political committee. It was necessary the other day for the wife of the British Premier ot rescue him from a suffragette who furiously tried to rob him of his epaulets. Mr. Asquith should follow the example of our President and wear and undertaker's coat. "ANY WORTHY MAN SUITS." There will be [a] scrap in the Democratic National Convention over who shall preside over the preliminary deliberations of that body. The words used by Senator Stone of Missouri, appealing for Champ Clark, when he said "any worthy man suits," probably voices the sentiments of all the other candidates, and it presages a convention in which harmony and a determination to win will be the most prominent characteristics. There has been no such wrangling among the Democratic candidates as that which as disgraced, discredited and disrupted the Republican party, and there will not be. There are four prominent candidates for the Presidency who with their friends have not failed to let the party know that they would appreciate the honor of being selected to head the ticket, but they have done so in a dignified manner, and have not stooped to personal abuse and the use of billingsgate in the effort to bolster up their claims. They have not had to. All are honorable gentlemen, men of ability and statesmen who have proven their worth, and any of them would be acceptable to the great masses of the Democratic voters. But what is better the one selected to lead the fight for the supremacy of the party will receive the hearty endorsement and support of those whose ambitions have been deferred. There are no yawning chasms dividing them, no bitter feeling of personal antipathy that will prevent the unfortunates rolling up their sleeves and going in to help their more fortunate brother fight the battle of the party that is to return it to place and power. The Democratic party is in better condition to win today than it ever has been, not even excepting twenty years ago, when it returned Grover Cleveland to the chair he had vacated four years previously. It won then with only a fighting chance. It is being invited today by the people to resume control of national affairs, and its friends, the [?], is doing all in its power to make the road an easy one to travel. The Clarion-Ledger predicts that within two years from today the Democratic party will be in control of every branch of the government. TRAINED FARM WORKERS. While all of the professions are crowded over with graduates of schools who have earned diplomas of efficiency, and many of those young men are hanging on the ragged edge of despair waiting for something to turn up, there are always good jobs awaiting the graduates of agricultural colleges. In fact, the demand far exceeds the supply, and every agricultural college in the country now has among its files requests for trained agriculturists at good salaries. These requests are being filled as fast as possible, but the demand seems to increase faster than a supply of the required article can be turned out. "The fields are crying aloud for trained men, while thousands of young men are graduating from our law schools and there are jobs awaiting only a small percentage of them," says Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture, and he advises educators to consider at their national meeting the problem of diverting some of the would-be lawyers to the agricultural schools. Truly there is a demand for educated, scientifically expert famers in the United States, and the sons of farmers, who might naturally be expected to take advantage of the instruction offered by State universities, seem slow to realize the possibilities in this line. Many of them wish to escape from the farm. They dislike drudgery, loneliness and the prospect of only moderate gains. In the law and other professions, they see, there are some brilliant prizes and overlook the fact that there are many, [many perks.] Young men of the cities who look forward thoughtfully may well consider farming as a life vocation while this condition continues. If a young man is fitted by temperament for farm life he will find [???] profit as well as health and pleasure provided he obtains a thorough education for it. This is the testimony of many others besides Secretary Wilson, and it should be heeded by all who are considering the choice of a vocation. NO NEED TO WORRY. Don't worry. This is good advice to give the farmers just now that the season has arrived for the boll weevil to make its appearance. Don't worry because he isn't [?], for he is sure to come, and they don't worry when he does make his appearance, for with as strict attention to your own duties as he devotes to his you can both live in the same cotton field. He may not get all he wants and neither will you, but then neither insects nor humanity will ever be perfectly satisfied. But be the boss of your own cotton field. Let him know that he is an intruder and that you are proprietor, and that you don't intend to surrender your rights of ownership without a struggle. Convince him that he is an unwelcome guest, and the sooner he will take his departure. In some quarters there is talk of plowing up cotton fields and planting other products. This is labor thrown away. The labor thus expended if devoted to attention to the boll weevil will go a long way towards mitigating the injury he will do the cotton plant and insure a fair yield. Experience has shown that it is possible to make a fair cotton crop in the worst weevil infested districts, and what has been done can be done again. Unless the Mississippi planter intends to give up the raising of cotton altogether, he might as well make up his mind to work side by side with the boll weevil, and the one who sows the greatest energy will be the one that will reap the greatest rewards. Don't let it be said that the energy of an insignificant little pest like the boll weevil is of more avail than the brain and brawn of the Mississippi farmer. In this connection District Agent Garner, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture, has sent out the following, addressed to the famers of South MIssissippi: "There is absolutely no occasion for alarm at the appearance of weevils on cotton at this season of the year. This is the natural thing to expect and one of the things that you will have to meet every year in your territory. "There is no occasion for plowing up your cotton. If you will pick the weevils off of the buds of the young cotton and pick and burn the squares from the older cotton, and cultivate the cotton often during the entire season to keep down the weeds and grass and to keep the cotton in a thrifty, growing condition, you can grow a fair cotton crop in spite of the weevil. "If farmers are careless in picking off weevils and picking up squares or in cultivating the crop, the damage from the weevil will be very heavy." MISSISSIPPI IN CHICAGO. The Mississippi delegation to the Republican National Convention, in session in Chicago, composed mostly of negroes, seems to be holding its own in the Windy City, and if reports are to be believed, a good chunk of that which formerly belonged both to the Taft and Roosevelt campaign committees. In other words, they seem to have learned the lesson of looking out for No. 1, or else are being grossly slandered. Telegraphic reports tell of deals that are being pulled off in which $1,000 bills figure as liberally as "two-fers" did among them before leaving their homes "Down by the Mississippi Shore." The Republican District and State conventions in this State were a farce, engineered by those in power, who named delegates and "instructed" them how they should vote, but when the "long green" is so liberally in evidence, as it is said to be in Chicago, of what good is a "little instruction between friends anyhow?" It's all in the party, and as the party is the delegates, why can't it switch its instructions to suit as well in Chicago as in Jackson? The National Committee decided that Taft was entitled to the twenty votes of Mississippi, but the individual Mississippi Republican delegate is a power unto himself, and is pretty apt to disregard the award of the National Committee unless all things are even when voting time comes around. INTERESTING ADDRESS BEFORE NORMAL SCHOOL DR. ASWELL SPOKE ON LEADERHIP IN THE TEACHER. Special to the Clarion-Ledger. Clinton, Miss., June 18. -- Dr. Aswell delivered his second lecture in the series last night, on the subject of leadership in the teacher. The speaker insists that the teacher does not occupy a position of as much influence as she ought. In the small country districts leadership is the important question now before the people. The efficient leader in such communities really works miracles. In the one teacher school a real leader can create sentiment that will tell for real good. Such a teacher is a real hero. It is natural for all of us to worship a master. Be a master of what is undertaken, and there will be not trouble to mould the children into the right sort of men and women. In his lecture today Dr. aswell emphasized the importance of rural school consolidation. Many reasons were suggested why the schools should be consolidated, among some of the most prominent were: The fact that it will overcome selfishness in the establishment of the consolidated school. In numbers there is a broader scope of competition and so better development of the children. It realizes the spirit of congregating which is an inherent attribute in human nature. The improvement of public roads will follow consolidation. The work will stimulate a healthy rivalry between neighborhoods. It will enable better grading. It is the real secret of the highest service to be had from the school in the country. It will raise the quality of grading from the 8th grade to the 10th or even higher. It is the true means of giving a liberal education to all the country children. CAPUDINE for "THAT HEADACHE" Out last night? Headache and nervous this morning? Hick's Capudine just the thing to fit you for business. Clears the head--braces the nerves. Try it. At drug stores. ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY WILL CLOSE THURSDAY AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM HAS BEEN PREPARED--REV. C. A. OLIVER WILL PRESIDE St. Joseph Academy will hold its annual commencement exercises Thursday night at the hall of that institution. Rev. C. A. Oliver will preside at the occasion in his usual excellent manner. The following interesting program has been prepared. "Bridal Twostep" (Schneider)-- Piano A, Misses Brown, Smith; piano B, Misses Herbert, Logue; violins, Messrs U. Logue, Edwards, Masters L. Berberovich, R. Marley, D. Rutherford, R. Boebinger, W. Heslin, W. Miller, Misses E. Hawkins, H. Taylor, D. Logue; mandolin, Master J. Logue. "La Petite Schottish" (Steabbog)-- Misses E. Marley, I. Heslin, L. and R. Cambre. "Zampa" overture (Herold)--Piano A. Misses Brown, Smith; piano B, Misses Herbert, Logue. Operetta, "The Lost Lady's Slipper." Characters--Daisy, Miss M. Hobart. Hollyhock, Miss G. Teat. Tiger Lily, Miss M. Elliott (proud sisters). Godmother Nature--Miss Mu Rutherford. Bonnie Bees--Masters W. Heslin, [b.] Logue. Butterflies, Charioteers--Misses M. Johnston, I. Heslin, L. Cambre, M. A. Edwards, M. E. Taylor, D. Logue. Robin Red, Prince's Herald--Miss G. Miazza. Prince Sunshine of Sunbeam Castle --Master C. Muller. Guests at the Ball.-- Poppy--Miss V. Logue. Buttrecup [Buttercup]--Miss M. C. McManus. Pansy--Miss M. Warriner. Daffodil--Miss A. Taylor. Violet--Miss A. Miazza. Sweet Brier--Miss A. McDonnell. Mignonette--Miss A. Hatfield. Lily Bell--Miss W. Logue. Sweet Pea--Miss L. Stone. Narcissus--Miss I. Johnston. Six Butterflies, twelve Sunbeams-- Little girls. Raindrops--Little boys. Piano--Miss Conway Waltz from "Faust" (Gounod)-- Piano A, Misses Brown, Smith; piano B, Misses Herbert, Logue. "At the Children's Dance" (Streabbog) --Misses L. Bourgeoise, L. Cambre, M. Hobart, M. C. McManu, I. Heslin, V. Ainsworth. "Anvil Chorus" (Verdi)--Misses C. Herbert, W. Logire, L. Smith, E. McNamara, M. Rutherford, L. Ainsworth. Baseball Drill--S. . A. Team, Cap,tain [Captain] Master J. Aylward. Piano--Miss Conway. Drama, "Cornelia the Vestal." Characters--Empress Domitia, Miss Brown; Flavia, Miss M. C. McManus; Domitilla, Miss L. Ainsworth; Aurelia, Miss E. Peters (nieces of the Emperor). Cecelia, Maid of Aurelia--Miss E. Batrou. Patritia--Miss J. Florin. Mokanna, the Prophet--Master J. Logue. Theophilus, Roman Soldier--Master F. Henry. Rena, Chief Vestal--Miss M. A. Oliver. Vestals--Carmen, Miss E. Thompson; Amata, Miss C. Herbert; Ines, Miss T. Kelly; cornelia; Miss B. Luckett. Maids to Empress--Una, Miss R. Brady; Thalia, Miss L. Smith; Statue of Vseta [Vesta], Miss A. Huber; Angels, Misses M. A. Lynch, A. Huber, E. Thompson. Chorus of little girls. Tableau-- Grand Gavotte--C. Fondey. Misses M. Calhoun, M. Edwards, M. Warriner, E. McNamara, A. McDonell, I. Heslin. Band--"Tidings of Love" (S. Eigel). Pianos--Misses Herbert, Logue. Violins--Messrs. U. Logue, W. Edwards, Masters L. Berberovich, D. Rutherford, R. Boebinger, R. Marley, W. Miller, W. Heslin, J. Bergiblea, Misses H. Taylor, E. Hawkins, D. Logue. Mandolin, Master J. Logue. Triangles, bells, tambourines. Away With the Corn Dentist! "BINGO" Beats Knife and Chisel Have you a corn, callous, bunion, wart? Use judgment--use "Bingo." Don't try to slice it off or dig it out-- don't run risk of blood poisoning! Don't let corn surgeon cut or sandpaper your feet. How can he know how deep to go without hurting you--without drawing blood? Why pay him more for just temporary relief than a whole bottle of "Bingo" costs (2 bits)? Don't use sticky plasters with thin coating of dope to affect surface only --with straps to bulge the stocking-- increase pressure against tener, painful spot--and make you wear larger shoes. Bingo's better, quicker, safer, more thorough. Gets rid of these pests entire. Allaya pain and inflammation quick's a wink. Corn or callous shrivels up--you pick it off, throw it away! Harmless to normal flesh. Bing's 25¢ at drug stores, or sent direct by Dennison Pharmacal Co., 111 No. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Sold in this city at Brown's "Two Stores" You Look Prematurely Old The California Democratic delegates left San Francisco Monday for Baltimore on a special train. The train carries 1,400 quarts of wine, the same amount of grape juice and half a carload of fruit to stock State headquarters and two Champ Clark mascots, a hound dog and a bear cub. RESOLUTIONS. Whereas, God in His wisdom has been pleased to remove from our midst our beloved brother and co-worker in His kingdom, John L. White, and Whereas, while we are deply [deeply] grieved at the great loss we have sustained in being deprived of his wise counsel and earnest efforts in all of our undertakings looking to the advancement of Christ's kingdom, we do humbly bow to His will wo doeth all things well, and Whereas, his family has suffered the loss of a devoted husband, a gentle, kind and indulgent father; therefore Be it resolved by the Brotherhood of the Central Presbyterian Church that we extend to the bereaved family and loved ones our heartfelt sympathy in this dark hour of their sorrow, and do confidently commend them to our Heavenly Father for comfort, who is the only real comforter. Resolved further, that our secretary be instructed to spread a copy of these resolutions upon our minutes and furnish a copy to the family and to each of our local papers, requesting them to publish the same. T. B. DOXEY, President. R. J. Miller, Secretary. June 16, 1912. Foley Kidney Pills TONIC IN ACTION * QUICK IN RESULTS Give prompt relief from BACKACHE, KIDNEY and BLADDER TROUBLE, RHEUMATISM, CONGESTION of the KIDNEYS, INFLAMMATION of the BLADDER and all annoying URINARY IRREGULARITIES. A positive boon to MIDDLE AGED and ELDERLY PEOPLE and for WOMEN HAVE HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION S. A. Davis, 527 Washington St., Connersville, Ind., is in his 85th year. He writes us: "I have lately suffered much from my kidneys and bladder I had severe backaches and my kidney action was too frequent, causing me to lose much sleep at night, and in my bladder there was constant pain. I took Foley Kidney Pills for some time, and am now free of all trouble and again able to be up and around. Foley Kidney Pills have my highest recommendation." FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. We know you like Velva You've proved it to us by the generous way you have bought it. Now we want you to try The New Velva Breakfast Syrup In the red can Try it on griddle cakes, waffles and biscuit --use it in making cakes, candies and fudge--put it in any dish that requires sweetening. It is rich and fine in flavor--simply delicious. Your grocer has two kinds of Velva--in the red and the green cans. Try a 10¢ can of the New Velva with the red label. Penick's Ford, L'td. [1793 1913] BINGHAM ASHEVILLE, N. C. COL. R. BINGHAM has prepared Boys for College and Manhood for 119 years. Our Graduates Excel in all the Colleges they attend, North and South. Ventilation, Sanitation and Safety Against Fire pronounced the BEST by 150 [doctors] and by every visiting Parent, Average Gain of 19 pounds term of entrance [accentuates] our Climate, Fare and Care of Pupils. Military, to help in making Men of [Boys]. Box 19 ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD will run THROUGH SLEEPER to BALTIMORE account DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION Leave Jackson June 21, [1:40] P. M. For reservations and information phone 1534. Call on or write WALTER BYRNS, District Passenger Agent. WEST COLUMBIA HOTEL Rates $1.50 per day. J. A. HOLMES, Proprietor. You Can Have the CLARION-LEDGER for 50¢ a Month. "Under the Shade of the Sycamores" Darnell House BRANDON, MISS. Good Rooms and Exceptionally Fine Table COOLEST HOTEL IN MISSISSIPPI SAM EWING Contractor and Builder Tel.: Cumb. 1845 CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR SALE One lot on Fortification Stree. One lot on North President Street. Close in. One lot on West Capitol Street. I-3 cash, balance in 10 years, 6 per cent. A. Virden & Co. FOR SALE--Large, delicious Robinson blackberries. Call phone 842 for information. June 19 lt FOR SALE--New upright piano, cheap, cash or easy payments. Address "Piano," c o this office. June 19 lt FOR SALE-- Two full-blood Jerseys, two high-grades and two common cows, all good milkers. Address W. W. Cupit, Clinton, Miss. tf FOR SALE--Fifteen fresh milkers and twenty-five O. I. C. hogs; also bred gelds and males. G. W. Mims, R. 3, Box 17 A, Jackson. Phone 183 F. June 14 7t FOR RENT OR SALE--One nice cottage with outside buildings and several acres of land. Best location in the state for a doctor. Write J. H. B., Woodlawn, Yazoo county [County], Miss. REDUCED PRICE on eggs for hatching from Taylor's Famous White Wyandottes, White Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds, $1.50 for 15 eggs or $4.00 for 45. W. C. Taylor Poultry Plant. FOR RENT--Large front room with board to couple; West Capital St., modern conveniences; reasonable rates. Address XY, care Clarion- Ledger. June 13tf FOR SALE--Mixed clay peas, car lots or less. New Era, lady and California black eye peas. White Spanish peanuts, A few tons select planting seed direct from Simpkins one year removed. Cohn Bros., Lorman, Miss June 8-15t FOR RENT--Rooms furnished for housekeeping. 417 Jefferson. Apr30-tf ROOMS FOR RENT--A Mrs. George Pritchard's over Brown's drug store, 431 East Capitol, with hot and cold bath. apr18-tf FOR RENT--Four modern rooms, 252 Griffith. Phone 1438. June 13 10t WANTED--Paper hanger. Taylor Curio Store, 511 East Pearl st. [St.] Jun 16-7t FINE Burbanks plums delivered on orders, 50¢ peck, Cumberland phone 795 Wm. S. Hull. jun18-3t SUMMER STYLE A. J. WADE, The Shoe Man. SHOE REPAIRING We replace the style and shape of run-over shoes--make the old footwear "equal to new" at half the cost. Bring in the old Oxfords for a quick job today. Work Called for and Delivered. CONFIDENCE is a firm's best asset. Nobody has [e]ver been disappointed in placing their [t]rust in us to give them "GOOD LUMBER." Central Lumber Co. Phone 997--Mill and Church Streets For 50¢ a Month. You Can Have the CLARION-LEDGER Delivered at Your Door Every Morning. 1914 East Clay Portland Ore June 20-12 Hon. T. R. Roosevelt Dear Sir: Oregon is calling you: Never in my life have I met with such a molded opinion as this Roosevelt must be our next President, Merchents, Dept. Managers, Clerks, Farmers, Mechanics, labors say you honestly are entitled to the nomination and notsecuring it. You must lead off with a new party. We are with now and always. It is a state wide and universal opinion that Taft can not be elected if nominated Scores of voters are declaring that if you do not lead some party they will vote the Democratic Party. So make the move and we will follow on. Resp. A. E. DanleyTHE LONG ISLAND EXPRESS Office of Superintendent L.I. City, N.Y. 6/20 1912 Mr. T. Roosevelt Oyster Bay Dear :- On or about Dec 16th, we delivered a shipment forwarded from Atlanta Ga, which we received in transfer from the Adams Exp Co. In order to complete their records they ask for shippers name and address. Please give this information on enclosed postal card and forward to me at your earliest convenience. Yours truly, HENRY FALKE, Correspondent.Memphis, Tenn. June 20, 1912 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt New York City My dear Mr. Roosevelt: As our family has for a number of years held you both one of our friends and heroes, I am writing to ask a favor of you. This next year, I will study at Oxford, England and would appreciate any letter you would write, which you thinkwould help me while there. My father is a Methodist minister who is now Presiding Elder of the Memphis District. I am a graduate of the Randolph Macon Woman's College of Lynchburg, Va. and wish to study English Literature and Pedagogy at Oxford. Pardon a request when you are so busy. Thanking you, Sincerely Estella g. Hefley.PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO "THE MACMILLAN COMPANY" AND NOT TO INDIVIDUALS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 64-66 FIFTH AVENUE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK 64-66 FIFTH AVENUE BOSTON 120 BOYLSTON STREET. CHICAGO PRAIRIE AVE. & 25TH ST. SAN FRANCISCO 565-571 MARKET STREET. DALLAS 1918 MAIN STREET MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. LONDON ST. MARTIN'S ST. - LEICESTER SQUARE, W.O BOMBAY 44 HORNBY ROAD. CALCUTTA 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET MELBOURNE 8 THE BLOCK, COLLINS & ELIZABETH STS. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO 70 BOND STREET June 20, 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir: At the request of Dr. Delos F. Wilcox, we are sending you, with our compliment, a copy of his new book - "Government by All the People: or the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall as Instruments of Democracy," just issued. As this book deals with the great issues of the political campaign and is thoroughly progressive, we hope that you may find it both interesting and useful. Yours very truly, THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. H. S. Latham[*[6-20-12]*] San Francisco, Cal. June 20th. 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Editorial Dept. The "Outlook" New York N.Y. Dear sir: One of the greatest achievements of modern times is about to be accomplished. The opening of the Panama Canal will be marked with either a halls of glory to the United States and to history, or will see the culmination of one of the most Condemnable acts that was ever perpetrated by a nation towards another. You, Mr Roosevelt, acted as the man of destiny that was to be considered as one of the greatest men of modern times. I the undersigned, am the other man of fate sent here by God. right after your ascension to the Presidential Chair, to interprete the sentiment of the people of Colombia. Your name Mr Roosevelt will be linked with the greatest engineering enterprise ever effected by man. Miraculously, fate decreed, that you, the man that deserved a Noble prize for being instrumental in terminating the Ruso-Japanese war, were the one to proceed ahead with the realization of the dream of Centuries.2 God almighty decreed that at 2 o'clock of the night succeeding the day that President McKinley was shot, I, a telegraph operator on duty at the Central office a Bogota Colombia, should receive the news of the President that made you President. The spirit of God has told me that you are the man to secure, as the instrument of God, Justice to Colombia and the spanish speaking America or to see their misfortune or its Consecuences. To you, Mr. Roosevelt, Colombia speaks through me. The crowning of your career will be the inauguration of the Panama Canal, as the President of the United States. You, of all the world, are the only one responsible for the present rebellion to the Constitutional authorities, of one of its Departments: Panama. You know in your heart and soul, Mr. Roosevelt, that Colombia was wronged. The solemn treaty to which your Country, the United States, pledged its honor in 1848, is in full force. The voice of your conscience tells you so. Out of 4.500.000 inhabitants of the actual Colombia, I was chosen by the Almighty to lighten with the tears of my misfortune in a prison Cell3 of Dannamora State Prison, - your home state. - the bonds of that treaty which you were instrumental in violating. Mr. Higgins, who ran when you were elected President, as Governor of New York, was also elected. I was granted a full pardon by Mr. Higgins the 30th of June. The pardon was not obeyed. from the Elmira Reformatory, to which place I was commited for an insignificant offense, I was transferred to Dannamora on account of Tuberculosis by Doctor Christian. This irrevocable pardon having been ignored, I was kept illegally till the fourth of January 1907, as a dangerous Anarchist for 1 year and eight months plus four days, for daring to protest against the Act which if not remedied may Constitute the decline of the glory and prosperity of the great North American Republic or its unbounded welfare, if you return to Colombia that, which by divine right, belongs to her. It is up to you. You have been selected by God, to give a practical demonstration to Latin America, and the whole world, of the rule that Christ, taught to the4 Universe. Life is short and the questions are bound to follow one by one in Continuous procesion - Legate to your children what Constitutes today a life full of marvelous deeds by returning to the land of the greatest of Americans, Simon Bolivar, the man that obtained from Spain the independence of five Republics through a war singular for its honor and chilvary. God has been very prodigal with you Mr. Roosevelt. your career has been a wonderfull one. your triumphal entry into Civilization was heralded through the world, and the magnificence of the reception to the first Citizen of the world, was marred only by the hand of God, through its representative at Rome. "The Lord's anoited" America professes Catholicity and the opportunity is given to you through the Noblest of spirits to make your peace with the land where the first battles for religion and freedom were fought by Bolivar. The 21 American Republics have their eye on you. We are all praying to you for your reelection which in itself will see manifested the will of God with a third term as President of the United States, - the exception - as the calling5 of Providence, for justice to Colombia, the mother of Catholic America which you are instrumental with God's spirit, in bringing about the restitution of what by right divine belongs to her. Remember the Canal. = Bear in mind MR. Roosevelt, that God elevates nations and individuals to the height of their power glory and ambition, if they fail to perform Gods duties their fall is singular. I beg to enclose a picture clipping. Look at the only man in the world that suffered directly 20 months - 4 days on account of your action with Colombia in Dannemora prison. A writ of habeaus corpus would have brought me liberty. God, through my person, punished Colombia for its inadequacy of its telegraphic system. - I am the man with the newspaper in its hand. The man behind you is the spirit of my father. I am, sir, very respectfully yours, Luis E. MolinaNo. 153 - Academy Street Poughkeepsie, N.Y. June 20th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-Prest. My Very Dear Sir, I have known you ever since you came to New York City, from the Legislature, as Chairman on the "Committee on Cities", to investigate the Police. I gave your Counsel, Mr. Miller, the evidence against a certain Captain of Police. You gave orders to the Capt. of the 47th St. Station, when you were at the head of the "Force', to send Policemen, when I asked for them, to protect the Salvation Army You tried to enforce the Sunday Laws, but were prevented from doing it. Like an honest man, you then "bolted", as you did at Chicago, and became Asst. Secty. of the Navy. You were the means of building our Navy, from the start given it by your predecessor (Secty. Whitney), and, thus, prepared it for honor, and glory, during the Spanish War. A good soldier, a good Governor, and the best President, since Lincoln you have deserved better of your party than you have lately received. Fight it out to the bitter end. You have been cheated, and libeled beyond measure. The People are with you. Your friends will stand by you. "The 'Old Guard' dies, but never surrenders". I have the letter you wrote me, when you were President, saying that you had requested your Nat. Com. to employ me to stump the Country for you, when you were running for President, and I prize it very highly. I admire a fighter, and love an honest man, and, therefore, I admire and love you. Yours in the fight, William H. Mundy. P.S. Am too nervous to sign my name with 'Pen and Ink'. As Charles Sumner wired to Gen. Grant, "Stick". W H MundyAmerican Forestry Association MARYLAND BUILDING 1410 H STREET NORTHWEST WASHINGTON, D.C. AMERICAN FORESTRY P.S. RIDSDALE EDITOR PRESIDENT HON. ROBT. P. BASS GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY P. S. RIDSDALE, WASHINGTON, D.C. TREASURER OTTO LUEBKERT, WASHINGTON, D.C. VICE-PRESIDENTS E.T. Allen, Oregon Joshua L. Hailey, Penna. Frederick A. Delano, Ill. Dr. Henry S. Drinker, Penna. Dr. Chas. W. Eliot, Mass. Dr. B.E. Fernow, Canada. W.W. Finley, D.C. Hon. Walter L. Fisher, D.C. Hon. David R. Francis, Mo. Henry S. Graves, D.C. Hon. Curtis Guild, Russia. Everitt G. Griggs, Wash. Hon. Hiram Johnson , Cal. Bryan Lathrop, Ill. Gifford Pinchot, D.C. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York J.T. Rothrock, Penna. Dr. Filibert Roth, Mich. Dr. Char. R. Van Hise, Wis. Robt. S. Woodward, D.C. DIRECTORS Hon. Robt. P. Bass, N.H. W.R. Brown, N.H. Prof. H. H. Chapman, Conn. John E. Jenks, D.C. Chester W. Liman, N.Y. Otto Luebkert, D.C. Charlie Lathrop Pack, N.J. Thomas Nelson Pack, D.C. C.F. Quincy, N.Y. E.A. Sterling, Penna. Jos. N. Teal, Ore. F S. Underhill, Penna. J.B. White, Mo. John L. Weaver, D.C. [*E.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, June 20, 1912. New York City. Dear Sir: - You are cordially invited to join the Directors of the American Forestry Association on an excursion to the White Mountains July 17, 18 and 19, through a joint invitation extended to them and their guests by Governor Bass, the New Hampshire Forestry Commission and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. The following itinerary has ben arranged for all these starting from New York, but it is desired that if it is more convenient for others to join the party at some point en route that they may feel free to do so. If sufficient acceptances are received a special Pullman car will be attached to the regular 8 P.M. train for Concord, N.H., at the Grand Central Station, New York, on Tuesday evening, July the 16th, which will be side tracked at Concord on Wednesday morning. The party will breakfast Wednesday, July 17th, at the Eagle Hotel and Governor Bass will then receive and welcome the party at the State Capitol. Automobiles will be furnished through the courtesy of a number of those in attendance and an automobile truck to carry all baggage. A run will then be made of about seventy five miles to Deer Park Hotel at North Woodstock, stopping on the way to see the State Nursery at Boscowan and to lunch at Plymouth. At Deer Park Hotel the party will join members of the Society for the Protection of NewHampshire Forests in a short visit to the most beautiful Lost River Reserve nearby, lately purchased by the Society, returning to the Hotel for dinner and the night. The morning of Thursday, July 18, the party will proceed by automobile through the profile notch to the Mt. Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, for lunch and remain there in attendance upon the fifth annual forestry conference which is to be held at Bretton Woods on the 18th and 19th under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests in cooperation with the State Forestry Commission and the Association of North Eastern Foresters. Short excursions from this point can easily be taken to see the New State Reservation of Crawford Watch and the Proposed Federal Reserves to be purchased under the weeks Act. The special Pullman will be brought from Concord to Bretton Woods for those returning to New York and leave at about 8.30 A.M., July 20th, carrying in New York at about 9 P.M. Special rates of $3 per day at the Deer Park and mt. Pleasant Hotels, and $6 per day at the Mt. Washington have been obtained for all those in attendance upon the Forestry Conference and a special rate can be had on the railroad if enough acceptances are received to fill the special Pullman. Invitations have been sent to the Vice presidents and Directors of the American Forestry Association, to the National Forest Reservation Commission, to the Governors of all the New England states, to certain united States Forest Service officials, and to a few state officials, industry association and societies, depending on the seating capacity of the automobiles which may be furnished. Will you kindly reply at your early convenience if you can attend and if you plan to come in your own car and may have seats for others, or if we shall arrange a seat for you. The Secretary of the Association, Mr. P. S. Ridsdale, 1410 W St., N.W. Washington, D.C., will take charge of all arrangements concerning tickets and baggage from escort the party on its arrival at Concord. Sincerely yours, P. S. Ridsdale Executive Secretary. PSR/IBQForm 1864 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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ROOSEVELT TODAY AND LAST NIGHT 520P A BART ROEDER.[*[6-20-12]*] FORM 1671 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Incorporated 25,000 Offices in America. Cable Service to All the World Theo. N. Vail, President Belvidere Brooks, General Manager Receiver's no. 5 Time Filed 945a Check 215 NL Send the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to} Birmingham Ala 6/20 TO Col Theo Roosevelt There is an up gathering of opposition delegates here preparatory to their departure for Chicago a word dropped here and there indicates that they strongly depend on the National Committee accomplishing what they have failed to accomplish before the people which I judge is a nation wide understanding This indication is too strong not to excite apprehension that the officers of our party are fast drawing READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK[*[6-20-12]*] FORM 1671 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Incorporated 25,000 Offices in America. Cable Service to All the World Theo. N. Vail, President Belvidere Brooks, General Manager Receiver's no. Time Filed Check Send the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to} [Birmingham Ala 6/20] to an Eventful crisis various other circumstances notably the arrogant refusal of tickets authorize the Conclusion that the national Committee has adopted a system of conduct to ward you which amounts to little less than actual hostility and it is learned here that in a very few days it will be seen in all of its real diformity your friends of the South will join with those of other Sections in Reminding the opposition that they are dealing with American READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACKForm 1671 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY Incorporated 25,000 Offices in America. Cable Service to All the World Theo. N. 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Regardless of race, religion, or politics, he asks them to protest in 75,000 telegrams to the New York Delegation (against their action in support of the absurdity of contestants judging their own cases), and also to wire Mr. Roosevelt assurances of support. The address of both the Delegation and Mr. Roosevelt is ——, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill. The "Night-Letter" privilege permits abundant opportunity of expression for 50 cents. Properly-informed people realize that the existing parties are practically a "combination" on many issues. Thus they can fairly be united under one such name as— DEMOC-LITANS or REPUBLO-CRATS. Should you think a new party advisable, say so in the telegram, and let its motto be CIVIC INTEGRITY—COMMERCIALLY, FINANCIALLY, POLITICALLY. GEORGE STUART SMITH (Treasurer W. S. B.) P. S.—The writer has prepared a statement concerning Fundamentals Essential to Proper Government, covering matters that have NEVER BEEN DISCUSSED in the press. The article is educational and illuminating. It will be sent to any address for a 2-cent stamp. GRAIN, COTTON, AND COFFEE it was felt that offerings had been too well absorbed to warrant general [?ing] at the decline. The feeling around the ring was that the buying and represented covering of shorts replacing of old bull holdings, and of moderate demand from [?]RESIDENCE 524 CLARK AVENUE, WEBSTER GROVES T.S. BURNETT ATTORNEY AT LAW 1315 MARKET STREET THIRD FLOOR OPPOSITE NEW MUNICIPAL COURTS BLDG. TELEPHONES AT OFFICE AND RESIDENCE ST. LOUIS June 21, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Colonel: As before stated by me, I am with you heart and soul for a new party! Call on me for any thing in my power. You will observe that my principal office is now in the City, instead of at Clayton, as heretofore. With the utmost confidence that you can be elected president regardless of party by the honest American people. I beg to remain, Always your faithful servant and ardent friend, T. S. 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I am a monumental cutter & letterer have been at it 20 yrs - but all this time I have also been experimenting on a device to cheapen the production of liquid-air, and I flatter myself that I have a last foundSPRIGG & MITCHAM MARBLE AND GRANITE CO. Elizabethtown, KY ________________191 the solution. I have been corresponding with the War Dept - but you are aware of the slowness of these officials. What I want is this, I want to get in touch with an expert on this subject, who is also an expert in all mechanical lines. Knowing that you know all kinds of people and have influence with them I ask that favor of you. I dont want money I give my ideas to the government, I propose to make liquid-air as cheap as gasoline, you canSPRIGG & MITCHAM MARBLE AND GRANITE CO. ELIZABETHTOWN, KY _______________191_____ figure what this would mean in warefare eathr offensive or defensive Naval or Land, Hoping you may be interested enough to take this matter up with me I beg to be Your Servant J.C. 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Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission of delivery of Unrepeated Bay Letters, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor is any case where the claim is not resented is writing within sixty days after the message is filed wit the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED DAY LETTER, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT Cor. Jackson Boulevard and La Salle St. Chicago ALWAYS OPEN 241 SHEET 2. b-110 P. IP. 197[6]-blue Wilkesbarre Pa. June, 21 1852 Theodore Roosevelt, Repn Hqtrs, Chicago. Sheet 2. The Democrats are starting in wrong a Baltimore by placing Mr. Parker at the head of their convention There is likely to be a duplication of the Chicago fiasco in that convention and this should prove the signal of a nation wide progressive political movement under one name and one banner You are absolutely on the right track Continue to the end and God speed you. J.J. Curran, 125pm,The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission On Minimum Wage Boards Henry Lefavour, Chairman Richard Olney, 2nd John Golden Elizabeth G. Evans George W. Anderson Mary W. Dewson, Secretary 12 Otis Place, [State House,] Boston. June 21. 1912. My dear Mr. Hapgood: I wonder if Collins would not write an editorial comment on the minimum wage law which has now been enacted in Massachusetts? For your information I enclose a copy of the law, & also an article I wrote on the subject for La Follette's Weekly, which will give you various facts in relation to the measure. There is a wide spread interest being taken in the matter, judging from requests which I receive for the report - Tonight I received 3 requests from Seattle, & one from New Orleans & one from California -Very truly yours, Elizabeth G. Evans. [*[For enc see 6-4-12 ca 6-21-12]*]THE HOTEL LINCOLN The Blackwell Hotel Co. Proprietors Seattle American European June 21. 1912 Hon Theo. Roosevelt Chicago, Dear Sir. "A Voice from the People" You have been nominated by the people - the people are loyal to you and they expect you to be loyal to them. Your election as President of our country under the heading of an Independent party will suit the masses far more than under the heading of the Republican Party - I have been visiting numerous states the last 6 months and find the people tired of both parties - Your election is a foregone Conclusion and your majority will be such that will retire all political bosses for good and dissolve the great American consolidated "Plunderbund Yours very truly Au[?] Feder Cleveland O.339 W 19th St NY June 21, 1912. Col Roosevelt I am to congratulate you for Victory where seemingly to be defeat. I am a great admirer of you and have watched you from the time that you were commissioner up to3 what you kneed to do is bend before God and admit that without his help you are helpless that what God wants to show you so he has permited this not because you have not wone but because you have aroused the whole country and made them Fight and you should keep cool head now and do not be disappointed but go 2 the presant time and I am an evangelist to preach the gospel God has put it upon my heart to write you these comforting words and also to give you some advise you have not lost this battle in the sight of God so now 4 on in the interest of the people by praying to God and be lead by the spirit of God you have been led by the spirit of God in the pass and perhaps you amagine it was your conquering it was God fighting your battles for you because you were right but so6 this much to your credit that they are going to reform every thing that you have denounced now it is up to you to keep cool and get busy in a diferent Way may God be ever at your side I am Sincerely truly James W Holmes 5 soon as you forget that God is the one that is behind you then he let you get this to make you a better man may you take heed to these facts and change your tactics of Warfare Wait on the Lord and he Will renew our strength you have [*4.*] BOSTON CITY CLUB 9 BEACON STREET June 21, 1912 [[shorthand]] Col. Theodore Roosevelt Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: Let me give you the assurance of my humble, but hearty support in your continued movement of popular rule. I helped all I could, financially and in personal discussions, under the lead of Mr. Matthew Hale. I should be glad to do more thanI did then when you have made your plans for putting into effect the emphatically expressed will of the Republican party and the Progressives. Sincerely, Frederick W. Jones1st DISTRICT ISAAC REAMER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 2ND DISTRICT FRANK J. WARD MEET MONDAY OF EVERY WEEK 3RD DISTRICT MARTIN J. MOCHEL AUDITOR'S OFFICE, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY CLARENCE SEDGWICK, AUDITOR SOUTH BEND, IND. June 21, 1912 Thedore Roosevelt Oyster Bay My Dear Sir Would you please put your autograph on two or three of the enclosed slips and put them into the enclosed envelope and mail them to me at once. Thanking you in advance for favor I am Yours Truly Gus A. ClinglerG. A. AICHER,, PRES. L. J. LAZAR, VICE-PRES TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 2942 WM. T. LAZAR, SECTY. LAZAR-AICHER PAPER CO. MANUFACTURERS OF TOILET TISSUES "SANITARY" PAPER TOWELS AND PAPER NAPKINS SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE "AUTOMATIC" INTERLEAF PAPER AND FIXTURES FACTORY: 405-407 JACKSON STREET San Francisco, Cal., 6/21/12 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Chicago Ill. Sir: In conjunction with thousands of other California citizens who voted for you in the Primaries as the progressive candidate for President of the United States abjure you to stand firm in your cause, and if you cannot overcome the great odds confronting you, and obtain the nomination which is fairly due you, then we are all behind you and will follow you under a new banner to the greatest victory ever recorded in American history. Sincerely S. Lazar[*FOR ENCL SEE CA 6-21-12]*] 100 William St New York June 21st 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N. Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am sending you a copy of a letter I wrote the Methodist Ministers of New York. I will not be able to come to Oyster Bay on Sunday to shake your hand as my sons in law are starting today [tomorrow] (Friday) to the State of Maine in Mr Campbell's car Mr Campbell is the husband of the Actress Henrietta Crausman. I hope to get over some Sunday soon. Yours very truly John M. Leach[*[6-21-12]*] To The Assembly of Methodist Ministers I claim the right to address you from the fact that I used to be a member of your denomination and was converted by Christ in the old 18th St Methodist church in Brooklyn in the 70s when Geo A Hubbell was pastor of that church after Mr Hubbell we had Icabod Simmons of whom I will speak later. Now the country convulsed for the last 6 months while the people of the U.S. expressed their wish as to whom they wanted to rule over them, they decided they wanted Mr Theo Roosevelt. This is as far as I wish to go in that matter but wish to draw your attention to another matter of great moment to you. You will remember when Mr Roosevelt passed through Rome on his return from Africa, the Pope notified him "If he called on the Methodists in Rome he could not visit him" What did Mr Roosevelt do? He went and seen the Method. and ignored the Pope. He is not a man that any one can lay down the law to You when King George of England was about to take the oath at his Coronation, the Catholics wanted eliminated from that oath the words "Defender of the Faith" I do not know they have accomplished their design or not, I am not up on that subject. You must know that the Pope of Rome has a great desire to see a Catholic president of the United States and there has been talk of an American Pope. Now previous to James G. Blaine's nomination for President in 1884 it is an undisputed fact that he went to some part of France (he was too much of a coward to go direct to Rome) and met an emisary of the Pope of Rome, what agreement the entered into I know not but thank God James G. Blaine was not elected president - God sent Dr Burchard to stop him. At one time during Mr Icabod Simmons Ministry I can remember a man named White came to old 18th St. Church to lecture on Romish customs and the instructions given the priests which he took from a book in Latin, & I think we had every Minister & Doctor in South Brooklyn to judge whether his translations from the Greek were correct. I can remember at that time Mr Simmons (now I believe a presiding Elder) said he had never taken interest in the subject did not know there was any chance of the Catholic Church getting hold of the U.S. etc. etc. I did not know but you all might be equally asleep on the subject, here is what I want to tell you and I can vouch for it. Mr Taft president of the U.S. sent Major Butt to a conference with an emisary of the Pope but God stopped his return with the Titanic disaster = He died like a brave man and his last regret was that he could not live to be of benefit to his friend when he most needed his assistance.[*[Enc in Leach 6-21-12]*] I do not know whether Mr Taft received the result of the conference or not but Major Buttle could readily have transmitted his message to some one that was saved. Now I want you to understand that we (the common people and Mr Roosevelt) were not merely fighting to put Mr Roosevelt in a prominent position ( I have personal letters from Mr Roosevelt stating that he did not covet the responsibility of the office) but merely fought the fight for the people as they had called him in a manner he could not mistake. Any protestant that is fighting against Mr Roosevelt is fighting against the Constitution of his country and is giving a helping hand to the Pope of Rome to establish his power over our land - I have been living for 12 years in Canada & can see how the whole province of Quebec is priest ridden and especially the two cities of Montreal and Quebec. If you are not alive to this subject I hope the Lord will wake you up - I can trust Him and do trust Him but some times He likes to see us work and not leave every thing to him. I have dubbed Mr Roosevelt "The Defender of the Faith" if England has expunged it from her ceremony she can no longer desire it and I consider him the only man who could make the fight he has. Another thing I want you to notice the man Mr LaFollette He has been traveling over the country posing as a progressive but when it comes to the show down, he plays a Catholic trick and refuses his delegates to organize the Convention with the other progressives. I have always been suspicious of him on account of his name LaFollette and thought he descended from the Canadian French if so I made up my mind he was a Catholic, I wrote to the New York Press asking what his religion was but they never answered my letter I was talking to our rector this evening and he agreed that if ever the Catholics got hold of our government it was good day to us protestants. I heard both LaFollette & Mr Roosevelt speak in J City and the most of LaFollette's speech was a grand Eulogium of John Sherman another Catholic. Mr Tafts family lately have made some connection with Catholicism what it is I do not know but I refuse to trust him and would much prefer Mr Bryan who I am assured by our rector is a fine Christian man. Hoping you will do your part as gentlemen of the cloth I remain Yours Very truly John M. Leach1042 West 22nd St. Los Angeles, Calif 6/21/12 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Chicago Ill. Dear Friend of the Common people. I belong to the common class but I read and think & there are thousands just like me who speak, only at the polls. I believe that any man who accepts a fraudulent nomination - there & then disgraces himself & will be easily repudiated at the voting booth. If necessary for you to give birth to a new party, I predict that both republican & democratic progressives will support you in such large numbers that you yourself will be astonished at the size of the multitude. There may be some who will forsake you at this trying period but they are no friends to the cause or the people for which you are fighting. you are fighting for me & my home & my country & for all those who love justice & righteousness & I thank you for it. Yours faithfully H W Long[*T. R.*] [*Copy*] Atlanta, Ga., June 21, 1912. Mr. Walter H. Johnson, Chairman Ga. Delegation, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:- It is not necessary to say to you that Mr. Taft could not have been elected in this campaign if he had received the unanimous support, without opposition, of the Republican convention. If this statement is true or if it has a strong probability of being true, it should deserve very serious consideration at your hands. You have been able to hold a good office for a long time in Georgia, and I have had every reason to believe that it was through sheer merit. That being the case, I would judge that you would be in position to think on the level. The practical wrecking of the Republican party is about to take place in Chicago, through the dishonesty of the National Committee, who would prefer to see the party go down in defeat for a number of years, rather than lose their control on the organization. There is necessarily some good men - honest and true - in a gathering of this kind, but they don't know enough to be able to see the inside workings and that they are handled as so many cats paws to pull the chestnuts out with. That is the case with the negro delegates of the South. They are being used just like you would use a bale of hay to feed a horse on. Some of them may have, and others may think they have, a cinch on some kind of an office or patronage in their district, but they haven't the slightest chance to get anything or to hold on to anything that they have got, even if Mr. Taft was to be nominated tomorrow, without further opposition. If you think that there is a possibility of the situation that I state being true, don't you also think that in justice to yourself, as a leader of the party, and in justice to the party and in justice to the people of the United States, that you ought not only to consider this proposition yourself, but canvass it with some other really reliable leaders in the Southern States? It is a funny thing to me what the delegation of Georgia or any other Southern state can hope to get by supporting Mr. Taft. They haven't got any votes that could do him any good after they nominated him - never did have and never will have until Southern Republicans are organized on a basis of honest sentiment, instead of a purely office-holding basis. I want to tell you, Mr. Johnson, that an opportunity is presenting itself to you, or to some other live Republican from the Southern States, to make a name and reputation that will go down in history as possibly the saviour of the Republican party, or at any rate, the beneficiary of the people.W.H.J. #2. The National Committee has decided to swipe enough delegates to nominate Mr. Taft, and the only thing that will keep Roosevelt following would demand that he run independent. The thing that the Southern delegates ought to do is to get together and organize a definite and positive plan, quietly, comprising enough delegates to off-set the delegates that have been stolen by the National convention, and go into the convention and nominate Mr. Roosevelt for president. I say Mr. Roosevelt, because he is the logical man; he is the man that the Republican States that elect the presidents have said by their vote that they want for president, and if there had been primaries in the South he would have beaten Mr. Taft in every Southern State, five to one. Now, don't you think that in the interest of logic and common sense and honesty and sqaare dealing, that the Southern negroes who have been taken care of by the Republican party ever since the war, should be willing to come forward in a crisis like this, and save the party from defeat ad possibly annihilation? Mr. Roosevelt don't want a third party, you don't want a third party, for the simple reason that reforms in the interest of the people, who own the country, can be better made under present organizations. A third party movement on the part of the Roosevelt followers would be made only under the most exasperating circumstances. a blind man could see that without anybody telling him, but if a third party movement should be inaugurated, the Southern delegates will be certainly wiped out from any interest that they may have. Mr. Taft cannot do them any good even if nominated. So that it looks to me like that it is about time for the Southern delegation to wake up and show that they are good for something besides holding offices. A new party would never recognize negro delegates unless they show some sense now. The Southern Delegations have been targets for exasperating butts, for chaffing, for sneers and for at least 50% of the epithets (they have deserved them) within the last 50 years. In so far as the South is concerned, they have never cut the slightest figure, except for the purpose of controlling the patronage. It has now come to the point of whether they would rather stick to the bosses in New York City (and that is where they are) or come out one time and manifest an interest in the success and welfare and stability of the Republican part to repay this party for standing by them through all kinds of criticism during the last 50 years. If I was a man in your position and occupied the prominence that you do in the affairs of the State, I would not hesitate for one moment to repudiate a candidate that I was instructed for who was trying to steal the nomination.W.H.G. #3. What does Mr. Taft, or what do the bosses, who own the committee care about you? If neither Mr. Taft nor Mr. Roosevelt should be nominated and another man should come in, the chances are that these same bosses who manipulate the affairs at the head of the party, would let you be fired without ever turning a hand. Inasmuch as Mr. Taft has been repudiated in the majority of the Republican states, where primaries were held, and the delegates from the Southern States could not do him any good if he was nominated, it strikes me that it would be a good idea for you to take up the question with some of the leaders from the Southern States and let the states redeem themselves one time. Why should you not object, or why should the Southern delegates not object to the New York politicians continuing to carry them in their vest pockets and use them as pawns in their game. A little, quiet combination amongst the Southern delegates would put any kind of a proposition across that they wanted to. If they don't want to nominate Mr. Roosevelt, they can name the candidate should fail to take advantage of the opportunity that is presented would be more, if it does fail, than I can understand. Now, Mr. Johnson, I am not a politician, but I have charge of a very large force of salesmen who cover a considerable section of the country, and I know he sentiment. I know what I am talking about. Ordinarily, not being the slightest interested in politics, I am not posted as to whether you are in favor of Roosevelt or Taft. I am just putting this proposition up to you, through my belief that you are a brainy white man, for your consideration, and I believe that the colored people of the South owe something to the National Republican Party for taking care of them during the past 50 years, during the period of their transformation from slavery into citizens. If they fall down now, the probabilities are that they will be eliminated from future participancy in National conventions. Even the Taft contingency are proposing that Southern representation be cut down on to a basis of the vote case. Therefore, if the Southern colored delegate has no regard for the future, it is up to them to consider a common sense proposition. Yours very truly, [*[Moody]*] P.S. -- In my opinion, if you should put this proposition across successfully, you would be about the biggest Republican in the Southern States during your life time. Now, isn't this worth considering? CWM.ENCL IN MOODY 7-17-12J.H. Pierce, Notary Public Charles L. Frank J.H. PIERCE & CO. Office Phones Residence Oakland. 5760 Phone Home A 1314 Oakland 8675 TRADE MARK Real Estate, Insurance, Loans, Bonds, Patents, Pensions, And Legal Papers. REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE & LOANS. 436 5th Street Back of Harbor Bank on Broadway Legal Work Our Specialty Oakland, Cal., June 21st. 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Your Excellency; I see that you wish to hear from the people. Having never held an office I believe I may be classed as one of the common herd, as our friends of the stand pat few have named us. I am with you, if you run as a Republican, regardless of this steam roller fiat convention and arrogating a power to speak for us, that the party will repudiate, for it is only a faction, a minority at that, swollen like the toad that tried to be as big as an ox, puffed up with the fungus of fraud. However, I write to appeal to you to form an Independent party, if the conditions continue as at this date.2 Form when you will, form it how you will, but make it Why? Because - First of all, and I see no one mentions this reason. First, it is your duty as a patriot. The two old parties are rotten. Democracy has the old virus of treason in its blood. The people have never trusted it, and only used it to make Republicans behave. It has ----- whisper it ------- Rum and Romanism [with] controling it, as well as Rebellion. Over it there is the giant of Tamany Hall, soaked in every species of crime and even Bryan succumbed to its domination. Is Republicanism better? See what it is to day, in the Senate, in the White House in the National Convention. It is a steam roller with spikes. Worse by far than Democracy because it is a hypocritical a secret traitor, betraying the people into the power of the conscienless plutocracys, claiming legality and regularity for its foulest tricks and usurpations. These two parties maintain the Mason and Dixon line. Every four years the battle is absolutely a sectional one. Do we want the South to become our Ireland?3 Is it not time that these parties that fatten on the smouldering fires of treason were dethroned? The State governments of the South are Democratic. The whole machine in the North is Republican. Down with them both, or in some sectional struggle we will have the old "Conquered Banner" taxing this nation for hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of treasure. Kill the Republican Party and the Democratic Party will die of its diseases, and never win more than one national victory even if it has that much life left. True you may be defeated in November but it will be the Bull Run that insures Appomattox. But you can win a Victory for the party of Progress in this next election. A common man could not. The lion slayer can slay the lying horde of boodling bosses. Your magnetism, your manhood, will bring to your cause the people. As Napoleon from Elba, so come to us from Chicago.4 Thousands nay many millions like me, mere workers in the hive of humanity, will follow where you lead, and that will be to ultimate Victory, or God has surrendered his supremacy. I was one of your "spell binders" in New York City - Ben Harrison campaign - I'm not as young as then, but I'm good for many a battle yet. I followed eagles that never retreated under McPherson, and to the standard of Progress when you unfurl it, the "Old Boys" of '61 and '65 of '98 and '99 will rush with a cheer that will be heard around the world. You were the author of a proposed tariff changing to fit the wage schedule. That is the tariff talk that means something for the people who have been the victims of previous schedules until it costs too much to live or even die. Yours for the New Party Jno. H. PierceKansas City Mo June 21 1912 Mr Theodore Roosevelt: Dear Teddy hear is a piece of poetry I wrote for you it taken me quite a while to finish it. if you think it is worth anything all right, and if not all right if I was old enough to vote I sure would vote for you hoping to hear from you soon. Your dear friend Buel Richardson 1320-22 Main st Kansas City MoFor enc see 6-21-12(COPY LETTER) PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NAVIGATION CONGRESSES. OFFICE OF U. S. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE XIITH CONGRESS. 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Wenn das Telegramm durch ein der Gesellschaft oder ihren Beamten zur Last fallendes Versehen oder Vershulden seine Bestimmung nicht erreicht, wird die Gesellschaft dem Absender die erhobenen Gebühren zurückerstatten. Die Gesellschaft haftet über den nach Obigen zurüchzuzahlenden Betrag hinaus für keinerlei Verlust, Nachtheil oder Schaden, der aus der Nichtbeförderung, Nichbestellung, Verzögerung oder Entstellung des Telegramms entstehen sollte, wo diese Fehler such vorgekommen sein mögen. Die Verantwortlichkeit der Gesellschaft für das Telegramm hört da auf, wo es zur Erreichung seines Bestimmungsortes auf die Linien einer anderen selbständigen Gesellschaft oder Verwaltung übergeht. In der Weitergabe an andere Linien ist die Gesellschaft nicht beschränkt. [*[ca 6-21-12]*] MASSACHUSETTS AND THE MINIMUM WAGE. By Elizabeth Gardiner Evans. Massachusetts has enacted a Minimum Wage Bill--a somewhat emasculated one to be sure, compared with that recommended by the Investigating Commission whose terms were outlined in Lafollette's Weekly of but one which preserves the essentials of the original Bill and even adds one feature of value. At any rate it is a good beginning and renews for Massachusetts her imperiled position of leadership in Labor Legislation among the states. The Massachusetts law, as it now stands written upon the Statute Book, creates a Minimum Wage Commission of three persons whose duty it shall be to organize a Wage Board in any occupation in which it shall appear that the wages received by a substantial number of women employees are "insufficient to supply the necessary cost of living and to maintain them in health." In fixing wage rates, Boards are specially instructed to consider, along with the needs of employees, "the financial condition of the occupation and the probable effect thereon of any increase in the minimum wages paid." Weighing all these factors, the Board shall endeavor to determine the minimum wage, "Whether by time rate or piece rate, suitable for a female employee of ordinary ability in the occupation in question or for any or all branches thereof, and also suitable minimum wages for learners and apprentices and for minors below the age of eighteen." Agreement by two-thirds of a Wage Board shall be necessary for a determination and2 when this is reached it is within the option of the Commission to disapprove any or all of the wage rates determined upon or to recommit them to the same Wage Board or to a new one. If approved by the Commission, however, after a public hearing, it "shall enter a decree of its findings, and note thereon the names of employers . . . . who fail to accept such a minimum and agree to abide by it." This is a substitute for the mandatory power with penalties attached which the original bill contained and which is a feature of similar bills in England and Australia. But the Massachusetts Bill bestows upon the commission in the place of mandatory power a provision of perhaps even greater importance, for the name of employers who refuse to accept the minimum decided upon are to be published in at least four newspapers in each county of the commonwealth in type not smaller than that in which ordinary news is printed. As publicity is believed by the advocate of this legislation to be is chief benefit, it may turn out that this amendment demanded by the industrial overlords as the price of the passage of the Bill will heighten rather than subtract from its value. Another effort to extract the fangs of the Bill may turn out in somewhat the same way, for by a further amendment employers who make an oath before the Supreme Judicial or the Superior Court to the effect that their business will be endangered if the prescribed wage scale is enforced, may be exempted from compliance therewith. This review by the Court was asked by representatives of the cotton industry while the original Bill was in process of being framed by the Investigating Commission and was refused upon the ground that questions of this character3 were not properly legal ones and also because employers' interests seemed to be more than amply guarded by the two-thirds decision of a Wage Board on which employers and employees are equally represented, which is required in making a determination, and by the further fact that these determinations are subject to a public hearing and review by the Commission. However, this amendment is not a serious matter. The right of appeal is not likely to be often resorted to and when it is used it will add still another element of public inquiry and discussion and so is not pure loss. The provision is significant chiefly as one more evidence of the way capital is seeking to intrench itself behind the courts. It is to be hoped that other states which are contemplating a minimum wage campaign will take heed to the fact that when the idea was first launched and was denounced by the conservative as ridiculous, by the time the Bill came up for action in the Legislature its moderate character had been so convincingly set forth that opposition had practically evaporated. Not a voice was raised against the measure in the House, not a vote cast in opposition, - while in the Senate, - that graveyard of progressive legislation, - only one negative vote is on record. No doubt the widespread labor unrest which made itself so portentiously manifest during the early months of 1912 was a controlling factor in delivering this surprising victory. That some remedial legislation must be conceded and driven home to even the least susceptible minds. Here was a plan, endorsed by Labor, and urged by the Reform element, which, while radical in principle, - since it pierces to the very heart the old contention4 that industry is a purely private affair, - was nevertheless so moderate in application that by no possibility could it materially damage employing interests. Thus the Minimum Wage Bill was let by, - a sop thrown to Ceberus by the Conservative forces but in the eyes of the farseeing the thin end of a very wide wedge. Let it be noted that in this respect the Massachusetts Bill is a vastly different one from that presented to the Wisconsin Legislature in 1911 and defeated in that progressive State. The former simply lays down the rule that employees are so far entitled to a living wage that industries which fail to pay this are proper subjects of State supervision; but there is no requirement that this wrong shall be righted by a Wage Board fiat at the price of driving an industry from the State. Upon this point the Wisconsin Bill was certainly a drastic measure, for it specifically declared that no employer should be allowed to do business who paid less than a living wage. Hence, if Massachusetts has outstripped Wisconsin in Minimum Wage Legislation, it is because the former has been content as a first step to lay down a revolutionary principle and to devise machinery for putting it in force very gradually as public opinion and industrial conditions allow. By the Massachusetts plan underpaid women workers are organized and brought into the relation of collective bargaining with their employers; the employers payrolls are laid open for public inquiry; employers who pay low wages are required to make good the necessity for so doing before the bar of public opinion. In these measures is surely a leaven which may be trusted in time to go far toward leavening the whole lump.5 When a Commission to consider the need of Minimum Wage Boards was petitioned for by the Women's Trade Union League in the Legislature of 1911, the undertaking seemed almost quixotic. That its Bill should pass in that session seemed beyond belief. But the Bill did pass. Then again when this Investigating Commission reported its Bill last January, a five years' campaign at the very least was expected. thus those who worked hard with little hope of immediate success are patient now at the delay of one year which the Bill as enacted requires. This delay was exacted on the ground that the creation of a Labor Bureau was immanent & that, if established, the functions of the wage Commission should possibly be entrusted to it rather than to a separate body. At least this was the reason given. But State House gossip alleged that the desire of a Republican legislature to back Geo Foss, a democrat, in the appointment of the new Commission has something to do with the postponed date. Be that as it may, the bill will not go into effect until July 1st 1913. [A Labor Bureau was under consideration by the Legislature; and on the ground that if this Bureau were created the functions of the Wage Commission should possibly be entrusted to this rather than to a separate body was urged as a reason for delaying the operation of the Minimum Wage Bill, which accordingly is not to take effect until July 1. 1913.] Thus there is an interval in which it is probable that employers who are sensitive to public opinion may take steps to put their houses in order before the light is let in and Wage Boards when they get to work may find a better standard of wages and other conditions in many industries than prevails today.Enc in Evans 6-21-12[*[6-21-12]*] BY BURL RICHARDSON TEDDY ROOSEVELT Come all you republicans if you want to hear, The democrats have no man the republicans fear. No there, a not one, They are all on the bum. They just want in the white house to get that big fat sum. Why not elect a man, That's noted through the land. He's the best of all, he surely will be elected this coming fall. To elect a man like Taft, It's nothing but a graft. And lets elect a man for us, some one we can trust. Teddy Roosevelt. If we dont elect him then, We will be sorry in the end. But use your own pride, and tie that bull out side. Teddy is the man, He will get elected if any body can. Now vote for T. R. The saver of the land. When you voters go to the polls, stand up and look bold. Make your mind up quick, if you dont fote for T. R. its a dirty trick. Dont think you can elect Taft, He's nothing but a graft. But vote for T. R. he's the whole thing, and his hat is in the ring. He never makes a thrust, When he is in the banks never bust. In the villages, And in the town, if he's elected the factories wont shut down. Now do not act so stern, if this is his third term. He does the people, and always in the fight, if you will only vote Teddy and help us in the fight.Enc in Richardson 6-21-12GRANT ALLEN GEO. A HEIMERMANN ALLEN & HEIMERMANN GOOD GROCERIES 1301 SOUTH ADAMS STREET AGENTS FOR BEST-ON-EARTH FLOUR COAL AND FEED 'PHONE MAIN 956 Peoria, Ill. June 22d 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, c/ Congress Hotel, Chicago. My Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- Why not start a "Petition Campaign" to get an expression from the people in regard to supporting a New Party and when the petitions are in, we will not only have the expressions but a monstrous political party so far as numbers are concerned. Let us put into practice at once one of the great principles of "Progressiveism" the Initiative. The expense of circulating a petition in every Township, Precinct, and village in the United States, certainly would not be prohibitive. A petition at the present time would be received with the greatest enthusiasm by the people, who would be anxious and willing to do the work of circulating without pay, every man among us wants to do something to help in this fight for humanity. Why could not this petition be made a record breaker; the biggest petition over circulated in this or any other country for a principle. As a sample I enclose a clipping from last nights Star and as the latter indicates this was a spontanious affair but goes to show the possibilities of the Petition Campaign with your personality and our organization back of it. Very truly yours, Grant AllenFor 1 enc see ca 6-22-12 "Roosevelt men fair..."[*ack 6-25-12*] C. H. BARNES, Sec. & Manager J. M. STEPHENS, President H. HITCHCOCK, V -Pres. & Treas. BARNES SHEET METAL COMPANY, INC. 58 SOUTH FORSYTH STREET BELL PHONE M 3269 ATLANTA, GA. June-22-1912 Hon T Roosevelt N Y City, Honored Sir: This to you as a message of good cheer, GEORGIA, IS FOR YOU?NOT A DOUBT, about this, we start the Campaign to day, for the Progressive Party, and will fight to the last ditch, God speed the cause, Very truly yours, Charles H. Barnes formerly of Philada, Pa. Have no connections on Albany Family of same name[*ack 6-26-12 [6-22-12?]*] [*2.*] 115 Broadway, New York City. Hon. Theorde Roosevelt, Outlook Company, New York City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I have watched with deep interest the movements of your nomination campaign in Chicago, and the situation in the results of today. I know you are extremely busy but write to ask you for five minutes of your time today, not more between the hours of two to four at your convenience to present two movements in your interest that will be of tremendously force and value and should be in motion without an hours delay. I sincerely believe that the actual work they will do if the contest were close might easily and certainly change loss to a victory. Knowing how you are being pressed for time I would not ask this brief time if I did not feel that you would after hearing what I have to offer approve of my suggestions, and would frankly say you want to use them. I do not think there can or will anything offered during this campaign so vital and successful in results of good effect in winning votes as what I have to present to you. You are qualified to judge the whole matter in two minutes and I want to speak for this brief length of time with you about it personally, and then go to the party or parties to who you direct me.2. Kindly telephone me to No. 8844 Rector I can present the matter so you will fully understand it all in three to five minutes of your time. I am deeply interested in your personal success, and am sure that your position of today occupies one of the three greatest epochs of the history of the United States, and that your issues will win in this nation if clearly put before the voters. I regard the other two epochs to be the writing and signing of the constitution of the United States and the rescuing of this nation from slavery. The grip upon this nation of clicks of unscrupulously men who prevert the rights and subvert the liverties of our broad population for their own interest of exploitation and extortion must be broken. There is no other man in this nation qualified or actually capable of taking the lead to do this service as you are. This should be made plain to the voters everywhere in this nation, in a most practical and economical plan. I have worked out ways and means of making this successful. Awaiting your prompt phone for this information today. Yours very truly, Wm. F. BlaineLamar Ark June 22, 1912 Col. Theo Roosevelt, Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir, Have just written Mr Bryan a letter which concerns you, but fearing perhaps some secretary of Mr Bryan might think the matter unimportant, he or you might never hear of it so I risk two channels instead of one. I send you a copy of the letter hoping that you also will be at Baltimore. Yours truly S. G. Cazort."WHATEVER YOUR PROBLEM - WE PROMISE TO HELP." "The Brotherhood" Linwood Presbyterian Church CORNER LINWOOD AND WOODLAND KANSAS CITY, MO. OFFICERS A. B. COLTON, PRESIDSENT, 807 SHARP BLDG. D. J. CHAPMAN, VICE-PRESIDENT, 918 SCARRITT BLDG. FRANK C. KENYON, SECY. AND TREAS., 3608 WINDSOR AVE. COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN MEMBERSHIP, JAS. OLIVER HOOD, CHAIRMAN J. L. SEVERANCE, VICE-CHAIRMAN MUTUAL HELP, H. R. BANKS, CHAIRMAN W. L. LACY, VICE-CHAIRMAN RECEPTION, J. A. BOWMAN, CHAIRMAN O. M. WHITEHILL, VICE-CHAIRMAN ENTERTAINMENT, DR. W. H. BAILEY, CHAIRMAN HAL. W. BROWN, VICE-CHAIRMAN June 22 -1912 The Hon. Theo. Roosevelt New York City My Dear Sir: - Please permit "one of the common people" to express to you his full appreciation of your services to the country and to our times, for the splendid fight you put up at Chicago this week, against machine-made odds. Among the crowds watching the bulletin from the Convention, nothing that the Taft crowd did awake the least enthusiasm. It is the expressed wish of every Roosevelt Republican on the street (and there are very few of any other label here) - that, if Mr. Bryan is accorded the same treatment at Baltimore, that you have received at Chicago that a new party be formed of the followers of yourself - Bryan; Wilson, Cummins et al. and a National Convention be called in August and a National Ticket put in the field upon a Progressive platform. I have followed your career almost daily since 1881 - when both of left College. I have been dubbed "Roosevelt crazy" by some of my friends. I still believe in you and that you could render a large service to the country in backing the new party with your own dynamic personality. It may be that it would not be"WHATEVER YOUR PROBLEM - WE PROMISE TO HELP." "The Brotherhood" Linwood Presbyterian Church CORNER LINWOOD AND WOODLAND KANSAS CITY, MO. OFFICERS A. B. COLTON, PRESIDSENT, 807 SHARP BLDG. D. J. CHAPMAN, VICE-PRESIDENT, 918 SCARRITT BLDG. FRANK C. KENYON, SECY. AND TREAS., 3608 WINDSOR AVE. COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN MEMBERSHIP, JAS. OLIVER HOOD, CHAIRMAN J. L. SEVERANCE, VICE-CHAIRMAN MUTUAL HELP, H. R. BANKS, CHAIRMAN W. L. LACY, VICE-CHAIRMAN RECEPTION, J. A. BOWMAN, CHAIRMAN O. M. WHITEHILL, VICE-CHAIRMAN ENTERTAINMENT, DR. W. H. BAILEY, CHAIRMAN HAL. W. BROWN, VICE-CHAIRMAN politic for you to lead it. It surely can not succeed with out your active support. Perhaps the ticket should be Bryan & Wilson or Wilson and Hadley - or the reverse - but it does seem as though such a movement would sweep the country. - and that the country needs sweeping. Four years from now I would hope to see you the standard bearer of the new organization, and I am sure you would win. The people are ripe for the movement. I think a great deal depends upon the action of the Baltimore Convention. Thousands of Republicans throughout the Central West will not - can not support the Chicago ticket. I earnestly hope that your health and life may be spared to the country that has honored you so signally in the past, and which has been the recipient of great deeds at your hands. I trust a kind Providence may spare you to us for many useful years of service. Sincerely yours Albie B. Colton[*File under Dearing*] [*College Prfs*] PRESIDENT'S OFFICE OAKLAND CITY COLLEGE Oakland City, Ind., June 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I note your recent statement relative to the attitude of the heads of educational institutions and am pleased to say that I am on your side of the fence with both feet. At least 75% of the members of the faculty and the student body are with me. I have not been an active politician but my educational work in teachers institutes, commencements, and other such gatherings has taken me into practically every neighborhood in southern Indiana during the past 20 years and I know the heart of the people. I am pleased to assure you that the great majority of the masses are in hearty sympathy with you in your fight. The problems and questions being raised by socialism are the questions of the hour but I have no faith in the solutions they offer. I therefore regret that the present management of the Republican party is not only giving no ear nor offering any solution to the spirits of unrest but by its stand-pat attitude and blind methods is breeding socialists by the thousands. The most significant utterance I have heard on every hand in these last few days is the hope voiced by men of both parties that the same line of cleaveage may appear at Baltimore and out of the two fights a new party of progress may emerge. To such a movement I shall gladly give my hearty support. Sincerely yours, W.P. DearingFor enc see 6-22-12[*[6-22-12?]*] Francois De Tessan Special Correspondent of Chicago. 22d of June "Le Matin" in the U.S.A. 1008 Dearborn Avenue 170 Fifth Avenue, New York [New York 191] Telephone 1053 Gramercy Cable Address OKARDY, N.Y. Dear Sir, Some days ago I requested an interview of Colonel Roosevelt through the courtesy of our common friend Dr Alexander Lambert. Mr Roosevelt was kind enough to authorize me to arrange an article with quotations of his own speeches. So I did. But I had mixed some sentences of transition in order to give to the French public a more complete idea of the Rooseveltian doctrine. Colonel Roosevelt then wrote to me that he wanted his words to be quoted all along. In that spirit I have prepared another document which, I hope, he will find satisfactory. I would not be indiscrete in insisting and in spoiling his time which is very busy just now but if he has a minute left would you be kind enough to present that article to him. Our paper will be muchhonoured in printing it without changing a single syllable. I think that in view of the fight which will continue after the Convention a declaration of that kind will favorably impress the European public. I have already writen several special articles explaining with the greatest sympathy the Roosevelt movement but a direct note of Colonel Roosevelt himself will certainly appeal strongly to the French sentiment. Thanking you in advance I beg to remain, Dear Sir Yours very truly Tessay P.S. I will stay in Chicago till Monday. After that date please answer me to my New York address 170 Fifth Avenue[*[6-22-12]*] 170 STEVENS AVENUE MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt I admire your pluck in your fight against odds, I believe you are honest and sincere and that your fight is ours. Your cause has a multitude of loyal followers many of whom believe thata new "Progressive" Party should be born at this time. Wishing you and the People's cause success. I am yours truly A.B. Eckerson M.D. Mount Vernon June 22/12 N.Y.Dr. Thomas Edwin Eldridge 1811 North Logan Square Philadelphia, PA. June 22 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Keep your grit Fight it out Organize New Party The People are with you Thos. E. Eldridge M.D. -1319 Fulton Avenue Davenport, Iowa. June 22, 1912. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: - I have followed with very great interest the action of the shameful convention in Chicago and what I suppose is the last word for decency there in that you stop any further attempts. I want to thank you for what you have done. I am a Presbyterian minister and if as I hope, you see the organization of a new party thru' and you can get no one any better than I to "stump" for you I am at your service at such times as I am able to get away. The month of August is my vacation and I could give you all of that month if you could use me. The enclosed program and card will possibly be of passing interest to you if you even get time to see my letter. Once more thanking you for all that you have done for the plain common people I beg to remain Yours most cordially and respectfully One of them, John W. Goltzholtz.FENTON S. FOX METTIE V. FOX FOX PHOTOGRAPHER FIFTY FIRST STREET & INDIANA AVE CHICAGO PHONE OAKLAND 3572 6/22/12. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir: My son, now fourteen years of age, is the eleventh American born generation of our family. Therefore, we are pretty close to being genuine Americans. Over one hundred and twenty-five years ago my Grandfather Church -- my mother's father-- as a little boy nine years of age, in company with his people traveled by wagon from Phillips, Maine to Ohio to become settlers of the Great Western Reserve. My people have always fought for the right. They fought the British, they fought the Indians they fought the Confederate armies of the South and they have always fought the Democratic party and the principles of that institution. During the first McKinley campaign I made the trip from Boston to Chicago to register and again made the round trip to vote for that greatly beloved man in November.Now, the Republican party -- the institution of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and of ourselves --no longer exists. The highway robbery perpetrated at the Chicago gathering -- it was not a convention--indicates that the old party and the spirit of our fathers who organized it and supported it is dead. THEREFORE THE TIME HAS COME FOR A NEW PARTY -- "THE BULL MOOSE" -- or whatever the robbers may see fit to term it AND YOU ARE THE MAN TO LEAD IT. You are big enough and brave enough and HONEST ENOUGH and POPULAR ENOUGH to carry the standard of a new HONEST part to victory Your place in history is secure and after what will take place within the next year it will be one of three -- Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt -- to stand out as the greates Champions of HUMAN LIBERTY. GOd bless you and keep you and prosper you in this noble work for a long suffering nation. Sincerely, Fenton S FoxTHE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL E.E. GARRISON, BUSINESS MANAGER MADISON, WISCONSIN June 22, 1912 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- Please accept my thanks for your letter of June 17th, acknowledging receipt of my last letter to your father. Very truly yours, E.E. GarrisonTHE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL E.E. GARRISON, BUSINESS MANAGER MADISON, WISCONSIN June 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Colonel:- Knowing that the money question is the most important issue before the country and that its solution furnishes the only sound foundation for the proper solution of other great economic and social problems, I have for years felt that my support must eventually go to the political leader who grasped this condition, or, at least, who fully realized its existence. Ever since this became clear to me, I have endeavored to induce the public men of my acquaintance to apply their minds to the subject. Especially have I devoted my energies to your service in this matter; and, as you well know, with no desire for anything but friendly recognition. The situation at the present moment is critical. The steam roller organization is behind the Aldrich plan. The Aldrich plan is the biggest steal from the people that has ever been contemplated in the history of the world, and especially is this true in view of things that have been put into it since I talked with you last. And Heaven only knows what further deviltry will be added at the last moment. At Chicago, I was obliged, by these facts to takeTHE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL E. E. GARRISON, BUSINESS MANAGER MADISON, WISCONSIN #2. a definite stand. I found your chief advisor little short of insane on the subject, and you apathetic. With Prof. Commons help, the currency plank was put into the Wisconsin platform; and when I found the Wisconsin leaders capable of realizing its importance, I could do nothing other than transfer my allegiance to that platform and incidentally to the leader, whoever he may be, who shall stand upon it. I trust that you will find time to read this letter carefully and that you will endeavor to understand my course. I need not dwell upon the regret which I experience in being obliged to follow any course that means separation from your interests. Sincerely yours, E. E. Garrison.[*5*] State Bank of Wellston Wellston, Mo. JULIUS KESSLER, PRESIDENT. GEO. W. RINKEL, VICE PRESIDENT. G. S. HURST, CASHIER. June 22nd, 1912. [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Ills. Dear Sir:- I believe the time has come when an American Citizen who votes for a man or issue shall be certain that his vote shall count as he wants it to. I believe that when the National Committee can deliberately defraud thousands of voters of their right to vote it is time to start a movement that will insure them their rights. I for one do not want any man to tell me that my vote will or shall not count and in the same breath tell me that his will. If you inaugurate a movement that will purify politics, that will enable the people beyond all question to decide questions themselves, as they should do in my opinion, I shall be with you not only as an individual but also in other ways. Yours very truly, John B. Ghio You can count me as an active member of your Progressive PartyNORRIS, ALISTER & CO. WHOLESALE JEWELERS. DIAMOND IMPORTERS. CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, TOOLS /MATERIALS, OPTICAL GOODS. WABASH AVE. AND MADISON ST. HEYWORTH BUILDING CHICAGO. ESTABLISHED 1865 ELGIN WATCH MOVEMENTS. WALTHAM WATCH MOVEMENTS. N.Y. STANDARD WATCH MOVEMENTS. NEW ENGLAND COMPLETE WATCHES. HOWARD COMPLETE WATCHES. EXCELSIOR COMPLETE WATCHES. KEYSTONE GOLD WATCH CASES. BOSS GOLD FILLED WATCH CASES. CRESCENT GOLD FILLED WATCH CASES. CROWN GOLD FILLED WATCH CASES. FAVORITE GOLD FILLED WATCH CASES. ROYAL GOLD FILLED WATCH CASES. June 22, 1912 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt- As one of the people never held a public position in my life, and referring to my letter of some 10 days ago, I am prepared to say of the sound Republicans, we are now very decided Progressives, and if November approaches, a Democratic vote will be given, in preference to a vote for Taft or a Tainted ticket socalled. - We are still strong for Theodore Roosevelt. - or his choice. Yours Truly R. G. Giesler 4320 Berkeley Ave -FRED HARPER LEON GOODMAN LAW OFFICES HARPER & GOODMAN LYNCHBURG, VA. June 22nd 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Sir:-- I desire to express my regret at the failure of the Chicago Convention to nominate you for President and to express the hope that you will lend your influence and aid to the formation of a progressive third party of which you (I hope) will be the standard bearer in the election this Fall. I believe that had the Chicago Convention nominated you you would have led the Republican party to victory, but with the success or failure of the Republican party I have little or no concern. I have always voted the Democratic ticket and at times have taken some considerable interest in the party's affairs, but in the Presidential election this Fall I had determined to cast my vote, and to use such influence as I might have, in your behalf because your policies as outlined in the Charter of Democracy speech at Columbus met with my earnest approval and endorsement. My apology for writing you is that I feel that a progressive third party is an absolute requirement of the times, and while, in my opinion, it is more than doubtful that such a party's candidate could be elcted at this time, yet, four years hence I am sure victory would be certain. I find that many of the younger Democrats of this cityare heartily with you and will support and vote for you. Of course, the State is heavily Democratic, but you will poll a tremendously large vote. I find these same young men favor a third party and are unanimously for you for President. Should you feel that I can be of service to you or the cause, I trust you will not hesitate to call on me. I beg to remain, Very truly yours. Leon GoodmanTHE ALBANY FIRE PROOF ANNEX EVERY ROOM WITH BATH OPEN JULY 1ST 1912 THE ALBANY TOTAL 360 ROOMS 100 DISPLAY ROOMS 300 WITH PRIVATE BATH WITH BATH Denver, Colo....June 22 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Esq. C/O The Outlook, New York City. Sir: - Even your enemies say that you have the wit to seize the phsychological moment. Here is your opportunity to become the possessor of a knowledge that will make all history bless you, and give you while you live the best fame,- that of doing something for humanity- If you come here and let me talk to you for two hours-you cannot fail to be the next president. What I have to say has to do withROCKY MOUNTAIN BLANK NOTE CO. THE ALBANY FIRE PROOF ANNEX EVERY ROOM WITH BATH OPEN JULY 1ST 1912 The Albany TOTAL 360 ROOMS 300 WITH PRIVATE BATH 100 DISPLAY ROOMS WITH BATH Denver, Colo., 191___ the conservation of energy. I shall present it in an entirely new light and in such big letters that the lesson taught by the loss of the Titanic was a primer affair. Mine is the last lesson on the subject. Instantly the thing will be grasped by the people - I not only can show the harm done by present practices, but I can pronounce an immediate cure. This is your real opportunity - address me at 428 Railway Exchange Bldg - yours respectfully, J. S. HamiltonROCKY MOUNTAIN BLANK NOTE COMPANY THE ALBANY FIRE PROOF ANNEX EVERY ROOM WITH BATH OPEN JULY 1ST 1912 THE ALBANY TOTAL 360 ROOMS 100 DISPLAY ROOMS 300 WITH PRIVATE BATH WITH BATH Denver, Colo.........................................191.......... Give as much heed to a light precept as to a grave for we know not the assigned reward- So says Thorah- "Hasten to a light precept" it also says I shall wait until the 29th to hear from you by wire or otherwise.245 East 94 St. New York June 22, 1912 Colonel Theo Roosevelt Oyster Bay NY. Dear Mr. Roosevelt, I the undersigned and two of my sons are voters from the above address. We have been voting the Democratic ticket but we want to change over to your party starting at this election. I do not know where your club or representative for this district is but I would like to very much. By letting me know where your club or representative is situated and sending me an introductory letter you will place me under seriousobligations to you Wishing you best of luck and hoping to hear from you I remain Yours respectfully James Hardiman 245 East 94th St N. Y. CityVAN ORSEDEL THINKS TAFT SURE WINNER Justice J. A. Van Orsdel, who with Samuel Rinaker, is attending the Chicago convention, today sent the following message to Beatrice friends: "No session today. Waiting for committee's report. The Roosevelt boom has collapsed and his forces are disintegrating. If any bolt there will be only a small percent of his followers go out. Much talk a third candidate abandoned. Taft will be nominated on first ballot. The issues of the campaign will be constitutional and representative government against democracy. J. A. Van Orsdel. PERSONAL. Beatrice, Nebr., June 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: - I have lived in Nebraska continuously at this place for years past. I have always been identified with the democratic party. However, I admired much of your work and service done the country, not only as an official, but as well as that of a civilian. However, you no doubt have already discovered, that, those whom you have most favored, at the critical time will desert you. I enclosed you herein a newspaper clipping from a man whom you caused to be an assistant U.S. Attorney, and then elevated him to the position of a Federal Judge. Undoubtedly, this came about through your pretended friends at that time,—Senators Clark and Warren. At that time I believed, and still believe that there was no true friendship existing by either of the last two gentlemen named, for you, and Judge Van Orsdel in my opinion is not capable of filling an office for a Justice of the Peace. These are not the only persons in the West whom I know you favored, and when the crucial time came for you, deserted you, and fought you. Yours respectfully, A S HazlettPERSONAL. Beatrice, Nebr., June 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: - I have lived in Nebraska continuously at this place for years past. I have always been identified with the democratic party. However, I admired much of your work and service done the country, not only as an official, but as well as that of a civilian. However, you no doubt have already discovered, that, those whom you have most favored, at the critical time will desert you. I enclosed you herein a newspaper clipping from a man whom you caused to be an assistant U.S. Attorney, and then elevated him to the position of a Federal Judge. Undoubtedly, this came about through your pretended friends at that time,—Senators Clark and Warren. At that time I believed, and still believe that there was no true friendship existing by either of the last two gentlemen named, for you, and Judge Van Orsdel in my opinion is not capable of filling an office for a Justice of the Peace. These are not the only persons in the West whom I know you favored, and when the crucial time came for you, deserted you, and fought you. Yours respectfully, A S HazlettL. PLAGMANN GROCERIES AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS MEATS TELEPHONES 477-L AND 477-7 1339-1341-1401 WEST SEVENTH STREET Davenport, Iowa, June 22nd 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Ills. Dear Colonel. I want to congratulate you on the stand you have taken. The time is ripe for a third party and the battle for Independence must be fought over again. I am only voiceing the sentiment of a number of men in this locality We are at your service. Yours truly Geo H Hume 2233 Bowditch St.Hon Theo Roosevelt - [*[6-22-12]*] Dear Sir. My grandfather, Father and all our people as far back as I can recall have been staunch Republicans. I could not Sin against my better self four years ago. I did not vote for Taft Never Will Taft have my vote. God bless you. Continue to fight for right. My Vote if you run for the Presidency shall fall for you. No set of robbers politically like the fellows at Chicago were, who are Tafts friends can smell at my Vote. Yours Sincerely G. W. Jonboden 137 Mauch Chunk St Nazareth PA 6/22/12 PS I publicaly from my pulpit spoke for you and against TaftUniversity Extension Division Louis E. Reber, Dean Dept. Of Correspondence-Study William M. Lighty, Secretary Dept. Of Correspondence-Study Dept. Of Instruction By Lectures Dept. Of Debating And Public Discussion Dept. Of General Information And Welfare THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON June 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Chicago, Ill. Please permit me to congratulate you on the splendid fight you are making for honest government of the people. Such unselfish devotion to a noble cause is not often seen and I wish to express my appreciation. I sincerely hope that enough patriotic men will be found to form the nucleus of a truly representative and democratic party. I am heartily with you. Respectfully C. M. Jansky, Asso. Prof. of Elect. Engr'g.Dearborn, Tex. 6/22/12 Dear Mr. Roosevelt; Something happened the other day that I thought to funny to keep, so I am going to tell you, I have two little nephews, Philip 6 and Wilber 4 years old. Philip asked Wilber a question the little fellow looked at him for a minute then he said Philip I dont know and no one [?] this earthdoes know but Teddy Roosevelt, Santa Claus and God. Mrs. Ida Klug.Form 280. 25M-I2-I0. The Girard Fire and Marine Insurance Co. PHILADELPHIA [A. W.] LOTSPEICH AGENT MORRISTOWN, TENN. Morristown, Tenn. 6/22/1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay,N.Y. Dear Sir:- I am one of those democrats that helped you get the big majority over Parker and have a letter from you thanking me for the help given.I never asked you for anything nor did I expect it.I am still for the revolutionary forces of this country and expect them to triumph as sure as time holds its course. Inclosed you will find a matter that may interest you, or if it does not, I am sure that you stand in such touch with capitol that you can help me interest them in it.I am confident that it is as fine proposition as there is in New Mexico, or most anywhere else for that matter, and that it will pay to send a reliable party out there to investigate the [matter] it. I am trying to help secure capitol to finance this matter and the only reward I expect is some commissions to help carry the deal. Hoping that you can be of some help to me, and that you can find it in your heart to do so, and trusting for the courtesy of a reply I am, Very truly yours, J. N. Lotspeich Morristown, Tennessee.For encl see 6-22-12[*[ca 6-22-12-]*] I have a mining property in New Mexico consisting of 16,000 acres, situated 4 miles from a Mexican town of about 500 inhabitants and about 26 miles from the railroad with a good wagon road passing through it from the town and railroad, and within four miles of a daily mail. This tract averages three miles wide from East to West and eleven miles long from North to South, and embraces the larges body of conglomerate ore, perhaps, on this continent. The ore body is found in solid mass over about 10,000 acres of the tract and at the summit is 1,500 feet high from the level of the river and extends down an unknown deph. There are more than 100,000,000 tons of ore in sight which can be estimated without sinking shafts, running cross-cuts or tunnels. The ore runs from $1 to $45 for gold and $1.60 for silver per ton. Five car loads of ore, carefully taken from 86 different openings, and treated by amalgamation at Black Hawk, Colo., for gold only, yielded to $3.40 the minimum to $6.50, the maximum per ton. One hundred assays from the varsous (?) chemists gave an average value of $1 to $45 per ton. The whole thing is a quarry proposition and down grade to move the ore to the mills. The ore is easily crushed and treated and can be taken from the quarry to the mint at a cost of $1 per ton. These ore bodies towering heavenward are distinctly seen 30 miles to the South. Plenty of water and unlimited supply of timber, climate excellent and Mexican labor cheap. The ore in sight will warrant the erection of a plant of 10,000 tones daily capacity and its continual operation for more than 50 years. Respectfully submitted, J.N. Lospeich Agt [*There has been added about 4000 acres to the above tract in the last 5 months, and the whole will cut 80 million feet of timber in adition to the mineral. If any on can be interested in this they should act at once for certain reasons.*]Encl in Lotspeich 6-22-12[*[6-22-12]*] Honorable Sir Pericles the Athenian deid and Theodore Roosevelt Born to Complit what he's not finish. The people of United States show that to you in Primary Elections that you are the man to rule upon them and gave them progressive and Civilization and make the red white and blew a more grander flag on earth. Fight to the last. I Congratulate you in 1904 at your first period I will do it again in 1912. The Golding Censury will come with you the president Faithfuly with very much respect G.M. Mamassiotis 3012 3d Ave New York Bronx. Saturday June 22/12.OFFICE HOURS: UNTIL 9:30 A.M. 5 TO 7 P.M. TELEPHONE {7582} {4164} RIVERSIDE EDWARD E. MYERS, M.D. THE BRAENDER 418 CENTRAL PARK WEST NEW YORK June 22nd 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir: You went before the people and honesty won the Delegates to the convention. The nomination was stolen from you by as fine a set of Pirates as ever scuttled a ship. Sentiment has changed in a few hours as noticed by me while I watched the crowd in front of the times building tonight. I was unable to detect a Taft man. He might have been there but no one could find him. I never voted the Democratic Ticket, but I shall vote first for you then a Democrat I think there are millions like me to-night. I believe the American people love fair play they have not had it at Chicago. Wishing you success I remain Yours truly Dr. Edward E. MyersJohn Miller. Established 1972. Robert Miller, Jr. ROBERT MILLER'S SONS Retail Furniture, Carpets, Linoleums, Oilcloths, Etc. The Millers Telephone 485 Bryant. 244, 246 & 248 West 42nd St. New York City, June 22/12 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. My Dear Sir I see by to days paper, you are going to wait and organize a new party within a short time. I think its about the right idea and will do more good than bolting the convention I can say from my talk to Friends and to others, the feeling of the people is, that a change from the old order of things is needed and I think if you start an entirely new party it will take only a very little while to make a great success of it. I have been a follower and admirer of you and our policies for 20 year and was at the convention in old Lyric Hall when you were nominated to the Assembly and have watched you since and while I have never met you personally have always believed in you, andJOHN MILLER ROBERT MILLER, JR. ESTABLISHED 1872. ROBERT MILLER'S SONS FURNITURE, CARPETS, LINOLEUMS, OILCLOTH, ETC. THE MILLERS TELEPHONE 485 BRYANT. 244, 246 & 248 WEST 42ND ST. NEW YORK CITY, do so still and pray and hope you will keep up the fight, and know if you do that it won't take long to make a success of the new party. I don't think Mr. Taft if they nominate him again will get one half the Republican vote even in this state. Wishing your success and God speed in your endeavors to do what is right. I remain Sincerely yours John Miller58 YEARS OF MOLLENHAUER CONSERVATORIES IN THE UNITED STATES LOUIS MOLLENHAUER'S Conservatory of Music 71 MARLBOROUGH ROAD CORNER OF CHURCH AVENUE TELEPHONE 471 FLATBUSH BROOKLYN, N.Y. June 22d 1912 LOUIS MOLLENHAUER RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY ON CORRECT METHOD OF MUSICAL INSTRUCTION MOLLENHAUER Conservatories of Music were the first established in the United States by a former generation, the celebrated Mollenhauer Brothers - Henry,Frederic and Edward. "Philharmonic Concert, New York City, NOVEMBER 24, 1855, the Brothers Mollenhauer, so favorably known to our public, played very admirably on the occasion, and were heartily and justly applauded." - Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Dec. 15, 1855. Col. T.R. Roosevelt Dear Sir I cannot resist the temptation of writing you these few lines. I also cannot express to you by letter how sorry I felt that you did not receive the Republican Nomination for President of these United States. I know that the American people as a whole love you and I do so sincerely. I was born in NY in 1863 have never voted for any other than a Republican but shall not vote for a Republican candidate for President this coming Election unless that candidate could be you. Sincerely with loving Regard Louis MollenhauerJune 22 [*[1912?]*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt N.Y. City Dear Sir! Don't loose time! Head at once The "Progressive National Party" but don't forget that you are fighting for the Lord and that all strenght and success have got to come from Him alone. A body of true lived-Americans are ready to offer their last drop of blood and last penny for the Cause! Respectfully Yours A.L. Nelson Bernardsville N. J.For encl see Nelson 6/22/12JAMES M. PERKINS COUNSELLOR AT LAW 27 SCHOOL STREET TEL. 2395 FORT HILL BOSTON. June 22 - 1912 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt — Permit me to call to your attention the following incident. At the [abo] class '92 dinner 20th anniversary, Harvard, at the writers table were 6 members from different parts of the country, the five Republicans were enthusiastically in favor of your candidacy and equally opposed with machine leaders. Pardon intrusion — Jas. M. Perkins Harvard A. B. 92 LLD '95THE LARGEST TIRE DEALER IN THE CENTRAL STATES WM. VANDERPOOL TIRES A SPECIALTY I Ship Tires East, West, North and South, and to Canada Distributor of Imperial Tires and Columbia Tubes Manufacturer of Van Auto Jacks and Vulcanizers Factory at Springfield Ohio MAIN OFFICE, 723 W. MULBERRY ST. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO BRANCH AT 440 W. ADAMS ST. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Jacksonville, Fla., June 22nd 12 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: I was about to write you, as one of the great throng, watching the battle, to ask you to come out of the convention. But you have come and you will have the thanks of the people by their votes. You can lick those Political Ringsters to a stand still, by the voice of the people, as long as you stand for righteous principles and for a righteous government for the people and by the people. It is because I believe in you to be a true exponent of RightThe largest tire dealer in the central states WM. VANDERPOOL TIRES A SPECIALTY I Ship Tires East, West, North and South, and to Canada Distributor of Imperial Tires and Columbia Tubes Manufacturer of Van Auto Jacks and Vulcanizers Factory at Springfield Ohio MAIN OFFICE, 723 W. MULBERRY ST. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO BRANCH AT 440 W. ADAMS ST. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Jacksonville, Fla., regardless of the odds against you and without fear, is the reason you have always had, and will continue to have my hearty support. Stand for the Rights and you are bound to win. Yours truly H. L. Perryman 440 W. Adams Jacksonville, Fla. (From Springfield Ohio)10. ARMY WAR COLLEGE WASHINGTON June 22, 1912 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Sir: During the excitement of the convention I have been diverting myself by re-reading Motley's Dutch Republic. It is indeed idle to point to parallels of the present movement or its personages, for history is full of them; yet the life of William the Silent, his patient resourcefulness and ability, his far sighted vision in watching over, and amid conflicting currents leading his people and guiding them safely to freedom can not fail to bring to mind your work of the last ten years. He fought for all and he appealed to all, but especially did he appeal to the plain people, the burghers, and they never failed him. To them he was "Father William" hardly less than their father in heaven. But with the so-called best people it was then as now and doubtless ever will be in such crises. Though Motley doe not so relate, it is hardly conceivable that so skillful a diplomat and so conservative a radical as William should not have been painted as a scheming Machiavelli. It now appears that the new party has come. I sincerely hope so. It was inevitable and it makes the issue clear. You certainly spiked their guns when you came out with that statement Thursday evening which forced them to go ahead and nominate Taft. Otherwise they would have found some one with the label "progressive" who was willing and would have nominated him. During the campaign they would have boomed him as a progressive and an excellent candidate for all to compromise on; then when he was beaten in the fall they would haveARMY WAR COLLEGE WASHINGTON turned and howled that the country had repudiated progressivism. As it is now, thanks to you, hey have got to go ahead and nominate the man they stole the goods for and make the campaign on his record and the record of that convention. And more, those weak kneed progressives who would compromise on a proposition that makes Lorimer look like a patriot have got to stand up and be counted for sheep or goats. All of these people who were swinging onto your coat tails in order to ride in will now swing off; but they don't count; you can go out into the street and throw a net and catch that kind of statesmen by the dozen any day. That Illinois crowd for example. With the Lorimer scandal over them, you forced them to a primary law, and by the same token they are now looking about to see which way the wind is blowing. Don't worry about such people, they are always with us, but never doubt but that the people are behind you now. I have just been told by men who are not for you that while the student officers from the War College were riding through Virginia this last month they as a matter of curiosity asked every Virginia farmer they met who he was for and that four our of five answered for you. Those Democrats who are putting up Alton Parker at Baltimore for chairman seem to have the usual standpat variety of mind that thinks the present a propitious time for putting over a particularly objectionable reactionary. They as usual don't know what is going on about them and will doubtless give you the opportunity to run against two dead ones. I do not in the least minimize the difficulties of launching a new party but if the democrats put up a reactionary, I am sure you will win.ARMY WAR COLLEGE WASHINGTON With the name "Progressive" and omitting the name Republican, you could do much in the south. For instance Hoke Smith is a progressive and a life long Democrat who was in Cleveland's cabinet. If he could be induced to run with you I believe you would have an excellent chance in Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas, while cinching such heretofore doubtful states as Missouri, Oklahoma and Kentucky. The loss of the name Republican would doubtless lose some votes in New England but much more would be gained in the south and elsewhere. That name Republican has been the one thing that has kept the south solid. I only wish I were so situated financially that I could quit my present job and go back to my own state of Kansas and get in on the ground floor while some of the doubtful brethren are hesitating. Much luck to you and never doubt that you have the people with you and that they expect you to continue their fight. With assurances of my very great respect, Sincerely yours, J.P. Robinson Captain, General Staff. K KENILWORTH 75th Street And Central Park West New York New York June 22d 1912 Col Theodore Roosevelt. Chicago, Ills My dear Sir: I desire to call your attention to a scriptural verse St Matthew 22d chapter & the 42d line "Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing and it is Marvellous in our eyes." When you went to Saratoga only two years ago and took part in the State convention I thought you very undignifiedKENILWORTH 75TH STREET AND CENTRAL PARK WEST NEW YORK I did not then understand your object. I understand it now. You are surely working for a great principle. Keep it right up. The people are with you even though the little band of position & office seekers at Chicago are not. Start your new party. You will win. I express the thoughts of millions. Very truly yours Fred'k A. SpeckermanMANHATTAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BROADWAY AND 76TH STREET NEW YORK CITY HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., PASTOR 159 W. 36th STREET June 22nd, 1912. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- As I take up the morning paper and see the account of your treatment at Chicago, and the announcement by Mr. Munsey of your withdrawal, I chanced to be reading Thayer's "Life of Cavour" and came across these sentences, which I think will be a comfort to you. You certainly have the sympathy of a great multitude of the thoughtful, as well as the "plain people" of the country. I am, Cordially yours, Henry A. StimsonL.A. STINGEL HARDWARE CUTLERY,STOVES, BICYCLES AND SUNDRIES, SPORTING GOODS. 247 CAMBRIDGE STREET. E. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. JUNE 22 1912 SPECIALTIES: AGENT FOR JAP-A-LAC, THE SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINTS, CRAWFORD RANGES AND WELSBACH LIGHTS. Col. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay N York From me and mine until you again sit in the Big chair Progressive Prosperity and Not Democratic Depression Respectfully Louise A. Stingel 110 Laura St. Providence, R.I. June 22 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir and Friend, Please excuse the familiarity of the address as I believe that every man who seeks a higher standard of virtue in the citizen life of our nation can claim you as a friend. Realizing the false position that our State has been place in by the report of Gen. Charles A. Wilson, (title) Charles 2nd, chairman of the Republican State Committee, the eminent successor to Charles 1st, the criminal monarch of Rhode Island who for thirty years dominated absolute power and control over the politics of our State, and his successor stepping into that same power, declared after he had named every delegate to the Republican convention that was to send out the the Chicago delegates that Rhode Island would go solidly for Taft. The facts are that of the 75,000 or more republicans, possible voters in the State, not over 1500 took part in the caucus that appointed deligates to the State convention. I, a republican of over thirty years repudiate his claim that that was a representative republican convention, as our caucus law disfranchises for two years any republican who is known to sympathize with an political reform not suggested or approved by Gen. Charles A. Wilson, chairman of the executive board of the Republican State Central Committee, and the political monarch, (title) Charles 2nd of Rhode Island. But 1500 votes is not a majority of 75,000 or 80,000 and therefore his claim is absolutely false. I am sure that if the republicans of the state had acted untramelled by boss control that a very good showing of progressives would have been formed. Yours respectfully, Samuel E. Stone overP.S. I am Sending to you some of the circulars used by me in my work, simply to introduce myself to you as I am a strainger I am ready to go with the progressives to success or defeat with any candidate which bares the indorsement in lieu of Barnes Lafollett or yourself I should be glad to have a corect account of the fight at Chicago if posable S.E. StoneOcean View Drive Oakland, Cal. 7/2/12 June 22 -1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: The undersigned are members of the same family residing i Oakland, Alameda Co. Cal. We are all Republicans and voted for you at the Cal. primary election. We will all vote for you in the event you are a progressive candidate for President, otherwise we will all vote for any Candidate the Democrats may nominate in preference to Mr. Taft. Sincerely yours C.L. Walter (?) H.F. Walter Josie C. Hearsey Eco Decker D (?) Decker Lena M. Decker Helen DeckerEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. DOCTOR DAVID STARR JORDAN, President of Leland Stanford Jr. University JUDGE CLAYTON HERRINGTON, United States Department of Justice REV. WILEY J. PHILLIPS, Editor "The California Voice" HON. GEO. W. STONE, Mayor of Santa Cruz JUDGE W. H. WASTE, of the Alameda County Superior Court ROLLA V. WATT, Manager of the Royal Insurance Company SECRETARY: E. F. DINEMORE, ORGANIZER: J. C. WESTENBERG, Superintendent Whosoever-Will Rescue Mission MRS. J. C. WESTENBERG, 1011 1-2 Green Street, San Francisco, Superintendent Rescue Work CALIFORNIA FEDERATION for the SUPPRESSION OF VICE HEADQUARTERS: 617 SANSOME STREET San Francisco, Cal., June 22, 1912 Mr. Frank Harper, Sec'y., 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City, New York. My Dear Sir: Your letter of June 13th at hand, glad you let us know that Messrs. Pach Brothers had not sent you the photograph to have Mr. Roosevelt. We have written them to look this matter up at once, as we are very anxious to get this photograph. Thanking you kindly for writing us in regard to the above, we are Yours for God and humanity, J. C. Westenberg Sup't. [*per Secty. M. E. L. *] the Whosoever-Will Rescue Mission, 475 Pacific Street, San Francisco, California.The "Man of the hour -- mighty to gaze - I am one who saw the birth of the Republican Party. to day heard its death knell. Yet the heart within me bids me hope that out of its ashes, shall rise a mighty host, giving the glory to God the highest and bringing up out of the darkness the one who will lead his people out of the wilderness, into the light - into - peace and prosperity of the nation. "All hail to thee" ------ "Roosevelt."- Saturday June 22nd - 1912 Yours Respt --- Mrs Elizabeth M. Kaiserbotham 1736 Prairie Ave - Chicago Ill - over Personal I am knocking at the door of "seventy five", May I see the glad new day ----"Roosevelt --" [*7.*] [[shorthand]] The man of the People Isaiah 41st Behold all they that were incensed against thee, shall be ashamed and confounded, They all be as naught, and they that drive with thee, shall -- perish -- Deuteronomy 31st Be strong and of good courage Fear not, or be afraid of them, for the Lord thy God, he it is, that doth go with thee, and he will not fail thee - or forsake thee, -. Mark 10th Heaven and earth shall pass away. - but my words shall not pass away ------[*Chgo., June 22/12.*] My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- You are taking the right stand. The people want you and they have spoken. The Republican party is deaf, dumb, blind, dead! I came out here as a peacemaker, in the interests of the people with the next flag of our Country to offer as a symbol of peace to the Convention. I asked them to let me dedicate my flag warning, it would become your ensign as the people's leader. They didn't think my peace twaddle would do any good. Then I got a hangman's rope and asked the chance to show my flag of peace and the rope, them shudder - "No rogue e'er felt the halter draw," ! I said my rope was meant for bolters. But I made a mental reservation to the effect that the people of a party can't bolt that party! The politicians have "bolted" the door against their own people. They have chosen the rope! It is the Republican party no longer. It is only the Rule-of-ruin politicians of that party. Don't call your popular movement a "party." You are the leader of the Patriotic People of the United States. Choose a name which will express this idea. It is the People versus the Politicians in all parties - for party lines are being broken down in the great struggle between the people and the "interest". I will tender you my flag not - as the banner of the people - the arrangement recommended by the President and approved by the authorities = but not adopted last winter because of this campaign. I present it to you as the standard of the people, because I believe you and they will win this great fight. I am willing to take the risk of its final adoption. The blue field of the old flag is full now. Not another start can be added without reducing or making some radical change - yet the country is growing! The "Old Glory" we should never be changed again. It should be kept - a solid phalanx - the Battle Flag of the Republic, the banner with which we have won our high prestige as a World Power. Then there is another great patriotic question of interest to every home in the land. We have no national music! "America" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" are second-hand English tunes. Why should not the American people have National music as well as other nations, when they have the greatest composers of patriotic music in the world? We need not reflect on the past but we are progressing. I proposed these and other patriotic questions for your consideration along with the great issues you have already fought through with splendid success. You ought to let me see you now. I wish to show you the flag and the appeal I should have made to that Convention in behalf of the people if I had been admitted. They didn't want peace. They preferred the rope - ugly as it looked to them. One of them asked what good I thought my peace-or-rope object lesson would do. I said, "It would make them sit up and think, and if they would only reflect a moment it might save a split. Then if a split came it would be against the solemn warning of the people." "To hellwith the people", said he, "let the party split if it wants to." This man was not high in authority but he reflected the spirit of the Republican Committee and Convention of 1912. I know you are doing exactly right in championing the cause of the people against the corrupt politicians and their predatory owners. I know you are right in inaugurating a new movement instead of splitting hairs with the Republican politicians. I believe you should work on a broad patriotic basis, not as a political party but a patriotic movement. As an observer and patriotic writer I can help you a good deal in the present crisis of the Country - from wholly patriotic motives. I have nothing to ask and much to give. Will you see me now? Very respectfully and cordially, Wayne Whipple. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. P.S. .My dear Colonel, go it alone! Don't combine with Wilson or Bryan or any politician, for with him you will get [his] limitations & enemies. No [one] politician can give you anything you haven't already got. No one can deliver to you a single State any more than Senator Smoot could deliver Salt Lake to the Atlantic Ocean. Besides, the Atlantic doesn't need it. It has water enough & salt enough. So have you!BELL PHONE 626-HILL GEO. ZITZMAN SANITARY PLUMBING 7 PROSPECT STREET 19TH WARD PITTSBURGH. PA June 22, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt c/o Outlook Publishing Co. My Dear and Honored Sir:- I, like Millions of other patriotic protestant American Citizens who love their country well enough to be willing to suffer and die for her good, and who will resist with life itself any attempt to unite the Church and state, abridge the right of free speech, or a free press, or restrict the liberty of conscience, have been watching events very closely at the Republican Convention at Chicago and are watching the moves being made by the same insiduous enemies of our country in the preparations they are making to control the Democratic Convention at Baltimore and we appreciate the stand you have taken and commend you for the action you have taken in the matter, and wish you God-speed in your move to start a new Progressive party in our country and believe you patriotic enough to refuse the nomination for the presdentcy in the new party if it should be necessary for you to do so to harmonize all the elements which will be gathered to-gether to make a new Progressive, patriotic political party, and as you are a great leader of progressive men I believe you can if you desire, get such men as- Cummings, Bryan, and Underwood with you in this movement for bettor things for our country. I am in touch with all sorts of small business, clerks and working men and they are all of one opinion that our countries leaders MUST control all the trusts and the Roman Hierarchy or their will son be a revolution that will surpass anything to be read of in the World's History. We want to put our country on a progressive and representative foundation without a revolution, but we are going to put ou r country on this foundation some way other. Every man who does his own thinking( and there are millions of us ) realise that something must be done soon if we are going to avoid a revolution and as we are hoping for a leader who is broad enough and loves his country well enough to sacrifice everything for his country if need be, and I believe you are that man, Flynn may tell you that he won the progressive fight in Pennsylvania but we know he is only a shrewd politician who saw the temper of the people and saw that if he wanted to get into political life again he would have to get onto the people's band wagon and we give him credit for his shrewdness, but he or no other manGEO. ZITZMAN SANITARY PLUMBING 7 PROSPECT STREET 19TH WARD BELL PHONE 626-HILL PITTSBURGH, PA. 191__ or set[b] of men can controll the movement of progressive men everywhere as we are no longer Republicans, Democrats or any other kind of patisans, but plain citizens looking for the best interests of our country and will vote any kind of a ticket that looks like it will better the conditions in our country, and we are going to win out in some way or other the only question with us is: - Which way is best. Can you and will you tell us the best way and lead us to it? I might as well tell you straight that you cannot lead us if you do not let us know that you will not dicker with the Roman Hierarchy as the Hierarchy is your enemy, our enemy and the countries enemy. For the last two days I have heard the following expression used very often,- "Wouldn't it look good to you to see "Teddy and Bryan comes out on a protastant progressive platform as we would sweep the country." Protestants are aware everywhere and are going to crush the Hierarchy. Hoping that you will, like Moses, lead us out of the Wilderness of graft and special interests, I remain a patriotic protestant progressive citizen. Geo. ZitzmanOFFICERS & DIRECTORS ROBERT SCOTT, President W.W. DOBSON V.E. ALLISON WM., BEACH, Vice Prest. A.A. JONES GEO. WILBUR LOGAN W. STILLWELL, Cashier W.N. AMOS W.K. BOWEN THE SALT RIVER VALLEY BANK OF MESA, ARIZONA Hon. Theodore Roosevelt June 22 1912 Chaicago Ill. Dear sir and esteemed friend: As I am sure that you want to know how the Common people feel in regard to your position at the peresent time, I write this short letter in Regard to the people of Mesa, Arizona I think that should we go into an election today. You would receive Ten Votes to Taft One. If you run on an independent ticket, I for one will stand by you at the elec tion. Truly Yours,[*[Ca 6-22-12]*] EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS Received June 24,1912. San Antonio,Texas, June 21,1912. "If there is anything that you wish done in SanAntonio where I am now living, let me know and I will do my utmost to assist you and do it with a vim without expectation of any politician favor from you of any kind." (Sgd) J. J. LUCK " "Merrill.Wis.,June 22 "Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago. Dear sir:- The American people are with you in this fight. Stand firm. God bless you. Respectfully, The Merrill Daily Herald By C.N.JOHNSON, Editor." ["President's Office "Oakland City College Oakland City,Ind., June 22,1912. "The most significant utterance I have heard on every hand in these last few days is the hope voiced by men of both parties that the same line of cleavage may appear at Baltimore and out of the two fights a new paety of progress may emerge. To such a movement I shall gladly give my hearty support. Sincerely yours, (Sgd) W.P.Dearing."] Farmer "Salem,Illinois,June 23rd 1912 "My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I wish to congratulate you, and through you, those who acted with you yesterday in sounding the call for better politics and a cleaner party S. E. Davidson --2-- "Kansas City, Mo. 6/22/12 "Col. Roosevelt Chicago. Dear Sir: The biggest, the most unselfish thing attempted in the interest of the American people since Washington marshalled the oppressed Colonies against the tyranny of England. Yours for fair play, "Wm. S. Childress, (30 yrs.a "regular" Rep.) -------------------------------------- "Cambridge, Mass., June 21,1912 x x x x x x x x "If you are not nominated so that I can vote for the man of my choice, I shall probably vote for the Democratic candidate to express my deep disgust at the Bossism so manifest in the control of the Republican party. But give us a chance to vote for you if possible." Edward E. Kelsey, Former professor in Oberlin Colleger and later in Kingfisher College, Okla. --------------------------------------- (Clergyman) "Reading, Pa., June 22, 1912 x x x x x "By all means form the New Party! I believe that it is the only thing that will relieve the situation. The American People are with you and where you lead they will follow." Yours for ultimate success, H.G. Weaver." ----------------------------------------- (clergyman) "Eaton Rapids, Mich. 6/22/12 x x x x "So far as my opinion may have any weight, and my influence be of any good let me say by all means let us have a new party with a new deal and a square deal all around. The times are ripe, I believe. Very sincerely, J.R. Wooton." -----------------------------------------(3) (Manufacturer) "Minneapolis, Minn., June 22/12 "Dear Teddy The [?] of the party' has no significance with the man who will be with you to the end, only keep up the battle! Sincerely, Arthur L. Walker." ---------------------------------------- "State Board of Equalization, Quincy, Ill., June 21, 1912. x x x x x "If Colonel Roosevelt silences and satisfies the scoffers and doubters in reference to the purity of his motives and the loftiness of his ideals by unflinching devotion to his "policies," even to the the extent of the organization of a new political party, he will sweep this country like wild-fire and go down into history as our greatest American. "I wish you would see this as I do.. He cannot consistently head the Republican ticket, no matter what concessions are made, but at the head of a new party we see in him a sublime example of self-obliteration and self-sacrifice to the common welfare. "My inactivity has been more than irksome, and the moment a new party is born mark me down, "volunteer." My coat's off and I am ready for service in my block, in my precinct, in my ward, in my city, in my county, in my congressional district, in my State, or anywhere. I am not after pelf, but service. Sincerely, Julius Kespohl." ----------------------------------------- (Physician) "Marion, Arkansas June 22, 1912. x x x x x x "In such a party there would be no ghosts of the past to rise up and stir up sectionalism. It would be Americans for American Progress and that greater liberty the people do not now enjoy! (Sgd) Robert W. Barton (American! Independent Democrat!) ---------------------------------------- (Lawyer) "Springfield, Mass., June 22, 1912 x x x x "The time is ripe for a party to represent the people and their fight for true justice, liberty and human rights as against the principal of "power (might) makes right." Yours truly "John Aldrich" -------------------------------------------4-- (Virginia News Service) J.P.Madison,Manager. Richmond,Va.,June 22, 1912. x x x x x "Please enroll my name as a member of the new Progressive party which you propose to launch. x x x x x x x x "I am writing this as a citizen and a voter of Virginia and not as a newspaper man. "J.B.Madison" "Burlington, Vermont, June 22,1912. x x x x x x x x x x "I travel among the people all the time. i have heard expression from the common people in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, new jersey, New York and the New England state, and i do not exaggerate in the least when I tell you that as they run in general they are two to one in your favor. x x x x x "If to start a new party seems to be the only way in which the cause you represent can be best promoted, I for one give you the assurance that my vote and my voice shall be used to the extent of my ability in fighting for the victory that cause so richly desreves. A. Harrison Townsend." (Department Store Employes) New York City June 22,1912 x x x x x "Fair minded republicans are in sympathy with your position stated in this morning's papers, not to permit your name to go before the fraudulent republican convention to be placed in nomination. The third ticket led by you for decency will receive substantial support Joseph H.Myers" [*+ 12 others*] "Chicago 6/21/12. x x x x x x x x "I am but an ordinary every day worker,but write that you may get an idea of the feeling among the people. F.A.Eberwold, River Forest." {Banker} "Muskogee,Oklahoma June 22,1912. x x x "While I am not in any sense a Roosevelt partisan, it seems to me that the present situation demands that all Americans interested in their country should express themselves on the situation now confronting yourself. Joseph N.Allen."--5-- (Insurance Agent) "Woonsocket, R. I., June 22, 1912 x x x x x x x x x x "Many hundreds of our business and professional men are with you as well as hundreds of men who carry the dinner pail. "We count on you to repudiate the dastardly brigandage at Chicago, we count on you to lead the great progressive movement; and we count on you to come to Rhode Island to lead us out of our political bondage. If you do you will find that the progressive seed sown in Rhode Island will grow and bloom as beautifully as in the State of California. "From a Republican no longer, but a full-fledged PROGRESSIVE! Truly yours, Edwin F. Tuttle." (A colored man) Chicago, June 23, 1912. x x x x x x x x x x "I was at the meeting last night in Orchestra Hall when you were nominated and I heard your address in accepting it. I shall be glad of any opportunity that I can serve you in any capacity. Assuring you again of my unalterable fealty to the progressive cause and your candidacy. I place my service gratis at your command. George W. Ellis (Clergyman) "Hope Chapel Parsonage, Mobile, Ala. 6/22/12 x x x x x x x x x x "For six National campaigns the writer hereof has stumped the country for the Republican candidates; but just as sure as they fail to nominate you who are the choice of the majority of the people I will raise my voice against the party." J. Francis Robinson." (A colored man) 142 West 133rd St. New York City June 22, 1912 x x x x x "In view of the fact that the people have declared themselves for you, you will be perfectly justified in forming a third party, and by so doing you will please the people who have placed implicit confidence in you. Fletcher S. Manson" (Jeweler) Chicago June 24, 1912 x x x x x "The corruption in both parties has become intolerable, and nearly all of my acquaintances and friends (the Democratic voters) are waiting for an opportunity to cast their lot with a Progressive party that is vigorous in its honesty toward the people. G.A. Soden--6-- (Telegram) Rosalie, Wn., June 24th. "The Rosalie Roosevelt Club organized here tonight and we highly commend your action at Chicago. The machine stole our delegates but cannot steal our votes. Our district is ten to one for you. We believe in a square deal and have organized to see that you get it. H. E. Roberts, Secretary." Edina, Mo., June 22, 1912 x x x x x "I am well acquainted in this county and state and have lived here all my life. I find old time Democrats that will vote for you if you come out and lots of Republicans that will not support Taft. I am a poor young man myself, but have lots of good friends, and if I can be of any help to you, tell me so and you will find me fighting for you. J. C. Shafer. (Life Insurance) Kansas City, Mo., 6/22/1912 11 p.m. x x x x x "For thirty years I have voted the Republican ticket, but never again! The thieves are too bold for me. George R. Lyon." "Bridgeport, Conn. June 22/12 x x x x x "I certainly believe you will find enough volunteers like myself who will fight to the best of their ability to help you win on a new ticket. x x x "Mr. Roosevelt, we believe you to be ranged on the side of life's best ideals and I know of no better thing to do than to roll up my sleeves and pitch in and "knock the devil" out of the old machine politicians in both of the old parties. x x x x "Do not for a moment believe that you are alone in this fight for the spark of Divinity in us compels all who love fair play to stand with the man who has tried so hard to hard to lead humanity to better things. Franklin W. Rock." (Telegram) "Roxbury, Mass. June 24 "Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago. We have opened progressive headquarters today. May God strengthen and keep you! Benj. J. Bennett Secretary Progressive Club, 166 Washington St.---7--- (Telegram) "New Haven, Conn., June 23. We are with you heart and soul. At last the people will be able to do something for themselves without the intervention of boss-controlled rulers. In organizing the progressive Party you are performing the greatest service of your lifetime of service. May all success attend it. E. C. Moore. (Telegram) "Memphis, Tenn. June 23, 1912. I still believe that you are a bear and them some. Republicans in [?]e part of the [U. S.] country think you were nominated by the republicans of the U.S. Hope you will run on any old kind of a ticket, notwithstanding the fact that Gov. Deneen of Illinois and several more said you wouldn't. The people of the country are still with you, are waiting your announcement for third party and will be with you any time you announce. Robert Mouat. (Physician. "Dayton, Ohio. June 23, 1912. x x x x x "Abraham Lincoln with such manhood as now supports you, liberated the American slave. It now devolves upon you to unfurl the standard of the party, which will liberate the white slave of the nation. The American people know you will bear aloft to victory, this banner, unsullied and without dishonor, or report to God the reason why. Time is precious. Plans for organization eagerly awaited. Congratulations!" Dr. C. D. Breidenbach. (Traveling Salesman) Detroit, Minn. June 22, 1912. x x x x "I admire your grit as an American citizen. Stand by your guns. We can't lose. We are in to win, and if we cannot win on honest principles we don't want it. Honesty is the only thing and may God help you to win The American people will stand by you. If you are not nominated, I beg of you to run on the Independent ticket. Lem Quillin, 578 Iglehart Ave., St. Paul, Minn. (Banker) New York City. June 22, 1912. x x x x x "No man with a spark of respect left in his soul will think of voting for any man named by the present so-called Republican Convention. George O. Ferguson. (Business man) Hamilton, Ohio. June 22, 1912 x x x x "I know the people are with you and feel that the will vote for you on an independent ticket. I for one will. x x x x If you conclude to run I will be with you. Ernest A. Benninghofen (Cement Finishing Tools)(8) (Telegram) Long Beach, Cala. June 21, 1912 The people demand united service of yourself x x x x for progressive promotion. Opportunity for success with old parties never. No more Taftism, Lorimerism, Tammanyism, Wall Street tactics controlling conventions and government. Bury old party feuds. Loyalty for principle, not party ties when true democracy is at stake." T. J. Evans. (Telegram) Jacksonville, Fla., June 23, 1912. Accept our most hearties congratulations for having been honestly nominated President of the United States. We are with you. R. R. Robinson. Schell. (Newspaper item) Detroit. We, the undersigned, denouncing the fraud perpetrated by the national convention, so-called, of the Republican Party, dedicate ourselves to Progressive principles advocated and maintained by Theodore Roosevelt, the next President of the United States. (Signers represent 11 different lines of business) Utica, Ill., June 22, 1912 x x x x "Having been a life long Republican and voted for every President of that party from Lincoln to Taft, I urge you in the light of recent events to earnestly consider the advisability of taking the lead in forming a few party, a Progressive Party in fact, as well as in name. x x x x x "Let us by all means have a party of the people, for the people, by the people." C. B. Rounds one of the common people. EUGENE LAMPARTER ex-Independent Democrat COMPILER AND PROOFREADER 2308 Seminary Avenue Chicago. The time is here to step into the open. I wish to enroll under the Roosevelt banner. (Telegram) Provo Utah, June 23. We heartily approve your stand at Chicago Convention and emphatically endorse move of yourself and supporters in launching the new Progressive Party It is our candid opinion that Utah is progressive and will support you for president. We will put a full state and national Progressive ticket in the field. C. J. Carpenter, Chairman Roosevelt Club--9-- (Telegram) Sedalia,Mo. June 22. Big majority of rank and file are with you. L. Vanwagoner. --------------------------------------- (Telegram) Providence,R.I.June 22. Congratulations and greetings from Rhode Island Progressives. Progressive Party will carry even boss ridden Rhode Island. Civitas. --------------------------------------- (Telegram) Springfield Mo.June 22. 99 out of 100 for you. Run independent. We are for you. Dr.F.W. Dumer. --------------------------------------- (Telegram) Detroit, Mioh. June 22 Run independent. The people are with you. Dr.E.A.Wittwer. --------------------------------------- (Telegram) Corning.0 June 22 The voters want you to hand a National Progressive Ticket. Let the politicians go hang. The rank and file are considering principle,not every decent American is coming. R.D.Book. -----------------------------Enc. in Dearing 6-22-12Encl in Nelson 6/22/12 6/22/12Our "Progressive Campaign " Song! We want you, Teddy dear to lead again - us on to victory - in this campaign. We need you, yes; we need you in this campaign we need you. Oh, come and lead us Theodore, - it is the Nations will! # # # We want you, Teddy dear to stay near by. - The "bosses" keep their seats, when you are nigh. We need you, yes; we need you; in this campaign we need you. Oh, come and lead us Theodore,2 it is the nations will! # # # We want you all the time Oh, Teddy dear. Make "Bulls and Bears" alike Thy "stick" to fear. We need you, yes; we need you in this Campaign we need you. Oh, come and lead us Theodore, it is the nation's will! # # # We want you, Teddy brave to come and reign. May we not sing in vain this sweet refrain : We need you, yes; we need you in this Campaign we need you. Oh, come and lead us Theodore, it is the nation's will! A. L. N.6/12 Mr. and Mrs. Dan G. Bailey announce their Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary at their residence, Sycamore Street, Holbrook, Saturday, June Twenty-Second Nineteen hundred and Twelve 1887-1912ca 6-22-12 Enc in Allen 6-22-1224 ROOSEVELT MEN JOIN NEW POLITICAL PARTY HUNDREDS OF SIGNATURES SECURED IN A FEW HOURS YESTERDAY EVENING. Telegram Sent to Colonel At Congress Hotel — Taft's Nomination Is Distasteful to Republicans. The new national political party, of which Theodore Roosevelt is the chief exponent, received hundreds of adherents in Peoria county in a few hours yesterday afternoon and evening when Hugh S. Weston, 618 Bradley avenue, circulated petitions pledging the support of Peoria republicans to the new movement. In this way they gave tangible expression to their disapproval of the nomination of President Taft and the steam roller methods of Messrs. W. B. McKinley, Bois Penrose, Senator Crane of Massachusetts and the other republican bosses who cramed Taft down the throats of the republican party and "made them like it." Weston first appeared in front of the Star office in the middle of the afternoon when it was becoming apparent that the men at the head of the affair in the republican national convention were going to disregard the wishes of the great majority of the party and nominate President Taft. Amid wild cheering he addressed the throng, denounced the entire proceedings at Chicago and called on them to support Roosevelt and enroll themselves under a progressive banner. In a few minutes a hundred names had been affixed to the petitions he had with him. Encouraged by this success, Weston and A. V. D. Rousseau and A. S. Howells of the Second ward started out to scatter the petitions in various parts of the city. Petitions were left at the following places and will remain there until Monday morning, when they will be gathered up and sent to Mr. Roosevelt: . . Midget cigar store, 401 Main St. Midget cigar store, 233 S. Adams. Neil's restaurant, 105 S. Jefferson. Saratoga cigar store, 107 S. Jefferson. Puff cigar store, 415 Main St. Straus' cigar store, 423 Main St. Merchants' Lunch Room, 333 S. Adams St. Strause cigar store, 339 S. Adams. McDougal's drug store, corner of Main and Adams St. Petitions were left at various other places. In every instance they were immediately signed by scores of republicans. Telegram to Roosevelt. This self-formed committee did not cease their activities. On the other hand they redoubled them and formulated the following telegram, a copy of which was sent to Roosevelt: "To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill.: The following declaration of principles is being circulated and signed by thousands in this city: "We, the undersigned voters of Peoria, regardless of previous condition or political servitude, pledge our allegiance to a new national party, founded upon progressive principles and representing a government of the whole people. (Signed) Hugh S. Weston, A. V. D. Rousseau, A. S. Howells. This dispatch was sent to the former president shortly before 10 o'clock. Before it was dispatched several hundred enthusiastic republicans in all parts of the down town district had signed the petitions. That the petitions met with the approval of a majority of republicans was evidenced by the scramble to sign them wherever presented. Weston later announced that permanent headquarters for the new party had ben opened in room 315 Jefferson building. Silence for Taft. From noon until 10 o'clock last night a throng remained in front of the Star office eagerly waiting for returns from the convention hall at Chicago. When a bulletin came announcing that Roosevelt might head an independent ticket the street rang with the cheers of the multitude. When a short time later a "flash" came announcing that President Taft had received 561 votes and the nomination, utter silence prevailed. The message was repeated to the crowd by a megaphone but still they were silent. A few groans rent the air later, but that was the extent of the Taft demonstration. It was the same everywhere. At the Avery plant earlier in the day a straw vote was taken and out of 300 men approached on the subject approached everyone expressed himself as favorable to Roosevelt and the principles. If a vote on the presidency were to be taken in Peoria today it is doubtful if the president would receive 500 votes. Straw votes were taken in other parts of the city. A street car in which seventeen voters were seated was canvassed by an enthusiastic Roosevelt advocate and sixteen of the seventeen were for Roosevelt. On the corners, in the stores and shops, everywhere the same condition prevailed.Pittsburgh, Pa., June 22, 1912. Mr Theodore Roosevelt- Dear Sir: I feel a certain hesitancy in writing to you, but it is impossible for me to restrain my enthusiasm when I realize there is one man in public life that has the courage of his convictions. It is a sense of pride to all "deck-hands" to point to one that has in the past, and intends in the future, to look after our rights as citizens of the United States. We have been driven from pillar to post by the millionaire politicians long enough, and I for one, will vote for you under any and all circumstance. Whishing you success in all your undertakings for the uplift of good citizenship, I remain. W. I. Goss, 210 Ingram ave., Ingram, Pa.[*2. *] HOTEL HOLLAND Scranton, Pa. H.T. Madden, Proprietor June 23, 1912 My dear Mr Harper: There are some facts which may be of interest to Col. Roosevelt in the fight - I have been traveling through Pa. in the interest of the N.Y. Tribune Fresh air Fund. (I am a settlement worker of N.Y.) and the small villages are very flooded with Taft shouters - who arrive as though travelling men - take up their positions in the bar-rooms[*2. *] HOTEL HOLLAND Scranton, Pa. H.T. Madden, Proprietor and rant by the hour to the country men who gather around. Abusing Col. R - and holding up Taft as a saint -- Again -- in the primaries in N.Y. I heard the inside story of how part of it was done from one of my boys connected with my work in A.C. Clark House - He was an intimate friend of one of the Taft men at the polls on the East Side - (which by the way was overwhelmingly Roosevelt in its sympathies, for I took a straw vote in all my clubs before the primary3. HOTEL HOLLAND Scranton, Pa. H.T. Madden, Proprietor June 23, 1912 asking the children the sentiments of their fathers and the result was beyond question) This boy went with his friend the night they were to receive their instructions - he was asked to leave the room - but his Taft friend told him afterwards what was said - "If a man or men come in to vote for T.R. dont interfere with them, but the moment they are gone vote more repeaters than their votes. If you suspect the other side of repeating, call the police and have them arrested, but vote as many repeaters as will more than make up for their vote" - Col. Roosevelt will sweep the country - The disgust at the Chicago performances is so great - I hear it everywhere - Very truly yours Juliette Arden To Mr Frank Harper Outlook Office - New YorkHOTEL LONGACRE J. G. BOGGS, MGR. 157-163 W 47TH ST., NEAR BROADWAY NEW YORK June 23, 1912 Theodore Roosevelt, Ex. Pres. of the United States Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: The events of the past few days have moved me deeply. I feel so strongly that I must give expression to a few words of encouragement and approval. As one of the rankHOTEL LONGACRE J. G. BOGGS, MGR. 157-163 W 47TH ST., NEAR BROADWAY NEW YORK and file, I announce my allegiance to the cause for which you are the ablest exponent. With a firm conviction in your honestly of purpose, and an abiding faith in the triumph of eight, I shall add my mite and march with the victorious army this fall. Respectfully yours, Frank F. Austin 30 East Randolph St. Chicago.[*Ack. 6-26-12*] Henry L. Baker, M.D. 3860 Lexington Street Chicago June 23 - 1912 Mr Theodore Roosevelt Der Sir - My interests and actions politically for the past 2 years have been Independent, and entirely that of the general welfare of the country, and for the most part it has been a case of "God pity the Country" To so many of us who have thus striven to do our civic duty conscientiously and found it so hopeless a task, the mirage of so wise, fearless and courageous a leader who so accurately comprehends the situation and what is needed, and whose loyalty to his people and country is sufficient to cause him to make any sacrifice, is so wholesome and propitious, that I cannot refrain from again commending your reputed intention of organizing the people in a way that will redeem them from their desperation before all their patriotism and loyalty is destroyed by following prostituted "parties." The time is overripe; you are the logical man, and the. man the people have confidence in. The majority are with you, and when artificial conditions now operative are removed, 75 percent will be for you. as to private citizen trying to do his civic duty conscientiously I assureHenry L. Baker, M.D. 3860 Lexington Street Chicago 2 T R. you it is consoling to be able to support an honest public movement, and the support will not be lacking with you as the leader of it. Very Respectfully Henry L. Baker, M.D.[*ack 6-26-12*] Sullivan, Mo. June 23rd - 12 To the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City. My dear sir:- Allow me to congratulate you on your nomination for president of the U.S. on the Progressive ticket. It will surely win in Nov. Pardon me for suggesting that you come out squarely for "The People" by adopting a platform containing a Women's Suffrage Plank, a Freedom of the Press Plank, a Plank favoring the Taxing of All church Property, a Plank favoring the Complete Separation of Church and State and a Plank favoring the making of All Marriages a Civil Process only. These together with those you have been advocating in your Campaign speeches will win the American Heart. Yours for Progress, J. J. Banta 6th Maryland District and myself, both holding similar views. Owing to the crush or other difficulties of the situation, or the inopportune times when I called I was not able to see you. It makes little difference, only I desire to write you before leaving Chicago our view. As Mr Jones has already gone home now I am only speaking for myself, and I write you without intending any The Chicago Club. June 23 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. My dear Colonel, As a delegate from Maryland to the Convention ending yesterday who came there to do [all] all possible to properly secure your nomination to the Presidency, I write to say that I have called several times to see you personally to explain the position of Mr Jones of the criticism of my fellow delegates from Maryland, & I wish to say, under our State law, we were sent to this Convention instructed for you, and I believed these instructions to be paramount to every thing even your personally expressed wishes, and I felt I must do just as my State directed me in letter and in spirit. It was as if a Commission had been given me to vote for you at this Republican Convention & I therefore remained there & voted for you. On all the preliminary proceedings I voted also as I believed your interests required. I believed my Commission included this, but I do not criticise any one else for acting differently. Now I am a sincere admirer of ours, I dont talk as much about it as I might but I am so and the reason is I am devoted to the impelling causes of right doing and cleanTell him or T.R. I will be in Pa - N.Y. end of week (this Sat) Leave G Hs address at his office. 2 The Chicago Club politics. I intend to carefully think over all of these matters and the events of the last few days and in due time decide what my future course shall be and in the mean time & always I hope you will believe me to be Sincerely yr friend, Gist Blair. in the Business & Professional World, especially = Lawyers. and it will take a strong, honest & fearless man to go for and punish them. I dont want any political office, I dont want any patronage or favors, all I ask for is, when I can lay my hands on a crook, that the law will help me to punish him, but from experience I know, that some new laws are neccarsary and when we have elected you President (which we positively will) it will be time to remedy the existing evils. With some friends, I will form a progressive Club, consisting [*[6/23/12]*] Mr. Theodore Roosevelt My dear Sir: I want to congratulate you upon your nomination by the Progressive Party and again congratulate you to have escaped the same of the so called regular Republican Party. This is the beginning of a great event, the old feud between Republicans and Democrats will be cast aside, the honest men of both, will now join hands and belong to the new Party. I dont believe that you yourself can fully realize, what is going on among the decent thinking people they are ready for a revolt against the dishonest Politicians and Bosses. There has been so much crookedness by both the Republicans and Democrats, that it will be a great relief to belong to, and support a Party, one need not be ashamed of. This is the first time in m life that I am writing a letter to a candidate, it is the first time that I feel aroused to do something more than just cast my vote it is time for every honest thinking man to do his utmost to help and down the crooked Politicians. When I read the N.Y. Sun, Herald, Times, World etc full of lies and misstated facts, I realize what powerful influences there are against you here, and there are many honest men who are only guided by the daily Papers and also against you, therefore the business man will have to get into the fight and convince those men by honest reasoning and arguments to win them over for the right and only cause. You know the Crooks among the Bosses & Politicians, but there are just as manyof Business men, who will do all they can to assist in electing you this fall. With very best wishes for success in the great fight you are beginning, I am very respectfully yours J. Blumenkron 26 N. 38 St. New York June 22/12both were merely names, survivals of dead issues. Both parties are moribund, and the only solution for the country is the formation of a new party. The Republican Party has rejected the gospel you preached. I think that the people will accept it. Then when they ask the new Government for bread they will not Hailey Farm R.D. 2. South Framingham Massachusetts [*11.*] June 23/12 Dear Colonel Roosevelt, If the Sunday newspaper that has found its way to this somewhat remote farm does not lie Taft has been nominated by the Chicago Convention, and your followers are on the eve of forming a new party. This, in my opinion, is the best thing that could have happened. In this way only can a real Progressive party be formed, freed from all the dead weight of the "stand pats" and "stick in the muds." Now there is a chance of getting rid of old machines, and corporation influence, and the people will have a chance of choosing their leaders, and their platform. Now we shall have a chance of having a party that stands for something real. Ever since I came to this country from England I have been trying to find out what the Republican & Democratic parties now stood for, but have never been able to find an answer. TheyIt is the best outcome of the whole fight- the party will remain though individuals fall or fail - and it will save the country - for any nation that wants to stand pat, or is made to stand pat, is on a rapid relative downgrade. May you have strength to carry the banner of the new Progressive party to victory, is my earnest wish. Affectionately T.J. Bowlker Hailey Farm R.D. 2. South Framingham Massachusetts receive a stone. The "interests" will not be allowed to put "jokers" in the bills that Congress passes to nullify their usefulness. The farmers will perhaps get a parcel post that is worth while - some zonal system that is fair to everyone and yet pays for itself. The corporations that makehuge profits out of a tariff system may have to submit to such publicity of their government protected earnings that the consumer and wage earners cannot be hoodwinked as to the treatment they receive. Anyhow a New Party which stands for a square deal to the people is all to the good, and a blow to the interests that have plundered the people while cloaked with the political garments of issues long dead. Two years ago when you made some progressive speeches I hoped that you would call into being a new party. Now that it has come I can only wish it and you godspeed.Ack 6-25-12 12 My dear Col. Roosevelt. - We are so glad this new party is to be started. The papers say it will take a lot of money to start and run it. For that reason we want to help, and put our drop in the bucket to drown the Bosses. Yours very sincerely, Wm. C. Bradbury. Samuel Bradbury June 23 1912 New York N.Y.[*13*] 418 Massachusetts Avenue, Buffalo,N.Y. June 28,1912. Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I. Honored Sir:- I am writing in behalf of many Republican (hitherto) friends of mine who, with me, are disgusted and angry at the bold steal recently perpetrated at Chicago, whereby you were robbed of the regular Republican nomination for President. All of them agree that they will never vote for Taft but will vote for you, in fact I have yet to meet any of the rank and file who have said anything different. If we can assist by getting signatures for nomination, or in any way, please let me know. We wish we might have some newspaper here that would support you, and any way perhaps some literature to distribute With the states you carried in the primaries (Ill. Pa., Mass West.Va. etc.) and the solid western states we feel you are sure of election. N.Y. will also go our way we think, and perhaps even one of the southern states. I remain, Respectfully yours, W. Ray Burroughs. [*[6/23/12]*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Chicago, Ill. My Dear Sir:- I write to congratulate you and to express my appreciation of the stand taken by you and your delegates at and after the adjournment of the so called Republican National Convention. Just now is the time for the masses to rise up and by their vote at the November election show to the "Bosses" that the will of the people must be respected.2 A new party with you or some other able man as the Nominee for President is the solution and from the sentiment expressed by a number of people with whom I have talked, such a movement will be sanctioned by the common people. I am a Window Glass Worker and have taken more or less of an active part in the affairs of the Window Glass Workers organizations for the past 15 years. Am a son of James Campbell who was Factory3 Inspector of this state under Governors Hastings and Stone. I am not able to get out and do any campaign work and bear my own expenses, but should the National Committee of the New party be looking for any persons to go out in their interests I would be glad to be considered and have the ability to address an audience of any size. Trusting that the spirit of this letter will be appreciated and hoping to hear from you or the secretary of the4 New party I beg to remain your very truly and [for] wish for the success of the new party Hud S. Campbell 100 Clay Ave Jeanette Pa June 23/12J. E. Finlay President. W. A. Finlay Jr. Vice President. W. W. Hinote, Secretary & Treas. Rollins & McGowin Co. INCORPORATED RETAILERS AND JOBBERS OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE COTTON AND PRODUCE BUYERS Brewton, Ala. 6-23-12. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York. Dear Sir:- It was with keen disapointment, I received a long distant message, last evening, that the Chicago Convention was Nominating Mr. W.H. Taft, who is not entitled to the nomination, instead of Nominating Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, who was and is entitled to the Nomination by an over whelming majority of the people. I note in this morning's paper, where it was probably that your crowd would nominate you last night, and I sincerely trust that they will nominate you and that you will accept the nomination, and if we don't win this time, it maybe we will down the Machine Politics, for I am tired and sick of Machine Bossed Politics. I suppose I had Better tell you who I am, I am a young man and this [is my first] fight for you is my first skirmish in politics, May 4th 1912, at our County Mass Convention, I was unanimously elected Chairman of the County Executive Committee of Escambia County, in the District Convention, I was elected State Committee from this the Second District and Presidential Elector for this District. So I am still in the fight and will not be ready to give up until, I have helped to make Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, president of this United States. I feel like this is the logical time to down the Machine Bossed Politics, and I am quite sure, you are the logical Man or Chieftain to lead this fight for us.J.E. Finlay President W.A. Finlay Jr Vice President W. W. Hinote, Secretary & Treas. Rollins F. McGowin Co. RETAILERS AND JOBBERS OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE COTTON AND PRODUCE BUYERS Brewton, Ala. Hon.T.R. No. 2. I trust you will pardon me for taking up your most valuable time and that you will read this letter before you let it go to the waist basket. I am, Yours truly, Jno. R. L. Carmack, Brewton, Ala.BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY CHURCH HISTORY West Newton, Mass. June 23, 1912 Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt New York City My Dear Sir: I write this note to give you the benefit of some observations I have been making to find out the sentiment of my friends about the Chicago convention. I have not talked with a great many but will at my earliest opportunity make further inquiry. First let me say, I have always been a Republican head and heart. Voted first for McKinley '96, and so ever since. Second let me also say I have never lost confidence burdens of the weak. Then ill gotten gain gets behind some old institution and cries touch not my anointed! It was so when democracy lifted its head against the divine right of popes. It was so when the voice of the people was raised against the divine right of Kings. It is even so to day when democracy lifts its head against the "divine right" of property when these rights are abused to defraud the people of the chance to make the race of life in hope of being simply decent men and women. But if we stand true to our convictions and fight on for them with unflinching courage We can not fail. I have heard Taft men herein the sincerity of your purpose to represent the best thought of the plain people, in our political life, And I am with you first last and all the time in your efforts to make these progressive ideas regnant in our political life. Thirdly, I never did have much confidence in Mr Taft, but what litte I did have is all gone now. Under no circumstances will I vote for him again. And my inquiries yesterday and today show me that this is true of my Republican friends. They believe the time is ripe for a new alignment of forces that shall break through the old party lines. It is sometimes impossible to make old organizations responsive to and expressive of new ideas. If the cause is big enough, it will create the new organization to give effective expression to the new truth. Ours is a great cause, old yet ever new. From the olden time down to the living present it has always been the selfish force of the strong riding rough shod over the rights of humanity, and warring with the welfare of the. masses of men. As a student of history I find this world old issue reappearing again and again. And whenever the Reformer appears pleading for the plain people to give them a fair chance in the race. Reminding those that are strong that they ought lighten the leave no stone unturned to strengthen our cause with them. I have 200 young ministers here under me and a large acquaintance throughout the country reaching to California. Of course I can reach men only directly outside the University lecture room. Believe me always loyal to the Progressive Cause. Would that Dolliver were here! Iowa would have been with us all of it. But we'll win any way. What's a few years! Yours sincerely Geo. C. Cell 371 Waltham St. W. Newton Mass. declare that although they much preferred to have Taft renominated still there was no doubt that you had fairly won it. The Springfield Republican, one of your implacable foes, declares that California belonged to you, every delegate. The Boston Herald this morning boldly declares that the Taft people only by refusing to seat these California delegates saved the day for themselves - an appalling confession for a paper that is dead set against us. Well a defunct unprincipled National Com. has nominated Taft and Sherman [with] using the purely fictitious Republican Party of the black belt and a hundred stolen delegates to do it. We'll see now how much blood they can get out of this politicalturnip. May I venture a suggestion. There are a great many men in the Taft crowd who are there from conviction. They sincerely believe that is the right side. It is not simply that they are misinformed. It is largely temperamental, a vague ill defined nameless fear of any change in our political system. I wish you could draw a much sharper line between the men you arraign on that side, and these men who are there sincerely and honestly. You are going to emphasize sharply the eighth commandment and it is mighty pertinent to the gang which ran the Chicago convention. But there are scores of Taft men, at least nominally such, who would be hurt, if indiscriminately lumped off with the unprincipled bosses of the Com. we must be careful[ly] and at pains frankly and freely to credit these men with sincerity. We must make plain that no harm is meant to any real permanent interest of property. And there are many on that side who can be won if the right appeal is made. I can not do much to help the cause, but I have access to a good many young men and you may be sure I shall[*21*] Crow Ledge Cross River New York Station: Katoman Dear Colonel Roosevelt, I wish I could tell you how much I am with you -- how much more than ever before. In judging of the actual state of affairs I have no better guide than the New York papers. Yet this much I see clearly -- that is every vital sense of the word you are the choice of the party. That being so, the fact that for the present the machine has maintained its power can only mean its speedier and more absolute consignment to the scrap heap. The apparent reverse of today is the present triumph of the principles you stand for. The new party we have so long hoped for is assured. You have fought so long and so hard that you may well consider that you are entitled to a release from responsibility; but I do hope, and the men I care for most all hope, that you may still lead it to triumph. Sincerely Yours, John Corbin June 23, 1912 [[shorthand]]2 I congratulate and encourage you all for your great and noble work you have done in the fight you all have been engaged in between the right and wrong. I never saw such bold robbery in all my life as has been did in the Convention by the Taft faction simpily naked theft they haven't dealt fair by no means let me encourage you all as Progressives to not lie down because they have defeadit you by Fradulent votes stick to our leader -Mr Roosevelt and shall lead us all to Victory in the final election in November stand firm and [thenno] Please leave this to Mr Roosevelt for me Birmingham Ala. June. 23/12 Messers. Roosevelt & Dixon It affords me no little pleasure in writing you a few lines to let you know that I heartily endorse a new Progressive party - and I hope that it will be done at once, I — believe that we will win the entire American peoples favor in doing so, for we have been beaten by fraudulent votes. and by a lot of unjust methods of the steam roller band — (4) Power. Mr. J O Thompson of this state is there and I hope when he returnes home he will start a Progressive boom here. I believe that we have the sentiment of most of the people of the [Union] U.S., et. Please let me here from you all and let me know if I can Join the New party I am a Colored man but I am willing to do anything for the Partys success. I am a Progressive A.E. Davis #630 So. 18th St A. Edwin, Davis (3) unmoveable stand as Lincoln in the dark day of 1862 When he was asked if he thought they would succeed. and he said to him I believe our cause is Just, I believe that we shall conquer in the end. so let me beg you all to take that determination and stand by our leader because our cause is Just and we will conquer in the end. Mr Dixon I congratulate you on you great and nobl management and also Mr. Hiram Johnson of California and all others. I am Willing to do anything that will help push the movement of the Progressive party thats in my 19 Pen y bryn Your hundred and eighty Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, N.Y. June 23, 1912 My dear Colonel:- I heartily approve your course throughout the recent turmoil at Chicago. Barnes and the rest of the gang-leaders went there with a deep-laid, dastardly plot to sand-bag you in order to keep themselves in position to throttle, as they have been doing for years, the growing protest against the commercial political oligarchy of the Republican party. A less courageous and determined character than yourself would have permitted them to "get away with the goods" after they had done their disgraceful piece of work, andthe best service? May I call, at your office, or elsewhere, and see you for a few brief moments, one day in the near future, and learn from you your pleasure in the matter? Faithfully yours, David Floyd Davis Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. I, for one, thank God that it was you that they went up against - a man whom they can't corner or cajole and who doesn't flinch under punishment. I am with you to the last ditch and I want to get right into the thick of the fray. I'm mad clean through. I know something of the aims and desires of Theodore Roosevelt and I have never lost faith in him since those days of 1899-1900 when I was in the Senate. I'm still just as true as I was in those days and you need me now and I want to come. That means that my time and my activities are placed entirely at your disposal and that where you lead I am ready to follow. My personal affairs are so arranged that I can bestow all my time in whatever direction you shall deem desirable. Now, where will you have me to render you NATIONAL ROOSEVELT COMMITTEE CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO ALEXANDER H. REVELL, Chairman EDWIN W. SIMS, Secretary ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY, Chairman Detroit, Mich. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOSEPH M. DIXON, Chairman Washington, D. C. FRANK KNOX, Chicago, Ill. WILLIAM L. WARD, New York, N. Y. WALTER F. BROWN, Columbus, Ohio CECIL A. LYON, Sherman, Texas WILLIAM FLINN, Pittsburgh, Pa. ALEXANDER H. REVELL, Chicago, Ill. EDWIN W. SIMS, Chicago Ill. ALABAMA—Omar R. Hundley, Birmingham ARIZONA—Dwight B. Heard, Phoenix CALIFORNIA—Gov. Hiram W. Johnson, Sacramento COLORADO—Benjamin B. Griffith, Denver GEORGIA—E. H. Brinson, South Atlanta ILLINOIS—Chauncey Dewey, Edward J. Brundage Herbert S. Duncombe, Lawrence Hayworth, Ralph Otis INDIANA—Edwin M. Lee, Indianapolis Chas. H. Campbell, Shelbyville KANSAS—Gov. Walter R. Stubbs, Topeka KENTUCKY—D. C. Edwards, London LOUISIANA—Pearl Wight, New Orleans MASSACHUSETTS—Charles S. Bird, Boston MICHIGAN—Gov. Chase S. Osborn, Lansing MINNESOTA—I. A. Caswell, St. Paul MISSOURI—Gov. Herbert F. Hadley, Jefferson City MONTANA—Joseph M. Dixon, Missoula NEBRASKA—Gov. Chester H. Aldrich, Lincoln NEVADA—Gov. Tasker L. Oddie, Carson City NEW HAMPSHIRE—Gov. Robert P. Bass, Concord NEW JERSEY—John Franklin Fort, Newark NEW YORK—Wm. L. Ward, Port Chester NORTH CAROLINA—Richmond Pearson, Asheville NORTH DAKOTA—L. B. Hanna, Bismarck OHIO—Arthur L. Garford, Elyria OKLAHOMA—J. E. Dyche, Oklahoma City OREGON—Frederick W. Mulkey, Portland PENNSYLVANIA—Wm. Flinn, Pittsburgh TEXAS—Cecil A. Lyon, Sherman WASHINGTON—George H. Walker, Seattle WEST VIRGINIA—Gov. Wm. E. Glasscock, Charleston WEST VIRGINIA—William Seymour Edwards, Charleston WYOMING—Gov. Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne June 23, 1912. This letter will present to you, Hon. Victor Hugo Duras, of New York, an author, lawyer and journalist, who has entered the campaign in behalf of the Progressive movement. Mr. Duras has served as a Judge in the Canal Zone at Panama, and has twice been a candidate for Congress as a progressive in New York City. Any meetings that you can volunteer to arrange for him, to advance the cause, will be highly appreciated by me. [*Hugo*] DurasFor enc see 6-23-12EDWIN C. ECKEL 725 MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. EXAMINATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL PROPERTIES [[shorthand]] CEMENT MATERIALS IRON ORES, ETC. June 23, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Illinois. Sir; I am writing Mr. Pinchot by this mail regarding the advisability of preparing to meet whatever Stanley may bring up in his Steel report, relative to an imaginary southern ore monopoly secured when the Tennessee coal and Iron Company was acquired by the Steel Corporation. PInchot will recall me as being, up to 1907, chief of the iron-ore division of the U.S. Geological Survey; while Mr. Munsey met me at the Stanley hearings, where I was acting as expert on Southern ores for the Steel Corporation counsel. I may add that the percentage data used in your T. C. I. article in the Outlook last fall were prepared by me. These facts are mentioned merely to satisfy you as to my professional status. It has occurred to me that, since I can be of little other service to you in your struggle for decent government, it is up to me to place my professional training and experience at your disposal. It seems to be one of the rare occasions when an engineer and geologist can be of direct political use. Stanley is holding back his report for use in the campaign, and it is fair to assume that he will make all the capital possible out of the T. C. I. situation. Now, I can meet his charges with a clear, logical and definite refutation — without being too technical — and I am entirely free to do so. The line of proof which I will adopt was worked out by me before I was called on to act for the Steel Corporation, though it has2. since been accepted by their counsel and will ultimately form part of the official defence in the dissolution suit. But there will be no impropriety in making use of it now, in this emergency. My idea is that, if either Outlook or Munsey will supply the space, I will take up the matter in whatever detail you and your advisers think is advisable. To my mind it is important to get an early and authoritative refutation of the Stanley-Wickersham charges into print; but of course that is a matter for you to decide. The Engineering Magazine is about to publish a series of articles by me on the relation of the government to ore reserves; and the enclosed copy of an editorial which will appear in their July issue may be of interest to you in this connection. These articles will discuss the general subject, but contain no reference to the T.C.I. situation. I hope you will accept this offer as freely and unhesitatingly as it is made; and that you will understand that my only idea in making it is to be of service to you in the present fight, whose success seems to be the only hope for honest and efficient government in this country. Very respectfully, Edwin C. EckelFor enc see ca 6-23-12EDWIN C. ECKEL 725 MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. GIFFORD PINCHOT RECEIVED JUNE 29 1912 Ans'd EXAMINATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL PROPERTIES June 23, 1912. Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Mr. PInchot: In thinking over how I could help in the present campaign for decent government, it has occurred tome that for once technical knowledge would be of service in a political fight. As you know, Stanley is holding his Steel report for political use. If you and Mr. Munsey think it would be to the Colonel's advantage to have me undertake to meet the charges (relating to ore monopoly in the south through the Tennessee coal and Iron acquisition) which Stanley will undoubtedly bring up in an attempt to discredit Mr. Roosevelt, I should be very glad to do so as my contribution to the cause. You will recall that under Walcott and Hayes I was Chief of the iron ore division of the U.S. Geological Survey, and more recently I have been acting as adviser of the Steel Corporation counsel regarding southern ores and the ore monopoly charges. The Stanley charges regarding T.C.I. are disprovable, and the refutation can be made in a very clear, definite and still non-technical way. I can not be of much use otherwise, but I am very glad to place my special training and experience at you disposal. With best wishes for success in the fall, I am, Very truly yours, Edwin C. EckelEnc in Pinchot 7-6-12[*[6-23-12]*] [[shorthand]] E.W.G. [*2.*] Theodore Roosevelt , 287 Fourth Avenue , New York City, N.Y.. Care THE OUTLOOK COMPANY . Dear Sir : Since your return from Africa I have followed you with keenest appreciation through the weekly issues of the OUTLOOK . It so happened that I had just finished reading THE INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY by Max Nordau when I read the enclosed statement in the Chicago-Record-Herald . The sentence which I have marked in red ink makes me dare request that you review Chapter VII : THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PREMISES IN The Interpretation of History which deals with the psychology of the masses toward a Leader of men . Surely the opposition of many earnest men in the "Good Old Republican Party " is explained on page 290 . " All the intellectual influences to which the crowd is open unite in fostering the idea that any criticism of existing institutions is blasphemous , stupid , ignorant , or mad , and attempt to alter or repeal them a crime against the peace , security, and happiness of every individual ." You who have been selected to be the obstetrician in chief at the difficult birth of a much needed party ,must have the rank and file with you to win . For many years men have been marching with you in the front ranks who have seen your star . You have led the way because you possess the rare quality of making the peoplelisten and follow you. Permit me to remind you that only Youth and the scholarly trained mind will rally under a banner which says: "I have nothing to offer any man; any man who supports me will do so without hope of gain and at the risk of personal loss and discomfort." With one blow you strike fatally at the basic principle of LIFE - individual happiness. Allow me one more quotation from Nordau: "Great altruists have no effective influence on the average man. No crowd submits to their will. They are not capable of rousing swarms of followers to exertion of extracting services from them." (page 283) You, a politician in the highest and finest sense of the word, must keep your magic influence over the crowd. Good men and women look to you to hold fast this great gift of the gods. The higher product of altruist who knows nothing of organization, whose intentions are of the best but who can not accomplish, who knows but can impart only to his select kind, is yours without the asking. He takes it forgranted without your putting yourself on record, that you have nothing to offer any man and he works with you and for you without hope of gain and joyfully, eagerly accepts the risk of personal loss and discomfort. Yours with best wishes for success, Emma Z. Gillmore June 23rd., 1912, 6517 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.Office Of Estate W.W. Wadsworth Geneseo, N.Y. 15. Sunday June 23d 1912 My dear Colonel: It seems to me at a distance as to turn on the question of fact, were the delegates needed for Taft's majority stolen? For me your conviction that they were, is sufficient, but the country must have the facts. Here in Western New York we must find a way to get the evidence of fraud before the plain people. We need a provisional organization. I am writing Lyman Bass & John Lord O'Brien of Buffalo who are men of courage & principles to see what can be done. On the assumption that that the nomination was stolen we have a condition before us as grave as slavery if not as dramatic. As during the past ten years big business has learned that taking what belonged to others is stealing so now big Politics must have the same lesson or we must lose our country. I do not believe that the people of this country will fail to respond to the call to save it, though we shall find our friends largely against us. It is an odd thought that the real and great usefulness of your life is before you, but I believe that is true. God bless & keep you and help each man of us to do his duty. Faithfully yours David Gray To Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay L.I.809 High St West Jackson June 23[ll?] 1912 ear Mr Roosevelt What do you think of this I have written for A song have you any objection my having it publish I think it would take coming from the old townWhere the republican Party Was formed and Written by A democrat but one of your admirers Yours very sincerely Sue Adele Griswold 809 High st West Jackson MichganOFFICE OF WALTER C. HAYES. Belvidere, Illinois, 6/23/12 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir: - I congratulate you on what I consider your most signal victory of the past week. I believe this county, Boone, to be the banner republican County in the United States, but hasten to assure you that the "We want Teddy" sentiment finds a ready response in the community. We believe that the voters, all over this country, will in November, show their appreciation of your magnificent stance in their behalf. Sincerely yours, W.C. HayesWM. H. B. HAYWARD DIVIDEND-PAYING INVESTMENT SECURITIES AND INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS 4532 NORTH SMEDLEY STREET EAST OF WAYNE JUNCTION PHILADELPHIA, June 23, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Sir:– The heart of every true American is filled with pride at the course you have taken during the late Chicago convention and on every side (with a very few exceptions), I have heard nothing but praise for you. There are some that doubted you before because of some of your actions during your previous administrations as President but even they feel now that your heart was right and that you always must have had the welfare of the people at heart, even if you did make some errors. They have nominated Taft but their actions at this convention sounded his death knell if the progressives from the Republican and Democratic Parties show any sense. The thing to do now is to "get together" and I am hoping that if the progressives win at Baltimore that you will take steps to combine with them in some way, while if the reactionaries win, I hope that the Democratic progressives will take the same action as you and your friends have and all then unite in the new Progressive Party. I have already suggested such a course to–day to Mr. Bryan and the whole people would be delighted to see you both working together as you should be, for you only differ in trifles now. As I said often in writing you before, the real fight is simply the People against the Trusts and the names "Republican" and "Democrat" mean nothing. I want to call your attention again to "The Story of New Zealand" (which I understand you have). The people did not win there until the workingmen and farmers united. Afterward, the rest was easy and none would be willing to go back to the old conditions again. The employer has benefitted as well as the employee and they have a government for the people, strictly by the people. I have had troubles of my own during the past year through fighting for reform here (in a political and business way) but am happier for knowign that I did right and events have occurred lately that have shown those who tried to injure me in their true light. The bible says the devil still rules this world and those who try to do right often have a hard time of it when they fight against his power but they get their reward hereafter. I look on life as only temporary and think the future is the most important of all to consider. Not one of our "leading financiers" can take a dollar of their ill-gotten gains with them and Christ said, referring to those who got their money dishonestly, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!" You have made a name for yourself that will last forever in American history and already are ranked with Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln — our greatest and best Presidents. May God bless and reward you for the good you have done in the past and the greater good I know you yet will do hereafter. Yours sincerely, Wm. H. B. HaywardGoldfield [Hotel] Goldfield, Nev. June 23, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City. ------ Distinguished sir, If I thought this communication would come to your notice I would certainly be one of the happiest men on earth. - I write to congratulate you, distinguished sir, upon your great victory over the scoundrels that staged the nomination at Chicago which will go down in history as the greatest cut and dried swindle that ever disgraced a civilized nation, but, dear sir, you are the Idol of the American people and you will win out in the Election. - I am one of the plain people and every man, woman and child in this camp knows me. Governor Johnson of of California, God bless him and I know all his people of Sacramento, Frank Healy[*2.*] [[shorthand]] OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN FIXTURE & MANUFACTURING CO. TROY, OHIO Troy, Ohio. June 23 1912 Hon. Theo Roosevelt Chicago Dear Sir I get a salary of $20.00 per week I have two sons in College. A dollar looks large to me By last evenings paper I saw the statement that the progressive movement was liable to go down because big financial men who were aiding the cause were getting cold feet. One tenth of my income belongs to God. The only way I can spend it acceptably to him is to do good to my fellow man. To my mind at the present time under existing circumstances the most possible good to my fellowOFFICE OF THE AMERICAN FIXTURE & MANUFACTURING CO. TROY, OHIO Troy, Ohio. -----------------191 man can be done by aiding what little I can in getting the things you stand for put into operation. I am closer in fact stingy but I will give the Lords share of my income this year to the progressive movement if you lead it. There are thousand and thousand of men who will give from their small income with exquisite pleasure to a cause so grand. $5.00 each from a million men would make a decent Campaign fund. You have made the issues simple and clear. That much money spent in good literature and in effective speeches will drive [these] the right ideas into the minds of men so thoroughly that nothing more can be desiredOFFICE OF THE AMERICAN FIXTURE & MANUFACTURING CO. TROY, OHIO TROY, OHIO ______________________________191 ___ If the funds for the progressive campaign can come principally from the people without special privilages it will greatly strengthen the cause. To get the money from that source will be easy if the matter is properly presented. With an earnest hope for the speedy triumph of progressive principals I am yours truly G L Hobart disturbed their slumbers, and no need for further groupering in the dark, and crying too late no [f]light had we, we need only follow our leader that we may see the light of the perfect day. I am only a woman with strong desires to see the right prevail and stand ready to join hands and fight for the good cause. We women are not yet [*[June 23 1912]*] My Dear Mr. Roosevelt - The writer has been, and is an admirer of your Platform, I have given the financial and political situation my greatest thought and study, and see, and know, that we are in the throes of a great Crisis, one which must be over thrown and most carefully guarded and one which can only be taken care of by you. I have followed your every movement since you were Vice President with our late and beloved William McKinley. ('am pleased to say he was among my father's cherished friends, and I knew him very well) he was a grand noble! and admirable man, but not strong enough to battle with the forces. It was so ordained by an all wise providence that you were to fill the vacancy left void by the assassins hand. You have battled with the forces and causes. I Congratulate you upon your success, you have been, and are, to day one among the greatest teachers the world has ever known. The Convention just closed in Chicago is a blot upon our dear America from which the stain can never be washed, surely seems that money has ruled the World, while waiting justice slept, you have surelypermitted to enter into the political arena declaim our true convictions, and support our Hero. These are my sentiments and convictions, and may we only be saved from the thieves in life's financial highway, my support goes with you in the battle field which awaits you Cordially and sincerely Anna J. Holloway 2033 Green St. Philadelphia, June 23rd 1912Andrew J. Hussey Dentist 309 West 35th Street New York, June 23rd 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir I shall be pleased to serve as a member of the New Party about to be launched and would like charge of its affairs in the 9th Assembly District of Manhattan, if you deem it adviseable. Respt Andrew J. Hussey 309 W. 35 St6/23-12 [*91.*] Col. Theodor Roosevelt. Honorable Sir: - Upon reading an editorial; in our local "Jewish Press", whose editor, I believe, writes impartially, I found it to be of such sound common sense and true spirit, that I have taken pains and translated it for you. I think it will appeal to you. I enclose the article and the translation. If, however, my judgement is not correct, (as you will note I am merely a student) I have at least had a good exercise in translation, and I hope you will pardon the liberty I took in forwarding same to you. Of course, you shall have the votes of myself and my friends. May your efforts be crowned with success. Very Cordially Abraham A Katz An acknowledgement will be highly prized. 2355 E. 40- st. Cleveland, Ohio. P.S. It might be interesting for Mr. Root and his aristocratic anti-immigrationist associates to learn, that the writer of the article, not so very long ago was an immigrant, and probably could not have passed the literary tests which their honorable body were so anxious to frame. Still it seems he is remarkably awake to the sincere as well as to the false friends of the people of the United States. AAKFor enc see Ca 6-23-12DR. A. B. KINNE 410 EAST GENESEE STREET SYRACUSE, N.Y. June 23, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir I was pleased this morning to learn that you still was in the fight for the right and announced yourself as the candidate if the people desired and was nominated for the Presidency at the head of the Progressive Party to represent thousands of others with myself, who are for principals that being right will win out in time. I can now vote for you and the principals you represent, whereas if you or our party was not in the field I shall find myself.in a quandary as between Taft and any democrat — I would prefer to see a democratic President rather than Taft, because Taft has not earned a renomination, has been a failure as President, and has accepted stolen goods, in the shape of a nomination which was [stole] stolen. Taft & Sherman are sure to be defeated I believe, and it is only a question whether they will be 2nd or 3rd in the race. I know of many good Republicans that will. not vote for Taft and want to vote for you at the head of the Progressive Party. Pardon the length of this letter but I could not refrain from writing less when so much is at stake for our Country.2 DR. A.B. KINNE 410 EAST GENESSEE STREET SYRACUSE, N.Y. any citizen of N.Y. state or the United States would be right if he found out how "Boss Barnes" of Albany stood and then thought and acted and voted just the opposite. Respt Yours Dr A. B. KinneDr. Geo. H. Kobler 305 Pine Street Office Hours: 8 to 9 A.M. 2 to 4 P.M 7 P.M. Sunday, 3 to 4 P.M. Philadelphia, June 23rd 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Chicago Ill. My dear Sir: As one of the original Roosevelt Committee, I most heartily congratulate you upon the honorable stand you took during & at the National Convention, for when such man as Boies (Boy) Penrose aim to dictate to the American Citizens who should & who shall not be the choice of the people after having been duly elected by representatives chosen by a fair election at the primaries, a man of his standing to serve on a committee of Justice, who when a Candidate for the honorable office as Mayor of the City of Phila. was denounced from almost every pulpit in the city of Phila. and notices posted throughout the cityOffice Hours: Dr. Geo. H. Kobler Telephone 305 Pine Street 8 to 9 A.M. 2 to 4 P.M 7 P.M. Sunday, 3 to 4 P.M. [Philadelphia, 19] of Phila - stating the character and honor of him: that the Republican bosses when obliged to have his name recalled at the last moment, for fear of defeat, & substituted Hon. Chas Warwick's name and who was elected to the honorable office. It is time to quit. Is it any wonder that you were cheated out of the nomination by having the delegates stolen & honestly elected men thrown out - but the masses are with you & will answer in November by their votes - and where Mr Penrose and his like come up for a return to the Senate will be snowed under. I have been voting the Republican ticket for President since 1872, but if I am to have my choice between Taft & a Democrat, I shall vote the democratic ticket, however galling it may be. My dear old father was one ofthe first republicans in 1856 - but I am Sure he would not have countenanced in Such outrages actions as were transacted at the past Convention. Wishing you every possible success & good health and stick to it tiveness & you will Conquer I am Most Sincely yrs Geo. H. Kobleraddress William A Kugler 519 Moss St Reading Pa. Sunday A M Reading Pa 6-23-12 Honorable Theodore [Roosfelt] Roosevelt Dear Sir Greetings. and Congratulations on your stand for honesty decency and fair play, the writer a workingman engineer by trade will tomorrow Monday be at his throttle and at work Knowing that there are men yet alive who knows and feels for the worker. I personally Know your delegate Mr Fricker from this district and commend his stand in my ward the eleventh we have a socialist local I have some dear friends among socialistsI have studied their doctrines and principles and cannot accept them unconditionally I cannot be a democrat because of their tariff I cannot be a regular republican because? Well I want my children to respect me) a new party and election of senators direct primary woman suffrage in schools, education, restricted immigration, initiative referendum recall in its entirety for every body, conservation of our natural resources, income tax, a protective tariff, etc. and you for leader and we will sweep the country. I intend from today on to term myself a progressive and tomorrow Monday intend to start agitating the claims of the progressives dont back down b ut give us a organization to battle for and I guarantee you of a victory which will surprise the world dont spend a whole bunch of $. but use every method of the socialists: (soap Boxing) they call it I will pledge you in this eleventh ward to do canvas work house to house and I will obey any suggestion of your delegates Mr. Fricker or Mr Rempiss or Mr Ruth a soap Boxer for [Roosefelt] Roosevelt a card. from a worker. an as I believe I am waiting anxiously to hear of your platform and a reply I would cherish from you. Resp yoursBrooklyn June 23/12 My son in law A good Roosevelt Man J. R. BRUNDAGE 1318 BERGEN STREET Brooklyn [*6.*] My dear Mr Roosevelt Accept my congratulations on the way you was nominated. Had you been nominated by that Convention and accepted the nomination, we would have had such men as Barnes Jr - Penrose, Murphy & their ilk to do what they could to defeat you in November, Now they have got a candidate of their own to expend their best efforts on, a candidate that it groveled them to nominate, a candidate who stands for all kind of Fraud - Chicanery - Double Dealing & every thing else that is bad = As Mr La Follette said in his speech in Carnegie Hall "These man make your candidate for you and like a fool you go to the polls and vote for him" By the way Mr. La Follette sent me his picture in the Spring at my request and I had it framed after his dirty trick of trying to hold his delegates out from using their influence to organize that convention properly I turned it "face to the wall" & it shall remain so = I am going to send him a letter published in the Press Saturday that condemns him for his action. Now I know you are busy and I am going to make my letter short but want to say If you can use me any way in this campaign "give me your orders" I have never made a public speech in my life but feel equal to it. I will be 62 July 24th. I have two letters from your Mr. Prendegast. He ran for Congress in 1896 & 1898 - I was publishing a little sheet at that time he gave me $20 - each year for publishing his Electro with a eulogy of him, I wrote the Editor in Chief of the Evening Mail the other day and asked him if in theevent of your nomination he could not publish a morning Edition in conjunction with his Evening Edition and would not trust the New York Press to give you an honest support - I guess my letter to Justice Hughes including Mr. Leonard's letter (from the Press) had some effect. About that Emblem I wrote you about My idea is a Scroll that people can understand is The Declaration of Independence Yours truly John M. Leach Can I come over from Huntington some Sunday with my best friend Mr. Troup my son in law & daughter & shake hands with you? it will only take about 5 minutes I win a bet - A republican said to me in March I will bet you if Mr Taft is nominated he will be elected - I said I'll take that bet - He said the other day I know I've lost but I am no [Brawler?]I am going to offer him to call the bet off if he will vote for you John M Leach 100 William St Manhattan [[shorthand]]Flint Mich 6/23/12 [*LBT 7/3/12*] Mr Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. My Dear Sir and Friend Congratulations! The writer, a working man wishes to extend to you hearty congratulations upon your achievements of the past few months, and especially the last few days. A new era has arrived. The american people appreciate the services you have rendered them since you first entered public life. And while the press has maligned, if not blasphemed, the brains of the best people in this land have been working. The people can no longer be duped. The majority are for honest government by honest officials of the people, elected by the people. We have been outraged in Michigan and denied the right toexpress our desires in this direction by the direct ballot. But we submit under protest, and we shall fight for political freedom, and shall win. Your taking up the fight four months ago was typical of the man, and was a heroic deed. Your gallant fight was admirable, and is, by the majority appreciated, and you may be assured of an overwhelming support when the wish list comes before the people. All honest loyal republicans have been surprised during the revelations of the past few days, in connection with the convention at Chicago. Surprised that you were ever able to accomplish what you have been able to do, as a servant of the people, connected with a party which had in it such a powerful host of enemies of the people. It is a miracle that they have been able to keep from the people so long, their real character.[*C.*] We hail the birth of a new party which will again represent the people, and there by dig the political graves of such politicians as those who made the disgraceful, diabolical steal in the G O P convention last week. Twas said at Chicago that "mob cheers do not elect a president," There will be "cheers" in Nov 1912 that will not tickle the ear of our once respected rep Mr Wm. H. Taft. We, the people are with you; whether you lead in the new party, or work in the ranks, but we believe the people if given a change, will demand that you be the standard bearer. Give us the chance! I am but a working man, but will contribute my mite toward the expenses of the campaign, & the committee may draw on me for $25.00 any time it is needed. Have been a republican ever since my first Vote in 88, but am done with the G O P, and sincerely hope the word "Republican" will findno place in the name of the new party. We should not house the thieves, by associating with the name even of the new party, any thing that would have a tendency to flatter them. God speed the day when we shall be able to overthrow the wrong doers, and establish this government again upon righteous principles. "A government for the people and by the people." Be of good cheer, we appreciate the sacrifice you have made, are making, and are still willing to make in our behalf, & we swear our honest support and untiring efforts to assist you in your ever honest endeavors so see that the people get a "square deal." Yours Respfy Fred G. Letts6-23-12 DR. H. C. MASLAND 213 NORTH NINETEENTH STREET PHILADELPHIA BELL DIAMOND 1413 A Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir, I am one of millions who feels the outrage that has just been perpetrated upon true republicanism. I believe that some opportunity must be given us to show our resentment. I enclose a suggestion that might serve to show our feeling, develop our strength and create enthusiasm in the formation of a new organization under your valiant leadership. Respectfully yours, H.C. MaslandFor enc see 6-23-12Enc. DR. H. C. MASLAND 2130 NORTH NINETEENTH STREET PHILADELPHIA BELL, DIAMOND 1413 A June 23, 1912. I suggest that a neat button be produced showing a picture of Mr. Roosevelt, on a white ground. Around the margin a cord of red white and blue. Below the picture the motto "The people shall rule" This button should be uniform throughout the country. It should be worn only by those who wish to show their resentment at the traitorous theft of the Republican Convention, and who favor the independent fight for true democracy under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. Voluntary contributions of one cent and upward can be made toward campaign expenses. I believe the number that would be worn, the uniformity throughout the country, would have a fraternal effect, would have a moral effect and would be a powerful stimulus to the success of the work.Enc in Masland 6-23-12Kansas City, Mo. June 23, 1912. Mr. Theodore Roosvelt. Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: You will pardon my writing you; But I will explain why. I was born Jan. 24, 1868 on a northern, N.Y. Farm; Began fleshing at Seven; At thirteen My Father, Contracted me to Barnum's Show for a fat boy; for three years; My Father cared more for the money earned than the surrounding condition,s Through a dectative Coopert the true side of life was shown me; And I refused to travel after Fifteen year's of age. My Father was out of timper and ordered me from home. I lived with my Mother, a Parent,s Untill Grandfather died. I have studied the situation of life very thorough: I was Republican Untill June 21st 1896; When an Old Virgina; high soceity; Democrat told me it he had attended a Meeting of Financial Men of the three parties and Religious beliefs, and place these all under foot the week prevous And that they had sent; their committee on June the 18th; 1896 to Wm, McKinley and that Mr, McKinley had promised if nominated and Elected he would do the best he could to satisfy the demands of the Finical Men He said he was one of the men who nominated Wm,J, Bryan. But only for a target for the common people and a better targget they never had. Said he would talk dem untill justNo 1 before election; when he would herald McKinley to say the Country; And his Prohibition Friend would do the same. I worked for Ex Gov D.H. Goodell of New Hampshire, and the prediction came true. I doped all political talks, untill 1900 When I took up Social dem on National Direction Legislation; But dropped them soon for haveing to many anachry Ideas. I was oblige to write you from Colo and found Mr. Garfield and You were the only men in office who tried to give me justice, of which I am thankful for: Mr. Taft in two months after going in to office; reversed so I Relinquished my Home stead. The new party should draw their Platform careful; Broad; and, plain: And I hope they will give space in the first plank; to offer the whole people, an opportunity as soon as they have studied the Situation; And have petitioned their Congressman; to ballot on reviseing the Constitution of the United States so there after all fundamental; LAWS's; shall be submitted to the people's vote before they become a final LAW annualy at Regular Election. Space should be make for a study to make laws to give ever person as near as possible the bulk produced by their own labor and No more/No2 A study should be offerd looking to supply work or employment so soliciting or giveing of alm,s is unnesary any more;- A study should be offered to redeem tothe goverment claims taken by scheme alas fraud. If the first is taken up and placed in the platform early Ican give the new party a lift; in Aug and Sept without anyone realizing untill after its misson has set in the general people's heart. My aim has been for some time back that when the time should come; to write a set of small book,s covering our condition,s; from early Crude ctoo modern impprovment,s; and, prospect,s of the future by applying the golden rule. Your,s respectfully, Geo. H. Maxwell Kansas City, MO. 1422 Montgall Avemovement. May not be much of a politician, but I can talk, and am known from coast to coast, by virtue of my professional standing in theatricals. If you can utilize my services, command me. Will be in New York July 8, with headquarters at the Friars' Club, 107 West 45th St. Until that time will be at the address annexed. With great hope for the future, and your success in the new movement, Sincerely, Edwin Mordant 72 Washington Ave Boston June 23, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Colonel, All over but the shouting, and November is some distance off. Thinking people will repudiate Taft. The time is ripe for a party of progression, in which all factions can unite, eliminating parties. It is bound to come, and you are the pioneer. I would gladly take the stump in furtherance of the NEW HAVEN EQUAL FRANCHISE LEAGUE OFFICERS MRS. W. SPENCER MURRAY, PRESIDENT 74 WALL STREET MRS. E. C. MOORE, 1ST VICE PRESIDENT 14 TRUMBULL STREET MRS. CHARLES S. DEFOREST, 2D VICE PRESIDENT 421 HUMPHREY STREET MRS. EDWARD I. ATWATER, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 154 COLD SPRING STREET MRS. CHARLES W. HOYT, SECRETARY 115 LIVINGSTON STREET MISS ELSIE FARNAM, TREASURER 37 HILLHOUSE AVENUE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD, CHAIRMAN MRS. FRANK A. CORBIN MRS. G. L. HENDRICKSON MISS ELIZABETH R. HOOKER MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS MISS ALICE WALKER MRS. FRANK B. WALKER MRS. HARRY L. WELCH MRS. JOHN OWSLEY MISS HELEN PORTER MRS. LOUIS E. STODDARD MISS EMILY WHITNEY New Haven, Conn., June 23rd ____19 My dear Col Roosevelt. It was a great disappointment for me to have had to leave Califronia before the women there could vote. I had for a good many years tried to do my share among the progressives and here the new englanders seem never to have get into the stream of real life at all since their great days of the past. Now I have just read your speech at the meeting in Orchestra Hall in Chicago and I feel that I can take courage again for all over the country— even here— the issue will become clear. We simply must be good thats all, musnt we? Of course I am a suffragist because I believe in women—even ignorant o ones— and I believe that goodness ought to be added directly to the government in the primaries. I do not know how you feel at this time But you will believe it one day And if you do not we shall still work for you because you stand for what we all want and must have — a true pure decent clean democracy very sincerely yours (Dr) Dorothea Moore 19 Trumbull St. New Haven.[*[6-23-12]*] PAUL SECURITIES COMPANY A 1 Real Estate, Bonds, Stocks, and Real Estate Mortgages Bought and Sold 760 ELLICOTT ST., BUFFALO,N.Y. 6/23/12 Col. Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Col. Let us remain Republicans but silent as to what we will vote or do for the ticket now made at Chicago Convention. Honesty will win out in the end at all times. You know that. yours A. W PaulTopeka, Kansas June 23, 1912. Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Ills. My dear Sir: Now that you have corralled the people—and I am one of them—Why not call the new organization The Peoples' Party? Respectfully W. A. Peffer, Ex U.S. Senator from Kansas '91 to '97.Dallas Texas. June 23rd. 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook," New York NY. Dear Sir: Please find herewith a self explanatory Editorial in todays "News" which might be of interest to you. Please accept my humble congratulations for having the courage to refuse to deal with the men who robbed you of the nomination and the people of their choice. In going into this fight where you appeal to the peoplestraight from the shoulder as a man with the guts to do or die you will find thousands upon thousands, especially young men like myself, who place the rights of the people above loyalty to a party. A party is but the actions of the individuals who compose it and many, many men, whom I have talked to, all seem to agree that a change is inevitable and you have the strength of character and above all, the honesty to champion the cause. God and luck be with you. Your truly A. L. Pope W. U. Tel. Co.penny that I can afford. I shall write to the same effect to Von Valkenburg and Flinn. With hearty good wishes for the future — which is ours — believe me Yours very sincerely T. Robins The Hon Theodore Roosevelt [*11.*] 1719 LOCUST STEET June 23. 1912 My dear Colonel Roosevelt, I was called back to Philadelphia by a telegram on last Friday, and am sailing on Tuesday in the Campania to join my daughter in Paris. For this reason I was unable to give you my assurance of support as soon as your position was announced, and cannot now offer immediate assistance to the cause which I have most deeply at heart. As soon as I return, the Progressive party can count upon me for my utmost efforts and everyDR. A.E. SCHEBLE TOLEDO, OHIO June 23 -12 Colonel Roosevelt:- You deserve the everlasting gratitude of the American people for what you did in revealing the iniquities of your party. Destiny is working to the same end at Baltimore, and we shall not endure the domination of the Macsks, Sullivans Taggards any longer. If they perpetuate their despotism there, we are with you in war [a????trance] against the double headed monstrosity. Do not falter. We need men of courage since this is an era of cowardice and poltroonery. Our despot in Washington sensible of the limits to which oppression may with safety be pushed, would be far preferable to the static presence in which, here in N. West Ohio, we have several low browed- ignorant ticket-of- leave men who dominate not alone politics, but every avenue of human existence. Let us efface them. Yours truly A. E. SchebleCinti. O. 6.-23.-12. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York My Dear Sir You do not feel any worse than we do over the crime that happened at Chicago. Every intelligent voter was watching the result and it came as we expected it would, to keep the people from governing themselves, I am glad there is to be a New Party and I feel as others feel we will surely lick them and win, The same thing will happen at Baltimore and if it does it would be a good idea to give them every opportunity for the dissatisfied ones to entry the New Party I read Mr. Record's article in the Paper the other day his idea was an excellent one to give them a show to be with us and get them successfully with us we would have very easy sailing. And mind you I have talked to several good Democrats(2) and they say if Bryan don't get nominated we will surely vote for Roosevelt and if Bryan does get turned down I hope he joins the New Party and then we would have the two best Leaders the nation ever produced. I think they are badly mistaken in saying every thing will be died out before November this dirty trick will be remembered for a Century to come and it will be the last time a Republican of this type will be in Power. My Fellow Citizen Taft is highly elated over the result. I suppose he thinks himself safe for another 4 years he will have an think coming after Nov 5th. I will bet $5 to a hole in a doughnut he gets badly beat. We will give them to understand even if you didn't get the nomination at that corrupt Convention the People want you now more than they ever did before. I hope we will get good Clubs and Organizations in every State in the Union. [Would Mr Lippert] If there is a Petition or Pledge to be circulated I will gladly give my service to the cause and help to get signers3rd Those who didn't come out openly and stick to the cause the People sent them there for. They will be very sorry after Nov 5th that they didn't stick. Who [you] would advise me to consult with in my district to consult with in helping to form a Roosevelt Republican Club or League the sooner we get started the better. I have been a vote the straight ticket Republican for 25 yrs. and now I hold up both hands and quit them. It would be a good idea to hold the convention of the Progressive Party after the Convention a Baltimore as soon after as is conveniant so as to give the defeated and dissatisfied Progressive Democrats a voice in the New Party Convention and it would bind all of the Progressives together and be satisfactory to All and it would show that we are not selfish that we want voters of all classes to join us in this movement and great cause of the People. (over) Sincerely Yours George Schmidt 4122 Fergus St. Cniti Ohio4 As to cost of High living. (P S I hope this long letter will not embarress you any) Every man with a little common sense can see into it, do away with the Cold Storage Warehouses do away with the 3 or 4 middle men and the Commision mens trust or put heavy restrictions on Cold Storage and the Board of Trade I think that partly solves the problem or a minumum wagę scale according to the cost of living. Instead of being a lively town after the Taft nomination it seemed lurks if some great and prominent man had died and the City was in mourning. If the ones who hadn't looked at the Papers didn't know and would have to ask who got nominated, I told one Old man and he said damm if I vote for him why didn't Roosevelt get it and I told him all about it I work with about 200 men and this morning some of them said we will have to vote for Taft won't we and I told him in a few words who to vote for and what he stands for.[*[6-23-12]*] ABOUT NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. The first National Convention in the United States was held by the Anti-Masonic party - of a four years growth - at Philadelphia in September 1830. Four New England States - [not stated]- Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio - also the territory of Michigan were represented b 96 delegates." - Stanwood, page 156, who gives no account of the doing or result of said Assembly, but he next states that it was "voted to hold a second Convention in Baltimore on Monday [the 26th of] September 26, 1831, to be composed of delegates equal in number to the representatives in both Houses of Congress from each state, and to be chosen by the people opposed to secret societies, for the purpose of making nominations for the offices of President and Vice President." "The convention was held at the place and time designated. Delegates to the number of 113 were present, representing six New England [and Middle] and the middle States, also Ohio and Indiana. It had been intended to nominate Judge McLean of Ohio." "The Convention invited Chief Justice Marshall, who was in the City, to sit with the members, and he accepted the invitation. A ballot was taken for a candidate for President. William Wirt received 108 of 111 votes cast. [*Solid*] "Amos Ellmaker of Pennsylvania was nominated for Vice President. The Convention adopted no platform, but issued a long and verbose address to the American people. Mr. Stanwood's story of this party ends here, except that he merges all of the Wirt-Ellmaker votes to those cast [*Lead*] for Henry Clay - following the November election of 1832. From another source, the anonymous, I gather and estimate the Anti-Masonic vote cast at about 10,000 in New York state; 9,600 in Vermont; 509 in Ohio; and in other states about 13,000; in all say 33,109. This Wirt ticket was triumphant only in Vermont, and later its 7 electoral votes were given to Wirt and Ellmaker. This seems to close the account of that party in political history.The second National Convention held was b a new political force or party at Baltimore, Monday December 12, 181, under the auspices or nomenclature of National Republicans. Seventeen states were represented by 167 delegates. "General Abner Lacock of Pennsylvania was the temporary chairman of the Convention, and Gov.[ernor] James [*Solid*] Barbour of Virginia, the permanent president. The members voted for a candidate for President by rising in their seats as their names were called and announcing their vote. The nomination of Henry Clay was unanimous. In the same manner John Sergent of Pennsylvania was chosen for Vice President." "By recommendation of this Convention, a National assembly of young men met in Washington City May 1832, which accepted the [*Solid*] nominations made by the National Republicans and adopted the first platform of principles ever enunciated by a National Convention. Ib id page 157 - Resolutions at page 158. The third National [political] Convention held in the United States was by the Democratic party, formerly known as Republican or Anti- Federalist, at Baltimore, Monday, May 21, 1832, "was a striking example of [*Solid*] the hold which President Andrew Jackson had on his party" "Mr. Van Buren was not the free choice of the Democrats for the office of Vice President, yet Jackson desired his nomination, and the [*Solid*] machinery was set in motion to effect it. Stanswood - page 159. Hon'l Robert Lucas of Pike County, Ohio, was the temporary and permanent president of the Convention. He had been defeated in 1830 for Governor by a "National" by less than a thousand votes and later in the year 1832 was [*lead*] nominated and over Darius Dirlaw, Whig and elected Governor by the Democrats, and re-elected in October 1834 by nice majority over [two Whig candidates, Darius Lyman and] James Findlay, a Whig. Historian Bancroft says that Jackson was not really nominated but [*Lead*] just indorsed by the Democratic Convention of 1832. Glad enough to take him as he was in 1828 - a "Jackson man" - That Martin Van Buren was (2)the first real nominee of the Democracy. The result of the 1832 election was a total vote given Jackson of 687,502 [*lead*] and credited to Clay and Wirt 530,189 Majority for Jackson 157,313 At the Convention referred to, the Delegates from Pennsylvania and South Carolina declared that in case the ticket was successful their electoral vote would not be cast for Van Buren, and later they kept their word and threat, and the votes of said states were cast for William Wilkins 30 and Henry Lee II for Vice President. Besides, South Carolina [*lead*] College gave her 11 votes to John Floyd of Virginia for President. Here you see a "precedent" for Pennsylvania and West Virginia at the incipient stages of recent Chicago conclave - per William Flinn and Gov. Glasscock in making the same threat to the clans of that assemblage. A "menace" as it were, to the G.O.P. William A. Silcott Mt. Vernon, Ohio June 23, 1912.Enc in Silestt 6-30-12Ashland Oh 6. 23. 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Av N.Y. Dear Sir I want to thank you for the stand you took at Chicago standing for the Principles we fought for during the Rebellion & the sooner we have a new parti the better. I want to see them all go down to defeat. get things ready as soon as posible & we will do all we can for the caus Yours Truly S. H. SloanNIGHT LETTER Form 2589 B. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. 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ALWAYS OPEN glbtq 122 NL 4 exa Watertown Mass June 23 [*[1912]*] Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook Office, Newyork Dear Colonel Roosevelt We congratulate you and those with you on your magnificent fight for a fundamental american principle. The methods employed by your opponents have stirred only to place you higher in the estimate of thousands of your earnest thinking countrymen. We are ready for a movement that will swing clear of old line political parties and furnish a fight on a vital issue of Modern American life. In line with Multitudes thinking as we do we wish to tender to you and your fellow workers the continued interest and seal of the Roosevelt club of Watertown Mass with firm conviction that the people will register alike approval at the November Election. We are heartily yours Thomas W. Spencer, President, I. Boone Secretary. 1215amW.P. THORE ENGINEER DESIGNER STUDIO BLDG. BOSTON, MASS. [*4*] [3] June 23, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Sir: I desire to convey to you in this letter the appreciation and thanks of many men for the your efforts for a government of the people. We are with you for all time, and you have gained ground by your firm stand at Chicago. You are bound to win this fight, and no man can undertake a better or more noble cause, and we but wait the day to tell the bunco men of Chicago, that they cannot steal the votes, that the people will give you, as they did the delegates. Wishing you all success, I am Sincerely yours, Wendell P. Thore T/PTHE WETMORE SPECTATOR BY W.F. TURRENTINE WETMORE, KANSAS June 23, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:-- I am only a small town editor out here in the First District of Kansas, but I am for you all over. Success to you and the Progressive Party. Yours truly, W.F. Turrentine.June 23 - 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Sir From the rank & file I am with you untill the end, win or loose. Yours truly Peter Vietsch Sta. D. Baltimore , Md.Denver, Colo 6/23/12 To Hon Theo. Roosefelt Dear Sir – Permit me to congratulate you on the firm stand you have taken for the betterment of our great country. Your election in November will prove a new era in American politics. Please allow me to suggest that the name of the new party be the Citizen's National Progressive Party without regard to anyparticular party. You have by your firm stand at the Chicago convention saved the people of the entire nation such as I have never seen it before. I myself am carried away with enthusiasm. at a moving picture theatre here on Friday evening the picture of Mr Taft was flashed on the curtain, which was received with only a mild applause. Then the picture of Bryan was flashed and he was well applauded. When your picture was thrown on the curtain, it seemed as if the people had suddenly gone made. There enthusiasm new no bounds. All the world loves a fighter when he fights a good cause You would sweep the country with a good progressive Democrat for vice president, The people are with you, and that is all you want. Very Truly F. L. Weber P O Box 177TELEPHONES OFFICE: 1936 BUSHWICK STORE: 1938 BUSHWICK LABORATORY: 1022 BUSHWICK [*Am in touch with him Have appointment to see him Monday*] OTTO WICKE Wholesale and Retail Druggist Manufacturing Chemist 1375 MYRTLE AVENUE BROOKLYN, N. Y. June 23. 12. Colonel Theodore Rosevelt, Dear Col: As a Democrat I offer my services in your new "Progressive Party." I am able to offer considerable assistance in the 19th, 20th 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Assembly Distr Kings Co, also in the 3rd Assembly Dist Queens Co. If this is of any interest to you, let me have an interview with you, at your convenience. Respectfully Otto WickeJames F. Zediker Almira M. Zediker, M.D. Osteopath and Naturopath Medical Director Ex-President Drugless Healers'. Thirty Years Experience Association of Washington THE ZEDIKER INSTITUTE OF DRUGLESS HEALING No drugs, No Knife Over 2100 Cases Treated With Remarkable Success, Eight Years In Same Offices, Rooms 6 To 13 Sitter Block. PHone 673 Combining - Hygiene Osteopathy Dietetics Electricity Light And Vibration Heat Therapy Massage Hydro Therapy Electric And Traction Other Baths And Ozone Mental And (Called Naturopathy) Psychic Scientific Therapy Peerless, Matchless Magnetic Healing North Yakima, Wash. June 23d 1912 [?] 7/3/12 A. Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir: I began voting Rep. Ticket before I was 21 - as a soldier, about 50 yrs ago. Have "voted as I shot" ever since. But I'll never vote for Taft. Never. I lived 30 yrs in Neb. I know Hon. W.J. Bryan. I want to see yourself & Mr Bryan on a ticket together, as founders and leaders of the "Progressive Party." That ticket will sweep the country. The time is ripe for the change. Reform don't turn backward. The Progressives are going to continue to progress. The people are going to insist on doing their own business as to self government. The gang fought Miles Poindexter, but we put him in with a whoop. The same element and more of it, will boost you for President, and Bryan for Vice- Pleas spare no effort to consummate this suggestion. Tafts Infamous order as to "practice" in Canal Zone " killed him with 15 to 20 million people. The Valentine episode Killed him with millions more, and the Pinchot & Glavis COMBINING - OSTEOPATHY ELECTRICITY VIBRATION MASSAGE ELECTRIC AND OTHER BATHS MENTAL AND PSYCHIC THERAPY MAGNETIC HEALING JAMES F. ZEDIKER OSTEOPATH AND NATUROPATH PROFESSOR MAGNETIC HEALING EX-PRESIDENT DRUGLESS HEALERES ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON The Zediker Institute of Drugless Healing NO DRUGS, NO KNIFE, OVER 2,700 CASES TREATED WITH REMARKABLE SUCCESS. EIGHT YEARS IN SAME OFFICES, ROOMS 60 TO 18 DITTER BLOCK. PHONE 673 HYGIENE DIETETICS LIGHT AND HEAT THERAPY HYDRO THERAPY TRACTION AND OZONE (called Naturopathy) SCIENTIFIC PEERLESS, MATCHLESS NORTH WAKIMA, WASH___________________191 controversy on "conservation" Killed him with millions more. It is a foregone conclusion He can't be elected. He has been traitor to the people who put him into power. I have kept out of politics in the state for 10 yrs., but can't keep silent any longer. In NEb. I was a fighter for many years. I helped make her state constitution in 1875 - was chief clerk H.R. in 1885. held Sundry clerkships in the H.R. for 16 yers. - been farmer, merchant Banker- Editor etc and always a fighter against the political rings. Have helped to "bust up", & dethrone just such contemptible,damnable cliques as controled the Chicago convention, Fight them Roosevelt; fight for the life, the perpetuity of the government founded by the sacrifice of human Life. and perpetuated and sanctified by a sea of human blood. I gave 4 1/4 yrs to keep "Old Glory" afloat in the skies and appeal to you to help defend the great Principles for which I fought & for which "Ole Glory" stands. "A govt of the people, for the people, & by the people" God help us. Right is right, and since God is God, Right the day must win with great earnestness I am Col. Yours to command. Jos. F. ZedikerSuperior Features No Positions No Shading No Cold Notes Speed Simplicity Legibility Brevity Positions Secured The Most Concise Shorthand System Ever Invented For Practical Business Use SHORTHAND POSITIVELY IN 30 DAYS Zunz's Studio of Shorthand PROF. JOS. ZUNZ My System is the Only System You can Master in 30 Days. SHORTEST BEST CHEAPEST THE SYSTEM BUSINESS MEN ENDORSE The Most Concise Shorthand System Ever Invented For Practical Business Use 4298-E COOK AVENUE Delmar 1527-R ST. LOUIS, June 23rd, 1912 Col. Theo. Roosevelt, c/o Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Your Excellency: I hereby send you my congratulations for the great man that you are, in the organizing of a New, rather Third Party in order to give the people of the U.S. the man that they want, and not the man that a Committee wants to give them. I am convinced that you are the only man that the people in the U.S. needs and wants to bring thing back to what they were four years ago, and since they did not treat you in a fair way, so that they could nominate Mr. Taft. I can assure you that you have the hearts of the people of St. Louis, and the surrounding country in both Missouri and Illinois, with you, and that you will WIN as PRESIDENT without any difficult, as every man that is a man will vote for a man that the U.S. needs as its head. With best wishes for your success, and assurance that I will do everything that lies in my power to support you, if you but carry out your intentions of organizing a New Party, and hoping that you will not get discouraged and hold your own and Trust the One who can be trusted in the time of anything. Very respectfully yours, Prof. Jos Zunz Principal. 4298E Cook Ave. St. Louis, Mo. P.S. If you do not know me I do you and trust that the people of the U.S. may have the pleasure of your being the next PRESIDENT.[* [Ca 6-23-12] *] Copy of announcement to appear as editorial in July issue of Engineering Magazine. The Stanley Committee of the House of Representatives has spent over a year in a searching investigation of the American steel industry in general, and of the United States Steel Corporation in particular. The final report of the Chairman of that Committee will be given to the public almost concurrently with this issue of Engineering Magazine ;and it is to be expected that the conclusions reached by Mr.Stanley, and the recommendations which he makes, will receive the careful attention not only of lawyers and politicians, but of all those interested in any way in American industrial development. The sections relative to the ownership of raw materials, and its effect on the progress and control of the steel industry will be of particular interest, as bringing up questions which have not yet received legal attention in this country, and regarding which neither the facts nor the law seem to be generally understood. It will be recalled in this connection that the detailed reports of the Bureau of Corporations on the steel industry called attention to the fact that, in the final analysis, control of raw material supplies was the only feature of the industry which might require further legislative consideration. It will be of interest to our readers to compare the conclusions reached by the Chairman of the Stanley Committee and the Commissioner of Corporations with those presented in the next three numbers of Engineering Magazine by the leading technical authority on the subject. The August, September, and October issues will contain a series of three articles, by Mr.Edwin C. Eckel, dealing with various phases of the iron ore reserve problem, in both its industrial and political relations. The series2. as now planned will comprise three sections, to be presented in the following order; IRON ORE RESERVES. 1. The Element of Monopoly. (August issue.) 2. Actual Extent of American Reserves. (September issue) 3. Valuation of Ore Reserves. (October issue) It will be found, we think, that this discussion marks a distinctly new stage in the evolution of opinion regarding ore reserve ownership. Beginning with a summary of existing conditions as to ownership and control, the industrial and financial factors which influence the question are for the first time definitely determined, clearly stated, and followed through to their logical conclusions. Some of the matters here discussed will come before the courts for decision under existing law, while all of them may become factors in the formulation of a proper public policy in dealing with one of our great industries. It is impossible to forecast the outcome in either case, but it is at least a possibility that the final decisions, both by the courts and the electorate, may come nearer to following the lines laid down by the engineer than to accepting the more radical suggestions of the official investigators.Enc in Eckel 6-23-12[*[Enc in Duras 6-23-12]*] Boundaries of the Fourteenth Congressional District The district is bounded on the West by Lexington Avenue, on the South by 72nd Street, on the North by 88th Street, then stretches across Long Island City and Newtown; including Astoria, Steinway, Ravenswood, Hunters Point, North Beach, North Woodside, Woodside, Blissville, Louona Park, Corona, Corona Heights, Elmhurst, Newtown, Newton Heights, Winfield, Laurel Hill, Maspeth, Metropolitan, Ridgewood Heights, Evergreen, St. James' Park, Middle Village, Glendale and Forest Park Heights. "Are the corporations sovereign or do the people rule this Republic?" Do you vote in the I4th Congressional District? If you do, vote for VICTOR HUGO DURAS. If you do not live in the district, ask your friends to vote for VICTOR HUGO DURAS, a friend of Union Labor. CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. [*[ca 6-23-12]*] CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS Republican Nomination Independence League Nomination 14th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT VICTOR HUGO DURASCAREER OF VICTOR HUGO DURAS The action of the Republicans of the Fourteenth Congressional District in nominating Mr. Victor H.Duras as their candidate for Congress, affords hearty satisfaction, the selection being regarded as an excellent one, directly in the interest of the people. Mr. Victor Hugo Duras, lawyer and author, was born in Nebraska, May 6, 1880. He is a son of Senator Cenek Duras (banker) and Marie Spirk-Duras; he entered the University of Nebraska in 1900; and received the degree of L.L.B. in 1902; received L.L.M., from the Columbian University in 1903; D.C.L., from the same institution in 1904, and Master of Diplomacy from the George Washington University in 1905. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Nebraska; of the State of New York and of the Supreme Court of the United States. He acted as United States Judge of the Cristobal District Court in the Panama Canal Zone in 1906; refused the Republican nomination for the Assembly in 1907. He was the Republican candidate for Congress in the Twelfth Congressional District of New York in 1908. He is the assistant editor of the "Peacemaker" published in Philadelphia, a member of the National Civic Alliance, the American Peace Society, and the Universal Peace Union. He was co-founder of the "Ecole de la Paix" of Paris, France, and is an associate of the International Law Association, London, England. He is author of articles on "Panama" "East and West," and "Universal Peace by International Government." Aside from his profession he has always taken a keen interest in public affairs and within the ranks of the Republican party, of which he has always been an earnest and consistent member, has done all in his power to advance the cause of good government. Of his qualifications for the position of which he has been nominated, there can be no question. His candidacy deserves and should receive the earnest support of all who believe in honest and intelligent legislation. - Reprinted from the Mercantile Times. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM I stand against Cannon and Cannonism. I will do all in my power to establish the general eight-hour labor-law. I favor the nomination of candidates for office by the direct primary. I will support the best bill presented for an inheritance tax and an income tax. I shall fight for the downward revision of the tariff on food products to decrease the high cost of living. I believe in the building up of the Merchant Marine to rehabilitate the shipping of American goods in American ships. I stand for the public ownership of public utilities as the best remedy to prevent private monopoly in city, state and nation. Pledging myself to advocate the above measures I solicit your active support and interest in my election. VICTOR HUGO DURAS.Enc. in Brennemann 6-27-12 6-23-12GOD WILL RULE AND T.R. WILL WIN PROMINENT HOPEDALE REPUBLICAN WRITES AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PANTAGRAPH W.C. Brennenmann, of Hopedale, has written the following open letter to the Pantagraph: Hopedale, Ill., June 23. - You remind me of a story about the imprudent optimist who shouted "All right so far!" as he fell past the sixth story after he willfully jumped down from a thirteen story window to the pavement. Every honest man who has enough sense to count knows that a large majority of the republicans who voted at the primary elections voted for Roosevelt. The editor of the Pantagraph had the manhood to stand with Senator Hopkins when he had the majority of votes. You had the honor for fighting against the Sullivan, Brown and Lorimer scandal and now you are disgracing yourself by dragging our president down to defeat because the honest American voters will not support a presidential candidate whose nomination has been stolen by a set of ignorant politicians who are more greedy than wise. You have my heartfelt sympathy but you must remember that stealing nominations is sin and the wages for sin is hell. I am also an optomist but not the kind who would jump 130 feet to a pavement or who would indorse the stealing of nominations by a set of ignorant and greedy politicians like Barnes, Penrose and our foxy W.B. McKinley. I am an optimist because God, and not a rotten republican party, is at the helm of Uncle Sam's ship of state. I have absolute faith in God and have enough sense to know that the honest voters always had the power to say who shall be president and you will have to let them rule even if they will not support stolen goods. Respectfully, W.C. Brenneman.Enc in Katz 6-23-12 Ca 6-23-12HIGH SCHOOL GRAD AT 32, TO TAKE HARVARD COURSE Abraham A. Katz "By graduating from high school I have satisfied an ambition that has been gnawing at me for 15 years," and Abraham Katz, 2355 E. 40-st, who at thirty was graduated from East high school Thursday night. "And yet," he added, "I feel I am a poorer business man today than I was 10 years ago. Now I am going to college. "What do I expect to gain? I know I will not get an equipment for commercial life. Nevertheless, I will be living with books, which are my best friends. With all the years ahead of me, I consider that the four years will be well spent." Katz spent 15 years in the business world after he left grammar school at thirteen. He could not afford high school. He became a successful expert accountant. Two years ago he had saved enough to enable him to carry out his plan of education. He finished the four-year high school course in two years and in addition completed a two-year course at night law school. Next December he will be admitted to the Ohio bar. A year from September he will enter Harvard. "Eight years of grammar school work and a short course of specialized business college training will equip anyone for a business career," he says. "You can learn common sense without studying geometry or Latin. By the time your friends are out of college you will be making a living wage while the majority of your college friends will have to start where you began. "Without vanity, though, I think college offers something for me. I probably will practice law. I have no desire to be rich, and for that reason I know I will be satisfied." VETERANS NEED MORE FLOWERS FOR GRAVES Flowers may be missing from many veteran's graves Thursday unless the public sends more flow-