[[shorthand]] THE LOTOS CLUB NEW YORK July 10 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir, I was gratified to read yr expression of opinion a week or two since in favor of all trust laws I cordially & heartily agree with you but you are the only prominent man who has had the courage to make such a proposition It will sweep the country Yours truly J Edward Addicks[*ack 7-12-12*] JOS. R. BALDWIN Successor to BALDWIN SPECIALTY CO. Complete House Furnishers Ladies' and Gents' Clothing A Full Line of Furniture 107-109 EAST GENESEE STREET PHONES: Bell, Seneca 627 Frontier, 627 Buffalo, N. Y. July 10, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Hotel, New York City. Dear Colonel: Yours of July 9th duly received and carefully noted. I am very much pleased that you handed my name to Judge Hodgkiss. I do not believe it will be necessary for me to communicate with him until after he has placed my name, as the writer happens to know the Judge very well, in fact, was made a thirty-two degree Mason in the same class with him, and I have his photograph now in my house, where we all had our pictures taken together. I am enclosing herewith an article which I gave to the Buffalo Courier where I stated my position as an Elector in Maryland. With best wishes for your success, I remain. Yours verytruly, Jos R Baldwin[*[For 1 enc. see Buffalo Courier 5-10-12]*]CHARLES J. BONAPARTE ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE July 10, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 267 Fourth Avenue, New York, My dear Colonel Roosevelt;- Your two letters of the 8th and 9th inst, came duly to hand. I was out of the City yesterday, but have made an appointment with Gaither for tomorrow morning and will let you know the result of the conference. He was the Republic candidate for Governor in 1907, nominated at that time, in preference to our present Governor (Goldsborough), in some measure at my suggestion. He did not make as strong a candidate, however, as had been anticipated, and his political course since then has been a little erratic, although he is undoubtedly a man of ability and standing. In the primary campaign he professed privately great sympathy with your canvass, but could not be then induced to commit himself publicly in any way. You may perhaps remember that Carrington brought him into your car on the way from Havre de Grace to Baltimore, as he happened to be on the train. The reason he then gave for this hesitancy was that His client, the Western Maryland Railroad, which is controlled by the Gould interests, was very hostile to you. I have since heard it intimated, however, that another of his clients (Mr. Munsey) has suggested to him that a different course might be advisable. I must say, however, that I did not know whether the last mentioned statement is well founded. Gaither was originally a Democrat, but became a Republican on the protective tariff issue, I think about the time of Harrison's election, and has been a very active Republican ever since. I give you these details, which, of course, are in some measure confidential, to show that, while he undoubtedly can be useful to us, he needs rather careful handling. CHARLES J. BONAPARTE ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE Hon. T. R.-2. I go North on Monday, and shall pass that night in New York. Would it be practicable for me to call on you some time that day? My last article seems to have stirred up a great deal of com- ment, and I am in receipt of a batch of communications, some of them decidedly abusive ,from persons who either do or do not like it. You may be amused by the enclosed letter from a gentleman who seems to be a very ardent admirer of yours and advocate of your election. The annexed clipping is a rather pronounced case of mendacity through headlines. Believe me, as ever, yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. Dictated.TELEPHONE, GERRARD 9396. 5, Half Moon Street. W. July 10th 12 Dear Colonel Rooseveldt You may perhaps remember the hunter & explorer. John Boyes who you met on the Nile on the borders of Uganda & the Sudan. He has written to me & asked me to forward you a book of his life he has recentlywritten. - I edited the book for him, as he is not an educated man —. I am forwarding you the book by this post. It is called "John Boyes. King of the Wa-Kikuyu", & as you know the country & its people so well. I think it will interest you. Boyes became a king of the Kikuyu before the country was taken over by the British Government. He underwent many adventures, & escapes before he arrived at the royal eminence: Amid the stress & strain of your politics, you probably sometimes go back to your African experiences, & perhaps would like to be in the African wilds again if only for an occasional change. With my best regards. Believe me sincerely your’s Charles Bulpett375 West 55th Street New York July 10th, 1912. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I hear that the Evening Journal has placed a column a day at the disposal of you or your representatives during the coming campaign. Probably every paper and magazine in the country will do the same, and it has occurred to me that you may have work for a great many writers. I want to be one of them, if you will give me a chance! I cannot truthfully say that I have much political experience, but I have been in the writing business for sixteen years! I have published eleven books, more short stories than I can count, and served an apprenticeship on two newspapers. I want to attack the matter purely from the feminine standpoint all through. perhaps that might [se] strike people as a political novelty, in these days of "Women's Movements", and so on . And the very fact that my grasp of the subject is not technical would make it easier for me to chalk it on the blackboard for other laymen. Anyway, I should love to try! Your sincere partisan, Anna Alise Chapin.JOHN JAECKEL, CHAIRMAN JAMES F. MURPHY, VICE CHAIRMAN WILLIAM D. CHENEY, SEC'Y 515 DILLAYE BUILDING MICHAEL WALSH, TREASURER REMOVED TO 607-8 S. A. & K. BLDG. HEADQUARTERS COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS IMP. ORDER OF RED MEN'S CONVENTION ...1912... [*D *] July 10th., 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear sir: - The Fortieth Great Sun Council of the Great Council of the State of New York, Improved Order of Red Men, will be held in this city August 12-16th. On the after noon of August 13th. an outing of the Red Men of this section will be held at a resort near city to which will be invited the officers of the Great Council and about 500 representaties coming from all parts of the State, in addition to foregoing there will be present several hundred non-members of the Order. Am instructed by the above committee to ask what arrangements can be made to have you with us on August 13th. and make an address at the outing at about five o'clock in the after noon. Yours respectfully, Mr. D. Cheney Sect.Form [1?72] 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 RECEIVED No. 5 NYF. TIME FILED 748A 47 CHECK 10 ex SEND the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to} July 10 - 12 Cleveland Ohio 9 TO 28. Via New York 9 Theo. Roosevelt We are progressives have you any objection to our advertising and Distributing large copy of your picture with caption the papa of progress we give pictures away no charge distribute in July wire your consent our expense The Bishop Babcock Becker Co, R. D. Crisp Advertising NY Cleveland Ohio READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK"Dingley Dell" Squirrel Island Maine [*10*] July 10, 1912 Dear Colonel:- but for this extreme heat I would gladly go to NY to see you but I dare not. Mr Perkins & Mrs Perkins told us a few weeks ago they mean to be in Maine in the heat of summer. & they agreed to call at Squirrel Island to spend at least a day or two with us at Dingley Dell.I would prefer to speak of personally to you. I would do so here but my stenographer is at the Lewiston Journal office. Certainly you must come to Maine sooner or later in the combat. They have reason to remember your last visit & one more visit would quite unnerve them. I enclose a bit of editorial to which I hope you will [scratch?] time to refer as it is from the Maine angle. Faithfully yrs Frank R. Dingley should they come to Maine I can take up the matter, I have in mind with Mr Perkins. I hope your health will not suffer from your incomparable work. How much I wish you & Mrs R. could visit us here for a little fresh air before you plunge into the fight further. If I am unable to see you or Mr Perkins at an early day, I will dictate to any stenographer the substance of whatCHARLES H. DUELL FREDERIC P. WARFIELD HOLLAND S. DUELL ROBERT S. BLAIR JAMES W. ANDERSON ROYAL W. FRANCE PAUL A. BLAIR JAMES B.L. ORME DUELL, WARFIELD & DUELL ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS PATENT TRADE-MARK AND CORPORATION LAW UNITED STATES EXPRESS BUILDING 2 RECTOR STREET, NEW YORK CITY 1/H.M.S. TELEPHONE 2370 RECTOR 2371 CABLE "DUELFIELD" July 10, 1912. [*18.*] My dear Colonel Roosevelt: On the eve of my sailing, I wish to assure you of my continued support of you and your policies. Upon my arrival I will serve in the ranks with as much loyalty as before the Convention. I congratulate you upon the men whom you have placed in charge of affairs of New York State and wish for them and you the most complete success. Sincerely yours, C. H. Duell Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. [[shorthand]]JOHN L. HAMILTON HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS [*D*] July 10, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, % The Outlook, New York, N. Y. My dear Colonel:- Inasmuch as you will probably attend the Progressive Convention called for Chicago, August 5th, we would like to arrange to have you make a speech at our Chautauqua which will be holding its annual meeting during that week. We would like very much to have you arrange to be with us on Friday the 9th as the Convention in Chicago will in all probability be adjourned before that time. You could leave Chicago at either 7:45 in the morning, or 12:30, and you could return to Chicago the same evening if you cared to do so, or if you would be willing to make another address the same evening, I could take you across the country in my automobile to Attica, Indiana which is but thirty-five miles distance. Our Chautauqua Association would pay you $500.00 for coming, and I presume Attica would do as well. Of course, after hearing from you I would take this matter up with them. This is a little out of the politicalJOHN L. HAMILTON HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS Col. T. R. #2. line, yet it is a district in which it would do you a great deal of good to make talks as you have many warm personal friends in this section. If the 8th or 10th would suit you better, those dates would be entirely satisfactory to our people. With personal regards, I am Yours very truly, John L. Hamilton JLH/JLB Anadarko, Okla. July 10, 1912. Col. Theo. R. Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. [*20.*] My Dear Col:- I send you this briar root pipe, because I fashioned it. I found it upon the banks of the Washita river, near Anadarko. I hope that you smoke in this world- not in the next, as Ingersoll said. This is not a pipe of peace. There is, there can be no peace between the Progressives and the Taft forces in this part of the moral vineyard. "No compromise with dishonesty." We want no merger of the identity of the glorious Republican party with dishonesty. We [xx] want to preserve in tact, the honor, integrity and he magnificient achievments of the Republican party. We cannot do so by "Lying supinely upon our backs and hugging the delusive fantom of hope." Taft and Taftism must go. You must head a ticket-the ticket, of true, honest Republicanism of this Nation in the race that is on. I met you at the dedication of the Lincoln Monument. I sent you a song poem of my composition. You acknowledged the receipt of same. I am here in the practice of law. I was President of Taft Club, in Ky. I was for him then, but for him no more. I am for you henceforth. Yours to Command, Will R. Haynes, Atty. AtLaw. Will R. HaynesForm 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 the conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following messages. 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 to transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, not in any care beyond the sum of Fifty Dollars, at which, unless otherwise stated below, this message has been valued by the sender thereof, nor in my case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. 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DWIGHT B. HEARD.......1125AMNational Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE No. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK [*NY Ctd?*] July 10th, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York City. My dear Colonel:- Mr. Ethan Allen Doty of Brooklyn, formerly president of the Union League club there, announced himself as a member of the Progressive Party yesterday. He has a record worth while both from his standing in Brooklyn, and because of his knowledge of economic questions bearing upon the tariff. He called this morning saying that he had certain views that he wished to put before you on the subject of the high cost of living, prior to any agreement as to the platform of the Chicago convention. I suggested that he write you such views by mail and send this that you may understand who he is, and that he speaks with the authority of a business man of long experience. Very truly yours, William H. Horelmore WHH/M.CHARLES A. SHERMAN, CHAIRMAN W.L TISDALE, SECRETARY BROOKLYN BRANCH NAVY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 167 SANDS STREET, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN NEW YORK CITY RELIGIOUS WORK DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE WILLIAM A. PARSONS, CHAIRMAN WILLIAM B. MILLAR SECRETARIES JEREMIAH HOLMES HUBERT A. SHAW. July 10, 1912. Dear Col. Roosevelt: - May I urge consideration of the abolition of the liquor traffic as a progressive plank which would split the two old parties wide open and give you the great moral issue, without which I believe the voters will never make any radical change in party alignment. Lincoln said, "After reconstruction the next great question will be the overthrow of the liquor traffic." The Republican party would never have been born had it not been for the great moral issue of slavery. The majority of the Northern and Western Republicans and of the Southern Democrats would make a triumphant majority for a new party which would not only say, "Thou shall not steal", but also, "Thou shall not kill." Your present cause is commonplace and your fame will be likewise, compared to the glorious destiny which would be yours if you could eradicate this great cancerin our society, as Lincoln called it. May the God of Nations ,into whose plans Lincoln swung his great personality until it became undying in the memory of mankind, lead you to take up this greater service which Lincoln had to lay aside. Sincerly, Jeremiah Holmes.Winfield L.I. July 10th 1912. [*7*] Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, New York. Dear Sir:- Through the courtesy of Mrs. Douglas Robinson I had the pleasure of receiving from Miss Jane Carroll an issue of your fine work entitled "The Strenuous Life" with your autograph inscribed. I assure you it affords me great pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of this token with many thanks. I consider same my richest treasure.Again thanking you for your kind favor and adding my best wishes for your luckiest campaign coming. I am sure it will be an easy one for you. Yours very sincerely Wm KaltenbrunnerThe Chicago Tribune THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER OFFICE OF THE GENERAL MANAGER CHICAGO July 10, 1912. Frank Harper, Esq., c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y. My dear Harper:- This came in the mail today. Yours very truly, J Keeley JKThe Chicago Tribune THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER OFFICE OF THE GENERAL MANAGER CHICAGO July 10, 1912. Frank Harper, Esq., c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y> My dear Mr. Harper:- A file of The Tribune from January 1st to date was shipped by Adams Express today. It got away "charges collect" before I knew it. Please accept my apologies. I'm off for a quick round trip to Alaska tomorrow and if there is any necessity for reaching me my office can locate me in twenty four hours. Faithfully yours, J Keeley JKHORATIO C. KING COUNSELOR AT LAW TEMPLE BAR 44 COURT STREET TELEPHONE No - 1475 MAIN Residence 5 Main Brooklyn Borough, N.Y. City July 10th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear Comrade:- I need not reassure you of my very high regard for you and my loyalty. Although I do not fully agree with you in all respects, I think you come nearer to my ideals than either of the other candidates, but before finally concluding what to do, I would like to hear from you a little more definitely your ideas on the tariff question, which I think is one of the most vital issues, if not the most vital issue before the country. Sincerely yours, Horatio C. King [[shorthand]]ALBERT KORBER 36 LAFAYETTE AVE. BROOKLYN, N. Y. TELEPHONE 3632 PROSPECT NEAR ACADEMY OF MUSIC INTERIOR DECORATIONS RESIDENCES REMODELED ENTIRE INTERIOR FINISH OUR WORKSHOPS EMBRACE FINE FURNITURE UPHOLSTERY DRAPERIES PORTIERS SPECIAL CARPETS AND RUGS GENERAL CONTRACTING RESIDENTIAL REMODELING INTERIOR WOODWORK PLAIN, DECORATIVE PAINTING WOOD FINISHING POLISHING DAMASKS TAPESTRIES WALL PAPERS LEADED GLASS July 10, 1912. Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, Montague & Hicks St. Brooklyn N. Y. My dear Mr. Woodruff;- It is with hearty enthusiasm that I respond to your recent letter in the "Eagle." I agree with you that I fail to comprehend how any honest minded, patriotic American citizen, irrespective of politics or creed can indifferently view recent events in the National Republican Convention at Chicago. What a spectacle of arrant hypocrisy for thoughtful people to look upon. What an awful example for our young men to see learned, distinguished men of the nation deliberately, and with eyes wide open, and with the press of the country calmly complacent, perpetrate the most damnable fraud ever thrust upon a people. A fraud apparently indorsed by his Excellency the President. I wonder what these noble minded men thought when they invoked the blessing of Almighty God upon the deliberations of that marvelous convention. I doubt if they can conscientiously, in fact I believe they cannot, will not, ask or expect their sons, their friends, their flock, or for whom they may pray, to ratify such a nomination, and to vote for a branded nominee. Can we afford to condone this stain upon the glorious maxim of American Fair Play, and permit those who have brought ridicule upon this nation to go free. I think not. Our exponents of the laws of righteousness point with pride to the fact that our beloved land is Gods chosen country and that we as a Christian nation lead the world. I sincerely believe it to be the duty of our great lead.ers and teachers not only to hold high the principles of morality, but to fearlessly defend them when trifled with. They have a golden opportunity as never presented before to point with the finger of scorn, and in a voice of thunder, denounce from every pulpit, throughout the nation the monumental Gall, of substituting stealing for honesty. This nation should no more sacrifice honor or self respect, than to repudiate its debt; and if we would perpetuate the exalted principles of our forefathers, that fact should be driven home and countersunk deep in the minds of those arrogant, self appointed, self seeking boses of both parties who have temporarily placed themselves above the will of the people. Col. Roosevelt received merciless and vindictive handling at the hands of a press which is supposed to disseminate the news of the day truthfully and impartially, and I earnestly trust that the attempt to create false and dishonest sentiment will be met by our independent, justice loving citizens with triumphant scorn. And the only forceful weapon is the formation of a new party, with that magnificent, courageous, throughly sincere, ideal man, Col. Roosevelt as its inspiration and leader. And I am proud to say that my three sons heartily indorse my sentiments. With hearty congratulations and best wishes for success in firmly standing for the right, I. am, Very truly yours; Albert Korber dict. A. K. Aure 1tres(maybe not)[*[Enc in Korber 7-9-12]*] Personal Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York Bonnie Haven, Geneva, Illinois. July 10th, 1912. My dear Colonel Roosevelt, I cannot refrain from sending the enclosed old time letter — I also regret my inability in not presenting this, instead of expecting a slight [reservation?] - but I have been building up a small business here, in the gatheringof old time relics - and this was found in the house of a late sea captain - the time spent is small compared to the risk that it might be yours. The message of this forceful letter was composed by a man like you who is strong for his countrymen— The time has now come when a national hero must not lay down the great burden which he has borne with herculean strength and courage — I beg to subscribe Very Sincerely Yours, Margarette C. Little (Mrs. B.A.)Terre Haute, Indiana, July 10, 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My Dear Colonel Roosevelt: — I have read your reply to my former letter with great interest. I am with the new party. I feel certain that it will assume large proportions before the election in November, and that Democrats will lose some of their cock-sureness before that time. Two or three months ago I wrote you from Harvard, favoring practically the course pursued by you at Chicago, and calling your attention to Seward's and Lincoln's parts as Whigs in the formation of a new party. I feel that I am a sort of charter member of the new organization though I was not at Chicago on the night of June 22,2 My full plan evolved after the Baltimore Convention included: the thorough organization of the Progressive Party; the drafting of a distinct platform; the nomination of Gov. Wilson; the nomination of a man like Gov. Johnson instead of our stand-pat Gov. Marshall. Gov. Wilson could then repudiate the aid of Murphy, Sullivan, Taggart, etc. When inaugurated he would of necessity name some third party leaders as members of his cabinet, and a program of constructive, progressive legislation might be carried through by a combination of new party progressives and Democratic progressives. If Wilson wins the Presidency, he can not secure progressive legislation from the Democratic members of Congress organized as such. If our new Progressive Party wins as a distinct party, and we place you in the President's chair, can we hope to elect a majority3. in either House? If not, will you not as President be placed in a very trying position? Would not a coalition with progressive Democrats in Congress be necessary to carry out any legislative program? Perhaps it is not your view that a real progressive program can be carried out during the next four years, and that you believe it best for the Progressive Party to make an independent fight now, win or lose, in order to be strong enough to control both House and the Presidency after 1916? I am not seeking any reply to my questions. I am simply writing because I am greatly interested in the Progressive cause, believing that you desire the opinions of men from various parts4. of the country at this crisis in our national affairs. Whatever plan is decided on as best for the Progressive Party, count me your supporter and defender first, last, and all the time, as I have a steadfast faith that you will always stand for what you believe to be right, and for what you believe to be for the interest of the whole people. Very Sincerely, William O. Lynch.Indian Refining Company Incorporated General Offices 17 Battery Place, New York All quotations subject to change without notice unless otherwise specified. In answer please address New York, July 10th, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My Dear Sir:- Under exceptional circumstances which will exist during the early future I know of a combination of schedules which would enable me to make a trip around the world in approximately 37 days and 15 hours, thereby breaking the world's record for such a trip. The record is a present enjoyed by France and the time recorded is 39 days and about 19 hours. It occurred to me that you might be interested in promoting such a trip, either directly or indirectly, and would earnestly thank you to consider the matter seriously, if you are at all interested, and advise me. The trip is somewhat of an undertaking but I would not hesitate to exert the necessary effort. I have travelled about five hundred thousand miles during the past eight years, principally in the Western, South- western and the Southern States and, quite naturally, I have a large number of friends throughout those sections, particularly among the young men. Such a trip as mentioned above added to my present travel would undoubtedly afford me influence in the matter of a large matter of votes if followed up properly by myself. If you are interested I feel certain of my ability to establish myself to a degree satisfactory to you. I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Jeptha D. Howe of St. Louis for some time, which gentleman I am sure you have known during the past.Page #2. I feel that the circumstances affording the schedule mentioned, inasmuch as they will probably not occur again for at least a year or more, are worthy of consideration and if you are not personally or otherwise directly interested, then I would greatly appreciate any suggestion which you might be good enough to offer. Trusting that I may have the pleasure of your favorable reply, I remain, Respectfully, J W Marshburn Address: Care Traffic Department. Indian Refining Company.Lake Queechy, N.Y. 7/10/12. Confidential Col Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. My Dear Colonel— I am with you heart and soul and will do all I possibly can to elect you and the other candidates of the "Progressive Party." Am spending a few weeks near Canaan N.Y. and find that the farmers are most favorable to you. I had always voted the Republican ticket but after that "Chicago farce"—no more. Make "The High Cost of Living" one of the leading planks in your new platform— that is the main issue now with nearly all of us2./ I am enclosing a Five Dollar Bill and will ask you to accept the same for the new party - during the campaign I will remit other amounts from time to time. I honestly believe that with you as our candidate that our new party will win Success and Kindest regards to you. Sincerely yours, D. A. Moir #2007 Foster Ave Brooklyn N.Y.shorthand [*July 18*] [*7-10-12*] ST. CLARE PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Hon. Theo. Roosevelt: Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir:- I write to offer you a suggestion insomuch as to clearly enlighten the citizens how the delegates that were elected to support you were stolen from you. I think I am one of thousands that was not clear on that and yet I have to read all the newspaper articles I could secure on the subject. Last evening I was in the company of our delegate from this district; and when I nominated, and I bore down on this subject and when the whole matter was made clear I was not only amazed at the audacity of the Taft management but aroused at the great injustice done to the American people This information I had gained on the subject thru the newspapers aroused me but not in the manner that I was when I had the facts. What puzzled me was the 38 to 15 vote in committee and this committee had the deciding power, now I know and I have not words to express myself. Then when I learned clearly that men were seated as delegates who had not ashadow of claim on the seats but were put there arbitrarily by the committee of 38 to 15 I wonder that affairs were conducted as orderly as they were. I felt at once that if I was as poorly informed on such an important subject as it proved to be after all that I had read on it there must be thousands of your friends in the same vein of mind, foggy, and they should be enlightened and it should in some manner come directly from you and I believe when you do enlighten them it will gain you thousands of friends and bind your old friends closer to you. Yrs respit. S. P. Morris [*7-10-12*] [*shorthand*][*17.*] THE KANSAS CITY STAR. [[shorthand]] Magnolia, Mass., July 10, 1912 My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I thought you might be interested in looking over the inclosed editorial from The Star. Sincerely, W. R. Nelson (Nelson) Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.STATE OF MICHIGAN EXECUTIVE OFFICE LANSING CHASE S. OSBORN GOVERNOR July 10, 1912. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I have read with unusual satisfaction your letter of July 5th. I have tried to make my position very clear to you. I hope earnestly you will not run, because I think the prime need at this time is good men, clean men, fearless and independent men at the head of the Government. I think Governor Wilson embodies all of these characteristics as you do. If we form a dozen new parties, they will be loaded down with self-seekers and crooks just as soon as we are successful. The people are getting the idea that the new party is a selfish movement. A poll taken on a train yesterday gave forty-seven for Wilson, thirty-two for you, eighteen for Debs and fifteen for Taft. It will be much easier to form a new party if the Democrats fall down. You will be just as available, and will be all the more powerful and influential if you will support Wilson this time. I believe that Wilson is strongly intrenched in his progressiveness and independence, and that he will provePage Two a Tartar to the people who now think they are going to be able to use him. I think it would be better to have the people vote for a Socialist ticket than to have them vote for Taft and to have them come to a belief, no matter how wrongly based, that you or any of us are selfish in this fight. This situation is extremely delicate. If you finally decide to run and your name is placed where it can be voted for in Michigan, I shall vote and support you with all my heart. I must still be frank and honest with you in my opinion, and that is that I think you should not run at this time. Yours most sincerely, Chase S. Osborn. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Care of the Outlook, New York City. OLPThe News Scimitar TENNESSEE ARKANSAS MISSISSIPPI PAUL BLOCK, (INC.) SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SECOND NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 5TH. AVE., CORNER 28TH.ST., NEW YORK STEGER BLD'G., CHICAGO. 24 MILK ST., BOSTON. EVENING SCIMITAR, ESTABLISHED 1880} CONSOLIDATED MORNING NEWS, ESTABLISHED 1902} Dec. 25, 1904. July 10th, 1912. Memphis, Tenn. My dear Mr. Roosevelt :- Answering your courteous note of the 5th inst., just received, I would take the first train to New York if I had any definite suggestion in mind that I thought would be of service to you or the country, and I am persuaded that both are very much the same. In the absence of this I will wait till the spirit moves me to go to New York and if there on any mission I will ask to see you. Very truly yours, G. D. Raine. Mr. Theodore Rooseevlt, C/O The Outlook, New York City.Story of Revelation [*17.*] THE READE LITERARY COMPANY WASHINGTON. D.C. July 10, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Sir: I expect to go to New York next week to see you. I have a running article, which I wish to have published in either Everybody's or Munsey's Magazine. The article is entitled: "The Passing of the Old Line American Statesman." The article supports you for President at the forthcoming November election. As I am in position to reach, in my own way, thousands of people who can be turned your way I wish to confer with you before this matter goes into print. I am not known in this District asStory of Revelation THE READE LITERARY COMPANY WASHINGTON. D.C. Joshua Reade, but when I see you I will present such credentials as will show you who I am and the good I may be able to do. Will you kindly advise me whether I could see you for about three quarters of an hour on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday of next week. I am enclosing an announcement of a story of which I am the author. I would like to submit to you that portion of the story in which I refer to you as one of the Pleidas. Thanking you in advance for a reply, I beg to remain. Very truly yours, Joshua Reade[*7-10-12*] [*12*] Hotel Rector Broadway and Forty-fourth St. New York Chas. E. Rector 7/10/12 Honorable Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, L.I. [*shorthand*] Dear Colonel Roosevelt! Am here for a few days and would be pleased to know if you desire me to pay you a visit, see by the press how busy you are and do not [ask?] to add to your burdens but would be delighted to make a call and talk Indiana and so forth to you. As you may recall, I took up and pushed through the Tariff Commission idea and, since the "big fight" will positively be made on the tariff question, I should like to talkHotel Rector Broadway and Forty-fourth St. New York Chas. E. Rector tariff commission over with you; I think we have something that will interest nearly every one and perhaps, cause victory to pushh on our business. awaiting reply by return mail, I remain Sincerely yours Henry Riesenberg of Indianapolis, Ind. c/o above Hotel. here until sundayPhone Frontier 94268 Established 1875 THE OLD RELIABLE POLISH DAILY POLAK w AMERYCE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM 389 PECKHAM cor. Wilson St. LETTERHEADS, BILLHEADS and General Commercial Work DONE AT THE RIGHT PRICES Business Office: 227 LOVEJOY ST. BUFFALO, N.Y. July 10-1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth St. New York City. Dear Colonel : - I wish to express my thanks for your recent communication requesting a personal meeting with me. In reply I wish to state that I would be very much pleased to hold a personal conference with you and Mr. Prendergast, and with this purpose in view intend to leave for New York City or Oyster Bay this week or next. Please forward me detailed information regarding time and place convenient for you for this conference with you and Mr. Prendergast. There are several matters of vital importance which I would like to discuss in common. In conclusion, please to accept my insurance that I shall gladly perform any services provided it shall lie in my power to do so. Sincerely yours, W.S.de Rylori. [shorthand][[shorthand]] [*7.*] JOHN C. SHAFFER CHICAGO EDITOR CHICAGO-EVENING POST INDIANAPOLIS STAR LOUISVILLE HERALD TERRE HAUTE STAR MUNCIE STAR July 10th, 1912. My dear colonel Roosevelt: On my return from Denver I find your favor of the 2nd instant and note fully its contents. I have a letter written by Mr. Wm. B. Howland on the 1st saying that he had shown to you the editorials I enclosed in a letter to him. So it would seem the editorials were enclosed in a letter to Mr. Howland instead of a letter to you. I enclose you an editorial from the Record-Herald of yesterday, our friend Kohlsaat's remarks on the third party and also an editorial from The Evening Post which was printed yesterday. I am also enclosing you proof of an editorial I have had prepared on the Duty of the New Party to the South. It's been a theory of mine for some years you know that we should take the junior member of the presidential party South of the Mason and Dixon line and it seems to me that this is an opportune time to accomplish this. I have concluded, however, not to run this editorial until I have your views on it. If you approve it I will run it in all five of my papers. I presume you will come to Chicago to attend the August convention. I hope to have the pleasure of seeingJOHN C. SHAFFER CHICAGO EDITOR CHICAGO EVENING POST INDIANAPOLIS STAR LOUISVILLE HERALD TERRE HAUTE STAR MUNCIE STAR [2] you then and possibly entertaining you some. The progressive movement seems to be getting momentum and power with the people every day. Sincerely yours J C Shaffer Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York CityPRESIDENT FRANK ALEXANDER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF F. M. SMITH ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. M. HENRY E. M. [AL????] ASSOCIATE EDITOR SECRETARY M. T. B. WA?????Y] GENEALOGICAL EDITOR The Journal of American History Published by Frank Allaben Genealogical Company 3 West 42nd Street New York Publishers of Historical, Genealogical, Heraldic, and Biographical Books and Brochures Research TELEPHONE, BRYANT 4601: CABLE, ALLABEN, NEW YORK July 10th, 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Sir: Under separate cover, I send you a little book, entitled "The City That Was." Perhaps you will be interested in knowing the condition of the city during your early residence here. If you find it of sufficient interest on perusal to write a note of commendation, I will be obliged. Sincerely yours, Stephen Smith P. S. As I shall spend the summber in the country, address me at #3 West 42nd Street, c/o Mr. Frank Allaben.POSTAL TELEGRAPH - COMMERCIAL CABLES CLARENCE H MACKAY, PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT 147 EAST 23RD ST.. N. Y. TEL. 1915 GRAMERCY. TELEGRAM DELIVERY No. [*[7-10-12]*] The Postal Telegraph Cable Company Incorporated transmits and delivers this message subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. 10/237 DESIGN PATENT No. [4????] 40Ny Bz 25 Desmoines Ia Jul .10.12 T.R. Roosevelt, Cr.Outlook, Ny . Convention will endorse you if attempt is made to endorse taft, theodore Roosevelt, progressives will meet to elect delegates at Large chicago, Convention this evening. John L Stevens. 12lop-POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY NIGHT LETTERGRAM The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company (incorporated) transmits and delivers this night lettergram subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. CLARENCE H. MACKAY, PRESIDENT. RECIEVED AT 944 Broadway Tel. 2291 Gramercy Delivery No. INDEPENDENT COMPETITIVE PROGRESSIVE G22CH DL 37 NL Des Moines, Ia July 10, 1912 [*July 11 1912*] [*Hotch???*] [*M68*] Theodore Roosevelt Care Outlook Office, New York. Splendid ovation to you in republican state convention enthusiastic mass meeting for you in evening state organization of third party effected will write fully have dixon forward literature and especially evidence of fraudulent acts in states. John L. Stevens 235emEUGENE THWING, PRESIDENT AND TREASURER HAROLD J. MASBROUCK, VICE PRESIDENT E.M.S. FITE, SECRETARY THE THWING COMPANY PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS 145 WEST 45TH STREET New York, JULY 10, 1912. The Circle AND SUCCESS MAGAZINE [*4*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I have received a letter from Governor Osborn assuring me that he "shall support Colonel Roosevelt if his name gets on a ticket," but he still clings to his notion about Wilson. I am sending him a straight-from-the-shoulder reply, a copy of which is enclosed herewith. Will you be good enough to read it, and suggest any further use of it that may occur to you. I am mighty glad to have you say that you are in the fight to the finish. All this talk about compromising and withdrawing, etc., is pestiferous, and is holding back a great many in a state of uncertainty, who otherwise would declare themselves. I am with you to the end, and personally I have never doubted that you would "go the route". I shall do everything in my power to help the fight along. Very sincerely yours, Eugene Thwing [*If you want me for anything, say the word*] ET/GMEUGENE THWING, PRESIDENT AND TREASURER HAROLD J. HASBROUCK, VICE PRESIDENT E.M.S. FITE, SECRETARY THE THWING COMPANY PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS 145 WEST 45H STREET New York, July 10, 1912. [*Copy*] The Circle AND SUCCESS MAGAZINE Hon. Chase S. Osborn, State House, Lansing, Mich. Dear Governor Osborn:- I am very glad you wrote me your letter of July 6th. It's tone and spirit and statement are those of a frank, fairminded man, willing to weigh opinions of those who disagree with him, willing to look at facts squarely, even when they are presented in opposition to his own conclusions. One set of facts often leads an honest man to a conclusion very different to that which he would reach by relating the same facts to others equally true. I agree with you that "the issue to-day is cleanliness and honesty in public life", --one of the issues. I agree with you that personally "Woodrow Wilson stands for that". But the issue to-day is not the cleanliness and honesty of one man in public life, however truly he may personally represent it. Four years ago we thought we were electing a man who represented cleanliness and honesty in public life. Colonel Roosevelt thought so when he fought for that man's nomination. Probably four years ago Mr. Taft did represent in his own personality cleanliness and honesty in public life. To-day he represents rottenness and dishonesty in public life, and in his own person he is the would-be beneficiary, as well as the promoter, of fraud which would have been incredible as associated with him, four years ago. I agree with you that probably Woodrow Wilson, as we know him now, "will not be controlled by the Murphys of the Democrat Party." I am willing to believe that he is stronger in character than Taft and could even withstand four years of pressure, and intrigue, and flattery, and subtle persuasion. That is not the issue. We have vastly more to do this year than to put one man into the White House. We are going to PUT A PARTY IN POWER in the nation for the next four years. We are going to elect a Congress. We are going to sweep in with the National ticket many state tickets. We are going to decide what party shall control our legislatures, our cities. If we could open only a narrow door, and say to Gov. Wilson or Colonel Roosevelt, alone, "Walk in and take the chair!" not much harm would be done and not much good in either case. But we are going to open a wide door for a host who will march in with the one man whose name heads the ticket. We must consider carefully the "cleanliness and honesty" of the one man; we must measure the breadth of his mind, and his practical experience; we must know the courage and truth of his heart, but we must know also what manner of men form the crowd at his heels. Perhaps Woodrow Wilson is a true Progressive. I am not sure. Opinions differ. I am willing to believe he is. But I know that the majority of his party is not. I know that the bosses of the state machines, and the district leaders, and the rank and file of the politicians scurrying eagerly at his heels are not. I know thatC.S.O.#2 a party which in many states is as reactionary and corrupt as the Democratic Party is can not suddenly be made progressive by the nomination, still less by the election, of a progressive national ticket on a partially progressive and partially retrogressive platform. Woodrow Wilson has a respectable name, but his name cannot be made safely to cover such a multitude of sins. The Democratic party will promise finely during the campaign, but we need to remember that "The Devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be; The Devil got well, the devil a saint was he." The Baltimore convention did not want Wilson. For a long time the majority fought against him. Only after the conviction was forced upon them that Roosevelt could eat all of the rest of the candidates alive, was Wilson reluctantly accepted on the 46th ballot as the one forlorn hope of defeating Roosevelt. The same politicians want him for no other reason now. He does not represent the aims and the purposes of his party as a whole. He would have his party in opposition to him if elected. When they became strongly intrenched they would discard him and put in his place a man of their own kind. If the issue is "cleanliness and honesty in public life", let us strive rather to create and elect a whole nation-wide party that wants and will support "cleanliness and honesty" in all its leaders in state and nation. If the issue is Progress in National, industrial, and political affairs, let us get together into one party, separate from both the old parties, all those who want and will support such progress. If the issue is a square deal for all men alike, regardless of old prejudices, let us get together a party that will be free from all sectionalism, in which men of the West and men of the East shall work in sympathy and mutual understanding; in which men of the North and men of the South shall grip hands as brothers in a common cause. Both the present old parties were born in and have been kept separate by sectionalism. They have divided for years on false issues. The real vital issues require new alignment and abolishment of obsolete party lines and names. No one heretofore has dared to attempt what all have known to be necessary. It is not one man's movement now. It is the spontaneous shifting of the people. Help it; do not hinder it; for it is natural and good. The new party is not to be "erected upon the passions of any number of men". It is founded upon need and reason, and will be built for the sober, earnest requirements of progressive people in all sections of the country. Michigan has always been one of the proud Republican states of America. It must now join, clean-handed, in the new campaign for honesty in public life, for progress and freedom in political, industrial, and individual life. We of the Eastern coast are proud of Michigan and glad of its strength and influence. I have many friends there and have written some of the pioneer life of Michigan into my books, so that it seems almost like a home state to me. I am jealous to see it lead in this onward, upward movement to a better life for the whole nation. Governor Osborn's place is to captain such a campaign to victory. It is unthinkable that history should record that Governor Osborn, in the face of such a movement, used his influence to turn his state backward into the clutches of the old Democratic party. You urge this as a temporary measure in order that afterward the "splendid old Republican Party" may be restored. But you cannot tell how temporary such a change to the Democratic Party might be. It is easier to give than to take back. The call to give up everything that the old Republican Party may be saved is not one that rouses any enthusiasm in the breasts of earnest men of the new campaign. These are things now worth striving for -- worth fighting for to the last ounce -- worthC.S.O#3. cheering for until the heavens ring -- but another victory for the old party is not one of them. It is time for the Republican party to go. Its career is over. Its glory is in the past. Its present is filled only with ignominy and impotence. It holds no possible hope for the future. True and pure Americanism requires a new expression. Manhood is marching on. Brothers are banding themselves for battle in a cause that means more than old names and obedience to past habits. Victory is to be won, but the victory shall sound its try on the hilltop facing the rising sun; it shall not perch on a dungheap with the eaters of carrion. Take Taft out of the Republican party campaign and there are hundreds of men equally acceptable to those who hold him in harness. Take him out of the picture, and, large as he is, he would not leave a vacant spot, because his going would only uncover others like him, and all his crew would remain. Take Roosevelt out of the campaign and where is the campaign? What warrior looms big enough to take his place? What captain can sound the call to so great a host to join him in the war? What leader has so powerful a personal equipment? Of whom is the enemy so terrified? In whom is the promise of victory so sure? Well indeed may the enemy offer to slay Taft, or substitute Wilson as a temporary compromise, if the Army of Progress will only put Roosevelt to the sacrifice. Show us some one who is Roosevelt's equal as a warrior, a man close to the people, and a true-hearted captain of our hopes before you ask us to give him up. We know him. We know that our cause is in his great, hot, eager heart. We understand him when he speaks to us. We judge him by what he does and what he says, not by what his haters say. We love him and we follow him because of his haters. Truth is in his mouth and we know it is in his heart. Strength is his, and we cry "More power to him." He stands for manhood and honesty. He does not preach righteousness as an abstract thing; he translates it into the life of the men and the life of the nation. Strangers meet in the crowds of the street, and in a moment they find they are brothers facing the same way. They grip hands and pledge Roosevelt their support "to the end." Then they go their way. Names don't count. The cause counts. It calls to Republi- cans, to Democrats, to Socailists, to Independents, to Jew, to Catholic, to Protestant, to men of the South and to men of the North, to native born, to foreigner become American -- to all who are brothers and who want to march on and up to better, squarer, more equal deal- ings between man and man. The captain who is leading us into the crusade and who will stand with us to the end and help us to win is Theodore Roosevelt. Do not strike at him nor us by crippling our cause in Michigan. Your words are being quoted gleefully here in New York by the enemies of Roosevelt in their effort to prove that those who have stood with him are weaklings, vascilating and undependable in their support. It is not true. There are hosts of strong and loyal men with him and with us whom nothing can frighten, and whom no selfish interests can seduce. The campaign will make and prove its leaders. The men who go through the fire of this campaign and come out tested and proved to be pure gold will stand high in the confidence and affections of the people, and will rank in history as builders of a commonwealth founded on a common weal. I want to believe that Governor Osborn of Michigan is one of them. I do believe it. I beg you now to give us a ringing statement which shall make all men believe it, too. Very Sincerely, Eugene ThwingTHE LARGEST MORNING CIRCULATION IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA OUTSIDE OF PHILADEPHIA AND PITTSBURG MERGED FEBRUARY 1ST, 1910 TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1901 The Tribune-Republican REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHED 1907 OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN SCRANTON THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY ROBERT D. TOWNE PRESIDENT AND EDITOR EDWARD A. WHITEHOUSE SECRETARY AND TREASURER CIRCULATION YESTERDAY 30,300 [*D*] July 10, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: On Saturday, the 10th of August, occurs the annual Welsh Day in Scranton, We have here a Welsh population of about 120,000 in Scranton and vicinity. They are our best people and some of them our most distinguished citizens. The Welsh Day is the great annual gala day hereabouts. Mr. Lloyd-George was to have been the guest this year although the arrangement fell through some time ago owning to the chancellor's engagements at home. A committee of Welshmen has been instructed to ask me to take the matter up with you, to extend you an invitation to visit Scranton on that day as their guest, and this committee has asked me to urge upon you the acceptance of their invitation. This I am glad to do for many reasons. In the first place, the Welsh people are your friends and admirers. In the second place, the people of Scranton and Northeastern Pennsylvania and particularly the miners, would like to have you here. It would give you an opportunities to visit us without any obvious political intention and finally, you could help the progressive cause greatly in this region by such a visit at this time. May I ask you to give this matter careful consideration and try to meet the wishes of all of us and especially of the Welsh people in this section? The train service is such that you could run up to Scranton and back again with very little loss of time and if you wished to spend a day and night here, I will undertake to see that you are comfortably housed and fed, at my home or you shall be my guest at the Scranton Club, or most any way you like. Awaiting your pleasure in the matter, I am Very sincerely yours, Robt. D. Towne [[shorthand]][*12:*] Rundschau Zweier Welten Review of Two Worlds 134 West 29th Street New-York Offices of George Sylvester Viereck July 10th, 1912. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: - I notice that the "New York Journal" is making use of a suggestion which I made to Mr. Straus in connection with the German press. They will give a column daily to your cause and print anything that our people will give them. I shall be very glad to contribute to such a column. Mr. Hearst, as you may know, also publishes a German paper. It is very important that the matter which appears in the English papers should be edited properly before it appears in the German edition. The appeal to the Germans should be specific in the German journal. I shall be very glad to edit the German column for you if no one else among your people is willing to do so, and I shall do so, of course, without compensation. I do not expect to write for the column except on occasion, but I am willing to edit it, to reshape the matter given me and to edit new matter of especial interest to the Germans.I have written to the same effect to Mr. Oscar S. Straus and Senator Dixon. I still stand at Armageddon ready to battle and to organize our German-American league. So far Mr. Straus has delayed, but I think that the time for action has come. The extent of our activities, of course, depends upon our sinews of war. I shall be very glad to make my office temporarily the headquarters of the league free of rental. But if the work develops, we will need stenographers of our own, etc. etc. I also believe that we must publish a weekly in German. Mr. Wolffram, the publisher of the German Herold, tells me that "The Tribune" published one during the Blaine campaign. Wolffram is still on the fence, but I am afraid he is with the Taft crowd. Believe me, as ever, Faithfully yours, G S Viereck Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York.Rundschau Zweier Welten Review of Two Worlds 134 West 29th Street New York Offices of George Sylvester Viereck July 10th, 1912. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- This is my second letter to-day. I am really becoming a practical politician. To-day a young man called on me who is one of the captains in Mr. Koenig's election district. I do not know him personally very well, but he is an intimate friend of an intimate friend of mine and I have no reason to question his good faith. This young man is displeased both with Mr. Taft and with Mr. Koenig. He tells me that Mr. Koenig's district can be swung to you. He says that Hearst carried it in the past with overwhelming majorities and that there is every reason to believe that it would go to you by an even larger majority if properly handled. He also tells me that the alderman of the district - I am not quite sure of the name I think it was Hatzler or some such name - is ready to flop to the third party. He insists that he has not been sent by an alderman, but that the alderman in question "expects a call," from our people. If this call is properly couched he will come to us.Please let me know with whom my young friend is to get in touch in connection with Mr. Koenig's district? I do not know Mr. Hotchkiss or I would have taken him there. I regret to take up so much of your time, but I do so only in the hope of being of some slight assistance to your cause. I also take pleasure in sending you, under separate cover, to Oyster Bay, the collective edition of my works, five volumes. These books represent, so to speak, the "first period." The "second period" which may be entirely different will strongly bear, I think, the imprint of T. R. As ever, Faithfully yours, George Sylvester Viereck Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York. The young man also told me that at least five or six of the captains of the district - there are fifteen in all - would be sure to flop to you. He says that we lost in the primaries very largely because your side was handled by amateurs. In some districts, he says, you were betrayed by your own captains who were, in some instances, actually appointed - indirectly - by the machine. He says that there is a strong sentiment for you in Koenig's district, and that this sentiment would influence three or four of the districts in the vicinity, but that all these districts can be carried for you only if we play the game of practical politics instead of trusting to amateurs. He also asked me to keep this matter confidential because if Mr. Koenig gets wind of such movement, he would be shrew enough to forestall it in some way. Do you not think that Oscar S. Straus would make an admirable candidate for Governor? He would get the whole Jewish vote, a large part of the German vote, and from the point of view of the Gentiles would be the least objectionable of all Jews that could possibly be put up. In view of the fact that Wilson has declared himself a state wide prohibitionist in Texas, I think that our platform should in some way express a more enlightened point of view acceptable to German-Americans throughout the United States. We should declare against vicious saloons and declare in favor or strict regulation, but we should not restrict personal freedom. Let us destroy the wicked saloon as you have destroyed the wicked Trusts, but let us not smash, indiscriminately, places which in many ways have become "the poor man's club."G. W. WHITEHORN County Surveyor Boyd County, Nebraska Spencer, Nebraska 7-10-'12 Dear Sir:— For years a specific for curing "Monopoly" has been sought. Mostly it is a dream. Yet is there not a promise of results in encouraging or even aiding a plan for "Manhood Suffrage" in corporations? If such corporations (one vote to each member) were efficient they could borrow money;—most of the "Trusts" operate on other people's money. If they were freed from the corporation tax and organization facilitated the plan would be tried out, A state law can not meet the need so well as a federal enactment. Nebraska is in earnest. I, a country school teacher, received over 25,000 republican votes in the primary for State Superintendent of schools. Yours G. W. Whitehorn Theodore Roosevelt New York.WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICES TO ALL THE WORLD THEO N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELIVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER July 11 Denver Colo 10 [*7-10-12*] To Theo Roosevelt In spring Convention Republican party Colorado held meeting to select delegates to National Convention Chicago you had 244 Delegates out of about 900 at Conference of progressive Republicans held at Colorado Springs Last week at which Representatives from the counties which gave you practically all their delegates it was decided to make fight for Roosevelt Electors and state ticket in Colorado in Republican party and not third party conference passed Resolutions against Tafts nomination as fraudulent and not binding committee was appointed to devise ways and means of selecting Roosevelt electors at coming Republican Convention July 31st this committee feel this only practical and to insure success Roosevelt Electors in Colorado, If we have undivided support progressive RepublicansWESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER July 11 To Col Roosevelt We can win for you, 3rd party forming here will divide forces and make success exceedingly doubtful, we appeal to you to give us support in movement we are engaged in to secure control of party in Colorado, sentiment in state does support 3rd party with united support of progressives under primary law we can turn Republican party to support your program. Robert Work, Philip B. Stewart, Joseph C. Ewing, John W. Elwell, Benjamin Griffith. [short hand] READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACKINCORPORATED 1851 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS AGENCY FOR WESTERN NEW YORK BELLE T. REID, CASHIER ----- TELEPHONES FRONTIER 1962 BELL-SENECA 3296 [*3*] JOSEPH B. THEBAUD, MANAGER SUITE 1002 D. S. MORGAN BUILDING BUFFALO BRANCH OFFICE: ERIE, PA. July 10 1912For enc see The Times 7-10-1234 Grace Court Brooklyn N. Y. July 10 - 1912 Col Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay– New York My dear sir: My enjoyment of the brief interview with you on "Independence Day" (in company with my son in law Mr Tuttle) was so great and sefish, that I failed to do two things which was your due. First,—to thank you for all your kindness to my brother—the late Surgeon General Walter Wyman—of the Public Health Service,—who many times told me he felt you were his chief supporter in his lifework of building up that service, and who was always your devoted admirer. Second,—to assure you that ever since you left the President's chair it has been my ardent hope you might again occupy it. Perhaps the fact of my seeking you outmay be taken as an earnest of that hope, and I am (ere long) going home to St Louis to do what I can to help out! Very sincerely yours Henry P. Wyman.5-10-12 Enc in Baldwin 7-10-12THE BUFFALO COURIER, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1912. BALDLWIN STICKS TO ROOSEVELT IN MARYLAND FIGHT Presidential Elector, in Buffaflo on Business, Says Taft's Nomination Is Tainted and Made by Roller-driven Minority. ANSWERS CHARGE OF TREASOB BY ACCUSING HIS GOVERNOR Will Vote for Candidate if Fellow-members of College From State Are So Instructed; Meanwhile He Will Do His Best for T. R.as "For Roosevelt, first, last and always," Joseph R. Baldwin, well known Genesee street merchant and former president of the Central Council of Business Men's association, who is presidential elector chosen by the Maryland Republican state convention, and treasurer of the Roosevelt campaign in that state, and who will leave Buffalo next Monday to campaign in Maryland for the third party. "The Republican party's nomination for the presidency this year is Roosevelt," he said yesterday. "It belongs to him. It was given him y a majority of the voters of the party. No matter what action the delegates seated in Chicago took, they didn't alter the fact. They may rob him of his title but they cannot rob him of his right to it." Has Business Affairs Here. Mr. Baldwin, who maintains his voting residence in Maryland, camae from Chicago to look over his business here. During the pre-convention campaign he devoted sixty days to booming the Roosebelt cause. The preferential primaries in Maryland gave Roosevelt a majority. Baldwin believes the moral side of the issue is supreme. "That's why, if Maryland goes for Taft in the electoral college, I shall vote for him, but there is no chance of it swinging its votes in that direction." he said. Baldwin's views are more outlined in a statement given to The Courier and the Baltimore Sun last night defining his stand and refuting the charge of treason brought against him by a Maryland newspaper. It reads: "I read with much interest an editorial in John H. Hanna's paper, captioned 'Baldwin's Treason,' for remarks made by me at Chicago. (Hanna is chairman of the Republican state central committee.) I can disabuse Mr. Hannaa's mind somewhat. Thought R. R. Was Sure. It is the first time I have been accused of dishonesty. When I remarked in Chicago that I would vote for no nominee but Roosevelt, I had no idea that Roosevelt would not be nominated, as he went there with sufficient delegates, honestly elected, to nominate him. "In my judgment Taft's nomination was a tainted one, There was in it trickery and fraud. Stripped of itsways," Joseph R. Baldwin, well known Genesee street merchant and former President of the Central Council of Business Men's association, who is presidential elector chosen by the Maryland Republican state convention, and treasurer of the Roosevelt campaign in that state and who will leave Buffalo next Monday to campaign in Maryland for the third party. "The Republican party's nomination for the presidency this year is Roosevelt," he said yesterday. "It belongs to him. It was given him y a majority of the voters of the party. No matter what action the delegates seated in Chicago took, they didn't alter the fact. They may rob him of his title but they cannot rob him of his right to it." Has Business Affairs Here. Mr. Baldwin, who maintains his voting residence in Maryland, came from Chicago to look over his business here. During the pre-convention campaign he devoted sixty days to booming the Roosevelt cause. The preferential primaries in Maryland gave Roosevelt a majority. Baldwin believes the moral side of the issue is supreme. "That's why, if Maryland goes for Taft in the electoral college, I shall vote for him, but there is no chance of it swinging its votes in that direction," he said. Baldwin's views are more outlined in a statement given to the Courier and the Baltimore Sun last night defining his stand and refuting the charge of treason brought against him by a Maryland newspaper. It reads: "I read with much interest an editorial in John H. Hanna's paper, captioned 'Baldwin's Treason,' for remarks made by me at Chicago. (Hanna is chairman of the Republican state central committee.) I can disabuse Mr. Hanna's mind somewhat. Thought T. R. Was Sure. It is the first time I have been accused of dishonesty. When I remarked in Chicago that I would vote for no nominee but Roosevelt, I had no idea that Roosevelt would not be nominated, as he went there with sufficient delegates, honestly elected, to nominate him. "In my judgment Taft's nomination was a tainted one. There was in it trickery and fraud. Stripped of its practical essentials it was no nomination. It was made by a minority instead of a majority. The miserable twenty-one votes above the nomination point which the steam-roller drivers were able to muster, fade instantly away under scrutiny from any standpoint. "If a man owns the Elliott square and the court house burns down, destroying the record and the deed, it remains his property nevertheless. If the thieves take their stolen deed to court and have him ejected, the right to the property is still his. So with the Republican convention. Raps Maryland Governor. "I do not wish to go into personalities, but should an elector vote for Roosevelt he would not show any more treason than our governor and his six or seven friends, who were elected by that same convention to vote for Roosevelt and his interests. "Did they do it? The public is their judge. The good-thinking people of Maryland, I do not believe, will soon forget the attitude take by the governor and his friends at Chicago, as they were in duty bound to vote for Roosevelt on all questions until he released them from so doing. Two wrongs do not make a right. "I, being an elector, will state my position. No gentleman could remain on the ticket and vote for Roosevelt. It makes no difference how much he admires Roosevelt. There are certain moral questions involved. "Electors are not under compulsion of any written law to cast their votes for Taft, but they are under compulsion of moral law. The candidates for electors are nominated with the understanding that they would support the regular Republican candidate. "They have no right, in my mind, to violate this understanding because they have safely relied upon the honor of electors heretofore, and I, for one, should I remain on the Republican ticket, propose to vote according to the instructions given by the Republican convention of Maryland. As stated, no gentleman could do otherwise." Any attempt of the Taftites to remove the presidential electors chosen by the Maryland state convention, Baldwin believes, will result in the issuance of a writ of mandamus to balk the plan.Enc in Farmham 7-11-12 7-10-12NG. JULY 10, 1912. ______________________________ ROOSEVELT MAN IS INJURED __________ IN BALL GAME AT CANASTOTA __________ Contest Was Between the Taft Men and the Roosevelt Men-R. M. Kelsey, Cap- tain and Catcher of the Latter Team, Has Kneecap Fractured by Player Who Was Sliding Home. Canastota, July 9.-Taft men 20, Roose- velt men 19, was the result of the closely fought base ball game on Terrace Grounds yesterday afternoon. The score is a fiar indication of the playing done, but is not as the Roosevelt men, and some of the roosters say, a fair indicatin of the relative merits of the two teams. The game was promoted by R. M. Kelsey, a strong Roose- velt enthusiast, and by Hamilton Farnham, who is just as "strong" for Taft. The proceeds of the game are to go to the local Poultry Association. The Taft men lined up as follows: Hamilton Farnham, catcher: Kirk B. DeLano, pitcher: D. J. Rowe, first base: Sam Brown, second base: Dr. S. T. Barton, third base: G. H. Roberts, short stop: and E. A. Kiley, H. O. Travis and Dr. H.G. Germer, fielders. The Roosevelt men included: K. M. Kelsey, catcher: J. L. Warner, pitcher: C. R. Hough, first base: Miles Robertson, second base: H. W. Ehle. third base: F. C. Tondeur, short stop, and Thomas Hollinger, George Vreeland and J. M. Barker, fielders. The Roosevelt men led during the whole game, until the last inning, when the Tafties succeeded in bringing in five runs, and won the contest. An accident happened in the second inning, which marred the pleasure of the game. R. M. Kelsey, captain and catcher of the Roosevelt team, sustained a broken knee cap, when Hamilton Farnham started to steal home, and slid into him on home 'plate. Kelsey held the ball and succeeded in putting his man out, but immediately sank to the ground because of the injury. He was carried off the field, and Drs. Bar- ton, Reames and Germer examined the in- jured knee, and placed a temporary band- age upon it. He was then taken to his home and later to the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, in Syracuse, in an automobile by Drs. Barton, Reames and Germer. where Dr. Coon of Syracuse, performed an operation upon the injured knee. It was a serious break, and it was at first feared that the injury might be permanent. Mr. Kelsey had the best of care, however, and it is hoped that the break will soon mend. When he was taken to Syracuse, the Cana- stota doctors expressed the idea that the injury would not be permanent, but that it eould necessitate his being laid up for several weeks. Mr. Kelsey has always been foremost in promoting and carrying on athletic events in Canastota, and his absence will be severely felt, especially by the teams of the Sunset League, which was organized by him, and in which he played as a member of the Business Men's team. Much sympathy is expressed on all sides for the injured man, with the hope that he may not be compelled to re- main in the Syracuse hospital long. The injury, together with the loss of their most enthusiastic player, rather discouraged the Roosevelt men. On top of this the Taft men substituted several semi-professional players for those who had formerly been in the line up. However, the Roosevelt players showed much of the grit and deter- mination of their famous ideal, and man- aged to keep the lead until the last inning. The game was called in the last half of the fourth by mutual consent of the players, who were nearly all tired out. _______________________ Encl in Munsey 7-11-12 7-10-12EDITORIAL THE LOGIC OF THE SITUATION The following correspondence has a very vital bearing on the present political situation. Mr. Munsey's letter is a clear, concise answer that completely covers the problem now confronting the Republican voters of the country: Cambridge, Mass., July 7, 1912. Mr. Frank Munsey. Sir: I hope you will not elect a Democrat as president, as you must, if you finance Roosevelt. Respectfully, A Republican of Massachusetts Who Does Not Want a Democratic Tariff. New York, July 9, 1912. Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 7th. Many men like yourself, who believe in the economic policies of the Repubican party, feel the same alarm you do about a possible Democratic triumph in November. Your conclusion, however, that any aid I may give to Mr. Roosevelt will work towards the success of Mr. Wilson is directly THE converse of my own reasoning. The only possible way to beat the Democratic party in November is through Mr. Roosevelt, who has the following to make certain his triumph in November, except the solidarity of the Republican party is shattered and a part of it frittered away upon a candidate who has no chance under the canopy of God's blue sky of making a dent in the situation. Isn't it, after all, far more a question of economic policies than of men? Yours very truly, FRANK A. MUNSEY.Enc in Knight 7-10-12 7-10-12Recall of Judges. Editor Buffalo Express:—Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate for President of the United States, is against the recall of judges. as shown in a speech at Kansas City about a year ago. He derails himself into the ditch on this subject and has much company. Starting out with a wrong conception, he gets into confusion and proceeds from false promises into conclusions at once unpardonable and indefensible. He uses the moss-covered attitude that their independence, dignity and freedom are affected and the popular, but weak statement that popular impulse and popular judgment will then determine what the law is. What we want is that judges be responsive to the highest duty, and if they follow that in all its varied applications, there will be few necessities for recall. We want them to stop hugging alleged principles of law and the common law improperly which will kill our progress. In any number of cases they do not decide what the law is, but what they want it to be. We want them to stay away from must and cobwebs. We want to impress upon the public that judges are human and capable of error. Because they have been unmolested by criticism for years and years they have taken advantage of the inattention and laxity of the people in their affairs of government, and we are now ready to give them the attention which our duty to ourselves demands. Few appreciate their tremendous power. They can sidetrack, ditch or stop the greatest triumphs of human rights. Since such powers are granted as have seldom, if ever, been given in any other lands, adequate and vigilant inspection should accompany them hand in hand in every instance. The recall does not set popular impulse as the guide. The people want only justice and what can be defended as justice by the highest authority. We ask judges to be free from prejudice, free from metallic habits of mind, free from infatuation with certain notions which bring essentially injustice and hardships in their decisions, free from every influence, whatever it may be, which defeats exact justice in any instance. We want judges whose only ambition is to be right, and when they are they can defend and maintain the soundness of their decisions. We want their decisions right, and they know when they are wrong, although they can fumble around and bluff in attempting to sustain their wrong decisions. This criticism does not include all judges. Those included are those who subject themselves to proper criticism. Governor Wilson asserts that it is sufficient that people have the power to change the law if decisions do not suit. With right decisions as outlined above the people will not be forced to go through the battles again which they have so valiantly fought to make laws. Of course, the people can change the law where it really needs changing, but the argument here refers to the defeats administered by judges to human progress from any cause or influence or because of their narrow devotion to indefensible notions. The distinguished governor is wrong again when he assumes that the advocates of judicial recall wish judges to be administrators or lawmakers. But we do want them to view the cases before them with common sense and fairness to all. The principles of the recall of judges is a most wise one, operating as a preventive of recall in numberless cases, as in Oregon, where, although in force six years, it has never been put in effect. It is a judicious supervision which the people must insist upon exercising. Now, with this too brief review of the question, the reader may judge whether there is the slightest reason for the contention by the governor that the recall of judges compromises the "independence, dignity or freedom" of the judges or justifies any other of the arguments he advances in support of his position. Shall we recall judges or suffer wrong? It refers not to cases between individuals, but to fundamental cases involving human rights and liberties. It is a stinging and powerful blow at the people to deny their capacity to pass upon human rights. Sobered by this great responsibility and duty, assisted by the cautious and earnest strata exercising a commanding influence on such occasions, aided by legal talent if necessary, in their own ranks, who shall say that the masses shall continue to suffer rather than exercise the highest duties of citizenship? Contemplate for a moment in injurious effect that a certainty of no remedial criticism would create. No just and upright judge will ever object to such criticism on the merits of a case. Such criticism is the foundation of our liberties, the defender of our rights and the greatest guarantee of even-handed justice. It is guaranteed by the constitution and is one of the liberties of which we boast so much, the right of free speech. Judges with an equipment of intelligence, experience, integrity, masterful abilities and an immovable determination to seek and find the right, recognizing in litigation no individuals and interpreting the laws and constitution as though the names of the parties to an action were hidden from view, need have no fear of the recall. And if in addition to this they have as their only and constant guiding star and unquenchable ambition to achieve intellectual and moral triumphs in their decisions, they will receive in criticism an indorsement of their acts that will add mightily to the pleasures of their positions, for there is no reason why judges should not merit and receive the applause, grateful words and laurel wreaths of their countrymen as the reward for fearlessness and uprightness and the dispensation of illuminated and exact justice. Buffalo, July 5th. W. S. WRIGHT. ROOSEVELT LEAGUE ASSAILS TAFT ON VARIOUS MOTIONS Declaring that President Taft received his renomination for the presidency by the Republican party at a packed convention, which administered political knockout drops and practiced fraud and trickery, the Roosevelt League of Western New York yesterday demanded the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. The resolutions were presented by W. S. Wright and were adopted with a whoop. They call Roosevelt the only hope for prompt rescue from prevailing conditions. The resolutions are as follows: Whereas, a reactionary nomination had been determined upon by the Democrats at Baltimore when the spotlight of Bryan forced the unwilling nomination of a progressive in some things; and Whereas, If the Republican and Democratic parties have not entirely outlived their usefulness, the demands of humanity and patriotism have de[?]reed and defined a new alignment and division of the whole people regardless of past party membership; and Whereas, The Taft management packed the galleries of the Chicago convention with their followers, and with enough policemen to make the convention under military rule totally unnecessary except to protect their wickedness and disgrace to a free people; and, Whereas, while the delegates for Theodore Roosevelt attended the Chicago convention in faith and willingness to associate with supposed men and honest people, the Taft management with the hand of a desperado administered political knock-out drops and reached out and seized by fraud the nomination for President of the United States; and, Whereas, The President of the United States, William H. Taft having aided, encouraged and sanctioned this colossal robbery of the rights of free men of their choice from States where in Presidential primaries the heart of Republicanism administered to him crushing and ignominious defeats, received a nomination which will be rich only in infamy, and; Whereas, every voter seeking only his solemn patriotic duty must ask himself these questions in this campaign, not what is best for my party, not what is best for my prejudices, but what is best for my country, and what is best for the individual and the masses; and, Whereas, a golden harvest of great achievement for the masses awaits those who promptly and courageously grasp this splendid opportunity, therefore. Resolved, That no Republican, that no good citizen of any party can support the nominee of that convention without being a party to the receiving of stolen goods. Resolved, That as Washington was the hero of our birth, And Lincoln the hero of our preservation, so will Roosevelt be the hero of our deliverance and rescue. Resolved, That we invite voters of no affiliations and with any affiliations to join us in a prompt and imperative readjustment of intolerable conditions in order promptly to avert an impending crisis. Resolved, That we demand the nomination to the Presidency of that man of men, that master in statesmanship, Theodore Roosevelt, and him only, whose achievements, experience, equipment, personal powers and immeasurable devotion to the people make him our only hope for prompt rescue from conditions which demand a second Declaration of Independence against the triumvirate of the most wealth, the most of the press and the unspeakable bosses, which combination demands the vigilance and patriotism of the days of '76 in order that, in the irresistible and undying words of Lincoln at Gettysburg, "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth!"REPUBLICAN CITIZENS' LEAGUE New Haven, Connecticut WHITNEYVILLE, CONN., JULY 11., 1912. HON. THEODORE ROOSEBELT, THE OUTLOOK, 287 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I enclose article written by myself for last week's issues of the Cheshire-Hamden Times and the Southington News. I send it in just to let you see that I am still doing the little I can for the cause. If memory serves me right this completes up to date a continuous chain of articles along the same line for the past five months, the paper being a weekly. I met Senator Joseph W. Alsop, as you suggested, and had a very interesting interview with him. I am satisfied that he has the right understanding of the situation in Connecticut, and that he will handle matters here to the satisfaction af all, From personal observation among the working classes I am more and more convinced that you will poll a tremendous vote in this state next fall, and as a working man myself, I shall continue to give you all the support I can, both in the columns of the press and in other ways. And I am greatly pleased to say that from present indications it looks as though I am to be given the same free hand in the columns of the Cheshire-Hamden Times and Southington News in the future that it has been my privilege to enjoy in the past. And I assure you that my writings shall continue favorable to the progressive movement and our leader, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Very sincerely yours, William H. Avis Aug 7-22-12 L. Ward Bannister COUNSELOR AT LAW 521-527 EQUITABLE BUILDING Benner, Colo. [*15.*] LEROY McWHINNEY JOE CRIDER, JR. July 11, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir: RE RECALL OF JUDGES AND JUDICIAL DECISIONS. I understand that your Campaign Committee issued several pamphlets in favor of the recall of judges and of the judicial decisions, or at least of the former, if not of the latter. One of the pamphlets was by Proffessor Hayes and the other, I am told was by Dean Wm. Draper Lewis of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Will you be kind enough, if these pamphlets are not exhausted, to have your committee forward me whatever printed matter has hitherto be issued on these subjects, or for that matter, any printed matter now ready for distribution. I am scheduled for an address at Salt Lake at the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress and have taken as my subject, The Recall of Judges and Judicial Decisions, hence the request contained in this letter. If you will cause these documents to be sent to me promptly, I shall be greatly obliged. Yours very truly, LWB/AE. L Ward Bannister[[shorthand]] [*8.*] CHARLES J. BONAPARTE ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE July 11, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, My dear Colonel Roosevelt;- I have just had a conversation of some length with Mr. Gaither. He is very enthusiastic in his advocacy of your candidacy and of the third party movement, and has almost too many ideas on the latter subject, especially with respect to the platform or statement of principles to be adopted at Chicago on August 5th. I believe he wishes to go up and see you some time next week, and is anxious then to submit for your consideration some of these suggestions. They are well worthy of consideration, but in some cases need, in my judgement, a little reflection before they are practically accepted. He told me this morning, what I had already heard, as I wrote you yesterday, that his failure to take part in the primary campaign was due to the violent opposition of the Gould interests to your nomination: — I think that we can count upon his active assistance from this time on. He has some ideas as to the progress of the campaign in this State which seem to me very judicious, and I have written Carrington on the subject. I continue to receive crank letters, some approbatory and some abusive, almost every day; an indication that there is unusual popular interest in the political situation for this season of the year and this warm weather. Believe me, as ever, yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. Dictated. CHARLES J. BONAPARTE ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE July 11, 1912. Col. E. C. Carrington Jr., Maryland Telephone Building, City, My dear Colonel Carrington;- I had today a conversation of some length with Mr. George R. Gaither. He is very earnest in his advocacy of Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy and has a number of plans to advance the latter's interests. He wishes a call to be sent out for a meeting of friends of Mr. Roosevelt to organize a delegation to Chicago, and thinks this call should be signed by the members of the Roosevelt Committee and also by a certain number, say ten or a dozen, persons from various parts of the State whose names would be likely to strengthen the appeal. I told him that I was under the impression that you had some such plan under consideration and that I felt sure you would be glad of suggestions both as to signers for the suggested call and as to persons to whom it could be sent. I am a good deal inclined to think that we can get Mr. S. A. Williams to join us, if we can find the right person to approach him. I received this morning the enclosed communication, and have replied that I would refer it to your Committee and felt sure the writer would be given an opportunity to serve the good cause. Believe me, as ever, yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. Dictated.[7-11-12] 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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Dear Mr. Roosevelt; I have received your letter of July 1st,and also one of July 6th from Mr. Pinchot,dealing with the same matter. I shall be glad to take up the T.C.I. case ,when Stanley has published his report, in any form and detail you think best. It has occurred to me that possibly some of my work on iron ore reserves might be of service to you in considering a possible plank in the Progressive platform. Accordingly I have noted,on an accompanying sheet,some ideas relative to this. I am also enclosing a set of page proof of the first of my Engineering Magazine articles. As this issue of the magazine will not appear until July 25th or thereabout, the proof can not be commented on or used publicly, but it may be of service to you as many of the points covered have not heretofore been discussed. Very truly yours, Edwin C. Eckel.[*17.*] Hamilton Farnham DEALER IN COAL AND WOOD Canastota ,N.Y. July 11, 1912. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- You will notice by the enclosed cliping, provided this letter gets beyond your secretary, that one of your enthusiastic supporters was injured by the writer, a Taft supporter, in a baseball game between the Taft and Roosevelt teams. It occured to the writer that with a very little trouble on your part you might be the means of cheering him up and making him a life long ardent supporter of yours by simply writing him a short note thanking him for his support and sympathizing with him in his misfortune as he will not be able to leave his bed for at least eight weeks. Mr. Kelsey knows nothing of what I am doing and I know that it would come as a very great and agreeable supriseto him. Trusting that you are not so busy that you cannot comply with this request, I am Very truly yours Hamilton Farnham Ps. Mr. Kelseys address is just Canastota, N. Y.For enc see 7-10-12TELEPHONE: RECTOR 3870 JAMES J. FITZGERALD Two RECTOR STREET NEW YORK [*15.*] July 11, 1912. Dear Col. Roosevelt I was unable to see you last Tuesday as suggested in your note of the 2nd inst. I shall be happy to drop in on you any time after next Tuesday, unless there is some service I can render in the meantime. I heard that you are too busy for social calls. Respty yours, James J. Fitzgerald [[shorthand]]July 11 1912. Batavia N.Y. My dear Sir- When I sent you that communication last spring I indeed saw through a glass darkly. It came from no study of the Bible. It came from my heart that was wrung and still wrings with pity for the people who may be led into life if you and I are true to ourselves and put far above our own interests the high cause for which we battle. Your speech at Chicago was an inspiration to me and I have tried to carry out the spirit of it. I have I have been true to myself. I have kept nothing back from my husband or from you that I felt I should say. My eyes were not opened until just before I sent you 'Tis Done. Whatever previously I had done to try to helpyou in this campaign was done innocently, purely for the reason that when I see a man or a woman doing his or her best to help I cannot bear to see those in a position to do so assail him bitterly with apparently no one to help him, and partly against the wishes of my husband and risking vicious attack upon me personally I did what I could though I know it was not much Now you are beyond the power of the losses or any human power to keep you from winning in the race. You don't need me anymore to protect you from the bitter assaults of Satan. Now I step back into my humble place in my home and watch for opportunities to help the people prepare to surrender themselves to your keeping as I have done. Faithfully Alice G. FolgerPOTTERY FOUNDED 1808 NEW YORK EXHIBIT FORMERLY TIFFANY STUDIOS 333 FOURTH AVENUE VASE-KRAFT STUDIO OF FULPER POTTERY COMPANY FLEMINGTON, N.J., July 11th, 1912. [*2.*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., New York. My dear Colonel : - I have sent tracer after the lamp which you kindly allowed me to send to Mrs. Roosevelt. I have not received any report from this tracer and if it will not be too much trouble, will you kindly advise me if this lamp has been received by you? I am very proud of this lamp as it is my own conception and I am also very proud to have you use one. While I am writing to you, I wish to also advise that you have my support on your new party and I will do what I possibly can in my small way here to further your cause. With best regards, I am, Yours truly, W. H. Fulper. F #2. W.H. FULPER, SECRETARY AND TREASURER.For cousin EdithGraham Land and Improvement Company WALTER GRAHAM, PRESIDENT Graham Virginia, July 11th, 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, #287-4th Ave., New York, Dear Sir, Enclosed is a synopsis of "The Just Man", a serial and book I have written, that I think will be of interest to Progressives in this campaign, I wish to have this published and read during the campaign and to be in accord with the platform of the new Progressive party, if consistent. I have always been a Roosevelt man and am something of a leader here, being President of the Civic Improvement League and Secretary of the Progressive League, speaking and writing in the interest of all the people against the bosses. I want to get into this campaign for the new Progressive party and have been working on the above lines for several years. Please let me know how I can further the plans of the Progressive party in Virginia and West Virginia and kindly inform me what can be done to get "The Just Man"published in shape and in time to be read during the campaign. Respectfully yours Walter GrahamFor enc see 7-11-12[*[ca 7-11-12]*] The Just Man (Synopsis) Book I Bayard Ross secures control of a large territory of very valuable coal and timber lands, with rights of way, through a gap, in the mountains. Jacob Myers, a magnate from the metropolis, controlling adjacent coal fields and a railroad that he wishes to extend through the Gap, and a local banker, controlling a chain of banks, seek to ruin Ross by getting possession of his lands under spurious titles, bringing on a strike at his coal mines, calling his loans and causing the railroad to discriminate against him in freight rates and car supply. As Ross returns at sunset to Joe Doucey's log house, from his prospecting in the mountains, little Elviry Doucey's hands him a letter from his wife, telling him of their children and news of home. Frank Hardy, a fearless young mountaineer, in his employ rides up and reports to him that Bill Ruff a lumberman and James Wiley, a lawyer, who had been previously been associated with Ross, are supporting the Hales, a bad lot of natives, in an attack on Hardy, who is holding possession of Ross's land and guarding his diamond drill. The Hales, who are in a feud with the Morgans, are acting in revenge against Hardy, who is in love with Melda Bell Morgan, the adopted niece of Joe Doucey, who married a Morgan, They are trying to force him to marry Hannah Hale, a handsome and wild girl, whom Hardy has flirted with and who is in love with him and jealous. Hardy suspects it in an attack by Ruff and Wiley against Ross' titles also. Ross determines, in order to keep Hardy out of danger and to get the advice of his lawyer, to send Hardy that night with a letter to the Court House. Melda Bell appears at the door and calls them to supper. As Ross puts his horse in the stable, Ruff and Wiley ride up. Joe Doucey, as in the mountain custom, invites them to supper and to spend the night, but after some inquiries they ride on. Doucey, who is Ross' local agent, suspects them of some scheme against Ross' interests. He remarks to Ross that "they want the Earth, but will take the landscape". The family have supper and gather and talk in front of the fireplace; Melda Bell with her dulcimer. Hardy is called out by a "Hello", at the fence. All retire, Ross hears as he falls asleep, another "Hello", and Melda Bell goes out, Joe slipping out after her with his rifle. Hardy has come back and called Melda Bell into the moonlight. He tells her of his love for her and confesses his flirtation with Hanna Hale and of the designs against himself and "Colonel" Ross by the Hales. Melda Bell jealously upbraids him, but they are reconciled and agree to use all their resources, with the help of the Morgans, to pretect Ross, who has sent Melda Bell to school and to whom Hardy is devoted. Hardy rides away and her uncle comes forward, promising his help. In the morning Doctor O'Mally, Ross' general Land Agent, rides up and he and Ross ride away together. The Doctor, [who] has retired from the scant medical practice of the mountains to devote himself to Ross' work of development; he is a humorist. He makes report to Ross on coal and timer lands, with comments on the natives, who, he says, in many instances "need killing", but he makes any sacrifice himself to save their lives. The Doctor is a man of great heart and intellect and Ross confides in him. Ross and the Doctor part and Ross rides to the camp, that he had built for the surveyors.The Just Man Book II Frank Hardy lives at the camp, as Ross' tenant. As Ross approaches a boy asks him has he seen the "daid man"? Ross spurs forward, fearing it is Hardy and finds that a posse, made up of mostly of the Hales, had surrounded the Camp in the night and one of the posse, not a Hale, had been killed and the Hales claimed that Hardy had murdered him and escaped. Hardy suddenly appears, having ridden over from the Court House and hands Ross a letter from Peter Franklin, his lawyer. Hardy orders the Hales off the land, threatening them and the youngest of the Hales, a mere boy, shoots Hardy down with his rifle. Hannah Hale, driven by hate, love, jealously, and fear, had hovered near like an evil bird and now rushed up to Hardy and upbraided the Hale boy, while a dissolute deputy Sheriff steps forward to arrest Hardy. Hardy brushes her aside and says to the deputy, "If I were on my feet you would rather put your hand in the fire than touch me." Several of the Morgans come up and bear Hardy off into the Mountains. Ross rides off for the Doctor, at the coal mines. The mines are in operation in spite of the prolonged strike. The leaders of the strikers ask Ross to give him an excuse to call off the strike "to save his face"; Ross refuses, stating his men are fairly treated and satisfied. The mines are seen and the camp of the miserable victims of labor agitators. Ruff and Wiley take possession of the surveyors camp and fortify it against Ross, calling it "Castle Dangerous." Melda Bell disguises herself as an old mountain woman and obtains employment as their cook, for the purpose of learning the conspiracy against Hardy and Ross. Book III The scene then shifts to the Metropolis, where the Magnates palatial home is seen, a great ball being in progress. Extravagance and grossness of plutocracy shown. One son of the house has met a miserable death by falling out of a hotel window in Paris. The other, younger son, a fine fellow, the little Benjamin of the family, a college athlete, has been sent to the Coal Field, on an Engineering Corps, to keep him away from the temptations of the Metropolis. The daughter runs away with the ir social Secretary, the degenerate of a good family. Her mother had planned to marry her to Lord Brute, an English Nobleman, an officer, of a great family, with estates, but no money and a blackguard, who only wants her money. Her father had wanted her to marry the dissolute son of another Magnate, to strengthen his financial alliances. The Magnate's office. His deals and sharp practices and "milking" of the properties he controls and "rigging" of the stock market, to keep up his immense expenditures in "Society" for balls, yachts, shooting lodges and great mansions, most of which is spent abroad. A vast sum to maintain his oldest daughter being expended at London and Paris, she having married an impecunious Nobleman, who is spending untold sums. Private car in the coal fields. Magnate and Banker, his Satrap, (the local banker) and Railroad President bring pressure on Ross, who quietly refuses their proposition and tell them of his ideas of their methods of the new laws and methods they will have to conform to under Government control. Ross refuses to undertake to earn dividends on watered stock, by oppressing labor and overcharging the consumer.Book III Continued. Unknown to Ross his brothers and friends have rallied to his support at the Metropolis. Court scene: Ross' ejectment suit against Ruff and Wiley goes in their favor. Frank Hardy indicted for murder. Melda Bell appears with evidence of a conspiracy of Ruff and Wiley for old man Hale to perjure himself as a fase witness in the trial and brings papers to prove it, from the Fort. Melda Bell also proves an Alibi for hardy by revealing their moonlight assignation. Uncle Joe supports her evidence, declaring himself always her guardian, Ross and Hardy win. Hale arrested on evidence brought by Melda Bell from Castle Dangerous that Hale caused the murder. Wiley is disgraced and Peter Franklin in an eloquent speech brings about his disbarment. The Hales kill the Judge and escape. Hardy reports the plan of the desperate strikers to dynamite the Railroad to prevent the delivery of the cars to the mines. The Magnate, Banker and Railroad President are on the line in their car. Ross warns the Railroad people and sets the Morgans to guard the Railroad. Melda Bell brings word that the Magnates son has gone into the mountain and has disappeared and she fears that old man Hale and his gang of squatters and moonshiners have kidnapped or killed him. Ross and Hardy make a great ride across the mountains to intercept them at the still house and after a fight with the Squatters, in which old man Hale is killed, in a rifle duel with Hardy, they bring the Magnates son, who has been roughly handled, back to Ross' home at the beautiful Gap in the mountains, in the bluegrass valley. Ross who had been badly cut on the hand when he knocked one of the squatters down with his fist, faints upon reaching home and his daughter tenderly cares for him while her mother is getting the boy, Tom Myers, to bed, bruised and worn from his fight and terrible journey. Ross, weary and weakened is discouraged. His happy home and devoted wife and children, his active part in public affairs, his horses and dogs, his plantation and guns and fishing tackle all distract him from his business cares. Ross sends for Peter Franklin and declares that his relief from the conspiracies of Myers and his Satrap and the Railroad must come from Covernment incorporation and supervision and the direct subscription by the people to his securities, Myers and his associates controlling money and credits and the issue of securities. Peter, who is a great Commoner, ready for this work, but believing the people have not yet appreciated that the control of money and credit at the Metropolis, by a few, is the real basis of their troubles, submits to Ross papers he has already drafted for Ross' relief and undertakes to inagurate a Nation wide campaign for the protection of individual effort and local development. They go trout fishing, at which Peter is an expert. Peter forgoes fishing the famous Mill hole, towards eveing, to outline his plans to Ross. Book IV. The Magnate, with his wife and party in the car, call on Ross to thank him and offer cooperation. Tom Myers, his son, falls in love with Ross' oldest daughter. Myer's wife points out to him that Ross and his family are living the ideal life of the true Aristocrat, serving their people by reason of their ability, education and culture, such a life they have been visiting Europe to find and trying to imitate, without understanding. She urges him to live ,at least for part of the year in that beautiful mountain land, among and for the people. Ross is of Huguenot-Scotch Myers of Jewish descent.Book V Continued. The Ladies join forces, both Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Myers being of the best of the old American Colonial families. Mrs. Myers having married Myers for money and leadership of New York society. The miserable results in her own family and the happiness of the Ross family and the wishes of her favorite child Tom, being a great light to her, Mrs. Myers stays at Ross' house and Hardy is sent for Melda Bell that Mrs. Myers may meet her. Tom plays tennis and makes love to Eleanore, Ross' daughter. Peter Franklin returns and reports Government action and measures that dissolve Myers' control like a snow bank in the sun and show his Satrap's supposed vast possession to be but the tangled equities of Myers' Syndicates, held by his holding Company, the Railroad, on borrowed Trust funds. The strike and Ross' suit for equitable freight rates and car supply is won. Postal saving banks, Government incorporation and supervision are established. Money received for products to be deposited in the section where produced and Banks required to supply the local demands for loans, all under Government supervision, are all measures assured. Already the people are applying for Ross' securities, the value of his enterprises being known and his brave fight having won their sympathy. Confidence being restored under protection of the Government, making all the people investors of their savings. Ross' friends of the mountains and the valleys, led by the Doctor and the Preacher, crowd in to ask Ross to run for Governor and Peter Franklin for the Senate. The Preacher announces that he has Baptized about all the Hale family, who"got religion" and wished to forsake their evil ways. Melda Bell arrives and Mrs. Myers is so delighted with her that she plans a wedding of Melda Bell and Frank. Tom hearing of this implores Eleanore and the parents that he and Eleanore be married then too and wins his suit and there is a double wedding. Epilogue: A view of the future, in which conditions develop the perfect citizen, free and able to participate in the management of his public affairs, for the benefit of all the people; justice in business being assured by Government supervision. No longer can absentee, organized greed, assisted by the "Bosses, drain the country of its resources and money, preventing permanent development of communities toward higher civilization, by closing the door to individual effort. The call is "back to the country with money, talent and culture". No longer is permitted the exhaustion of the resources of a section of its coal, timber, soil, money, talent and all else and the withholding from that section the capital that should accrue there, thus driving to the City men who can obtain no money to do business or work the farms with. No longer will a naturally rich region be left barren of its original resources and capital, credit, industries, labor, talent and culture- a wilderness, its last estate being worse than its first. A local man can now obtain money and use his properties, talents and profits and the education and refinement of himself and family to the advantage of his community, so that when one resource is exhausted the proceeds will have developed another and his community advances, instead of being cast aside like a sucked orange, by organized greed, depositing, investing and spending all elsewhere, draining that region of all its resources and capital, money and credit. [*[W. GRAHAM]*]Enc in Graham 7-11-12July 11, 1912 17 BRIMMER STREET. Boston [[shorthand]] Dear Colonel, If you come in to Boston in August remember that this home is open and that I would be glad to have you come here if you want to. Things are going on as well in Mass. as we could expect. Thompson is doing wonders. I likehim better every day I am glad my letters amuse you - you must need amusement these days Sincerely yours Arthur D. Hill[*16.*] NEW YORK ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE F. C. IGLEHART, SUPERINTENDENT NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT 110 EAST 128ST., NEW YORK CITY July 11th, 1912. My dear Friend:- In your letter to me of June 5th, you declined to accept the urgent invitation to speak at Martha's Vineyard Camp-Meeting, one of the greatest institutions of the kind in America, but you said in that letter:- "Of course, after the nomination is made, it may be possible for me to do as you wish, but I should like to have a talk with you about it before making any definite promise." You have been so enormously busy, I would not disturb you for a moment, but I tried to get to you yesterday or make an appointment to do so, but found you would not be in the office until next Tuesday, and as time is flying, I quote this letter from Doctor F. B. Upham, Presiding Elder of one of our leading Brooklyn Methodist Districts and President of the Martha's Vineyard Camp-Meeting Association. "Now that the Convention is over, Colonel Roosevelt may see his way clear to come to our Camp-Meeting. There is no place in New England where he could find a more appreciative or interested audience than at Martha's Vineyard. It is probable that Governor Foss will be here on the eveing the Colonel might possibly come, to aid us in the reception to a good Republican president." As I wrote you, I think we could collect fifty thousand people on the grounds to hear you; if you could see your way clear to go. Almost any date any that would suit you, would be agreeable to the managers of the Camp-Meeting. I wish you could make room for this date if possible. I hope to hear from you soon. I want to have a moment of chat with you, over the political situation, the first opportunity I can get. You are the only man on the face of the earth, that could ever take me, even for a short while, out of the ranks of the Republican Party, to which I belonged since my birth. I have been mixed up in my mind, every now and then of late, as to where I was going, but my supreme faith in you as a man, and the things for which you stand, and the abominable thievery of the Convention at Chicago, settle me in absolute loyalty to your leadership From the time of my first acquaintance with you, I have always regarded you as the ideal man and statesman, I have often told you this before. Your friend, Ferdinand C. Iglehart Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[* 15. *] [* 62 *] D. APPLETON & COMPANY. 35 WEST 32nd STREET. NEW YORK. LONDON OFFICE 25 BEDFORD ST (COVENT GARDEN) CABLE ADDRESS HILANDERO July 11, 1912. Dear Sir: We are sending you Mr. Maxwell's latest book, entitled "In Cotton Wool", thinking that this able piece of character analysis may be of interest to you. We do not claim that the American man of today delegates to others all the uncomfortable duties which make for personal discomfort, yet, with the great increase of wealth and the ease of having everything done for him, so much friction is removed that he comes perilously near to the "cotton wool condition". Yours very truly, D APPLETON AND COMPANY, Per. [?] Honorable Theodore Roosevelt. [*File name*] HORATIO C. KING COUNSELOR AT LAW TEMPLE BAR 44 COURT STREET TELEPHONE No -1475 MAIN Residence 5 Main [*26 .*] BROOKLYN BOROUGH, N. Y. CITY July 11th, 1912. [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. Dear Comrade:- A statement in the newspapers of your position on the tariff, make it unnecessary for you to answer my letter of yesterday, and I don't want to add one iota to your labors. I was in at the birth of the new party this morning, and was delighted with the enthusiasm that prevailed. I regard this uprising as one of the most remarkable events in the political history of this country. Before the new party can hardly have said to have been born, it could properly say like Topsy, "I wasn't born, I just growed." I beg now to tender my services to you in any way that you think I [could] can be most useful. Though a Veteran of the civil War, I am still mentally and physically as active as a man of fifty. Sincerely yours, Horatio C. KingWESTERVILLE BOARD of TRADE INC. PRESIDENT W.B. JOHNSTON FIRST VICE PRESIDENT W.G. CLIFFINGER SECOND VICE PRESIDENT HANBY R. JONES SECRETARY R.W MORAN ASSISTANT SECRETARY J.F. SKED TREASURER E.P. BECK DIRECTORS C. H. WALKER FRANK BOOKMAN J. F. SKED W. M. GANTZ W. F. CELLAR L. H. SHANE [*19*] FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING Westerville Advantages Good Churches Modern Schools Seat of Otterbein University No Saloons Good Society Excellent Water Pure Air Sanitary Sewerage Eight Miles Paved Streets Electric Lights New Pikes Steam and Electric Railways Rich Surrounding Country Pretty Residences Telephones Natural Gas Headquarters National Anti-Saloon League and Lincoln League Westerville, Ohio, [ July 11, 1918] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York, Dear Col. Roosevelt: I am so much encouraged by the tenor of your reply to my recent letter concerning the vice presidential nomination that I have ventured to send you, under another cover (and am sending you the same herewith for convenience,) together with the enclosed manuscript, in the hope that somehow you may be able to use this matter in the Outlook. These two articles are in a series which I am preparing. There will be, perhaps, ten in all, may be fewer. All will be in the nature of civic sermons, beginning with a text. Every article, though not primarily written for that purpose, will be an appeal for support of progreeive ideas. When the first one was written it was printed in the Ohio State Journal, with no purpose of using it elsewhere and no thought of making a series. I am pretty widely known among the publications, and while, of course, it must not be mentioned, in connection with your campaign, I am one of the editors of the American Issue, the publication of the Anti-Saloon League. Of course I am known among people of the League.PRESIDENT W. B. JOHNSTON FIRST VICE PRESIDENT W. G. CLIPPINGER SECOND VICE PRESIDENT HANBY R. JONES SECRETARY R. W. MORAN ASSISTANT SECRETARY J. F. SKED TREASURER E. P. BECK WESTERVILLE BOARD of TRADE (INC.) DIRECTORS C. H. WALKER FRANK BOOKMAN J. F. SKED W. M. GANTE W. F. CELLAR L. H. SHANE Westerville Advantages Good Churches Modern Schools Seat of Otterbein University No Saloons Good Society Excellent Water Pure Air Sanitary Sewerage Eight Miles Paved Streets Electric Lights New Pikes Steam and Electric Railways Rich Surrounding Country Pretty Residences Telephones Natural Gas Headquarters National Anti-Saloon League and Lincoln Legion FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, Westerville, Ohio, 191 These articles are not submitted to the Outlook for recompense primarily, and if you see fit to publish them I shall be satisfied with whatever remuneration, much or little, you send me. If you desire even a wider circulation than the Outlook can give, I shall arrange for their publication elsewhere, alas, and if they are not available for the Outlook I shall give them to the Ohio State Journal. That paper will use them, though it will grant me no remuneration. I have written to James R. Garfield, as you suggested, but have not yet had time for a reply. Yours very truly, J. H. Larimore. 2 enc7-11-12Rev. S. V. Leech, The De Soto Washington, D.C. June 11/12 Personal Dear, Col. R. I have cut this item from today's Balt. Sun. With Respect, S.V. Leech TAFT DELEGATE SERVES NOTICE Will Not Tolerate Unfair Unseating Of Roosevelt Men. [From THE SUN Bureau.] Washington, June 10. --- The first protest from Taft delegate sources against the operation of the National Committee "steam-roller" at Chicago in throwing out indiscriminately the Roosevelt delegates and the seating of men committed to Taft was heard here today, and it came from A.P. Crockett, a Taft-instructed delegate from the Ninth Virginia district. Mr. Crockett made it plain that he will not acquiesce in unfair seating of Taft delegates by the credentials committee upon the recommendation of the National Committee. "I am instructed for Mr. Taft's renomination and intend to vote for him, but I want to make it plain that I am not committed and will not stand for any unfair treatment of Roosevelt delegates by the convention or by the National Committee," said Mr. Crockett emphatically. "If those Roosevelt delegates from California are thrown out I am willing to stand up in the convention and make a motion that they be seated. The Republican Party can't stand for that. What's more, there are a lot of Taft delegates like me who will not vote for the unseating of honestly elected Roosevelt delegates. That's a factor the National Committee may as well consider right now."Washington D.C. June 11/ 12. Personal Dear Col R. I have cut this item from today's Balt. Sun. With Respect, S.V. Leach, Taft Delegate Serves Notice Will Not Tolerate Unfair Unseating Of Roosevelt Men. [From The Sun Bureau.] Washington, June 10.-The first protest from Taft delegate sources against the operation of the National Committee "steamroller" at Chicago in throwing out indiscriminately the Roosevelt delegates and the seating of men committed to Taft was heard here today, and it came from A.P. Crockett, a Taft-instructed delegate from the Ninth Virginia district. Mr. Crockett made it plain that he will not acquiesce in unfair seating of Taft delegates by the credentials committee upon the recommendation of the National Committee. "I am instructed for Mr. Taft's renomination and intend to vote for him, but I want to make it plain that I am not committed and will not stand for any unfair treatment of Roosevelt delegates by the convention or by the National Committee," said Mr. Crockett emphatically. "If those Roosevelt delegates from California are thrown out I am willing to stand up in the convention and make a motion that they be seated. The Republican party can't stand for that. What's more, there are a lot of Taft delegates like me who will not vote for the unseating of honestly elected Roosevelt delegates. That's a factor the National Committee may as well consider right now."PROGRESSIVE HEADQUARTERS CLUB ROOM 6. CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO July 11, 1918 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Colonel; I am sending you herewith some suggestions made by LaVerne W. Noyes for a letter in reply to his on the Deep Waterway question. Your last letter on this subject, addressed to the old confederate at Buntyn, Tenn. was buried by the pre-convention news. If you will write a second letter at this time, putting in the forefront of it a statement of the availability of the Panama machinery, it can be sent to Mr. Noyes immediately and through the medium of Dr. Shaw's Plate Supplying Association distributed to the country papers throughout the Mississippi Valley. Its publication within the next 10 days would have an important influence through-out the whole valley, and especially in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. In this state the people are really opposed to the issuance of 20 millions of bonds for the construction of the Illinois river link in the lakes to the gulf waterway, excepting those who live in Chicago and in the counties ordering on the Illinois river. I sincerely hope that you may write Mr. Noyes so far as possible along the lines suggested and without delay. This letter is addressed to Mrs. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, in order that you may get it promptly. I will write later in the day about favorable developments in Illinois. Faithfully yours, Medill McCormick MMocC/ELPROGRESSIVE HEADQUARTERS CLUB ROOM 6, CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO July 11, 1912 Hon. George W. Perkins, 605 Manhattan Hotel, New York City. My dear Mr. Perkins: I am sending you herewith a couple of copies of a pamphlet, of which we distributed several hundred thousand in Illinois, Nebraska, California and South Dakota. Amos Pinchot covered the same ground in a pamphlet which he wrote for use in New York. I trust that this material may be revised and condensed, for publication under the same cover with the account of the contests. It is urgent that the whole case about the Taft administration and the Taft nomination should be made ready without delay, for distribution among our workers, especially in the states where the organization is divided or in unfriendly hands. Although, I have already spoken to our friends in the New York headquarters, and to the Colonel about this, I feel so strongly on the subject that I write to urge you to see that it is done. At the same time O.K. Davis or Welliver ought to prepare the record of the Democratic Congress, and of the bosses who were the big figures in the Democratic convention. This is the time when the minds of small businessmen are unsettled. The regular organizations have a great advantage over us in lining up the voters; an advantage which is already evident in this state. If the men who are supporting us in the country counties of Illinois were now supplied with small quantities of the pamphlets which we should now have, they could begin drilling their workers in arguments. Pamphlet #3, which would include a condensation of "Catching Up With Roosevelt," and our platform should be issued immediately after the Chicago Convention. To do this the condensing of Welliver's article ought to be complete before we meet here. Let me point out, that during our whole pre-convention campaign we lacked the advantage of having early preparationsPROGRESSIVE HEADQUARTERS CLUB ROOM 6, CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO #2 Hon. Geo. W. Perkins of the Taft and Roosevelt records for booklet circulation. In this campaign, with the Republican papers largely destined by the Postmasters, we shall have to make a wider use of pamphlets than ever before, to the exclusion of the old style campaign book, which included export tables as far back as the Arthur administration. Faithfully yours, Medill McCormick MMoC/RR NOTE: I feel so strongly on this subject that I hope that it may be called to the Colonel's attention, al- though I spoke to him about it before I left New YorkPRESIDENT S. W. HILL 25 PRESTON AVENUE BELLEVUE, PA. FIRST VICE PRESIDENT W. J. PATTERSON RECORDING SECRETARY A. FILSON DALZELL 507 KELLY AVENUE WILKINSBURG, PA. SECOND VICE PRESIDENT SAM'L M. EVANS CORRESPONDING SECRETARY JOSEPH P. McKEE 5428 ELLSWORTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. THIRD VICE PRESIDENT SAMUEL SCOTT FINANCIAL SECRETARY JOHN M. MONTGOMERY 831 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. ADVISORY COMMITTEE REV. THOS. N. BOYLE JOHN T. PORTER WM. T. POWELL FRANK L. BLAIR EDWARD ABEL C. C. FAWCETT JOHN M. MOLAMPHY S. S. WAITNRIGHT CAMPBELL STANTON CHAS. W. GERWIG THE VETERAN GUARD OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PA. PITTSBURGH, PA., July 11, 1912 SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL HALL Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue New York City, N. Y. My dear Sir: - On my return this week from Mt. Lake, I promised to either visit you in person, or communicate with you to see what might be done with reference to you spending a day during the month of August at the mountain Chatauqua, fixing a date to suit yourself, and at the same time choosing your own subject for the occasion. The people of Maryland and Virginia, and those who will be in attendance at the park are very anxious that you may be present, and are looking to me to try and make some arrangement if possible. I would be willing to come to see you in person, or make any sacrifice or arrangement necessary so as to secure your presence with our people at some period or date in August if it may become possible for you to arrange to be present. I know that you are deeply interested and very busily concerned as to the Chicago Convention in August, with reference to the third party movement, and I wish to say that I am very deeply concerned and interested with you along these lines, and I am anxious to know what may be the final decision for our summer and fall campaign. If you can give me any encouragement, or should it be wise for me to make a visit to see you in person I shall be pleased to comply with your request. Wishing you the greatest success in all your undertakings, and trusting that plans in operation now may be worked out successfully, and that we may see victory in all our efforts for the great benefit of the common people at large, I reman, Yours very truly, Maj. J. P. McKee 511 Bakewell Building Pittsburg Pa. [*[McKEE]*] 4603 Mountain Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. July 11th., 1912. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- It did please me so much that you and your adhearants made complete separation from the powers of darkness and workers of eniquity with their polutions of hell. May God help you to lay foundation of new party so that all lovers of righteousness honesty and decency may build thereon. Sincerely yours, John M. Knight [*Johnson*]Hilltop, W. Va., July II, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New YorkCity. My Dear Sir: The political condition in this country prompts this letter from me. It is an undeniable fact that Mr. Taft cannot be elected in November. You are aware that West Virginia stands out for Theodore Roosevelt for the President. We believe that you can bring much to bear that will help the people of this [coiunt] country. We believe in you as a man. I am publishing a Negro paper here and want to be with you in this fight. You know what it takes to run a newspaper. I want to mould sentiment and I must make a living. I ask that you help me to mould sentiment and also help me to live[x]by getting your committtee to do some business with me. Your check for donation to my paper will accepted. You understand, Col. You know. Let me hear from you. Yours truly, Milton S. Malone, Editor The Miner.POSTAL TELEGRAPH – CABLE COMPANY NIGHT LETTERGRAM The Postal Telegraph–Cable Company (Incorporated) transmits and delivers this night lettergram subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. CLARENCE H. MACKAY, PRESIDENT. RECEIVED AT DELIVERY No. 644 BROADWAY BR Tel. 2291 Gramercy INDEPENDENT COMPETITIVE PROGRESSIVE 785[?] [G?]A 14 NL Pittsburg Pa July 11–12 JUL 12 1912 Frank Harper The Outlook, Fourth Avenue New York. Telegram received thanks for your trouble I will take the eleven o'clock train down Alex P. Moore 11:40PMFRANK A. MUNSEY 175 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK July 11, 1912. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- The enclosed editorial appeared in all my papers yesterday. The occasion for it was the letter printed herewith from a Cambridge man whose name is F. W. Breed. Not having his permission to print the letter, I did not use his name. If I understand the situation at all, Breed's anxiety is the anxiety that all men who have anything at stake throughout the country are now feeling. Industrial evolution, industrial prosperity, active business, and bulging commerce, with a tariff that will make these certain, are the war-cries that will make certain your election this fall. The situation looks better to me every minute. The stand of the Iowa Republicans is a deathblow to the Taft band of highwaymen. Yours very truly, Frank A. Munsey Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. [*The enclosed statement by Mr. Gaither is excellent. He is a very high grade man & a very able one - a lawyer and a man who knows politics*] _______For encl see 7-10-12AERMOTOR COMPANY LA VERNE W. NOYES, Prest. Twelfth and Rockwell Sts. Cable Address: "AERMOTOR" CHICAGO, ILL., U.S.A. July 11th, 1912 [[shorthand]] Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York City My dear Colonel: Knowing how exceedingly busy you are, Mr. McCormick has asked me to write out fully, and in detail, the principal thoughts which I had in regard to the matter contained in my brief letter a few days ago, to use as a starting point for a letter from you on this subject to be given out. We ought to have its effect immediately so as to get its influence in making the convention. The substantial men of influence are coming to you faster today than ever before. This is the psychological moment. Very truly yours, La Verne W Noyes 1 F [*[Encl]*]For encl see Noyes 7/11/12[*[ca 7-11-12]*] I fully agree with you that there is no need for the people of Illinois to pay twenty million dollars, or any part of it, in an individual attempt to secure a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf. That is a task for the nation, since the nation alone can properly do it. It is an interstate matter. The whole problem of control of the flood waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries and a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf is one which the United States government should at once undertake and complete with the same vigor and wisdom shown in the construction of the Panama Canal. The technicalities and difficulties of the task baffled the world for centuries. But, when the [proper person decided to do it], American people definitely decided to undertake it, the technicalities and difficulties were brushed aside and the work proceeded in a manner to demonstrate, for all time, the wonderful efficient and economy which the right kind of government can show in the handling of a great engineering and other tasks. The tremendous devastating floods of the past few months, [the] with the attendant loss of life [and the loss] of homes and of property, have made it clear [to me] that no more time should be lost in undertaking the control of the flood waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and the connection of the great lakes and the tributaries of the Mississippi with the gulf, [with] by means of a great commerce-carrying channel. The construction of the Panama Canal was carried out in the furtherance of national policy which seemed imperative, [but] In the same way the immediate control of the flood waters that go down the Mississippi and the construction of the great water highway is demanded by [many] controlling reasons. [The principal one] Important [which has called attention to it in the pact has been that of commerce.] as is the commercial reason for the undertaking. [*No ¶*] [But important as this feature is and will be,] it is not the most important. The greatest service that it will confer upon mankind and the people of this country is conservation. [a conservation of the fuel that would be saved to] It will conserve-2- [having the day to carry the great burden of commerce to the sea; conservation] the power - to be turned into electricity - which is now used by this mighty torrent as a destroyer in going to the sea, and which, if moved as power, [and would], could be utilized and made a benediction throughout the year, for ages to come, instead of remaining an annual menace, [and] a potent destroyer of the homes and the hopes and the industry of a very large portion of the United States. It would conserve and reclaim millions upon millions of acres of the richest and most fertile soil in this country, - an amount that would support an empire in itself. [When I reflect upon it, I am astonished that t]The people occupying the vast domain between the crest of the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghenies have a direct and interest in seeing this work have not demanded and had this great work undertaken and completed before this. begun and led to speedy completion. As a financial enterprise, [it is doubtful if] the Panama Canal will [make good] not - for a considerable number of years [&?] good returns on the capital invested [for a long time to come]. But the conservation of natural resources which will come from the control of the Mississippi and its flood waters should in the future return many times over its value of [make vast returns for] every dollar invested [in the near] [future]. The accomplishment of this task should render this country an immeasurably great service - a great [political] social service as well as a great economic service [as well. In times past] [institutions in this county and a great war divided it into] Historic cause divided our people on sectional lines, and then finally culminated in splitting them and into two political parties which have struggled under their respective banners for half a century after the real contest had been completed and passed into history, and after the causes which made the division had disappeared forever. Under the pretense of fighting over again the old battles under these banners, privilege and sordid interest have become firmly intrenched in each party, so that both parties [until now in each party, there] now contain utterly improving elements, reactionary and fragments [is a struggle between reactionaries and progressives. and in each party its [reactionaries] bosses and their allies have complete control of its party. Only by a new party, in which all, north as well as south, join on equal terms can be and industrial tastes demanded by our [This is the opportunity for the progressives to get together in a] [great undertaking which will benefit the whole country. Instead of having excluded] [from participation in the government, there is every incentive for every state-] south as well as north- to join together and participate in this great work]people be unsuccessfully undertaken. [the] one of the greater of these tasks in the development of the Mississippi The machinery to do the physical work in the regeneration and control of the “father of waters. Has been recently designed, is the best that ever has been made or used, and is now oiled up, and bright from use on the Panama Canal. It should not be allowed to get rusty. The engineering and construction organization (the best that ever existed), which is building the Panama Canal, will soon be looking for a job and could be called upon to undertake this less expensive [but enormously] and even more useful, problem. Why should not the South be foremost in this great progressive movement! It needs it more than the North, and should rise and claim its own. [*[L.W. NOYES]*][*[Encl in Noyes 7/11/12]*] [*[7/11/12]*][*37.*] A E. PERRY, CHAIRMAN E. B. HENRY, SECRETARY ROOSEVELT STATE-WIDE MOVEMENT Headquarters, Lee-Huckins Hotel COALGATE [OKLAHOMA CITY] OKLA. July 11th, 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, N.Y., My dear Mr.Roosevelt:- It pleases me to report, that the "Progressive Movement" has been successfully launched in this state. I have just returned from Oklahoma City after having taken part in the meeting called by Governor Frank Frantz. I have assured him that I will most gladly assist him and Mr. Priestley in doing what ever I can to make the movement a success and cheerfully accept his leadership in this movement. Mr. Roosevelt, the people of Oklahoma are for you and bitterly resent the treatment you received at Chicago. Thanking you very much for your kindness to me, I remain Most faithfully yours, A. E. Perry. JMR/AEP.[*10*] GIFFORD PINCHOT GREY TOWERS MILFORD PIKE CO PA July 11, 1912 [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City Dear Theodore: I have just head from Washington what you doubtless already now, that some of the Reactionary Senators, notably Root, are planning to make speeches in the Senate on the stolen delegates at Chicago. Whether any one is preparing to meet them, I do not know, but it is, of course, of [the utmost] real importance that that you should be done. On the general chance that you had not taken the matter up, I send this note. Yours as always, Gifford PinchotMILES POINDEXTER, WASH., CHAIRMAN. WILLIAM LORIMER, ILL. WELDON B. HEYBURN, IDAHO. GEORGE S. NIXON, NEV. GEORGE SUTHERLAND, UTAH. SIMON GUGGENHEIM, COLO. BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN, S. C. JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON, ALA. CLARENCE W. WATSON, W. VA. HENRY L. MYERS, MONT. BERT E. HILBORN, CLERK. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON MINES AND MINING. [*6.*] July 11, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. My dear Colonel: I would be very glad if you would send a line over your autograph to the writer of the inclosed letter, who says she organized the first Woman's Roosevelt Club in the world. With best wishes, Very truly yours, Miles Poindexter P-s Incl.For encl see 7-3-12Form 2589 B. 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[[shorthand]] Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York, My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I said last Saturday that I would send you a memorandum on this month's decision of the New York Court of Appeals in the so-called New York City Subway Cases. Such a memorandum is enclosed. It is a significant commentary on the position you have been taking before the people. Owing to my close personal and professional affiliation with certain of counsel in the case, I would not wish my name used in connection with any use you may make of the material in the enclosed memorandum, although you are at liberty to make any use of it otherwise that you my see fit. Very truly yours, Wm. L. Ransom __________ WLR/HM[*[7-11-12]*] 1st MAIN DINING HALL, PACIFIC BRANCH, N. H. D. V. S. Soldiers' Home, Cal., July 11th, 1912 Col Rosevelt, Sir I am in receipt of letter from your secretary & would beg leave to thank you & assure you that I am with you Heart & Hand. we will stay with you & anticipate the platform. You will get between 1500 & 2000 Soldier votes in the Pacific Branch Soldiers Home. I suppose the Name will be Independent Progressive,2 I suppose you know the South have never had National Recognition Founded in Trust since the war. Ben Hill of Georgia settled on the plan to give the Northern States the presidency & vice & that would keep the Northern Democrats solid as an alley & give them the Heads of the Important Committees. I dont blame the south for doing it, it was that or stand out in the cold so if we back a Democratic president it gives all the Importat Committees to them Oh! Shades of Mount Vernon—[reach?] this grand3rd MAIN DINING HALL, PACIFIC BRANCH, N. H. D. V. S. Soldiers' Home, Cal., ,191 I want you to make this Race with the understanding that thereafter the South must have Representation on any ticket—& then we will not have any more Secionalism, they would not accept Underwood you understand it was all a farce for Him to run they can carrey The States without Him. I think the South have been mocked enough,4th The Confederate minister to England was a Cousin of my sweet Virginia Mother I mean Falkner. and although I Fought the south not to free the Negroes but they said a State could withdraw at will that would wreck the purpose of a more perfect Union. It would be no union [?] My Father was Lieut Governor of Missouri. Elected with Fletcher in 1864 & United States Marshal of the western Dist 75, Counties [??] He had the honor to Entertain Gen Grant when he came to Mo. Gov Fletcher5th MAIN DINING HALL, PACIFIC BRANCH, N. H. D. V. S. Soldiers' Home, Cal., ,191 was off selling the Railroads that brought such a scandal to The Party. The Mo. senate voted my Father a fifty two Gold Headed Cane, and my Step Mother has it at San Diego (with the [C?] of Honest George,) Father liked Mr. Cockrel for his Honesty he was no Rake after bad service and money would buy him, you took a fancey for him on the same ground6th I have most of my Relations out here Wm C. Ralson who built the Palace Hotell & President of the Bank of California was my Cousin. A.D. Ralson & Alpheus C. Samuel were my cousins. They were in with Aspinwal who helpt to make them Ritch. I will do all in my power for your Election without fear or favor. Abram C. Smith Co. H. Soldiers HomeBENNETT & GOODWIN, COUNSELLORS AT LAW, 36 PEARL STREET, HARTFORD, CONN. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHARLES A.GOODWIN [*1.*] July 11, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Dear Colonel: Joe Alsop has a letter from the editor of a small paper in Connecticut, who asks practically this question: Why should not a Progressive Republican now support Wilson ? Joe has prepared an answer, the substance of which is as follows: "It is a fight on a clear cut moral issue of whether the people shall rule themselves or whether the political bosses shall do it for them. Both parties are under the domination partially or wholly" of such bosses. The question this man has raised seems to me of extreme importance. Of course, anything we may tell him will not bind you, but at the same time I would like to have the statement so framed that it will satisfy you and will be an answer to the question all over the country. I should answer it in substance as follows: 1. The Democratic party are as much under the domination of a combination of political bosses [of] with large interests as any other party. 2. The Democratic party cannot carry out permanently any real progressive program because they are and always have been a party of state's rights and narrow construction, and the progressive policies represent national needs, require national action and enlarged federal activity.BENNETT & GOODWIN, COUNSELLORS AT LAW, 36 PEARL STREET, HARTFORD, CONN. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHARLES A.GOODWIN July 11, 1912. -2- Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. 3. A large section of the Democratic party is hopelessly tied per force to a race issue, which, when once raised, dominates everything else and which can be used as it has been used frequently in the past to side-track any progressive policy objectionable to any part of the party. The first two points I am entirely clear about. Whether it is wise to use the third at present, I am not sure. Would you be kind enough to drop me a line at Washington, expressing your opinion as to whether we should make substantially that statement for publication or any modification of it. Very sincerely yours, Herbert Knox SmithHotel Touraine Boston July 11th 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt N. Y. My dear Mr. Roosevelt Replying to your welcome favor of July 2nd I wish to thank you for your personal acknowledgment. I am very glad that my letter pleased you. I am sure that you will receive many similar letters from people all over the country. I will do my level best to help. Will see if Frank. A. Munsey will publish some of my letters to that people. I was for twenty one years in the Service of the W. U. Telegraph Co. and was wiremate with Frank when he was operator in the State House at Augusta Me & I was in Boston — Am writing him even date. Faithfully yours Charles D. Stanford P.o. Box 94 Ipswich Mass.WEIMERT & TEMPLETON COUNSELLORS AT LAW 909-910 D.S. MORGAN BUILDING NIAGARA AND PEARL STREETS BUFFALO, N. Y. _____ ORSON J. WEIMERT RICHARD H. TEMPLETON 7-11-'12. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. [[shorthand?]] My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- Your letter of the 9th inst. reached me yesterday, and I am today getting in touch with Mr. Robinson as you suggest. Mr. Hamlin and I each received a wire from Mr. Hotchkiss, asking us to be present in New York this morning, but as I am in the trial of a litigation which will have to be disposed of now or be postponed until fall, I could not go. Mr. Hamlin has in mind all of our suggestions and will offer them at the conference. We, yesterday, organized a provisional committee of five with full power to provide for a committee of one hundred, and the perfecting of plans for the immediate organization of the National Progressive Party in Erie County. We shall leave no stone unturned in our effort to carry Erie County for you. 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This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THEO N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 9 NY DI CK 32 WX New York Jly 112 [*[12?]*] Col Theo Roosevelt, Impossible to come today owing to meeting of up State People and our Brooklyn meeting tonight will try to come tomorrow but if I can’t ma yredding go down to see you. Timothy L. Woodruff 10:25 A 12.59+[*file under Kent*] [*[7-11-12]*] [[shorthand?]] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS. Thursday, July 11, 1912. The committee this day met, Hon. Joseph T. Robinson (Chairman) presiding. The Chairman. The hearing on the grazing bill, H. R. 19857, will be resumed. Mr. Kent, of California, is present, and wishes to present some views concerning the subject- matter of the bill. STATEMENT OF Hon. William Kent, a Representative from the State of California. ---------0--------- The Chairman. Just pardon one suggestion. We have had very lengthy hearings concerning the subject-matter of this bill, and we would be glad to hear your suggestion particularly with reference to the form of the bill, and any specific suggestions you have to make. Mr. Kent. In that case I shall take up the question from the standpoint of the cost of beef and show the bearing of the present condition of grazing on such cost. My partner in the business of cattle feeding, Mr. Burke, of Genoa, Nebraska, has prepared a statement which I should like to have put in the record. He is probably as good an authority as there is in the country on the cost of producing beef, and has no personal interest whatever in the range proposition - cattle growing on the range. He has at various times been in every part of the range country purchasing cattle for our feed2 lots, and has bought them all the way from Mexico to California, in every grazing State in the West. (The communicat ion referred to is as follows: ) "Genoa, Nebr., July 8, 1912. THE DECLINE OF THE CATTLE INDUSTRY AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY AND THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE UNITED STATES: ALSO STATEMENTS SHOWING COST OF PRODUCING BEEF CATTLE AND ACTUAL COST OF BEEF TO THE PACKERS. I wish to make it clear to your Honorable Committee that I appear before you as a beef producer of the Middle West, a man who for the past twenty-five years has devoted his life to the fattening of cattle and hogs for the market, and who during that period as a purchaser of cattle from the western ranges, has had unexcelled facilities for observing live-stock conditions in the West in their relationship to the public range. I have no personal interest in having a lease law or any other legislation covering the public lands enacted, except as such a law might benefit any citizen by increasing the supply of live stock and reducing the price of meat of all kinds, besides conserving the public lands and putting them to the greatest beneficial use. In order to give you a proper idea of the extremely high cost of production during the past winter, I wish to call your attention to the attached statements which show not only the narrow margin of a beef producer, but also the big increase of cost to the packer which increases on the kind of animal referred to from an average of $7.75 per cwt. of dressed beef for the ten year period 1901 to 1910 inclusive, to $10.55 per cwt. of dressed beef, as an average for the past winter. Prices have been steadily advancing during the spring and3 summer months so that now the cost in the beef for good 1300 pound steers must be fully $12.00 per cwt. There is the greatest confusion in the minds of the public as to the cause of the constantly advancing prices for meat, especially beef. The many investigations of the so- called beef trust and the continual prosecution of the packers has tended in public estimation to place the entire responsibility for high prices of meat on them, instead of distributing it where it properly belongs. The real reasons for the high prices are rather obscure to the general public, but are really economic, as only within narrow limits can the packers control the prices of meats. First of all the high prices of beef are caused by the decline of the cattle industry at a time when the population of our country is increasing by leaps and bounds, the number of cattle actually retrograding slightly in recent years. Now what are the causes for the decline in the cattle industry? On its face it looks like an anomaly for an industry to retrograde while prices are steadily advancing, but such has really been the case and for the simple reason that the business of raising cattle and preparing them for market has been less profitable than other lines of business, considering risk and capital invested. Many causes have contributed. The principal ones are, First. The rapid rise in the price of feeding stuffs and as a corollary a rapid advance in the price of lands, both grazing and farm lands -- the increase in the price of feed outrunning the advance in the price of cattle, thereby enormously increasing the cost of production. Second. Over production of both beef and mutton, caus-4 ing at times glutted markets and very low prices. Third. The short sighted policy of the packers in their attitude toward the beef producers. They have usually pressed their advantage to the utmost on overcrowded markets, losing sight of the fact that eventually the producer might cease to produce. Last, but not least by any means, the inexcusable delay on the part of Congress in formulating some definite policy for the handling of our unappropriated public lands. Under normal conditions the lives stock business of the West is at best uncertain and precarious, but in recent years it has been extra hazardous on account of the way in which the public lands have been handled. It has been a transition period, and over vast areas there has been a gradual change from a range man's country of large holdings to a grange man's country of small holdings with all the resulting uncertainties and friction. The situation has been chaotic and few stock men knew where they stood. The comparatively few men who happened to be fortunately located have been powerful enough by working on the ignorance of some and the prejudice of others to block legislation tending to put the whole matter on a fair and businesslike basis. The result has been that stock men by the thousands have been compelled either to greatly reduce their holdings or have been forced out of business so that today instead of our great natural stock-producing grounds carrying cattle and sheep to their full capacity, and doing the work that God intended they should do toward feeding our ever increasing population, we are face to face with depleted ranges, and a meat famine the like of which this country has never seen.5 The situation is acute, but the foolish and dilatory policy of many years cannot be remedied in a year or two. It is slow work building up herds of beef cattle and flocks of sheep. Only on cheap land and with cheap feed can cheap meat be produced, and we cannot hope for the low prices of twenty years ago, as we have neither. The best we can do is to try to counteract the tendency toward constantly higher prices by encouraging production. Out country has many millions of acres of arid and semi-arid public lands, much of which will not be ripe for settlement for many years. We know it will take time to properly classify our unappropriated public lands as they must be before they can be handled intelligently. After classification it will take more time to apply to each class of land the proper sort of homestead law to insure permanent settlement by the home builder. No man can tell to what uses these lands may be eventually put, but for the present we know that they will benefit our country most by utilizing them in the production of meat for hungry mouths at reasonable prices. Surely every patriotic citizen owes it to his country to study the question and try to find the best way out. There is before your Committee for consideration a land leasing bill covering semi-arid public lands, which has been carefully drawn by experienced man. It may not be in all respects an ideal bill from a live stock man's point of view, as there were other interests to be considered and protected. It is generally conceded that any lease law covering the unappropriated public lands must first fully protect the rights of the bona fide settler, miner or power developer,6 so as not to retard the settling up and proper development of the country. If it accomplishes this, and at the same time protects the live stock men in certain points which are fundamental, it is certainly well worth your careful consideration The main features of any lease law which, from a stock man's standpoint is of any practical value, are, first, that it gives him a chance to protect his range against overcrowding; second, that it makes his lease of sufficient length to justify the necessary expenditure for stocking the range and making improvements. Third, that it allow him to fence, as in that way only can he save his winter range, keep separate his cattle from others, prevent the spread of infectious diseases, get the full benefit of his own bulls, reduce straying and stealing to a minimum, classify his cattle and thereby have his beef ready for shipment, economize labor, and in various other ways make his business safe and conservative. Fourth, that it give local men at least a voice in the regulation of their own grazing district. Fifth, that it be so drawn as to prevent the blackmailer, masquerading under the guise of an honest settler, from taking advantage of the lessee. Sixth, furnish the range at a reasonable price. There are many other things which ought to be embodied in a properly drawn lease law, but without these fundamentals range men can scarcely hope to succeed, and the reason for hundreds of failures in recent years in the western range business can be laid to the fact that one or more of these fundamentals was lacking. The only stock men dwelling in peace and prosperity in the range country today are the7 favored few who happen to be so situated that they have a natural monopoly either of their own or Government lands, or those who dwell near the National Forest Reserves or Indian Reservations where they can for a reasonable sum run their stock in security, with the assurance of plenty of feed and protection against outside stock. If a system of permits and leases works satisfactorily in these places, why shouldn't it work on a larger scale on our unappropriated public lands? Its worth trying. EDWARD L. BURKE, Genoa, Nebraska. STATEMENT SHOWING APPROXIMATE COST OF PRODUCING BEEF IN MIDDLE WEST DURING WINTER OF 1911-1912 AND NET RETURNS. Cost 1,000# feeding steer at 5.00 per cwt. $50.00 " 62 bus. corn at 60¢ - - - - - - - - - - - - - 37.20 " 250 Cottonseed meal at 1-1/2 ¢ per lb. 3.75 " 1200# hay at 8.00 per ton, - - - - - - - - 4.80 " Labor, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1.00 " Maintenance feed yards and equipment, 1.00 " selling cost including freight and expense basis Chicago, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5.00 " Cost of shots 100# at 6.00 per cwt, 6.00 " Interest $70.00 at rate 6% per annum for six months, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2.10 Total cost, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $110.85 NET RETURNS: Matured steer 1300# at $7.75 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -100.75 200# hog at 7.00 per cwt. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14.00 Total net returns - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $114.75 Net profit per head, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $ 3.90 NOTE. It is necessary to introduce the hog as he is an essential part of the business. Cattle fed without hogs to eliminate the waste, practically never pay out.STATEMENT SHOWING THE APPROXIMATE COST OF BEEF TO THE PACKER AT CHICAGO DURING THE WINTER AND SPRING OF 1911-1912, BASED ON CORN FED WESTERN STEERS AVERAGING 1300 POUNDS. Cost of corn fed steer 1300# at 7-3/4 ¢ per lb., $100.75 Deduct for hide and bi-products, 80% green hide, at 13-1/2 ¢ per pound, $10.80 80# fat, at 7-1/2 ¢ 6.00 Other bi-products (see below for detail, 3.00 19.80 Cost of dressed beef, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $ 80.95 Beef yields 59% of live weight - 767# per carcass, = $10.55 per cwt, cost f. o. b. packing house. To which should be added cost of buying, killing, administration and refrigeration, saidto be about 35 centers per cwt, dressed weight. DETAIL OF BI-PRODUCTS. Liver, $.60 Heart .15 Tongue, .65 Tail, .07 Sweetbread, .05 Cheek Meat, .35 Tripe, .05 Brains, .05 Casings, .30 Fertilizer & Blood, .25 Head and feet, .48 $3.00ESTIMATED AVERAGE COST FOR THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1901- 1910, INCLUSIVE, OF PRODUCING A 1300 POUND BEEF STEER? FED WEST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER IN DRY FEED LOT; ALSO STATEMENT SHOWING THE GAIN PER HEAD ON BASIS OF AVERAGE MARKET PRICES. Cost of 1,000 pound feedingsteer at $4.00 per cwt, $40.00 Cost of 60 bushels of corn at 40 cents per bushel, 24.00 Cost of 150 pounds of cottonseed meal or similar product at 1-1/2 cents per pound, 2.25 Cost of 1200 pounds of hay, at $5.00 per ton 3.00 Cost of labor, 1.00 Cost of maintenance of feed yards and equipment 1.00 Cost of one shote (weight 100 pounds) $5.00 per cwt. 5.00 Interest on $60.00 at 6 cent per annum for 6 months, 1.80 Selling cost including freight basis Chicago, 5.00 Total - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $83.05 ESTIMATED AVERAGE RETURNS FOR THE ABOVE PERIOD FROM THE ABOVE STEER, ESTIMATING A 300 POUND GAIN FOR THE FEEDING PERIOD FOR THE STEER, AND A 100 POUND GAIN FOR THE HOG. Matured steer weighing 1300 pounds, netting $5.65 per cwt. $73.45 Fat hog, averaging 200 pounds, at 5 cents, 10.00 Total returns, 83.45 83.45 .40 The above shows an average profit per head of 40¢10 STATEMENT SHOWING APPROXIMATE AVERAGE COST OF THE BEEF TO THE PACKER DURING AVOVE PERIOD. Cost of 1300 pound corn fed steer at $5.65 $73.45 Deduct for hide and bi-products, estimated aver- 14.00 age value, ________ Cost of dressed beef, $59.45 Beef yields 59% of live weight, = 767 pounds per carcass = $7.75 per cwt, cost f. o. b. packing house. To which should be added cost of killing, buying and administration, said by packers to be about 35 cents per cwt. dressed weight." Mr. Kent Our costs now for what we call "feeding steers" are $50 a head, for a good steer purchased in the fall, against a former cost, which ran over a good many years, of $30 a head. Such a steer weighs approximately 1,000 pounds when put into the feed yard. There has been a rise in the price in that item, which is directly chargeable to range conditions of $20 a head, and the bulk of feeding cattle must be supplied by the range. The Chairman. What period does that cover? Mr. Kent. That rise covers a period of ten years. Ten years ago we could buy them for $30 a head; then the price went up to $40, and this year the price is $50. Now, in seeking for the reason for that rise in price, we find this situation: We find that the man who is exceptionally fortunate in having a monopoly of the range, either through leasing in a forest reserve or by having a natural monopoly, where he is not troubled by his neighbors and where he can 11 protect himself against stealing, is the man who is reaping an advantage from the high price: the average man throughout the country is not getting the advantage of it, his condition instead is becoming constantly worse, first, from the depletion and the destruction of the forage, second by the homestead entries which cut up the range, and, third, by the fact that more and more of the time he has the difficulty to contend with of having to get along with more neighbors, because his cattle cannot be segregated. This last matter I will go into a little more in detail. Take our situation in Nevada, where I own cattle. Our cattle are "ripe", that is, have gotten the full benefit of the grass, by about the 15th of August. From that time on there is no increase in weight and no betterment in quality, but rather a shrinkage; we cannot gather those cattle and sell them for beef without going over the range and disturbing our neighbors' cattle; we cannot go out and work the range except in co-operation with out neighbors, who may or may not be willing to gather stock when we wish to gather. No outfit can afford to go out and gather beef without having big pastures to hold them on adequate grass after gathering. Under the present laws it is almost impossible to get pastures so that the cattle, after they have reached their prime, usually shrink heavily before being marketed, and there is a loss in quality, as well as a loss in actual weight, owing to inability to properly handle stock on the public domain. Then where the range is not segregated it is much harder to watch and care for stock; there is much greater danger of stealing. Our losses from leakage or12 petty theft have been, throughout a long period of years, very large. We ran over one period of five years and estimated, according to the ordinary methods of calculation, of branding, sales, purchases, and a high ratio of loss, that we ought to have 6,500 cattle; we then chased over the whole country to gather out cattle together, and found we had 3,500. That is typical of the situation under the present state of uncertainty of the ranges, all of which reacts on the question of cost. More and more men are going out of the business on account of these difficulties, the inability to handle their cattle properly, the inability to know where they are, and the danger of this constant loss from petty theft. Large thefts of cattle are not now so common, as it is rather difficult for a man to get away with a large bunch; but when cattle are not in an enclosure or are widely scattered and mixed up with cattle of other ownerships and drifting all over the country, the further they get from home the more apt they are to be killed and eaten. Mr. Murray. You said that the loss of 3,00 cattle reacted on the cost. Mr. Kent. Certainly; it puts cattle growers out of business, and results in a continual lessening in the number of cattle. Mr. Murray. I wondered whether there would not be the converse of that, and that the fellow who stole the cattle would put them on the market. Mr. Kent. No. These cattle were not put on the market; they were knocked in the head by scattered miners, prospectors and hoboes, and used by them.13 Mr. Murray. They were not stolen to be sold in the market, but simply killed and eaten because they were far from home and could not be watched. Our cattle in Nevada, in connection with out neighbors' cattle, range over such a tremendous area that we cannot begin to watch them. The further they stray from home the more apt they are to be killed. It seems to be the custom in this petty stealing to steal cattle that are the furthest from their headquarters. Mr. Raker. Right in that connection: Have you known of this matter being taken up with the Forestry Department with the request that somebody look after the cattle as well as the ranges? Mr. Kent. The situation is very much better in the forest reserves than anywhere else; there is no question about that. Mr. Raker. What I wanted to call you attention to was this: The cattle organizations in my country have been working for two years upon that question, and I appeared personally before the department and urged such action, but they have consistently refused to give any aid or relief in that matter, although the[m] men said that as they were paying taxes and paying the grazing fees they ought to have some one to look after the cattle as well as the ranges, and what I want to know is, if that is now the condition of the ranges in the reserves, what difference would it be if we created all of this as public land in the reserves? Mr. Kent. You have asked two entirely different questions. The first question is as to whether the forestry14 officials cannot do some policing on the ranges for the benefit of the cattle men, and the second question is as to the balance of the public lands. Now to get at --- Mr. Mondell. (Interposing) Your suggestion is that if a man leased a pasture or a tract of land which he can fence, that in that event any one being within the pasture would, per se, be an intruder, an interloper or suspicious person? Mr. Kent. Or even if a man leased land and did not fence, his cowboys could ride that range and keep his cattle inside that range and push others out. If there are ten owners whose cattle are mixed together, the cattle will range ten times as widely as they would if segregated. Mr. Taylor. That is done under forestry regulations now, is it not? Mr. Kent. Yes, as to the sheep business, but I am speaking now about the cattle business, The sheep can be controlled on those ranges. Mr. Taylor. The cattle men have separate ranges in forestry reserves, [do] have they not? Mr. Kent. Yes, sir; but the cattle are more or less mixed up, though the situation is much better than in the open range. This mixing is inevitable without fences. Speaking now from the standpoint of pure theory, and for the range business, as I know it, I believe the ideal unit of a stockraiser in the arid regions is what one man or two men can handle with few helpers -- something like 1,000 cattle or 5,000 sheep. Those units can be much more economically handled than the bigger herds, because it is almost impossi-15 able to employ responsibility to look after larger herds, and the losses are the things that kill the business. Now, in my opinion, there should be a definite classification of the public domain in the grazing States to hold for a period of ten years, so as to give the stockgrower a chance. There is a great deal of land in the Great Basin country that would be ruined for stock purposes by promiscuous homesteading. For instance, there might be a little valley here or there where there is just enough land to raise a crop of hay for the winter feeding of live stock from the adjacent range; if that little patch of arable land is taken for homestead the value of the range is largely gone. I think we ought to have a more drastic bill than this to protect the stock grower for a certain period, say ten years, after which, if the land is determined to be better adapted for homesteading purposes, it could be used for that purpose. Mr. Taylor. You think there ought to be no possibility of making any entry within the leased territory during the ten-year period? Mr. Kent. There ought to be some land definitely classified as stock-growing land, some land definitely determined as homestead land, and we might have a twilight zone in between. Where a piece of territory is determined to be stockgrowing land for a period of ten years, the stockgrower is given a chance to fence it. In this bill, however, there is nothing, to my mind, that gives the stockgrower complete and adequate protection for investments necessarily large. Now, to pass from cattle to sheep. We calculated that our loss in Nevada is six per cent of sheep per year from16 coyotes. It is well known that herded sheep are much more injurious to the range than sheep in pastures. Under a liberal leasing law, that is, a law which would protect a man in an investment for coyote proof fence, which would cost something like $250 a mile, a great deal of the coyote loss would be eliminated, there would be a great saving in labor costs and the range would be helped. Now, there is no encouragement in this bill for a man to put up a coyote-proof fence, or to go to an large expenditure in this matter of fencing. A man is protected to a certain extent in his corrals, his wells and other improvements, and so on, on a little tract of forty acres, but if he built a great deal of expensive fence, any homesteader or any miner could come in and break into his enclosure, or could hold him up by threatening to do so, and it does not seem to me that the bill provides protection for such large and necessary investment. A large investment and certainty of tenure is necessary to obviate the present situation, when men are rushing to reach the same grass before it is matured, and go over the same ground two or three times in the same season, which leaves only dust where there was abundant feed. If land is determined to have a higher value at the present time for stock- growing purposes, it should be segregated from homestead entry for a period of ten years. It seems to me that before a homesteader should break in a grazing lease that he should be prepared to respect fences, and to fence his own piece of land with the same kind of fence he found there. Then there is another proposition here. Section 3 of the bill says "that all water on public lands [??] subject to 17 the jurisdiction of the United States within such grazing districts may be used for milling, mining, domestic, or irrigation purposes under the laws of the State or Territory wherein such grazing districts are situated, or under the laws of the United States and the rules and regulations thereunder." I do not know, but some of you gentlemen may know, of State or national laws that would prevent the poisoning of such waters by cyanide; I do not know of such laws. Mr. Taylor. We have State laws against the pollution of waters. Mr. Kent. I have an amendment which I will present to the committee: "Provided, that in the event of water being so contaminated by any of the above uses as to be deleterious to livestock, [xxx] then in that event the users shall protect the livestock against the effects of such contaminated water under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe." Mr. Raker. In California we have a very drastic criminal law upon this subject, which prohibits any one from permitting any deleterious matter to even flow in the waters in any way, and that law is being enforced very rigidly. Mr. Kent. My suggestions are that the expense of fencing should be protected, and it should not be possible for an alleged settler to hold up a man who has been at large expense in improving his property, in consideration of his lease, and if that poisoning matter is satisfactorily covered by State laws, well and good. In conclusion, Mr. Burke's statement shows definitely that the time has come when we cannot look to corn feeding to produce our beef. Our cost in the feed yards in Nebraska for a 1,300-pound steer is $110.85. That total is due, first, to the $20 I described as the added cost on the range, to a cost of $37.20 for corn, as against a former cost of $12, and to the higher price of hay. Beef cannot be produced cheaply, packers or no packers, on corn under these conditions. The only answer as to where we are going to get18 our cheaper meats must be found in the preservation and proper use of the range. In the old days we used to produce in Nevada a 1,100-pound steer off of grass, and it was as fine beef as anybody ever tasted. There was a small local market in California, but if that market was not adequate the steers were put on the cars and shipped to Nebraska, and a steer would lose 200 pounds in weight on the way, and also lose in quality, and then have to be fed by the expensive corn process. Mr. Pickett. Did I understand you to say that a steer lost 200 pounds in travelling? Mr. Kent. A grass-fed steer; a corn-fed steer loses much less; but you can get a splendid animal, of splendid flavor, that is fed on grass, but they will shrink heavily on transit. Mr. Pickett. How many days would a steer be in transit? Mr. Kent. About five or six days. Mr. Pickett. And would lose on an average of 40 pounds a day? Mr. Kent. Well, 200 pounds in the aggregate, and all of his quality; he is not the same animal at all. We cannot stand that sort of meat production, any more than we can stand the cost of feeding a steer on corn. A ration for a steer in 28 pounds of corn a day, a pound of cotton-seed meal, and all the hay he will eat. You have to put into two pounds of beef and one pound of pork 28 pounds of corn, and it does not stand to reason that you can do that and produce meat cheaply. The only present possibility of reducing the price of beef and mutton must come from the preservation and devel-19 opment of the range, and producing good grass beef and killing near the range. Mr. Mondell. Or a reduction in the price of corn? Mr. Kent. You cannot have a reduction in the price of corn on account of the values of corn land. When we started in Nebraska we used to buy corn all the way from 9 cents to 25 cents a bushel, and we considered 20 cents our average price. About fifteen or eighteen years ago a man paid for his land about $15 an acre, and he could pay for his land on six or seven good crops of corn at 20 cents a bushel, but a man who buys that land today and pays $80 or $100 an acre for it cannot pay for his land as quickly on 60 cents a bushel for his corn. So if you want to find out where the cost comes in you will find that the increased value of the land is something that cannot be overlooked. Mr. Taylor. Have you figured in any way the workings of a beef trust? Mr. Kent. The beef trust, Mr. Taylor, is a small, a very small, item in this gross cost. Here are our figures, showing our present costs in the production of a 1,300-pound steer to be $110.85; that same steer we produced fifteen years ago for $54. There has been more than a doubling in the cost price to us, and we are not in any monopoly or in a position to protect ourselves; our margin has been very close throughout all of these years. Mr. Taylor. I am not saying you are, but is it not generally understood that the high cost of beef is caused by the workings of the beef trust? Mr. Kent. I think you will find that is a comparative-20 ly small item. There is no question about the packers having taken what they could reach from producer and consumer, but their percentage will be very small when compared to the aggregate increase in costs. Mr. Taylor. Do you not think they get a disproportionate rake-off? Did not Secretary Wilson report that months ago, that there was no reasonable relation between the cost to the producers, that it, what they got out of it, and what they really had to pay for it? Mr. Kent. They claim that their charge is $2.60 per head to cover interest and profits and operating expenses, and they claim their margin is very small. I do not think the difference between what they pay and what they sell the stock for amounts to more than $2.60 at the outside per head, this for standard cattle; on cows and bulls and tail-end stuff their profits are much larger. Mr. Raker. Would you object to a few questions, so I may understand your position, and for my information? Mr. Kent. Go ahead. Mr. Raker. I understand that the bill before the committee, in your view, is not quite drastic enough so as to protect the stock interests, that is, the cattle and sheep interests, in that it does not give the stockmen a sufficient period of time, unhampered by any other handling or use of the lands. Mr. Kent. The bill really applies to land that now is much more valuable for stock growing, on the average, than for anything else. I would not for a moment take the position that any favor should be shown to stockgrowers in lands21 adapted to homestead entries. Mr. Raker. I appreciate your position on that. What I mean is this: For instance, here is a tract of land for which, at the present time, there are no applicants for homestead entry or desert claims, that it is all unoccupied public land, and your position is that the bill should be so worded that if the Department authorizes a lease, say, of ten years for this particular tract of land, no difference what its size might be, 5,000 or 100,000 acres, with a reasonable rent to be paid, the land should remain that way for at least ten years, and that no outsider should be permitted to go within the enclosure and make any filings there as a homesteader, -- is that your position? Mr. Kent. I would not go as far as that. I would make a man pay damages in the event of his going in there; if he went in and destroyed the fence I would make him restore the fence. Mr. Raker. Well, suppose a man has obtained a lease from the Government for 10,000 acres for ten years and suppose a homesteader wanted to go in there an make a homestead, would your idea be that the homesteader should not be permitted to go within that enclosure during the life of the lease? Mr. Kent. In some cases, yes. It all depends on the classification of the lands. There is plenty of land in the Great Basin country where a homesteader would entirely wreck a range; a man could go there and take up a homestead at a critical place on water, and in that event that grazing land would be destroyed for cattle and sheep uses. The22 first thing needed is classification of the lands. Mr. Raker. Then your theory is that when a tract of any size is authorized to be leased, say for ten years --- Mr. Kent. (Interposing:) Definitely declared to be grazing land. Mr. Raker. (Continuing:) That then there should be no further application for any entry of any kind during that period? Mr. Kent. That is my idea, where the land is described as particularly valuable for grazing. Mr. Raker. And that should be in force for ten years? Mr. Kent. Yes. At the end of that time the Government would fall heir to the water development, and the better forage. Mr. Raker. Then the main purpose of the bill would be for the purpose of increasing the range for grazing purposes during that time, that is, for cattle and sheep? Mr. Kent. If the land is most valuable for grazing. If the land is more valuable for grazing than anything else a chance should be given to have the forage renewed and be improved for the production of meat during that period. But where there is a divergence of interest, give the homesteader the benefit. Mr. Raker. Suppose they found a tract nor segregated, but 160 acres here and another 160 acres there, in a tract of 100,000 acres? Would you feel that if a man should get a lease on the whole 100,000 acres that these four tracts, for instance, of 160 acres apiece, at long distances apart -- which were, in the view of the Department, susceptible of23 agricultural use -- should be eliminated, or that they should be included in the whole tract? Mr. Kent. The chances are that in a great big range like the one you are talking about the arable land in it would be needed for the production of hay for the use of the stock. Mr. Raker. And the idea would be to reserve that and lease the whole tract? Mr. Kent. Yes, sir. Mr. Raker. In other words, your idea would be that the Government should arrange the remaining public lands so as to advance the interests of the stock business, for instance, cattle and sheep, as one of the incidents to the public domain? Mr. Kent. Should classify the land and protect the grazing lands from entry for ten years. Mr. Raker. Do you think that would reduce the price of beef? Mr. Kent. It would reduce the cost of production and I do not see why it would not reduce the market price. Mr. Raker. Now, just one other question along that line: If the public domain were thus segregated and leased for the purpose of grazing cattle and sheep, it would not conserve, in any manner, the vegetation, such as trees or other plants, upon the land, would it? Mr. Kent. The trees are pretty well cared for in these forest reserves now. I am talking about unappropriated lands. Mr. Raker. I meant that, too.24 Mr. Kent. There is no question but that any system of leasing would bring a tremendous improvement in forage. One of the best ranges I ever saw was on Steen's Mountain in Oregon. I went there when the mountain was covered with tall grass, and the last time I was there it was nothing but a dust pile, the deer that ordinarily lived on the mountain were down in Henry Miller's hay field in order to get something to eat; that condition was caused by overpasturing with sheep, and it will take four years' rest before it will recover. There is no agricultural land on that mountain at all, but some below in the valleys. Now, under a leasing law every man would be interested in improving his part of such a mountain range. We have had very direct experience along that line in Nevada. We bought the land that controlled all the water, and thereby got the use of certain slopes along the streams. We have used that land for twenty years; nobody can get in there to water their sheep without trespassing on our land, and grazing there is as good as it was twenty years ago. Outside of such holdings the grazing is less than half as good. We drive our sheep up there in the early summer and drive them back in the fall and get them in fine shape, because we have this feed, without contention. The present chaotic system on the open range is destroying the grazing. Every man is anxious to get feed for his cattle or sheep, and the result is that the grass is eaten as soon as it sticks its face out of the ground. With the loss of feed there is continual necessary reduction in numbers of stock. I see no means of preventing this waste and destruction except through a leasing bill, and25 this is a start in the right direction. Mr. Taylor. Have those mountains any forest reserves? Mr. Kent. No; on Steen's Mountain there is hardly a tree. Mr. Fergusson. This bill is of very great importance to New Mexico, which has, I presume, as much unoccupied land as any other State. As I understand your strictures, the bill in its present shape, if put in operation as now drawn, would operate to retard the settlement of farm lands in any section that might be withdrawn from entry? Mr. Kent. I cannot see where this bill will d any harm to homestead entries. Mr. Fergusson. Would not this be a restriction, that if a cattle man or a sheep man enclosed and fenced these tracts, of more or less extent, that he would have to go through the fence, that is, the homestead entryman? Mr. Kent. Yes; and he ought to see that there is a proper gate and keep that gate closed. Mr. Fergusson. I was impressed with your view as to classification. Do you not think that before the bill is enacted the public lands should be very carefully classified? I think there are grazing lands in New Mexico that will never be fit for agricultural purposes, and I am not averse to seeing [cattle] stock men fence [their pieces] large tracts of grazing land, but, as I say, this bill puts it within the power of the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw the whole of the public lands of New Mexico from the operation of the homestead laws, unless [they] the settler cuts through the fence to get in and out. In other words, ought there not to be a strict classification first?26 Mr. Kent. Nobody is going to fence that land unless it is worth fencing: people do not generally fence it for fun, and to get the highest value out of it for the good of the whole country it seems to me the homestead entryman could afford to go through the fence and close the gate. Mr. Fergusson. Do you not think there should be a classification of the lands for farming and grazing, and that the power to withdraw from homestead entry, [without having to go through a fence,] should be limited only to lands that are ascertained to be fit mostly for grazing purposes? Mr. Kent. I do not see any hardship in going through a fence; I have opened many wire gates and have closed an equal number. Mr. Speer. As I understand it, you think they should be allowed to enter under lease? Mr. Kent. I should like to see this bill passed; I do not want to say anything that will prevent the passage of this bill, but it seems to me that under this bill there is not enough protection to the man who goes to the expense of building a fence, and I think the homestead entryman, if permitted inside, ought to be required to use a gate and keep it closed. The Chairman. would not the effect of that be to absolutely prevent the establishment of homesteads within leased areas? Would not that be practically the result of it? How many homesteaders do you imagine would go inside of one of these large ranges that was fenced if they had to incur the additional expense of paying the damages that might accrue to the lessee? It seems to me that would practically deny the27 right of homestead entry within the leased area. Mr. Kent. Under this bill it would be a picnic for the homestead entrymen, because they would have the right to graze their domestic stock on the improved area. I am trying to consider the general welfare, and there is no use in trying to deny that much land in particular parts of the country has its highest value for stock growing. The Chairman. You take the position that within certain areas the paramount use and the most important use is grazing, and that for that reason the occupancy of the land by settlers should be subordinated to grazing purposes? Mr. Kent. Exactly. The Chairman. And that any bill that can be practically operated must recognize that principle? Mr. Kent. Yes, sir. This bill is tremendously important to the present situation, and I want to see it passed. I merely come here to make these suggestions for your consideration, and get amendments which will justify the stock man in spending money to improve the range. Mr. Raker. Is it not a fact that in Nevada, Oregon and California -- and I take those States because of my personal knowledge of the country -- practically every rancher and farmer and small stockman is against leasing out the public domain? Mr. Kent. No. On the contrary, I started out in Nevada as a missionary on that proposition about ten years ago: then I was absolutely all alone but the opinion of the people has entirely changed. People have found more safety in the forest reserves than on the open range. Most men I28 know now favor a lease law. Mr. Taylor. In that connection, do you think it would be highly proper to refer this bill to the various States of the West, the western fifteen States where there is public domain, that is, to the governors of those States, and request them to submit it to the legislatures at the sessions this winter, and ascertain which, if any, of the Western States desire to have this leasing bill applied to them, and if any of them do, then make the bill applicable to those States that desire a leasing of the public lands, and if public sentiment approves of it and the general welfare is in favor of it, why not frankly meet the issue in that way, and pass it up to them; if they recommend it, adopt the law at least as to all the States that recommend it, but if they should come back here and report against it, we would be justified then in withholding it, would we not? Mr. Kent. I think that it is perfectly obvious that we are false to the public interests if we permit the forage on the public domain to be destroyed as it is being destroyed. Mr. Taylor. If we permit the people to have something to say about it? Mr. Kent. I do not think we ought to refer it to the States; I would not do it. Mr. Taylor. Your idea is to inflict this on the Western States whether they want it or not. Mr. Kent. It is not an infliction. Mr. Taylor. The people who come from there think it is. Mr. Kent. There is nothing in this bill that provides such a rental as causes an infliction.29 Mr. Taylor. You are opposed to consulting these carious States? Mr. Kent. Not at all. Mr. Taylor. And are opposed to ascertaining the wishes of the people of those States? Mr. Kent. Not at all; save the feed and consult them afterwards. Mr. Taylor. In the meantime what would happen to the men who represent those States? Mr. Kent. I am one of them. My position is that the ranges are destroyed by inconsiderate use. Mr. Raker. How do the ranchers destroy them? Mr. Kent. Wherea piece of territory is not defined for the use of a single individual, everybody struggles to get that piece of land, and I can use as an example the land we control in Nevada; we do not let a head of stock on our land until the grass has gotten to where it can stand grazing; then we put the stock on there and --- Mr. Raker. (Interposing:) Where do you have your stock in the meantime? Mr. Kent. The cattle are down on the river, eating hay, and traveling up through the foothills; the sheep down on the foothills largely living on browse. It is the best kind of a range and is grass country. Now, if this grass country were open to all we would be competing with other sheep men who tried to get the grass first. Anybody who knows anything about grazing knows that it is inconsiderate grazing that causes all of the damage and difficulty. (The committee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of executive business.)[*7-11-12*] REGISTRY RETURN RECEIPT. Form 1548. Madison Square Branch N. Y. Received from the postmaster registered article, the original number of which appears on the reverse side of this card. Date of delivery July 11, 1912 [* T.R.*] (To be filled in by person signing receipt.) When delivery is made to an } agent of the addressee, both } addresse's name and agent's } signature must appear in this } receipt. } E. H. Hooker. (Signature or name of addressee.) Chas S. Ramsay Jr (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.St. Denis Hotel Broadway and Eleventh Street EUROPEAN PLAN ST. DENIS HOTEL CO., INC. STANWIX HALL ALBANY, N. Y. UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT New York, July 12th 1911 Hon Theodore Roosevelt NY Dear Sir John M Parker New Orleans: is 18 Carat. Bill Flynn of Pittsburgh is a Floater. Hold an inquest over him he Killed you at Chicago. You can Bet your Pajamas that the Schoolmaster from Plimpton with his Silly ideas will hit this Country hard if you allow him to get there Yours truly Edward Alcott [*Edward Alcott*]CHARLES J. BONAPARTE ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE July 12, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, My dear Mr. Roosevelt;- I enclose you a little correspondence which may amuse you. The question of what our Electors should do here is causing a great- deal of perplexity, although it seems to me a pure question of expediency on their part. Unfortunately, our old friend Baldwin so far forgot himself as to undertake to write a letter to the "Sun" on the subject, and our neophyte Gaither has made matters worse by, in a measure, adopting Baldwin's views. I had an interview with Carrington this afternoon, who seems much encouraged by his visit to you, and also by what he has|heard from the minor politicians on our side: I am inclined to think that the latter are, perhaps, somewhat over-sanguine. Believe me, as ever, yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte Dictated.CHARLES J. BONAPARTE ATTORNEY AT LAW 216 ST. PAUL ST. BALTIMORE Hon. T. R. -3. P. S. Since writing you this morning the interview by Gaither, of which I enclose a clipping, has been published in the Evening "News", which is now Mr. Munsey's paper here. I have seen it with much satisfaction, and, as he has now evidently made up his mind to come out in the open, he ought to be put forward in the new movement, for he will undoubtedly give it increased strength in this community. I send you also two clippings from the "News" and Evening "Sun" containing replies which I gave out to Alton B. Parker's talk. 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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We have largest assembly in ohio and reached by electric and steam roads quall directions thousands are eager to hear you. Milton W Brown, Manager. 1223 PJ. Frank Budd Fort Pierce, Ala. 7/12-12- Hon. Theo. Roosevelt. -, Dear Sir -, I am a dummy Democrat, Go after them. You can win hands down-. Truly- J. Frank Budd.[*[7-12-12?]*] COPY DAY LETTER WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY a 245 m 55 Blue Phoenix Ariz., July 12. Hon. Dwight B. Heard. Manhattan Hotel. Received your wire on return this morning. Sentiment stronger than ever for Roosevelt some division as to method of procedure though new party sentiment seems to best suit majority. Am calling meeting Tucson on sixteenth to discuss situation. In addition to support of Roosevelt republican many democrats will be in line when you return. (SIGNED) J. F. CLEVELAND.Enc in Heard 7-13-12WILLIAM W. COCKS WESTBURY LONG ISLAND N. Y. TEL. 66 WESTBURY [[shorthand]] Old Westbury 7-12 1912 Friend Theodore I trust you will pardon my neglect in thanking at this late date for the sugar bowl you so kindly sent our boy. I fully expected to do so personally long before this but— the time slips by & I have not done it It seemed remarkable to me that you should have thought of the little Quaker at Westbury when your attention was so much taken up with other things and we appreciate the gift all the more The jeweller marked the bowl W W Cocks Jr. I suppose you thought we named himWILLIAM W. COCKS WESTBURY LONG ISLAND N. Y. TEL. 66 WESTBURY after his father but we named him Isaac H. after his grandfather which I think is much better. I will have the marking changed to I.H.C. & add [thats?] from T. R. Have been thinking of coming to Oyster Bay for a little talk but you have been so busy that I thought would wait until you had a little more time but—now that you are in for another campaign will come anyway & take my chance with the crowd Your friend William W. CocksR. W. DICKEY BELL PHONE [260-8?] MILDRED F. DICKEY KIEHL MILLINERY COMPANY NOS. 7 AND 9 CANAL STREET WHOLESALE MILLINERY Massillon, Ohio, July 12, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York Dear Sir,—Up to this time it is evident the National Committee does not intend to give a "square deal." You can advise your Mr. Dixon should you be cheated of the nomination, the country will not stand for it and will demand you be a candidate to the finish in [?] We will also place as candidates independent Republicans for Congress where the "gang" ruled I shall announce myself in the 18th Ohio and have my own cash to finance it, should the Chicago convention force matters. Yours very respectfully R W DickeyC. W. TILDEN, PRES C. K. TILDEN, VICE-PRES. GEORGE L. EARLE, SEC'Y H. S. EARLE, TREAS. H. S. EARLE MANUFACTURING Co. FARMERS' EDGE TOOLS 1408-1409 FORD BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN July 12, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, C/o Outlook, New York, N.Y. Sir;- I cannot refrain from writing to you what I see in the near future. When the votes are counted in November, we shall see that Wilson is first, Roosevelt second, and Taft third. The-electoral college will elect no president. The house of representatives will, and with Clark presiding and Underwood leading, Wall street will win, unless something is done. There should be a candidate in every congressional district committed to vote for Mr. Roosevelt for president, if the electoral college cannot elect. Please do not take the time to answer this letter. Sincerely yours, H. S. Earle Ex State Highway Commissioner[*copy*] July 12, 1912. Hon. William Flinn, Pittsburgh, Pa. My dear Senator:- In last Wednesday's press I note an interview with Mr. H. G. Wasson, Chairman of the State Committee, as to the Pennsylvania Electors. As a nominee for Elector at Large, let me make my position clear. I have been a Progressive Republican. I do not mean as a Progressive Republican and citizen to vote for Mr. Taft nor do I desire to be placed in a position so as to vote for him if I am elected by the people of Pennsylvania as Elector at Large. I mean to support the Progressive ticket when named. I want to do what is honorable and right as an Elector, and I do not want any citizen of Pennsylvania to vote for me under a misapprehension as to how I shall vote in the Electorial College. Believing as I do that the nomination in Chicago was begotten in fraud and is therefore void, I have no desire to be placed in the position as an Elector where I might become a party (with the discredited bosses) to what I believe to be a fraudulent nomination. I believe the position of the President in accepting this tainted nomination is both indefencible and discreditable alike to him as to the bosses in the Republican party who brought it to pass. At the formation of the Republican party in 1856 my father left the Whig party and followed Abraham Lincoln. With such an example and history back of me, and having continued with the Republican party in all national matters since my majority, I have no hesitancy in saying I cannot support a body of men who stamp with their approval such a fraudulent act as that perpetrated in Chicago. I believe these men have sold the birthright of the Republican party and that they do not represent the Republicans of Pennsylvania. Nor can I support a candidate for the high and honorable position of President of the United States who is willing to accept a nomination which has even the least taint of fraud connected with it.Hon. W. F. -2- July 12, 1912. The highest office in the gift of our people is not big enough forany man to accept under such conditions and, unless it comes to him clean without semblance of fraud and at the same time direct from the people whose honorable servant he must be, he is not great enough to be President of the United States. I believe most heartily in the good sense and honesty of the American people and to them can we safely leave the rebuke which will be administered in November. Even a Presidency could well be lost if the honor of a great people can be kept unsullied. However, I believe when the great moral issues of social justice and the right of the people to rule are presented to them, as they will be in the coming campaign, we shall know no North or South in the answer which will come from the voters of a great nation, who on these high moral issues so vital to each individual if this nation is to take its rightful place in the family of nations can come together as in the early history of our country intent on giving the real meaning and purpose of Lincoln in making the American Government representative of all and not a part of the people. Yours very truly, [*[H.D.W.ENGLISH]*] P.S. I wrote this letter on the 12th inst. but have held same awaiting some definitive action at your meeting on Saturday last. I find by the press that action is delayed until after the Chicago Convention, and believe that in justice to you I should make clear my position.Enc in English 7-16-12Canton Mass July 12, 1912 [*8.*] My dear Roosevelt,—I have had the good fortune to be asked by the political editor of the Boston Journal to take his place for a month, (July) while he is away on a vacation. I send you two clippings which may interest you. I had a good talk with Arthur Hill, yesterday. From all I can "sense," through talks with "the men on the street" and through a wide reading ofexchange papers; I count on an overwhelming return of votes for you, in November. Please do not answer this; and forgive me for intruding it on you. Ever your loyal friend Bradley Gilman[crosswriting] Hamlin is very enthusiastic about you and demanding in earnest. He is a very ogre, earnest pig headed fellow with a heart much sounder than his mamma. His mamma was by any sensitive pig keeper up our way. But he is in the job and him make good writing , his something magnetic himself and he is absolutely straight. To your own son and by under ground, tia thesis E. P.S This is J Carmen [heading] O'Brian and Hamlin Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Third National Bank Bldg. Buffalo, N.Y Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook Office, New York City. My dear Colonel, I received your letter on the 7th and have been getting busy on the local organization. You were very good to Uncle Mat. Murphy, and his account of how you received him while you were getting your hair cut, is the wonder of the village. He says people say to him, "Is it true that you, Mat. Murphy, shook his hand ?" Well, he is going to be a very valuable man for us and I am letting him have his own way in regard to "Gum Shoe" methods for a few days long, then he will come out into the open and take a very active part in the fight. I am in Buffalo to-day talking things over with Hamlin, who is very active here and has resigned his position as Referee in Bankruptcy in order to take an active part in the fight. He has seen the men you wrote him about and they are some strong names already, in spite of the fact that our "Local upper class" is against us (as yet). The editor of the "Springwater Enterprise" has established communication with us and we now have an organ in Livingston County with a circulation of certainly three hundred. It was kind of you to have read my little book and even kinder to say that you liked it. I appreciate your words of praise very much indeed. I have hopes that Austin will come out for us before long. You know him as well that it is unnecessary for me to say that it is wiser than W. A. W. discover the situation himself and the country's need for him. God bless you and good luck. Keep cool and don't over do. Mrs. T. R. could say no more in the way of advice what is in my heart. [?????] Faithfully yours, [?????]For Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Kindness of Miss E. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I.C O P Y THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY [*[7-12-12?]*] 18 NY Dick 54 Bisbee, Ariz. July 12. Dwight B. Heard, % Col. Roosevelt. Wired Fred Cleveland last night asking him to call meeting at Tucson on sixteenth, having every county represented to discuss and decide whether fight will be made within Republican Party or new party. Enthusiastic meeting night before last, sentiment largely for new party. Many Democrats indicate their desire to join. Regards to the Colonel. JNO. C. GREENWAY.Enc in Heard 7-13-12[*[7-12-12]*] THEODORE ROOSEVELT Ted a da Rose (Italio Americana) Ted a da Rose de Convench man He look in the ring like a that, He say we lick a de bunch we can And in went a de hat. Ted a da Rose de man wid a heart He say make your choice of Taft or me, Like a that and gets de majart Like a that in de primarie. Ted a da Rose he preach de serm Like a that forget de steal, Like a that in de third term And de Nash Commit it slip up on a peel. Ted a da Rose de man on de square He grieve at de Nash Committees fall, The G.O.P.was busted,bust beyond repair He list and came to the Progressive call. Ted a da Rose he make de Hist Like Georgie Wash and Abe da Link, He'l be the Pres I'l bet a fist Like a that's what I think. Dedicated to the Progressive Motion in general, and the Yonkers Roosevelt Movement in particular, by Lawrence Griffith Yonkers, N.Y. July 12, 1912.Holderness For enc see ca 7-12-12 7-12-12July the 12th 1912 To Mr Theodore Roosevelt The Out Look @ 287 Fourth Avenue New York Dear Mr Roosevelt Enclosed are two clippings of letters from the Ohio State Journal they will Explain themselves if you Send coppy of letter to each voter in the United States I think you will be the next President of the United States and also keep that old Hound Dawgd going day and night you will have Taft and Willson Both in a hole By the Next of the eighth of November 1912. Wishing you God Speed I am yours Truly WJ ________ 1598 Parsons Ave. Columbus OCHICAGO TELEPHONE 105 INTER-STATE TELEPHONE 105 LEE MIGHELL HARVEY GUNSUL OLNEY ALLEN LAW OFFICES MIGHELL, GUNSUL & ALLEN SECOND FLOOR COULTER BLOCK AURORA, ILLINOIS July 12th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, New York. Dear Sir:– These candidates for office out here who are unwilling to leave the old tickets are not progressives. They are job hunters. This applies to our Gas Trust Congressman who started Lorimer for the Senate, as well as our selfish Governor. Yours for a new party, LM/GR. Lee MighellForm [??] B DAY 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. 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THIS TELEGRAM COMES FROM OUR OFFICE REFERRING TO PROGRESSIVE RALLY IN KANSASCITY THURSDAY NIGHT "THE FIRST PROGRESSIVE PARTY MEETING HERE TONIGHT WAS A CORKING SUCCESS THE HALL WHICH ACCOMMODATED FOUR HUNDRED WAS PACKED WITH SIX HUNDRED AND NEARLY A THOUSAND WHO COULD NOT GET IN HELD OVERFLOW MEETING ONLY VOLUNTARY SPEAKERS AND THEY WERE PEOPLE PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN BUT ALL SPOKE EFFECTIVELY AND WITH GREAT EARNESTNESS FAMILIAR FACES OF PROMINENT CITIZENS WERE MISSING THERE WAS REAL ZIP TO IT AND WE ARE DELIGHTED REPORTS FROM MEN OUT IN THE STATE CONTINUE TO BE ROSY". W. R. NELSON . . . . . . 217 PM [*16.*] [[shorthand]] Manila, July 12, 1912. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: The sentiment here, at this writing, and prior to this, has been the same as it always has been, and that is, that we want you for President of the United States. Naturally, when you were not nominated at Chicago on the Republican ticket, the feeling here has been that you have been defrauded. Our latest news, (to day), reported the defection in Iowa, the resentment shown there as to the fraud, and the feeling is that the Iowa fellows are right. I enclose just one clipping of a short item I wrote for the Cablenews, and they headed it "He comes up smiling," we propose in November not only to come up smiling, but laughing right out in meeting. There is just one feeling about this matter. We want you for President, if that is impossible, we want Wilson, but for Heaven's sake never let it be so mismanaged that Taft will be President again. The feeling is so bitter here, that, ( I am frank), you may be blamed for his election. Very sincerily yours, [*Dr.*] Louis Ottofy[*Jersey City 2030*] GEORGE L. RECORD COUNSELLOR AT LAW COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING JERSEY CITY, N. J. [[shorthand]] [*1.*] July, 12, 1912. My Dear Colonel: I see by the papers that you are engaged in the preparation of a platform to be offered at the Chicago convention. This is a subject in which I am greatly interested, and to which I have devoted ernest study for many years. I would greatly appreciate it if you would afford me an oppertunity at your convenience to go over with you the subject of the platform before it is finally shaped up. I am also anxious to discuss the best way to shape up the New Jersey fight. I go to Maine to-night but would be glad to return at any time next week that would best suit your convenience. I expect to be here Friday, at any event. Respectfully, George L. Record Hon Theodore Roosevelt -[*?*] PINE BROOK FARM BARRE, MASS. [*Riis*] July 12 1912 [*[1912]*] My dear Mr Howland Have you read in the N Y Times of July 11 on the third page, under the heading "Candidates Scored by Prohibitionists" the statement of the Temp. Chairman of the National Convention of those detestable cranks: "We already have two whiskey parties and do not need another. From the standpoint of the prohibitionist, by his record, public utterances and confessed personal habits he is the least desirable of them all." This of Theodore Roosevelt. Is this sufficiently public to base action upon? Will anyone take notice of it?on behalf of our candidate? I am asking so as to not mix things, if such action is afoot. If no one will, I shall ask that T. C. myself, and I wish I could cowhide the miserable slanderer. Always yours Jacob A Riis[*7.*] Washington. D. C. July 12, '12. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Sir: I am delighted to see from the news papers that you are to tour the West for the purpose of making secure the electors that the poeple say you are entitled to. Enclosed, find $1. It will pay your fare for some miles of travel. No answer is necessary. Wishing you well, I remain, Yours Truly, Pastor D. F. Rivers. #408 [?You?] St. N. W.C H Powers [M. LISSNER] ATTORNEY AT LAW LISSNER BUILDING,LOS ANGELES [*6.*] Los Angeles, July 12, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I enclose you tentative draft of the platform for the new party. In working it out I have had the advantage of criticism from Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, William Dudley Foulke, Clinton Rogers Woodruff and others who are here attending a meeting of the National Municipal League, as well as Mr. Lissner and one or two others here in Los Angeles. The draft is absurdly inadequate as it is, but it is the best I have been able to do, with my engagements, within the time limit. I have sent copies to Pinchot and Lewis, both of whom are working on other drafts, which you have probably already seen by this time Mr. E. T. Earl is extremely anxious to get in the minimum wage in some form and suggests that there might be some way of penalizing protected manufacturers who have absorbed all the protection [and] so that none of it gets to their laborers. I confess I cannot see how the thing could be worked out either legislatively, constitutionally or economically, but it would certainly be a fine thing both for its political effect now and for its great benefit to the people when in operation if it were possible. Ihave sent Pinchot Earl's tentative draft of the tariff plank on the subject. Possibly you could find someone who could work out a possible scheme if you think it is desirable. Yours very truly, Chester A. RoweOFFICE OF J. C. SCOTT, LAWYER 401 & 403 CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS July 12, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, No. 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am in receipt of your letter of the 8th inst. denying the slander published against you in the Chicago paper, concerning which I wrote you in a previous letter. I never for a moment thought that you made any such statement, but I wanted to be in a position to deny the charge down here in this country, where, as you know, we are at such a great disadvantage, or rather have been, in the past. My great interest in this campaign prompts me to bother you so much with letters, and the purpose of this one is to say to you that I sincerely believe that if we can get your name before the people in this State, there will be more votes polled for you here than have ever been polled before for any other than a Democratic candidate for President in the history of this country. I hope that all is being done that can be done to secure this much desired end; and that you will be before the people in proper shape. They want you. I have heard this ever since I left Chicago, and the number of Democrats who have come out for you in this section of the country is simply remarkable. Do not take this as an expression of an enthusiastic admirer; but put it down as a plain fact. I sincerely hope and pray thatOFFICE OF J. C. SCOTT, LAWYER 401 & 403 CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS -2- things will take such shape that the people will get an opportunity to give you that support which they sincerely wish to give you and will give you when the opportunity offers. Yours truly, Jno. C. Scott JCS/c.Phone 5197 Madison Square Producers' and Consumers' National League, Inc. 1170 Broadway Suite 303-304 New York, July 12th, 1912. [*Kermit RC*] [*Van Valkenburg electors*] OBJECTS 1. To procure the enactment of legislation tending to do away with the arbitrary control of the necessities of life. 2. To bring about a closer business relationship between the farmer and the consumer. 3. To secure through the dominant political parties such legislation as will bring back to the farmer fair returns on his products, thus checking the usurers of the bread basket. Dr. Isidor Singer, 134 W. 29th St., City. My dear Doctor:- Enclosed please find a copy of circular letter which we distributed at the Republican and Democratic National Convention. Both of the parties have inserted a special plank on the high cost of living, but they are very far from the real thing. I would like to have you consider a proposition of joining me in this movement. I am about to organize an advisory committee. Would you consent to act as chairman of such a Committee? I want to assure you that this is a clean and spontaneous movement, and is in no way, nor will it be if I can help it, a second fiddle to either of the political parties. I have devoted almost three years to the study of this problem with the intention of forcing the political parties to take it up as an issue of the day. However, it appears to me that neither of the parties care to touch or deal with the root of the evil. The only person who I see is hitting the "bulls eye" on that question is Teddy Roosevelt, but by the way, belittled that issue two years ago in the State Campaign, when I conducted this issue on behalf of the Democratic State Ticket. Again I want to ensure you that your cooperation is earnestly solicited. Hoping to hear from you at the earliest possible date, I am, Cordially yours, Mayer Shoenfeld# I7 Battery Place, N. Y., July I2th. I9I2. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Care of "The Outlook " New York City, Dear Mr. Roosevelt; After Mr. Taft declined to re-appoint me to the office of Collector of Customs, at Newport News, Va., I found it necessary to seek employment. I drifted to this City, and am now with The Texas ( Oil ) Co. at above number. I expect to enroll and vote from # 562 Park Place, Brooklyn, near the corner of Classon Ave. I want to help you in any way I can. If you can spare the time , I would like to call on you, and receive your " Orders " in person. If not convenient, please let me know how and where I can best aid you. Hoping that you will sleep in the "White House " on the night of March 4th., next, I remain, Very sincerely yours, F. B. StuartCURTIS HOTEL, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS. New Orleans, La., 7-12-12. Hon. Pearl Wight, c/o The Curtis, Lenox, Mass. Dear Sir: - Yesterday forenoon General Behan and myself had quite a lengthy conference with Mr. John M. Parker, and he had definitely decided that it would be better for him to work quietly and yet forcefully, rather than work openly with an accompaniment of newspaper talk. He promised us that he would supply names of quite a number of Democrats in the country who had written him regarding the Progressive Movement. Yesterday afternoon a conference was held in your office with Behan, Briant, Dr. Brown, Luck and myself present. Mr. Suthon and Mr. Waguespack were not in town, and Mr. Louis Burns was busy in court, hence these gentlemen could not be present. The enclosed letters were approved of by the Conference Committee, and I was directed to get them out to the Roosevelt people, both in the City of New Orleans and in the country as fast as I could, and to send them to as many of the names suggested by Mr. John M. Parker as he should furnish me. These enclosed letters speak for themselves and I trust you will approve their tenor. This morning I had a Night Letter from Senator Jos. M. Dixon reading as follows, to-wit: -CURTIS HOTEL, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS. #2 "Please wire me Night Letter what is doing to insure full delegation from Louisiana to Chicago National Progressive Convention August fifth. It is of first improtance to have Louisiana fully represented there." To this night letter I will reply by Night Letter to-night, as follows, to wit: - "Replying to your night letter. Conference Roosevelt Committee yesterday decided to call Progressive Convention at New Orleans on August second to select full delegation to Chicago. John M. Parker to go as delegate to Chicago and to quietly help movement. Have started to work on New Orleans Convention," This puts me in the position of being able to start to work on something, and, of course, you can realize that the work is going to devolve entirely on me but I am better fixed with material in the shape of known admirers of Col Roosevelt throughout the Parishes, therefore, the work will be easier done and not so expensive at it was. My first plan will be to send the enclosed circular letters to all the Delegates and Alternates who were elected to the State and District Conventions as Roosevelt people. In the City, I will put the matter in the hands of the Chairman of the Ward organizations. You can rest assured that I shall do all possible towards having a successful Convention in the City of New Orleans.CURTIS HOTEL LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS. #3. Trusting that Mrs. Wight has entirely recovered her health and with kindly remembrances to her, I am Yours very truly, E. J. ThilborgerEnc in Hight 7-19-12[*[7-12-12?]*] Tuscon, Arisona. July 12. Hon, Dwight B. Heard, Manhattan Hotel, N. Y. C. Please assure Col. Roosevelt that Progressive movement is gaining ground here. This state of affairs is partly due to the continued opposition of our miniature steam rollerthe Court House gang. Please use every effort to persuade Colonel Roosevelt to visit us during the campaign. SIGNED WALTER WAKEFIELD. Phoenix, ARIZ. July 12 Hon. Dwight B. Heard, Manhattan Hotel, New York. Roosevelt sentiment strong. Finds none withdrawing support. Incessant demand to know what is doing so as to get behind movement. Wilson favorable support not strong. Very quiet. Signed. C. P. Munger, Sec'y Roosevelt Club.Enc in Heard 7-13-12Form 1864 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. 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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 19 NY DI CK 126 Blue Topeka Kans Jly 12 [*[12*]] [*x*] Theo Roosevelt, Kansas Campaign for Roosevelt electors in the august Primaries begins to day I am in charge of fight, I beg you most earnestly to come and help us [xxx] I want [?] Garfield Johnson and Pinchot Kansas is the only State in the Union where we got prelimary offical primary republican voter on the result of the Chicago convention we can try the case out here Publicly you need no private car I will take care of you after you strike the State line see you get plenty of sleep two meeting a day and all the rest and out door execise you need but you must come we [simply?] cannot take "no" Please wire and wire quickly at emporia where I an I reach Heney by wire W.A. WhiteForm 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. 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 ELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER ================================================== RECEIVED AT 10 NY ME DI CK 10 Xu New York July 12-12 Col Theo Roosevelt, Will arrive your house one o'clock by automobile with Redding. Timothy L WoodruffTIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF 223 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK July 12, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel :- Permit me to suggest that you write to your old friend and appointee, John Williams, Commissioner of Labor of New York State at Albany, asking him for your record on labor matters, which the Commissioner has brought right down to date. With best wishes, believe me, yours very sincerely, Timothy L. Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff was obliged to leave the office before signing the above letter dictated by himEnc in Holderness ca 7-12-12 7-12-12RIGHTS OF THE CITIZEN. Editor Ohio State Journal: i read so much about Mr. Roosevelt being a charletan and a Robespiere and everything except a true American gentleman that I wuld like to draw your attention to the attitude of the two candidates of the Republican con- vention at Chicago. We all know and even our school children know, that there is one little resolution in the declaration of independence which says that all men have inalienable rights, meaning American citizens especially. There are six articles in the defini- tion. The first is individual interest, meaning that we have an interest in our own affairs, also an interest in the affairs of the government. Second, we have an individual effort. Third, we have individual liberty. Fourth, we have individual right to private property. Fifth, we have individual right to pursue happiness. Sixth, we have individual right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. now, I want to ask any fair and ra- tional man if William H. Taft or Theo- dore Roosevelt was the greatest Amer- ican at Chicago? Was not the attitude of mr. Taft or his delegates moer to destroy than to preserve or protect or defend the inalienable rights of American citizens? Did not the Chi- cago convention, or the national Re- publican committee, practically dis- franchise all the voters that voted at the primary elections in Ohio and California and elsewhere? Now isn't it about time for us Americans to sit up and take notice of what is becom- ing of our inalienable rights as Ameri- can citizens, and isn't it about time for some great man like Theodore roose- velt to rise up and defend us Ameri- cans and our inalienable rights as American citizens, and isn't it about time for us Americans to stand up and declare, in the language of Patrick henry of old, "Live or die, sink or swim, I am for liberty"? And, if those combines of capital and worshipers of the best and the god of mammon, think that Americanism is dead, just] let them wait till the 8th of November and find out. AN AMERICAN. Columbus, July 6. RIGHTS OF THE CITIZEN. Editor Ohio State Journal: I read so much about Mr. Roosevelt being a charletan and a Robespiere and everything except a true American gentleman that I would like to draw your attention to the attitude of the two candidates of the Republican convention at Chicago. We all know and even our school children know, that there is one little resolution in the declaration of independence which says that all men have inalienable rights, meaning American citizens especially. There are six articles in the definition. The first is individual interest, meaning that we have an interest in our own affairs, also an interest in the affairs of the government. Second, we have an individual effort. Third, we have individual liberty. Fourth, we have individual right to private property. Fifth, we have individual right to pursue happiness. Sixth, we have individual right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. Now, I want to ask any fair and rational man if William H. Taft or Theodore Roosevelt was the greatest American at Chicago? Was not the attitude of Mr. Taft or his delegates more to destroy than to preserve or protect or defend the inalienable rights of American citizens? Did not the Chicago convention, or the national Republican committee, practically disfranchise all the voters that voted at the primary elections in Ohio and California and elsewhere? Now isn't it about time for us Americans to sit up and take notice of what is becoming of our inalienable rights as American citizens, and isn't it about time for some great man like Theodore Roosevelt to rise up and defend us Americans and our inalienable rights as American citizens, and isn't it about time for us Americans to stand up and declare, in the language of Patrick Henry of old, "Live or die, sink or swim, I am for liberty"? And, if those combines of capital and worshipers of the beast and the god of mammon, think that Americanism is dead, just let them wait till the 8th of November and find out. AN AMERICAN. Columbus, July 6. RIGHTS OF THE CITIZEN. Editor Ohio State Journal: I read so much about Mr. Roosevelt being a charletan and a Robespiere and everything except a true American gentleman that I would like to draw your attention to the attitude of the two candidates of the Republican convention at Chicago. We all know and even our school children know, that there is one little resolution in the declaration of independence which says that all men have inalienable rights, meaning American citizens especially. There are six articles in the definition. The first is individual interest, meaning that we have an interest in our own affairs, also an interest in the affairs of the government. Second, we have an individual effort. Third, we have individual liberty. Fourth, we have individual right to private property. Fifth, we have individual right to pursue happiness. Sixth, we have individual right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. Now, I want to ask any fair and rational man if William H. Taft or Theodore Roosevelt was the greatest American at Chicago? Was not the attitude of Mr. Taft or his delegates more to destroy than to preserve or protect or defend the inalienable rights of American citizens? Did not the Chicago convention, or the national Republican committee, practically disfranchise all the voters that voted at the primary elections in Ohio and California and elsewhere? Now isn't it about time for us Americans to sit up and take notice of what is becoming of our inalienable rights as American citizens, and isn't it about time for some great man like Theodore Roosevelt to rise up and defend us Americans and our inalienable rights as American citizens, and isn't it about time for us Americans to stand up and declare, in the language of Patrick Henry of old, "Live or die, sink or swim, I am for liberty"? And, if those combines of capital and worshipers of the beast and the god of mammon, think that Americanism is dead, just let them wait till the 8th of November and find out. AN AMERICAN. Columbus, July 6.State of Nebraska EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lincoln, Nebr., July 13, 1912. [*5.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- Your very kind letter received. I made a mistake, however, in the date. The occasion set for the dedication of the Lincoln monument is September 2nd, instead of the 8th. September 2nd is Labor Day. It is also the beginning of the Nebraska state fair, on which occasion there will be a vast concourse of people here. Will it be possible for you to arrange to be here on Labor Day? It will be an historical event and the greatest opportunity that a man could possibly want in getting his views before all of the people of the entire state at this particular crisis. Of course, your views are well known, but this is rather a memorable occasion to make an address suitable to the situation arising since the Chicago convention. I do not mean, of course, that you should make a partisan speech. But if you cannot come on the 2nd of September, we can arrange any other date during the entire month that will suit you. I have given out to the papers that you will deliver the address whenever the dedication occurs. Everything is coming along in excellent shape. I have beenSTATE OF NEBRASKA EXECUTIVE OFFICE through the entire northwestern portion of Nebraska by special train, making a speaking trip of three days through the irrigation section that is now thickly settled, making an inspection of the country and of the various problems that are presented to the state and this afforded me an opportunity to meet all of the people practically of the entire northwestern section of Nebraska and I believe that I am conservative in saying that ninety men out of every hundred are for you and want to see you nominated on the progressive party ticket. We are going to have a desperate fight here at our state convention. The Taft politicians are very busy and as it is the old caucus system, they are endeavoring to control the state convention and endorse Taft and the national platform. We are making a fight, of course, to prevent this and to pass a resolution leaving all republicans from being considered as regular who may decide not to support President Taft because his nomination was tainted with fraud. I think we shall win. Hope I may get an answer soon. Cordially yours, Chester H. Aldrich [*ALDRICH*]Mr. T. Roosevelt, New York City. Chicago, Ill., July 13, 1912. My Dear Sir: In the space of a month and a half I wrote you twice but am sorry to say I have received no reply in return. In those letters I manifested you my critical conditions of that time as I was out of work. But may be you had no time to devote in the consideration of my poor situation. Several months ago, I received a letter from you stating you would do your best to trace out the little parcel I had sent you containing a rough diamond. And, when found, you would have it sent back to me, as you have made the golden rules of "never accepting any gifts from private persons whatever.” In view of this fact, I wrote you again, saying, I would appreciate very much the kindness if the little parcel were sent back to me, so that on account of my critical conditions I could sell it. I know you have been busy with your political campaign, but will you please attend to it now? I do not dare to ask you for any recommendation to some watch factories so that I may continue to excise my trade as watchmaker. For I know you might take it for an offense as you do not know me personally. But had I the pleasure to meet you once, then I am sure you would have of me a different opinion [of me]. A far better conception of what you may imagine now. - I have a noble heart. Always kind and humble with all, specially with those who in the social sphere occupy eminent places on account of their elevated culture and genius. With keen senses of high estimation, believe me, Yours Respectfully Frank Alfi 466 N. Halsted St.[*ACK 7-24-12*] THE CLEVELAND LEADER ESTABLISHED 1848 [*29.*] Cleveland Sixth City July 13, 1912. Frank Harper, Care "The Outlook." 287 Fourth avenue, New York. My Dear Mr. Harper: I have in confidence a short letter from Colonel Roosevelt to Thomas W. Latham of Monroeville, O., a presidential elector who has announced that he will vote for the colonel if he is elected. Latham has given me the letter to publish if I can get it released for publication from your office. Latham himself is having to stand a lot of abuse from Taft men and newspapers in his district and I think that it would be well to print this letter to counteract that, as far as is possible. Mr. Garfield suggested I write you. Will you let me know whether you can give me this release? If you can, any other information you can give me for publication on Colonel Roosevelt's attitude toward presidential electors, chosen on the supposition they were Taft men but who have declared for Colonel Roosevelt, will be excellent news matter in Northern Ohio just now. Yours truly Frederick Bagley - Political reporter.THE COURIER-NEWS GUARANTEES THE LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN NORTH DAKOTA THE COURIER PUBLISHING CO. PUBLISHERS OF THE COURIER NEWS MORNING AND SUNDAY THE ONLY 7 DAY PAPER IN NORTH DAKOTA THE EVENING TELEGRAM EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY FARGO'S LEADING HOME NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING DEPT. A. M. BAKER, MGR. FARGO, N. D. July 13, 1912. [*see former letter*] Col. Theo. Roosevelt, c/o Outlook, New York City. Dear Col. Roosevelt:- I am extremely gratified with the cordial tone of your note of July 8th. While waiting to hear from you I have gone right ahead in co-operation with other progressives here in our work of quietly lining up the men who can be most helpful when we get ready to announce complete plans, and it is a great deal of pleasure to tell you that a number of our better progressives who were forced into opposition to you last March now stand ready to back you to the limit by their vote and their influence. This should be gratifying to you as it is a personal tribute to their belief in your character and your leadership, and I am mighty glad to send you the cheering news that in the minds of many whose opinion is of value you were never stronger than today. Just give us a good organization backed up by a good plan of campaign, and we will show you that North Dakota is really and truly a Roosevelt state. With kindest regards and best wishes, I am, Very faithfully yours, A M Baker Advertising Manager. AMB/ALS[7-13-12] The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Advertising Department Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am leaving tomorrow for Chicago and will stop at the Congress Hotel there until after the Convention. I am going with the hope that I may get into the thick of the fight and contribute my small mite. Please therefore consider that I shall be personally at your service - prayThe Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Advertising Department Command me in whatever way you may see fit. Respectfully yours, Travers D. Carman June thirteenth.Edward C. Carrington Edward C. Carrington, Jr. Campbell Carrington LONG DISTANCE PHONE C&P.ST.PAUL 1008. CABLE ADDRESS "MEDCAM." 'WESTERN UNION CODE" Carrington & Carrington, Attorneys & Counselors at Law. Md. Telephone Bldg. Baltimore, Md. E. C. C. July 13th, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: [*5*] [*6*] [*7*] I understand that Mr. Stevenson A. Williams, of Bel Air, Hartford County, Md., is with us. You, of course, know him. He was a candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket, and is a man of the highest type and standing - facts with which you are already familiar. It occurs to me that a line from you will have the desired effect of having him join our camp. Mr. Bonaparte suggests that we can get Mr. Williams "if we can find the right person to approach him". A line from you will meet Mr. Bonaparte's views. Very sincerely yours, E. C. Carrington, Jr. BH Enclosure.Edward C Carrington Edward C Carrington Jr. Campbell Carrington LONG DISTANCE PHONE C & P ST. PAUL 1005 CABLE ADDRESS "NEDCAM" "WESTERN UNION CODE" Carrington & Carrington Attorneys & Counselors at Law Md. Telephone Bldg. Baltimore, Md. July 13, 1912 E. C. C. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I enclose you a letter from Mr. Wm. F. Cochran, and a carbon copy of my reply thereto. Mr. Cochran has been and would be of great service to your cause in Maryland. I trust you will take occasion to drop him a few lines on the subject matter of his letter. Very sincerely yours, BH E.C. Harrington Jr. Enclosures.For 2 enc see Cochran 7-6-12 + Carrington 7-13-12July 13, 1912. E. C. C. William F. Cochran, Esq., Bar Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. Cochran: Your letter of the 6th inst. duly received. I appreciate the thought that you are giving Colonel Roosevelt’s candidacy, as I have, all the underlying motives that have actuated you in [the] your political activities in our state. If Governor Wilson is elected, it must be by means of the bosses in the several states that it is necessary for him to carry in order to win the election. Colonel Roosevelt, having won his fight, will become President without any of the embarrassments which would naturally flow from boss pro-election influences. He would become President under circumstances and conditions that never obtained in connection with the candidacy of any President of the United States. His cabinet could be made up of men in sympathy with his political views, and he will be able to give practical effect to all theCOPY July 13th, 1912. William F. Cochran, Esq.: -2- propositions that he has so earnestly advocated on the stump. I trust you will be with us in the fight we are just inaugurating in Maryland in his behalf. I have taken the liberty of sending your letter direct to Colonel Roosevelt in the hope that he may communicate directly with you as we would miss your cooperation very much in Maryland, for you know we have a stiff fight before us. With kindest personal regards, Yours very truly, (Signed) Edward C. Carrington, Jr. BHEnc in Carrington 7-13-12BELLA VISTA July 13th, 1912. My dear Col. Roosevelt, While at home packing I learn by phone of your very kind invitation to lunch on Wednesday with Mr. Gaither. I regret to say I made many arrangements as to hotel accommodations , railroad reservations &c. &c. with special reference to Mrs. Bonaparte's needs on our journey to St. Andrews, that I find it quite impracticable to be present myself. I sincerely hope Gaither can be:—while I should like extremely to talk over matters with you, it is not, after all, a matter of much moment to the good cause that you should see me. While I think it is very desirablea half hour's talk with you would make him look at both matters quite differently. I am awfully sorry I cannot be with you on Wednesday, and remain, as ever. Yours most truly, Charles J. Bonaparte. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., N. Y. that you should see him. He will be a source of very appreciable strength to us here and may aid us in securing the adhesion of others, but, as I told you in my first letter about him, he needs rather delicate handling and may go off at a tangent from some script with but little warning. He has two ideas in his head just now which it would be well to straighten out and which a little talk from you would, I believe, straighten out. One is as to the duty of the Electors; the other as to the necessity of cutting loose from all things Republican “coûte que coûte". On the first point, he does not seem to quite comprehend the unprecedent character of the Chicago "steal" and its consequences: on the second, he is, I think, a little of a doctrinaire. I believe E. G. Crannell, President. H. S. Gilbert, Vice President. G. S. Vroman, Treasurer. F. Keenholts, Secretary. Albany County Agricultural Society and Exposition. 20th Annual Fair, Aug. 20-23, 1912. ALTAMONT, N. Y., July 13th, 1912 [*D.*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York City My Dear Colonel In April we extended to you an invitation to come up to Altamont (only a short trip from New York City) and give us a talk on the Big day of the Albany County Fair on August 22nd This portion of Albany County which is of course is the rural section are Progressives and from my personal observation are Roosevelt Progressives encluding myself And the popular demand is to get Mr Roosevelt here and he will certainly not have a better chance or a bigger crowd to speak too in Albany County than on the above date. We have the Grand Stand and platform unexcelled by any Fair Association in the stateE. G. Crannell, President. H. S. Gilbert, Vice President. G. S. Vroman, Treasurer. F. Keenholts, Secretary. Albany County Agricultural Society and Exposition. 20th Annual Fair, Aug. 20-23, 1912. ALTAMONT, N. Y., outside the State Fair whereby he can be heard by any larger crowd than here. And I will guarantee 30000 people here if he can give us assurances he will come and give us time to advertise it. If you wish we will come to New York and make a personal invitation to him if you will set the date and time. Awaiting your reply in the matter we are Sincerely yours E G Crannell Pres.SAMUEL L. MASON Pres. and Gen. Mgr. DR. U. G. MASON Medical Examiner A. V. HARMON Secretary The Peoples Mutual Aid Association INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ALABAMA HEADQUARTERS AT BIRMINGHAM, ALA. G. L. PAYNE, SUPT. BRANCH OFFICE Brewton, Alabama 7/13/12 Mr. Theodore. Roosevelt. New. York. dear. sire. i see that you are running for nx president and agin i see you are slated to be in B.ham. also Montgomery. also. Mobele I will ask you if you will. stop in Brewton. and give this town. a few minutes talk i am a member of the fraction. andalso of the exzeted. comitys of that [fr] fraction. richard. shaw. is a member of beat 4 Mr. John L. Cormical. chirmon. so if you cant stop in brewton. will you please send me one of your camphine buttons i am a life time republican voted for nine presidents. from Pres Hase down to Pres Taff. Respectfully. Walker Dacus[*2.*] GERRARD 4343. [[shorthand]] Private SAVOY HOTEL LONDON. July 13th 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York. My Dear Colonel:- We have the watched the proceedings at Chicago with considerable interest. Your many friends regret the outcome and are hoping to see you at the head of the party soon to be made known. We all believe in you and feel the that you, as a standard bearer of the new party will lead it to certain victory. I have a nephew in Prescott, Arizona, who is making a brilliant record as an attorney. He is a graduate of Stanford and took the prizes in the yearly oratorical contests of the Pacfic States, for several years. He is splendid in debate and can keep an audience highly interested. I would appreciate it if you will tell me if he can call upon you and discuss the situation. He is in the office as a partner of an Ex-U.S. Judge. Once you hear this young man speak or debate, I think you will agree with me that his services would prove extremely useful, at any place and any time. Hoping to hear from you by return mail and with assurances of my high esteem, Yours sincerely, James Deitrick 1, London Wall Buildings, London E.C. Cable Address: Pridstream London.1245 E Street NE Washington DC–7–13–12 Frank Harper Sec. to. Theoder Roosevelt Dear Sir Enclosed please find a. copy. of. my friend C. D. Kellogg to Senator Dixon now President Taft is a failure also Govenor Willson is a complete failure. According to the Record of the last New Jersey legislature Republican that Elected a Republican senator and you and the Col will find that Gen Dan Sickles is wright as to candidate Willson nomination I did not write this letter and endorsement for an answer to make your Hard work more but to say we have a hard fight ahead but by a long pull and a strong pull altogether our candidate will surely succeed as he has a successful back Record in the Chair of 88nd and the 2 failures will be like 2 punch baggs to T. R. when he Goes before our people which I hope is soon. Very Respectfully John DwyerFor 2 encs see 7-8-12 7-13-12THE ADDISON WOODWARD AND CHARLOTTE AVENUES DETROIT July 13/1912 Dear Colonel: Michigan National Guard continues its steady plodding for improvement in Rifle Practice— Vet's Letter which runs in the Detroit News aids in keeping the people posted— Vet is Major M. J. Phillips of Owosso the Inspector of Rifle Practice; M. N. G., a first-class news paper man— Yours truly, Edward D. Ellis— 54 Bates St., Detroit, Mich.[*Folger*] [*7-13-12*] Let us now set aside every weight and every sin that doth so easily beset us and run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Mr Roosevelt, the Author and Finisher of our faith. The state and the church should be kept forever separate, but the Bible and Politics should join to bring about permanent reforms in this land. You may earn with your hands but you must collect with your head. To think or not to think that is the question— whether to lie groveling here in darkness and despair, drifting aimlessly with the tide, or at His call to mount on eagle's wings to our Lord who was crucified.[*Folger*] [*7-13-12*] You mount! You fly! You dared to die. Been brave, been true, been loving, too. Your faith looks up, will's lost to view. Be firm, be true: there's work to do. The world has crying need of you. It's groping blindly in despair It's on it's way—it knows not where It's left for you to lead it there None but the brave deserve the fair[*Folger*] [*7-13-12*] Last night I lay asleeping, there came a dream so fair. It was the new Jerusalem beside the temple there. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, hark how the angels sing: Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Alice G. Folger Batavia N. Y. July 13 1912.Lancaster Pa July 13–1912 My Dear Col Rosevelt D Sir I have this day passed the 73 mile Stone was privilaged to dive in the Day of the Birth of the Republican Party voted for Lincoln when Buchannon came home said if Lincoln was as happy to get into the chair at White House as he was to get out he was a Happy man as the time has come for this nation to have a new Pollitical Birth I trust I may see the day to participate while I am no sectarian in religion though a united Brethren in Christ by faith I would suggest not to follow the Example of Either of the old Parties to have Catholic priest or Jewish Rabbis to officiate at the formation of this new organization give them second place. While Mr Taft may be alright as a man I attribute much of this disruption to the Disonor shown to the Christ at the head of this Christian nation Yours for success D D Good Lancaster PaThe Griswold EASTERN POINT New London, Conn. H. D. SAXTON, MGR. July 13 [1912?] My dear Mr Roosevelt It would not surprise me if La Follette came out for Willson. Both he and Bryan are essentially Tory progressives. They belong to Tafts school— "What was good enough for our fathers is good enough for us". They are destructive progressives—progressing toward more direct government by the people, but using that to tear down what evolution is building up. Your strength will reveal its self when it is seen that your progressivism is to build up - that with you progressive democracy is the yoke fellow of progressive evolution. Let [?] [?] bemade clear, and the race is between you and the combined parties of toryism. And by the middle of August it ought to be clear. To make clear this line of distinction—to make it clear—that is the first position to be carried in this battle. I feel so strongly about this that I am perhaps repeating it wearisomely. The Baltimore platform declared against a central bank or other central financial institutions. I talked with Mr Reynard yesterday, (Reynard is president of the Continental- Commercial Natl Bk of Chicago, second only to the Natl City of N.Y.) and he says this is interpreted by the bankers the country over as a declaration against any practical currency legislation—that theThe Griswold EASTERN POINT New London, Conn. H. D. SAXTON, MGR. minded banker in the country [and] has been president of the American Bankers Association—and he says this will satisfy the country. I see no reason why you should not accept it. It is in line with progress toward real progress in the nation, life, and will help to draw that line between you and the platform to which Wilson is yoked, and will help you to bring out the issue, and to bring you out on the right side of it. The country, in my judgment—not only the business world but the workingman's world—is waiting for this kind of leadership. Wilson is personally popular today because[the] many people think he has it in him to give that kind of leadership despite the Balti platform. But he cannot. If he did Bryan and his type of tories, marked as progressive, would turn on him in a minute and rend him. Sincerely, P. S. GrosscupThe Guckenberger School of Music Benjamin Guckenberger, Director STUDIOS 30 HUNTINGTON AVENUE BOSTON 100 POPLAR STREET ROSLINDALE TELEPHONE CONNECTION Boston, Mass., July 13 1912 His Excellency Theo. Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Esteemed Sir: Why do we not organize a "National Progressive Party." I am from Cincinnati O, but at present am ashamed of it. We German-Americans licked Taft in Ward 23 & will do it again should he and his crowd steal the nomination in Chicago.The Guckenberger School of Music Benjamin Guckenberger, Director STUDIOS 30 HUNTINGTON AVENUE BOSTON 100 POPLAR STREET ROSLINDALE TELEPHONE CONNECTION Boston, Mass., II 191__ God speed you and our cause. With profound respect and admiration. Sincerely yours B. GuckenbergerNational Progressive Headquarters Manhattan Hotel New York July 13th 1912. Col. Thoedore Roosevelt, C/o The Outlook, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- Since leaving you yesterday I have received some additional and very encouraging telegrams from Arizona of which I enclose copies. Am arranging for meeting of Progressives from all parts of our State immediately on my return and you may be assured we shall push the campaign vigorously. Both Mr. Perkins and Mr. Munsey, with whom I had very satisfactory interviews this morning think quite highly of the Progressive newspaper proposition and if we can obtain such a paper it will advance our cause immensely. With delighted remembrances of my visit to Oyster Bay and kindest regards to Mrs. Roosevelt and yourself, believe me, Your very truly, Dwight B Heard DBH/r.For enc see 7-12-12 - 3 items[7-13-12] The Hotel Elk UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT F. G. CHAPHE, PROPRIETOR AND OWNER CLEAR LAKE, IOWA, Sat. 13th 1912 To the most Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Late President of these united States of America, and Royal Benefactor of the World. It is with a feeling of any utter insignificance that I write you, and yet I am led to believe that you in your greatness, never have lost sympathy for even the lowest of friends. In this age of Theft and Greed, it is gratifying to know that the common People have one to whom they can look in their despondency for you are well aware that the great mass of common People have The Hotel Elk UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT F. G. CHAPHE PROPRIETOR AND OWNER CLEAR LAKE, IOWA, _______ 191__ no voice in this government and I do not believe that there has been a man since the time of Washington, who is enshrined in the Hearts of the common People, as you are. We want you to come to Clear-Lake, the Saratoga of the west, the Summer Resort of Iowa. This is a Red Hot Little Political city, and if you can only come in July or August, we can have a Record Breaker of a crowd for you, our 4th of July is the Biggest thing in North Iowa, we had $20,000, People and I am sure if you can come we will haveThe Hotel Elk UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT F. G. CHAPHE, PROPRIETOR AND OWNER CLEAR LAKE, IOWA, ________ 191___ More than that, I see the Dem- -ocrats are trying to get "Wilson to come here, there is thousands of voters in Iowa, going to vote for "Wilson" if we don't head them off, you are the only one who can Beat him. Taft ain't in it in the west at all, after that disgraceful thing called convention at Chicago, I was Just talking to, the Hon "S, S, Sir- rine. and other friends and they are charmed with the idea of getting you here, "There we can find out the truth," why don't you know Clear-Lake is where we started Progressiveness in Iowa, and I, and a few others[letterhead] 4 GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS HOT AND COLD WATER STEAM HEAT The Hotel Elk UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT F.G. CHAPHE, PROPRIETOR AND OWNER CLEAR LAKE, IOWA, __________191 [end letterhead] enthusiastic Friends invited A.B. Cummins to speak on it here, and he came and spoke, and his speech on that great doctrine of yours Just set the Praises of Iowa afire with "strenuous zeal" throuout its length and Breadth and Landed "Cummins" in the governors chair before those other fellows got started to run. Thats the way you can do. Come here and make the Greatest speech ever made in the State of Iowa, and we'll skin "em alive" Do you hear give it to them Red Hot, the common People, are with you, if you[*S*] GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS HOT AND COLD WATER STEAM HEAT The Hotel Elk UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT F.G. CHAPHE, PROPRIETOR AND OWNER CLEAR LAKE, IOWA, __________191 will only get next to them. No man on the Face of Gods green Earth can beat you, we have a Pavilion capable of seating 3000 people, and we have a Beautiful Park that will hold 10000 more, and if you don't electrify the whole west. I am sadly mistaken, if you want an invite more formal. I can send you one with 200 names on if you wish, or 500, either let us hear from you, and if you can come, we will have excursions, from all around, with best wishes for your success I am yours truly R.W. Kabrick, P. O. Box 603LAW OFFICES OF VIRGIL K. KELLOGG. WATERTOWN. N. Y. July 13, 1912. Frank Harper, Esq., c/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Mr. Harper: - Enclosed I hand you a statement which I hope you will lay before Col. Roosevelt, as per out talk of Wednesday. Very respectfully yours, V. K Kellogg GSFor enc see Kellogg to Roosevelt 7-13-12[*2*] LAW OFFICES OF VIRGIL K. KELLOGG, WATERTOWN, N. Y. July 13, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel:- I very much desired to see you before I left New York and have some discussion with you concerning your views upon the tariff and impart to you such suggestions as I might be able to make to which you would care to listen. From not having heard any disavowal of your previous attitude, I have assumed that you stand as you formerly did for a tariff upon imported articles so reasonably adjusted as to afford moderate protection where needed. We in this section are interested in tariff regulation and I am especially so because I am interested in the paper industry. In the light of the events that have transpired since, you are doubtless convinced that the agitation which resulted in the platforms of 1908 was initiated almost entirely by the newspaper of the country and grew out of their desire to escape the effect of a fair adjustment of a reasonable tariff upon the principal material used by them, while being not only willing but anxious that the tariff on materials used by others should be maintained at practically the same old rate. That you may be able to catch my idea of theT.R. -2- sequence of events, I will put them in the order I deem appropriate and number them. 1. Dingley tariff, duty on news print paper $6. per ton. 2. Organization and incorporation of American Newspaper Publishers Association, comprising in its membership all of the leading publishers of America: Herman Ridder, president: John Norris, secretary. 1908 3. Herman Ridder leaves for Democratic National Convention at Denver, with the avowed intention of stopping over at Lincoln to convince Mr. Bryan of his utter impossibility as a presidential candidate. Week following: Ridder leaves for Denver, avowing that he has changed his mind and that Bryan is not only eligible for nomination but should be nominated. Later in the same week: Bryan follows and at Denver draws his platform, wherein he declared for the absolute abolition of the tariff in news print paper. 4. Election of Taft. 5. Agitation of newspapers for a revision of the tariff. 6. Payne-Aldrich bill adopted, reducing the tariff on news print paper to practically $3.75 per ton,- a reduction of about 37 1/2%. Creation of Tariff Board charged with theT.R. -3- duty of investigating the relative cost of production of protected articles in the United States and in foreign countries. 7. Act commended by Taft as the best tariff ever enacted. 8. General and unintermitted denunciation of Taft and his administration by the newspapers. 9. Visits by Norris (the brains of the American Newspaper Publishers Association) to the White House. 10. Denunciation of Taft by newspapers continues. Jany. 7, 1911 11. Arrival of commissioners from Canada in Washington, unannounced to those interested in the paper industry. 12. Taft writes Col. Roosevelt: Jany. 10, 
1911. “Just at present I am in the midst of reciprocity “matters x x x. The probability is that we shall reach “an agreement with our Canadian friends by which all naural “products, cereals, lumber, dairy products, fruits, “meats and cattle, shall enter both countries for free x x x. “The truth is that the minute that we adopt in convention “the proposal that our tariff should be measured by the “difference in the cost of production, we necessarily “adopt a rule which would lead us straight to reciprocity “in natural products with Canada.” 13. Roosevelt writes to Taft: Jany. 10, 
1911. “It seems to me that what you propose to do with “Canada is admirable from every standpoint. I firmly believe “in free trade with Canada for both economic and “political reasons,” 14. Negotiations with Canada conducted with great secrecy. No one interested in the paper trade informed.T.R. -4- 15. Herman Ridder writes confidentially to each of the members of his association, as follows: Jany. 24, 1911. “New York, June 24, 1911. “For your confidential information, I take pleasure “in advising you that the negotiations of the United States “government with Canada provide for the admission of print “paper and wood pulp free of duty. x x x x If ratified “by Congress, this arrangement will immediately and automatically “insure a full supply of print paper free of “duty.” (Signed) Herman Ridder, President.” (Exhibit produced by Mr. Herman Ridder in obedience to subpoena, at hearing before the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate. See Senate document “Reciprocity with Canada”). How did Herman Ridder ascertain what was transpiring in the secret and confidential negotiations between the president of the United States and the Dominion of Canada? Jany. 28, 1911. 16. The so-called Reciprocity Treaty sent to Congress (Why sent to Congress if a treaty?) by the president for consideration and approval. 17. No action yet taken by the Tariff Board created under the Payne-Aldrich bill. 18. Neither president nor Congress in possession of authentic information as to the relative cost of news print paper in America and Canada. Feby. 17, 1911. 19. Herman Ridder sends to each member of his association the following secret communication, viz: “New York, February 17. “By request, private to editions. It is of vital “importance to the newspapers that their Washington correspondentsT.R. -5- “be instructed to treat favorably the “Canadian reciprocity agreement, because print paper and “good pulp are made free of duty by this agreement.” (Signed) Herman Ridder, President, American Newspaper Publishers Association.” (Exhibit produced by Mr. Ridder in obedience to subpoena upon hearings before Committee on Finance of the United States Senate. See Senate document “Reciprocity with Canada.”) Feby. 24, 1911. 20. Reciprocity agreements jammed through [Congress] Lower House by pressure from president. May 15, 1911. 21. Tariff Board reports. First authentic information as to the relative cost of production of news print paper in the United States and in Canada. Excess of cost in America over Canada $5.35 per ton, - $1.60 per ton more than the duty imposed under the existing act. June 5, 1911. 22. Herman Ridder, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, sworn as a witness before the Senate Finance Committee, testifies in substance that the members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, Democratic as well as Republican, were engaged in assisting and sustaining President Taft. 23. The attitude of the press of the country towards President Taft radically radically and completely changed. July 26, 1911. 24. The so-called Reciprocity Treaty passed by the Senate and received executive approval. It contained three sections. The first sub-division of the first section provides for the importation of articlesT.R. -6- into the United Sates from Canada at a fixed rate of duty, in some instances specific and in others ad valorem, when Canada admits fresh meats, canned meats, tallow, eggs, fish, tomatoes, wheat flour, plows, portable engines, grindstones, and various other articles, 99% of which could be at all times manufactured in Canada or imported into Canada from other countries under Canada's trade realtions with them for sums less than they could be produced in America. The second paragraph provides for the exemption of duty of certain Canadian products when live animals, poultry, wheat, corn, hay, vegetables, fruit, dairy products, eggs, honey, cottonseed oil, oil of seeds, grass seeds, fish, whale and fish oil, salt, mineral water, timber, sawed boards, paving posts, & wooden staves, pickets, plaster rock &c, mica, feldspar, asbestos, sulphate of soda, extract of hemlock bark, carbon electrodes, brass in bars, cream separators, rolled iron, crucible cast-steel wire, galvanized iron, typecasting and setting machines, barbed fencing wire, coke, rolled round wire rods, the products of the United States, are admitted into Canada free. (You will at once observe that more than 99% of the above articles can either be produced in Canada or imported into Canada from other countries more cheaply than they can be producedT.R. -7- in America). Section 2 provides for the free introduction of [wood pulp] news print and other paper valued at not four cents per pound, as soon as the president is assured that export duty is not imposed by Canada upon it. Sept. 28, 1911. 25. Agreement repudiated by Canada almost unanimously. 26. The agreement promulgated as a statute by the president of the United States and the collectors of customs directed to admit news print paper from Canada free of duty. Numerous requests to the president for imposition of the duty provided for by the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill upon individual consignments, to the end that the constitutionality of the measure may be tested, denied. 27. Newspaper support for Taft continued. It seems to me that the above is absolutely inconsistent with honesty on the part of Mr. Taft, and it seems to me that it amounts to an absolute betrayal of an industry which is said to be the fifth greatest in size and importance in America. The above having been done by statute and by executive interpretation of statute, notwithstanding the commerce court having held contrary, the only logical result of it is to entitle those paper producing countries who have treaties with usT.R. -8- providing that they shall share our markets on the same basis with the most favored nations, to bring their news print paper into the United States absolutely free of duty. The great European source of material from which paper may be made is found in Scandinavia. The importation charge from Scandinavia to New York and to other American ports is probably not so great as that from Watertown and other centers of paper manufacture. In a mill at Newton Falls, with which I am connected, we pay the foreman in the sulphite mill $300 [per?] month. In mills in Norway wage earners of a like class receive not to exceed $60. We pay machine tenders in our mill $3.50 a day; in Norway they receive $.60 a day. If the statute as enacted is to remain, and if it is to receive an interpretation to which harmonious relations with other countries entitle them to insist upon, you will readily see that so soon as the Swedish and Norwegian paper manufacturers learn of our market, our paper manufacturers will either have to go out of business or reduce the wage of their employees so low that they will be on a level with the Scandinavian wage earner of the same degree. It seems to me that the “square deal” requires us as a party to disregard the raucous cries of Mr. Herman Ridder and his followers and maintain that it is a duty which we oweT.R. -9- to the citizens of the United States to stand for a tariff which will reasonably protect the people engaged in manufacturing enterprises in this country, whether as owner, wage earner or otherwise. I am going to send this letter to you both through Mr. Harper and to your home at Oyster Bay, so that you will surely have opportunity to see it and, if you desire, to give it consideration. I speak of paper because I have knowledge of the facts concerning paper. How far the same thing is true of other products I am unable to say. AS one interested in paper, I want to say this: If it shall be determined that all protection to American manufacturers which now exists shall be removed, then, while hoping that the position should not be taken, yet as one who is engaged in the industry, I am going to bear a burden which shall be absolutely joint with other protected manufacturers, with such cheerfulness as I may. One word further and to illustrate the inconsistency of the persons who framed the so-called Reciprocity Act and the impropriety of its name. Permit me to say that we have in this town one of the largest and best paper machine manufactories in the world; that there is no such manufactory in Canada; that until the English manufacturer learned of the market, our Watertown concern almost exclusively controlled it, but that the English having learned of the market, and havingT.R. -10- a preferential relation with Canada amounting to about 50% of our tariff we are practically excluded from their market, and so, while President Taft, handing out to us in his beneficial and fatherly way to an agreement alleged to be generally beneficial to this country and entirely reciprocal with Canada, we find it provides for the free importation of Canadian-made paper into this country and does not remove an absolute prohibition from the importation into Canada of the machines upon which that paper is made. (See statement made by me on the 22nd of May, 1911, before Senate Finance Committee, contained in the foregoing Senate document, page 891). Very sincerely yours, V. K. KelloggEnc in Kellogg to Harper 7-13-12[FOR ENCL SEE 7-13-12] to base his judgment or change his opinion. The [facts are] the truth is as I have stated [thru] it in this letter & and henceforth any man who sees this letter and accuses Theodore Roosevelt of intemperance & overindulgence in alcoholic [beverages utter] stimulants knowingly utters what is false Yours Truly Alexander Lambert MD the many slanders uttered in this regard have so angered me that I have decided to write you this letter & I do this unrequested by the Roosevelts or anybody. Sagamore Hill. July 13, 1912 To The Editor of the Outlook. Dear Sir I have seen your letter in reply to a request for information regarding Theodore Roosevelt‘s drinking. no man is as well qualified to speak about Mr. Roosevelt's habits as I am. I have been for many years his family's friend their family physician & his close personal friend & and companion in his home & on all [sorts] kinds of trips. This persistent accusation of his intemperance has not one [is absolutely]seven ounces in eleven months equivalent to a little over a tablespoonful per month. But as a beverage he does not use it. H does not drink cocktails nor beer nor ale He occasionally with his meals takes a little light wine, but only with his meals & as I said above only in moderation & even this is not his regular habit. [as a matter of actual fact not more than two or three times a week] I have gone thus into detail because I know these details and know whereof I speak. Any honest man may unwittingly repeat a slander as a truth if he has no facts on which [unjustified] particle of justification, and is in my opinion a deliberate malicious fabrication. While not a total abstainer Mr. Roosevelt is a very temperate man in his use of alcoholic beverages & is vastly more abstemious than most men who are moderate drinkers but not total abstainers. In all the years I have hunted and been with him I have never been able to get him to take any whiskey in any form save once as medicine I forced him to take two teaspoons & I know of my own knowledge that he does not drink the stronger beverages as whiskey gin &c. He has taken brandy as a medicine as on his African trip when he tookCOPY New York City July 13th 1912 To The Editor of the Outlook Dear Sir: I have seen your letter in reply to a request for information regarding Theodore Roosevelt drinking. No man is as well qualified to speak about Mr. Roosevelt's habits as I am. I have been for many years his family's friend, their family physician and his close personal friend and companion in his home and on all kinds of trips. This persistent accusation of his intemperance has not one particle of justification and is in my opinion deliberate malicious fabrication. While not a total abstainer Mr. Roosevelt is a very temperate man in his use of alcoholic beverages and is vastly more abstemious than most men who are moderate drinkers but not total abstainers. In all the years I have hunted and been with him I have never been able to get him to take any whiskey in any form save once as medicine I forced him to take two teasponsfull, and I know of my own knowledge that he does not drink the stronger beverages as whiskey, gin, etc. He has taken brandy as a medicine as on his African trip when he took seven ounces in eleven months, equivalent to a little over a tablespoonful per month. But as a beverage he does not use it. He does not drink cocktails nor beer nor ale. He occasionally with his meals take a little light wine. But only with his meals and as I sais above only in moderation and even this is not his regular habit. I have gone-2- thus into detail because I know these details and know whereof I speak. Any honest man may unwittingly repeat a slander as a truth if he has no facts on which to base his judgment or change his opinion. The truth is as I have stated it in this letter and henceforth any man who sees this letter and accuses Theodore Roosevelt of intemperance and over indulgence in alcoholic stimulants, knowingly utters what is false. The many slanders uttered in this regard have so angered me that I have decided to write you this letter, and I do this unrequested by Mr. Roosevelt or anybody. Yours truly, (signed) Alexander Lambert, M.D.Encl in Lambert 7-13-12CECIL A. LYON. SHERMAN, TEXAS. 7/13/12 PERSONAL Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, c/o Outlook New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: The enclosed clipping has been sent to me. I did not hear the speech of which it is supposed to be a part but will appreciate it if you could have Mr. Harper send me a copy of your remarks made at the negro church in Chicago and return the enclose clipping therewith. I do not believe you made any such statement, as that which I have marked with the ink bracket but [which] wish to have a copy of your speech in order to take the matter up with friends of yours in this statement which has been circulated extensively in this section. We are getting along very well with our movement down here, but of course will have a big fight at the State Convention on August 13th. I do no like to predict how we are going to come out with the postmasters of the state, but you may be sure that we will do our best. In the meantime we will be on hand in force at Chicago. Sincerely yours, Cecil A. Lyon.For encl see ca 7-13-12TELEPHONE CONNECTION CABLE ADDRESS, JULIUS HOME ADDRESS 101 FOREST STREET JULIUS L. MITCHELL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 414 GROSVENOR BUILDING WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL PROVIDENCE, R.I. July 13, 1912 [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear sir:- I have been trying to write you ever since your return from National Convention in Chicago, but could not and cannot now find words with which to express myself. I am a practicing attorney of seventeen years experience, but tell the truth when I say that, words are inadequate with which to express my admiration of you and hope for the triumph of your cause. In my humble judgment, you are a great American, the man of the hour and trust that the American people will wake up to that fact before our next election. I believe that a sufficient number of them will, in time to enable you to marchTELEPHONE CONNECTION CABLE ADDRESS, JULIUS HOME ADDRESS 101 FOREST STREET JULIUS L. MITCHELL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 414 GROSVENOR BUILDING WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL PROVIDENCE, R.I. 191__ -2- to victory. As was said of Columbus when he conceived the idea that the earth was round, some of our people say you are crazy, while, it appears to me that you are living in advance of the age. I believe, however, that you were born to grapple with the great problems now confronting the American people, your cause is both just and righteous, God is with you and you must win. My heart and soul are with you and I am determined to go up or down with you. Listen! I am a Negro, not a politician but a leader of my people interested in all things touching what seems to be the welfare of my Country and Race. I try to read and understand the signs of the time and think that you will do well to plan a systematic campaign in Rhode Island, notwithstanding the factTELEPHONE CONNECTION CABLE ADDRESS, JULIUS HOME ADDRESS 101 FOREST STREET JULIUS L. MITCHELL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 414 GROSVENOR BUILDING WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL PROVIDENCE, R.I. 191__ -3- that our delegation stood by Taft at the National Convention. I tell you the truth when I say that, between the two great parties here, it is possible to carry this state or, at least, elect some Roosevelt electors. Deep down in their souls, the people are with you. Not the politicians but the people and the people are in the majority. If you have not planned for organization in this state, will you do so and at once please? If you will take time to look over this field, you will find that it pays to organize it. The Democrats are pleased with Wilson but admire Roosevelt, the Republicans are saying that the politicians want Taft but Roosevelt is the better man and all of the independents (and by this I mean voters who are not weded to parties but support principles) are leaning towards you and your movement and you are growing daily in the favors of our people. Your name is upon the lipsTELEPHONE CONNECTION CABLE ADDRESS, JULIUS HOME ADDRESS 101 FOREST STREET JULIUS L. MITCHELL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 414 GROSVENOR BUILDING WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL PROVIDENCE, R.I. 191__ -4- of the inmates of [my] every home and is anxiously looked for in every issue of every news paper in our State. The fire of Rooseveltism seems to be slumbering in every breast. God knows you can carry this place and I cannot refrain from telling you so. One word about your new party. Fully ninety percent of the American Negroes are tired of the Republican party but cannot stomach the Democratic party and I believe, from experience that the better element of white people of the South and a goodly number of white Democrats of other sections are ashamed of the Democratic party and they, like the Negroes aforesaid, will gladly welcome the party which you seek to launch. Me thinks that, if you can find sufficient number of men to carry out your plans just as you may dictate, there will be no possible chance, to fail, but I would rather go down with you than to march to victory TELEPHONE CONNECTION CABLE ADDRESS, JULIUS HOME ADDRESS 101 FOREST STREET JULIUS L. MITCHELL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 414 GROSVENOR BUILDING WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL PROVIDENCE, R.I. 191__ -5- with Taft. The hearts of the American people are with you, they confide in your leadership. I noted that you were of more importance to the people of this country while hunting in Africa than Taft was in "the White House". I am deeply interested. I see in you and your movement a chance to unite the good people of this country into a great movement looking to "government of the people, for the people and by the people" and this is necessary for, "When man to man united And all the wrong things righted The whole world will be lighted As Eden was of old." I desire to enlist in your services as busy as I am with my profession I realize the fact that the success of your great movement will depend greatly upon the efforts of busy and successful men, not loafers and job-seekers. In case you care to learn of me, consult, Bench of South Carolina, Bar of Charleston, where I lived all of my lifeTELEPHONE CONNECTION CABLE ADDRESS, JULIUS HOME ADDRESS 101 FOREST STREET JULIUS L. MITCHELL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 414 GROSVENOR BUILDING WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL PROVIDENCE, R.I. 191__ -6- to eight years ago, Bench and Bar of Rhode Island, State Bar Association of which I am a member, State and City officials, Booker T. Washington who graduated from same school from which I subsequently graduated, all of the Bishops and general officers of the A.M.E. Church of which I am a life member or any others who know me. If I can furnish any information in your attempt to organize this state (if you should decide to do so) or serve you in any other way, command me to as I am deeply interested. A line from you will be cheering. Very truly yours, Julius L. Mitchell Frank A. Munsey 175 Fifth Avenue New York July 13, 1912 Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I am enclosing, herewith, the Massachusetts Act on a minimum wage, and I am also sending you, under another cover, the report of the Commission on Minimum Wage Boards. I think you will be able to get some very good material out of these two, and it looks to me as if the minimum wage idea is very much of the order of industrial evolution. It is urged against a minimum wage law that it makes employment impossible for the incapable. But it were better, it seems to me, that the incapables, being in a great minority, suffer from this act rather than that the great majority of capable men and women, boys and girls, suffer. A danger in the minimum wage is in making it so high that it throws out too large a number of less capable persons. Yours very truly, Frank A. Munsey Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. [*I am enclosing copy of a letter to a western man who asked by opinion of the situation*]For encl see 7-13-12July 15, 1912. Dear Stoddart:- I have just received your letter. You ask what I think of the political situation. I think very well of it, though at this juncture it is very difficult to fore- see what will happen to enhance the chances of either Roose- velt or Wilson. That Taft will out little figure in the cam- paign looks to me to be pretty certain. He has no following among the plain people who cast the votes and has had no following at any time, but since the Chicago steal he has been in worse than ever with the people of this country who believe in a square deal and honesty and decency in politics. But, looking ahead and taking a chance at being a bit prophetic, I will say to you, in answer to your question, that the prospect for Mr. Roosevelt's election in November is very good indeed. He is the only man who can keep us off the Democratic shoals. The Baltimore platform is the most radical and the most dangerous of any that has ever been put out by any party in this country - not only radical, but it looks towards a measure of tariff smashing that would paralyse business. So far as I am concerned, I want to see good business, I want to see a happy people, a well-fed people, a well-dressed people, a well-employed people. It is a historical fact that at no time have we gone in for tariff smashing that we haven't had idlenessMr. Stoddart, #2. and poverty throughout the land. This, I repeat, is history. Isn't history worth something to us as a guide? As I see the matter, the only way to insure business activity, to insure sane progress, is to get behind Mr. Roosevelt, who will take the field in the fight against Wilson. His fight against the political thieves and political crooks in the Republican party will be of little consequence as compared with the great big fight he will put up against Wilson and the Democratic party. I think that the people who want to see Republican economic policies maintained will realize by the 1st of October that the only way to have these policies triumph in November is to get behind Mr. Roosevelt. The chances are that Taft cannot carry a single State in the Union. Every vote, therefore, cast for Taft would, in effect, be half a vote cast for Wilson, and the men of Republican principles, that is, Republicans on economic policies, who see this, as they will see it, are apt to do some pretty deep thinking before they throw their votes away on Taft and turn them, to the extent of fifty per cent, to the account of Wilson. If Taft were the stronger man with the voters of the country, then to vote for Roosevelt would be wasting votes in the same way. But Roosevelt is a vote-getter and has the confidence of the people of the country, and he will put up the hottest campaign this country has ever seen. The thing for you to do, and the thing for everybody to do who wants to see good business, who wants to see salaries maintained, and who wants to see men continued in employment, is to get behind the man who would maintain economic policies that spell success. This means direct work for you to do and for everybody to do. Yours very truly, (Signed) FRANK A. MUNSEY. Mr. C.H. Stoddart, Chicago, Illinois.Encl in Munsey 7-13-12GIFFORD PINCHOT GREY TOWERS MILFORD PIKE CO PA July 13, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Theodore: If it is not too late, there is one suggestion I want to make regarding the statement of your position which you are about to make. It is this: Conservation as an issue is your own peculiar property, launched by you, defended by you, and both neglected and antagonized by Taft and in the Democratic platform. Would it not be wise for you to include an emphatic paragraph, in which the development and preservation of the forests, the streams, and the mines could be related to the checking of waste in other lines, especially in industry and human life; and the development of National efficiency? One phase of Conservation, which I believe should have a very important part in your coming-2- GIFFORD PINCHOT GREY TOWERS MILFORD PIKE CO PA Administration, is to substitute the export of natural resources in the manufactured form for their export as raw material. Thus, our exports would consist principally of labor, which is always replaceable, and not as now of natural resources, many of which can not be replaced. It is this policy which is making Germany and Belgium rich. Whether you can deal with this latter point in your statement, I do not know, but I am sure it would be wise for you to emphasize the constructive side of Conservation. Sincerely yours, Gifford Pinchot[*17*] PUGH & PUGH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, OHIO. 22 WEST GAY STREET. DAVID F PUGH. LAWRENCE R PUGH. AUTOMATIC 5090 BELL TELEPHONE 1890 July 13, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, N.Y. City. Dear Sir: You ought to be oh the firing line now. There is danger that time, even a couple of months, may chill the ardor of some of the Progressives. You ought to be fighting now while the matter is fresh and hot. Dum fervet opus. A great preacher one time said: "This morning, I preached a sermon all flames." It was the same kind of speaking - "all flames" - which you gave them before and during the primaries, that is still needed. But I want to say to you that I do not like to see that revelation of the expenditure of $1,900,000.00 in your campaign of 1904. I am afraid it will hurt you; and am also afraid that your attitude, just freshly declared, on the Anti-Trust law, will hurt you. Yours truly, David F. Pugh40 Wall Street New York City July 13,1912 Mr. J. D. Wardrop The Outlook Office 287 Fourth Avenue New York City Dear Sir: We are in receipt of your letter of the tenth instant, enclosing six checks amounting to $157.00. Very truly yours Charles H. 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Executive Board ISIDOR SINGER, Ph.D., Managing Editor. EDWARD J. WHEELER, Litt.D., Literary Editor. GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK, Consulting Editor. ADAM DINGWALL, Secretary. July 13, 1912. Colonel Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I. My dear Colonel: I hardly need tell you that July 9th will be a Red Letter day in my life for it was really a great honor to me to have been invited by you for this little political conference. So much said, permit me to submit to you, a titre de documents, enclosed letter of my friend, Mr. Meyer Schoenfeld, whom I know for years and years and who seems to have great political influence down town. He is a great stump orator both in English and in Yiddisch and a physical giant and is, I believe, in his heart of hearts an enthusiastic T.R. man. Well, to make it short, should your political acumen see a possibility of support through Mr. Schoenfeld's activities, directly or indirectly, of course, you can count upon me. I am, my dear Colonel, with my best regards, Very truly yours, Isidor Singerb Department of Commerce and Labor BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS Washington July 13, 1912. Dear Colonel: You have already had an invitation from Mr. I. H. Butterfield, Manager of the Connecticut Fair Association, Hartford, to address the Connecticut Fair at Hartford on Labor Day, September 2. Joe Alsop, my brother and I believe that it is of extreme importance that you accept this invitation. It comes at exactly the right time. You will have an enormous assembly, especially of the farmers and laborers. I hope you will make sure that this date is kept open for that purpose. Very sincerely yours, Herbert Knox Smith Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York.[*10.*] b Department of Commerce and Labor BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS Washington July 13, 1912. [[shorthand]] Dear Colonel: I am going to resign here just as soon as I can close up my work, which I think will be Wednesday or Thursday of next week, the 17th or 18th. I have so informed Secretary Nagel. He was at the time leaving, to be away until Tuesday, the 16th. He asked me, without giving his reasons, not to send in my resignation or publish it until his return on Tuesday. Subject to certain contingencies, I agreed to this, so the matter is still confidential but will probably be made public Tuesday. By Friday the 19th at the latest, I think, I shall be at your service. Please advise me what you want me to do. Unless I hear from you to the contrary. I shall stay for a few days at the Yale Club, 30 West 44th street, New York City, so as to be in readiness for anything you want. My brother, as you possibly noted, has publicly come out in your support. He and Joe Alsop are at work on the Progressive movement in Connecticut. They may want me for one meeting, but as their knowledge of State conditions is far better than mine, they can handle things there as well as anybody for the present. Unless you instruct me otherwise, I shall be prepared immediately on leaving here, to give my time mainly to the corporate and economic statements that you desire to get ready. Very sincerely yours, Herbert Knox Smith Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y.23 July = anniversary U. S. Grant's death. [*12.*] [*[7-13-12]*] Colonel Roosevelt, There is a little sketch of a man on horseback by Pierre Millet, brother to Jean François, that was one of three given my late father. His great admiration for you, and the last vote that he ever cast was for you, made me feel that no better disposition could be made of the thought, than asking your gracious acceptance of it, but I would like to handof conditions in our country - did he foresee them? Never in my life have I known a time when life-long friendships are severing, because of honest government - Oh! that the nation might wake up to the value of the next three months. Very truly yours, Emma Toussaint. 39 Gramercy Park New York [[shorthand]] it personally to you, either here in New York, or Oyster Bay, as you may designate. May I assure you that he would have been one of the first to become a "National Progressive" - yet the spirit of good men must live. It was in '86 that he presented me to President & Mrs. Cleveland in Boston - So I never had a Washington privilege - but more than all am I thinking of prophetic words of his, "Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt" - the development (COPY) Great Falls, Montana, July 13, 1912. Judge M. D. Purdy, Minneapolis, Minn. Dear Judge Purdy: I am somewhat out of touch regarding the plans for the New Party. This is to advise you that I am willing to contribute toward the expenses that must follow action. You may count on me for $1000.00, but I request that anything I may do is not for publication or talk. Yours, (Signed) W. O. Winston[*Enc, in Dwyer 7-13-12 *] First traveling card dated 1815, Las traveling card dated 1911, 36 years a member [*O. R. C *] It is easy enough to look pleasant, When the world goes around like a song, But the man worthwhile, is the man with a smile, When everything goes dead wrong. John Dwyer 1245 E Street N. E. St. Johns No. 25, A. F. & A. M., Omaha Phil. Sheridan Post No. I4, G. A. R., Washington O. R. C. Div. 378, WashingtonEncl in Lyon 7-13-12 ca 7-13-12Teddy's Opinion of Negroes. "The time is coming when the white man will know that it is to his interest as well as his duty to treat the negro as an equal. I have preached the doctrine of equality all my life and I will tell the white man just the same as I tell you that the negro is the equal of the white man." Theodore Roosevelt last night evoked long and loud applause when he addressed the above remarks to an audience of negroes that packed Bethel A. M E. Church, Thirtieth and Dearborn Streets, to the very doors. Though he did not arrive at the church until 10:30 o'clock, the crowd was waiting for him. More than two thousand negroes surrounded the church on the outside and pressed closely to the windows to hear Colonel Roosevelt's words. "Twenty-eight years ago," said he, "a negro was chosen temporary chairman of a Republican National convention. His name was Bruce, and he filled the position ably. "I am the friend of the negro because I know him thoroughly. I know that the negro makes one of the best soldiers in the world, because I have fought side by side with him and I know. "It is most unfortunate that certain white men will try to debauch the negro by offering him money for his vote. If I ever get hold of one of these men—I don't care what his position may be—I will punish him as severely as I can. "When the negro sells his vote, he makes himself an object of scorn and derision, but I tell you the white man who buys that vote is worse than the negro. "The trouble is that the negro does not call down scorn upon his individual head, but upon the race, and we must get away from that idea. We must judge every race by its individual merits."—Chicago American.[*ack 7-24-12*] Established 1872 C. A. Bogue & Co. Real Estate and Merchandise Brokers Money to Loan on Farms and City Property Fire Insurance Timber Lands, Plantations, Ranches, Grain Elevators, Mineral Lands, Large and Small Improved Farms, City Income Property and Merchandise FOR SALE AND TO EXCHANGE ALSO AUTOMOBILES P. O. Lock Box 534 Weller Block, 3rd St. and 3rd Ave. DICTATED BY CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, July 14th. 1912. [*39. *] Hon. Frank Harper, Outlook office, New York City. My kind distant Friend:— You will see from the inclosed newspaper paragraph that my hat is still in the ring where it will remain until the close of the polls in November next. You will notice that I am not mentioned as one of the officers of this club, as a good campaigner will refrain from seeking prominent of position as head of an organization of this character with a view of putting monied men to the front who are full of enthusiasm. We have just commenced our work here on behalf of our dear Teddy. I am holding over to our coming meeting this week the Rev. Chas. Talmadge of Boston Mass. an orator sent here from Chicago by Mr. McCormick. His hat is already in the ring and there it will remain. Directly after the birth of the new party on Sunday night this said Mr. Talmadge was one of the orators of the occasion. The second day after the said meeting I secured the first printed petitions for signers for the Colonels indorsement for President of the United States. In three days, I had twenty- four names attached to the said paper, and have had a number of tye written copies made and have circulated them to reliable persons to have them filled out. You will notice the state convention here at Des Moines out of ninety nine counties in the state about ninety represented Theodore Roosevelt, and I feel assured that he will carry this state in Nov. by an overwhelming majority. You will notice from the newspapers that senator Cummins from this state was badly set down upon. As to the other senator, senator Kenyon, he also met with the same fate, as over a hundred delegates made known by a threat to support Democratic legislatures in order to affect the defeat to his election by the legislature. From time to time, I will keep you posted of current events, and it is my judgement that it will be my privilege to address you after the fourth of March 1913 "Care of Pres. Roosevelt, White House, Wash. D. C. With my Best wishes and regards to my dear old [frie]F. Harper, Outlook office. friend Teddy, not forgetting yourself, while I remain, Your most obedient, Chas. A. Bogue. N. B. Inclosed please find clipping from the Taft organ called the Republican of this city, which will speak for itself, as he is placed as a back number with the voters here, who are adherents and are working with energy and will for the success of the Colonel. C. B. [*Kenyon*][ack 7-17-12] Cercle Dramatique de L'Alliance Française de New York [Plaza 1977] Lucien L. Bonheur, Président 114 E. 36th Street René Wildenstein, Secrétaire 63-69 Broad Street Frank D. Pavey T. Tileston Wells, ex-officio July 14/12 My dear Colonel Roosevelt, We are opening our Nassau County H'quarters on Monday in Mineola. It has been suggested that I ask you to enroll as a member of the Progressive Party in Nassau County; I suppose that there is no objection on your part. Furthermore, we are thinking of sending you to the Chicago convention as a Delegate from the District and Governor Post as your Alternate - Does this meet with your approval? I have not taken the matter up with Governor Post as yet but I will if you say so - Everything is going on fine Nassau; over ten thousand of enrollment blanks are being circulated and the answers are beyond all expectations. Yours Faithfully Lucien L. Bonheur 21 Broad Street"New Forest" Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster-Bay, Orange City Florida July 14th 1912 Honored Friend: I enclose a "Poem" which I ask you to read carefully. These words, if you have your committee have them printed on first - page of Popular Magazines and in large type on first - page of friendly daily memo papers, and have it kept there until November, will win you more votes than anything yet done. Or ever will be done for you. It is a sentiment that will appeal to thousands. Have the poem printed elegantly on note-paper and sent - broadcast over this country. As campaign literature. Mark My Predictions. "With the use of any "Poem." You win. Without it - you fail." These are not idle words, they are true. And you will find they will work for you. I know any "poem" is true, of you I know what they will do for you. "Had they of been used at the National Republican Convention at the Coliseum in Chicago in June they would have nominated you by acclimation, before those men, of the (gone old party) had a breathing spell long enough to have nominated. the Attorney F. Thomas Fortune, Ryan, Temporary Chairman.For 1 enc see ca 7-14-12 CarpenterBest Known and best-loved Man in the world today Theodore Roosevelt Our next President. [ca. 7-14-12] (written by Mrs Edmund Carpenter Honor to him, in the glory of his Prime. First in the hearts of the People, greatest Man of his time, Chose by Acclimation, for his own intrinsic worth; We'll Elect Him President of this Nation, The grandest on earth; Best-loved Man in the world to-day. Theodore Roosevelt Our next President Best-loved Man in the world to-day Our Teddy. Our Teddy. Let his praises never cease, He has literally loved Nations, into Peace; Ready with heart and hand. and noble deeds, Loyal to follow. Where truth's banner Leads. Best-loved Man in the world to-day. Theodore Roosevelt Our next President Best-loved Man in the world to-day Our Teddy. Our Teddy. Hero, Statesman, Lover, Man, Let this world match him if it can; Faithful and honest to friends and foe's. May God bless and protect him wherever he goes. Best-loved Man in the world to-day. Our next President Theodore Roosevelt Best-loved Man in the world today. (Our Teddy. Our Teddy) Post Office address Orange City Florida written by Mrs Edmund Carpenter (copy rights "New Forest" ???? Enc in 7-14-12 "I enclose a poem..." "New Forest" The Florida Home of E. M. Carpenter where the above was written "New Forest" Looking East across the Glen121 Water St. Quincy, Mass. July 14, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from your secretary. Mr. Wardrop, together with some enclosures which he returned to me, after noting same. I trust that you will soon find time to consider the contents of my letter to you of June 1st, altho’ I realize the immense amount of correspondence to be gone thro’by you and your secretaries every day. Since I wrote you, my most earnest wish has failed of realization; but I still believe in you and your fight for principles, and I know that you are heading towards certain victory. Surely the voice of the people will be heard in November, even tho' it was stifled in June. I am very pleased to repeat my offer of assistance to you in any way that I can give it -- and as I told you before, there are many ways in which I may be of great help to your cause. I trust, sir, that you will read my letter soon and favor me with a reply in the near future. Yours most respectfully Luis S. CostaCa 7.5.12.7 Form 2298 B. 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Answer at our expense. Rev L.L. Dewey Secy chautauqua committeeN. Y. July 14/12 Theo Roosevelt Esq Sir If you are properly quoted in the papers today - you take upon yourself the wording of the Hon Wm Lorimer - I don't know you - I don't know Lorimer, but I have read the testimony in the case - I am sure you are sure that you don't know that Wm Lorimer is guilty you have no evidence to prove it.& that you have the nerve to condemn him so brutally is beyond beleif: 2 years ago you try to mow him down & you did brutally insult him — & then without knowledge of why — solely because that miserable news paper. THe Chicago Tribune condemned him - no doubt you are perhaps aware it supports you — God help this poor country with such papers forced on the public as is that sheet. I haveno desire to open up an argument but why in Heavens name cannot you come out like a man & say I know nothing = & you know that you do not know = of the guilt or innocents of this man & cease to condemn him = Great God, Roosevelt be a man at least for one half hour of your life — ! That fellow Kern — well look at him — I saw him once — who would trust him7 minutes any place. Look at that face of his & you've got him — He don't count at all - any place for anything — Think what it means to a man to be so humbled as you claim to have humbled Lorimer & think what it must mean to your conscience, you know to a [moral?] certainty that you are in no way familiar with the circumstances regarding the case so have at least the courage to come out & say I don't knowI have simply blamed this man for my own political reasons & preferment. You will be surprised. What a lot of good it will do you if you will show the proper courage & be fair - Now don't forget you do not know for a moral certainty that Wm Lorimer is guilty-- Yours truly Paul Felix PS You know why [Kem?] didn't reply to him? Well, he could nt [?] jab him too hard PF>2 Batavia N. Y. R. No. 1, July 14, 1912 My dear Mr. Roosevelt From my girlhood my ambitions have reached to the skies. I was just born that way. Satisfied just to be living expresses me better than anything else and I believe you can put the proper interpretation on that as you have on every thing else I have said. In fact you have understood me better than I have understood myself, and have lived what I could do nothing with but write. You are certainly the master performer on the South wind instrument. My husband's greatest enjoyment comes when he is playing baritone in a high class band. He and I, who evidently never were adapted to farming, have tried our hardest to make a success of it with rather poor results. I never give up but work to the limit and endure if necessary. But I have never been able to come, thro' him, to arealization of my hope and aspirations He cares for me, of course, and respects me but it is impossible for him to do what I should do were I a strong man, and it is equally evident that it is impossible for him to be his best under present conditions. It came to me the other day, like a flash, that when I sent you that letter last spring I had died to self. I was again living my innocent, happy - girlhood days or what they would have been under ideal conditions. I was loving, caring and sacrificing for everybody in general and you in particular because you came nearest my ideal and i wanted to help you be it by sympathizing when others blamed and by proving to fault finders that they could not “ask any question that I could not answer", concerning the purity of your motives for doing things. That was before I learned to give up self. I did not see how I could sympathize with you personally without bringing more discredit than credit to you. That's the one thing that kept me from doing more, and I am sorry now that I did not tell you how deeply Isympathized with you and appreciated your extraordinary courage in meeting and over-coming the obstacles in this campaign. To me you were honor personified at the Convention yet I let you wonder whether there was anyone that could appreciate your sacrifices because I was afraid. I care nothing about a career. I care nothing for the ridicule to me personally from others. To see my duty is to do it. Then I saw through a glass darkly but now I am face to face with the fact that I am loving, caring and sacrificing for everyone in general and for you in particular because you are the one person nearest my ideal and I want to help you be it and tell others they can either keep still concerning the purity of your motives else they can explain to me and absolutely fearless of the future, with an unflinching heart I stand wherever you want me to, to help you battle for the right to help you accomplish what you want to accomplish. Sincerely yours, Alice G. FolgrnTHE EVENING JOURNAL. DAILY, $3.00 PER YEAR. THE FREDERICKSBURG JOURNAL. TRI-WEEKLY, $1.00 PER YEAR. The Journal Publishing Company Inc. Fredericksburg, Va., 7/14/12 Dr. Bulloch, 2221 P street N. W., Washington, D. C. My dear doctor -- I am the editor of the Evening and tri- weekly Journal, and have filled that position for some little time. I would have written you before but I have been very busy: We have had a municipal election, than came a discussion over the water plant and the city lighting, etc, with many meetings of the city council. Also the formation of a third party. This paper is an out and out third party paper. Now, as a great personal favor to me will you write Roosevelt telling him that the Fredericksburg (Va.) Journal is doing its best for the third party, and have him write to me personally a letter commending the stand this paper has taken. Remember, it is the paper he is to commend, as that would carry more weight, but have him address the letter to me personally. I hope you are well, also your charming wife and the two boys--especially the older whom I took a great liking to. I hope you are all doing well. I wish to thank you all for the kindness shown me while I was in Washington. With best wishes I remain Your, Thomas S. Forsyth, Editor Evening Journal, Fredericksburg, Virginia.way of fulfillment by others who come after? Let us suppose that you succeed & reach great power, now or later. I daresay you will not:- as you say, it is on the knees of the Gods, or rather of God,- & heaven knows. I shall think no differently of you if you succeed or fail, but let us suppose it. What could you do - or [rather] strive to do? You are confronted with a hideous problem. The other day, in a hair-dresser's shop, I took up one of our illustrated papers. In it was a reproduced photograph of a number of your New TELEGRAMS } AND } DITCHINGHAM. STATION } 14. July, 1912 DITCHINGHAM HOUSE, NORFOLK. My dear Mr. Roosevelt I thank you for your letter. I take some credit to myself in that, although we have met but a few times in the flesh. I have yet been able to discern what kind of a spirit is in you. I suppose the truth is that as deep calls to deep like not only draws to, but understands like. Though my powers be less & my opportunities smaller, yet one fundemental inspirations & the aims of our hearts are in fact the same. I too hold that the civilized world wallows in a slough worse, perhaps, than the primeval mud of the savage; that it is possible (if not probable) that it may be dragged from that slough, cleansed & clothed in white garments: that it is the bounded duty of all high men as they shall answer for it at the last to do their honest best to bring this about: regardless of any wreaths of success, of any dust of failure, regardless of everything save that glory which, in all probability, will never crown their individual strivings, or, if it comes, be it all identified with their half- forgotten names. This I imagine, is a conviction that comes home to [some] certain of us with an added force when some of the cables that bind us here are slipped and our [sxxxxxxxxxx] being begins to thrill beneath the pull of that tide which flows over the edge of the World. At least it has come home to me, grieving in my own impotence, I am sure that it has come home to you. Our Faith then is the same. Now can that Faith be - not fulfilled - but put in theit - 2) lo! the toil & intellect of Ages gone. Such may be the will - the design - of God. I do not know. Yet I think it more probable that it is the cracked coin in which He will repay the wickedness, or the mad folly of Man. Cannot their torrent be stayed or turned? Here I see no more of it: yonder you may have a chance. Our existence as a race (I speak of all the white Nations) seems to me to depend upon the answer. If 2 TELEGRAMS } AND } DITCHINGHAM. STATION } DITCHINGHAM HOUSE, NORFOLK. York women (members of the upper 400 I think they were named) feeding their lap dogs, adorned with jewelled collars, off plates of gold. Elsewhere I have read and seen pictures of New folks pose starving in the snows of winter. There in brief is your problem & the problem of every civilized country of the Earth. The glutted,foul, menacing Cities, the gorgeous few, the countless miserables! And beyond, the empty Land which could feed them all and give them health & happiness from the earth to the grane. The problem then is - the Poor in the Cities, & the answer to it should be, the Poor on the Land, where they would cease to be poor. What are the bitter fruits of this city life? A confusion more complete than that which fell on the builders of the Tower of Babel; a failure more utter: a mere shattered mass of half dried bricks which will be washed to [nothing] shapeless mess by the rains of heaven & crumbled to powder by its everlasting sun. An ultimate dearth of Life: the woman whom will not bear children on the one hand: the woman who may not bear children on the other. A destruction: with a vision (for those who can see) of the East once more flowing in over the West & ??????Telegrams and Station Ditchingham. 3 Ditchingham House, Norfolk. this letter were published in the Press today, I am aware it would be mocked at. But if it could be read one short five hundred of years hence I wonder if the readers of that age would call me fool or prophet? Good luck to you!In triumph of ????? God's blessing and peace on you who are striving for the true & right. ???? prays your friend H. Rider Haggard P. S. My proper style nowadays is Sir Rider Haggard but if you ever write to me again I shall be much honored if you will drop all prefixes & call me simply by my surname as is our custom here. I hope that this Sunday evening screed will not bore you.BROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL NOs 667 TO 677 BROADWAY COR. 3RD ST. MIDWAY BET. BATTERY & CENTRAL PARK DAN C. WEBB, MANAGER. CABLE ADDRESS "TILLY" New York, July 14th 1912 [[shorthand]] Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, L.I. Dear Colonel Well, I see they got old Lorimers "Goat" thanks to you and it does me so much good that I can't hardly wait until I get to Chicago as you know I told you that dear old Senator Hopkins is my partner as he backed me in my patent. God Bless him that makes things a whole lot better and they will be getting better all the time, now the next thing I want to see if to get old Bill Taft's goat, he will never get away with the Stolen goods, and I want to say this Mr. Roosevelt you would be surprised to hear the way men talk since that thing happened in Chicago, Barnes and his crooked bunch and it makes people like you nowBROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL NOs 667 TO 677 BROADWAY COR. 3RD ST. MIDWAY BET. BATTERY & CENTRAL PARK DAN C. WEBB, MANAGER. CABLE ADDRESS "TILLY" New York, 19__ better than they ever did as I know I am always on the job the old Scout and I will always be on the job for you and I feel it in my bones that you are going to win as you are the most popular man in the United States today, and when your name goes on the ticket you will sweep the Country. Best wishes Colonel and when you see dear Uncle Joe Dixon tell him Jack Hayes walked all the way up that long hill to see you, I will always forever remember as I wanted to see the beautiful surroundings near your beautiful home. Well Dear Colonel I am obliged to be of any service to you any time you call on me I claim to be one of the safest and most reliable Engineers in the United States I have never had an accident have BROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL NOs 667 TO 677 BROADWAY COR. 3RD ST. MIDWAY BET. BATTERY & CENTRAL PARK DAN C. WEBB, MANAGER. CABLE ADDRESS "TILLY" New York, 19__ pulled some of the best men in the United States including your dear self and I want to have the pleasure of taking care of your some more if the opportunity avails its self, I want to be always known as one of your Engineers as you have so many through-out the country and they all think the world of you and so do I as I am for the cause that you represent and I want to be known as one of your Engineers that piloted you to Victory for the people of this great country who love you so well have courage my dear Colonel and we will be successful if this Country were needed a man they need you now. From one of your Engineers Jack Hayes J.P. Hayes c/o F. A. Delano Chicago Ills.[7-14-12] Form 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 RECEIVED AT 3 NY WN 49 NL. 6 Ex. Count ' and ) in bedy 1. seattle Wn July 14-15 Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, OysterBay .N.Y. (or forward) Will you join "Jilkums of Eltlaes" ( Friends of Seattle ) Live wires of seattle and alaska as honorary member will be largest organization in northwest and is permanent potlatch association nearly one thousand members new no charge please answer immediately... Horace McClure, President Seattle Press Club 913-aNIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD [7-14-12?] This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting the 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 of 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 Received at 19 ex 2 wn 186 NL. NL. Celo July 14-15 [1912] Hon Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay Progressive republicans of Colorado feel certain of ability to capture Republican Organization in september nomination primaries feel certain we can oust Guggenheim Stevenson devine and others from control of state and congressional nominations electors. Do not come under primaries if we carry Primaries our candidates will endorse and support Roosevelt electors on Independent Progressive ticket going into Primaries seems necessary because Majority of progressives want to vote at Primaries and to ignore Primaries by not putting up candidates we fear will cause many Progressive Republicans to vote democratic Primary ticket and thus align them with will an forces you will. [[shorthand]]Form 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, 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 messaged 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 Received at 2 (2) understand situation better by knowing that our law does not permit independent party primary nominations the only difference of opinion here between stewart vincent with progressive county leaders on one side and lindsey and cestigan on other are as to proper procedure. They will all go down the line for you to a finish on final program democrats are strongly united and pxxpxxxxxxx portion independent press supporting wilson. Ben Griffith Attorney General, Roy McLintock Pres. Roosevelt Republican Club of Pueblo Karl A. Byekel Publisher Daily News of Grand Junction Colo... 908-aForm 2289 D. [*Ms*] 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 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 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 RECEIVED AT THE WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 BROADWAY, N. Y. ALWAYS OPEN [*X37 ms*] A-122-W. A5. 43 N.L. WASHINGTON, D.C. JULY 14, 1912. HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, CARE THE OUTLOOK, NEW YORK, N.Y. IF IT IS POSSIBLE I BELIEVE I OUGHT TO SEE YOU WITHIN THE NEXT TWO OR THREE DAYS, CERTAINLY BEFORE YOU GO INTO THE CAMPAIGN, BUT THE SOONER THE BETTER A WORD AS TO WHETHER THIS CAN BE DONE WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED. GEO. E. MILLER 5:47 P.M. [[shorthand]]HEADQUARTERS Division of Rhode Island Sons of Veterans, U.S.A 47 WASHINGTON STREET, ROOM 5. JOHN H. BAILEY, Jr. Division Commander JOHN P. DAVIS Senior Vice Division Commander G. CLINTON PARKER Junior Vice Division Commander ALTON L. PIERCE Division Secretary WARREN J. ARNOLD Division Treasurer Providence, R.I. July 14, 1912. My Dear Col. Roosevelt. Thank you for the personal reply to my recent letter. The sentiment for the success of the Progressive movement is on the increase in this State. What is needed is a complete organization here. The one having charge of the work do not appear to be very active. If you could arrange to visit Providence prior to your trip West I am sure there would be such an awakening amongst us that the "old guard" would sit up and take notice. The five votes of R.I. might decide the election; one vote decided it some years ago. Truly yours A. E. Morrill. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.[7/14/127] Form 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 conditions named above. THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECIEVED AT 5 NY [?] N. 50NL. Pacific Grove Calif July 14-15 Col. Theo. Roosevelt, [?] yuterBay NY..... You shouted opportunity and effectively for fortification of the Canal amendment of the Taft Glorification peace treaty abr[?]gation of the russian treaty. Lorimors expulsion [?] new standard in election methods what is the matter with recognizing the chinese republic without regard to the interests of moneylenders Right will prevail. Francis G.Nagle.... 922-a [7-14-12] THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY RECEIVED AT 13 NY [[?]] 20 Washn DC 14 Hon Theo Roosevelt No. If you make any statement about the Lorrimer case suggest you insert some reference to the Chicago Tribune and its fight for Decency. J.C. O'LaughlinTHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU 1403 F STREET WASHINGTON, D.C. July 14, 1912 Dear Colonel: I took the liberty of telegraphing you today suggesting that you make some reference to the Chicago Tribune in any statement you might make a propos of the Lorimer case. I knew you would appreciate the advantage of this course. It has been a great fight, and in one way I am sorry we won. Had Lorimer been retained, it would have been a great aid to the formation of the Progressive Party. As it is, the people know that it is the men in the progressive movement who made victory possible. I suspect, though I have no basis for it, that the regulars told Lorimer to attack Taft, realizing that the President might be helped in the campaign as a result. I understand Bailey of Texas will make a speech in a few days in which he will denounce Taft for his interference in the Lorimer case. Of course,Bailey is owned body and soul by the interests. Clapp has been hearing from home and now is all right. Steenerson returned a few days ago from Minnesota. He says the state is afire for you and the new part. Faithfully, yours, J. C. O’Laughlin The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, New York.HOTEL UTAH SALT LAKE CITY UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF GEO. O. RELF 527 Aldine Square Chicago Ills. July 14th.1912. Mr Frank Harper Esq. Dear Sir. Your esteemed favOr of the 12th inst at hand and I am pleaseD to know that the song is pleasing to you, and the completely revised copy I am enclosing must be very much more so as it is certainly more Rooseveltian. The publishers will go right ahead with the song now and it will be put out in first class shape. If you wish to publish the enclosed words in the Outlook you can do so free of charge - not as a literary offering of course, but as a contribution to the Cause. In travelling all over the U.S. as I do every year, and meeting hundreds of the best people daily,, I find that there is a very general dissatisfaction with out emigration laws - allowing so many low class people to enter out beloved land to the great detriment to the grading of our general quality of citizenship. And the worst of it is THAT THIS CLASS OF IGNORANT FOREIGNERS ARE RAISING THE LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THE CHILDREN BORN IN AMERICA TODAY/, and constantly ignoring the flew of anarchy, socialism and other anti-American evils through out political system. Our resources are so well taken now that we do not need these European paupers as we did forty years ago, so why not be Brave enough to say so politically? The old parties have both been too cowardly to even hint of it. Very Sincerely Yours, E. H. PurcellFor encl see 7-14-12[7-14-12] WE STAND AT ARMAGEDDON. (Roosevelt Battle Hymn.) Words and Music by E. H. Purcell. (1) We stand at Armageddon, with our naked swords in hand, We fight the hosts of Mammor, seeking to posses our land, With sturdy arms and loyal hearts, we'll strike for HOME and RIGHT, And with the blessing of the Lord we'll win a glorious fight. (CHORUS.) chorus{ We stand for HOME and MOTHERLAND! our TEDDY too! We've chosen him to lead us for we know he's tried and true. We fight for the people's RIGHTS, led by brave Theodore, And just because we know he's true, we want him to lead once more. (2) The North, the South, the East, the West, are decked in war's array, And ready at our Teddy's call to march into the fray. From mountain crest to ocean strand let time the story tell, Of how we fought at Armageddon, how we fought and fell. (CHORUS.) (3) We stand at Armageddon, where the Right triumphed of old. And here we'll win or die beside T. R. the brave and bold. But whether death shall be the price, or life shall pay the cost, We'll count it nought to pay if RIGHT and HONOR be not lost. (CHORUS.) (4) Upon the field at Armageddon, friend and foe shall lie. One that unholy greed might live -one that RIGHT should not die. That to the sons of men be left the HERITAGE of RIGHT, and JUSTICE rule for ALL, and keep our country's HONOR bright. (CHORUS.) Copyright 1912 by The Sohubert Co, 527 Aldine Square, Chicago Ills. All rights Reserved.Encl in Purcell 7-14-12was an Adversary on that battlefield. I hope to see you soon and talk with you about your Campaign, in which I take great interest. I expect to hear very soon direct testimony showing that Wilson taught at Princeton the right of any State to secede from the Union. Sincerely yours D. E. Sickles [*[Sickles]*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Sunday, July 14, 1912 23 FIFTH AVENUE [[shorthand]] Dear Colonel Roosevelt I was much interested in Monday last in assisting at the birth of the National Progressive Party in the Metropolitan Tower. The speeches of Oscar Straus, Gen.l Horatio King, Ernest Harvier, and Comptroller Pendergast were all brilliant & enthusiasticallyreceived. Namier writes to me as follows "You certainly hit the bulls eye with a true bull moose shot yesterday and what you said about the Southern antecedents of Governor Wilson will sound a clarion note among Republicans & War Democrats and their descendants in The West. Where the early part of the Progressive Campaign will be fought I congratulate you upon your effective speech. You have rendered on invaluable service to a good cause." - I am sending you under separate cover a copy of my Gettysburg Pamphlet containing the letter to me from Lt. Gen'l Longstreet and the statement of Lt. Gen. Sheridan, in which both say I won this battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, by my tactics & maneuvers. These are certainly good critics in the science & Art of War Longstreet7-14-12God Bless Col Roosevelt's Party Aug 5 1912 Resurrection of A United Christian Party in Christ.AND GOD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT AND THE MORNING AND THE EVENING WAS THE SEVENTH 1000 YR DAY? [*3.*] July 14th; 1912. "Dear Sir" Col. Roosevelt did you get the Bible Calendar Chart of time for Eight thousand year's that I drew and Expressed to you; With charges all paid to deliver to you at Oyster Bay, N. Y. I started it July 1st, 1912 by express from La Belle-Lewis. Co. Mo. It was framed under glass; Pleas let me know Col Roosevelt if you received it in good order; as I was afraid the glass might get broken in transportation. And oblige your humble — Political Servant IN CHRIST. Respectfully J. C. Speer Newark Knox. Co Mo. Box-14. (N-B.) Is Hadley gon back on you Colonel? If he has he ought to have his rear end kicked all over Jefferson City Mo. "IN CHRIST." I will not go back on you Ted - if you and I are all that is left of the new Party.The ALLISON H. V. GASKILL PROPRIETOR LEADING COMMERCIAL HOTEL FIRST CLASS AMERICAN PLAN STRICTLY FIREPROOF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, July 14 [12] Hon. Frank Harper, My Dear Sir:- Mr. Bogne who sends you the cuttings with his own letter seems to have known in earlier years Mr. Roosevelt and his family and holds them in affectionate regard. Tho advanced in years he is a vigorous worker, for Mr. Roosevelt, and the movement here is going on with remarkable success. It will win! While a visitor here I am simply boosting as I can, as I did Chicago. Very faithfully, Charles Talmage[*32*] Gilmore City Iowa July 14th 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt New York. My Dear Sir:- I hope you will pardon my writing you again and taking up your valuable time but I wish to show you the personal interest I have and are taking in you. As an explanation of the cards I inclose to you let me say. There is a County consolidation talk going on here, So I got up this large ear of corn from five others (with a wooden base, or cob.) The largest ear I could find represents one Co., the smallest the other Co., the largest as consolidated. The other side, the large ear represents Cummins, as you will see. The largest ear yourself, and the small ear a nubbin of the Taft order. I had it on exhibition at our fourth of July celebration and carnival and am going to show it at our Co. fairs. And if I am fortunate enough to go to our State fair will take it along, for it sure catches the eye of every farmer and shows how I stand politically. Hoping my view will turn out as represented I remain, Yours truly H. J. Van AlstineFrederic B. Warren — Features 106 WEST 83rd STREET NEW YORK July 14, 1912. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Just a little paragraph which you might miss in the rush --- and it is too good to miss. Needn't acknowledge it. I've had an idea ever since the Chicago convention and mentioned it once to Senator Dixon: Wouldn't it be a good stroke for you to dictate a semi-editorial from 500 to 800 words long to be wired daily to all the Roosevelt newspapers, and such Independent papers as would take it, for use under your name in two-column measure, just as the Brisbane articles appear simultaneously in the Hearst afternoon papers and other dailies to which they sell it? All the Hearst offices are nervous over the situation Hearst has put them in by turning in to support Wilson. The column they have placed at your disposal will be featured big if you take advantage of it. I told Senator Dixon I would [hand] handle the syndicating details of any of these matters if you decided to do the work. Cordially, F. B. Warrenone Country. I want the South to know that you are their friend, and not the terrible monster, that you are painted by the newspapers; full of conceit, and selfish ambition, with only thought for yourself, and a determination, to gain, the White House at any cost. If the men of the South only knew you, as you are - and as I know you, ("Called of God") they would all vote for you, and the Solid South, (Democratic) whould become solid with North, East & West, a "National Progressive" Country. This is foreordained, & will surely come to pass: your constant and devoted friend, Mary E. Barnards Wiswell. Washington, D.C. 1608 - 13th St. N.W July 14-1912 Theodore. Rex-I. King of America- All Hail!!! My dear Colonel, Roosevelt, I must continue to address you as our "King" - since you, and you alone, can rule, and direct the destiny, of ninety millions.of people in the United States. All eyes, are looking to you for help, and for wisdom - You are head, and shoulders, above any man, in this world. Praise God, for making an all around man, when He made you. I belong to the National Progressive Party of the U.S. altho my name, does not appear among those appended to the "Call": I have as much influence, among men, as if I had the right to vote. Since you agree with me, as to certain reforms, which are badly needed, now in this Country - and will see that they are put into force, when you are in "The White House." I do not need to vote, when I have your ear. I enclose a cutting, from "The Washington Herald" of July - 12. You can easily break up the solid South, by letting it be known that you intend to see that the Southern ex-slave holders, are re-imbursed for their slaves. You will not do this, as a bid for their votes, but as an indication of your good faith, and to show our brothers of the Southland, that we are of one blood - one aim, and ofPHONE 1180 AUDUBON JOHN G. WORTH M. E. MEMBER AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS 116 HAMILTON PLACE NEW YORK July 14-1912 Col T. Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Colonel: Last night we organized the Progressive Club of the 23rd Assembly District in good shape! Gifford Pinchot sent me a letter of introduction to Senator Dixon who is not in town at present. I leave late in the week for California on professional business to be gone about four weeks. Out via Atchison Ry, back via Union Pacific and will stop a short while in Colorado, N.M. Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah all my old stomping ground I know what they think and feel about out there. I want to take off my coat and help in this fight and if there is anything I can do on this trip even to extending time please let me know. If not, don't bother about answering this I know you are busy. I may see Senator Dixon before I leave. Yesterday I met Mr Hotchkiss but his work is in the state.PHONE 1180 AUDUBON JOHN G. WORTH M. E. MEMBER AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS 116 HAMILTON PLACE NEW YORK I want to help restore representative government in city, state or nation , the Chicago convention was too much for me . I´ve travelled ten to forty thousand miles each year for twenty years thru all the country , and have the feel and sentiment socially, politically, financially, industrially etc., in every state. I´m working all the time in this campaign anyway. Gifford Pinchot or Owen Wister can tell you I have an unusual knowledge of the whole country, if you can also use this please let me know. Your very truly John G. Worth[*ack 7-18-12*] [*6.*] NATIVITY RECTORY 495 CLASSON AVENUE BROOKLYN 15 July 1912. My dear Col. Roosevelt, While I have not called on you or written to you, I have not been without interest in the events of the past three weeks. I do not see how you could do anything but bolt the Convention. It was nothing but robbery, as you justly called it. It seems to me your trump card is just that. You have been robbed, but worse, the people have been robbed. I find an impression abroad that a vote for you is a vote lost, for some think you have no chance. You must show them that you have more than a chance. Thousands of Democrats will vote for you and all the Republicans who have a conscience will stand with you. Then, I think you should speak out on the tariff. We do not want free trade, but we do want the tariff reduced on necessaries. Take wool, that famous schedule K; if, in spite of the high tariff, our manufacturers cannot afford to pay better wages than they paid in Lawrence they should go to the wall. I hope you will say a word on the present patent laws. Surely, there is no justice in a law that compels a man to burn a certain brand of gasoline in his motor or engine. Then, immigration should be restricted. The land is teeming with millions who are only waiting for a pretext to revolt and spread havoc in every direction. They have nothing to lose and the prospect of loot and vengeanceNATIVITY RECTORY 495 CLASSON AVENUE BROOKLYN is enough to enlist them in almost any cause. If you could see your way to say a word on this living wage, it would spike the guns of the socialists and will stir attention and support of the workers. It is not justice to compel any man to work for less than a living wage and the consequence of the injustice falls not merely on the workers, but on his family who being ill nourished and almost uneducated some become a charge on the community. I did not intend to write at this length. Believe all I am with you, win or lose, and I will do all I can to make it a win. Sincerely yours, John L. Belford TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS PROGRESSIVE PARTY CLUB OF ST. LOUIS 804 LaSalle Building TEMPORARY OFFICERS PAUL V. JANIS, CHAIRMAN SPEARMAN LEWIS SECRETARY BELL PHONE, OLIVE 810 [*S*] E B Bernard ch Fina Com July 15, 1912 Pres Theo Roosevelt. Oyster Bay NY Dear Friend, I am sending you a card of Membership of our Club in care of a prominent member, Mr. W. J. Holbrook Capitalist - Mr Holbrook is our Candidate for Department of Interior look him over. Mr. Holbrook does not say at this moment he is out for this place, but his "Hat is in the Ring" I inclose you his card. Yours truly, E B Bernard 803 La Salle Bldg St. Louis, Mo overFor 1 enc. see ca 7-15-12 Halbrook Wm. Holbrook is now at Lenwood Hotel Bay Shore Long IslandWm. Holbrook is now at Lenwood Hotel Bay Shore Long Island For 1 enc. see ca 7-15-12 Halbrook IF NECESSARY TO REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO MAIL ORDER NO. Philadelphia, City Hall Square. Paris, 44 Rue des Petites Ecuries. MAIL ORDER SECTION John Wanamaker, New York Broadway, 4th Ave. 8th, 9th, and 10th Sts. New York City, July 15, 1912. [*36.*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- The attached proposed "Preamble and Declaration of Principles of the Progressive National Party", is from the pen of Mr. W. Wessley Miller, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. It was sent to me by a very good friend of mine, connected with the Curtis Publishing Company, who thinks that Mr. Miller's subject is so good that it ought to come under your personal eye; and he asked me if I could arrange so that you would see it personally. I have read it over very carefully, and believing that at least some of the paragraphs will be interesting to you I am sending herewith. Sincerely yours, P.V.Bunn [*Things are looking good for the new party. I wish I could get right into it and help more. I wonder if I could see you personally about 3 minutes. I am expecting to resign here this week.*]For 1 enc see ca 7-15-12 Preamble + Declaration of PrincipleMR. BRISTOW, CHAIRMAN. MR. SMITH, OF MICH. MR. BACON. MR. PENROSE. MR. CHILTON. FAY N. SEATON, CLERK. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Washington, July 15, 1912. Personal. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: At the suggestion of Senator Dixon I write you a few observations on trusts, the judiciary, etc. I do not think the platform should declare for the repeal of the Sherman law, but for its amendment. I suggest this because the word "amend" will be more in harmony with the efforts progressives have made, and in my judgment will make a more favorable impression on the public mind, while it can be made as fully to meet your notions. I understand that you hold that the federal government should be given supervision over great industrial concerns, so that large corporations can be made to serve the public more efficiently; that business should not be penalized because of its size, but because of its conduct; that your proposition, in short, will be to give the government a supervisory control over big business, whether it be private or public service concerns. Many progressives contend for a restoration of competition, believing that it would be better for the country and more conducive to industrial progress. I would suggest that you indorse the idea of preserving competition where it is practicable to do so, but state that under modern conditionsTR---#2 in many instances competition has been eliminated and cannot be successfully restored, and in some cases it would not be desirable to restore it. In this way I think you can hold some of our friends who hesitate to go as far as we do, and time will demonstrate the correctness of your view. I have hesitated to accept fully your theory, but I am about ready to admit that in the evolution of our commercial and industrial affairs we may have in many respects gotten beyond the competitive stage. It is true that modern conditions have forced giant monopolies, which the government alone can deal with. But in this scheme of regulation is there not grave danger that "big business" will more likely control the government than the government control "big business?" I urge, as corollary to the government's control of big business, the imperative necessity for the agents of the government to be held directly responsible to the people for their conduct. The sinister influences which are so potential about the state capitals and the national capital when the stake is so great will ultimately get men in office who will conform to their desires , and the public is helpless unless such officers can be promptly taken out of office when they betray the interest of the people, and their places filled by those more devoted to the general welfare. The most effective way to accomplish this is by the initiative, the referendum and the recall. I have talked with members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and they areTR---#3 apprehensive that the Commission in time will pass under the influence and domination of the transportation companies. They tell me that they can see the insidious influences, and determined purpose of these great concerns to get control of the Commission. The railroads no longer object to giving the Commission power; they do not care how much power it has if they can, even by indirect ways, control its actions. In my judgment it is only a question of time until they will get control of this body, which now is the only great governmental agency that fully enjoys the public confidence. The initiative and referendum for national legislation may not be practicable, but there is no difficulty in the recall of national legislative and executive officers. Instead of making the president ineligible for reelection, as proposed by the Democrats, I would permit him to be reelected as many times as the people want him, and in addition give the people, upon certain conditions, the authority to recall him at any biennial election. If that had been the case, Mr. Taft would have assumed an entirely different attitude in regard to the enactment of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, or the Republican party would have been saved from annihilation by his recall. Courts. I believe in the soundness of your proposition for the recall of judicial decisions, though I must admit that the phraseology which you used in your Columbus speech and the construction which was immediately placed upon it by your enemiesTR---#4 conveyed to the public an entirely erroneous idea as to what you meant. But it is clearly manifest to me that we must have a reorganization of our federal judicial system. The great power of the federal courts and the life tenure of the judges have resulted in the sinister influences in our political life scouring a dangerous control of the judiciary, and the real menace to the stability of our institutions today, in my judgment, is not "the mob" but the federal courts. Many of these judges are oblivious to the industrial revolution that is going on. They undertake to apply antiquated ideas and practices to modern conditions. Being secure for life in positions that were in many cases secured through the influence of great corporations, they are reckless of public opinion, and really have a contempt for it. I feel that the platform should take strong grounds in favor of a reorganization of the federal judiciary by making district judges elective, and all other federal judges appointed for a limited term, giving them sufficient salary while in office to make the position attractive and independent. A limited term will require a scrutiny, at certain periods, of their records by the appointing power. If you could phrase your judicial decision recall proposition so that it would clearly appear that your intention was to give the people an easy and safe way of amending their constitutions, I think it would be a good thing to incorporate it in the platform. But in any event, the election of the inferiorTR---#5 federal judges and the appointment of the superior judges for a limited term should be a part of our system. Civil Service. Then again, I think that the civil service should be placed upon a somewhat different basis. We have too many appointive offices. The time of the president is taken up too much in doling out political provender, and the record of Taft's administration shows a most disgraceful and dangerous use of this patronage. Postmasters ought to be elected, reserving in the executive the power of removal for cause. The president should gladly divest himself of the enormous detail which the appointment of subordinate officers, such as revenue collectors, United States marshals, etc., entails. He could then devote more attention and concentrate his energies more fully upon matters relating to the general public welfare. This will never be done until the appointing power is taken from him, because as long as he holds it he cannot escape its exercise. The platform should deal in great fundamental principles, and the campaign should be made upon these principles. The trend of these times is toward socialism, and we must meet it by popularizing or in a manner socializing our institutions. As men become more equal in knowledge and intellectual attainments, in tastes and habits, they will demand more equal conditions, and such demand must be met or revolution will follow. I would not refer to the "new party" or "third party." WeTR --- #6 have had many of them, and with the exception of the Republican party they have all failed. Refer to the progressives, or the progressive party. That word represents a militant and triumphant spirit in the politics of today, and will appeal to men of all parties; and many men will support you as a progressive who will refuse to admit that they have joined a "new party." With kindest regards, Very truly yours, Joseph L. Bristow HROBERT O. BRENNAN, CITY SOLICITOR. H.W. BYERS , CORPORATION COUNSEL. ESKIL C. CARLSON, ASSISTANT SOLICITOR. WM. KERN, CLAIM AGENT. Offices of the Law Department of the City of Des Moines TELEPHONE: WALNUT 3316. July 15, 1912. [*32*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o Outlook. New York City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt,- I am enclosing clipping taken from yesterday's Register and Leader, published in this city, which contains a suggestion that might be helpful in working out a plank for the platform of the coming Progressive Convention on the Federal Judgeship question. Yours very truly, H.W. Byers. HWB-H.For enc see 7-15-12Wilson to Uncle Sam. Take care of your small change in money Matters. Uncle Sam to Wilson. You had better take care of too much change in political matters. From S. A. G. Cox 110 Tremont St. Boston Mass. July 15, 1912Why is the selection of Wilson by the Democratic Convention, to race for the Presidency like the gift by one friend to another of a cheap umbrella? Because, when it is lost he can say he does not mind. From S. A. G. Cox. 110 Tremont Street Boston Mass. July 15 1912[*DOTY REFRIGERATING COMPANY FURMAN STREET NEAR FULTON, OPPOSITE PIER 5 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK TEMPORARY OFFICE BUSH TERMINAL 34TH STREET AND THIRD AVENUE*] [*5.*] July 15, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. My dear Colonel:— I requested the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce to send to you to-day a copy of the May number of their proceedings, in which you will find a discussion and the resolution adopted on the subject of "Free Ships." The discussion was by men of different parties, but all agreed that as practical measure this was the only thing to do in view of the opening of the Panama Canal. The meeting was a very large one and the resolution passed almost unanimously, bearing on the subject of the regulation of corporations and large businesses. I have asked the American Academy of Political & Social Science at Philadelphia to send you the July issue of their annals, in which you will find this matter discussed by men of prominence in almost every station of life. The index will show you what you will probably call the most interesting article. I am going to-morrow to my farm in Connecticut, which is above Willimantic and shall try to see the Secretary of the movement in Connecticut, who I understandDOTY REFRIGERATING COMPANY FURMAN STREET NEAR FULTON, OPPOSITE PIER 5 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK TEMPORARY OFFICE BUSH TERMINAL 34TH STREET AND THIRD AVENUE a July 15th, 1912. ---#2--- Col. Theodore Roosevelt, is Mr. Joseph W. Alsop at Avon Connecticut. The young lady who writes this note for me is my neice Miss Buffington, who comes from a district in Pennsylvania above Harrisburg and in the neighborhood of the coal mines. She tells me that her father and brothers and most of the neighbors there, who have been life long republicans, are very much disgusted with the Reciprocity Bill and are now your advocates. In this city the recruits come along steadily. Hoping for the best results, I am Very truly yours, Ethan Allen Doty Per B B.EDWIN T. EARL I0II UNION OIL BUILDING LOS ANGELES, CAL. Los Angeles, Cal., July 15, 1912. My dear Roosevelt: Sincerely hope the obstacles you are meeting with in some of the states will be overcome, and I firmly believe they will be. The people are right at heart and they are going to respond to the Progressive movement by the hundreds of thousands. The writer has been in hopes a strong Progressive Democrat from some Southern state could be selected to run on the ticket with you. William J. Bryan, the writer believes, could be gotten on the ticket if proper influence could be brought to bear on him. He conscientiously cannot support the Baltimore ticket with any enthusiasm, as that ticket was nominated by the bosses, and Bryan cannot stand for political bosses. A good, strong Democrat should be put on the ticket in order to draw votes from the South, breaking up the Solid South, as it is high time the Solid South joins a national party and it now has an opportunity to do so. If it is not possible to find the right kind of a Democrat to go on the ticket, then the writer is firmly of the pinion that Hiram Johnson of California is the best man obtainable for your running mate. With the slogan, "Hands Across The Continent", I believe it would be a winning ticket, although it might not appeal as it should to the Southern voters. Yours very truly, E. T. Earl Y Col. Theodore Roosevelt, C/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y.EDWIN T. EARL I0II UNION OIL BUILDING LOS ANGELES, CAL. [[shorthand]] [*15*] Los Angeles, Cal., July 15, 1912. Private My dear Roosevelt: Thank you for your letter of the 9th inst., expressing gratitude for the co-operation of California in the Progressive movement. Rest assured, Colonel, California, Arizona and Nevada are features in the fight of Humanity vs. Plutocracy. The Los Angeles Tribune, my morning paper, reaches all through Southern California, Arizona and Nevada, and the responses to the coupons are simply wonderful. Humanity naturally is inert, but it is coming through with signatures to those coupons by the thousands. Already, over 15,000 Tribune readers have enrolled themselves as charter members of the Progressive Party. I suggested to Senator Dixon that the National Progressive Party should get out a certificate to charter members of the Progressive Party throughout the nation. This certificate should beat the pictures of yourself and the candidate for vice-president, with fac similes of your signatures. Every certificate should be numbered, and every Progressive paper in the country given a quantity of them to distribute among their readers at the rate of say one dollar each. In this way a large campaign fund could be brought in from the plain people who in return would get a souvenir which they would prize for all time. The bandana handkerchief is another good idea, and a red handkerchief with a white border and 48 white stars in the center, with possibly the pictures of yourself and the vice-presidential candidate in the four corners, would be a splendid thing and would stir up a lot of enthusiasm. The white handkerchief is the emblem of aristocracy, and the bandana handkerchief is the emblem of the plain people. Hundreds of thousands of people do not use any handkerchief at all. Not only the plain people but lots of white-handkerchief people would carry a bandana handkerchief if it were gotten up in proper shape. My Los Angeles papers, the Evening Express and the Morning Tribune could distribute tens of thousands of these bandana handkerchiefs at a nominal price to their readers. Your very truly, E.T. Earl Y Col. Theodore Roosevelt, C/o The Outlook 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N.Y.EDWIN T. EARL 1611 UNION OIL BUILDING LOS ANGELES, CAL. 16 Los Angeles, Cal., July 15, 1912. My dear Roosevelt: Judge Henry C. Caldwell, formerly a United States Judge for many years in Arkansas and an old Grand Army man who served in the army from Iowa, in a recent letter to The Tribune writes in part as follows: "I am a progressive in politics and law and a firm and determined supporter of Mr. Roosevelt and his progressive policies including the recall of judicial decisions on social questions, which is one of the soundest and best planks in his platform. No department of government stands more in need of enlightened and intelligent criticism and is more benefitted by it than the judiciary, and the decisions of judges on the social question about which the average judge who reads little besides law books knows distinctly less than the citizen of average intelligence should be subject to recall; if that question becomes a live issue in the canvass, I may wish to express my views on it in The Tribune". Judge Caldwell is now retired and lives in Los Angeles. With his consent, I am enclosing herewith his original letter from which the above quotation is taken. Yours very truly, Edwin T. Earl Col. Theodore Roosevelt, C/o The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. TL Encl.For enc see 7-8-12WILLIAM WATTS PRESIDENT C. B. ELWOOD SECRETARY H. E. MOREHOUSE TREASURER Watts-Morehouse Co. Jobbing MASONS' SUPPLIES Retail The Central Distributing Point of Michigan [*34*] Jackson, Mich. July 15, 1912, Mr. Theodore Roosvelt, % Outlook, New York, N.Y. Dear sir:- This firm is composed of one elderly and two young men, Mr. William Watts being a man of ripe years and experience, who has lived in this County for about 25 years. His life has been spent among the farmers of Jackson County and if there is one hobby at his present time of life, it is to see you succeed in your present efforts to correct the abuses, which are so clearly defined. Scarcely a farmer customer visits our office that Mr. Watts does not sound in your behalf. Entirely without his knowledge and as an admirer of yours also, the thought occurs to me that a letter from you to him personally would be much appreciated. Should it seem well to write him, you will, of course, not mention the source of your information. Yours very truly, WATTS-MOREHOUSE CO. C. B. Elwood MGR. CBE/B Our Warehouse Doors Accommodate Nine Cars Shipments Made Day Order is Received Our Warehouse Doors Accommodate Nine Cars Shipments Made Day Order is ReceivedREV. ANDREW R. BIRD, PASTOR, RESIDENCE: THE SHERIDAN PHONE: NORTH 3714. W. S. FELAND, TREASURER, 2008 P STREET, N. W. Second Presbyterian Church, Synod of Virginia, Southern Assembly, Presbytery of Chesapeake. DR. HENRY C MACATEE, CLERK OF SESSION THE ASHLEY. C. A. GALBRAITH, TREASURER OF BENEVOLENCES, THE DE SOTO. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 15 1912 Dear Col. Roosevelt: I hope when our convention is called to order that those in charge will not have a Romanist priest to deliver the opening prayer as was done in both of the other conventions. I also hope you fully appreciate the fact that the popular revolt against the present administration is due to the knowledge that it has done more to foster and encourage Romanism than all other administrations since the government was established. Sincerely yours W. S. Feland [*[Feland]*] To The Hon Theodore Roosevelt No answer desiredJAMES R. GARFIELD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1029 GARFIELD BUILDING CLEVELAND July 15, 1912 Dear Theodore: Your telegram reached me at Mentor, where I was not able to get a copy of the platform. I send you herewith a copy of the Currency Plank as it stood when we were in Chicago. Since my return from New York I have been up to my eyes in office business and have not been able to put in consecutive work on the platform. I shall work out another corporation plank. I hope to get at it within the next day or two. Doubtless you have seen the report of Mr. Lovejoy before the National Conference of Charities and Corrections on the subject of industrial minimums. A brief statement of this report appears in the Survey of July 6. I think we can very well [take over that report and practically all] use the suggestions regarding industrial conditions, and It may be well to advocate the specific measures that ought to be adopted by the nation and states in the fight against the causes of poverty. I have telegraphed White that I would come to Kansas this month and help in that campaign. If the dates make it possible I shall speak at one of the Chatauqua meetings in Illinois. Matters in Ohio are going well. We will have a conference tomorrow or next day, at which I hope Walter Brown will determine to come forward with us in such fashion as will not only put the electoral ticket in the field, but also take up the state and county fights. Always sincerely, James R. Garfield HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT NEW YORK[*enormous syndicate underwriting middleman's commission - few profit at expense of many Father [Curran?] (Silver Jubilee - in Boston)*] NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "WALDORF, NEW YORK." PHILADELPHIA CABLE ADDRESS "BELLEVUE, PHILADELPHIA." The Waldorf. The Bellevue-Stratford. The Astoria. The Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia. The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, July 15, 1912 [[shorthand]] My dear Mr Roosevelt I enclose the suggestions. The part that has the two marginal lines (pp 9, 10, 11) is the important part. After talking with a number of business men and others my judgment is that if you courageously push forth these proposals, by September Taft will be unheard of, and you will be in the lead, or near the lead in this race. My reasons? 1st They will not harm you one particle among the people who are for you on the principle that you are Their Champion. 2nd Hundreds of these sorts of business me, especially the younger men, who have not yetNEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "WALDORF, NEW YORK." PHILADELPHIA CABLE ADDRESS "BELLEVUE, PHILADELPHIA." The Waldorf. The Bellevue-Stratford. The Astoria. The Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia. The Waldorf-Astoria New York, ______19__ reached the top are secretly in love with you and what you stand for. A good many of them are afraid to speak - have been made to half believe you are a disturber. The proposals I suggest will give these men their voice. And it will be made to count. 3rd These proposals [They] will strike a distinct issue between you and Willson. He cannot accept them without going back on his platform. If he combats them the business world will begin to rise against him. And what you want most is an issue - a distinct fighting issue. Fear in the old issue of more generalNEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "WALDORF, NEW YORK." PHILADELPHIA CABLE ADDRESS "BELLEVUE, PHILADELPHIA." The Waldorf. The Bellevue-Stratford. The Astoria. The Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia. The Waldorf-Astoria New York, ______19__ progressive men he has the advantage of being a new man. Make the contest a real fight over something, not a mere foot race. On the item of working mens pensions, consider carefully if it would not be better to declare in favor of laws "aiding and encouraging employers in establishing pension systems similar to the German system" A good many people shrink from the compulsory feature at a bound. I am going today to the Griswold, New London, Conn for several weeks. Will be glad toNEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS "WALDORF, NEW YORK." PHILADELPHIA CABLE ADDRESS "BELLEVUE, PHILADELPHIA." The Waldorf. The Bellevue-Stratford. The Astoria. The Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia. The Waldorf-Astoria New York, _____19__ come to Oyster Bay to confer with you anytime. Would especially like to see your outline of platform after you have prepared it and before it is given out. There has been no time in our history where a man had it so completely in his power to embody public opinion in a mighty party, destined to gain control of the nation, as you have that power now. Sincerely, Peter S. GrosscupNational Progressive Party Headquarters Provisional New York State Committee No. 1 Madison Avenue New York July 15th, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, "The Outlook" New York CIty. My dear Colonel:- I had a call from Mr. George W. Sisson of Potsdam, N.Y., today. Mr. Sisson is the president of the New York State Agricultural Society and a leading paper manufacturer. He is with us, and has some good ideas on the high cost of living and the tariff on wrapping and print paper, that I think you should have. I tried to hold him over until tomorrow so that he could have a few words with you, but he is obliged to be in Northern New York at that time. If it it is not presumptuous to suggest it, might it not be well for you to bring him down here later in the week. He is so representative a man, and so well informed as to matters affecting the agricultural community and the wall paper industry, that he might give you some suggestions and thoughts of value. Very sincerely, William H Horchriss Provisional State Chairman. WHH/M.New Canaan Ct July 15. 1912 Dear Col: Your pleasant note rec'd. Mrs. King is not to have the entire credit for that call. I was there too but a little shy on visiting cards. No answer expected. With best wishes Yrs sincerely Horatio C. King Hon. Theo RooseveltPOST-A-TELEGRAPH-OFFICE BUTLERS-CROSS RAILWAY-STATIONS LITTLE-KIMBLE-1-MILE PRINCES-RESBOROUGH-3-MILES GREAT-MISSENDEN-5-MILS TELEPHONE 32-P-O-WENDOVER CHEQUERS COURT BUTLERS CROSS BUCKS 15th July 1912 Dear Theodore: This will be handed to you by Mr. Philip Kerr, who is the Editor of the new Imperial Quarterly Review "The Round Table," and who is a great friend of Oliver, Milner, Hoace Plunkett, and many of your other friends here besides myself. He devotes practically all his time and energies to working for the closer union of the English-speaking peoples and is one of our most brilliant writers and publicists. He is just passing through Canada and the United States on his way back from a tour round the world and I would greatly like you to meet him if possible. Yours ever, Arthur Lee. P.S. With truly British impunity we pronounce "Kerr" as "Car"!UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA THE LAW SCHOOL WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS, DEAN [*3*] July 15, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York N. Y. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: - At Chicago you asked me to let you have a copy of the speech I was to deliver, and did in part deliver at Chicago. In the enclosed I have made a few more changes in the text I used at Orchestra Hall, and which I gave to the representative of the Associated Press in you room at Chicago. Of the enclosed copies you can make any use, or no use, as you desire. I telegraphed you in response to your letter, which did not reach me here until several days delay, that you could make any use of the "Statement" you desired, either with or without my name, as you prefer. As I also said in the telegram I believe it is of the greatest importance that the facts of the most flagrant of the so-called contests should be set forth in a way to command attention. I was delighted therefore to see in this weeks "Outlook" that you would take up the 'facts' in regard to some of these cases in the succeeding issues. Nothing will do more good. I constantly meet the inquiry "Was the Convention eally a steal? Where can one get the facts?"-2- You will be interested to learn that I find nearly all classes of persons here, native and summer, entirely uncertain as to how they are going to vote; a widespread belief that the old organization of the Republican Party is dead and an eagerness to learn about the new party, which is encouraging. Most sincerely yours, Wm. Draper Lewis [*[LEWIS]*] Copied from manuscript received from Northeast Harbor, Maine.R.F.D. Route 2, Stafford Springs, Conn. July fifteenth, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. THE OUTLOOK 287, Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: - Pray do not take the trouble or time to acknowledge the accompanying ballad. I am sending it to you simply because the impulse to write it grew out of the Chicago "steal", of infamous memory, and because I wish to add my still, small voice to the deafening chorus of rejoicing that would hail your re-election to the Presidency. It is good to know that there is one man who is willing to stand for Principle in these difficult days. Being a resident of unenlightened New York I, as a woman, have no vote, but I try to make good in another way and root for you (forgive the obnoxious word!) whenever I can --- which is pretty much all the time. In praying for your indulgence I ought to add forgive this trespass on your attention and believe me Very sincerely Julie M. LippmannFor encl see 7-15-12[*[ca 7-15-12]*] THE BLOODY HAND. Now harken, an' I'll tell ye, how that it chanced to be The bloody hand first came to stand For the badge of Barony. It was inn times of olden (God 'fend us from such days, When grim men dared dark deeds, and fared Forth on foul, plunderous ways!) Out from a North-sea country, across from Angle-land, A buccaneer made bold to steer, With his fearsome rower band. "Good fellows" speaks the captain." he who first touches shore Shall be its lord, with hind and hoard For his, forevermore. So up and row, ye boatmen row ye, until your keel Shall grate the strand row, sirrahs, and Row thou---thou son o' Neil!" The rowers bent them double, and rowed with main and might. The glanoing boats, like dancing moats, Shot through the clear sunlight. As fee as from they floated, as light as any gull. With all so swift, no one made shift At first, ahead to scull. Till, came a parlous moment, when the grim son o' Neil, Saw something dim ahead of him Shadowlike, noiseless steal. Then all his straining sinews stood out like cords of brass, His flinty eyes struck sparks, deathwise At him who fain would pass. But, though he rowed like Satan, pulling his very best, The rival craft, it winked and and laughed And, steady, forward pressed. Out of the gray, green water, the slithery rocks rose high. What was to do? O' Neil, he knew--- He gave a nighty cry, Quick as the flashing, levin dropped hold upon his oar, Aimed axe at wrist, nor, aiming, missed, And--- flung his hand ashore! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Now, let's give thanks, sweet gentlemen, that in our time and land, Is no such deed of theft and greed, No red-fisted robber-band! Else, would there surely follow a day, when we should see One bloody hand turned ten-thousand The badge of Barony. Julie M. LippmannEncl in Lippmann 7-15-12Founder of the Southwest Museum, Inc. (Hector Alliot, Curator) The Southwest Society Archaeological Institute of America President, M. A. Hamburger Vice Presidents, Gen. H. G. Otis H. W. O'Melveny Dr. Norman Bridge Maj. E. W. Jones Treasurer, W. C. Patterson Secretary , Chas. F. Lummis Executive Committee J. A. Foshay, Chairman Charles Cassat Davis Joseph Scott Robt. N. Bulla M. A. Hamburger Dean Mason Hector Alliot James Dix Schuyler Dr. J. A. Munk Chas. F. Lummis Herbert J. Goudge Dept. of Educational Extension: Director. Dr. Edgar L. Hewett, (Di. School of American Archaeology) in charge, Dr. Hector Alliot. Curator of the Southwest Museum Standing Committee - Joseph Scott. Dr. Norman Bridge. Dr. J. A. Munk The Curator and Secretary Ex Officio. Los Angeles, Cal. [*JUL 15 1912*] Dear Col. Roosevelt: Proof of "Den" for August - of my blunt sort. Hope it may interest. Signs are that the women of California are about 3 to 1 for you; & the superstition of party doesn't bother them - as they never had it. As to the men, I think there's a sound majority. Always your friend Chas. F. Lummis -Madison Wis. July 15, 1912 [[shorthand]] Dear Col. Roosevelt, I hope to be in New York Saturday - Will wire if I cannot be there. Please do not give publicity to the matter if possible. Will get Commons if possible. Very truly C. McCarthy At Outlook office?FRANCIS E. McGOVERN GOVERNOR EXECUTIVE CHAMBER MADISON, WISCONSIN July 15, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Care The Outlook, New York City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: [[shorthand]] Your night letter was received today and I must answer it hastily tonight as I leave early tomorrow morning for Camp Douglas to review the annual maneuvers of the Wisconsin National Guard and shall not return to Madison until Thursday. I saw Doctor McCarthy this afternoon and he will leave here Friday in time to be in New York Saturday morning as you suggested in your telegram to him. We talked over the matters you mention and he will present what suggestions I have upon the subject. President. Van Hise's book on "Concentration and Control" is the best thing I have read recently upon the trust question. Possibly you have read it and if so you know that it harmonizes with your views upon the subject. Aside from the legislation of the last session upon industrial and labor questions the LaFollette platform as presented at Chicago embodies what we of Wisconsin think should be advocated along these lines. Concerning the currency question I know very little except that I am opposed to the Aldrich bill. There are other things I should like to write about had I the -1-Francis E. McGovern Governor Executive Chamber Madison, Wisconsin time. A long letter however becomes unnecessary in view of Dr. McCarthy's proposed visit. With personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, Francis E. McGovernCOPY. July 15, 1912. MARSHMERE, QUOQUE, L. I. My dear Mr. Dohrman: - I have received your letter of July 11, with enclosures, for which I thank you. How far your diagnosis of British motives is correct I cannot estimate. Of one thing I am sure; that which they work first, and properly, to British interests, one of their leading dispositions is to maintain kindly relations with us. This proceeds not only from a general friendliness and the stress of the German competitors, but also from the evident bearing of American power not only upon the security of Canada but of Australia and New Zealand as well. From every point of view the increase of our navy is imperative, and I am very glad to see that you revert to that in both your letters. All diagnosis is subject to error; but there can be no error in securing our own interests by an adequate "exhibition" of organized power. Armament, not arbitration, is as yet the one sure safeguard of peace. I note that you have satisfied yourself to vote for Mr. Wilson. I myself am waiting to see the final stand taken on the two-battleship programme by the House. If it persist in refusal, I shall conclude, as I have long held, that the Democracy as a part has not yet risen to that grasp of national issues that make it fit to be trusted with the country's future. I cannot find in Wilson's personality and assurance that he will compensate for his party's shortcomings. His conversion to advanced "progressive" views has synchronized to nearly with his seeking a nomination to convince me of the purity of his motives; and his prolonged absence from his duties as governor of a state to push his personal fortunes has confirmed the unfavorable impression. I may add I am a convert away from him, having once esteemed him highly. Very sincerely yours, A. T. Mahan. H. G. Dohrman, Esq., Steubenville, Ohi. Form No. 168. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. ---------INCORPORATED--------- 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERCA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. 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A131NYJD14 WASHINGTON DC JULY 15-12 HON THEODORE ROOSEVELT CARE THE OUTLOOK NEWYORKCITY I WILL BE AT THE OUTLOOK OFFICE TOMORROW TUESDAY MORNING THANK YOU VERY MUCH 1143AM GEO E MILLERTelephone Morningside 651 Claremont Morris Custom Shirt Maker 242 West 116th Street, N.Y. July 15, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir:- Having just engaged in the custom shirt business, I take liberty to place my name before you. If interested in this line at present I can offer sufficient saving over usual prices to make the proportion very attractive. I have spent several years upon the fit of custom shirts, and my work is guaranteed satisfactory in every detail. I shall be pleased to call with samples at any time to suit your convenience. Very truly yours, Claremont MorrisLancaster, Pa., 7/15/12. Hon. Robert La Follette, Washington, D. C. Dear sir: I have been a subscriber for your weekly magazine for several years. I have secured you several subscribers for this paper. During this time I have looked upon your publication as throwing extremely valuable light upon the political situation and the character of many of our public servants. The work you have done in Wisconsin has obtained the admiration and inspired the confidence of those of us who believe that government was created as an instrument of the people to serve their interests and carry out their will. It is, therefore, with extreme regret that your friends here notice the violent and almost hysterical abuse you are heaping upon Theodore Roosevelt. I have read nearly every speech Mr. Roosevelt has delivered and I have failed to find anything in his speeches except what commanded the approval and deserved the endorsement of any man who is a believer in popular government. Of course, I am unable to look into Mr. Roosevelt's mind and diagnose his motives. Your capacity for that kind of work may be greater than mine but it makes little difference to me whether he is prompted by personal ambition or not so long as he serves the people. You seem to forget that Theodore Roosevelt was drafted as a candidate for the present campaign and it is the conviction of his friends that he did not want the presidency and would not have been a candidate if any progressive in the Republican Party would have developed sufficient strength to make his nomination possible. Your comments upon the character of Roosevelt's delegates almost pass comprehension to one who had considered you a high-minded and honorable man. No matter what claim either the delegates who were for Taft or those who were for Roosevelt might have to a seat in that Convention, there is one fact that to my mind settles the whole subject. Roosevelt was without doubt the deliberate choice of the great majority of the Republican voters and a convention's only excuse for existence is that it ascertains and gives to the voters the candidates they want. In the States in which presidential primaries, or what approached presidential primaries were held, the record is positively complete and this shows without cavil or doubt that Mr. Roosevelt had a clear majority in those elections of from 800,000 to 1,000,000 votes. That Roosevelt was the undoubted choice of the Republican voters of the country and was deliberately robbed of the nomination by a Convention that misrepresented the Republican Electorate is shown daily. Iowa's sixteen national delegates, elected under the old caucus and convention system, supported Taft and everything demanded by the discredited Convention Bosses. In doing this did they express the wish and will of the Republican voters of Iowa? The recent Republican State Convention held in this State settles the matter. This Convention, composed of delegates elected directly by the people, declared by a two-third vote against an endorsement of Taft and pronounced his nomination fraudulent. You should quit your denunciation of Roosevelt and denounce the Republican voters who want him. Then your position would command more respect and your conduct would not be so badly discredited by an appearance of malice and disappointed ambition. You are practically taking the position that the candidate wanted by the voters ought to be denied them. You are ranking yourself side by side with Penrose, who foully insulted you in the Senate, Crane, discredited in his own state by his own party and one of the group of the United States Senators who undertook to display their contempt for you by leaving the Chamber when you spoke. I do not expect perfection in Roosevelt. I expect it in no man. But my conviction is, from what we have observed, that Roosevelt undertakes to learn what the people want and tries to give it to them. His position on question of industrial and social improvement are well understood and have incurred him the everlasting enmity of the group of who want to exploit the lives of the workers and the business of the country. Your enmity toward Roosevelt seems to be more marked that you feeling against the men, including Taft, who consistently and persistently obstructed all your policies and attempts to establish reforms. You give much space to railing at Roosevelt'sHon. Robert La Follette. campaign fund. I have failed to see a single word in all your publications concerning Mr. Taft's campaign fund. No Republican candidate ever nominated by my party, whose nomination depended upon the aid of corrupt delegates coming from Southern States never giving a single electoral Republican vote would get my support, neither should a progressive Democrat support any candidate of his party whose nomination depended upon the aid of Tammany. I had hoped to see you the Republican candidate for President but I regret to say that I now am glad that you are not. Very truly yours, H. K. Myers Copy of a letter I have sent to Hon. Robert LaFollette. I am glad you have never said a word in reply to this man, but it takes more self restraint than I possess, Myersfought for fundamental betterments unless frightened into doing so by your advertising this fact. We split Dedham for you this spring at the primaries (Dedham & Brookline are the two extreme "stand pat" towns in Massachusetts.) We will get more votes for your new party this fall here. [*[7/15/12]*] Riverdale, Dedham. [*10.*] Dear Mr. Roosevelt- I want to congratulate you for handling your fight against Mr. Lorimer successfully. Individually the senate has high standards (few exceptions, Lorimer & his like). But collectively the senate has not of late years,Good luck to you Yours very truly Richard W. Nickerson July 15th 1912 P.S. Ted Jr. was in my class at college & visited us several times.[*[7-15-12]*] Form 2289 D. [*Ms*] NIGHT LETTER Form 2289 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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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 ten times the amount paid for transmission; 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 RECEIVED AT THE WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 BROADWAY, N. Y. ALWAYS OPEN [*X59 Ms*] ESW. TO 49 NIGHT LETTER CNT QNS 1 WD. WASHINGTON DC JULY 15-16-12 HON THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE OUTLOOK NEWYORK AS SHOWING ADVISABILITY OF SUCH A STATEMENT AS I SUGGEST, NEWYORK EVENING POST TELEGRAPHED KEELEY ASKING HIM TO WIRE FOR PUBLICATION WHAT TRIBUNE THOUGHT OF ALLEGED QUOTATION FROM YOU; "IF WAS MY FIGHT AND MY VICTORY, " SUGGEST YOU GIVE OUT STATEMENT TOMORROW MORNING AND PLAY UP TRIBUNE, STRONG J C O'LOUGHLIN 222AMJNO. M. Parker 816 Union ST NEW ORLEANS July 15/ 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Esq. N.Y. My Dear Mr. Roosevelt Nearly every letter I receive urges strongly the importance of having the Progressive party a White Mans party strictly. Such a plank would be a power throughout the South and in my own humble opinion, the gain in the labor vote of the North & West would be very great. - What think you? - Wired you today " Wire P. F. Fridge, Ellisville Miss. - He pledges hearty support. His son present Adjutant General Mississippi. - Urgent personal business compels me to be away for a week. - Expect to reach Chicago Aug 1st. Very truly yours Jno M Parker[*[7-15-12]*] Form No. 1864 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. ---------INCORPORATED--------- 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERCA. 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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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 Number Sent By. Rec'd By. Check 14 H K. 5 P 21 N. L. RECEIVED At the WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 Broadway, NY. Always open. July 15, 191[*[12?]*] Dated Herkimer, NY 15 To Frank Arthur [*X 27 Ms*] Care The Outlook 287 Fourth Ave Ny. City Please have Colonel Roosevelt wire me to Herkimer that he wishes Hart Davenport & myself to consult with Watkins of Utica. Theo Douglas Robinson 8 56 pm[*24*] ARTHUR SCHAUB, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 103 S. FRONT STREET [[shorthand]] MANKATO, MINN. July 15, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York. Dear Sir:- I am addressing this communication to you in the following spirit: In 1908 the paper which I control the Mankato Post of this City deserted McCleary the standpatter, and wiped him off the map from the second Congressional District of this state. Our paper cannot support Taft, that is out of the question. Our paper does not desire to support Wilson - we are not Bryan men by any means. We believe in the following principles which we want you to consider: 1. A thorough square honest revision of the tariff [downard] downward, without equivocation or subterfuge. 2. A solution of industrial and commercial questions in the light of other countries, especially Germany, so that the great resources of our country may not be considered the prey of great moneyed interests, but a god-send to every American citizen. 3. Strong and honest efforts to make the enormous natural wealth of this country a common inheritance, and not an exclusiveARTHUR SCHUAB, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 163 S. FRONT STREET, MANKATO, MINN., 2. possession of the rich and influential. If these measures are indeed upon your programme, as is claimed, our paper will support you. The support of our paper will mean, as you may learn by due inquiry, carrying the Second District of Minnesota - J. T. McCleary.s old district. If your programme and platform is indeed as we expect it to be I hope you will, let us hear from you at an early date. Yours truly, Arthur SchaubBOOKER T. WASHINGTON PRINCIPAL EMMETT J. SCOTT SECRETARY WARREN LOGAN TREASURER THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE FOR THE TRAINING OF COLORED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA BOARD OF TRUSTEES SETH LOW, CHAIRMAN, MEMBER OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE, 30 EAST 64TH ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. W. W. CAMPBELL, VICE-CHAIRMAN, TUSKEGEE, ALA. WARREN LOGAN, MEMBER OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA. WILLIAM G. WILLCOX, MEMBER OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE 3 SOUTH WILLIAM ST. NEW YORK, N.Y. R. O. SIMPSON, FURMAN, ALA. ROBERT C. OGDEN, 125 EAST 56TH ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. JOHN C. GRANT, 4651 DREXELL BOULEVARD, CHICAGO, ILL. V. H. TULANE, 433 SOUTH RIPLEY ST. MONTGOMERY, ALA. ELTON GILREATH, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. CHARLES W. HARE, TUSKEGEE, ALA. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA. A. J. WILBORN, TUSKEGEE, ALA. CHARLES F. DOLE., D. D. JAMAICA PLAIN, MASS. WILLIAM J. SCHIEFFELIN, MEMBER OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE 170 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. CHARLES E. MASON, 120 FRANKLIN ST. BOSTON, MASS. FRANK TRUMBULL, MEMBER OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE 71 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N.Y. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 287 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK, N. Y. JULIUS ROSENWALD, HARVARD ST. AND HOMAN AVE. CHICAGO, ILL. [[shorthand]] July 15, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Avenue New York City. [*29.*] My Dear Sir: I enclose herewith copy of the minutes of the recent meeting of the Tuskegee Institute Board of Trustees. I am sorry you could not be present at the meeting. It was a most helpful one. Please acknowledge receipt. Yours truly, Emmett J Scott S/Enc. Secretary.For enc see 6-27-12GEO. F. SHEPARD, PRES. AND SEC'Y HORACE L. SHEPARD, VICE-PRES. AND TREAS. OFFICE OF THE GEO. A. SHEPARD & SONS CO., Tanners of Fancy Leather AND MANUFACTURERS OF HATTERS' GOODS. HATTERS' LEATHERS. LEATHER STITCHING. RUBBER CEMENT. HAT WIRES. HAT PADS. COVERED REEDS. FRENCH VENTS. EYELETS. FANCY LEATHER. BOW TIES. STICKERS. LEATHER PRINTING. REELED CLOTH. OILED SILK. OFFICE AND FACTORY: HENRY STREET LEATHER DEGREASING Bethel, Conn. July 15th, 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir I enclose information from one who should know. Yours truly Geo F. ShepardFor enc see 7-15-12Geo. W Wagner (Successor to Wagner & Nelson) Wall Paper 227 Central Avenue N. W. Phone, E 69 T. S. Phone, Spruce 316 Paints and Artists' Materials Painters' Supplies Brushes and Mouldings Manufacturers of Floor Polish Minneapolis, Minn 15th July 1912 Hon Theodore Roosevelt, My Dear Sir:- Please note enclosed clipping. It speaks for itself. Respectfully, Geo. R. Von Wagner From Minneapolis Tribune of 15th July 1912.For encl see 7-15-12[*9.*] Albert H. Walker Counselor at Law Floor 10. Park Row Building, Manhattan, New York July 15, 1912. [[shorthand]] Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Colonel:- I sent you a copy of my History of the Sherman Law when I published that book in October 1910; and I am sending you another copy today to make sure that you may have a copy at hand in case you have occasion to review the history of that law, including its history during your own administration of the Federal Government. At this moment I am rereading your letter to me of August l, 1911, wherein you said at that time that you believed to the full in utilizing the Sherman Law as the best instrument then at hand, though you did not then accept it as being in the end all sufficient. Some months after that letter was written, Senator Clapp invited me to appear before the Interstate Commerce Committee of the Senate, and expound the Sherman Law situation as I then understood it to exist. In pursuance of that invitation, I attended upon the Committee on January 9, 1912. On that occasion I made an introductory statement, and was afterward extensively questioned by members of the Committee, and particularly by Senator Cummins. The official report of that statement and dialogue is printed in part XIX of the Hearings before the Committee, on pages 1537 to 1571, inclusive. Thinking that you may possibly be glad to learn what views Senator-2- Cummins and other Senators appeared to take on the subject at that time, I am venturing to send you in another envelope, a copy of that part of the official report of that hearing. Also I think that some of the statements made by myself on that occasion may be interesting to you; and anyhow, I venture to send you the pamphlet for whatever it may be worth to you. Please do not take time to even acknowledge the receipt of this letter or book and the pamphlet, but simply examine them or lay them aside for future examination, as the case may be. Yours very truly, Albert H. WalkerIN RE LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE WALLACE 359 FULTON ST. JAMAICA, N. Y. CITY TELEPHONE, 89 JAMAICA Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. July 15, 1912. Dear Sir and Friend, I have tried several times to make an appointment to meet Mr. Prendergast, as you requested, but have thus far been unable to do so, As I leave here on Friday, not to get back from across the water until about September 1, I will be unable to attend the Chicago Convention, I did want to talk with Mr. Prendergast in regard to proposed platform, assuming he would have something to do with its preparation, but fear now I will be unable to meet him before going away. Am sorry that I was unable to meet you personally, desiring to have a heart to heart talk with you in regard to some features of the platform. Not being able to do so, I send you herewith a few suggestions with explanations as to their purpose. I assume that you will and should have more to say than any one else concerning the platform, and desire to call your attention to certain features which seem to me to be desirable. Please look these over and refer them to whoever may be in charge of its preparation. It is almost impossible to arouse the people to a new organization unless some distinct moral issue is in the fight. You will doubtless have this, in the fact that you were robbed at Chicago. Wishing you great success and hoping to receive acknowledgement of this from you before I leave, I remain as ever, Your sincere Friend. George WallaceUniversity Club Manila [*9.*] 15 July 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, [[shorthand]] Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Dear Sir: As I imagine this is going to be a "hot season" till way late in October at least, I am taking the liberty of sending you a light straw hat. Please do have anyone take the trouble to acknowledge it as I am just now leaving the Philippines. yours with every good wish W. A. WalshForm 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 trans- mission 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. RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave, N.Y. ALWAYS OPEN 428NY HN '12 UTICA NY JULY 15 '12 HON THEODORE ROOSEVELT, OUTLOOK OFFICE, NY WILL BE VERY GLAD TO LUNCH WITH YOU AT ONE OCLOCK TUESDAY. THOS. N. WATKINS 1040PTHE NATIONAL NEWS ASSOCIATION 200 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK ALL THE NEWS AS IT HAPPENS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO NATIONAL NEWS ASSOCIATION July 15th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Contributing Editor, Outlook, New York City Dear Sir:- We note, through a press clipping in our possession, that your first address in the presidential campaign will be made at Point of Pine, Mass., on August 15th. We are writing to place formally before you a request for an advance copy of this speech. The National News Association is a press service supplying over three hundred of the most influential papers in the United States with news. Among these are numbered all of Mr. Hearst's publications, together with the Pittsburgh Gazette Times, New Orleans, Item, St. Louis Star, etc., etc. We trust that you will keep our organization in mind if advance copies of this address are prepared for the press. Very truly yours, NATIONAL NEWS ASSOCIATION BY R. Watson RW/TSFrank H. Sommer Everett Colby Borden D. Whiting Charles L. Williams Edward O. Stanley, Jr. Ernest L. Quackenbush Sommer, Colby & Whiting Law Offices 738 Broad Street Newark, N. J. July 15/12 Dear Sir - It may be of interest to you to see the enclosed form of "call" which we are to use for our N. J. Convention. I have tried to give it an unequivocal tone without at the same time reading out of the convention men who feel that the Republican Party still lives and that they may support you as the rightful "regular" nominee. Very truly yours Borden D Whiting To Col. Theodore Roosevelt c/o "Outlook" - N. Y. CityFor enc see 7-16-12Lamar Clinton County, Pa July 10 /12 The Equitables Progressives Col Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Sir Your text of the call To the People of The United States to convene aug. 5th "so that the people maybe served in sincerity, and truth" etc appears to me the dawn of righteousness and herein most respectfully enclose to your reading Mexico change of currency Resolution written in broader of news paper print Proposed Canada treaty. Detrimental to Republic's Harmony obliterated $1,893,000,000 Silver Coin India China Siam multitudinous "savings money less" and in acknowledgement of receiving please favor me with its return Unless you you need it for greater publicly Would like to obtain one copy of Outlook The name of Equitables would be magnetic The acute unrest of the people in the interior are great mountain streams going to waste loss coal and labor, oligarchal news papers refusal to publish on any terms our Hidden debit on foreign commerce an increase annually of $700,000,000,000, its continuation will be of short duration by financial disaster the greatest ever known Yours Faithfully James Wolfenden[*[ca 7-15-12]*] Preamble and Declaration of Principles Progressive National Party "[The] Old State House Bell, time hallow'd bell Thy magic tones were first to tell In thunder tones, 'A Nation's free.'"PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL PARTY Standing on the battlefield of Gettysburg, yet moist with the inundation of blood poured out by the heroic Northerner and gallant Southerner - each inspired to deeds of deathless fame by devotion to abstract Principle - the sainted Lincoln solemnly adjured his auditors, "That we so act that this government of the people, for the people, and by the people shall not perish." The maintenance of this government in its pristine vigor is of imperative importance. Leaders of civilization! Leaders of industry! Leaders of thought! Any abandonment of the spirit of the Declaration of Independence constitutes not only an act of treachery to the faith of our forefathers, but it is a base betrayal of the helpless millions of other countries, struggling for self-government along the path of progress blazed by these United States. A CALL TO ARMS An eminent authority states; "An able, resolute, inhuman and aggressive moneyed oligarchy is in control of government, and of all lines of production, finance, transportation and commercial distribution. This oligarchy knows no God and no country; it puts property rights above human rights; it has established industrial slavery. Its mercenaries vote at its dictation at elections; its legislators, executives and judges enthrone it and defy the people. It has in its hands more than ninety (90) per cent. of the accumulated wealth of the nation." To this emphatic arraignment it may be added that, with only one-fifteenth of the world's population, we are doing more than one-third of the world's work in mining, agriculture, transportation and manufacturing. Exposure of these conditions is not enough. Campaigns of education are not enough. The ballot offers the only peaceful emancipation of the people. ROME'S OVERTHROW A WARNING That the powers of government are subverted for the aggrandizement of a few, as was plainly evidenced at the Republican National Convention at Chicago, when about fifty men over-rode and insulted millions of the rank and file of the Republican party; that a monopoly of money, -a concentration of wealth so great as to defy appreciation, -makes prosperity to order and panics at will, whenever the interests of the Morgans or Rockefellers demand; that these interests, combining politics with corruption, have again and again invaded the governmental offices, making it necessary to fight two battles, the first with our unworthy guardians before we can engage the common malefactor, - all this is known even by school-children. Shall corruption canker the National Government until this Republic is doomed [*to decay*] as Rome decayed? No! "In God We Trust", and His deliverance has come. No longer shall wealth, arrogant, and resistless, limit production, stifle competition, dictate Cabinet affairs, purchase Senators and Legislators. The Defeat of Bossism must be the Nation's battle-cry and this crux makes of the Progressive National Party not a partisan movement but one vital to the maintenance of this Republic. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH The American people have in the organization of such a party an instrument for the preservation of their freedom. In order that there may not be misunderstanding and division among earnest advocates of various reforms, the Progressive National Party seeks to unite them in a common effort for practical results. Hitherto, argument has availed nothing. Action, because it has not been concentrated, has accomplished little. Now, the Progressive National Party affords the needed opportunity for an intelligent concentration of all progressive reformers irrespective of party. 2REFORMERS! VICTORY IS CERTAIN Concentration leads the way to victory. You owe it to your ancestors, who established this Nation, - you owe it to posterity, who will maintain this Republic, - to do all in your power to make effective this awakening of the public conscience; to further those issues you know to be ethical. It is not expected that you cancel former progressive affiliations. It is not necessary that the granger who joins endorse a scientific monetary system, nor that the equal suffragist shall relax her efforts for "Votes for Women." The Progressive National Party urges its adherents to go to their associates in all lines of reform and insist upon the new doctrine that every reform movement shall become part of this progressive federation of which each is as important as the whole. THE HIGHEST LEGACY One cannot conceive of any champion of freedom, who reads the brief Declaration of Principles, hesitating to subscribe in good faith to that Declaration. The future prosperity of the people depends upon their wise decision at this time. There is no possible right influence that can persuade any sincere advocate of reform to decline to give this movement his hearty endorsement and no other consideration should turn him from this comprehensive plan; nor will any patriotic American joining this organization seek to evade the tremendous responsibility devolving upon him. It offers the highest form of legacy he can leave his children's children. LIBERTY BELL'S INSCRIPTION The same momentous decision confronted our forefathers and the coincidence of the Liberty Bell's inscription with the historical events that followed must be regarded as a Providential inspiration. So long as it continues to be associated with the cause of the people against tyranny and oppression will it continue to cultivate an undying patriotism like that of the noble patriots whose deeds gave realization to the inspired words: "PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND, UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF." When the State House in Philadelphia was approaching completion in 1751, the Representatives of the Freemen in Pennsylvania empowered their speaker, Isaac Norris, to obtain a bell which was finally hung in the steeple in 1753, and was rung upon many occasions to summon the Assembly and the people to protest against tyrannical acts of the British government. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE PROCLAIMED The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence late in the evening of July 4, 1776. On Monday, July 8, 1776, the Declaration was read in the presence of a great concourse of people. The Bell, which had called them together, was again rung, thus announcing the formal reading of the proclamation. The King's coat-of-arms, the symbol of oppression, was torn from the walls of the court room in the State house and burned upon the common. WOMAN AND REFORM Today, as in 1776, another war for freedom must be fought. Again there is the eternal demand for human rights. But, now "a noble type of good heroic womanhood" joins. The cause of reform can never permanently succeed without her aid. She goes forward through the darkness toward the light. With her higher spirituality, she overcomes obstacles which men do not so much as discern. The path of higher idealism she willingly enters. She favors political and social reform. She is instinctively against the bosses. But, if women are natural reformers, a moment's reflection must convince them they will never receive recognition from the foes of reform. In fact, the all-pervading intrigues of special privilege, which oppress, intimidate and obstruct the honest and patriotic citizen at every turn, have caused even greater suffering to women and children than to men. HER INCREASING ACTIVITY IN POLITICS But that patriotism which actuated the founders of this Republic lives still. The Progressive National Party, championing the cause of women, accepts the challenge of the oppressor with full reliance in the 3people who constitute the sovereign power. As the bosses know, to their regret, woman has proved her adaptability for politics by taking active part in them. She has marched with the man who can vote. From the same platform she has raised her voice for the candidate she honestly believes in. She has asserted her power by wresting a leadership, here and there, and yet neither of the two old parties of corruption has raised a hand in her behalf except to pass meaningless resolutions. When the dauntless army of freedom triumphs, - when the new incumbent of the White House is the strong, courageous, & representative of all the people, - and, more than all, when there shall be absolute liberty of conscience, - then the suffrage will be given to woman. Having borne, even in greater measure than the man, the burdens of unjust legislation, little wonder that woman should take active part in this fight for emancipation. EFFECTIVE WARFARE PROPOSED It has been estimated that for each Democratic or Republican voter there are two ultra-patriotic independents who, if a certainty of success were offered, would aggressively oppose both old parties. Where would the two parties of tyranny of privilege stand if all reformers were working together for victory? To assert that the people cannot be made to see and take advantage of this situation is an insult to their intelligence. REFORM LANDSLIDE IMMINENT In Pennsylvania there now exists an independent, non-partisan, state party somewhat similar to what the Progressive National Party stands for throughout all the states. There the Keystone Party swept the bosses out of power in Philadelphia and elected Blankenburg, the great "war horse of reform", Mayor of the most partisan Republican stronghold in the Union. The following figures show but partly the popular disaffection from both old parties in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of November, 1910. With about 1,400,000 citizens entitled to vote, the vote was only 998,444 divided among parties as follows: CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR Republican (Tener) . . . . . . . 415,611 Democratic (Grim) . . . . . . . 129,395 Keystone (Berry) . . . . . . . . . 382,127 Socialist (Slayton) . . . . . . . . . 53,053 Prohibition (Larkin) . . . . . . . .17,445 Scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .813 "In 1904, on a total vote in Pennsylvania of 1,236,738, Mr. Roosevelt had a plurality over Judge Parker of 505,051, and a majority over all candidates of 395,789. The vote of the Republican Party, it will be seen, was more than twice that of the Republican Party in 1910, while at the National election in 1890, the Democratic Party won in this State by a plurality of 16,554, and by a majority of 222. In twenty years the Democratic Party had fallen from a majority party to a hopeless minority party." There would have been a difference of several hundred thousand votes had the organization of the Keystone Party been understood by the common people. A reform landslide is imminent, and an independent National political party, putting itself squarely on record as against every un-American tendency, will gather into its ranks an army of voters whose united strength will sweep all opposition before it. NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY A BROTHERHOOD The motto of the Progressive National Party is: "WE DEMAND THAT THE STRONG UPLIGHT THE WEAK." The upward trend of mankind is the fulfillment of the law of progress, and the rich man can advance only as the world advances, rising no higher than the level of the whole human race. Society, after all, is no stronger than its weakest member. 4The very soul of a patriotic and progressive organization, such as this, should be fraternalism, finding spontaneous expression in good deeds. Our highest duty is helpfulness towards others. Then the reformer may sing sweet songs of triumph, and every toiler in the ranks of labor feel the touch of inspiration amidst the battle and storm, while the capitalist will see his gloom pass into sunshine and gladness. But, there must be an over-mastering purpose which shall conquer every obstacle; and continue the fight for fullest representation of popular government until success comes. FORWARD OUT OF ERROR The doom of corrupt bossism will be sealed with the triumph of this cause. The historian of the future may charitably speak of the machine politician's tardiness in admitting the rights of labor merely as an instance of the prejudice which always obstructs the onward rush of progress, but he will liken the reformer who votes with the machine politician to the Tory who would have betrayed Washington's heroes as they marched with bleeding footsteps through the snows of Valley Forge. LEAVE BEHIND THE NIGHT You now have an opportunity to put Principle above minor theories and isms. You are invited to join a far-reaching revolt against public graft and political bossism. Instead of remaining a series of segr[a]egated movements which numerically exceed the foes of progress, but divided are hopelessly out of the running, all reformers must come to a better understanding if the American people and their children are to inherit the liberty their ancestors gained for them. All patriotic people must awake to their danger and its remedy, and no longer permit servitors of the "interests" to use partisan war-cries to cover evil doers from attack. FORWARD THROUGH THE DARKNESS Partisan questions have wisely been avoided. The great issue is whether the people or special privilege shall rule. The civic condition of our country is in no sense political. We are face to face with an economic revolution, and only a non-partisan movement can be trusted as a weapon of relief. In urging the doctrine of concentration, - insisting that other issues are secondary to the issue of a federation of all reforms, - the organizers know that the superb intelligence of American manhood and womanhood must impel the[m] [*nation*] to recognize the correctness of this doctrine. FORWARD INTO LIGHT The noble women who are battling for the suffrage will meet with general success when they join forces with male reformers. The male reformers will meet with general success when they join forces with the suffragists. Once common-sense leads them to combine, sinister interests in favor of a few as against the welfare of the many will no longer hover like an evil spirit over the deliberations of legislative bodies. The great issue is liberty vs. bondage. The Liberty Bell stands against the enslavement of the people today, just as it stood for freedom against oppression in 1776. This inspiring emblem of light has a message of optimism for all. It is well worth any sacrifice to see it in the hallway of old Independence Hall. Lovers of liberty from all parts of the world gather around it to receive fresh courage and hope and, turning their eyes to this venerable witness of the fulfillment of its own prophecy, their faith in the right receives new impulse. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES The lesson which this grand emblem taught by the deeds it inspired, with the soul-stirring eloquence of its brazen tongue, must never die. In order to perpetuate this lesson for posterity, the [National] Progressive [*National*] Party has adopted the following brief Declaration of Principles: The Progressive National Party re-affirms the Declaration of Independence, declaring it to be its purpose to increase that deep patriotism expressed by ¨The Spirit of 76¨ and the old Liberty Bell; [uncomprom.] 5[isingly] to oppose uncompromisingly all legislation against the Rights of Man; and to impress indelibly upon future generations, by fitting propaganda, those ideals of enlightenment, justice and equality of opportunity for which the Liberty Bell stands. This is the heroically simple platform to which you are asked to subscribe. If the patriotism of a Washington animates every fibre of your being, once you have obtained a membership, you will not allow a day to pass without securing at least one new member, who, when the lofty purpose of this movement grows upon him, will be as enthusiastic as you are to aid in its upbuilding. CO-OPERATE WITH US NOW You are invited to become a member and thus in at least one more American home raise this lasting monument to unselfish patriotic devotion; to assist us in the work of concentrating all Reformers in a single, dominant movement by delivering to others the message of courage and patriotism. The co-operation of all patriotic men and women is desired. Upon every American devolves the sacred obligation incurred by our Revolutionary Fathers to carry forward the cause of freedom from every form of bondage. The opportunity is at hand to strike the blow. The Progressive National Party is the weapon placed in your hands. By joining this movement you pledge yourself anew to your duty as a citizen, and by your energy and your enthusiasm, and by your friends and neighbors, you do your duty as you would wish your children to believe you did, and as the martyred Lincoln adjured you. Join this organization today. Send in your application at once. Organize your neighbors. Discuss the governmental problems facing the nation. Earn your right to be a free citizen. Remember "Who would be free, himself must strike the blow." Oh! how the good old Bell rang out Of Liberty and Freedom's birth. From east to west, from north to south, The message from its metal mouth Rolled all around the earth. 6Enc. in Bunn 7-15-12[*ans. July 15, 1912*] Compliments of [[shorthand]] Mr.David Jayne Hill. [*5.*] Ave d'Anton. Parisca 7-15-12 Enc. in Bernard 7-15-12W. J. Holbrook. President Holbrook Blackwelder Real Estate Trust Co. Capital + Surplus $1250.000 St. Louis.Enc in Byers 7-15-12SENATOR CUMMINS' DISCOVERY Senator Cummins, in the course of a colloquy with Senator Sutherland of Utah, int eh debate over abolishing the court of commerce, suggested a way of disposing of recalcitrant, judges that is likely to receive much more than passing notice. The senator did not go into the matter at length, but, incidentally, he said: It would be most interesting and instructive if we were to enter for a little while, and I do not intend to do it, upon the consideration of the term "good behavior:" there is a prevalent notion throughout the country that judges of the federal courts are appointed for life. That is not true. They are appointed during good behavior. I recognize that I am not now speaking directly to the point at issue, but we so often hear the expression that federal judges are appointed for life that I want to give some publicity to the real language of the constitution which is "during good behavior." I am not one of the persons who believe that the determination of what is good behavior can be had only in an impeachment trial. My friend from Utah says that unless a federal judge is removed from his office by the process of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors he must remain there during his natural life. I cannot agree to that statement. I do not intend to pause to even discuss what procedure coulbe established by congress in order to determine what good behavior is and what it is not; but I believe that there is misbehavior on the part of a judge for which he can be removed from office that does not rise to the dignity or the severity of either a crime or a misdemeanor. Mr. Sutherland—Mr. President— The presiding officer—Does the senator from Iowa yield to the senator from Utah? Mr. Cummins—I do. Mr. Sutherland—Either I did not express myself as I intended to do or the senator from Iowa did not quite understand me. I did not mean to say that a judge could hold his office until he had been impeached. I recognize that there is a great deal of force in what the senator from Iowa says. I am not at all certain but that there may be such behavior upon the part of a judge short of an impeachable offense that would enable us to get rid of him. I did not mean to antagonize that position. Mr. Cummins—I am very glad indeed that I misunderstood the senator from Utah, because in these days when clouds are rolling around the judiciary, when various remedies are proposed for their recall, I think it is well to remember that we have somewhere, somehow, the power to determine the good behavior of the judges of the United States and that therefore we do not need, at this time at any rate, those severer changes that are suggested in the recall by a popular vote. I think that congress has the power to provide for the removal of judges of the United States whenever they violate the rule which is established in the constitution, namely, the rule of good behavior; and that means that these judges must obey, and as I am very glad to say they generally have obeyed, the fundamental principles of propriety and of ethics. I knew the English act provided that the will of parliament should be the rule for determining good behavior. It is not so with our constitution: and neither is it so that the only way of determining good behavior is through a court of impeachment. We have never yet had the occasion: it never became necessary for us to legislate upon that subject, but when it does, I predict that congress will find that it may upon giving the judge affected opportunity for trial and for hearing prescribe a procedure which shall erect some other test, some higher standard than the low and ineffectual test and standard of the commission of a crime or a misdemeanor.Enc in Shepherd 7-15-12[*From Geo F. Shepard Bethel Conn*] Fourth ________________________________________________________________________________________ FARMING IN CONNECTICUT ______ It Holds Key to Solution of Problem of High Cost of Living, Says Mr. Jarvis. _____ In a letter which he is sending throughout the state, President Charles M. Jarvis, of the Connecticut State Agricultural society says upon the subject of agriculture in Connecticut: The greatest problem before the people of Connecticut to-day is the high cost of living- it effects us all, rich and poor, because never before have the necessities of life been so high as they are to-day. The future offers little relief except such relief as the people of Connecticut can give themselves. Baron von Lebeck said long ago: "Perfect agriculture is the true foundation of trade and industry. It is the foundation of the riches of the states." All values come from the soil and the state of the Connecticut creates but a scant twenty-five per cent. of the food supplies which our people annually consume. Note: Suppose that all the trunk lines connecting New England with the west should be tied up by the invasion of a foreign foe, or by a prolonged strike or from extraordinary causes whatever- how long could New England exist under these circumstances? Since 1850, 800,000 acres, representing $24,000,000, of tillable land in Connecticut have gone back to the untillable condition. Between 1900 and 1910 the decrease in out tillable lands has been 8,000 acres per year, representing a taxable value of nearly one quarter of a million of dollars- more money than our whole state agricultural appropriation. As a manufacturing community, our position is exceedingly hazardous, as all of our raw materials are imported into the state and practically all our manufactured product is marketed outside of the state. We produce nothing except one-quarter of the food supplies which our people consume. We change the character of our raw product by adding labor, but we depend upon those outside of our state to supply us with the raw product and take our finished manufactured articles. Worse still, seventy-five per cent. of what our people consume, the bread of their mouths, comes from outside of the state. Stop one moment and think of this alarming condition, every thinking man must realize what it means. Less than ten per cent of our total area is under active cultivation, and only twenty per cent of our total area is under any tillage whatever. Seventy-five per cent of the total area of The British Islands is under cultivation. Denmark, with an area about three times the state of Connecticut, and a population of about the same density, provides her people with all the food that they consume and exports $150,000,000 of food products to foreign countries every year. Japan, one of the oldest nations of the earth, supports an ordinary household of four to six persons on four acres of land. If the twenty per cent. of the tillable land now farmed in Connecticut produced even an ordinary crop (measured by foreign production) it would furnish nearly all the food supplies our people here consume. If the tillable area of Connecticut was cultivated as it is in France, Denmark and England, we would not only raise all the food supplies for our own people, but would have a large surplus to spare. Farming in Connecticut may be a lost art, and yet farming in other countries where the land has been under cultivation for thousands of years is a profitable industry. James J. Hill says: "The one question of supreme importance (to the American people) is to extract from the soil the maximum production at the minimum cost. Upon this solution depends as to what is the cause and remedy of the present high cost of living. The farm is the only hope of our national salvation and until its production can be increased and produced cheaper, we can have no material relief from the present high cost of living." Our people for a generation have been flocking to the cities and our farms are deserted, and yet the French peasantry are the most prosperous (money saving) of any people on the face ow the earth. We must devise some method to make our farming attractive to our young men and profit must be the greatest attraction. We talk about the beef trust being responsible for the high cost of living and yet never has beef brought as high a price on the farm as to-day-- our grain foods are equally as high, our population increasing and our production per acre decreasing. There is no relief in sight, except the spirit of agricultural enterprise, and we appeal to you that it is the duty of every citizen of Connecticut to encourage agricultural enterprise, or the time will soon come when the high cost of living will close the markets of the world to our manufacturers. Our lands are not worn out-- they simply need proper and scientific cultivation. Why give financial aid to the land show in New York, where our agricultural products cut such a pitiful figure in comparison with other states- a little interest and a very small financial contribution will work wonders on our Connecticut farming industry. One of the greatest educators in agricultural lines is the agricultural fair. The Connecticut State Agricultural society has now taken on a new lease of life and desires interest and support from all classes of people in all parts of the state. The management rests with life members and to become a life member the expense is but $10. Encl in Von Wagner 7-15-12The Public Pulse Communications for this department must not exceed two hundred words. Letters of general interest are always welcome, but they must bear the writer's name and address as an evidence of good faith, though not necessarily for publication. A Voice with a Single Vote. Editor of The Tribune: In these days when the acts of the polically great are being so widely discussed, it seems to be high time that the voice of the individual voter was heard, to whom the whole problem will eventually be submitted. Some such expression may have its effect in lighting the way, and the writer will appreciate your courtesy in opening the columns of your paper for its publication. The principles at stake involve the very freedom of the individual and should be placed before party or any consideration of party loyalty. The time has gone by when a brand can be placed upon the voter and the candidate, thereby making one an object of veneration to the other. A tendency toward better things is manifest in the improvement of our selective methods, now being perfected in many states. In our local government, we can see the possibilities of improvement and progress. The will of the people, as regards the administration of local affairs, seems likely of accomplishment. It is only when we get to the highest branches of our government that we find stagnation, decay, and even retrogression. As a people, we have no real voice in the selection of our most important leaders,—it is doubtful if we ever had. The same old game is being played, nullifying the wishes of the people, and we are expected to accept whatever is put up because it has the brand we have always purchased, regardless of its present contents. It is no longer a question of party, it is a question of men, what they stand for and will stands to, regardless of the brand. We each feel the pressure on our necks, not the great common people,— the term has no place in our text,— but everybody except the chosen few. The hand that takes an exorbitant toll for what it gives out, reaps but a meager portion of the whole. The relatively small business man is one with the wage earner; their fight is, and should be, shoulder to shoulder. What we need is a man, not merely a good man, of good intentions, but a leader, a strong, forceful man of experience, who will fight the battle of the people against the bosses of all political creeds. To whom does your mind turn, first of all, when you read this line? To Theodore Roosevelt, twice president of the United States. Make no bones about it, twice. The events of the Chicago convention make the arguments against the third term the merest twaddle, so patent is it that the people have no real voice in the selection of candidates. We need Colonel Roosevelt a great deal more than he needs us. In this time of crisis, let us make no mistake. Among those men who would do their utmost to further the cause of progress and of the people, he stands a giant, full armed and ready. We should go into battle with only the best. We should not select any old roller with which to iron out the machine. We are going to do it anyway, but we can make it something more effective and lasting than a rebuke to the boses of one party. Our steam roller can be the biggest thing that ever was, if we select it with care and see that everybody turns out to aid the engineer. Colonel Roosevelt can accomplish more with it than any other man available, and it is up to you and I and every individual voter to give him the chance to use it. Now that a presidential term has intervened, some individual of lapsing memory says "Well, what did he do?" History is full of what he did, but of all his accomplishments, this is the greatest: He was the first president of the United States who demonstrated to the voter that there was an answer to the question of the politician, "What are you going to do about it!" The Panama canal is of much less importance to us than that. If we really want a square deal, we can get it by putting honest, capable men in office, and the greatest of these is Roosevelt. A comfortable fat man is not the temperament for president of this Republic. We need a mental and physical athlete, a fighter of keen vision and wide experience, to circumvent the wiles of the corrupt. Colonel Roosevelt's enemies should be among his most important assets as a leader of the people. The writer's only regret is that he can personally give this no prestige, but perhaps that is the reason it will be more important as an index of the public pulse. Let all people work together for a nationalism founded on a square deal to the whole American people and the people within and without our gates. Colonel Roosevelt is our greatest leader. Let us rally around him from every party and every creed. Let us organize in every state in the Union and demonstrate that this nation must progress and the will of the people be supreme. We have seen the defeats of the government in all those half-hearted attempts at regulation of corrupt powers; fines have been remitted, and things that should be the property of the whole people given to the privileged individual. We must have a strong man, and Colonel Roosevelt is that man. He can do things where others would fail. As president of the United States, he gives us prestige as a nation abroad, prosperity and a square deal at home. His strong personality gives us a prestige such as battleships and armies along cannot give. If this could only go broadcast to every voter everywhere, if every paper that is really with the people in this fight for their political rights would take it up and give it the widest publicity, others would show the stand they take, and such a power would be evoked that no man, ring or party could stand against or between us and our rights. Let others speak, with no uncertain sound, that Colonel Roosevelt may know that we are behind him. We have the greatest man in this hemisphere as our leader and none can stand before him and us if we so will it. The writer will vote for Colonel Roosevelt, if he gets the chance, whether there be few or many to do likewise. H. EDWARD WALKER.Encl in Walker 7-15-12ON-STAR, WEDNESDAY, --- CRONIN, OF FAMOUS ROOSEVELT RIDE, IS CONVALESCING HERE --- Man Who Drove Vice President on Perilous Trip Now at Ellis Hospital --- RECOUNTS EXPERIENCE --- Is Improving From Injuries Received in Stumbling Over Car Fender --- Mike Cronin, who immortalized himself as "the man who brought Roosevelt out of the woods," is convalescing at the Ellis hospital after a serious accident. He was christened Michael F. Cronin, but very seldom since the day of his baptism has he been accorded the full appellation. It's just plain Mike. Officially, though, he is Michael F., because his letter heads and envelopes are inscribed with this legend: "The Starting Point of Theodore Roosevelt's famous ride with Michael F. Cronin, September 14. 1901. Aiden Lair, N. Y." There, now, if that isn't enough to classify a man on the same plane as the other immortals, then what can you ask? Early that memorable day while President McKinley was dying, a martyr to an assassin's bullet, Mike Cronin drove Roosevelt 16 miles over mountain roads on the last lap of a thrilling, mad race to a railroad station, so that the country might not be without a president. A Year to Recover. Three weeks ago Friday, while on a business trip to this city, Mr. Cronin stumbled over a street car fender laying on the Albany Street sidewalk. In the dark he did not see the obstruction. In addition to being bruised, he received injures that endangered his life. Mr. Cronin is afflicted with double hernia and it was necessary for him to be operated upon immediately. Well, he was on the operating table three hours and got patched up again. Had it not been for his rugged health, the result of an outdoor life, he would have stood little chance. As it is he will be a year getting over the effects of his fall. And to a year of quietude for an active person like Mr. Cronin is no joke. However, he is making the best of his condition, has got on speaking terms with every interne, nurse, patient, etc., in the hospital, and is very optimistic. His wife has come down from Aiden Lair lodge to visit him. So of course he was in a happy frame of mind when interviewed today; in fact, Mr. Cronin has been interviewed so much that he sort of has the habit—he ------------------------------- Tells All About Ride. "Sure. Roosevelt is the bravest man I ever saw," said he, propping himself up at the invalid's table and passing over one of his envelopes bearing the afore-mentioned legend. "He rode all that night, or most of it, one of the worst nights it was every my ill luck to be out in, and he rode with death that night. With the president lying on his deathbed he had ventured up into the mountains to see his wife and children. He went up in disguise, but when he stopped at my lodge I knew him, even though I never saw him before. "He came up in a rickety buggy. When he entered the lodge he picked up a paper and held it close to his nose. Then I saw his teeth. I'd 'a known him anywhere! He had to acknowledge the corn and he shook hands with everybody at the lodge. He said he'd got words that the president was recovering and he'd taken off a day or so to see his family who were up at Tawhaus. Well, to make a long story short, he got word that things were critical at Buffalo and that he'd better hike out in case he was needed to take up the presidential reins. Suppressed Important News. "He started from Mt. Marcy and came 10 miles to Tawhaus in two hours. There he got another team to drive to Aiden Lair. This leg of the journey was made in 1 hour and 59 minutes, just 9 miles. When he reached Aiden Lodge I was waiting for him with my pair of bays hitched in the buckboard. "'Cronin,' he yelled, as he got in sight of me, 'Any news from Buffalo?'" "'Nary a word,' said I. 'Get in, for we've got to drive like the devil.'" "Knowing Roosevelt was of a nervour temperament I did not tell him that I'd received a telephone message for him that the president had died just after he left Tawhaus! And he never found out till Secretary Loeb told him when he reached North Creek, where a special train was waiting on the D. & H. with Superintendent Hammond in charge, ready to fly with Roosevelt for Buffalo. "Drive? Well, I should say. Those bays responded nobly. Jes' worked against each other, not pullin', mind you. It was snowing and blowing and raining. We were covered with mud and our clothes weighed a ton. Talk about nerve! Roosevelt has it. He sat there on the seat behind me with a big seven-shooter on his knee. I made the 17 miles in 1 hour and 49 minutes, broke a day record I'd made myself over the same road, at a 2:15 clip. Gee, it was cold. Hands Frozen. "When we reached North Creek my hands were so numb I couldn't lift them. Roosevelt hopped down from his seat and pumped one of my paws. His glasses were so caked with mud he couldn't see a thing!" Roosevelt has never forgotten Cronin. Once the latter went all the way to Washington to get the President to have him appointed as warden under the Forest Commission and got the job. Before Roosevelt left for Africa he extracted a promise from Mr. Cronin that he would be at the pier to meet him when he returned. Sure enough, Mr. Cronin was there. "'Well,' demanded the ex-president, 'any changes at Aiden Lair since I left?' "'Yes, material changes,' said Mr. Cronin. "'A boy or girl,' snapped the Mighty Hunter. "'A girl again,' was Mr. Cronin's reply. The Cronins constitute a regular Rooseveltian family. There are eight girls and one boy. 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Can you give political address at Chautauqua here on afternoon July twenty sixth if not can you send Pinchot or Garfield or some strong progressive speaker Wire answer and terms T A Ambler.THE COURIER-NEWS GUARANTEES THE LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN NORTH DAKOTA THE COURIER PUBLISHING CO. PUBLISHERS OF THE COURIER NEWS MORNING AND SUNDAY THE ONLY 7 DAY PAPER IN NORTH DAKOTA THE EVENING TELEGRAM EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY FARGO'S LEADING HOME NEWSPAPER FARGO, N.D. July 16, 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Col. Roosevelt:- The enclosed clipping from he FARGO FORUM, the moribund organ of the old gang here is a sample of the type of campaign that will be put up against you here. The newspaper, you will remember was one of the enthusiastic boosters of the "Roosevelt" primary ticket last March, and you can judge from its expression how much you really won by the "defeat" you suffered when that ticket was overwhelmed. Signs multiply, if further signs are needed that that delegation would have been lined up for Taft in Chicago. The strongest assurance we have had of support for a third party ticket in this state have come from men elected on the delegation and as electors in our last Primary campaign, an evidence that they were sincere when they said they would be for you, Faithfully yours, A M Baker[*ack 7-18-12*] [[shorthand]] [*8.*] CHARLES BEEBE 132 NASSAU STREET NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS TALQUE July 16, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir:- I write to express my sympathy in the Third Party Movement and I thoroughly agree with you in your principles and ideals. I heartily wish you success and will personally do all I can to further the principles of the Progressive Party. I also take this opportunity to express my wife's and my own thanks for your courtesy to our son, Mr. C. William Beebe, The Curator of Ornithology at the New York Zoological Park; whom I presume you know is at present in Europe. With high regards, I remain, Yours very truly, Chas Beebe CB*ES CB ES[*[7-16-12]*] Form 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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The Knights of the white Cross a large Norwegian fraternal organization is going to have a picnic in River View park Chicago Ill on aug 4 1912 Could you attend and deliver address to about 25000 people please reply at once Otto B. Brettmann Room 437 County Bldg Chicago Ills 441pmMR. BRISTOW, CHAIRMAN. MR. SMITH, OF MICH. MR. BACON. MR. PENROSE. MR. CHILTON. FAY N. SEATON, CLERK. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. [*2.*] Washington, July 16, 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: The secretary of the Lincoln Park Chautauqua, at Cawker City, Kansas, writes me that he has invited you to speak there when you go to Kansas, and asks me to take up the matter with you. If in your trip you could get up there, it would be a good thing, but it is a long way and it might not be convenient for you to make it. I would defer to the judgment of Will White as to the desirability of it. With kindest regards, Very truly yours, Joseph L. Bristow H [[shorthand]][*1.*] [[shorthand]] R.W. BROWNE VICTOR BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. July 16,1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: A few days since I wrote you under the name of Joshua Reade, addressing the letter care the Outlook. Presume you did not receive the letter, or if you did, you did not think it worth while to reply. Anyway, I am writing you again, over my own name. I am interested in some literary work, and while I am not publicly known as Joshua Reade, still that is the name under which my manuscripts are being put upon the market. I wish to see you and have your criticism relative to a series of articles which I will have published in one of the leading magazines, the subject being: "The Passing of The Old Line Statesman." As you are a conspicuous figure in these articles I wish to see you before they go into print. I have proper credentials. I have just returned from Lynchburg where I closed an important business transaction. I was accompanied on this trip by Col. Boone, formerly of Buene Vista, Va. now of Washington. He is a great friend of yours and is advocating your election. He is a newspaper man and I am arranging to give him headquarters in the Victor Bldg. with me where he will work for you under the name of the Reade Literary Co. I have always been a Democrat and at one time had six thousand pension cases before the Interior Dept. I have acquaintances in all parts of the U.S. Am a native of Ohio. I do not want any money. I do not want any office, but I do wish to see you with references to these articles before they go to the publisher. I shall have to be in Washington Monday and Tuesday or next week, but any other day I shall be glad to go to see you for a few moments; you may suggest some additions or subtractions to the articles in question. Stamped envelope enclosed for reply, for which I thank you in advance. Very respectfully, R.W. Browne RWB MO BAINBRIDGE COLBY WILLIAM F. GOLDBECK EDWARD D. BROWN COLBY & GOLDBECK ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW TRINITY BUILDING 111 BROADWAY NEW YORK July 16, 1912. Frank Harper, Esq., c/o Colonel Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Mr. Harper: I received your letter of July 12th yesterday, enclosing a letter from Senator Borah addressed to Colonel Roosevelt. I sent Senator Borah yesterday digests of the contests in Washington, California, Arizona, Texas, 13th Indiana, 1st Arkansas and 9th Alabama. I also talked with him on the long distance telephone, and stated to him that I would be pleased to go to Washington to confer with him if he needed me. I return Senator Borah's letter. Faithfully yours, Bainbridge ColbyThe New Vendome Cor. State and Centre Sts. JOHN J. MOFFETT [*11.*] Schenectady, N. Y., July 16 1912 My dear Col:- Being interested in your welfare at the present time and firmly believing that you are also interested in the interest of my family and self I inclose you a clipping which was published on the 3d day of July while I was lying dangreously ill at the Ellis Hospital. I left the Hospital on Saturday last but am still under the doctor's care. It is with great thanks to my Creator that I state to you that I am gaining rapidly.The New Vendome Cor. State and Centre Sts. JOHN J. MOFFETT Schenectady, N. Y., _____________, 191___ 2. I am also proud to state that I honestly believe in your principals relating to the wellfare of the Labouring Class of America and firmly believe that you are growing stronger in your work every hour. This being the second letter which I have written since I left home six weeks ago, you will observe several places where I had to make corrections. I hope to return to Aiden Lair on Saturday of this week to my family. I will have a physician return to home with me to attend to wounds until properly healed. With kindest regards to you and family, and wishing success in your campaign, I am Sincerely M. F. CormanNational Soldiers Home Tennessee 7/16/12 Dear Mr. Roosevelt You need not answer this letter as the time is too busy but I write to say some body ought to muzzle that fellow hey call La Follette. He is trying to get to numerous and like our loving remembrance of Jim Blaine and that stuck up humbug Roscoe Conkling our Teddy is too smart for him and like Conklin he has jealousy under the hair. His name is french, and he acts frenchy and better take french leave as Teddy is very much to his annoyance Care2 nothing for what they say and the rot and slush that will be thrown out by the skull duggers known as the Old Guard, whatever that is. Do not be bluffed by any of them but hold fast and stay with it. I know the people are with Teddy and prefer to see Wilson elected rather than Taft and our Teddy's chance is as good as Wilson's or even better I have bet $5 that Taft wont poll as many votes as the Socialists will. Keep in the ring if obliged to put a brick in the hat to keep it there, now mark it. The people want Teddy. La Follette is too transparent can't find the people even some of the time. As Ever, Alonzo H. Cox Natl Sol Home, TennesseeH. D. W. English, Pittsburgh, Pa. [*23.*] July 16, 1912. [[shorthand]] Dear Col. Roosevelt I do not wish to burden you with letters but the enclosed copy of letter written on the 12th and mailed to Senator Flinn today States my position with reference to the nomination at Chicago. You should know it. I do not mean to publish same as yet, leaving that to Senator Flinn at the same time the people do not need to vote for me if they do not support the nominee of the Progressive Party at Chicago. With all good wishes Faithfully yours. H.D.W. EnglishFor enc see 7-12-12July 16th /12 G. S. NICHOLAS & CO. NEW YORK Hon Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay. L. I. Dear Sir, At the request of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth I am shipping you today 1x Bual Madeira. Trusting it will prove satisfactory I am - Yours truly N. B. Eustis.THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS ASHEVILLE, N.C. W. A. HILDEBRAND, PRESIDENT J. R. LAW, SEC. AND TREAS. The Only Afternoon Paper in Western North Carolina with Associated Press. [*4.*] Asheville, July 16, 1912. Dear Col. Roosevelt: Immediately after my return from Chicago I opened up through my two daily papers and am doing whatever seems possible for the cause. I shall probably be in Washington soon, and if you think any good purpose would be gained by so doing, I will run over to New York and have a few words with you respecting the campaign to be conducted in this state. If it is your purpose to make a serious campaign in this, and some of the other Southern states, then I should be glad to have your views, and perhaps advance some suggestions relating to the situation in North Carolina. It seems a little uncertain what some of the leaders may do, but in any event you are likely to receive the support of the rank and file of the party - or the late lamented party. It is my purpose to publish in full [the text of] your last editorial in the [Outllok] Outlook, as too much was omitted in the Associated Press advance summary. Your friends should need no other campaign document. You may address me here at Asheville. Sincerely, W. A. Hildebrand Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y.For enc see 7-16-12eighty pledged votes for you. It looks to us as if you might carry the county, as I am told you would get more votes in the county than in town. The town vote last election polled 447 - in the entire county something like [xx] 800 or more. The votes us have been almost wholly volunteered and real hard work has not been attempted yet. We have heard nothing from [the] any of the so called leaders of your movement yet. It might be nice for them to let us know. [*[7-16-12]*] [*12.*] My dear Col- We are about to form an organization here for you and if possible I would like you to write me personally, stating just what you would consider the best course to take. I wrote you before the Chicago convention but did not hear from you though one of your secretarys answered my letter. This is the first time it ever occurred. In three days going about town I have succeeded with the help of two other men in securing overhowever I would much rather hear from you direct, for we are going to do our own part regardless of what the rest of the state decide. We have a grand opportunity here and are intent to take every advantage of it. With very best wishes and hoping to hear from you soon. Believe me Faithfully yours George G Hoffman "M" Troop Buffalo Wyo July 16 - 1912National Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE NO. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 16, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, "Outlook" Office, Charities Bldg., City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Mr. James J. Fitzgerald called on me today, and I have just added him to the Provisional Committee on Organization for New York County, of which Mr.George W. Kirchway is Chairman. We will take hold of the work of organizing and bringing into the movement democrats in his territory and will, I am sure, be of great service to our inspiring cause. Very sincerely yours, William H. Hotchkiss [*[Hotchkiss]*] WHH/EDKNational Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE NO. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 16th, 1912. Mr. Frank Harper, "The Outlook," 287 4th Avenue New York City. Dear Sir:- In accordance with your request of the 13th instant I have just written Mr. Yoakum of Farmingdale as per attached copy copy of letter. Very sincerely, Wm H Hotchkiss Provisional State Chairman. WHH/M.For enc see 7-16-12July 16th, 1912, Mr. B. F. Yoakum, Farm[o]ngdale, R. I. Dear Sir:- Colonel Roosevelt's secretary informs me that it is reported that you are with us in the Progressive Party. I trust that this is so, and if it is wont you let me know whether you are willing to do a little missionary work for us in your neighborhood? Very sincerely, [*[W. H. HOTCHKISS]*] Provisional State Chairman. WHH/M.Enc in Hotchkin 7-16-12National Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE NO. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 16,1912 Frank Harper, Secretary, Office of the Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mr. Harper: This is to acknowledge yours of the 15th inst., just received. We have already endeavored to get in touch with Mr. Homer Folk, and find hat he is not quite ready to come out in the open. I will make another effort tomorrow and if he can be persuaded there will be no difficulty in sending him to the Chicago Convention. Very sincerely yours, William H Hotchkiss Provisional Chairman WHH/CECA. W. LAFFERTY SECOND OREGON DISTRICT WASHINGTON ADDRESS 486 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING PORTLAND ADDRESS 914-17 LEWIS BUILDING House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D. C. [*6.*] July 16, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I am for you and desire to contribute in every way possible to your election. The right platform at Chicago August 5, and a hot fight for the following 90 days, will do the work. Let the platform be short but complete. Straddling declarations are to the people as a red rag in a bull's face. Therein lies the weakness of the Wilson platform. Ignore Taft. Make the issue direct with Wilson from the sounding of the gong. Put this query prominently to the people.--What reason have we to believe that another Democratic Congress would be any more progressive than the present one, which has voted down a parcels post, and refused to even consider bills offered by Roosevelt Congressmen for physical valuations? Democrats confidently expect to win by promising to do these two things [through] next year, both of which they have refused to do this year. Let our platform also declare for income tax, inheritance tax, limitation of maximum prices upon commodoties controlled by monopolies, sympathy for the initiative, referendum and recall in the several states and our allegiance to the precedents limiting any citizen to two elective terms to the presidency. If I can help, let me know. Sincerely, A. W. Lafferty[*[7-16-12]*] DAY LETTER Form 2589 B. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. 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Indianapolis Ind July 16 Col. Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay LI For the purpose of materially encouraging the Indiana Progressives in their present work of organization & of assuring the greatest possible degree of interest & enthusiasm at out state convention which will convene ten am Thursday August first I am suggesting that it is at all possible you arrange your western trip to speak to us on this occassion the importance of this convention in relation to our success in the campaign in Indiana the material inspiration your presence would be makes its serious consideration advisable kindly advise E.M. Lee 150 PCHEQUESSET INN AND COTTAGES WELLFLEET, MASS. FRED T. ORGAN [*2.*] July 16, 1912, Dear Col. Roosevelt:- I want to lay before you a suggestion as to a course to be pursued by the Progressives of Massachusetts, to get your judgment on the proposition, and to abide by your advice. In talking with Gov. Foss of Massachusetts I was pleased to hear him say: "I am in entire accord with every principle 2 CHEQUESSET INN AND COTTAGES WELLFLEET, MASS. FRED T. ORGAN announced by Theodore Roosevelt, even to the recall of judges, and I am not so sure but Massachusetts needs that very thing." Gov. Foss was practically forced out of the Republican party by the machine, aided by our friend Senator Lodge. He is really a Progressive, has made good as a progressive governor, but, unfortunately, at the present time is much tied3 CHEQUESSET INN AND COTTAGES WELLFLEET, MASS. FRED T. ORGAN up to the Wilson campaign. I believe, notwithstanding his denials, that he will be a candidate to succeed himself, and, if so, his election is a foregone conclusion in the Old Bay State. Taking this as a groundwork, the thought has come to me that if the Progressives of Massachusetts, in making up their ticket, should come out with a scheme of ratification and consolidation4 CHEQUESSET INN AND COTTAGES WELLFLEET, MASS. FRED T. ORGAN with the Democratic slate, we combining with them in framing a state ticket to the effect that their ticket and ours would be identical so far as the state offices went, our ticket being separate and headed by Theodore Roosevelt, and their separate ticket being headed by Wilson, that this combine would not only sweep the state of Massachusetts and put the Old Guard out of business, but5 CHEQUESSET INN AND COTTAGES WELLFLEET, MASS. FRED T. ORGAN further that kind of a ticket would greatly aid the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt in Massachusetts. It would enable democrats to vote their state ticket in voting for you. Personally I want to aid the head of the ticket. We want the electoral vote of Massachusetts solidly for Theodore Roosevelt. If fusion such as I outline will promote it, would you advise our attempting to unite with the democrats of Massachusetts6 CHEQUESSET INN AND COTTAGES WELLFLEET, MASS. FRED T. ORGAN by endorsing Gov. Jose and other democratic progressive candidates upon the consideration that they endorse certain suggested nominees of ours? I have no one or a candidate for any office, and am not a candidate myself. If you are agreeable, it occurred to me I should up the project with Gove. Jose, find out what can be done, and later, on the return of Mr. Hale, turn over the situation to himCHEQUESSET INN AND COTTAGES WELLFLEET, MASS. FRED T. ORGAN for final action, co-operating with him to the best of my ability. Trusting I have not trespassed too much on your valued time I am Cordially yours, James P. Magenis 801-4 Tremont Bldg., Boston, Mass. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt The Outlook 287 Fourth Ave. New York.[*[7-16-12]*] Room 615 Manhattan Hotel NYC 1 CH F 561 Blue Chicago, Ills, July 16 Hon G.W. Perkins Care Col Theo Roosevelt, Oyster Bay The local committee in Charge of the convention is as firmly of the opinion that we ought to hold it in the colisuem as it was yesterday Its members tell me that they are confirmed in this opinion after talking with some of the downstate leaders, who were here today, who say that they look for considerable attendance from their counties. There will be about one thousand delegates to the state convention on the previous saturday, all of whom want places in the National Convention. The committee tells me that after complying with the strict fire regulations of this city the seats available for subscriber or for sale will be cut down so that we will have nothing clear after paying the expenses of the convention. Under the fire ordinance sergeant At-Arms, Messengers and others will all have to have seats. There were ever one hundred leaders from some fifty counties here today who met with about thirty from cook County. After Reciting the Character of the frauds at Chgo, The following resolution was adopted: "Whereas, a majority of the delegates legally elected to the National Republican convention of 1912 it were favorable to the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt, and whereas, in the preferential primary states the Republican party by an overwhelming majority Repudiated the administration of William H Taft, and whereas, the Republicans of Illinois have overwhelmingly expressed their preference for Theo Roosevelt for president, and whereas, they recognize that by fraud, the so called National committee seated enough illegaly elected delegates to bring about the nomination of William H Taft, and Whereas, the RepublicansForm 1512 [*2*] THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED Cner SPECIAL Sheet 2 No. Chge Ills July 16 Letter To Theo Roosevelt, Oyster Bay of Illinois do not recognize such nomination as Valid or binding upon them, therefore, be it resolved, that comittee of five, including the Chair, be appointed by the chair communicate with the Hon Chas S Deene and other candidates for state offices and inquire of them whether it be their purpose to support for president William H Taft, or Theo Roosevelt, and that the committee shall give their answer to the public a week from to-day. The call as provided for county mass conventions and in part reads as follows: "One delegate and one elector for each united States senator and for each congressman at large and a national committeeman to be elected by all the delegates to the state convention, and one delegate one alternate one elector, and one member of the state central committee from each congressional district to be chosen by the delegates to the state convention elected from each of said congressional districts and for the nomination of such other candidates as the state convention may deem proper. No person shall participate in this convention, or in the preliminaries thereto, who does not subscribe in writing to the call for the state and national conventions. TimeSheet3# Chgo Ills The Roosevelt You will note that this makes it optional with the convention to nominate the candidates for state offices and puts the issue squarely up to Deenen because the call was not mandatory with Regard to the Nomination of Candidates for state offices we lost Merriam and His friends. Of course they will probably come back if state offices are nominated. Dewey,Noyes,Bass and the Committee consider that it will be a great mistake to hold the convention in the auditorium for many other reasons also. Medill McCormick 958Pm (A copy forwarded to Manhattan Hotel Room 605 NY.../)[*[7-16-12]*] Form 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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NORTONI, JUDGE. HENRY S. CAULFIELD, JUDGE. [*1.*] July 16, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: - I am not going to inflict a long letter upon you for I know your time is fully preoccupied. I desire to say only that the Progressive Party movement is going forward here with great strides. I am quietly working in connection with Mr. R. E. Stout, editor of the Kansas City Star, who represents Colonel Nelson in the state. I am looking after the matter of getting an organization on foot in St, Louis and eastern portions of the state. Am in daily conference with Mr. Stout and feel that we will have a representative state convention which will speak for every county in Missouri. Through Mr. Paul V. Janis, our Progress Club here is enrolling men every day and I have no doubt that you will poll seventy-five per cent of the Republican vote of St. Louis. I believe I am not overstating it that seventy-five per cent of the Republicans whom I met are going with you. I have a telegram from Judge David P. Dyer this morning announcing his position and I inclose you a copy. What I want just now is that you should furnish me with a draft or with some ideas as to what our state platform should contain. The convention will meet July 30 in Kansas City. We will make a platform to suit your views and if you will furnish me with suggestions pertaining to the same or a copy of the important planks as you would have them worded, I will guarantee their adoption.ST. LOUIS CORT OF APPEALS ST. LOUIS GEO. D. REYNOLDS, PRESIDING JUDGE. ALBERT D. NORTONI, JUDGE. HENRY S. CAULFIELD, JUDGE. -2- We are much embarrassed here by the attitude of Governor Hadley, whom we all love and admire; but be this as it may, the movement will go forward whether or no. Eventually the Governor will have to join us or be left on an island by himself. 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Dear Sir:- As Chairman of the Executive Committee of the South-eastern Kansas Teachers Association I am writing you to learn if you would consider an invitation to address the South-eastern Kansas Teachers Association which will meet here February 6th, 7th, and 8th, 1913. This association is one of the strongest in the middle west, enrolls fifteen hundred teachers and spends from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars each year on its platform talent. In case you would consider such an invitation kindly advise me what fee you would expect for a single address. Yours truly, F.L. Pinet[*Theodore Schottke*] BINGHAM BROTHERS COMPANY FOUNDED BY SAMUEL BINGHAM IN 1849 CHARLES BINGHAM, SECRETARY AND TREASURER MANUFACTURERS OF "MACHINE-*CAST" PRINTERS ROLLERS, COMPOSITION, ETC. 89 ALLEN STREET MAIN OFFICE 406 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK BRANCHES: PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE CLEVELAND THEO SCHOTTKE, MANAGER ROCHESTER, N.Y. July 16th, 1912 [[shorthand]] The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave. New York, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Your esteemed favor of the 12th instant, acknowleding receipt of my letter of the 8th inst. enclosing $1.00, received today. Your letter gave me much pleasure, and to say that I was highly gratified with your cordial reception of my weak efforts to show my interest and appreciation in the wonderful fight you are waging for human rights and justice. This is the greatest fight since Lincoln's time, and ultimately, perhaps, may be of more benefit to the general welfare of the country than was Lincoln's great faith for human rights. Had I known beforehand that my letter would be so honored as to be considered worthy of publication by you, I would have taken more pains in writing it. However if you think it worthy of this honor, as it is, why publish it by all means. You may use my letter of the 8th instant in any way that you see fit. Assuring you of my hearty good wishes for the success of your coming campaign, and a BULLY good time at the White House for the next four years, I remain, Very cordially yours, Theo Schottke[*[7-6-12]*] [*7.*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Bay. New York. My dear Sir! - Pardon me for troubling you, but can you tell me any thing about the Cosmopolitan Group, of 381 Fourth Ave--New York City; I have been representing them as Agent, in Syracuse, for about two weeks, and find my self in rather an unpleasantposition as they do not answer my letters. I have tried to obtain some information to know if it is a legitimate business but thus far, have failed to do so. As you are a Representative of the Press Club of America I appeal to you. I am a widow, with no friends, and must protect my self in the matter. Very Respectfully Yours, Alice Avery Smalley (Mrs. E. D. Smalley) Syracuse. New York. July 16th 1912 808 East Fayette St.HY. V. SMITH LAW BUILDING CHESTER, PA. July Sixteenth Nineteen Twelve. Mr. Frank Harper, Secretary, New York City. Dear Sir: I have your July 11th letter and, in answer thereto, beg leave to say that I don't suppose that Colonel Roosevelt ever heard of the Herald-Ledger, unless his attention has been called to it through my correspondence with Mr. Post. There are several features of the campaign that will have to do with Delaware County that I wish to take up with some one who is practical and will be willing to concede that the fellow on the ground ought to know what he is talking about. We have no desire of playing a losing game. It will require tact and plenty of energy to pull off a winning fight next Fall. Delaware County can be carried for Roosevelt, but not without good work and good planning. The Herald-Ledger will do its part if treated anything like fair. Yours truly, Hy V. Smith HVS:C136 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. July 16/12 Mr. Frank Harper [*9.*] Secy. to Mr. Roosevelt 187 Fourth Avenue New York Dear Sir Yours of every date postmarked 3 30 P.M. did not reach me until nearly 9 P.M. and then only by the Courtesy of the Brooklyn PO officials you told me on the phone it was mailed this A.M.. I expected to have received it last night. The papers you returned to me was the very imperfectly outlined suggestions for planks in the National Platform. The matter of paramount importance which you have not returned and which must be returned is the sketch of my solution of the cause and cure for the high prices of the necessaries of life. I would not have parted with this Mss, but that Asst Secy Wardrobe gave me his word that it should be typewritten secretly, and that I should be allowed to retain the typewritten copies & the Mss and endorse the original in a sealed package to be given to Mr Roosevelt I marked the draught confidential2/ and did not for a moment suppose it would be seen by any one but the typeist and Mr Roosevelt. It is the result of a life time of thought and experience that I wished only Mr Roosevelt to have the benefit of and not that it should be seen by any other eyes. I wish you to return it to me at once by return mail. I am pleased to see that Mr R is in accord with some of my views so imperfectly expressed and did not expect him to adopt any of my suggestions without giving me the opportunity to amplify and explain them I would however be very glad indeed to be informed if it coincides with my views as to Postal Service and if he does will permit me to so state to the postal employees. It will gladden their hearts and the good news will be transmitted by the 200.000 postal employees into every home in our land and make millions of friends for Mr Roosevelt.3/ I will be obliged if you will present to Mr Roosevelt the following and ask him to direct me to the proper committee where I may amplify and discuss the feasibility of the following planks for the NY State Campaign 1. an immediate solution of the transit problem of the City of New York by a referendum to its people by which each section of the city may elect its representatives to a central body that shall take the place of that farcial body the Public Service Comsn which is so hopelessly divided in its allegiance to the two great operating companies as to estop all progress of the Subway problem; and a referendum to the people of the City of New York of the question as to whether the immense profit of operation should not ensure to the people whose money constructs the channel of rapid transit4/ It is my opinion that the people irrespective of party will rally to the progressive banner in such numbers as to overwhelm the efforts of all parties to obstruct the movement. It would seem that the provisional City Section of the State Committee formed on 11th inst in Metropolitan Tower should discuss this plank. And that the committee of the whole comprising both the up state and the urban section might well discuss the following planks. 2. A more efficient control of telephone service and the election of a body that shall have the supervision thereof and compel equitable and proportionate rates and some all sections alike undertake circumstances and conditions, and a maximum rate in all parts of the City of New York (Interborough) and other cities of the State 3. Direct nominations of judges, the enactment of a law limiting their terms to four years in place of fourteen, and their reelection to as many terms as the people desire The recall of all the judges5 that have received their nominations at the hands of the bosses and the simplifying of the machinery by which a bad judge may be impeached. An amendment to the Constitution extending the limit of the age of a judge to that of 76 years if the people desire to elect a judge of over seventy years of age: And an amendment restoring to the Court of Appeals the power of issuing writs of mandamus directed to Appellate Division Judges. An enactment to compel single judges to render decisions of motions etc within a reasonable time. A tribunal to which laymen shall be eligible which shall determine the duties of judges, their hours of service in court their vacation time, their assignments, and to arbitrate questions [of] as to their salaries, and determine the number of their attendants and their salaries as well as court attendants, and clerks.6/ a reduction after salaries of supreme Court judges so that they shall not exceed, if equal, that of the salaries of the judges of the Court of appeals or of the associate judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. These suggestions as to to judiciary are derived from expressions of opinion of lawyers and laymen and a State wide determination on the part of the laity irrespective of party that they shall have a voice in the selection of the candidates for judgeships for whom they shall vote; that the office of judge shall not be sought for its emoluments [and]nor obtainable only by the will of and arrangement with political bosses. It has been my experience in the past that if the people are given the opportunity to vote on issues that they understand, they overwhelmingly vote for the right every time. Respectfully submitted Josiah J. WhiteForm 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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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 29 mi 84 Blue 7/16/12 Emporia Kas 16 > Theo Roosevelt, ns Have wired Dixon and Davis three letters Manhattan building asking for two days of your time Kansas in first and third district giving towns and hours have now wire from Dixon saying if I dont get specific information will put you elsewhere please help in this matter we must have you for two days two indoor speeches each day afternoon and evening and particularly in third district Campbells district whichFORM 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. 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 BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT You had to cut last spring to go to Arkansas. Please wire acknowledgement W.A White 5 pm(Released Tuesday July 16/12) TO THE CITIZENS OF NEW JERSEY. Popular government in America faces an ominous crisis. When power dimly defined but clearly discernible places a soiled and heavy hand upon the machinery of our political action: When the rank and file of our voters must grapple in dubious struggle with that power for every inch of progress and for the accomplishment of every desired reform; When historic names become only fetich to the unthinking, and party loyalty the shield of civic crime; The time is unmistakably rife for a readjustment of the fundamental processes of our political system; the opportunity is at hand for enlightened, constructive and untrammeled leadership; the call is clear and compelling to the resourceful and courageous citizenship of our country. To the end, therefore, that the power of sordid and organized selfishness may be permanently broken, that the will of the majority may be restored to its original vigor and American institutions reinfused with their pristine virtue, To the end that party loyalty may take on a new spirit and party service exact a new responsibility, freed from the cant, the hypocrisy, the stagnation and the corruption to which honest men refuse longer to close their eyes; To the end that the State of New Jersey may participate in the inauguration of a movement which offers a substantial hope for the political regeneration of America; I do now, by virtue of the authority delegated to me by the State Committee of the Roosevelt League, issue to the citizens of New Jersey, without discrimination as to party affiliation, a call for the holding of a mass convention at the City of Asbury Park at twelve o'clock noon of Tuesday the -1-twenty-third of July, 1912, for the purpose of endorsing Theodore Roosevelt for the office of President of the United States, and of sending duly accredited delegates to the National Convention to be held in the City of Chicago, the fifth day of August, 1912. Borden D. Whiting, Chairman.Enc in Whiting 7-15-12[Taft] [*17.*] WENTWORTH BYRON WINSLOW, C.S. 331 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 16th, 1912. [[shorthand]] Theodore Roosevelt, Esq. New York City. N.Y. Dear Sir:- Would you be good enough to state to me what your attitude is in regard to the proposed establishment of a Federal Health Department and the creation of a Cabinet Office in connection therewith - or vice versa. I am a Christian Scientist - one of some million or two in this United States - and am of the opinion that if such were established by the passage of the socalled Owen Bill or otherwise similarly, that is a short time the Doctors of the Regular School would be in a position to dictate what prophylactic or therapeutic methods should be or should not be used and that the office and department would not merely inaugurate and uphold wise sanitary methods. As a Christian Scientist and as voter in the coming election for President, and as a Progressive, I wish to have your definite statement concerning the aforesaid. Briefly - would you as President sign a bill which you believed would restrict me from having such therapeutic or prophylactic treatment as I might desire for myself or my family - provided always that the laws regarding sanitation and quarantine were obeyed. Yours faithfully W. B. WinslowTHE CLEVELAND LEADER CLEVELAND'S FASTEST GROWING MORNING AND SUNDAY NEWSPAPER THE CLEVELAND NEWS CLEVELAND'S QUALITY EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH QUANTITY CIRCULATION Cleveland, O., July 16,1912. PERSONAL Mr. Frank Harper, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Mr. Harper: Thank you very much for your note of July 10th with the enclosure. One of our bright young men was able to put over a very pretty story, and I wish to congratulate you upon being a good reporter as well as a good auditor. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, N. C. Wright.[*[7-16-12]*] My dear Mr Roosevelt: Most Keenly knowing your crush of duties, I write this because THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT IN THIS CAMPAIGN. PLS DO NOT FAIL TO READ IT ALL PERSONALLY QUICK, rely on my statements, refg specifically to above. I am writing reply to Pres. Schurmann's last harangue which will close his face for keeps. W. S. WrightCHAIRMAN MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE FRANK S. CONVERSE CHAIRMAN SPEAKER COMMITTEE WALLACE THAYER CHAIRMAN PUBLICITY COMMITTEE W.S. WRIGHT WILLIS K. JACKSON PRESIDENT CHARLES W. FIELDER, EDGAR B. JEWETT, JOHN H. BROGAN SECRETARY REV. G.F. WILLIAMS VICE-PRESIDENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE P. H. Frank, C. H. Woodard, M.D. R. N. Caird S. Tinnell Julius J. Eyring Christopher H. Bierbaum Wilbur B. Grandison Edw. Zaremba Clinton T. Horton W. V. Davidson Andrew B. Gilfilian H. H. Price Wm. Galentine H. R. Dilks Jas. A. Gardner, M.D. C. G. Babcock Frank C. Ferguson Geo. C. Rice Chas. T. Anderson Homer J. Grant, M.D. Geo S. Hobbie, M.D. Eugene Warner John R. Warner Clarence A. Goodwin Frank L. Gardner Lee M. Francis Alfred E. Mimmack Samuel Newman R. F. Paviour Chas. J. J. Seaman Chas. F. Rohlfs Edward Warner Charles R. Carine John T. Lynam Raymond F. Brown Wm. A. Mackey P. D. Lovelace A. R. Goodall W. J. J. Kunzie L. A. Dietrich Thos. R. Scott Emil Rubenstein W. A. James E. R. Churchill E. C. McDonald Wm. Higgins Rudolf Schack Perry A. Little Geo. E. Hilfinger Benj. W. Hall Augustus J. H. Smith D. Underhill Frank W. PArdee Jas. Van Inwagen, Jr. Alexander Sutherland J. G. Pfister Charles A. Hinkley Ernest B. Walker Wm. P. Nassal Joseph Prozetiora R. S. Kimberley Geo. A. Underwood Isaac L. Gary Wm. D. Camp Fred Chabot Chas. R. Wiers Thos. S. Hemenway Jas. M. DeMunn James Colord Dr. W. S. Ayres Chas. H. Fenner Chas. Booz John G. Tillema N. J. Tiffany Charles C. Morey W. P. Hutchinson Louis W. Simpson Charles O. Marble Fred G. Mitchell E. G. Hatch H. E. Nichols Chas. A. Harris H. J. Hammond Edw. W. Werick W. E. Wing C. Burrows Morey O. A. Kirby G. M. Kirby Arthur L. Sewell Dr. E. Randall Johnson W. H. Williams Joseph Kittinger Harvey D. Blakeslee, Jr. Wm. L. Blakeslee Melvin P. Porter Wm. A. Gordon Darwin D. Martin S. M. Flickinger Roosevelt League of Western New York [510 MAIN STREET.] EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ORSON J. WEIMERT, Chairman WILLIS K. JACKSON H.R. BUTTERFIELD CHARLES W. FIELDER A.D. JAMIESON JOHN H. BROGAN JOHN W. HENRICH ORRIN OTIS H.T. UPSON 1003 D. S. Morgan Bldg. BUFFALO, N.Y. July 16 1912 [*Enclosure*] Hon Theodore Rosevelt, Oyster Bay N Y My Dear Mr Roosevelt: Col J B Baldwin will finance my new booklet if Mr Hamlin passes on it. I saw Mr H at Col's suggestion. Mr H has decided to leave it to the Publicity Committee not yet appointed. That all means delay when I am tearing myself apart to have it ready for the Chicago Convention. Business men here were ready to finance it for the 1st Chicago Convention, but I could not finance it, and it was the sorrow of my life, and now I fell as tho I had been born again with another opportunity. I now desire to work upon it as many hours a day as I can keep awake. Now, my name is Napoleon when it comes to action. Therefore, these facts before you now. To show you I have no hostility toward Mr. Hamlin even the his decision is to delay, I enclose my resolution at the at the birth of our party last night praising him, and you for his selection, also the newspaper comments. But I must be brief: Permit me to suggest; You can either say to me "All right", and with that Col Baldwin will go ahead, and I will get it out; OR you can say to Mr [Baldwin] Hamlin that you learned of this matter and approve of it. My feelings towards Mr Hamlin are cordial. He was a stranger until I went to him from Col Baldwin, and we shook hands heartily last night, and he was pleased at my resolutions, and thanked me to-day for them. I asked him however Saturday, if this reference to a committee not yet appointed was to be a slow death, and that in some way I was determined to get it out if it took my head. This all in manly earnest and inoffensive expression. Now my dear sir, Col Baldwin comes from New York not later than Thursday, and is going right away indefinitely. It is necessary that we have quick action, and I fell that with all my devotion you will O K it. Col B suggested my telegraphing you Saturday last, but still he did not wish to go over any one's head. The head of any of us here is insignificant in great matters. Some snakes in the Roosevelt League, and you always find snakes, have in a despicable way tried evidently to defeat this publication. Dear Mr. Roosevelt, there is nothing more important in this campaign. My former booklet was read in the family circle, seldom a man but that passed it on, wives read it to2 Hon Theodore Roosevelt husbands, and THIS NEW ONE has the other completely eclipsed. I have been going to ask you to direct Geo W. Perkins or some one to finance it, Col Baldwin with his wonderful tact and unselfishnes and appreciation of its value, and my capacity to do the work has come to the rescue. He told me to tell Mr Hanlin he approved of it but, Col B is peculiar about occupying the background so far as people here are concerned. Hon John A Stewart wrote me in May 1907 he wanted a copy of the booklet in hands of every Chicago delegate and that it was worthy of the widest distribution. John Temple Graves said it would interest every American reader, and ought to have a place among the political literature of the present day. Senator Poindexter has written me congratulating me on my article on Recall of Judges written in criticism of Gov Wilson's attitude. I sent it to you some days ago. Senator Poindexter said my matter was undoubtedly excellent campaign material. I have any numbr of comments of public men, of distinguished men, newspapers, magazines, etc. I can kindle this dormant feeling which now keeps men on the fence and awaken thousands upon thousands to your support. It will be used in every state in the Union. I will devote my life to this cause because you have been so abused and are the ONLY man to rescue us at this crisis. It is a phillipic ! The distribution which I am making of the resolutions which you so heartily commended is having a splendid effect. People write me and stop me on the streets and state what these resolutions are doing for them and others. Mr Goodwin here who has corresponded with you writes:" It is the most spirited and representative progressive utterance of our political Revolution." [*→*] Must I say more ? You just say the word my dear sir, and the work of my argument for you and success will go on. We want it for Chicago, not to convince but to cheer, and for the purpose there of distribution, and to let the people know of its existence. What an opportunity. It will be for distribution, one cheaper edition, and the other for sale. It has across the top of COVER Cuts of Washn Lincoln and you. Has the cut of a bugle, and is entitled "Bugle Calls", with other stirring matter on cover, and the inside will be worthy of the title and the cover will cause an itch to open it. Mr Hamlin is busy, and has not had time for consideration. The reference to the Publicity Committee not yet appointed is DEATH TO IT. I want to devote to it daily all the hours I can keep awake. Some sneaks have been against it; as has been said anger and wrath are bad, but WHO can stand against ENVY ? Mr President, You are Napoleon when it comes to action. I KNOW you will cut this Gordion know. I will guarantee as a man and gentleman, in addition to the proved capacity as shown by my credentials [and] writing, and my endorsements, that you be pleased beyond expression with the production, and that it will do you untold good. The receptive feeling of the people is amazing, and they are ready to read this argument. They fall for my verbal argument, and life is too short to talk to all of them. Think of it, Mr. President, Col baldwin is ready to finance it at drop of hat. I await your telegram saying Yes, followed by letter confirming if you wish. Most Respectfully, W.S. Wright [*→*] Awaiting your wire.[*7-16-12*] REGISTRY RETURN RECEIPT. Form 1548. 564-4 Received from the postmaster registered article, the original number of which appears on the reverse side of this card. [*BRANCH MADISON SQUARE N.Y*] Date of delivery 7/16/12 19__ (To be filled in by person signing receipt.) When delivery is made to an agent of the addressee, both addressee's name and agent's signature must appear in this receipt. Elon H. Hooker (Signature or name of addressee.) by P. K. Hilton (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 duty 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 the address, without envelope or postage. Post Office Department OFFICIAL BUSINESS Original Reg. No 5091 Return to Outlook 287 4 Ave New York, New YorkEnc. in Hildebrand 7-16-12GREENSBORO DAILY FUNDAMENTALS AND THEFT. Mr. Hampton of Dobson would fain see the Republican party get back to President Taft and the "fundamentals." The Chicago convention has placed triumphant theft among the fundamentals. Having observed the workings of that convention at close range we sympathize with the point of view of Collier's, when it asks: "To what extent are party Republicans going to feel bound by fraud, when they understand, as before November 5 they must in detail be made clearly to understand, that Mr. Taft was in reality never nominated?" Collier's alludes to Professor Hart as one of the highest authorities on American government. Professor Hart describes the Taft nomination as a "deliberate political robbery," and of Arizona, California, Texas and Washington, he states they "were clear steals." The Iowa state convention also decided, on Wednesday, that they "were clear steals." Mr. Hampton is not only persuaded that Republicans should get back to the "fundamentals," with all that such a course would imply since the Chicago convention, but he thinks Republicans should "stand firm and vote for William Howard Taft, the real progressive." Bill Barnes and Boise Penrose and Simon Guggenheim are likewise persuaded that Mr. Taft is a real progressive, and by the same token, Mr. Taft is as firmly convinced that Archbald and Ballinger and McCabe are real progressives. Upon reflection, a proper fidelity to the verities of this "fundamental," Old Guard situation impels the admission that most of these persons have, indeed, progressed a good deal in certain directions.Form 1864. 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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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT Oyster Bay 27 MC 104 Blue 26Ex 7/17/12 Hy Boston Mass 17 Col Theo Roosevelt Monster mass meeting of trade unionist and citizens at Arena tomorrow Thursday night to protest the action of the Boston elevated railway Co in discharging 250 men for joining union four thousand men on strike since June 7th for right to organize company refuses arbitration and general strike of eighty thousand trade unionist threaten Can you come and address this meeting if no please wire giving yourForm 1864. 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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PLATTSBURGH EVENING STAR PLATTSBURGH REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHED 1811 PLATTSBURGH. N. Y. July 17, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Ave., New York. My dear Colonel: Acknowledging yours of the 15th, I have received a letter from Judge Hotchkiss and have replied. I have secured for him a splendid provisional chairman, which is his first concern. I am very glad that you regard the congress seat here as of great importance. It should in fact be the basis of any progressive organization in the northeastern part of the state. We have stood on the firing line here for years pounding the ring,THE PLATTSBURGH REPUBLICAN PUBLISHING CO. PLATTSBURGH EVENING STAR PLATTSBURGH REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHED 1811 PLATTSBURGH. N. Y. ___________________ 191 beating it occasionally, but never destroying it. It is the same old Barnes-Malby-Merritt ring with which you have been in contact more than once, and the time has arrived when it can be finally battered to pieces. I am not going to ask whether you will take on the fight, but simply assume that you will. The question was asked by Mr. Stewart, I understand at your suggestion whether a special election would be called. A successful contest of a special election in September say would have a great moral effect in the state, but it would be a big undertaking. Would it be worth while? If it were worth while I would ask Governor Dix to call it and if there were toTHE PLATTSBURGH REPUBLICAN PUBLISHING CO. PLATTSBURGH EVENING STAR PLATTSBURGH REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHED 1811 PLATTSBURGH. N. Y. ___________________ 191 be a strong effort back of it, I think I could present a strong enough argument to induce him to do so. I feel much honored at being invited to call on you and shall try to do so on the first day you mention, July 23. For practical purposes, however, I think I had better go over the district a little more, first, especially going out as far as Ogdensburg, before seeing you or Mr. Hotchkiss. So if I do not accomplish that before next Tuesday, I may miss you until after the convention, but in the meantime I will keep in touch with Mr. Hotchkiss and help all I can and shall be anxious to see you later.THE PLATTSBURGH REPUBLICAN PUBLISHING CO. PLATTSBURGH EVENING STAR PLATTSBURGH REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHED 1811 PLATTSBURGH. N. Y. 191__ This matter is vital to us here and I want you to feel that it is vital to you, as it is, and to keep it under your own eye. This district if rightly handled is Mr. Barnes' weak spot, but it requires very careful handling. Sincerely and respectfully, Geo. S. Bixby[*[7-17-12]*] Call is hereby made for a Convention to be held on July 25th, 1912, at the Auditorium Theatre, Baltimore, Md., at noon. This Convention is called for the purpose of selecting delegates to a Convention in Chicago, Ill., to be held on August 5th, next. All men who believe in the genuine rule by the people over their own governmental agencies, and who believe in social and industrial justice, and the abolition of privilege, especially in connection with the alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, and who believe that stealing is stealing whether in business or in politics, whether on a big scale or on a little scale, and who believe that the people themselves and not merely the machinery constitute a party, and who believe that the power of the bosses over machinery of both the old parties is such that the triumph of either means merely the substitution of one set of bosses and machinery for another set, while leaving special privilege entrenched just as strongly as ever; are earnestly asked to attend the said Convention, to be held in Baltimore, as hereinbefore indicated. Charles J. Bonaparte, Edward C. Carrington, Jr, George R. Gaither, Joseph R. Baldwin, Harford County, Charles R. Schirm, Theodore P. WEis, A. A. Moreland, J. Stuart MacDonald, Wm, C. Smith, William Goldsmith, Joseph P. Evans, Hugh R. Macbeth, John H. Murphy, Galen L. Tait, Montgomery county, A. B. Butler, Montgomery County, Charles K. Torsch, -1- B. Howard Mays, Baltimore County, Richard B. Fentress, D. A. Rehrer, Washington County, A. B. Bingham, Washington County, Dr. V. M. Reichard, Washington County, Charles B. Wagner, Washington County, John E. Stonebaker, Washington County. H. W. Miller, Washington County, David P. Schindel, Washington County, Senator Samuel Emmert, Washington County, Marshall Ziegler, Washington County, Scott M. Wolfinger, Washington County, A. K. Coffman, Washington County, Andrew Coffman, Washington County, Harry Sachs, Washington County, Charles Spangler, Washington County, Lawrence W. Gill, Washington County, Harry Keedy, Washington County, Grafton C. Downs, Washington County, A. C. Strite, Washington County, Charles W. Harman, Washington County, Harry b. Cearfess, Washington County, Jos. W. Wolfinger, Washington County, D. W. Reichard, Washington County, J. B. Cheuvront, Garrett County, D. E. Belden, Garrett County, E. H. Sincell, Garrett County, W. A. Maffett, Garrett County, S. G. Ashby, Garrett County, Austin Brown, Garrett County, Henry Lauer, Garrett County, Edwin A. Weimer, Garrett County, R. Lee Hall, Worcester County, -2- George L. Wellington, Alleghany County, David A. Robb, Alleghany County, W. J. Feaga, Alleghany County, Simon H. Duckworth, Alleghany County, Otto Hehing, Alleghany County, J. Frank Forrester, Alleghany County, Andrew M. Smith, Alleghany County, Thos. B. Lashley, Alleghany County, A. Rossell Cathcart, John M. Kennedy, W. Y. Perot, L. Lotterer, H. P. Hoffman, L. Melis, Chris. Rozenbrock, John Groves, James E. McCoy, John R. Gardner, John V. Vorsteg, Chas. E. West, L. H. Edmonstone, JOHN H. McFaul, Elbert Hock, Archey C. Mew, John W. Martian, Alfred Schultz, Harry Schirm, Wm. G. Albrecht, Gustav Kraus, Edward Akers, Frank T. Yotes, - 3 -WM. LEAGUE, WM. J. LANG, ROBERT S. COURSE Robert S. Course, Jr., H. H. Tomlinson, Wicomico County W. N. Andrews, Dorchester County, Wm. Merriken, Baltimore Co. Robert G. Galt Clarence Hampson William E. Schul James T. Merriken Gustavus B. Timanus, PRince Grorge Co. H. A. Hess, Joseph Schreiber John Leiper Winslow S. G. Krieger, Bernhard Diets, Cornelius B/ Grant Thomas J. Robinson, Samuel J. Dowell, William McCOy, Arthur Wann, Benjamin Weil, W. F. Cechran, Martin M. Higgins, Talbott County, Robert F. Walker, Talbott County, J. Graham Johnson, Talbott County, W. I. McCleary, - 4 -Louis de Gell, J. Tyler Smith, M. D., John H. Trimble, J. A. Butler, Montgomery County, J. Harry Cunningham, Montgomery County, D. W. Baker, Montgomery County, D. W. Baker, Montgomery County, Charles J. Fox, Montgomery County, Joseph R. Wood, Charles E. Norris, (?) W. F. Jacobi, L. G. Dinterman, Frederick County, J. S. Annan, Frederick County, Chas. J. Doll, Frederick County, C. F. Goodell, Frederick County, Elmer A. YOUNG, Frederick County, John L. Johnson, Frederick County, J. P. T. Matthais, Frederick County, Albert A. Ecker, Frederick County, M. P. Wood, Frederick County, M. P. Wood, Frederick County, Luther E. Kefauver, Frederick County, E. L. McLean, Frederick County, (?) M. D. Harp, Frederick County, John W. Loy, Frederick County, Ira H. Biser, Frederick County, Shafer L. Rhodes, Frederick County, T. E. R. MILLer, Frederick County, Chas. D. Shafer, Frederick County, G. lloyd Palmer, Frederick County, -5- E. A. Toms, Frederick County, C. C. Biser, Frederick County, John [C.] Castle, Frederick County, M. E. Kefauver, Frederick County, Wm. I. Renner, Frederick County, W. O. Werternbaker, Frederick County, Chas. H. Ramsburg, Frederick County, W. W. Doub, Frederick County, Daniel Malone, Moses Kaufman, John C. Friedel, Sidney P. Townsend, Kent County, Thos. DeCoursey Ruth, Walter M. Ruth, Howard S. Duer, S. P. Speers, Anne Arundel County, John A. Horn, Baltimore County, Chas. H. Whitaker, Baltimore County, Robert Pilson, Baltimore County, Ira Shock, Baltimore County, Luther M. Parsonf, M. D., Baltimore County, George E. Wright, Baltimore County, DavidF. Orr, Lewis H. Davenport, W. Norman Hood, Carroll County, Geo. R. Heffner, Wm. A. Goetze, R. M. Goetze, R. E. Petegoy, Dr. Luther Kemp, Carroll County, Samuel C. Ott. Carroll County, -6-Chas. H. Sapp, Carrell County, Dr. Geo. E. Baughman, Carroll County, H. Hains, A.S. Moore, N. Mchilinger, Jos. Kafka, F. D. Hall, T. Cantor, H. Gaskins, J. Elfant, W. Herring, J. Mier,Enc in Carrington 7-17-12[*5*] Edward C. Carrington, Edward C. Carrington, Jr. Campbell Carrington LONG DISTANCE PHONE C & P ST. PAUL 1005 CABLE ADDRESS "NEDCAM." "WESTERN UNION CODE" Carrington & Carrington. Attorneys & Counselors at Law. Md. Telephone Bldg. Baltimore, Md. July 17th, 1912, E.C.C. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: We have issued a call for a State Convention to meet here on the 25th inst., at the Auditorium Theatre, at noon. The call is signed by about two hundred people, the City of Baltimore and nearly every County in the State being represented in the call, a rough copy of which is enclosed herewith. Will you kindly send a short statement to be read at the Convention? I think it wise that you make it in the shape of a non-partisan appeal. Faithfully yours, Edward C. Carrington, Jr. BH Enclosure.For 1 enc see 7-17-12 Mier292 Summer Street, Stamford, Conn. [*14*] July 17, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, L.I. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: Mrs. Roosevelt, while in the White House, sent to a Fair in Boston to be sold, if so desired, a walking stick with silver head, which was presented to the writer instead of being sold. This gift was in recognition of services rendered as chairman of a committee of arrangements. The stick is bamboo with a heavy rod running through it, and this suggests that it should be my "cudgel" in the fight for Progressive Americanism. At the time this cane was presented to me the committee which made the presentation offered to have it engraved, with the name of the donor and her salutation quoted on the silver head. With your kind permission, I now propose to inscribe the words which accompanynied the cane," With best wishes from Mrs. Roosevelt" on its head as was originally planned by the committee and with this emblem of "progress" to start on my way to do all I can to advance the interests of the new party in my native State, Connecticut. When you left the White House nearly four years ago I had a strong conviction that you would come back this year to start a new party. For fifteen years I have felt that the Country was in great need of a new Party and I sincerely believe that the time has come for its birth. This will be the first year since I began to vote that I can conscientiously work for and support in its entirety a National Party. I believe in the principles for which you stand and I also believe that you have in you the qualities that will go far to harmonize not only civic rights among our citizens but freedom of religious thought as well. If The Golden Rule shall be the heaviest timber upon which to rest your new platform, believe me, you will always be able to count on my support. Cordially yours, Walter L. Colby. [[shorthand]]MEMORANDUM FROM WILLIAM S. HOWLAND. PLEASE WRITE REPLY ON THE BACK OF THIS SHEET July 17, 1912 For Mr. Abbott: Mr. Riis's letter of July 1st was replied to by Mr. Howland under date of July 3rd. The letter of July 5th came just [after] before Mr. Howland sailed and was acknowledged by Miss Conklin on his behalf stating that it would be turned over to Mr. Harold Howland. The letter of July 12th has now been acknowledged, and Mr. Harold Howland asks me to hand the entire batch of correspondence to you. M. T. Conklin[*28.*] Cramer & King Co. Silk Dyers Printers and Finishers 33rd Street & 10th Avenue Paterson, N.J. July 17, 1912 [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. Dear Col. Roosevelt:- With the tenter of our honorable assurance that we are actuated by the nationwide patriotic spirit of independence and resentment against a repeated attempt to defeat the expressed will of the people. we have taken the liberty of sending you under separate cover, for your inspection and approval, a half dozen silk bandanna campaign handkerchiefs, which please accept with our regards. As you will discover, the design is an unique, antique copy of the original museum pattern. In the trust that this emblem, typical of common rights and privileges and the common welfare, may result in a signal victory for genuine progressive principals, we remain Very sincerely yours, CRAMER & KING COMPANY Arthur C. Cramer, Prest.Post Office Windsor Vermont Cornish New Hampshire July 17 1912 Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I am sorry that I was not on hand when you wanted me but I am rarely in New York more than a few days out of a month. I shall be still from Tuesday until Friday of next week, and will keep any engagement you care to make. My address will be The Players 16 Grammercy Park I am interested in the third party as I never have been in any previous American political enterprise during my time and I sincerely hope that I may be of some service. Faithfully yours Herbert Croly [*[CROLEY]*]WILLIAM FLINN. PITTSBURGH, PA. Pittsburgh, Pa., July 17th. 1912. My Dear Colonel, - There are thirty-eight electors in Pennsylvania to be elected on the Republican ticket. We have twenty-six or twenty-eight men who are friendly to you, but this development has taken place amongst practically all of these men. No condition like this having heretofore arisen, they do nor feel that they are justified in remaining on this ticket, with Taft and Sherman at the top of the column, and announcing that they will vote for you even though the Republican ticket should have a majority in the State, although they can legally do so. Slowly but surely they are arriving at the conclusion that they ought to get off this ticket in order to give other people an opportunity to take their places and thus avoid embarrassment. If we ran a separate electoral ticket for Roosevelt, we could put all of the Republican candidates for State officers, district Congress, State Senate and House on this new ticket, which would make no difference to the local candidates and they would certainly be elected, and the State in my judgement would go for Wilson, so far as the electoral ticket is concerned. Taft polled 750,600 and Bryan 450,000 votes four years ago. You received 310,000 and Taft 180,000 votes in our recent primary election, and we figured that with separate tickets there would be a certainty of Wilson carrying the State, but with a combined electoral ticket we believe you would be sure of receiving 27 or 28 votes, those who agree to sign a public statement agreeing to accept the highest vote, either Taft or Roosevelt, as binding instructions. Those who would not sign would not get on the Roosevelt ticket, the list being filled with new names. Thus is you had more votes than Wilson, you would get the 38 electoral votes, and if you got more votes than Wilson, you would get the 38 electoral votes, and if you got more votes than Taft, you would get those on the joint electoral ticket, possibly 28. Under either plan there must be a Republican and Roosevelt Independent Column.WILLIAM FLINN, PITTSBURGH, PA. -2- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. I made a canvass of our people three days last week, spending one day with the Western representatives, one day with the Central State representatives, and one day with the Eastern representatives. There were several electors present and this proposition seemed to have the unanimous endorsement of everybody, to have a joint electoral ticket. The proposition of making a third party permanent in Pennsylvania I doubt its success. A large majority of the Republican Party was in favor of our fight for National Delegates, the Republican organization is in the hands of Roosevelt men, and while we believe that an independent ticket as an emergency measure such as we are confronted with this year is good politics, we do not believe that we could successfully combine against the Democratic Party with Penrose in the Republican Party and the Roosevelt element that would not go to the Roosevelt organization if we attempt to have a permanent existence. My thought is that you will find States having peculiar local surroundings and that each state will have to be governed by its local exigencies. This condition which we have presented will not be finally concluded until after the Chicago convention. I do not see how you can make a rule that will meet the Roosevelt sentiment that exists in Republican states such as West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and make the rule absolute in other states, the local condition will control. I conferred with National Committeeman Edwards of West Virginia before I took up the matter with our people and that was his idea. Of course, if you finally object to the combining of the electors on the Republican ticket and onWILLIAM FLINN, PITTSBURGH, PA. -3- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. the independent ticket, we would notice it, but it would be with the knowledge that the State is certain to go for Wilson. There is one more matter that I want to mention to you and I want your opinion on it. The Penrose and the Democrats have been busy patenting all the names that strike them as being available as the name for an independent ticket. The names of the National Progressive, the Progressive[m] Lincoln, and other names have all been patented either as a whole or in spots. They have taken out patent papers in various parts of the state amounting to about two hundred. Our patent papers must all be signed and mailed to Harrisburg on one day for the purpose of forestalling the other people. The name I would like to patent for the Roosevelt Ticket in Pennsylvania, and one that I wish you not to discuss with anybody else[m] but give me your approval or disapproval, is the name "Liberal Party." It is a well-known name, a progressive party in England, and a name that I think has not been dreamed of by the other people. We have 200 patents to take out in the different Congressional, Senatorial and Legislative Districts, which must be done in each district on the same day. This necessitates having 200 safe men on duty on this particular day who have to secure seven signers with affidavits sent to Harrisburg that night, thereby enabling us to make a full ticket under our title. You can see the great care that is necessary. I wish you would give me your opinion and impression as to the name. In order to more thoroughly familiarize you with our ballot I enclose you herewith a copy of the ballot used four years ago. Our name would go at the bottom of the ticket, after the names now on, in alphabetical order. Please mail this ballot back to me.WILLIAM FLINN PITTSBURGH, PA. -4- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. I think we will have a pretty fair representation of Roosevelt delegates to the old National Convention at the new convention, at least two-thirds. With very kind regards and best wishes for your success, I am, Yours very truly, Wm Flinn WF:J To Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Edward Fitz-Gerald Gibbs 826 S.E. A Street Washington, D.C. July 17, 1912 Col Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir It is estimated that if the Post Office Department should absorb all telephone & telegraph lines, as suggested by P.M. General Hitchcock, the rate of service would be only about 25% of the present rate. Yours truly E. F. Gibbs 826 - A Street S.E. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY SEND the following message subject to the terms of back hereof, which are hereby agreed to TO [*19.*] 11NY WN 72 NL. NL. Bisbee Ariz July 17-18, [1912] Theo/Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, NY. Leave for Tucson tomorrow morning to attend a meeting representing all counties in state to discuss and decide [[?]] making [first] fight in Arizona whether in old party or new Republican party in minority party in Arizona am in favor of new party however differences of opinion here on this subject will be glad to receive wire from you santarita Hotel Tucson tomorrow morning offering any suggestion as to procedure we should follow John C. Greenway... 853-a [[short hand]]The Griswold EASTERN POINT New London, Conn. H. D. Saxton, MGR. July 17, [*[1912?]*] Dear Mr Harper I will spend Friday night at Oyster Bay with pleasure, going down on train leaving Penn at 5:30 P. M. Please thank Mrs Roosevelt for the invitation Peter S. GrosscupGeneral Delivery, Boston, Mass. July 17, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, c/o Outlook Office, 287 Fourth Ave., New York. My dear Sir: - Accept my congratulations on progress thus far made by the Progressive Party under your leadership. I need hardly tell you that I am heartily with you, but as usual I want to bother you with a suggestion. I understand that you are this week devising the platform for the convention. You know your enemies have had much to say about "third term". I think there is much more harm from the use of patronage when a president seeks the second term while holding the office than can result from seeking a third term as you have done without patronage but with the people behind you. I wish you would put a plank in your platform recommending an amendment to the Federal Constitution fixing the presidential term at six years - no president eligible to re-election while holding the office. This does not preclude the people calling him back at some future time if he is wanted. The presidential years are always years of "hard times” this would prevent their recurring so often. A man elected to that office knowing he could notbe reelected to succeed himself would have no temptation to misuse patronage and would aim to make a great record for himself during his one chance. There is another amendment that should be made though possibly it is not worth while putting it in the platform - inauguration day should be the last Thursday in April instead of March 4th, thus insuring better weather. Trusting you will forgive this intrusion upon your time, I am, as ever, Your sincere friend Jason Yuraan of Blue Rapid, Kansas.Thomas A. H. Hay, President Easton, Pa. W. O. Hay, Vice-President Easton, Pa. M. P. McGrath, General Manager Easton, Pa. NORTHAMPTON TRACTION COMPANY EASTON, PENNA. July 17th, 1912. CoL. Theodore Roosevelt, No. 287 Forth Ave., New York City, N. Y. My Dear Colonel;- I have just been approached by Mr. Asa K. McIlhaney who is the Chairman of the Speakers' Committee for the Old Home Week Celebration to be held August 5th-12th at Bath, formerly the Irish Settlement of Pennsylvania, where your ancestors and mine both came from. They are most anxious to have you present, in view of the fact that, your ancestor Daniel Craig, the real found of the settlement was for many years identified with its growth and very life. I realize we are all to be in Chicago on the fifth, and my thought was this---- You could come home via the Lehigh Valley with me, get off at Easton and I will have you taken to Bath which is only eleven miles from Easton by carriage road, or fifteen miles by my trolley and one of my friend's. I know these people will greatly appreciate your presence. Until your visit to Easton, prior to our primaries, we have never had a presidential candidate visit me outside of Horace Greeley in 1872, forty years ago. Our section, you know, is entirely progressive and is anti-machine on both the Democratic and Republican sides, and your coming would be an inspiration as well as a very important event. Bangor which lies in the northeast corner of our county, is also to have an Old Home Celebration in commemoration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the town. Bangor is the centre of the slate regions of the United States with an out put of seventy-five per cent of all the slate made in America. The original settlers there were English and Welsh and these two nationalities still largely predominate. They have been your adherents almost to a man. They absolutely idolize your personality and support you principles. There week is to be celebrated from August 18th-24th. On August Twenty-third, they will celebrateTHOMAS A. H. HAY, PRESIDENT EASTON, PA. W. O. HAY, VICE-PRESIDENT EASTON, PA. M. P. McGRATH, GENERAL MANAGER EASTON, PA. NORTHAMPTON TRACTION COMPANY EASTON, PENNA. July 17th, 1912. T.R. NO. 2. Farmers Day and I am safe in saying that, there will be present anywhere from thirty to forty thousand people. They are most anxious to have you present, and, while I realize the pressure is tremendous upon you for speeches and I hate to add to your burdens I cannot help but voice the sentiment of the people that they will be greatly honored with your presence either at the Bath Old Home or the Bangor Old Home, if you cannot attend both. Will you permit me to add my request to urge you to give us a day on either of these two occasions. With kindest regards, I am, Very sincerely yours, Thomas A. H. HayNational Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE NO. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 17, 1912. Frank Harper, Secy., "Outlook" Office, Charities Bldg., City. My dear Mr. Harper: George W. Sisson, President of the State Agricultural Society, I trust has been written by Colonel Roosevelt. He is a very important man, and worthy of an invitation to confer with the Colonel. Advices from Judge Kellogg of Watertown today indicate that a letter, [was] sent by the Colonel to [Bill] “Billy” O'Neil, [O’Neill] who is the fatherinlaw of Assemblyman Alexander McDonald, of St. Regis Falls, Franklin County, [it] would help us bring McDowell our way; he is a very valuable man in that county. Judge Kellogg also suggests that a personal letter from Col. Roosevelt to Walter Witherbee of Essex County would just now do a lot of good. Very sincerely, Wm. H. Hotchkiss Provisional Chairman. whh/edkNational Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE NO. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 17, 1912. Frank Harper, Esq., City, My dear Mr. Harper,- The enclosed letters came with many others received from you to-day. One of them should probably have gone to Senator Dixon. No copies of answers were attached to the others, hence I am uncertain whether they have been replied to, and if so, whether the writers were referred to Headquarters here. Wont you advise me as to these? Yours very truly, William H. Hotchkiss Provisional Chairman.1322 East 47th Street, Chicago, July 17, 1918. My dear Col. Roosevelt: If I have had no response to my recent communication, I can only hope it is due to matters which are more important than mine,but there is after all a certain staisfaction in it,in that there has been no refusal on your part to visit Kendallville, Indiana, in the near future. I enclose clippings, one showing what is going on in Kendallville and the other in regard to LaGrange County, just to the north of us. It is my most earnest wish that you may find it possible to deliver an address in Kendallville, any time between now and the 21st or any time between the 29th of July and the 4th of August, or some time in September. If you can do this,I shall make it my business to see that Northeastern Indiana is thoroughly apprised of the fact; politics being the chief product of the state I can guarantee a large and enthusiastic audience. I shall give the matter my personal attention and enlist the co-operation of progressive leaders. The uncertainty indicated in the one article proves that special information is needed in Kendallville and that corner of the state. I feel that your visit would accomplish much good and if you can be with us only a couple of hours it would suffice. I am very sure I express the wish of many in the invitation here extended. I shall leave for Kendallville in four or five days, so any reply that can reach Chicago in that time should be sent me here; otherwise please write me at Kendallville, Indiana. While it is hardly to be expected that you would make a special trip to our city,it is quite likely that in your forthcoming journey,you will at some time be not far from there, and I hope you may find it possible to address the people of Northeastern Indiana. I should be delighted to be able to/make such announcement. Sincerely yours, Louis J. Keller Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York.[*B.*] WILLIAM KENT SECOND CALIFORNIA House of Representatives Washington, D.C. July 17, 1912. [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: I understand that you are seeking for all sorts of information. I wish to respectfully submit some remarks I made last year on the general proposition of protective tariff. I am quite sure that although it may not seem instructive, at any rate, you will be somewhat amused. From my standpoint, it is hard to conceive of a program leading toward the abolishment of privilege without assuming the old Garfield doctrine that a protective tariff ought to be a means toward reaching free trade. It seems clear to me that, whereas there may be excuse for certain forms of subsidy as temporary expedients, to accept a doctrine of permanent subsidy necessarily leads to endless confusion, waste and inequity of taxation. We start out by protecting the steel industry so that it costs more to build ships in this country than it does to build ships, with American steel, in foreign countries. We refuse to accept under American register, foreign built ships. Then, we pass coastwise laws so that American commerce is charged up, first, with the steel tariff, and second, with a protected monopoly of American shipowners. We are alwaysHon. T. Roosevelt, --2. confronted with the proposition of paying subsidy in addition to American ships. It seems like the old ditty of the man who scratched his eyes out in a bramble bush and then scratched them in again by jumping into another. I hope and trust that the New Party movement, in turning its face away from privilege, can turn away from the present doctrine of permanent protection, going back to such protection as is justifiable to establish industries in this country that must become self-sustaining, and thus need no more protection, or, in the event that we have mistaken the possibility of conducting them without permanent protection, that the protection be removed and they be permitted to cease to encumber an inhospitable soil. Yours truly, William Kent WK/FBAWilliam Kent Second California House of Representatives U.S. Washington, D.C. July 17, 1912 Dear Mr. Roosevelt: There were some alleged quotations in the paper the other day that would lead one to suppose that you attributed the high cost of meat to the packers. After an experience in meat production running over twenty-five years, I feel quite sure that packers do not make any more per head, even if they make as much per head, as they used to when meat was cheaper. In standard meats, their margin is comparatively small. In off-color stuff, such as old cows and bulls, their profits are large. the enclosed statement by my partner, Mr. E.L. Burke, covers the question of cost of corn for meat and shows a practical doubling in our costs the last fifteen years. Part of this due to the waste and destruction of the range, which adds $20 a head to the cost of our feeders. In addition to this, there is an increased cost owing to price of corn, of something like $25. Increased of hay adds it quota. The summary, which shows that it is not economy to produce 2 pounds of beef and 1 pound of pork by the use of 28 pounds of corn, is something that cannot be dodged. If we are going to have cheaper meat, we must get if from grass or cheaper feed than corn. In this question of cost, as in every other question of cost, you will find an ever-increasing tribute levied through the "unearned increment" values of land. The man who owns the farm or the man who the city lot may be able to hedge by the increased value of his property, but the vast majority of our people must necessarily pay to create this "unearned increment" and the correlative earnings derived upon it by rent. Indeed, the increment would not be there if it were not translated in terms of earning capacity. In addition to this tax levied by land values upon the landless, there is still a greater burden inflicted through what we may call "mal-employment". The man who is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing in the wrong place must be sustained by the man who doing the right thing in the right place. This waste is the heaviest tax of all and it is one that cannot be met by any legislation. Your efforts to make country life more tolerable were aimed directly at the abuse of the over-development of distribution at the expense of production. Yours truly, William Kent Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. [[shorthand]] Denver, Colorado, July 17, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island N.Y. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- I am inclosing copy of night letter sent you tonight. Of course, I am anxious to avoid disturbing or bothering you with our local difficulties, but I feel that a crisis has been reached in this state, when, if possible, a word from you at this time is needed to save us from being led to the shambles through what seems to me miserably bad judgment of our friend Phil Stewart. Personally I have the kindest feelings for Phil, but I must say that he is the type of man, apparently, ambitious to be governor of the state, who, consciously, or unconsciously, is led into temporizing with the enemy and listening to advice and suggestions of combinations, made more with a view of winning an office than advancing a cause. Conferences called by Mr Stewart have certainly been attended by some of the most notorious of Boss Bill Evan's political [management] henchmen although Mr Stewart denies being responsible for their attendance and active interest in the conferences. But as a result of such conferences the following arrangement has been consented to by the group of Progressive Republicans who are following Mr Stewart in this state and who are anxious to nominate and elect him governor; they have agreed to stay out of the Republican assembly that meets in August, under our primary law that for the fist time takes effect at this AugustHon. T. R. #2. assembly. This assembly has the power under the law to name the electors for the Republican ticket, and since it will be controlled by the Evans-Guggenheim- Big Steve- Devine- Taft Republicans, they will nominate Taft electors. This is conceded by Mr. Stewart and his friends. The men named for state offices at this assembly, under the primary law are then placed upon the primary ballot. In addition to candidates selected by this assembly to be placed on this primary ballot, the voters have the right by petition to also place candidates on the primary ballot. It is Mr. Stewart's plan to have his friends place himself and other Progressive Republicans on the primary ballot for the primary election to be held on September 10th. Thus the fight starts with the Guggenheim crowd in absolute control of the assembly and the machinery of the party, and with very little chance of Mr Stewart winning in the primaries, unless the Guggenheim crowd believe that his supposed strength as a Progressive and his friendship for you would strengthen their chances for the Taft electors who would head the ticket upon which Mr Stewart would run as a Republican claiming to be a Progressive. There are undoubtedly some of the Taft Republicans who believe that they might thus capitalize the strength of the Progressives for Mr Taft; so that, if Mr Stewart should win under this program, it would in my judgment, be at the expense of the Roosevelt electors. The only way that Mr Stewart could help the Roosevelt or third party movement in this state would be to advise his friends to vote for independent candidates put up on a separate ticket composed of electors only. He proposes to do this. Under our ballot law [it requires] the voter is required to writeHon. T. R. #3. his party name in a blank space at the top of the ballot [which] & this is an invitation to vote the straight ticket [pretty straight]. Thousands of our people, in our judgment, satisfied with Mr Stewart and Progressive state candidates, would fail to take the trouble to scratch six times for independent electors for our Progressive candidate for president, which it is of course assumed, will be yourself. Another serious danger is that in many of the counties of the state the Guggenheim machine will unquestionably succeed in nominating their own Republican candidates for the legislature and for congress, and Mr Stewart would be involved in hopeless confusion by having also to advise his friends to vote against Guggenheim candidates for the legislature and for congress who were running on the ticket with him. For instance: here in Denver there are fifteen or twenty members of the legislature to be elected who may vote for Simon Guggenheim for United States Senator should he be a candidate, as I believe he will be in certain events. The result of Mr Stewart's arrangement then, (even if he should succeed in being nominated [nominally] at the primaries on the regular Republican ticket headed by the Taft electors,) would be indirectly helping to send to the United States Senate Mr Guggenheim or one of his agents. I know positively, and Mr Stewart cannot question it, that some of the most notorious machine politicians on this state are heartily in favor of Mr Stewart's plan, and they would not favor it a moment if they thought it was going to help a genuine Progressive movement.Hon. T. R. #4. In following out Mr Stewart's plan his followers have refused to take any part in sending delegates to the Progressive Convention in Chicago, thus subjecting themselves to the accusation of refusing to take part in the Progressive movement. As opposed to Mr Stewart's plan, our plan is to name delegates to the Progressive Convention at Chicago as a straight out Progressive party into which we have invited citizens of every past political faith, and to which invitation many are enthusiastically responding already. We are offering them the same opportunities for nominations on our ticket as Republicans, Democrats, or members of any other party, which is denied them by the Stewart plan. We have under the law, after an enthusiastic convention, already held in Denver, defeated the old Guggenheim tricks of stealing our name "Progressive Party", so that we have practically clear sailing on this issue, unless some crooked judge should be invoked to upset the law. We expect to nominate a complete ticket, headed, in all probability, by Edward P. Costigan for governor, or Mr Stewart if he will come with us, giving Progressive Democrats and others representation, having a free, open convention in every county in the state, and going down the line without any alliances or confusions with Mr Taft or Mr Guggenheim's legislative plans, so that the voter who merely writes "Progressive" at the top of his ballot may vote our ticket straight from Roosevelt's Progressive electors to constable, without any explanations or directions without scratching which our experience proves means the loss of thousands of votes. Disgust and confusion under our unfortunateHon. T. R. #5 ballot law destroys the real strength of strong candidates. Yesterday at a conference in Denver at which Mr Stewart's personal representative attended, we pointed out all of these dangers, and, while they were not denied, he stated that he felt bound to Mr Stewart's race for governor, and that they would make no change in their program. I do not wish to infer that Mr Stewart is willing to jeopardize the success of the Roosevelt electors in behalf of his own chances for governor. On the contrary, I believe that he is very sincere in his idea that by this arrangement he is going to gain, not only more strength for himself, but also for you, and increase your chances of carrying this state on the Progressive ticket; but I am quite convinced that he is wrong. I think the plan might increase Mr Stewart's chances of election, but would also permit the Guggenheim crowd to capitalize his strength and that of Progressive Republicans for the Taft electors and the Guggenheim legislative program. I want to say, in full justice to Mr Stewart, that the Pueblo Chieftain, the paper owned by Mr Devine, recently Chairman of the Credentials Committee at the Republican Convention, is denouncing Mr Stewart's plan and roundly condemning him for inconsistency, and claiming that he is trying to carry water on both shoulders, and, as they put it, to hang on to the tail of the elephant with one hand and the horn of the bull moose with the other. But I think this is due to the division alone of opinion among theHon. T. R. #6 Taft people as to whether it will be better for them to nominate Stewart at the primaries, or to defeat him for the nomination, for, since he is absolutely committed to the program I mention, they have no fears of his repudiating it. But Mr Stewart has changed his mind a number of times during the campaign. He stated to us positively in Chicago, and since he returned to Colorado Springs, that he would not under any conditions be a candidate for governor on the Republican ticket headed by the Taft electors, But his representative at the conference yesterday informed us that he had changed his mind and was now willing to secure the nomination, if possible, on the ticket headed by the Taft electors, with the idea that his published request to Republicans to scratch for independent electors to be nominated by petition to support you, would more than offset the advantage thus given to him to Mr Taft and the Guggenheim machine. There was only one thing for us to do, and that was to take a firm stand for what we believe to be the right side of this question, and that from the standpoint of principles even rather than chances of success in November for our candidates for state and county offices. Our situation is entirely different from the situation in states like California and Kansas. In Kansas, for example, there is a fair, square opportunity for the voters at the primaries to determine whether or not they will have Taft or Roosevelt electors, and with the Progressives in complete control of the partyHon. T. R. #7 machinery throughout the state, a condition that does not xist in this state, since it will be impossible for the people to choose electors at the primaries. I believe that if this matter can be settled now, as I am confident it can by a determined stand by you on one side or the other, we may avoid being led to the shambles, as I fear we shall be if the Stewart program is followed, for I think most of his people and perhaps Phil himself, will come into line with us if they are satisfied that you have a preference as to which program to follow in Colorado. I hope you will come to Colorado, if possible on your trip to Kansas. It would not extend your trip more than eighteen or twenty hours, and the effect would be far reaching throughout all the intermountain states, just in the formative period of our third party movement. [That] The situation, because of absolute control by the Taft people, is very similar to that existing in Colorado, and it would settle a definite program. This is the main thing now, to know which way we are going, and then go straight ahead. If you should favor the The Stewart program, I want you to know that I will do all I can to get our people here to fall in line and do the very best we can under that arrangement. With all good wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Ben B. LindseyForm 2289 NIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD ROBERT C. CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER'S No. TIME FILED CHECK SEND the following NIGHT LETTER subject to the terms on back hereof which are hereby agreed to Denver, Colo.July 17, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York Faction of Progressive Republicans led by Phil Stewart have agreed to arrangement whereby Taft electors are to head Republican ticket in this state, Stewart, if nominated for governor, to be on regular Republican ticket headed by Taft electors, agreeing, however, to nominate independent electors on independent ticket for you, Stewart crowd advising voters to scratch for independent electors. Chances very slight, in the first place, for Stewart to win at primaries. If he wins we lose, because practically impossible to elect Roosevelt electors merely by scratching; also gives Evans-Ouggenheim-Big Steve machine benefit of Stewart Progressive strength for Taft and their legislative and congressional tickets. Plan of our group is to have no dealings with Republican ticket headed by Taft electors, but to go straight to the people with independent Progressive party, appealing to Democrats Republicans alike, with Roosevelt electors as only electors, avoiding confusions, and no possible chance to give strength of Progressives to Taft or Guggenheim legislative or congressional candidates. Stewart's plan my judgement confusing, dangerous. Believe it most important that you wire E. P. Costigan, Chairman Progressive Party, Denver, your affirmative approval ofForm 2289 NIGHT LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD ROBERT C. CLOWRY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVER'S No. TIME FILED CHECK SEND the following NIGHT LETTER subject to the forms on back hereof which are hereby agreed to 2 third party movement in Colorado, so your supporters may know where to work most effectively for your cause. Reports from over Colorado convince us if your Colorado supporters are not divided you will undoubtedly carry state through third party movement. Stewart's program means hopeless division. Arrange if possible to extend your Kansas trip to Denver. Effect will be powerful in all inter-mountain states. Ben B. Lindsey. (Paid).[*Here is a letter from all of the finest men in the state in answer to Phil Stewarts compromise [letters] plans.*] [*Return to B B Lindsey Denver Col*] Catlin & Blake Attorneys at Law. COPY F. D. Catlin C. L. Blake F. D. Catlin, Jr. H. W. Catlin. Montrose, Colorado July 11, 1912. Hon. Philip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colo. Dear Mr. Stewart:- Replying to yours of the 9th. In view of the action of the National Republican Convention I find I am not in sympathy with the Republican platform, nor in favor of the Republican candidate. I am for Roosevelt and his platform, and I don't see how you can ride in both wagons. They are more out of harmony than the Roosevelt and the Democratic platform. It seems utterly absurd to me to talk of people who favor the Taft electors joining in a politican movement with people who favor the Roosevelt electors with the "understanding and agreement that if Arkansas and Maine should send a larger number of Taft electors than Roosevelt electors, that our electoral vote should be counted according to theirs." It is wholly unscientific, without principle and not based on anything but a scramble for patronage. If the people have any awakening, it is on the basis that they are not going to be governed in their vote by the question of who shall have the post-offices. Such an agreement as you speal of would be devoid of any principle involved in this campaign and would alienage every thinking voter. It would not enable the Progressive Republicans to get control or get anywhere in the primaries or otherwise. It would not serve the purpose of the Progressive Republicans in any of the matters for which they have been laboring in the past. In fact, Catlin & Blake Attorneys at Law. F.D. Catlin. C. L. Blake. F. D. Catlin, Jr. H. W. Catlin. C O P Y P.B.S.--2. Montrose, Colorado. July 11,1912. it seems to me that whoever suggested it to you must wholly fail to comprehend the issues and differences between Progressives and Reactionaries. It is a plain pretext,make-shift, compromise, and stands for nothing. It is just the opposite of what Mr. Roosevelt stands for. It is "diplomacy" instead of straightforward, direct, good English proposition. I have come to the conclusion that there is no possibility of the Progressive Republicans succeeding as such in the Assembly or otherwise, this Fall. I believe that what this State needs at the present time is an independent movement, such as the Citizens Party in Denver at the last City election; that the people are so anxious to clean up the corporation bosses of both parties, and will do it if they get a chance, and that such a chance is presented by Mr. Roosevelt's Progressive Party, and that you have goton the wrong track. Better think it over. Yours truly, [*[B.B.LINDSEY]*] FDC-MHEnc in Lindsey 7-11-12Edwin B. Lord Advertising Counsellor and Efficiency Engineer Advice Based in Experience Not Theory 171 Broadway N.Y. City Milwaukee, Wis. Envelope Dept. The Saving in Buying Envelopes in large quantities direct from the Factory is so large that I advise all my clients to in all cases buy in sufficient quantities to last them at least a year. _____________ Let me quote you on anything you may need in in the Envelope line. ______________________________________________________ Address your reply to this letter to New York office. New York City July 17, 1912 My dear Colonel: Please accept my thanks for your kind letter of sixteenth inst. I have had pleasure in taking the matter up with Senator Dixon as suggested by you and if I can do anything to advance your interests you may feel assured it will afford me pleasure to do it. Yours very truly, Edwin B. Lord Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City.STUART G. SHEPARD ROBERT R. McCORMICK S.E. THOMASON PERRY S. PATTERSON HARRIS CARMAN LUTKIN FRANKLIN A. DEAN, JR. DWIGHT P. GREEN SHEPARD, McCORMICK AND THOMASON LAW OFFICES 934-944 TRIBUNE BUILDING CHICAGO TELEPHONE RANDOLPH 2929 [[shorthand]] July seventeenth Nineteen-twelve Dear Colonel Roosevelt: You have doubtless been notified of the call for the Illinois convention. I am glad that Merriam, Jones, Rogers, et al have openly broken with your followers. Jones and Merriam were originally LaFollette men, and Rogers' chief, Charles R. Crane, is out for Wilson. State Senator McGill, who ran on the direct primary ballot for United States Senator, and who ran thousands and thousands of votes ahead of Jones (although he did not carry the state) has broken with the Jones-Merriam-Rogers crowd. He and about every other Progressive that I have run into is opposed to a third state ticket. We all feel that such a ticket will cost you thousands of votes and that it cannot be elected even with your support. I am informed that Governor Deneen is contemplating the following plan: Both your name and the name of Mr. Taft shall be put on the ticket in the Republican column, and the Republican electors pledged to vote for which of you gets the largerSHEPARD, McCORMICK AND THOMASON LAW OFFICES 934-944 TRIBUNE BUILDING CHICAGO STUART G. SHEPARD ROBERT R. McCORMICK S. E. THOMASON PERRY S. PATTERSON HARRIS CARMAN LUTKIN FRANKLIN A. DEAN, JR. DWIGHT P. GREEN TELEPHONE RANDOLPH 2929 July seventeenth Nineteen-twelve #2 vote. The county committees of the seventy odd counties which are under Deneen control will pass a resolution endorsing Roosevelt and condemning the nomination of Taft. Among Republicans of this state and a large number of Democrats there is a fearful opposition to a third state ticket. This opposition believes that a third ticket will result in the interest of Dunne, the Democratic candidate. It feels that your friends in putting it up will work against the best interests of the state for personal reasons. As the situation develops I will keep you advised, if you wish. My personal impression is that things are coming our way if we only do not make some avoidable mistake by defying the force of public opinion. Sincerely yours, Robert R. McCormick Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay New York Bolivar N.Y. 7-17-1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay N.Y. Dear Sir I was a sincere and earnest supporter of Taft because he was pledged to carry out the policies inaugurated by you and secondly because I had always been a republican, but would not vote for him again for several reasons one of which is his seeming inclination to discriminate in favor of the Catholics, and like both of the old parties, to keep bidding for the vote of this dangerous element, until it almost begins to look as if it might end up in the sale of our religious liberties. You know it - has become quite common to amend the Constitution, and as you are no doubt aware Archbishop Ireland has been2 lecturing his people to see to it that more catholics are elected to congress. From your own personal experience you cannot be unmindful of the despotic character and methods of the church of Rome. Of course they may never be able to accomplish all their purposes in this direction, but it seems to be their highest ambition to eventually rule this country. Most fervently do I pray that final results may not confirm my fears. I do not ask you for any extended response to these views, but would be pleased to know that you read them personally. With the very highest respect Sincerely yours D.C. Millis[*[1912?]*] Norwich Conn. July 17th Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir:- I see by the paper you are to tour Conn. Could you speak for the Woman's Suffrage at Norwich? If you could what would be your terms, and what date could you give. "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." Yours very sincerely, Louise Franklin Miner Box 166 Norwich Conn.For att. see 7-17-12The Globe Soup Company CINCINNATI,OHIO C. W. MOODY. MANAGER ATLANTA DIVISION 17 SOUTH PRYOR ST. ATLANTA, GA. Atlanta, Ga., July 17, 1912. [*26.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir:- The attached copy of letter to Col. W. H. Johnson, Chairman Ga. Delegation at Chicago Convention, will give you more correct information in regard to the Southern situation than you can get from a politician. A progressive platform, to appeal, has got to stand for something definite and do it in plain English; [*The people don't understand tariff - & currency reforms, as leading issues.*] Its got to get down to the people and advocate things the people can understand. For instance, the building of National highways under Government control, connecting all state capitals and Government cooperation with the states connecting county seats. The argument of benefit to the masses - the farmers - the increase in value of taxable property is tremendous and will appeal, and besides, will appeal to the motor world. The regulation of Railroad rates so packing houses may be established in the principal cities of the states and not be strangled by the branches of the Chicago combine[*having special rate privileges*] A reform of the courts that permit litigants to have their cases tried during their life time on a basis of facts and not technicalities - A business administration that will shape things so all manufacturers can go after South American trade, and if they don't know how, to show them how to get it - A policy that will eliminate the negro from any participation in either state or national progressive affairs. No faction in any Southern State that affiliates in any way with a negro following should be accorded enough standing with the progressive leaders to get even an interview. The fifty years of experience that the Republican party has had should be enough to convince any sane politician. The progressives have no chance in the South if affiliated even by work or deed with the negro. They do have a chance for a brilliant future if they eliminate the negro and stand for the best in State and National Government affairs.The Globe Soap Company. CINCINNATI, OHIO. T. R. #2. I am a stalwart Republican, but I never saw the inside of a State or National State convention, and no other Southern white republican of respectability ever did, where the Negro was in evidence. The white politicians and office-holders, who attend the conventions are in a class by themselves, with rare exceptions. I am not interested in politics except to advise occasionally and sometimes my advice is accepted. I am in charge of a big selling force covering the South, mostly Democrats, but first men of brains and judgment & I know things. It would be a colossal blunder to let a negro into any progressive convention. Thousands of business Democrats want to vote progressive policies, but they would not do so with negro trimmings in the state affairs. Neither would I, and a National policy that gives the negro standing can have no standing in any Southern State and no chance to win. Two white votes will be gained in the North to one lost if it be known that the progressives are a party for white, honest, upright American citizens. Yours truly, Chas W Moody CWM. For encl see 6-21-12[*[7-17-12]*] 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 18 Wn 129 Blue 2 XX. SEND the following message subject to the terms} on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to } To Wn New York July 17th. 17. Col. Theo Roosevelt, Oyster Bay The Organizers for the Ocean to Ocean Highway association has complete the organizing of nine states as follows: Southern California Arizona, New Mexico Colorado Kansas Missouri Illinois Indiana & Ohio with two hundred & seventy six thousand three hundred and sixty four members and added to our organization West Virginia Penna. Maryland & District of Columbia & Have promised Delaware New Jersey & New York City by fall we expect to have five hundred thousand members we have been received by governors the prest. & am now enroute to pay our respects to Gov. Wilson & Hope you will permit us to pay our respects to you at your home or where convenient I am compelled to return West day after tomorrow kindly indicate your wishes to me at Waldorf Astoria Dell M. Potter, National Organizer. 309P READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK.40 Wall Street New York City July 17 1912 Mr. G. D. Wardrop The Outlook Office 257 Fourth Avenue New York City Dear Sir We beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the fifteenth instant, with enclosures. Very truly yours, Charles s. Ramsay Jr. CSR:AAMVancouver, Wash., July 17, 1912 Personal. Col Theodore Roosevelt, Dear Comrade:- I see that you are going into the middle West next week, and I regard this as a very wise step. You will arouse the people. You are needed out this way also, and I advise you to try to go to the Pacific Northwest as soon as possible. If you do not come early you will not get out at all, for you will be kept in the East and Middle West during the exciting part of the campaign, so come out here as soon as you can. For Vice Pres. I think you should have a mate with former Democratic proclivities, like Judge Ben Lindsey, Gov. Luke Wright or Mr. F. J. Heney; Lindsey being preferable, as he would arouse great MORAL enthusiasm. Garfield would be a better running mate than any other former Republican. It is too early to foresee the result for this campaign, but that is not the important matter. If you make a good fight you will go down into history as the leader in founding a great new Progressive party and that will bring greater glory than any victory at present or indeed that your past achievements. Being a federal officeholder, I am writing confidentially. Yours truly. Glenn N Ranck (A comrade of the Spanish War.) 43D YEAR PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY 43D YEAR The Sunday Democrat THE LEADING IRISH-AMERICAN AND DEMOCRAT PAPER OF NEW YORK Life Subscription - $10.00 Yearly Subscription - $2.00 Single Copy - 5 Cents MAIN OFFICE: DONALD BUILDING, COR. 6TH AVE. & 32D ST. PHONE 812 MAD. SQ. BRANCH OFFICE 100 WEST 39TH STREET PHONE 4611 MURRAY HILL [*18.*] [[shorthand]] NEW YORK, July 17/12 191__ Dear Col. Roosevelt:- There is no question that President Taft will surely be defeated in the coming campaign. I am glad to note that my dear friend, Ernest Harvier, is with you. I would like to meet you soon. When would it suit your convenience? Very truly yours, F. J. Reilly ManagerDouglas Robinson. [146] 128 Broadway, Cable Address, “Ryraport”, New York. New York, July 17th, 1912. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of July 16th, requesting a deposit of $1,000. to Colonel Roosevelt's account in the Astor Trust Company. Replying thereto, would say that the deposit has this day been made, as requested. Yours very truly, Douglas Robinson S. Frank Harper, Esq. #287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. SForm 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 message only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. 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Roosevelt, Oyster Bay First regularly organized Roosevelt Club in Connecticut thanks you for your cordial message and throws one hundred & fifty coats in the ring alongside your hat. J. G. Schwink Jr President Geo. F. Rogers Secy. 8 14ACAMPAIGN PORTRAITS CAMPAIGN BANNERS ON CLOTH AND CANVAS AND TRANSPARENCIES EDWARD M. SHEEDY SIGN WRITER LETTERING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EXECUTED ARTISTICALLY 32 MAIN STREET, OVER NATIONAL BANK NATICK, MASS. July 7, 1912. WOOD, IRON, BRASS. BURNISHED GLASS. CARVED LETTER ILLUSTRATED. ENAMEL CLOTH. ELECTRIC. SHOW CARD. PICTORIAL SIGNS [*14*] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I. My dear Colonel: Being desirous of having ready a large quantity of Campaign Portraits ( on Cloth ) of you for the Political Campaign of 1912, I again solicit the same favor of you that I did in 1904, - that you will again select what you consider the most authentic Portrait of yourself, with full permission to paint from large Portraits on Cloth and Canvas for Campaign purposes. I thank you for your extreme kindness in 1904, in sending your Photo from which I painted Portraits in large quantities for Cities and Towns in the State of Massachusetts. Trusting that you will grant this favor I remain respectfully, E. M. Sheedy.Department of Commerce and Labor BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS Washington July 17, 1912 Dear Mr. Harper, Your letter of the 16 inst. was received, with Col. Roosevelts invitation to lunch with him at Oyster Bay on Saturday next. I shall be very glad to do so. I shall arrive in New York either late Friday night, or early Saturday morning. Very sincerely yours, Herbert Knox SmithJoplin Mo July 17th 1912 My dear Judge: - The attached Journal was handed me by a physician whom I have known since boyhood. He tells me it is read by every practicing physician in Mo., and that the Editorial on page 15 is similar to one appearing recently in American Medical Journal of Chicago read by Physicians generally throughout the U.S. He remarked "The farmer appeals to the Dept of Agriculture when his hogs are afflicted with cholera but when his children are afflicted with worms he is compelled to call in a physician. The Republicans have straddled, the Democrats have come out flatfooted, us Physicians are not supposed to be very partisan but we don't want to fall on the Wilson side of the fence if we can help it so you progressives should watch your platform. Yours truly Rock Stoddard Provisional Nat'l Committeeman Jasper Co., Mo. To Hon. Paul A. Ewert City[*4.*] Brooklyn July 17 - 12 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay L. I. Dear Sir, I am sending you one of my latest anthems on the flag, copyrighted May 13 - 12. I have numerous commends on Navy such as from the War Dept. - Navy Dept, musicians - authors - composers - writers Major & Adjutant Generals - Representatives Senators - Universities Presidents - ministers and eminent men of our country. I am trying to make this anthem a national affair. Will you assist a young Brooklynite towards its success. I was born and lived in this city all my life. Is it worthy - do you think a better theme of words could be put together. A prominent minister here in Brooklyn calls me a poet, while a have an excellent note from Miss Fanny Crosby the note hymn writer. Of course you know who she is. I have others from people who I am positive you have had interviews from at different times. I have decided to work from your end of the line as I have sighned my name to assist the new district leader of our section some days ago. Trusting I will have the honor of a few words from you as to your views on same - and - Wishing you success Yours Truly H. C. Stone 650 Warren St Brooklyn NYTHE BEST ONE-CENT NEWSPAPER IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA W.J. HEINSLING, PRESIDENT C.M. KELLEY, GENERAL MANAGER WILLIAM HAHMAN, TREASURER THE ALTOONA TIMES PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY THE HOME DELIVERED NEWSPAPER OF ALTOONA PRIVATE BRANCH BELL PHONE EXCHANGE UNITED PHONE [*8*] ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA, July 17, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y., Honored Sir;- On the occasion of your recent visit to Altoona, Mr. Lovell Baldrige faithfully promised to secure from you some written sentiment appertaining to the Semi-Centennial Loyal War Governors' celebration, to be held in Altoona, Sept. 24-26. At that time, however, your time was so precious that nothing could be done, and I trust that it would not be presuming too much to ask you for an autograph letter. The wonderful ovation you received on your visit here and the subsequent attest at the polls is enough to show you that we Pennsylvanians regard you as our leader and standard bearer, and we but await a further opportunity to "swat" the Taft-Penrose gang again in your (we mean the common peoples') behalf. A formal invitation to attend the celebration will be forwarded you, as soon as it is received from the engraver. Hoping that you will send us some small sentiment that we may use in our paper, and the original of which we may carefully preserve, I beg to remain, Your devoted follower. Wm. W. Stonebraker City Editor.Penn Yarn N.Y. July 17th 1912 Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir, For Gods sake and the Sake of this country, dont give up your new party. we have got all of the old "Bosses" treed in both parties. and they dosent back out. Of all the dispisable people hated and cussed by Sensible people, The Bosses are the worst and now we have got em pened up . please help us to keep em there. I am a Democrat, but voted for you, and want to vote for you again. as you are the only man who ever Served in a public office. Seven years, and your enemys cant find anything in your acts to abuse you about. There are lots of Democrats up this way that wants to vote for you, and a heap more of Republicans. Success to the Bull Moose. yours for a 2d term. Leroy Tobey Penn Yarn R D 5 N YFOUNDED IN 1771 THE NORTH AMERICAN PHILADELPHIA July the seventeenth, 1912 My dear Colonel: I presume you already have read my statement, a copy of which I enclose nevertheless. I requested Sen. Dixon to communicate the gist of my conversation with him over the Phone relating to the same subject. The Position you take I think is a very correct one for you to assume at all times. The stronger you object to any recognition by your friends of Mr. Taft's stolen status, the more will be emphasized the Chicago steal. The plan which was discussed at the Conference last week, and outlined by Senator Flinn, would not be favored by Penrose and his henchman. On the other hand, the smaller fellows down along the line who have loyally stood by the Penrose machine would be inclined to be for it and either be neutral on the electoral contest, or actually be for you. Your position respecting democratic support is right of course from a broad view point such as you must, all times assume, but as a practical proposition it is not very important to us in Penna., this year. All Penna. democrats will vote for Wilson this year, unless they are so strongly for you that it won't matter a "little bit" on what ticket your name appears. I feel that the discussion over this matter which has ensued will be beneficial because it has forced the Penna. voter to thoroughly inform himself as to the meaning of the discussion. There will be ample opportunity for discussing plans with you before anything of a definite nature is done. I talked with Sen. Flinn yesterday by phone and he is happy and full of fight. The Roosevelt sentiment here seems very strong. With best wishes, Sincerely, E. A. Van Valkenburg Col. Theodore Roosevelt, c/oThe Outlook, New York CityFor encl see 7-17-12[*Important from Pres. Van Hise.*] Oriental HOTEL [?] P. REAVES, MANAGER WINTER HOTEL ROYAL PALM MIAMI, FLA. 17. Manhattan Beach, N.Y. July 17, 1912 [[short hand]] My dear Colonel Roosevelt, We shall be engaged here Saturday, but I can come to Oyster Bay Sunday July 21 if desired. If so will you kindly indicate the hour that it will be convenient for you to have me arrive. Very sincerely yours, Charles Van Hise To Col Theodore Roosevelt.[*2.*] Rundschau Zweier Welten Review of Two Worlds 134 West 29th Street New York Offices of George Sylvester Viereck July 17th, 1912. Dear Mr. Harper: - I shall see Mr. Hotchkiss as you suggest. The article in the "New York Journal" to which I refer in a previous letter was printed on the editorial page on the same day on which I wrote my letter, or possibly a day before. I take pleasure in enclosing my own editorial which deals with the Chicago convention and the political outlook. I would be much obliged to you if you would call the Colonel's attention to this editorial as some things in it may amuse him. Sincerely yours, George Sylvester Viereck Mr. Frank Harper 287 Fourth Ave. CityForm 1671 [*[7-17-12]*] 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 SEND the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to To [*18.*] [[shorthand]] 13 NY WN 89 NL.NL. Chautauqua NewYork July 17-18 Hon Theo, Roosevelt, Oyster Bay NY... We desire to have the present political situation discussed in its various aspects at the original chautauqua during the next four weeks our audience is national and not local made up of Representatives from all parts of the United States will you not stop over on your way West to the Chicago convention or on your return and give your point of view we are only thirty minutes from the Main Line of the Lakeshore the whole stop need not consume more than two or three hours please answer collect. George E. Vincent.. 904-a 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. 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 To 12 NY WN 75 NL. NL. Emporia Kas Jul 17-18-[*[12]*] Theo Roosevelt Am in charge Kansas Roosevelt campaign at formal meeting Kansas Chicago Delegation and Roosevelt electors upon motion of Allen and Stubbs. Have wired Dixon five consecutive days for your dates receiving no reply. Made tentative itinerary for two Kansas days. Await authorization from Dixon. Missouri is in touch with Dixon and Bill-ed you for Kansas City meeting but I get no line. In all fairness should like Dixon pay some heed to my requests and suggestions. W.A. White... 9-a [[shorthand]] 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. 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 To 12 NY WN 75 NL.NL. Emporia Kas Jul 17-18 [*[12]*] Theo Roosevelt Am in charge Kansas Roosevelt campaign at formal meeting Kansas Chicago Delegation and Roosevelt electors upon motion of allen and Stubbs. Have wired Dixon five consecutive days for your dates receiving no reply Made ten-tative itinerary for two Kansas days. Await authorization from Dixon. Missouri is in touch with Dixon and Bill--ed you for Kansas City meeting but I get no line. In all fairness should like Dixon pay some heed to my requests and suggestions. W.A. White ... 9-a [[shorthand]] READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACKForm 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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Wright[*Att to Miner*] [*7-17-12*] Louise Franklin Miner NERVE SPECIALIST NO, 21 MAIN ST. KENYON BUILDING NORWICH, - CONN. OFFICE HOURS 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. TELEPHONE 660.Enc in Healy 7-14-12 7-17-12FOR ROOSEVELT AND DENEEN. With the difficulties of the local situation in mind we have not felt like criticising either wing of the Illinois Progressives during the policy dispute of the last few weeks. We have been willing to let those who wished to support Roosevelt electors and Governor Deneen work out their differences with those who wished for a "top to bottom" new-party ticket in the state. But we have always believed that the wisest way out of the difficulty would be some arrangement by which progressives could vote for Roosevelt for President and Deneen for governor. And we are glad that yesterday's conference seems to indicate this as the final arrangement. Such a solution is logical progressivism. It recognizes that the governor has been the chief practical weapon of the progressive movement in Illinois, ever since he defeated the Lorimer machine on the direct primary and other modern issues. It recognizes his faithfulness in putting progressive planks, like that on the initiative and referendum, into the Republican state platform. Above all, it recognizes the principle of majority popular rule; it does not attempt to go back of the immense primary vote which indorsed Deneen, as well as Roosevelt. We cannot but feel that such recognition of perfectly evident things is good politics, as well as good sense. The Roosevelt leaders in Illinois have done well not to bring an organized attack upon Deneen and the reform ticket in Cook County. We hope and believe that the governor, on his side, will see to it that from this decision the progressive movement in Illinois shall take no harm. [*Chicago Eve. Post July 7-*]VAN VALKENBURG STATEMENT. E. A. Van Valkenburg, one of the signers of the call for a Progressive party national convention, issued the following statement: "No plan for the Progressive campaign in Pennsylvania has been decided on as yet. Senator Flinn's satement last week, made after conferences extending over several days with Roosevelt national delegates, national alternates and national electors, was merely a correct statement of how a large majority of the Pennsylvania Progressives then viewed the situation. "Senator Flinn stated specifically that no definite plan would be adopted until after a full meeting at Chicago of the Progressives who attend the National Progressive Convention in August. I was present at the conference held in Philadelphia last Saturday and listened to the discussion respecting the plan of procedure. The determination to have a third-party ticket was practically unanimous. "The plan favored by those present, to run the same set of electors on both the Progressive and Republican tickets, did not in any way involve a compromise with the Taft forces. The chief consideration of all was to devise some plan which would give to Colonel Roosevelt all of the 38 electoral votes from Pennsylvania. Every Roosevelt man contended that the Colonel was entitled to all the votes of all the electors from Pennsylvania because he had carried not only the primaries in Pennsylvania by a large majority, but also had gone to the national convention with a clear majority of all the legally delegates to that body. "The Pennsylvania ballot law makes a third party contest in Pennsylvania an awkward thing to handle, and the plan which was favored last week was the one which it was believed would simplify the situation most. The position which Colonel Roosevelt takes of no compromise, and also that a Progressive party ticket is essential, is in full accord with the views of all Progressives, so far as known, and in full harmony with the proposed plan as set forth by Senator Flinn as representing the views of those with whom he conferred from all the congressional districts of the State. "There is just one point of difference between Colonel Roosevelt's views and those of the Pennsylvania Progressives. The Pennsylvania Progressives want Colonel Roosevelt to receive all of the 38 national electoral votes from Pennsylvania, to which they believe he is entitled. They want to emphasize by a second defeat of Mr. Taft that he has no claim legally, morally or politically on one single electoral vote from Pennsylvania. "Colonel Roosevelt, on the other hand, stands squarely upon the principle which he contended for at Chicago. He contends that the fraud perpetrated at Chicago by Mr. Taft's friends totally vitiates Mr. Taft's claim to the Republican nomination and must not entitle him, under any circumstances, to a single electoral vote from Pennsylvania. He does not approve of any plan which under any contingency would place his friends or himself in the position of admitting that Mr. Taft could possibly acquire a right to the support of a single presidential elector from Pennsylvania, which right primarily would have origin in the fraud committed at Chicago. "The practical result of a Colonel Roosevelt's plan would be to insure him only about 30 electoral votes from Pennsylvania instead of the 38 electoral votes which unquestionably would go to him under the plan proposed by his Pennsylvania delegates. Of course, no plan for the conduct of the Pennsylvania campaign will be finally determined upon until the national Progressive convention assembles in Chicago, and nothing will be done which is not in accord with Colonel Roosevelt's views at that time. "A singular phase of the present discussion is that both President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt have rejected the plan, though for entirely different reasons."Lawrence F. Abbott President William B. Howland Treasurer Kari V. S. Howland Secretary The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Lyman Abbott Editor in Chief Hamilton W. Mabie Associate Editor Theodore Roosevelt Contributing Editor July 18, 1912 My dear Mr. Roosevelt: Your editorial on Platform Insincerity seems to me to strike hard at the principal weaknesses of the Democratic platform, and incidentally of the Democratic organization. I venture to make several suggestions, most of which are minor. Two of them, however, are concerning matters of some importance. On the second galley you refer to the Democratic allegation that protective duties are unconstitutional. As I understand it this is based on a view of the taxing power, and applied only to measures which impose taxes. A tariff bill is a form of tax law. The Democrats affect to believe that the Government can tax the citizen only for the purpose of getting revenue, and that therefore, it can only, according to the Constitution, enact a tariff bill for the purpose of getting revenue. This, as I understand it, would not apply to a workmen's compensation law, or a law fixing hours of labor, or a minimum wage law, or a child labor law, because these are not tax laws. The objection, therefore, of the Democratic platform against a protective duty would not hold against these-2- Lawrence F. Abbott President William B. Howland Treasurer Kari V. S. Howland Secretary The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Lyman Abbott Editor in Chief Hamilton W. Mabie Associate Editor Theodore Roosevelt Contributing Editor other laws. It would, however, hold with equal strength against any law imposing a tax with even an incidental purpose of securing some social benefit other than revenue--against a law taxing corporations for the purpose of securing publicity, against the State Bank tax imposed for the purpose of regulating the issuance of currency, and the like. On the enclosed proof I have attached a suggested emendation of the passage referred to. The other suggestion is that "Dr." be substituted for "Professor" in referring to Wilson. During the pre-convention campaign, some of the Clark papers, with the purpose of discrediting Wilson in the eyes of people who distrust a college man, used the title "Professor" in connection with cheap sneers at Wilson's academic distinction. In this way the term "Professor" attached to Wilson's name has acquired a connotation that I am sure you would not wish to seem to endorse. I think it is likely to give your enemies a chance to distract public attention from real issues by misinterpreting your use of the term, if the title "Professor" appears in your editorial in reference to Wilson. For that reason I suggest substituting either "Mr." or, if it is desirable to refer to his academic position, "Dr.".-3- The Outlook 287 Fourth Avenue New York Lawrence F. Abbott PRESIDENT William B. Howland TREASURER Kari V.S. Howland SECRETARY Lyman Abbott EDITOR IN CHIEF Hamilton W. Mabie ASSOCIATE EDITOR Theodore Roosevelt CONTRIBUTING EDITOR The other suggestions on the proof, are, I think, self-explanatory. Faithfully yours, Ernest Hamlin Abbott Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. If M. Harper can bring this proof with your corrections when he comes to the city on Friday afternoon, it will be in time. If we do not hear from you we will assume that the changes are approved. E. H. A.[*14*] Box 133 Station A. New Haven, Ct. July 18,1912 Theodore Roosevelt Esq: Enclosed please find a small check ($5 22/100) for the Progressive party's campaign. Yours respectfully, Curtis C. BushnellCarrington & Carrington. Attorneys & Counselors at Law. Md. Telephone Bldg. Edward C. Carrington. Edward C. Carrington Jr. Campbell Carrington. LONG DISTANCE PHONE CAP. ST. PAUL 1005. CABLE ADDRESS "NEDCAM". "WESTERN UNION CODE" Baltimore, Md. July 18th, 1912. E.C.C. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: Herewith enclosed please find letter from Mr. Wm. F. Cochran, received after the one I sent you. It shows that he is with us heart and soul in the new movement. Your letter, however, was so good that I took the liberty of sending it to him anyway. Faithfully yours, E.C. Carrington BHAdolph Hanneberg Court Commissioner Henry F. Cochems Hubert O. Wolfe Hanneberg, Cochems, & Wolfe Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Camp Building 82 Wisconsin St. Phone. Main 1483 Milwaukee July 18, 1912. [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Col Roosevelt:- I have been chasing Prof. Scott with telegrams about the state, and located him for the first time a few moments ago. He will be in Brookport, N.Y., from July 24th to 29th and a telegram will reach him there c/o Delilah Patterson. His full name is Dr. Wm. A Scott. He will leave there to meet you if you desire a personal meeting in response to your request. This is the earliest arrangement I could make, and i feel that it will not be too late, inasmuch as the western trip has been deferred, according to announcement in the papers. We are organizing here and things are beginning to look up. Respectfully yours, Henry F. Cochems[*15.*] American Academy of Political and Social Science July 18 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York Dear Sir:- At the request of M. Ethan Allen Doty, Doty, Refrigerating Company, Furman Street near Fulton, Brooklyn, New York, we have sent you a copy of a recent volume published by the American Academy of Political and Social Science on the subject of "Industrial Competition and Combination." Very truly yours, N [Penith?] FisherBatavia N. Y. R. No. 1 July 18 1912 My dear Mr. Roosevelt, Can you reconcile these two pictures? On Earth I did all my housework, took care of three little children, gave advice to my husband then went out doors and helped him do what was necessary to be done and what was impossible for him to do alone. And I kept well and hopeful. My family hardly know what a physician looks like. Now that I have been called from that work, as you no doubt will admit, to help in the biggest and best work that could fall to mortals, or immortals, to do, what are my prospects in regards to helping? None. It's not me to talk but to do; and I cannot let you go on that western trip until I know what my duty is. If you were standing on a Titanic going downwould you think your wife sacrificing by sneaking off and letting you go down alone. Well, I shouldn't. If I were she I should demand that I stand literally by your side and be of whatever comfort I could be. In this campaign there is going to be launched a new and somewhat startling doctrine. Most of the people will welcome it, I believe, if it is presented in a practicable manner. I don't want to go to Ireland on my vacation. I prefer to go where in the end there won't be any rain or Catholics. The step, however is of too much importance to rely only on my own judgment. My husband smilingly says, "Alice, you are away ahead of the procession." By God's help I am going to stay there, too. With the kindest consideration for you and everyone concerned I ask you to write me a letter telling frankly what inyour wisdom is my duty. I would not under any consideration fail in my duty at a critical time. Don't be afraid to hit me hard if necessary. If there is one lesson above others I have learned in this campaign it is not to squeal when I am hit. Sincerely yours Alice G. Folger Col. Theodore Roosevelt 287 Fourth Avenue New YorkDAY LETTER Form 2589 J 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 1 Ny Wn 33 Blue [SEND] Recd the following DAY LETTER subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to July 18 191 [*[12?]*] To Canaan Ct 18 Mr. Theo. Roosevelt Wish to see you today as the greatest living awakens of the social conscience upon a matter of federation of all altruistic endeavor were appointment to me at Lee Mase coming by auto. H.W. Fowle 810A [[shorthand]][*1.*] UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX ESTO MDCCCXX. EXECUTIVE OFFICES STATE OF MISSOURI CITY OF JEFFERSON July 18, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I saw Mr. Ralph Stout of the Kansas City Star in Kansas City last Monday, and had a talk with him with reference to candidates for state and local offices. At that time he and Colonel Nelson were favorable to the plan of placing the Republican electors upon both tickets, with the agreement that they should vote for that candidate for President upon whose ticket they received the most votes. Though this may have been inadvisable elsewhere, I am inclined to think it would have been a desirable arrangement in this State. While it is doubtful, under our law, whether state and local candidates can be nominated other than by direct primaries, it was Mr. Stout's opinion that if such candidates can be placed upon your ticket, the candidates upon the Republican ticket, whose records are such as to justify their claim to being progressives, should also be placed upon your ticket. This would apply particularly to the candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court, all of whom were active supporters of yours. I recognize fully that one interested in the electionCol. Roosevelt-2. of the regular Republican candidates for state and local offices has no right to ask that they be placed upon your ticket unless the interests of both tickets can be subserved thereby. But, in this connection, I want to submit for your consideration this thought: That there are thousands of Republicans, not only in this State, but in other states, who are in entire sympathy with all that the progressive movement stands for, but who, on account of obligations incident to public office, or other considerations, are not yet ready to leave the Republican party, or are not yet satisfactorily convinced that the fight for progressive principles cannot be more effectively made within that party than by joining in the organization of a new one. I feel that you cannot disregard this condition in deciding upon the course that you will pursue in the organization of the Progressive party, and the conduct of its affairs. Very truly yours, Herbert S Hadley[[shorthand]] National Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE NO. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 18th, 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, Fourth Ave. & 22nd St., City. My dear Colonel Roosevelt, This acknowledges your letter of July 10th, relative to the organization of a Democratic State League. I have already appointed Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Harvier as two of the eight members of the Provisional County Committee. Mr. H. D. Dumont, whom you know, was in to-day, and he will assist in preliminary work. We are so busy with the necessity of organizing the Counties up the State that it may be impossible to give this matter detailed attention for a few days yet. Mr. Rosalsky, the proprietor of the Polish newspaper in Buffalo, called the other day. He tells me that all the Poles are with us. Very sincerely yours, William H. Hotchkiss PROVISIONAL CHAIRMAN. Jan.Form 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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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER 7/18/12 RECEIVED AT Oyster Bay Blue [[shorthand]] Washn DC 18 [*9*] [*Foned*] [*X 43p*] Theo Roosevelt ns suggest that you invite Stanley Warburton Congress-man from Washington a most ardent supporter who has done splendid work in Constructing suggestion relative to the National revenues he could meet you Saturday William Kent. 100 William St. July 18th 1912 My dear Mr. [?} Roosevelt: I am very much worried over the idea of having one set of Electors in Penn or any other state for you and Mr Taft or the one that receives the greatest number of votes taking the vote of the state. I was a democrat in 1876 and was accountant for a commission Dry Goods house and stood to lose a $150.- a month position by voting for Saml J Tilden - in fact Mr Gus Paine of Harding Colby & Co came into our store one morning, when the election was hanging fire, and Mr Tay (the man I was working for) said to him "Well Gus how do you think it has gone?" Mr P. said "Oh! Tilden's Elected and what we want to do is to discharge these clerks who have been voting against our interests - " The democrats thought they had such a just case the could submit it to any tribunal - no one could cheat them out as it but Zac Chandler was too much for themThis year the republicans have stolen (not the presidency - the people have the referendum in Nov.) the nomination and I do not trust them to steal the electoral votes of any state. Then the people are so foolish in voting no matter how much you instruct them - the people will put their cross X in the ring under the republican emblem & think they have voted for you and Mr Taft will claim, through the courts, every such vote = There is only one way have a separate column & a separate emblem, if it is necessary to endorse any congressman who is too much of a coward to come out squarely for you, you could print his name in your column. I have filled every election office and know the people will make mistakes in voting. Do not give them any chance, the people of Penn have declairedonce for you and will do so again only give them a square chance where there will be no chance to make a mistake. I have been sending political information to a party who requested it of me who lives in Poplar Branch North Carolina, but have not heard any thing from him yet but expect he will write soon. I am out for you & no other and do not trust any of the Taft crowd - think they may send some delegates to you convention in Chicago - watch them closely Eternal Vigilance is the price of Liberty. Yours truly John M. Leach your personal letter received today.PROGRESSIVE HEADQUARTERS CLUB ROOM 6, CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO [*6.*] July 18,1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Colonel: We have about a half dozen important Lithuanian colon[ists] colonies in and near Chicago. Among them are some excellent fellows.- genuine idealists, who are small business and professional men. John Bass tells me that you made a great hit in greeting a Lithuanian Priest in New Hampshire, by expressing your appreciation of the works of some of their authors. I believe that [Sienkwiecz] Sinkawicz is a Lithuanian, although he wrote in Polish. If you can do so, I wish you would drop me a line expressing your appreciation of the interest of the Lithuanians in the Progressive Movement, and referring to your estimate of the works of the author or authors whom you have read. I am very glad that Dixon is coming. We need him here for [about] at least twenty-four hours. Faithfully yours, Medill McCormick MMcC/RR[*URGENT RECEIVED JUL 19 1912 NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE COMMITTEE*] Washington July 18, 1912. Dear Senator Dixon or O.K. Davis: I am writing to tell you that after such diplomatic effort I [ha] have obtained a promise from Senator Cummins that he will accept an invitation from Theodore Roosevelt to discuss the situation, the outlook and the issues of the coming fight. The Senator insists upon two conditions; one is that he shall not be restricted after the discussion [with you spent] in any statement he may wish to make defining his own attitude toward the movement; the other, that he be accompanied upon his visit to Mr. Roosevelt - either by Dr. Albert Shaw or Mr. Van Valkenburg. i am taking a little credit to myself for having won this promise from the Senator. I urged that any estrangement especially if there were no real cause, would be an unfortunate thing for both men and especially for the progressive movement. The best way to avoid misunderstandings was to have a free and frank interchange of views, and that I was [confidnt] confident [that] a discussion between the two would reveal more points of [agree] agreement than disagreement. To this Senator Cummins assented. I had gone to him to ascertain if he would accept an invitation from Col. Roosevelt. It is therefore important now that you should see that such an invitation is sent him at once and that it be a nice one. I think Cummins deserves the very best of treatment. At the present time, among the progressive Republicans, men who want to be for Roosevelt but who do not want to surrender what they have fought for and won in the progressive states, Cummins stands for more than any other man in public life. He is also the most conscientious and2 in my opinion most desirous of doing what is absolutely right of all the men down here. Whether you agree with me on this or not, you will agree that the establishment of a good understanding between T.R. and the Senator will be of the utmost aid, not only in solving some of the problems which you are considering, but in its effect upon the progressives generally. I am saying all this simply because I want to suggest that the Senator should be treated as a most honored guest. Senator Cummins is not, and probably never will be a third party man. He is as much opposed to Taft as T.R. [hisself] himself and [in] therefore in thorough sympathy with the Roosevelt movement. He is unalterably of the opinion that in the progressive states the progressives most have absolute liberty to make their own fight against Taft and for Roosevelt, and to maintain all [the] they have won, not as third party men but as progressive Republicans. He takes the stand that no set of political [trickers] tricksters, such as those who manipulated the roll at Chicago and who formed but a minority of the party, should be permitted to drive out the majority. Instead he holds that the majority should drive out the others and take control of the party. Thus he declares that if T.R. were offering himself as a bolting Republican, there would be no question that he would receive the support of every progressive Republican in the country, including himself. I may be violating confidence, but I know that the Senator does not intend to vote for Taft and will vote for the Roosevelt electors in Iowa, whether he does so as a bolting Republican or as an independent. You can see from this that he is in a frame3 of mind which makes it possible that he and T.R. may form an effective alliance, and that both men may be strengthened by such a conference as is proposed. The Senator wants to meet Col. Roosevelt in New York. He does not want to go to Oyster Bay. In talking with him I gave him to understand that I was making overtures on behalf of Theodore Roosevelt as represented in the matter by Mr. Van Valkenburg and Senator Dixon. He will therefore expect an invitation, Mr. Van Valkenburg will call you up tomorrow (Friday) morning about noon. Yours truly Angus McSween[*[Enc. in Dixon 7-19-12]*] Form 1585 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY NEWSPAPER SPECIAL REPORT SEND BY WESTERN UNION LINES PAGE LETTERA.R. PINCI WASHINGTON July 18, 1912 Mr. Frank Harper. New York City. Sir: I am in New York with a view to see you personally either tomorrow or Saturday. Can you arrange a meeting, and let me know of an hour convenient to you tomorrow afternoon or, preferably, Saturday? With many thanks, I remain Sincerely yours, A.R. PinciThe National Christian Congress Record AND THE INDUSTRIAL ADVOCATE (CONSOLIDATED.) R.B. ROBINSON and M.L. ROBINSON, Editors and Proprietors. DR. HARRY J. WILLIAMS, Associate Editor. Published simultaneously at Washington D.C. and Alexandria, Va. This Journal representing members and co-operative members of the National Christian Congress Association of America in 45 States, Cape Town, South Africa and Haiti. As an advertising medium it surpasses all others. Office - Room 10, Lewis Building, Sixth and Louisiana Avenue, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. July 18th, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt My Dear Sir yours recd - I will leave here Monday night will call at your office Tuesday a.m. Please telegraph me at once - if you will be there? I have forwarded you a confidential letter for you to consider. Yours faithfully R B Robinson Room 10 484 La. Ave P.S. After I see you our paper will contain an addressNational Progressive Headquarters MANHATTAN HOTEL NEW YORK July 19, 1912. John K. Steedman, Esq., Battle Creek, Mich. My dear Sir:- Colonel Roosevelt is at present so overwhelmed with mail that he has requested me to reply to your very kind letter. He wishes me to thank you for your information which he found most interesting. Sincerely Yours, George Emlen Roosevelt [*[Roosevelt]*] GR/r.A. L. SHIPLEY, C & M. HON. HAL H. HAYNES, CHANCELLOR OFFICE OF Clerk and Master WASHINGTON COUNTY, CHANCERY COURT Jonesboro, Tenn. [*5.*] [[shorthand]] For Personal Attention of Col. Roosevelt Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. My Dear Col:- Our State Convention is called for August 2nd at which time delegates will be selected to the Chicago Convention and full tickets put out in the field over the State. In this Cong. Dist. which is the 1st Cong. Dist. and of which I am Chairman has 24,000 republicans in it, and we now have two candidate for Congress, one candidate being Sam Sells who is running on the Taft ticket & Dr. Massey who is running on your ticket. This man Sells is daily loosing out, and we expect to elect Massey by a large majority, and in order that we may elect him by a landslide, we are very desirous of your passing through this district, which you can very easily do and give us a few short talks at our leading stations from your train, which can be done without delaying you, as you can come down through Va. ovr N.&.W. and pass through our Dist. ever Sr.By. I am very anxious to have Senator Dixon arrange this in your itinerary, and we desire that you come through here if possible early in Sept. G. T. Taylor your manager in this State is a very close friend of mine, and we are in accord in everything. I wish you would take this matter up at once with Senator Dixon, and let him get in touch with me. With 3 or 4 short platform talks in this district, by Sept. I am safe in saying that we can give you 8 out of every 10 republican votes in it, besides a lot of democratic votes. There is abut 13000 democrats in the district and 24000 republicans. Kinldy let me have a personal letter from you if possible, and I would appreciate a copy of the platform if it is in shape to send out. I am, Als/M Sincerely yours, A. L. Shipley [[shorthand]] [*8*] Curtis Hotel, Lenox, Mass. July 18th 1912. [*8*] [*N*] Col Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York City, New York. Dear Col. Roosevelt:- I received your favor notifying me that John M. Parker had come with us and was giving us his active support. I immediately wrote him and put our people in touch with him. Yesterday I learned that he would go to Chicago as one of the progressive delegates. He, however, will not commence active work until after the Democratic Primaries of September Fifth. After that he will stump the state and throw all his energy and influence into the campaign. I have a fairly good skeleton organization in every parish in the state which I worked up for two months before the Chicago Convention after you notified me you had become a candidate. Most of the boys have held firm while a few have weakened, many others are ready to take their place, we shall therefore send a full delegation under the call of Chairman Dixon of which Mr. Parker will be one, and any other names he may suggest will be included in the delegation. Parker and I are old friends as we worked together in many reformed campaigns in the City of New Orleans. Faithfully yours, Pearl Wight P.S. My delay in writing you has been on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Wight.[*Pls see Mr Roosevelt surely gets this if in New York Friday W. S. W.*] NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION HOTEL STATLER CLEVELAND, OHIO. EUCLID AVENUE AND E. TWELFTH ST. 700 ROOMS 700 BATHS Hotel Statler Buffalo, N.Y. E.M. STATLER July 18, 1912 450 ROOMS 450 BATHS My Dear Mr. Roosevelt. Error by Express Co. delayed the letter I wired about. If it has not rec'd your attention, and if in New York [to-day] Friday, as I read of, will you kindly wire me at once on your return to Oyster Bay? Sent it by Express to reach you at Oyster Bay, as understood all mail is sent to Outlook Office. Awaiting reply & assuring you all is confidential. I am Respectfully W. S. Wright 1003 D.S. Morgan Bldg Buffalo, N.Y.[*[7-18-12]*] Berger Attacks the Small Farmer. What to Read on Socialism. (From the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, July 18, 1912.) Mr. RAINEY said: Mr. Speaker: Under leave granted to me to extend my remarks in the Record, I include as a part of my remarks an article which appeared recently in the Anti-Socialist on the subject of socialism, together with a list of books on the subject of socialism. Both articles are very brief, and I desire to have them printed in connection with the speech of the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. BERGER]. The matter above referred to is as follows: [From the American Anti-Socialist, April, 1912.] • • • • • • • BERGER ATTACKS THE SMALL FARMER-BERGER SAYS: " SOCIALISM WILL NOT GUARANTEE A FARMER POSSESSION OF HIS FARM." Under the heading, "Farm report is set aside, Socialist congress puts off the decision till 1912," the Chicago Daily Socialist for May 20, 1910, said: Delegate Victor L. Berger, of Wisconsin, told of the troubles that had been encountered in reaching the farmers of his State with the Socialist propaganda. MR. BERGER'S SPEECH VICTOR L. BERGER said: The greatest Socialist minds of Europe have spent years on this question. Kautsky has written a book of about 500 pages, and it is the poorest book he has written. He came to no conclusion. France has adopted a platform by which they guarantee small farmers possession of their lands under socialism, which is wrong. In the first place, that guaranty would not be worth anything, because the grandchildren would not be ruled by any such guaranty; secondly, it is not socialistic. The great trouble is that Marx falls down on the question of agriculture. We have to admit it. I used to go around and preach 25 years ago, telling them we would have capitalistic farming. There was a man by the name of Dalrymple, who had a 50,000-acre farm, and another man named Schenle had a 20,000-acre farm, and I told them the small farmer was gone, and that we would soon have tremendous bonanza farms that would employ thousands and thousands of men. We figured that concentration would take place the same way in agriculture that it does in the factory. That is where we were wrong. The introduction of farm machinery brought about an entirely different condition. MUST "GET" THIS FARMER IN SOME WAY. I don't preach any more that we are going to have big bonanza farms. The Dalrymple farm went to pieces. The Schenle farm went to pieces. We don't really know what the result will be. Simons and I don't exactly agree, and Morgan and I surely don't agree. [Great laughter.] I don't know what the result will be, whether it will be intensive farming or what kind of farming will be brought about. Kropotkin, a great philosopher iu his way, although an anarchist, claims that intensive farming, with the help of electricity, will be the farming of the future, and that 3 acres will be enough for each farm. Of course that would bring about individualism. If that is to be the case, we may have individualism some day in place of socialism. However, one thing is sure; there is no use in attempting to break eggs that have not been laid yet. We can not have socialism in this country if we don't get the farmers in some way. 55577-113312 Continuing, Mr. BERGER said: We must have some kind of farmers' program. It has been said that we guarantee the farmer possession of his land. I have looked this over carefully, and Morgan is mistaken. We did not. Socialism Seeks to Destroy Private Enterprise, Private Profits, and Private Property (From the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, August 5, 1912.) Mr. SISSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask to insert in the RECORD the following article by J. B. Barnhill, editor of the American Anti-Socialist, of Washington, D. C.: With his usual adroitness, Hon. VICTOR L. BERGER, the Socialist member of the House of Representatives, in his recent speech in the House on socialism carefully avoided the fundamental principles of that doctrine. I desire to direct the attention of the public to the fact that socialism seeks to destroy three things—private enterprise, private profits, and private property—and when you destroy these three you destroy competition. Socialism seeks to convert private enterprise into community enterprise, private profits into community profits, and private property into community property. This is the fundamental teaching of socialism, and if Mr. BERGER really believes in the doctrine of socialism why did he not in some part of his speech, which we are told he intends to circulate by the million during the coming campaign, discuss the fundamental principles upon which socialism is founded? The universal experience of mankind is that private enterprise, private profits, and private property are the indispensable bases of an advancing civilization; but socialism condemns these three factors of progress. On numerous other occasions Mr. BERGER has pronounced sentence of death upon the principle of competition. It appears to be an irreparable calamity that Mr. BERGER was not present at the creation, for he could probably have saved the Creator from the mistake of building the world on a competitive plan. "Competition is dead," says Dr. BERGER. Something contradicts thee—I am afraid it is nature. Individual profit is a thing which socialism will not countenance. Yet is is the desire for profits, the hope of this reward, which awakens all private and commercial enterprise. It is certain that if you take away the hope of individual reward for individual exertion you will destroy individual exertion. In other words, profit is the mainspring of all industrial activity. Lastly socialism attacks private property. Here it arrays against itself all the strongest and tenderest affections of the human heart. Such a plan would destroy the home,which is the unit of government. The prophet and patriot alike unite in saying that the noblest dream of man is of a time when each may sit "under his own vine and his own fig tree and none durst make him afraid." Arthur Young was well inspired when he said: "Give a man the secure possession of a rock and he will turn it into a garden." But Young did not tell the whole truth. All experience proves that the surest way to turn a garden into a desert is to make possession insecure, to substitute community interest for private interest, community property for private property, community profits for private profits, community enterprise for private enterprise. Socialism has over and over again taken some of the finest garden spots in the world and turned them into deserts. Ruskin Colony in Tennessee, New Australia in Paraguay, Topolobampo, and a score of other such pathetic failures will occur to every student of this subjct. But the greatest and most instructive of such failures was at New Harmony, Ind. Here Robert Owen, father of ex-Congressman Robert Dale Owen, sank a princely fortune amounting to an annual income of $200,000 in a vain effort to supplant the competitive system with the "cooperative commonwealth." Dying penniless he left a priceless legacy in the record of that great social experiment at New Harmony, which teaches us that the doctrine that you can found a society where competition does not exist is a delusion, and that the effort to realize such a society must necessarily result in failure. Individualism makes the desert blossom as the rose. Socialism would turn every garden into a desert. 55577-11331 3 Hon. A. J. Balfour, late Prime Minister of England, recently said: "I say that a community based upon the perfectly impossible scheme proposed by the socialists—the scheme, I mean, which substitutes, for the individual enterprise, energy and self-sacrifice, which are the very roots of industrial prosperity, the bureaucratic arrangement of every man's life and every man's industry and every man's earnings—I say that that ideal is one which not only will bring disaster upon the existing generation, but which will absolutely ruin, as I think, the whole future of the community. "It is upon the productive capacity, the inventiveness, the enterprise, the knowledge, the readiness to run risks, and to bear the result of risks when they go wrong; it is on this that a great community depends, and on this alone for the wealth it can use." (From the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, July 18, 1912) [From the American Anti-Socialist, July, 1912.] WHAT TO READ ON SOCIALISM. The compilation of this list of the best books to read if you wish to understand Socialism and to be able to refute its teachings may seem a small matter, but it is based on several years' study of the subject and involves a close acquaintance with the literature of the subject not only in America but in England, where the editor spent 11 years. OUR 5-CENT LIBRARY. The Failures of Socialism. Twenty-one historic failures described. Socialism. An actual experiment. The story of a Socialist colony in Paraguay and its disastrous failure. The Duties of the State. (By David Dudley Field.) OUR 10-CENT LIBRARY. The following pamphlets are 10 cents each, or three for a quarter: Bradlaugh-Hyndman Debate on "Will Socialism Benefit the English People?" Bradlaugh-Bax Debate on same subject. Bradlaugh-Besant Debate on "Socialism: For and Against." The Outcome of Individualism. (By J. H. Levy.) Socialism: Its Fallacies and Dangers. (By F. Miller. 25 cents): Great value for the money—one of our best bargains. An Apology for Liberty. (By Thomas Mackay. 20 cents; 2 copies for 33 cents): We wish it were possible to circulate a million copies of this great essay. We give two extracts from this essay: "What has been the most important discovery made by the free spirit of inquiry and experiment? It is, I venture to affirm, the discovery of the way in which exchange ministers to the economic requirements of mankind. Exchange is the pivot on which industrial society revolves; the lubricating oil—if the the metaphor may be allowed—is the profit which each transaction promised to those who take part in it, and if there is one point about which Socialists are agreed, it si that individual profit is a thing which they will not countenance. Exchange, therefore, and the society based on it, is the very antithesis of Socialism." Things Seen and Things Not See. (By Frederick Bastiat. 15 cents): The Americana says: "Nowhere will reason find a richer, armory of weapons available against Socialism than in the pamphlets published by Bastiat between 1848 and 1850." Every anti-Socialist ought to read this pamphlet again and again. Berger's Hits and Misses. (By Daniel De Leon. 20 cents; 104 pp.) : Berger's errors of omission and commission in Congress are described by a fellow Socialist. The principal issues up in Congress are fully discussed. Political Socialism—Would it Fail in Success? (By J. S. Crawford. 25 cents; 109 pp.): A valuable book; should be read by all. The author's acute criticisms on Socialism are based on a thorough knowledge of its fallacies. Adam Smith. (By Hector C. McPherson. 35 cents, 75 cents, or $1. according to binding; 160 pp.): One of the greatest bargains and treats we have to offer. We know of no better introduction to the study of economics. 55577-11331[* Enc. in Barnhill 12-14-12] 4 The Problems and Perils of Socialism. (By J. St. L. Strachey. 35 cents; 126 pp.): The author says: "The chief peril of Socialism is waste—waste both in the moral and economic sense. Socialism would not only deteriorate character, but it would lessen product." The Pattern Nation. (By Henry Wrixon. $1.25; 172 pp.): Especially valuable to half-hearted and short-sighted supporters of Socialism. The author thinks that the delusive experience of semi-Socialism will be such that the people, when it comes to a crisis and the final choice between freedom and Socialism, will choose freedom. If they do not, then the inevitable result will be a decline of western civilization. Wealth Against Commonwealth. (By H. D. Lloyd. 567 pp.: two editions, $1.10 and $2.50): The mass of evidence in this book, showing that the trust is no more the result of economic evolution than a horse thief is such a result, will be found invaluable to anti-Socialists. The trust is a product of criminal devilution, as this book abundantly proves. The Tyranny of Socialism. (By Yves Guyot. $1; 264 pp.): The author adopts the following motto: "Socialism—that is, the State substituting itself for individual liberty, and growing to be the most terrible of tyrants." Various Socialistic sophisms are brilliantly refuted. Socialism as an Incubus on the Labor Movement. (By J. W. Sullivan. 50 cents) The Quintessence of Socialism. (By Dr. A. Schaffle. $1; 127 pp.): Friends and foes of Socialism regard this as the best brief, scientific exposition of Socialism. At once a sympathetic exposition and a searching criticism. The Impossibility of Social Democracy. (By Dr. A. Schaffle. $1.30; 419 pp.): In this book, called a second part of "The Quintessence of Socialism," the author gives at length the grounds of his conviction that the program of the Socialists is incapable of practical application. Australian Socialism. (By A. St. Ledger. $1.60; 365 pp.): Shows the farmer to be the implacable foe of Socialism. Very full account of Socialistic experiments in Australia. Present-Day Socialism and the Problem of the Unemployed. (By G. E. Raine. $1.10; 207 pp.): The author says: "I deal with the 'live' Socialism of the day. During the last few years I must have attended more Socialist meetings (in England) than any other anti- Socialist, and the points which I raise in the following pages are the actual issues which I give to Socialist questions have actually been employed by myself in arguments." The Menace of Socialism. (By W. Lawler Wilson. $1.75; 520 pp.); A fresh, vigorous and practical discussion, full of quotable sentences. Deals with English conditions. The author exhibits no little acumen in his analysis of Socialist proposals and in his defense of private enterprise, private property, and private capital. To combat Socialism, he presents a program of constructive social reform. On the land question the author says: "There is nothing which the Socialists fear so much as a peasant proprietary. The tenacious hold of the small owner on the soil can not be shaken by Socialism." The following incomparable masterpieces are sold at 25 cents for paper edition, 40 cents for cloth edition: On Liberty. By John Stuart Mill. Social Statics. By Herbert Spencer. The Man Versus the State. (By Herbert Spencer. 94 pp.) : Contains the famous chapters, "The coming slavery," "The sins of legislators," "The great political superstition," and "The new Toryism." (This list of anti-Socialist books continued in our next issue.) 55577-11331 WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1912Enc in Healy 7-19-12 ca 7-18-12Illinois progressives have done to get together, as there is much to be accomplished. Progressivism in Illinois will not scatter its shots. [*Chicago Daily News*] Rational Progressive Action When progressives of Illinois get together to consider political conditions and the men responsible for the it is difficult to overlook the fact that his official achievements place Gov. Deneen at the head of the real progressive movement in this state. He was renominated by the same voters who declared their preference for Roosevelt as the republican candidate for president. His public record, no less than the public record of Roosevelt, brought about the victory. Therefore the decision of the third party manager in Illinois not to set up a third party candidate for govenor is the right decision. Equally to be commended is their attitude toward the offices in Cook county and the other counties. The issues for which the progressives stand are national issues and cannot properly serve as an excuse for disorganizing the campaigns now well under way for state and local offices. The progressives of Illinois who support Roosevelt will gain much by making a clean fight for their candidate and refusing to raise false issues in state and county matters. [*July 18-1912*] As to Outside InfluencesIllinois progressives have done to get together, as there is much to be accomplished. Progressivism in Illinois will not scatter its shots. [*Chicago Daily News*] Rational Progressive Action When progressives of Illinois get together to consider political conditions and the men responsible for the it is difficult to overlook the fact that his official achievements place Gov. Deneen at the head of the real progressive movement in this state. He was renominated by the same voters who declared their preference for Roosevelt as the republican candidate for president. His public record, no less than the public record of Roosevelt, brought about the victory. Therefore the decision of the third party manager in Illinois not to set up a third party candidate for govenor is the right decision. Equally to be commended is their attitude toward the offices in Cook county and the other counties. The issues for which the progressives stand are national issues and cannot properly serve as an excuse for disorganizing the campaigns now well under way for state and local offices. The progressives of Illinois who support Roosevelt will gain much by making a clean fight for their candidate and refusing to raise false issues in state and county matters. [*July 18-1912*] As to Outside InfluencesNational Progressive Party Headquarters PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE No. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 19th, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York City. My dear Colonel:- The Infantry Drill Regulations provide that officers shall not the firing line during an engagement others I should have been more persistent at your office last Tuesday. You were very much engaged a waiting list at least two hours long, and I did not wish to draw on your vitality by any visit not imperative. The attitude of the State Chairman resolves pretty thoroughly the questions about which I was interested. I have Mr. Facing Bothways - Progress Republicans - that nobody will be nominated on our petitions who not sig ned a copper-riveted pledge to support the Progressive Party and its candidates. If the Republican party sees fit to take our candidate on those terms, well and good. We have a "star" in Mr. Hotchkiss. His quick decisions and resourcefulness are exactly what are needed. His motto seems to be "If you want something, go out and get it and bring it back with you." Yours faithfully, Lindon Bates Jr. Secretary, Provisional Committee for New York County mumSUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY JUDGE THEODORE BRENTANO IN CHAMBERS CHICAGO July. 19. 1912 [*5.*] My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I cannot refrain from communicating to you an occurrence in my Court this day - which caused much merriment. An applicant for naturalization answered all questions satisfactorily. He was asked as a finality: "In case of disability of the President to act who takes his place?" "Roosevelt!" promptly came the reply - amidsta demonstration of approval from the audience. He was considered well qualified + a certificate of naturalization was ordered to Him. With sentiments of great personal regard Yours truly Theodore Brentano.109B North California Ave., Atlantic City, N.J. July-19-1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. Dear Sir:- Will it be possible for me to secure a list of the dates upon which you will speak in this state during the coming campaign? In event of your appearing anywhere in this state before an audience of ordinary people, the working class, would you condescend to take part in a debate, the subject to be the "Truth about the Progressives and the Working class"? If so please advise me by return mail and I will arrange to pay any incidental expenses that such a meeting may involve. Thanking you in advance for an early reply and hoping you will accept this offer, in order to give the working class, who are seeking the truth, an opportunity for comparison, I am, Very respectfully yours, John E. Byrneput it in for him. He is engaged, they say, to some young lady in Washington, the Merriam girl they say & Miss - Williams - Dorothy is engaged to Hitchcock - Sis McLean had some consciente qualms about voting against Lorimer was here when the vote was taken & seemed very unhappy over it all. It looked like an interesting campaign - I love the "outlook" articles - Anna is better & Sheffield & the have your to a picnic - I hope we will see Kermit before he goes to Brazil - Bob Ferguson's sister died [*2.*] July 19th. 1912 OLDGATE FARMINGTON CONNECTICUT TELEPHONE NUMBER 80 FARMINGTON Dear Theodore - The Hartford Times has an editorial which is historically amusing little as it applies to you - We had an excellent meeting in Hartford this week also another in Meriden and there will be a mass meeting in New Haven later. I see that Roly Fortescue is out for you having resigned his place. Herbert Knox Smith will be along here soon There seems some doubt as to the advisability of a state ticket in Conn. Tell C that young [Caslin?] who is to be expelled the house for improper use of money in his election, his Fatherat assent of consumption Mrs. Tustrell. Her two boys both have it. It was somewhere in the family. Our clergyman- Mr. Blakely is a very earnest supporter of yours. When Herbert Knox Smith gets agoing will have a meeting here in Vt. & we'll see what they can do there. You must be encouraged & you know more than we do here. Anna sends love to you all yrs W. S. Cowles Did you know Bronson Crotty had bought a newspaper & was running it in your interest in New Mexico -COE I. CRAWFORD, S. DAK., CHAIRMAN REED SMOOT, UTAHH. JOSEPH L. BRISTOW, KANS. GEORGE T. OLIVER, PA. WILLIAM O. BRADLEY, KY. CARROLL S. PAGE, VT. WESLEY L. JONES, WASH. GEORGE P. MCLEAN, CONN. CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, MICH. THOMAS S. MARTIN, VA. LEE S. OVERMAN, N.C. JEFF DAVIS, ARK. THOMAS H. PAYNTER, KY. NATHAN P. BRYAN, FLA. JAMES C. MARTINE, N.J. JOHN L. ERICKSON, CLERK United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS. [*3*] July 19, 1912 Dear Colonel Roosevelt: I write to urgently request that you come into South Dakota at as early a date as possible and speak to our people. The situation there is ripening up for a very lively contest between the progressive republicans and the followers of President Taft. At the June primaries you had a decided majority over both Taft and LaFollette and the progressive republicans succeeded in endorsing a progressive republican for U.S. Senator over Senator Gamble; they also nominated their candidate for governor; they elected a progressive as National Committeeman; they succeeded in nominating a progressive republican in the new Congressional District, South Dakota having been given an additional Congressman under the recent apportionment act; they nominated progressive republicans as members of the Supreme Court, and for nearly all of the state offices below governor. Congressman Burke was renominated because the progressives had two candidates against him which divided their vote, but he received less than a majority in his district; Congressman Martin was renominated. At the June primaries delegates were chosen to the republican state convention, which met on the first Tuesday in July for the purpose of nominating candidates for presidential electors and making a party platform. At this convention the progressive republicans were in control. The old stalwart crowd insisted on nominating avowed Taft men as candidates for electors and asked the convention to adopt a resolution endorsing Taft and his administration and the Chicago platform. They were voted down two to one and the convention nominated a list of candidates for presidential electors, who were Roosevelt men and selected as chairman of the State Central Committee an avowed progressive republican and a Roosevelt man. The result is that the republican party in South Dakota is in the hands of the progressive republicans, who are in control of its organization and greatly outnumber the reactionaries. The men who were in charge of LaFollette's campaign in the state have formed a coalition with the followers of Taft and will vote against the electors nominated at the Huron convention. Two or three days ago, Chambers Kellar, attorney for the Homestake MiningCOE I. CRAWFORD, S. DAK., CHAIRMAN REED SMOOT, UTAH. JOSEPH L. BRISTOW, KANS. GEORGE T. OLIVER, PA. WILLIAM O. BRADLEY, KY. CARROLL S. PAGE, VT. WESLEY L. JONES, WASH. GEORGE P. MCLEAN, CONN. CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, MICH. THOMAS S. MARTIN, VA. LEE S. OVERMAN, N.C. JEFF DAVIS, ARK. THOMAS H. PAYNTER, KY. NATHAN P. BRYAN, FLA. JAMES C. MARTINE, N.J. JOHN L. ERICKSON, CLERK United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS. 2. Company at Deadwood, S.D., and a man named Simmons, who was chairman of the Taft committee, were in Washington. They had a conference with Congressman Burke and Senator Gamble and afterwards with the President. They went from here to New York to confer with the Taft managers. It was given out that they proposed to put up Taft electors in South Dakota and to also put up candidates against the progressive candidates for U.S. Senator, Governor, and other state officers who had refused to vote in the state convention in favor of a Taft endorsement and in favor of instructing the presidential electors to vote for him. As soon as they have done this, we will declare war and give the Taft followers and the reactionaries,- like Mr. Burke, who slipped through at the June primaries,- all the fight they want. It will inevitably follow that the issue will squarely arise between the Taft electors and the progressive Roosevelt republican electors in South Dakota. We are prepared to make a fight on that issue with the organization as it stands, because the progressive republicans are in control of it. Now what I am coming to is this: Our state fair meets at Huron, commencing on the 9th day of September and continuing through that week. I want to urge you to come into the state on the 9th or 10th of September and continuing through that week. I want to urge you to come into the state on the 9th or 10th of September and speak at the State Fair and throw down the guage of battle in our state. I am ready to take it up and carry it on from that time until the polls are closed in November. Can you not arrange to do this? I would be glad to hear from you as soon as convenient about it. Most respectfully yours, Coe I Crawford Col. Theodore Roosevelt, New York CityForm 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. 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Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: - I have a telegram this afternoon from Judge Stevens at Boone, Iowa, saying that he surely wants the letter for the Iowa Convention which meets next Wednesday, July 24th. There are two or three suggestions that you ought to have in mind as Mr. Perkins and I will want to talk with you about them the next time we come down. One is as to a clause in the contract with reference to the party organization and providing a method by which questions of organization can be referred back to the people, in other words, a thoroughly democratic party organization. Another suggestion is that we should have a clause in the contract declaring for fuller authority to the Post Office Department in the matter of protecting the people from the use of the mails in fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes. Another subject in which I personally am a good deal interested is that of immigration. I think that immigration from countries which have had experience with self-government or with free-government should be stimulated and encouraged, but it also seems to me that the time has National Progressive Headquarters Manhattan Hotel New York 2. come when we ought rigidly to check immigration from countries where the people have had not experience of history, or education, or tradition, or self-government; where they get no training whatever that helps them to understand the obligation of citizenship in self-governed countries. It seems to me that the great danger to American institutions is in this enormous influx from countries where the people have had no experience or tradition to give them any real, intelligent, understanding of the fundamental principles underlying our institutions. I don't suppose it is possible right away to put a stop wholly to that sort of immigration but I wish it could be checked absolutely for twenty or thirty years until the self-governing stock in this country had some little opportunity to catch up with the other and re-assert itself. I am satisfied that such a declaration would be commended by all thoughtful friends of American institutions, and I believe it would be popular with labor, but it may be too much for us to tackle now. The Press Associations are already asking about advance copies of your speeches. This is a matter that both Mr. Perkins and myself want to take up with you at the next opportunity. May I suggest that you do not say anything definite on the subject to the newspaper men until we have had opportunity to talk with you. Very sincerely yours, O.K. Davis OKD/r.National Progressive Headquarters Manhattan Hotel New York July 19th, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: Oyster Bay, N. Y., My dear Colonel Roosevelt: The enclosed letter from Angus McSween is self-explanatory. McSween had the conference with Senator Cummins at the special request of Van Valkenburg. I talked with McSween regarding it just before leaving Washington. Van Valkenburg called me up on the 'phone this morning and was most anxious to see the meeting arranged between you and Cummins and said it would be impossible for him to come over on account of the pressure in Pennsylvania but though Doctor Shaw would be the one man to be present. I talked with Doctor Shaw over the telephone a few minutes ago and he said he would be glad to help out by being present at the conference. He knew nothing about the matter until I talked with him over the 'phone. You know Shaw and Cummins are old-time personal friends, but Shaw is with us heart and soul in the new movement. Shaw also told me that he thought it was a great mistake to even temporize with the old Republican organizations except in states where there was an overwhelming control of the present party organizations. I am sending this letter by George Roosevelt, who will hand it to you personally. You will appreciate the fact that Sunday would be about the only day Cummins could conveniently leave Washington. He says in his letter he would prefer having the meeting in New York City at your office. I presume he has a feeling that the pilgrimage to Oyster Bay direct would be hardly compatible with independent sovereignty. It might be rushing the matter to try and arrange the meeting for this coming Sunday. Probably you had better write Cummins and leave the time to be fixed by him. Doctor Shaw said he would accommodate himself to suit the convenience of yourself and Senator Cummins. Personally I think the meeting will be of great good.National Progressive Headquarters MANHATTAN HOTEL NEW YORK -2- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: I leave for Jackson at five o'clock. Yours very truly. Jos. M. Dixon JMD/M.For enc see 7-18-12beneficial effects of the integration of industry? Nobody knows better no one can better tell how more can get into the pay envelope. The fight is now well started and will last until a better adjustment in social and economic affairs is secured. You have done much and are destined I am sure to do much more in bringing about this improved condition. With the heartiest wishes for continued success and rewards believe me sincerely yours James M. Finlay. [[short hand]] July 19, 1912 THE REPUBLICAN CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 54 & 56 WEST 40TH STREET [*5.*] My Dear Col. Roosevelt Sorry you are leaving us but your judgment probably best. I have not seen you to talk to since your reception here in Feb. 12, 1905. I think you have promised me often a ride with you over the Laramie Plains, but it has never materialised, but it may some day. It really pains me not to be in a position where I could help you more in the great fight, I should be contributing more thanI now am, so also should George Gunton. I have not seen him in 9 or 10 years now, but as his chief assistant for many years and a firm believer in his Social & Economic Principles, I feel he could give more real and sound advice in the framing of a platform than any man in the nation, I have written some tentative declarations to send you but am loathe to forward anything knowing the mass of advice and counsellors you have and a day is only 24 hours long! But I do think Gunton could give more and better advice than any other man in the nation, and I do not hesitate to make this declaration. In all economic literature there is nothing to touch Gunton's exposition of a protective tariff, restricted immigration, labor unions, shorter hours of labor, higher wages and the largest possible public expenditure. Who has better justified and shown the[*[For enc. see ca 7-19-12]*] our country. (3). On acct of my warm personal regard on the enclosed paper I have a few suggestions to make for the platform or for you to dwell on in yr speech or for the presidency officer on Aug 5th to do. - (2) As yours is an independent nomination without the effective machinery of a party organizer it is important either by the party platform or by your declaration of principles. [*4.*] London July 19th [*[July]*] 1912 My dear Colonel I sailed the day Gov. Wilson was nominated & have not seen any American papers since I have been over here. Of course I am interested in yr success (1) Because I believe you were the choice of a majority of the legally elected delegates to Chicago Conven'n (2) Because I believe your election wd be of the greatest benefit toto enlist large organizers at the very outset of yr campaign, & none can be more effective than the Rural Mail Carrier. There are forty thousand of them all over the country - I expect to return in time for the latter part of the campaign in October - Attention sd be called to the fact that the Aldrich Payne Tariff bill which Taft pronounced the best ever was not a fulfilment of Repn promises on the Tariff and that while a protective Tariff sd be maintained it sd be a moderate one not a prohibitive one & there sd be an immediate revision downward of the Tariff All the ultra Tariff barons will be for Taft, but by sticking to a protective Tariff you' cd secure the support of the workmen[*[For enc see ca 7-19-12]*] 6 house holder & builders & [poor generally] the workingman & the family who want to build their little houses. - In England the Liberals are scoring owing to the enactment of the shops act of 1911 It closes all shops (with few exceptions) at 1 P.M. for the rest of the day, one day every week giving rest & recreation to the employees & harms no one as all shops of the similar character are closed - Then again the National Insurance that (in some 5 - Please read the Tariff plank of the Demc National Conven'n of 1908 & see how far short they have come from it - There was a specific declaration in favor of free lumber & on acct of one lumber interest in the South Underwood has failed to report a bill of this character Attention sd be called to that fact & a specific declaration for free lumber sd be made in yr platform it wd appeal to the smallparticular like that of Germany) has just gone into effect - Then again there is the Old Age pension which has been in effect several years, why wd it not be well for your conven'n to declare for similar legislation in our different states Attention sd be called to the fact that it was eminently proper that the man who pronounced in his Arizona speech the Aldrich Payne bill the best ever, should have as his running mate Sherman that ultra protectionist prince of stand patters - & as floor leader at Chicago Walton of Indiana who if possible outherods him, both of whom with Mr Taft's attorney Genl went to Wisconsin within the last two or three years in an attempt to defeat the candidates of the regular Republican organiz'n of that state - With best wishes Sincerely Yrs Hamilton Fish[*[ca 7-19-12]*] Parcels Post throughout the U.S. This is demanded by the Grange & the farmers generally Extension of Rural free mail service and increase of pay for the Rural Mail Carriers and the Railway Mail Clerks. Immediate downward revision of the Tariff maintaining the protective principle. Legislation similar to the English Shops Act Old age Pension Act & National Insurance ActEnc in Fish 7-19-12[[shorthand]] New York, July 19th, 1912. 10. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- In the haste of leaving to catch the train yesterday afternoon, I referred to your kind message through Mr. Kingsbury, suggesting the possibility of my serving on the Committee on Platform at the Chicago Convention, but did it so hastily that I said only a fragment of what I meant to say. What I meant to say in brief was this: That I am definitely for and with the third party; that I am willing to serve on the Committee on Platform at Chicago if that should be your wish, and would esteem it a great honor to do so; that I shall be as active in support of the third party movement in my individual capacity as I can; that the fact that I am Secretary of an organization which deals so largely with matters semi-political in character and with legislators, and that they would not distinguish between my acts as an individual and my duties as the Executive Secretary of that organization, makes it inadvisable for me at this time to publicly announce my adherence to the third party, or to take an active part in the local organization and work of the third party. This may very likely mean that I am not in a position to be eligible to serve on the Committee on Platform in the manner suggested. I write only to assure you of my willingness so to serve, if that is consistent with not taking the public stand in support of the third party movement in this State at this time.Col. T.R. ---#2 I need not say that I was tremendously gratified by the position you are taking of social and industrial issues. I am, Sincerely yours, Homer Folks Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I.Form 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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GODFREY, Chairman Olean, N.Y. C. O. RAINE, Secretary Canton, Mo. S. H. MESSICK Bridgeville, Del. OLIVER WILSON Peoria, Ill. National Grange P. of H. OFFICE OF CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OLEAN, N.Y. July 12, 1912 [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook Office, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. My dear Mr. Roosevelt: I have your esteemed favor of the 6th inviting me to a conference with you at Oyster Bay and lunch, on Saturday this week. On account of the short time and business engagements I do not see how I possibly arrange to accept your kind invitation. Thanking you for the honor conferred by this invitation, I am, Very truly yours, F. N. Godfrey FNG/gFor attachment see 7-19-12ISAAC J. BRYAN, CLERK GEORGE M. REYNOLDS, TREASURER NIELS JUUL, MGR. REAL ESTATE DEPT THOMAS A. SMYTH, PRESIDENT GEORGE M. WISNER, CHIEF ENGINEER EDWARD B. ELLICOTT, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER JOHN C. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY THE SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO STATE OF ILLINOIS FACTORY SITES FOR RENT. The Sanitary District of Chicago AMERICAN TRUST BUILDING TELEPHONE CENTRAL 624 ELECTRIC POWER FOR SALE. BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOLPH BERGMAN WALLACE G. CLARK PAUL A. HAZARD THOMAS J. HEALY EDWARD KANE GEORGE W. PAULLIN THOMAS A. SMYTH THOMAS M. SULLIVAN EDWARD I. WILLIAMS THOMAS J. HEALY 1322 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG. TEL. CENTRAL 578 July 19th 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, c/o The Outlook, New York, N.Y. My dear Sir:- As requested you have my permission to show my last letter to Medill McCormick. I have attended several conferences of your friends at the invitation of Medill McCormick and I believe that good results will follow. The sentiment of the rank and file of the Republicans in Illinois is that your contest be confined to the National Issues and I may add this is the sentiment of all the Republicans and Independent papers favoring you in Chicago and with very few exceptions throughout the State. We have few kickers like Professor Merriam and W. Clyde Jones, but both of them started with LaFollett. Merriam remained that way but now appears to want to be for you in order that he may carry on his grouch towards others. I assume your friends will be able to adjust matters for your best interests. However, they will have to be patient. Public opinion will bring this about in due course if there is no conflict among the republicans of this State as expressed in the enclosed and other editorials sent you. Yours very truly, Thomas J. HealyFor enc see 7-17-12office so it may reach him early if possible. I cannot think of any thing else to do — my brain is getting old for politics. Do not think of answering this scrap — I recognize your burden of letters. Very cordially yours Caroline I. Hill [[shorthand]] July 19th [*[1912]*] 17 Brimmer Street Dear Mr. Roosevelt.-- Your telegram to my son Arthur reached me at 5.30. As he was out of reach, I tried, & tried again to reach Mr. Hale, or Ovason. Every clue was silent. I have mailed a copy of the dispatch to Mr. Hale National Progressive Party HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEE No. 1 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 19, 1912 Mr. Geo. W. Perkins, 71 Broadway, New York City. Dear Mr. Perkins: Thank you for Mr. Harvier's letter to Colonel Roosevelt. I cannot agree with the former that the Democrats should be put on guard in Districts where under the old Party alignment Democrats exceed Republicans in the ratio of two to one and upwards. That is not the question. Former Democrats should have a proper representation as District Leaders and in the Committees, but certainly nine of the new Party and of ten were formerly Republicans. I am doing everything I can to bring it about that the Democrats will be well represented in the delegation but Mr. Harvier's proposition as he phrases it hardly seems to me to be one that we should follow. I shall, however, talk the matter over with him. Yours very truly, William H Hotchkiss [*[Hotchkiss]*] WHH/EH [*[ENCL IN PERKINS 7-24-12]*]Lee Crittenden and Edward Hulse INCORPORATED GEORGE L. SEABURY, PRESIDENT EFFICIENCY ENGINEERS HUDSON TERMINAL BUILDING NEW YORK TELEPHONE 5403 CORTLANDT Dear Sir:--I see you did not get the idea I sought to convey. These millions of untainted Americans have been preserved in these mountains for some good reason. Some one will yet grasp this Excalibur and wield it for the purpose predestined. "In the service of mankind to be A guardian god below: still to employ The mind's brave ardor in heroic aims, Such as may raise us o'er the groveling herd And make us shine forever." Very truly yours, Edward Hulse July 19, 1912. For enc see 6-5-12Form 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 3 NY T 8 40 AM 104 NL 3ex SEND the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Tacoma Washn July 19-20 [*[12]*] [[shorthand Col Theo Roosevelt Progressive republicans of State in conference expressed intention to run separate Roosevelt electors and fight state battle our in party lines. The tribune insists upon straight third party fight. In that event I assure you state would e for you with Wilson second and Taft or Debs third refer you to Mr Pinchot or Oscar Davis to value of my judgment you may remember as former editor of Washington Post can you encourage the tribune in our attitude by special message to us bully chance here for open third party fight any other course might give state to Wilson. W H Hunter, Editor Tacoma Tribune. [[shorthand]] READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK[*2.*] JAMES W. KIRK, EDITOR AND MANAGER AFTERNOONS AND SUNDAY MORNING A WIDE-AWAKE AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER East St. Louis Daily Journal EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. East St. Louis, Ill. July 19, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook New York. My dear Colonel Roosevelt;- As one believing in and devoted to the principles and procedure you represent I desire to briefly give you my opinion concerning political conditions in Illinois as they affect the interests you stand for. An effort is being made by some Roosevelt Republicans to prevent the nomination of a third party state ticket in Illinois. This, I believe, is in the interest of the Deneen state ticket, which is pro-Taft as well as for the congressional and county tickets throughout the state that mostly have been nominated by either the state or federal machine or both combined, as is considerably the case. The republican candidates for congress are mostly Taft or the old machine men and Governor Deneen and his associates on the state ticket, and their machine, for they have one, would work and cooperate with these congressmen, and with the present nominated machine county tickets, all in the interest of the candidacy of President Taft. This would place your candidacy, if you are nominated, and that is conceded, at a great disadvantage as you would have no real organization or associate candidates to arouse interest in the campaign or at the election. Only those voters, I fear, who are so determined to vote for you that the influences of the candidates on the Deneen state ticket, and on the various county tickets, could not prevail upon would in the end cast their votes as they really would like to and as they would with a complete Roosevelt state, congressional and county tickets in the field. I am in Congressman Rodenerg's district, and I absolutely feel that such would be the conditions and procedure here, Deneen and Rodenberg have always worked hand in hand - they are thus working now and will continue to thus work, Rodenberg dictates the local procedure, and you doubtless are aware of what Rodenberg will do. Both his and Deneen's leaders and servers are doing all they can to prevent the nomination of third party state, congressional and county tickets, and the same, I believe, is the case with the state and federal machine throughout the state. A vast majority of the republicans of Illinois are with you and what you stand for, and in voting they desire to vote their feelings, not only for the head but all the way down the line. I do not think it wise or prudent to mix matters for the voters now that they are in a mood for investigating and analyzing as would e the case with yourself as the candidate for president, and all the other candidates of doubtful standing or more likely antagonistic, and then, too, on a different ticket. Some republicans who are enthusiastically for youJAMES W. KIRK, EDITOR AND MANAGER AFTERNOONS AND SUNDAY MORNING A WIDE-AWAKE AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER East St. Louis Daily Journal EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. East St. Louis, Ill. 191__ T.R. 2. who have contemplated the procedure against which I protest have said in a spirit of indignation that, under such circumstances, they would vote the democratic ticket. I beg your pardon for obtruding myself upon your doubtless greatly preoccupied tie, and I do it only that I feel so intensely in the matter and with a hope that if my observations do no good they will do no harm. Yours truly, James W. Kirk P.S. I enclose some clippings on the matter that I have published in the Daily Journal, of which I am the humble editor. K.[*Leach *] [*[7-19-12]*] [*New Plan for Republican Peace. OMAHA, Neb., July 18 - It was rumored here to-day that the leaders of the Roosevelt forces in this State are planning to put forward a proposition that the Roosevelt and Taft electors work together in all States. After the election, if the Republicans are victorious, it is proposed that the electors hold a private convention and decide whether Taft or Roosevelt shall be President.*] 100 William Street Manhattan July 19th 1912 My dear Mr. Roosevelt: The above is "Rot" What interest have the democrats, that come into our new party in electing republican Congressmen? The want a complete new party away from all principals (if they have any principals) of the two old parties. If any man who wants to run for congress or any state office, is not man enough to declair himself in favor of the progressive principals of the new party by cutting himself loose from the old parties Let him go down to defeat, have nothing more to do with him than you would with Msrs Barnes - Penrose - Murphy or Guggenheim - or Murphy of New York. You don't have to make a deal with any one & thank God there is no disposition to do so. I am a church of England man and have a full trust in God and Christ and am told by my bible "If He is for you who can be against you." I have trusted him all my life and He has had this hand over my whole life. I look upon every man who supports Taft as being in favor of theves and robbers. My boss went off on his holidays last Saturday but before he went away & in bidding me good bye he said "Now get this Teddy out of your head" My answer was "I look upon Mr Taft as a receiver of stolen good - If I was stealing from you you would discharge me or probably put me in prison (He said I would not give you any chance) I said I can no more support Mr Taft that I could any other thief."[*Leach*] [*[7-19-12]*] I am a funny man to offer advice to you as I recognize you know a great deal more than me but the only reason I do it is because I know I am just a little older than you, I will be 62 years of age next Wednesday July 24th. Will this excuse excuse me? When I stood to lose a $150.- a month position by voting for Saml J. Tilden I was so mad when the presidency was stolen from him that I swore I would not cast another republican vote for any office until there was a democratic president - I was absolved from this promise when Mr Cleveland was elected. I was working at the time for Msrs Wendell Fay & Co. agents for Manufac. Your truly John M. Leach This letter does not require an answer.Form 2289 D. 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 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 ten times the amount paid for transmission; 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. ROBERT C. CLOWERY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT the WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 Broadway, N.Y. ALWAYS OPEN [*MS*] 2020 KP 19 NL DENVER COLO JULY 19 1912 [*147 ma*] MR. FRANK HARPER, SECY TO COLONEL ROOSEVELT CARE OUTLOOK, NEW YORK. WILL YOU KINDLY WIRE ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WHERE I CAN REACH SENATOR JOSEPH M. DIXON BY TELEGRAM. BEN B. LINDSEY 1108 PM [[shorthand]]CABLE ADDRESS: "BALLENGINE CODES: WESTERN UNION, [[?]] THE BALL ENGINE COMPANY. AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF ENGINES. JAMES McBRIER, President D.N. McBRIER, Vice-President F.B. McBRIER, Secretary A.W. MILNE, Treasurer E.J. ARMSTROWS, Engineer. ERIE, PA., July 19th, 1912 Subject [*4.*] Theodore Roosevelt c/o The Outlook New York City Honored Sir. As you know I am for Roosevelt and a progressive ticket and a third Party and my understanding was that such was your decision. The idea being that we showed have an absolutely clean set of candidates, free from outside influence derogatory to freedom of action and good government, that we would draft an honest progressive platform one that would appeal alike to progressives of all parties and that we should derive our strength from all parties alike, this is my understanding of your intention with which I am in full accord. Wm Flinn of Pittsburg has recognized me as one of those to be consulted in this Districtand has written me several letters regarding the situation to which I have replied. I also gave him the names of some candidates for Legislature, Senate and Congress on the Rep. Ticket whose character and backing were such that no honest man would care to appear upon the same ticket with them. I also recommended that independent candidates [p] be placed in those instances against them. In the matter of Congress the Dem. Candidate is a man of such high principles, so honorable and upright, a believer in a scientific tariff "to be lowered or hightened as the industry actually required that I believed, he should, be on the third ticket, he is a business man, successful, no politician and the Dem. Boss behind his Rep opponent that he represented exactly the man we wanted. I quote under no circumstances shall a Dem candidate for Congress be placed on the 3rd ticket" Flinn it is my honest belief is playing Roosevelt to benefit Flinn first and Roosevelt next. His idea being to control the state for his own benefit and not for yours nor ours. I am not knocking [ever] but I believe you should be warned that unless Pinchot or some other realCABLE ADDRESS: "BALLENGINE". CODES: WESTERN UNION, LIEBER'S. THE BALL ENGINE COMPANY. AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF ENGINES. ERIE, PA. JAMES McBRIER, President. D. N. McBRIER, Vice President. F. B. Mc BRIER, Secretary. A. W. MILNE, Treasurer. E. J. ARMSTRONG, Engineer. ERIE. PA. Subject. "Roosevelt" men interest themselves here in Penna and let some of we smaller fellows know that we are not absolutely Tied to Flinn and that money to support a clean as well as a Roosevelt Ticket would be forthcoming should we break with Flinn the results in Penna will be disappointing to you in the sense that your prestige with the people will have foisted a crowd of rascals on the people by reason of their presence on your Ticket. I'm for a new Party made up of both Dem. & Rep. no matter what so long as thier progressive and honest. Don't get the idea I'm officious on anything. I believe you shouldknow this program which I believe is a downright attempt to benefit politicians at the expense of your good name and the belief of the Rank and File in your integrity. I enlisted for the war and am at your service in any capacity Yours Sincerely, L. A. McBrier P. S. I have written to Flynn telling him I was for you but I would not support the balance of a ticket that contained men who were unfit for office.[*[7-19-12]*] Belleview Cottage Mount Clemens Michigan. [*18.*] My dear Colonel Roosevelt. It is a big battle and a hard fight but a man with a clear conscience and clear hands fears no defeat. Morning and evening when I pray for my own childrenI pray for you and yours. When you began your campaign I wrote to you but did not sign my own name as I did not want you to think a reply necessary. My home is in New York City but I came here for the Summer. May the Giver of every good and perfect gift grant you and the principles you advocate success. Sarah Reid MacNeill. July 19, 1912.Form 1864. 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 the 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 day 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 BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER BLUE 308P RECEIVED AT Oyster Bay 7/19/12 14 MC 31 Blue South Dakota 1. Hot Springs Colonel Theo. Roosevelt, On your trip to Desmoines July twenty fourth would like for you to come to Hot Springs South Dakota wire reply to me can make arrangements to entertain you at the Evans Hotel B. F. Mann. G. W. NORRIS McCOOK, NEB. COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. WASHINGTON, D. C. [*2*] July 19, 1912. Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Care of The Outlook, New York City. Dear Mr. Roosevelt: - As I wrote you before, there is to be a state Republican convention on the 30th of this month in Nebraska. This convention is selected in the old way and h as no function except to write a platform. In order to show you the desperate methods that the Taft fellows are resorting to in order to control this convention, I want to tell you what was done in Omaha by the County Committee in calling the county convention for the purpose of selecting delegates to the state convention. The county Committee controlled entirely by Victor Roosewater, met on the 16th day of July. They called the county convention of Douglas county to convene on the 20th of July, just four days distant. In order to be sure that they would control the convention, they appointed a committee of their own number to select delegates to the county convention, and in order to be sure that the committee would be continued in power for another year, they appointed a committee to select their successors. This is the most revolutionary proceeding that I have ever heard of-2- in the history of the country. I have gained my information from the Omaha Bee, edited, controlled and owned by Victor Roosewater. It is the most brazen piece of political 'shikannery' that has ever taken place, and I want to let you have the information for whatever use you might desire to make of it. I have today written Mr. R. B. Howell of Omaha, our National Committeeman, asking him to take the lead in Douglas County and call a genuine Republican Convention to select delegates to our state convention. I wish you would write either to him or someone else in Omaha, or have someone representing you do so, making a similar suggestion. Yours truly, G. W. NorrisFINANCING, BUILDING, LEASING CLASS A, B AND C. BUILDINGS EXPERT SERVICES FOR OWNERS ACCOUNT SOLVING PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN ERECTION OF APARTMENT HOUSES, LODGING HOUSES AND EUROPEAN HOTELS A.W. PATTIANI & CO. OFFICES, [455-457 PACIFIC] MERCHANTS NAT'L BANK BUILDING 610 & 611 PHONE [DOUGLAS 1142] SUTTER 194 San Francisco, July 19, 1912. Col Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir: Herewith enclosed please find some rough notes suggesting material for some of the planks for the platform of the National Progressive Party that so many anxiously await. The country is in a receptive mood for the launching of a party which will have the ring of sincerity in an effort looking to the welfare of the people at large, and the elimination of special privilege. A true progressive can never go back to bossism and old party methods again after what has transpired in Chicago,, and Baltimore and we will succeed in the end. With many wishes for (our) success, I am Yours very sincerely, A. W. Pattiani (Pres. Alameda Roosevelt Progressive League.)For encl see 7-19-12[*3*] R. F. PETTIGREW SIOUX FALLS, S.D. July 19, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Roosevelt: I have sent you George Fred Williams' letter, showing what a conservative Woodrow Wilson is. I have also sent you my address to the democrats of South Dakota, which contains additional material to show that Woodrow Wilson is not a progressive. I have received today a long letter from George Fred Williams, and I enclose a copy of that letter. I wish to call your attention to page 4 where Williams says that I may tell you that if you will run on the Columbus program he will take the stump with you and handle Wilson. Of course the letter from Mr. Williams is strictly confidential between you and myself. Now I wish to say one word at least about the platform. I hope you will declare flat-footed for the government ownership of railroads and all means for the transmission of intelligence or information, such as telegraphs and telephones. These will be the most popular issues that can be presented to the people, and they are ready for them. I wish also to have your platform declare in favor of doing away with the United States Circuit and District Courts. And in this connection I wish you would read my speech at the Bryan banquet the 19th of last April. In that I make an argument showing why these courts should be abolished. I have cabled Mr. Williams today to return at once. If on the receipt of this letter you desire to see me I will comeR.F. PETTIGREW SIOUX FALLS, S.D. come upon a telegram. After I saw you the other day I wrote Mr. Hearst and told him I had had a talk with you and that i thought it advosable for him to see you, and that I thought he could assist you in getting a platform that we could all support, but Mr. Hearst sailed for Europe the day before, and my letter has followed him to England. Yours very truly, I do not believe in reform but in revolution a reformer aspires to correct abuses, and continues existing conditions. A revolution would change the Social and economic systems and establish in its place Equal opertunity for all and a government based upon the rights of man rather than the rights of property Yours very truly R. F. PettigrewFor encl see 7-8-12P.O. Box 1222 CABLE ADDRESS, ROOSEVELT Roosevelt & Son 33 Wall Street New York July 19, 1912. Frank Harper, Esq., #287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir:- This is from President Van Hise and should be attended to at once. Yours truly, George Emlen Roosevelt Enc.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 To 9 NY W 71 Blue... [*8*] Chicago ILL July 19th 1912 Col Theo Roosevelt, Oyster Bay NY Have confidential and reliable information Luke Wright strongly inclined to your new progressive party but is inclined to take no active part in the Present Campaign he is interested in the Memphis Commercial appeal which is a democratic paper and which is satisfied with Wilson but this would not prevent Wright from coming into the new party I think a request from you would bring him at once into the movement. J.C. Shaffer 1212-pA. L. Caldwell Bolton Smith J. G. J. Perkins Cable Address Welldah, Memphis Caldwell & Smith Mortgage Loans No. 66 Madison Avenue Memphis, Tenn. July 19/12. P. Hon.Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York. [*19.*] Dear Sir: - I suggest that a plank be introduced into the platform of the new party exempting from the immigration laws those fleeing from religious and racial persecution. No American can think without shame of the fact that under our immigration laws, we have sent numbers of Jews back to Russia and thereby made ourselves parties to the terrible persecution to which they are there subject. This is neither a labor, an industrial nor a sanitary question, but one of elementary humanity as to which a God-fearing nation can take only one position. If the life or limb of some poor man, woman or child, were threatened in our presence, we would not stop to investigate their healthfulness, etc. but would come to their rescue if within our power to do so. Why should not the American Nation act in the same way? Other peoples coming to us stand upon a different basis. An Italian, German or Spanish emigrant comes to this country for the purpose of bettering his financial condition. He is not fleeing from persecution of any kind, for he is well treated at home. In proof of this, may return when they have made money. The appeal made to us by the Russian Jew is unique and I believe American sense of justice would at once respond to the suggestionTheodore Roosevelt #2. that an exception be made in his favor. I have held this view for years, but the resulting of Mary Antin's book "The Promised Land" with its authentic description of the treatment this race received in Russia, has decided me to write this letter. The new party can surely take up no more worthy case, nor one so likely to appeal to the spirit or unselfish patriotism on which alone it can rely for success. Sincerely yours, Bolton SmithTexas Postmasters' Association. MARSHALL SMITH, PRESIDENT. BROWNWOOD, TEXAS. OFFICERS. MARSHALL SMITH, President, Brownwood. D. A. ROBINSON, 1st. Vice Pres., Dallas. L. M. BARKLEY, 2nd Vice Pres., Ft. Worth. D. E. WALSHE, 3rd Vice pres., Grand Saline. DAVID DOOLE, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer, Brady. EXECUTIV COMMITTEE. S. B. Strong H A. Griffin W. C. Pachman J. M. Seargent E. W. Morton L. Hopkins Elizabeth Rhea Miss J. Chesley Arch Campbell Carrie E. Mohe W. J. Gilmore J. I. Cartar Jno. S. Schmitz A. R. Hill Joel D. Crauford Peter Matson [*5*] [[shorthand]] Brownwood, Texas, July 19,1912. CONFIDENTIAL. Col.Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay,N.Y. My Dear Col.Roosevelt: My precinct,county,district and state went for you in the election of delegates,all honestly,because I went from the precinct to the county,to the district and to the state conventions and know where of I speak. Of course Texas cannot and will not vote for you. The democratic party took stock forty years ago,maybe fifty,and counted Texas for them not only that year but for every other election year up to and including 1912,possibly by 1916 the progressivs might be strong enough in the state to make them set up and take notice. Personally I have been threatened with removal from the postoffice here for what I have already done,and knowing that Texas cannot be carried for you I am not going to do much,but I cannot keep from thinking,and I think about that Chicago holdup so much that I wake up at night mad. From a Texas ignoramus,like myself,as compared with those around you I want to make a suggestion for the Chicago convention,it is not copyrighted,and no charge is contemplated,but am going to offer it for what I think it is worth. National platforms are usually ambiguous or else written in such an elaborate manner than 95% of the voters never read it,and not ever 20% of those who do read fully understand the platform after he has read it,they,the platforms,like the bible can be made to fit the diferent individuals that believe in them and likewise most of those who stand on them. Now my idea is this: Your following will largely be from the laboring,farming,mining and industrial workers,that being the case lets add to the slogan 'Thou shalt not steal' other planks with the fewest possible words and let the platform be the briefest that a man has ever run on for the office,make all the planks as simple that the most ignorant can understand what it means,for instance: The tariff shall be reduced The Panama Canal will be fortified The U.S.Government shall control [the] and supervise the Lakes to Gulf Channel The nomination of presidential and legislative candidates will be protected to the end that the nomination must be honest etc.etc. My idea is,do not use a page in saying what a half dozen words will do, the man of to day will not read the page,many of them cannot digest the page after he has read it,but a short paragraph will be read and understood, and many of them have confidence enough to believe you will stand for the things contained in the platform you build. I am with you I mind if not in body, Very respectfully, Marshall Smith. The Mount Washington BRETTON WOODS WHITE MOUNTAINS, N. H. July 19th 1912 My dear Roosevelt - I hope that I may see you before sailing for a two months visit to Europe next Thursday. I had intended proposing myself for a trip to Oyster Bay next Monday or Wednesday (Tuesday I have to spend in Washington) but I see by the papers that you are going West next Monday night. I shall therefore on arrival in New York on Monday morning next either communicate by telephone with the Outlook office or be there myself; probably the latter about. 10.30in the hope either of finding you there or of hearing from Mr Harper or one of the Abbots how I shall manage, with least inconvenience to yourself, to see you. I not only want to have that pleasure but I am especially anxious, before going abroad, to have a brief talk with you about the latest development of the Panama Canal question, as raised by England's alleged protest. Your objection to the recent proposed arbitration treaties have been more than justified by Root's speech in the Senate and by what Cabot is alleged to have remarked as to the probable result of our submittingThe Mount Washington BRETTON WOODS, WHITE MOUNTAINS, N. H. to the Hague Tribunal a question pertaining to the treatment of our own property - i.e. ships & Canal. If I find you are not going west on Monday, I shall communicate with Sagamore Hill in order to ascertain whether I had better go to see you there on Monday or Wednesday. Which I hope to do in any case to see Mrs. Roosevelt even if you have gone West yourself. If there be any suggestion which you may wish to make as to seeing you, it would, if sent to theKnickerbocker Club - 32nd St & 5th Ave. reach me soon after nine on Monday morning. I am of course deeply interested in all that is happening to you since I last heard from you. Yours Most Sincerely, Henry White If the papers are to be believed, the Treaty of Alliance which I have been expecting ever since Knox's famous [neutra] abortive Manchurian Railway neutralization proposal would seem on the point of conclusion between Russia & Japan!CURTIS HOTEL, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS The Curtis Hotel, Lenox, Mass., July 19, 1912. Col. Roosevelt, Since writing you yesterday I have received the enclosed copy of letter from Mr. Thilborger our Secretary. The purpose of sending you this is to show you that the state will be properly represented at the Chicago convention and further to show you that Mr. John M. Parker is not waiting as Thilborgers other letter which I enclosed you yesterday would indicate, but is giving our Committee active aid by giving them names of leading Democrats who ought to be in sympathy of the Movement. I have instructed our Committee wherever necessary to sign my name, as from my long commercial business life in Louisiana I am very well known among the business interest of the state. You need not trouble to answer this because I know of the thousands cares you have on your hands of much greater importance, but I wanted you to dismiss Louisiana from your mind as far as this convention is concerned, hence this letter. Very sincerely yours, Pearl WightFor 1 enc see Thilborger 7-12-12[*[7-19-12]*] Ammunition for the PLATFORM OF THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY 1. Laws that will illuminate the boss in every city and state. 2. Preferential Primaries - Giving each individual unit full representation. 3. The recall - Permitting the people to hold an influence as well as the man of special privileges. 4. The recall of any decision making for an injury to the people at large and favorable to the few. 5. The invitation to enable the people to compel legislation that they consider of benefit to the greatest numbers. 6. The referendum to enable the people to pass upon laws they may consider adverse to the interest of the many & the benefit of the few 7. Direct vote of the people. For Senators- the President and ? 8. No more nominating Convention. Each state to send delegates to a convention - these delegates to be elected upon the understanding that they are for [*Revise No. 8*] some certain man. The votes of these delegates will show some man at the top and he will be the nominee - The vice president to be chosen by majority vote of these delegates. The platform to be compiled from accepted suggestions made by each State through its delegation. 9. All express matter to be under the government jurisdiction exactly the same as mail matter. 10. All telephones to be under the government jurisdiction. 11. All coastwise American shipping to pass through the Canal free of tolls - or tolls rebated. 12. No Compromise - Let every tub stand on its own bottom Win or lose National Progressive Party has come to stay from now on. 13. Revision of the tariff - principally downward - and certainly in such a manner that the benefits shall be equally distributed - and those few who at present are provisionally favored, shall be deprived of their special benefits. 14. Andrew Carnegie has publicly stated that the iron industry does not need protection - then remove this and all other duties that such men do not need. 15. Mr. Lorimer of Illinois was removed by the Senators after a struggle of two years duration - and the final action was due to the hammering of the Progressive leader backed by the thinking sincere people. 16. Judge Archambalt will probably have to face an early trial these days of aroused public sentiment, due to the activity of the Progressives. One year ago he would probably be unmolested. 17. The trust owned newspapers of the United States are a menace to the best interests of the people at large. 18. A National (Progressive) Law, requiring that all persons contemplating matrimony, shall pass an examination and obtain a duly authorized certificate of physical & mental fitness. 19. A National (Progressive) Law governing divorces throughout the United States & possessions. 20. A National (Progressive) Law governing child labor throughout the United States & possessions. 21. A National (Progressive) Law governing the working hours of females.22. Progressive creed For the uplifting of the plain people and the defence of their human rights The man before the dollar The equal representation of each individual unit against the special representation of several units by a single unit enjoying privilege. For equal governmental benefits [equal] to [all] each unit and no special [goverme] governmental benefit to a special or set of special units. Against the use of the National government by any unit or set of units to further their particular business or interests in any greater degree than enjoyed by all the others. Against the political methods and machinery of the old parties [by] which have gradually built up a pernicious system depriving each individual unit of equal power and permitting certain units [of] or collections of units to control large numbers. For instance the caucus The election of a president by a minority of all the votes cast The convention methods of steam rolling - etc etc Other well known convention methods - cut & dried. New laws clean cut and clear to deal with public and quasi public bodies - business & institutions in a fair manner and to the best interests of the people at large. (4) [* N. B. These are merely memos, throwing out ideas for the purpose of discussion and framing. A. W. Pattiain*]Encl in Pattiani 7-19-12[*W Z Wakeman*] [*[7-19-12]*] The American Protective Tariff League New York. To the Editor: The matter issued by the Tariff League is for general circulation; hence we beg to hand you the accompanying in advance of appearance in our own publications. American Protective Tariff League, 339 Broadway, Between Worth and Leonard Streets, NEW YORK. ADVANCE FOR IMMEDIATE USE. Importance of the Pay Envelope. "I want to see the benefits of the Tariff put into the pay envelope," Mr. Roosevelt is quoted as saying on the 10th of July. He has said something like this on several occasions. Apparently he is greatly interested in the contents of the pay envelope. We are glad of that. The pay envelope, more than anything else that can be named, determines the prosperity of this country; more than all else put together, it might almost be said: The pay envelope affects all persons engaged in gainful business or occupation. It affects production, distribution, merchandising, transportation. It affects the clergyman, the doctor, the lawyer. It affects every individual who has something to sell, whether that something be labor, farm produce, dry goods, groceries, or skill, or knowledge, or what not. All these and many more things are affected favorably if the contents of the pay envelope are large, and all are affected unfavorably if the contents of the pay envelope are small, or, still worse, if there should be no pay envelope at all. So we are glad to see Mr. Roosevelt's solicitude concerning the pay envelope. It ought to be the chief concern of every good citizen. Do the benefits of the Tariff get into the pay envelope? It is an important question. The answer is plain. About $5,000,000,000 a year gets into the pay envelopes of American wage-earners. Much more than that gets into the pay envelopes of salaried men, of farmers who do much or all their own work, of small merchants and shopkeepers, of professional men and women. A vast sum of money must get into the pay envelopes of all Americans to pay for the more than 90 per cent. of American industrial products that are consumed at home. But for the contents of the pay envelopes, 90 per cent. of the $21,000,000,000 of annual industrial production could not be paid for by our own people. No one contends that a Protective Tariff does or can determine directly the exact proportion of Tariff benefits that gets into the pay envelope. Excepting the law of demand and supply, no law can directly govern the rate of wages. But a Protective Tariff has indirectly much to do with determining the wage rate. A Protective Tariff creates employment and a demand for labor. It accomplishes this by insuring to the domestic producer a market for his product. Under this assurance, mills, factories and workshops are constructed, equipped and operated. Labor is in demand, from the moment the first shovelful of dirt that is lifted on the factory site, to the moment that the factory ceases to be operated. Labor, labor everywhere and all the time. A Protective Tariff calls the industries into existence; a Protective Tariff creates and maintains employment and a demand for labor. Seven million wage-earners are now at work in American mills, factories, workshops, mines, forests and fisheries. They are kept at work by a Tariff that restricts the importation of foreign products and the driving out of American producers from the American market. The Tariff does this so effectually that out of an annual consumption of $ 20,000,000,000 of industrial products more than $ 19,000,000,000 are of American production. If there was no Tariff to exclude the cheaper products of the cheaper labor of foreign countries, one of the two things must happen: Either we should buy from foreigners far more than 10 per cent. of the manufactures consumed, thus putting out of their jobs a very large number of the wage-earners who are now engaged in making things for Americans to use; or we should be compelled to cut down the American wage rate in order to hold the American market against foreign competition. We feel sure that Mr. Roosevelt understands this question and agrees with this conclusion. So understanding and so agreeing, Mr. Roosevelt cannot fail to see how and why Tariff benefits do find their way into the pay envelope; how the contents of the pay envelope are increased through a Protective Tariff, and how they would inevitably be diminished in the absence of a Protective Tariff. So understanding and so agreeing, Mr. Roosevelt's voice and influence must of necessity be for the maintenance of adequate Protection for all forms of American labor and industry. His solicitude for the contents of the pay envelope is greatly to his credit. Free-Trade means less employment, less wages, economic disaster. - From AMERICAN ECONOMIST, July 19, 1912.Encl in Perkins 7-22-12attached to Godfrey 7-19-12Aldine. Club Restaurant. NO 325 W33 Persons. 19 Mr. F. N, Godfrey Esq Olean N.Y [*No 325 W 33*]WOOD F. AXTON, PREST. GEO. H. FISHER, V. PREST. HENRY D. OSWALD, SECY. E.D. AXTON, TREAS. Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS Old Hill Side ALL QUALITY NO STYLE MANUFACTURED BY Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. LOUISVILLE, KY. FOR MAN AND PIPE Louisville, Ky July 20 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City Dear Colonel - I have your favor of the 9th inst. and wish to thank you for your invitation to call on you in New York. At the present time I am too busy in this progressive movement to avail myself of this pleasure. I have just sent to Senator Dixon a list of 2000/2500 names of people who signed the call for the progressive party. This list was made up from Saturday morning to Monday evening. The men on this list represent every element of human endeavor, former Republicans, Democrats and Socialists. I have never seen so much determination on the part of people to govern themselves as is manifested in Louisville. The people of this country will always owe you a debt of gratitude for calling their attention so clearly to the fact that in the past we have not been governing ourselves but we have been governed by a handful of designing politicians representing corrupt interests. I cannot tell you how much I am pleased of the turn of affairs in Chicago and I believe the progressive party is bound to be the dominent party in this country both North and South, East and West and that when it comes in power it will not be shackeled by the corrupt interests that have heretofore been in control of the two old parties. I wish to congratulate you on your description of a platform being "A contract with the people." I think it will do your heart good to see the list I have sent to Senator Dixon and I trust that you will avail yourself of this pleasure as these men are in no sense politicians but are earning their bread by the sweat of their brow. We held the most enthusiastic meeting Thursday night that was ever held in this district. We formed a plan that will absolutely let the people control our organization in this district and I assure you that I will do everything in my power to bring about the principles which you stand for. Trusting that after the Convention is over that we will be able to carry the progressive movement through in November, I remain, Faithfully yours, W.F. Axton WILLIAM BARNES, Jr. CHAIRMAN HARRY H. BENDER, TREASURER LAFAYETTE B. GLEASON, SECRETARY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE 43 WEST 39TH STREET For a Straight Ticket X Mark Within This Circle TELEPHONE 4710 BRYANT NEW YORK JULY 20, 1912 To the Republican Electors of the State of New York: The Republican Electors of the State of New York are hereby requested, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 891 of the laws of 1911 as amended, to send delegates to a State Convention to be held at Convention Hall in the Village of Saratoga Springs, on Wednesday, the 25th day of September, 1912, at twelve o'clock noon, to nominate candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Attorney General, Treasurer, State Engineer and Surveyor and Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals and to transact such other business as may properly come before the Convention. Each Assembly district in the State will be entitled to representation in accordance with the basis established by the State Convention of 1885. A schedule of representation is hereto annexed showing the number of delegates to which the several Assembly districts are entitled. WILLIAM BARNES, JR., Chairman. LAFAYETTE B. GLEASON, SecretaryREPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION Schedule of Representation - 1912 ... Number of DELEGATES. Albany, I ... 10 Albany II ... 9 Albany III ... 9 Allegany ... 9 Broome ... 12 Cattaraugus ... 10 Cauyga ... 11 Chautauqua, I ... 9 Chautauqua II ... 8 Chemung ... 8 Chenango ... 7 Clinton ... 6 Columbia ... 7 Cortland ... 6 Delaware ... 8 Dutchess, I ... 7 Dutchess, II ... 6 Erie, I ... 8 Erie II ... 9 Erie III ... 7 Erie IV ... 5 Erie V ... 6 Erie VI ... 4 Erie VII ... 6 Erie VIII ... 8 Erie IX ... 8 Essex ... 6 Franklin ... 7 Fulton and Hamilton ... 8 Genesee ... 7 Greene ... 5 Herkimer ... 9 Jefferson, I ... 6 Jefferson II ... 7 Kings, I ... 6 Kings II ... 4 Kings III ... 3 Kings IV ... 6 Kings V ... 8 Kings VI ... 6 Kings VII ... 4 Kings VIII ... 4 Kings IX ... 8 Kings X ... 7 ... Number of DELEGATES Kings, XI ... 7 Kings XII ... 8 Kings XIII ... 4 Kings XIV ... 4 Kings XV ... 4 Kings XVI ... 8 Kings XVII ... 8 Kings XVIII ... 10 Kings XIX ... 4 Kings XX ... 7 Kings XXI ... 4 Kings XXII ... 11 Kings XXIII ... 7 Lewis ... 5 Livingston ... 7 Madison ... 8 Monroe, I ... 7 Monroe II ... 7 Monroe III ... 6 Monroe IV ... 9 Monroe V ... 9 Montgomery ... 9 Nassau ... 11 New York, I ... 4 New York II ... 3 New York III ... 3 New York IV ... 2 New York V ... 4 New York VI ... 4 New York VII ... 4 New York VIII ... 3 New York IX ... 4 New York X ... 4 New York XI ... 4 New York XII ... 3 New York XIII ... 4 New York XIV ... 4 New York XV ... 9 New York XVI ... 4 New York XVII ... 8 New York XVIII ... 4 New York XIX ... 9 New York XX ... 4 New York XXI ... 9 Number of DELEGATES. New York XXII ... 4 New York XXIII ... 12 New York XXIV ... 3 New York XXV ... 7 New York XXVI ... 5 New York XXVII ... 7 New York XXVIII ... 3 New York XXIX ... 8 New York XXX ... 7 New York XXXI ... 8 New York XXXII ... 9 New York XXXIII ... 5 New York XXXIV ... 8 New York XXXV ... 7 Niagara, I ... 6 Niagara II ... 7 Oneida, I ... 7 Oneida II ... 9 Oneida III ... 7 Onondaga, I ... 9 Onondaga II ... 10 Onondaga III ... 10 Ontario ... 9 Orange, I ... 9 Orange II ... 8 Orleans ... 6 Oswego ... 11 Otsego ... 8 Putnam ... 3 Queens, I ... 5 Queens II ... 5 Queens III ... 6 Queens IV ... 8 Rensselaer, I ... 9 Rensselaer II ... 10 Richmond ... 8 Rockland ... 6 St. Lawrence, I ... 8 St. Lawrence II ... 8 Saratoga ... 10 Schenectady ... 11 Schoharie ... 4 Schuyler ... 3 Seneca ... 5 Number of DELEGATES. Steuben, I ... 7 Steuden II ... 7 Suffolk, I ... 7 Suffolk, II ... 5 Sullivan ... 6 Tioga ... 5 Tompkins ... 6 Ulster, I ... 6 Ulster II ... 6 Warren ... 6 Washington ... 9 Wayne ... 9 Westchester, I ... 8 Westchester II ... 9 Westchester III ... 8 Westchester IV ... 8 Wyoming ... 6 Yates ... 4 Total 1,015 WILLIAM BARNES, Jr. CHAIRMAN HARRY H. BENDER, TREASURER LAFAYETTE B. GLEASON, SECRETARY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE 43 WEST 39TH STREET For a Straight Ticket X Mark Within This Circle TELEPHONE 4710 BRYANT NEW YORK JULY 20, 1912 [[shorthand]] To the Enrolled Republican Electors of the State of New York: At a meeting of the Republican State Committee held July 20th, 1912 the Republican State Convention was called to convene at Saratoga Springs on Wednesday, September 25, 1912, for the purpose of naming candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Attorney General, State Treasurer, State Engineer and Surveyor and two associate Judge of the Court of Appeals. The unit of representation in that Convention is the Assembly district. Each Assembly district is entitled to one vote for sovereignty and another vote for each one thousand votes cast for President in 1908 or major fraction thereof. The names of candidates for delegates may be placed upon the primary ballot in two ways, first by designation by the party committee for the Assembly district, and secondly by petition of enrolled Republican voters within the Assembly district to the number of at last 5 per cent. of the total enrollment and not less than 4 per cent. of the vote cast for Governor in 1910. As no Assembly district in this State cast over 10,000 republican votes for Governor in 1910, the highest possible number of petitioners for the purpose of placing in nomination candidates for delegates to the State Convention is 400. Ample notice is hereby given to the 584,000 enrolled republicans in this State of their opportunity to contend at this primary for the election of delegates to the State Convention, so that the nominees of that convention may be named after the fullest and freest expression of the thought and will of the enrolled republican electorate of the State of New York. The administration of the affairs of the State since January 1, 1911 when the Democratic party assumed full control of the State government has aroused wide-spread and positive conviction that a continuation of that control would e inimical to the best interests of the people of New York. The intent of the electorate to eliminate that control was clearly disclosed by the result of the election of members of Assembly in 1911 when the democratic plurality of 67,401 for governor in 1910 was changed to a republican plurality of 100,196 in 1911. The opportunity of the electorate to express its determination to make a change in the State government can only be accomplished through the agency of the republican party. It therefore is the duty of every republican to participate in the primary to be held September 17th in order that the delegates chosen to assemble at Saratoga Springs will be impressed with the responsibility resting upon them as the representatives of the 384,000 enrolled republicans of New York, to whom unquestionably a majority of the electorate look to offer it candidates whose character is a sure guarantee that if elected the government of the State of New York will be restored to its former standard of efficiency and constructive purpose. William Barnes Jr. ChairmanREPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION Schedule of Representation—1912 Number of Number of Number of Number of DELEGATES. DELEGATES. DELEGATES. DELEGATES. Albany, I 10 Kings, XI 7 New York, XXII 4 Steuben, I 7 " II 9 " XII 8 " XXIII 12 " II 7 " III 9 " XIII 4 " XXIV 3 Suffolk, I 7 Allegany 9 " XIV 4 " XXV 7 " II 5 Broome 12 " XV 4 " XXVI 5 Sullivan 6 Cattaraugus 10 " XVI 8 " XXVII 7 Tioga 5 Cayuga 11 " XVII 8 " XXVIII 3 Tompkins 6 Chautauqua, I 9 " XVIII 10 " XXIX 8 Ulster, I 6 " II 8 " XIX 4 " XXX 7 " II 6 Chemung 8 " XX 7 " XXXI 8 Warren 6 Chenango 7 " XXI 4 " XXXII 9 Washington 9 Clinton 6 " XXII 11 " XXXIII 5 Wayne 9 Columbia 7 " XXIII 7 " XXXIV 8 Westchester, I 8 Cortland 6 Lewis 5 " XXXV 7 " II 9 Delaware 8 Livingston 7 Niagara, I 6 " III 8 Dutchess, I 7 Madison 8 " II 7 " IV 8 " II 6 Monroe, I 7 Oneida, I 7 Wyoming 6 Erie, I 8 " II 7 " II 9 Yates 4 " II 9 " III 6 " III 7 Total 1,015 " III 7 " IV 9 Onondaga, I 9 " IV 5 " V 9 " II 10 " V 6 Montgomery 9 " III 10 " VI 4 Nassau 11 Ontario 9 " VII 6 New York, I 4 Orange, I 9 " VIII 8 " II 3 " II 8 " IX 8 " III 3 Orleans 6 Essex 6 " IV 2 Oswego 11 Franklin 7 " V 4 Otsego 8 Fulton and Hamilton 8 " VI 4 Putnam 3 Genesee 7 " VII 4 Queens, I 5 Greene 5 " VIII 3 " II 5 Herkimer 9 " IX 4 " III 6 Jefferson, I 6 " X 4 " IV 8 " II 7 " XI 4 Rensselaer, I 9 Kings, I 6 " XII 3 " II 10 " II 4 " XIII 4 Richmond 8 " III 3 " XIV 4 Rockland, 6 " IV 6 " XV 9 St. Lawrence, I 8 " V 8 " XVI 4 " II 8 " VI 6 " XVII 8 Saratoga 10 " VII 4 " XVIII 4 Schenectady 11 " VIII 4 " XIX 9 Schoharie 4 " IX 8 " XX 4 Schuyler 3 " X 7 " XXI 9 Seneca 5 [*ack 7-23-12*] Form 2289 B. 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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT [[shorthand]] [*17.*] 6 NY W 53 NL. Littleton NH July 20-21 [12] Theo Roosevelt, There was large attendance staunch Roosevelt supporters assembled in Mechanics Hall Manchester today elected four delegates to Chicago convention with power of substitution Robert Bass, W.M. Savegal, H.O. Print and Myself committee appointed to name Roosevelt electors one from each county matter of state ticket left in hands of State Cimmittee. W.J. Beattie... 848 aMR. BRISTOW, CHAIRMAN MR. SMITH, OF MICH. MR. BACON. MR. PENROSE. MR. CHILTON FAY N.SEATON, CLERK. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Washington, July 20, 1912. [[shorthand]] My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I have your kind letter of July 18th, and am very greatly pleased if my suggestions were of any use to you. I should be very glad indeed to confer with you. If I can possibly find time to get away from Washington within the next week or so, I will run over to New York. But the Panama bill, and the post office bill, and a number of other measures for which I am to a certain degree responsible, are pending, and it is impossible for me to get away just now without neglecting my work here. With kindest regards, Very truly yours, Joseph L. Bristow Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York HNovember 23, N.H., July 20, 1912. Over two hundred Progressive Republicans representing all sections of the state assembled in this city today and amid great enthusiasm adopted the following resolutions; "Resolved; That by reason of the fraudulent unseating of legally elected delegates to the Republican National Convention, Wm. H. Taft is not a rightful and lawful nominee for the presidency and is not entitled to and should not receive the support of anybody." "Resolved: That a list of presidential electors who will support Theodore Roosevelt should be placed upon the ballot by petition." The following named were chosen as delegates to Chicago to the National Progressive Convention; Gov. Robert P. Bass; Dr. W. T. Beattie of Littleson; Wm. Savacool, Manchester; H. O. Prime, Portsmouth; Alternates: Willis G. Buxton, Boscawen; S.O. Titus, Rollinsford; Harry G. Blake, Concord; Warren C. Brown, Troy. It was voted that a state Progressive organization be formed with an executive committee to file such nominations for state offices as it shall deem expedient and practicable. Judge G.W. Clyde, Hudson was secretary and Robert L. Manning of Manchester presided. Among the speakers were Gov. Bass, Judge Remick, Concord; John E. Benton, Keene; Geo. Rublee, Cornish; Rev. Lewis E. Perry, Hudson; S. O. Titus, Rollinsford; Clarence E. Clough, Lebanon; Walter Lewis, Manchester; Rev. H. N. Hackemeyer, Litchfield; Wm. Savacool, Manchaster; Frank Musgrove, Hanover; E.C. Niles, Concord; Conrad W. Crooker, Keene; A. E. Shute, Derry W.W. Flanders, Weare; C.W. Abbott, Derry M.G. Dimond, Danville. The resolutions were adopted unanimously with great display of earnestness and enthusiasm. [[shorthand]] G. W. Clyde, Sec. Robert L. Manning, ch[*Ewing*] [*7-20-12*] [*Colonel Roosevelt calls the Bryan tactics at Baltimore "grandstand play." Doubtless he is a good judge of that sort of thing, but coming from him it seems to suggest the ancient interchange between the pot and the kettle.*] Ewing 7-20-12 Napoleonville, La., July 20, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York [*14.*] Dear Sir: The Boston Transcript of June 29 credits you with saying that Mr. Bryan's tactics at Baltimore were "grand stand play." I do not believe you said that; and as one who deems it a privilege to thank the Lord for both Theodore Roosevelt and Wm. J. Bryan it would rejoice meEwing 7-20-12 Napoleonville, La., July 20, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York 14. Dear Sir: The Boston Transcript of June 29 credits you with saying that Mr. Bryan's tactics at Baltimore are "grand stand play." I do not believe you said that and as one who deems it a privilege to thank the Lord for both Theodore Roosevelt and Wm. J. Bryan it would rejoice meEwing 7-20-12 to learn from you that the Transcript has earned "The short and ugly word." Loving you for the evening you have made, and wishing you all best wishes, Very Respt. yours, Quincy Ewing7-20-12 Hon. Col. Theodore Roosevelt Dear Sir On March 28, 1910, you quoted to the astonished Arabs, "Allah mael saterium, izza sabaru". Is it not time, now, to quote, meditate upon and live up to these dying words of a million times greater Prophet. Who gave his life, not to decieve (like Mahoment) but to save humanity? "Peace I leave with you! My Peace I give unto you! Not as the world giveth, give I unto you! Let not your heart be troubled!" ... (But!) "If any man will follow Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross... for what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" ... (T.O.)"Hereafter ye shall see heaven opened and God's angels ascending and descending upon The Son of Man! (+) "At that Day, may you be prepared to show Him a heart ever devoted to Him along That He may seat you at His Right Hand!" The present writer prays thus for you, noble Roosevelt day and night, as for the Man wanted by this most wicked country! Most respectfully, H.B. Fabiani 18240 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, Cleveland O. July 20, 1912 (+) John 14, 27 Matt 16 24-26 John ` Form 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, Oyster Bay Have you answered my letter if not where & when can I see you Monday morning will leave here Sunday night Wm F Flynn 156pmForm 2289 D. 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 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 ten times the amount paid for transmission; 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. ROBERT C. CLOWERY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 2 NY WN 105 NL. [[shorthand]] Asbury Park, NJ July 20-21 [*[12?]*] Hon Theo Roosevelt, I earnestly plead for you to attend asbury park convention between twelve and four tuesday you need make no speeches (?) principles only come just to make it the great opening gun for all state convention we shall have the largest convention new jersey ever held. Our state is the battle ground. There is no primary fight for electors here it is just a convention to some Delegates to Chicago if it is exceptionally successful it will encourage every state run down through StatenIsland to Perth Amboy to Asbury Park by Aute It is a fine run you can if you must be home for dinner easily. John Franklin Fort 835-a [[shorthand]]Form 2289 D. 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 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 ten times the amount paid for transmission; 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. ROBERT C. CLOWERY, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT [[shorthand]] 8 NY WN 51 NL Poughkeepsie NY July 20-21 [12?] Hamilton Fish Union, Cr Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay NY Pursuant to rule of State Provisional Committee it will be necessary to name National Delegate not later than the twenty sixth Dutchens Committee desire to meet at garrison to name you either the twenty fifth or twenty sixth. Phone me so that we can issue call and arrange for same regularly. A.B. Gray 853-aChicago, Ill. July 20th 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt: Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: The enclosed clipping, from Chicago Record-Herald, tells the story, of what may be expected, if the socalled "committee" which presumably has your interests at stake, carry out their scheme of only placing electors on the ballot. With straight state, county and complete Progressive column in Illinois, your chances of carrying this state, are exceedingly good. That is best demonstrated by an analysis of the official vote cast at the recent primaries. It shows that your plurality reached almost 140,000 over Taft, while the total vote grouped against Deneen of his opponents was almost 39,000 against him on the progressive side of the slate although his plurality over the candidate next highest was 60,000. These figures may be verified -- if you are interested -- by writing to the Secretary of State at Springfield, Ill. for the official returns of the April primaries. You have many admirers here, and most of us agree, that if the average citizen is compelled to mark a ballot with 50 or more names in columns other than that of Presidential electors, they will become disgusted and give resort to the regular nominees, particularly in the down state territory as well as Cook county, where most politicians are inclined to support local candidates and would make sure of the regularity of their vote in marking a straight column. You will therefore indubitably realize the thousands of votes such proposition will cost you. Another thing which it might be well to bear in mind, is the fact that those, who presumably are your-2- friends and who are seeking to crowd out a straight Progressive ticket, do so, PERHAPS, for ulterior design. This might be worth looking the field over. You may regard this for what it is worth. The writer holds public office, knows conditions, and feels that a word to the wise is sufficient. He is not affiliated with any faction of the party having kept strictly from party "mix-up's" and is interested in your success, especially in seeing the state of Illinois in the Roosevelt column. Yours Very Truly, C. H. Grey Residence, 3234 Polk Street, Chicago, Ill. This communication is CONFIDENTIAL.For enc see 7-20-12 [[shorthand]]JOHN L. HAMILTON HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS July 20, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt New York City, N.Y. My dear Colonel:-- I realized when I sent you an invitation to address our Chautauqua how busy you were but I thought perhaps, in as much as the Convention would be over at Chicago before the eight or ninth of August, you might be able to come and address the meeting, as it would be a good starter for you in the campaign. There would, in all probability, be 10,000 or 15,000 present at the meeting, ,and it would be an easy matter to run down from Chicago and back in the same day. Yours truly, John L. Hamilton JLH/MMJOHN L. HAMILTON HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS [*22.*] [[shorthand]] July 20, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, N.Y. My dear Sir:- I presume you have long since received a copy of the call for a State Convention. The meeting last Tuesday was about as hard a one to handle as I have ever attended and Mr. McDill McCormick showed splendid ability as a chairman. You will note in the Third paragraph of the call that we are bound to get the Presidential Electors for the Progressive Party, even if nothing else is accomplished. The sentiment in this, the eighteenth District, is stronger for you now than it was before the Convention. Yours truly, John L. Hamilton JLH/MMJOHN L. HAMILTON HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS July 20, 1912 [*6*] [[shorthand]] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York, N.Y. My dear Colonel:-- Enclosed you will please find two drafts of a Currency Plank as suggestions for your platform. Mr. Garfield and I went over this question in Chicago and agreed on what we thought would be a good plank. However, Number two has been suggested to me by Mr. A.J. Frame, President of the Waukesha National Bank of Wisconsin, who is greatly interested in this subject. I wrote him that I would forward the same to the parties who are making up the platform. Not knowing who else to address I am sending same to you so you may refer it. Yours truly, John L. Hamilton JLH/MMFor 2 encs see 7-20-122 [*[ca 7-20-12]*] CURRENCY We approve of the emergency measure adopted by Congress and the splendid work accomplished by the National Monetary Commission in the preparation and compiling of a complete financial history. We pledge ourselves to a revision of our National Banking laws, which will tend to broaden the National Bank Act, so as to put National Banks on an equal footing with other well regulated, chartered banking institutions. We pledge ourselves to safeguard the legal reserves of the banks of the country through such a revision of bank note issues, that while creating an elastic note and credit system to aid us in emergencies, without bringing inflation or over-expansion of credit in normal time, will prevent suspension of cash payments by banks in panic periods, which will, at the same time, preserve our independent banks from any domination of sectional, political, individual or dominant financial influence or control, thus preventing and protecting, as far as possible, our farming, manufacturing and all lines of legitimate business, as well as the working classes from the suffering and loss resulting from the paralyzing effects of [all] panics. [*[J. L. HAMILTON]*]Enc in Hamilton 7-20-121 [*[ca 7-20-12]*] CURRENCY. We approved of the emergency measure adopted by Congress and the splendid work accomplished by the National Monetary Commission in the preparation and compiling of a complete financial history. We pledge ourselves to a revision of our National Banking laws, broadening the National Bank charters so as to put the on an equal footing with either chartered banking institutions and a revision of bank note issue that will give to all chartered banks properly supervised equal privileges, safeguard the legal reserve of the Country, and pledge ourselves to such a revision of bank note issue, that will, while creating an elastic note and credit system, at the same time, reserve our independent banks from domination of any sectional, political, individual or dominant financial influence or control, thus rendering recurring panics, with their attendant loss and suffering in times of our greatest prosperity an impossibility, protecting our farming, manufacturing and all lines of legitimate business as well as the working classes from the suffering and loss consequent to panics. [*[J. L. HAMILTON]*]Enc. in Hamilton 7-20-12Form 298 NIGHT MESSAGE THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY 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 thereson. 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. [*Ms*] THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT the WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 Broadway, N.Y. ALWAYS OPEN [*[7-20-12]*] B 308 A MF. 10 NITE [*X 118 Ms*] PROVIDENCE R I JULY 19-20-12. HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 287 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK. CONVENTION LAST NIGHT ELECTED DELEGATES FOR CHICAGO. RHODE ISLAND LOOKS GOOD. A.B. JOHNSON 1250ABOARD OF FREEHOLDERS OF LOS ANGELES 536 CONSOLIDATED REALTY BUILDING TELEPHONES: HOME A 5310 SUNSET MAIN 4384 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD PRESIDENT, JOHN R. HAYNES VICE-PRESIDENT, JOSEPH SCOTT H. STANLEY BENEDICT F.W. BRAUN H.W. BRUNDIGE W.F. BRYANT H.H. COTTON W.G. HUTCHISON MEYER LISSNER CHARLES EDWIN LOCKE C.A PARMELEE C.C. REYNOLDS CHARLES WELLBORN FRED C. WHEELER LEWIS R. WORKS JOHN J. HAMILTON, SECRETARY LOS ANGELES, 7/20/12 Dear Col. Roosevelt:- As a matter of prophesy, privately, for yourself, check along these figures and see how we agree. As a patriot, I want to see you elected President, as a teacher of Civics & History I want to be able to size up a situation right. 2 The Socialists, I see, complain that you are about to seize upon many of their doctrines and place them in your platform. You might do worse, you cannot take anything from Taft's platform: we are not working an Algebra problem in minus quantities. 3 I hope the platform will contain Minimum Wage; Eight hour day; scientific tariff (lowered); Initiative, Referendum, Recall (& of judges); a U.S. Constitutional Convention to revive Us. Const. (one, to make it easier of revision); Direct nominations & elections of everybody; national incorporation of "Big Business", with no water, &c. I hope you'll have time to answer me - once. - Yours sincerely Charles Edwin Locke.TRINITY COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE [*4.*] HARTFORD, CONN., July 20, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay Long Island, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I had a continuous discussion with my fellow guest between Oyster Bay and Jamaica yesterday. He is, of course, absolutely concentrated on his own work and considers any political changes solely by the light of his own enthusiasms. He is tremendously impressed with the evolutionary (please note there is only one r in this word) character of your proposed address, and highly approves of it. As you probably know, he is historically a Democrat. I do not think he is so much disturbed by Mr. Deneen as he is by the difference between a Third Party movement and a factional fight in one of the old parties, and there is much to be said for his point of view. Where there is a clean-cut, distinguishable, clearly outlined Third Party, we shall probably draw democratic support; where there is a struggle to control the old Republican organization, the result, even if tactically successful, will, in my opinion, be less permanent and will draw less general support. We didn't get a chance to talk much about Connecticut but Alsop and Butterworth know a great deal more about Connecticut than I do, I suppose. I was asked the other day by a Republican what I meant to do about attending the Republican Caucus. We have a-2- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. somewhat complicated Caucus rule in this State and I have been for many years registered as a Republican. I naturally told the inquirer that i didn't expect to attend the Caucus, and personally I do not see how any Third Party man can. So far as I am aware the men who are with us in Connecticut share my view in this respect, but I have heard nobody really express any opinion The matter has just come up. By the way and incidentally, it seems that I was shadowed all day yesterday. Telegrams came to Hartford from New York that I had been seen crossing the City, and later, that I was visiting at Oyster Bay. It is a great joy to me to be an object of so much interest. Please accept my thanks for an exceedingly pleasant visit and present my regards to Mrs. Roosevelt. Very sincerely yours, F. S. Luther L/R1805 Beacon Street, Brookline, Mass. July 20th, 1912 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. [[shorthand]] My dear Colonel:- I am enclosing copy of statement that I intend to make public through the newspapers the early part of the coming week. It will be subject to changes and additions, and if satisfactory to you, of course it would please me very much, and any suggestions that you might desire to make I would gladly welcome. I have had a conference this morning with Colonel E. C. Benton, who has taken out nomination papers as a candidate for Governor. He called upon ex-Lieutenant Governor Frothingham yesterday, and as a report was out that he (Frothingham) was coming out in favor of you, Colonel Benton offered to withdraw in his favor. The report this morning is that Frothingham will not run, and will take no part in the coming campaign. If convenient too you, before making the statement public I will gladly call upon you at Oyster Bay, or at your office in New York, the early part of the week. Yours sincerely, Jeremiah J. McCarthy P.S. I will answer a telegram and go at once[*[7-20-12]*] JEREMIAH J. McCARTHY, FORMER SURVEYOR OF THE PORT OF BOSTON, ISSUES A STATEMENT WITHDRAWING HIS SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT TAFT, AND WILL NOW SUPPORT THEODORE ROOSEVELT. In the Presidential Campaign of 1880 General U.S. Grant saved the day for the Republican party, and wrestled victory from defeat. He said in advocating the election of General James A. Garfield to the presidency, that the Republican party stands for an honest ballot and demands that the ballot be counted as cast. This remark proved the slogan of the campaign, and was echoed and re-echoed from every Republican platform, and by every Republican newspaper throughout the country. With the close of the primary campaign ending with the State of New Jersey on May 28th, it was the universal verdict that Roosevelt had won the nomination by the ballots cast by his countrymen, and as a result would be nominated for President by the National Republican Convention at Chicago. The country was startled, however, later by the report from Washington that President Taft would receive the nomination. Mr. Taft was nominated in dishonor, as a result of a conspiracy which was carried into effect through the machinery of the Republican National Committee, who made up the roll of delegates sufficient to give Mr. Taft the nomination by a bare majority. This action disqualified millions of Republican voters who cast their ballots in the great Republican States for Theodore Roosevelt, and the principal which the Republican party had stood for "An honest ballot and an honest count" was trampled under foot, and Taft was nominated by delegates who were not entitled to their seats, and largely through the influence of delegates from the South, and other sections, who will have no representatives in the Electorial College as a result of the November election. The influence of Roosevelt secured the passage of the present primary law, which was opposed by the Republican bosses and [its] the Taft machine. The Republican State, City and Town Committees were practically unanimous in the primary contest in our State against the nomination-2- of Roosevelt, but he came within three thousand votes of carrying the State in the largest vote ever polled by the Republican Party at a primary. I predict now, in view of the strong feeling that exists, not only among the Roosevelt supporters but among the rank and file of the Republican Party, that he honestly won the nomination [and] that he will sweep the State at the November election and elect with him, if it be decided by his friends to nominate a straight Roosevelt ticket for State offices, Congressmen and members of the Legislature. His cause will be greatly strengthened, and it will be found, after the ballots have been cast in November, that the Roosevelt nominees will have received an overwhelming majority given to them by the mass of the Republican voters and others who believe in fair play, and as General Grant said "An honest ballot and an honest count." Taft will not receive, in my opinion, the electoral vote of any one State in the Union. The contest at this hour is between Wilson and Roosevelt. Roosevelt will receive the great bulk of the Republican votes, and in addition, as a progressive, create such a division in the Democratic party that his election will appear so certain that what remains of the Taft vote will come to him recognizing that a vote for Taft is a vote thrown away. I have given careful thought and consideration to this matter, and was fully informed as to the methods pursued to defeat Roosevelt at Chicago by one who was an eye witness and conversant with the facts, a friend of Roosevelt in this State, who represented his District in Congress for many years, and who is honored by every one who knows him. I therefore [plegde] pledge myself to support Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency under what ever designation or nomination his name may appear on the ballot in the coming election, believing him to be only true Republican nominee.PROGRESSIVE HEADQUARTERS CLUB ROOM 6, CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO July 20, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City My dear Colonel: Subject to such regulations as I have been able to make, the county mass conventions will be open to men of all parties Those voting will be required to sign a pledge intended to eliminate those who are not prepared to go the whole road with us, even in the nomination of a state ticket, if we think it wise to put one up Nevertheless, in some counties it is possible that Taft men or Deneen men may pack the convention, or may attempt to discourage delegates from coming, especially if they live in the extreme Southern end of the state. Therefore, I hope that you may leave New York on August 2nd instead of August 3rd, in order to appear for a few minutes in our convention, which will be held in Chicago on the Saturday before the National Convention. The announcement that you will be here for the State Convention will inspire the people with enthusiasm, and will insure the atten[tion]dance of a full quota of delegates, together with their friends who will stay over and fill the Coliseum with enthusiastic Roosevelt followers. Since Illinois will choose the third largest number of electors, and possibly the second largest number who will be for you, I believe it will be worth your while to be here.#2 to Hon. Theodore Roosevelt I need to tell you that we have had the devil's own time with the several factions, and that inevitably there will be some little bitterness engendered before the state Progressive Convention meets. As i wrote Perkins, we have done fairly well, although we might have done better. Faithfully yours, Medill McCormick MMcC/RRPROGRESSIVE HEADQUARTERS CLUB ROOM 6, CONGRESS HOTEL CHICAGO [*7.*] July 20, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L.I., New York. My dear Colonel: It has occurred to me that in the selection of Chaplains, the Irish element has been wholly overlooked. Personally, I am very fond of Father Vattmann, but I had intended asking a Father Shannon to offer prayer on the second day. I shall ask Father Vattmann to act, unless upon consideration, you telegraph me Monday that you think that Shannon or some other Irishman ought to be asked since a German [as be it] albeit a Lutheran will offer the invocation on Monday. Faithfully yours, Medill McCormick MMcC/RR [[shorthand]][*[7-20-12]*] DAY 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. 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HAVE RECEIVED TELEGRAM FROM COLONEL CONCLUDING QUOTE WE MIGHT NOMINATE A PROGRESSIVE STATE TICKET IN ILLINOIS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM WITH IF POSSIBLE BOTH DEMOCRATICS AND EXREPUBLICANS ON IT DIXON WILL BE IN CHICAGO SUNDAY MORNING UNQUOTE. ASSUME THAT MIGHT SHOULD READ MUST PLEASE TELEGRAPH ME IMMEDIATELY IF I AM RIGHT. MEDILL McCORMICK........221PM[*[7-20-12]*] DAY 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. 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[*9*] 51 Blue NX Chicago 20 Frank Harper Esq Have received telegraph from Colonel concluding quote we might nominate a progressive state ticket in Illinois from top to bottom with if possible ex-democratic and ex-republicans of it Dixon will be in Chicago Sunday morning unquote assume assume that night should nod must please telegraph me immediately if I am right Medill McCormackThe VANDERBILT hotel CABLE ADDRESS "HILLHILT,NEW YORK" TELEPHONE MADISON SQUARE, 9000 Thirty Fourth Street EAST at Park Avenue New York [[shorthand]] [*23.*] July 20, 1912 Dear Colonel Roosevelt:— I neglected to hand you to-day a copy of an article I am contributing to a symposium to be published in the Boston Sunday Globe of July 28. The article was hurriedly written together by me before taking train from Boston. I send it to you simply in the hope that you will appropriate one phrase of it— Fagin of privilege—and make use of the idea in describing that class of lawyer whose service as well as conscience is for sale to crooked bigCABLE ADDRESS “HILLBILT, NEWYORK” The VANDERBILT Hotel Thirty Fourth Street EAST at Park Avenue New York TELEPHONE MADISON SQUARE 9000 business. Assuring you I enjoyed every moment at your luncheon, and wishing that you would extend my grateful thanks to Mrs. Roosevelt for her hospitality I am Cordially yours, James P. Magenis Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay N.Y.July 20, 1912 [[shorthand]] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. My dear Sir: Dr. Shaw asked me to send you a copy of a letter he is sending to Mr. Perkins to-day about the proposed meeting between you and Senator Cummins, which will explain itself. Dr. Shaw is also sending down to you advance sheets of his August Review editorial comment on the political situation, which he thought might interest you. This Arbitration Board matter is absorbing his entire attention now, but when that is over he hopes to get an opportunity to see you. Very truly yours, Wm. Menkel Sec'yHARRY DOWIE President J. E. BEYER 1st Vice-Pres. FRED S. MEAD 2nd Vice-Pres. W. F. PRIEBE 3rd Vice-Pres. HUGO JOSEPHY Treasurer CHAS. E. McNEILL Secretary National Poultry, Butter and Egg Association (INCORPORATED) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HARRY DOWIE J. E. BEYER FRED S. MEAD W. F. PRIEBE GEORGE G. BROWN HUGO JOSEPHY H. T. POND ROBT. B. LEHMAN J. A. LONG CHAS. E. McNEILL COUNSEL TO THE ASSOCIATION Winslow, Shelp & Broomell DIRECTORS HARRY DOWIE HUGO JOSEPHY GEORGE G. BROWN S. TUDOR JESSIE J. NAIVE FRANK G. URNER H. T. POND I. V. EDGERTON A. R. LOOMIS HENRY BROWNELL OFFICE OF J. B. MITCHELL CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 221 W. SOUTH WATER STREET CHICAGO July 20, 1912. July 20, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, c/o "The Outlook" New York, N.Y. [*17.*] Dear Sir: I enclose herewith a copy of a report by an investigating committee appointed by the Chicago Association of Commerce to look into the matter of cold storage. As an economist and a conservationist I am sure if you can find time to give it your attention you will be deeply interested. This report does not cover the whole field, but it is an excellent work, coming as it does from a body of men whose knowledge of this all important industry amounted, at the outset of their labors, to the usual prejudices entertained by an uninformed public, and colored by adverse comment from an untruthful and sensational press. For the benefit of both producer and consumer: THE COLD STORAGE: This means of conserving the Nations most important food products, needs encouragement and government protection rather than persecution at the hands of misguided Legislators seeking cheap notoriety.HARRY DOWIE President J. E. BEYER 1st Vice-Pres. FRED S. MEAD 2nd Vice-Pres. W. F. PRIEBE 3rd Vice-Pres. HUGO JOSEPHY Treasurer CHAS. E. McNEILL Secretary National Poultry, Butter and Egg Association (INCORPORATED) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HARRY DOWIE J. E. BEYER FRED S. MEAD W. F. PRIEBE GEORGE G. BROWN HUGO JOSEPHY H. T. POND ROBT. B. LEHMAN J. A. LONG CHAS. E. McNEILL COUNSEL TO THE ASSOCIATION Winslow, Shelp & Broomell DIRECTORS HARRY DOWIE HUGO JOSEPHY GEORGE G. BROWN S. TUDOR JESSIE J. NAIVE FRANK G. URNER H. T. POND I. V. EDGERTON A. R. LOOMIS HENRY BROWNELL OFFICE OF J. B. MITCHELL CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 221 W. SOUTH WATER STREET CHICAGO July 20, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt...#2. I submit this report for your consideration and with the feeling that at some time in the future your influence may be asked on the side of right where cold storage legislation is concerned. Yours very truly, J. B. Mitchell CBE.V.D. MORRIS, M.D.D.D.S. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON RESIDENCE, 227 W. MAIN ST. BOTH PHONES 362. OFFICE 66 N. PRAIRIE STREET HOURS 2 TO 4 AND 7 TO 8 P.M. PHONES NEW 363 OLD 361 GALESBURG, ILL., July 20 12 [*10.*] National Progressive Party Gentlemen I enclose check for $1000. On cost of heavy expense in harvest I need all I can get hold of just now. On[e] Sept 1st I will give you, at least enough to make it a 50th Best wishes for success EVO Morris P.S. I make check to order of Theod Roosevelt as I am not sure of the name.Winfield, Kansas July 20 1912 [*23*] Hon Henry J. Allen Wichita Kan Dear Sir: Last Tuesday night at the Winfield Chautauqua you gave Roosevelt credit for the Passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. The next day however, Dr. Wiley asserted that Roosevelt did not assist either in the enactment or enforcement of the measure. I am asking upon what authority you have your statement. I ask it not in a spirit of contention - I am writing for a number of Progressive who, in making their decision between Roosevelt and Wilson, desire to have the best attainable evidence from both sides on this and other important matters, in order that they may judge aright. Very Respectfully Walter E. Myer Winfield Kansas RFD #3National Progressive Headquarters MANHATTAN HOTEL NEW YORK July 20th, 1912. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear cousin Theodore:-- I repeated your memorandum to Shaw and Van Valkenberg. Van Valkenberg said that Senator Cummings undoubtedly expected an invitation directly from you and he wished you to know that he considered the matter of importance. From what you said last night, of course. I know how you feel and I simply write this so that you [might] may get his message. Sincerely yours, George Emlen Roosevelt GER/DCopy July 20 1912 Dear Mr. Perkins: Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, while sitting as a member of the Arbitration Board in the matter of the Eastern Railroads and the Locomotive Engineers out at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, I was called into the telephone booth by Senator Dixon. He informed me that a conference between Col. Roosevelt and Senator Cummins had been arranged, and that it would probably occur Sunday afternoon. He stated that the desire had been expressed that either Mr. Van Valkenburg or I should be present at the conference. He said that Van Valkenburg or I should be present at the conference. He said that Van Valkenburg could not come over for to-morrow ( Sunday), on account of engagements in Philadelphia, and asked if I could be on hand. I explained that I could easily arrange it for Sunday if that time should finally be agreed on by the Colonel and the Senator. Mr. Dixon said that he would have to do some further telephoning, and that I could obtain information from you or O.K. Davis later yesterday afternoon (Dixon himself leaving for the West at 5 o'clock). Accordingly I got Davis on the 'phone at 6 o'clock, who explained that matters were not yet arranged and that information would telephoned to my office tis morning. When I came down to the office I found that a message had come from Col. Roosevelt through Mr. Geo. E. Roosevelt, which had been written down as follows:-2- "Mr. Roosevelt will be glad to do as Mr. Van Valkenburg suggests, and see Senator Cummins either with Van. Valkenburg or with Dr. Shaw on next Tuesday. He will see them at the Aldine Club a Lunch at 1:15 or at the Outlook office before or after the lunch. On any other day he will see them at Oyster Bay by preference. Let them come out in an auto to lunch. But Col. Roosevelt thinks that they should know that Cummins is all wrong about the anti-trust law, and [that] while Col. Roosevelt will be most friendly, he cannot, of course, abandon his attitude on the anti-trust law." It happens that I shall be absolutely tied up in the hearings of the Arbitration Board through the entire week to come, and the distance from Manhattan Beach to New York is so great that I cannot get away even at the lunch hour. I have known nothing about the plans for conference with Senator Cummins excepting what Senator Dixon telephoned me yesterday at the same time I spoke with you over the 'phone. Of course I would be very glad to be present or to be of any service in any possible way; but I need not explain that this Arbitration Board requires the presence of every member through all the sessions. I should think it probable that Mr. Van Valkenburg could run over for the proposed Tuesday lunch. I am writing this whole matter our in this way because the message conveyed through Mr. George Roosevelt gave my secretary the impression that I was thought to be taking some initial part in the arrangements for the conference. I am sure that you understand the whole matter and will see that it i suitably arranged from headquarters at the Manhattan Hotel. As ever, Faithfully yours, Signed by ALBERT SHAW[*[7-20-12]*] Form 168 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS message only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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SISSON, JR. POTSDAM SECRETARY, A.E. BROWN, BATAVIA TREASURER, HARRY B. WINTERS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Vice-Presidents J. J. DILLON, NEW YORK EZRA TUTTLE, EASTPORT GILBERT M. TUCKER, ALBANY C. FRED BOSHART, LOWVILLE W. R. SMITH, SYRACUSE O. U. KELLOGG, CORTLAND W. C.BARRY, ROCHESTER CLARK ALLIE, MEDINA DR. G. H. DAVIDSON, MILLBROOK New York State Agricultural Society Executive Committee E. VAN ALSYNE, KINDERHOOK A. R. EASTMAN, WATERVILLE A. DENNISTON, WASHINGTONVILLE F. W. SESSIONS, UTICA T. B. WILSON, HALL W. W. WARE, BATAVIA E. H. CHAPMAN, ALBANY E. W. CATCHPOLE, NORTH ROSE [*6.*] Potsdam, N.Y. July 20, 1912. [[shothand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- Your kind letter of the 18th with invitation to lunch with you today has just been received, and of course too late to keep the appointment, when i would have been a pleasure and honor to accept. I have wired you in explanation of my non-appearance, and also stating that I would be in New York the coming week. I shall be very pleased if you can find the time to have an interview with me. Yours very truly, Geo. W. Sisson, Jr. GWS Jr/RD.WILLIAM WINTHROP TAYLOR COUNSELOR AT LAW 63 WALL STREET NEW YORK July 20, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Office of the Outlook, 4th Avenue & 22nd Street, New York City. Dear Sir:- May I offer for what they may be worth a few suggestions as to what to me appear to be the chief issues now before the Country for the true solution of which a great many are hopefully looking to the new party. First and apparently most important is the economic issue, the question of the more equitable distribution of wealth popularly and somewhat inversely alluded to as "the high cost of living." As to its causes, I cannot agree with the democratic party and its admirable candidate that high tariff duties are the chief if not sole reason for our disturbed economic conditions, the most acute symptom of which is the present high cost of living. The question would seem to be much more complex and the result of both natural and artificial factors. The standard of living of the average American has undoubtedly permanently risen and this, by reason of the operation of the simple law of supply and demand, has naturally cost more money. On the other hand there are undoubtedly causes that have artificially contributed to the increased living cost which is affecting so vitally the great multitude of our people. What then are these artificial causes?T.R. -2- July 20, 1912. (1) The high and in many cases altogether unnecessary tariff duties not only on the elementary life necessities such as food stuffs and clothing but upon those general commodities so extensively used that they enter into and directly affect the prices of the life necessities. The present tariff duties are without doubt unnecessarily restricting healthful competition and limiting supply. The remedy is obvious. There should be substantial reductions taking care, however, to conserve our industries so that business can be done on a reasonably profitable basis. Care should not be taken, however, to protect excessive profits which apparently is now being done. The principle of an expert tariff commission to adjust duties from time to time as the occasion arises is unassailable but it would seem highly important to establish a sound general theory or philosophy of tariff action. The standard of living of the American working man is gradually rising and it is more important that he should be enabled through the receipt of higher wages to send his children to school and live generally a fuller life than to decrease the cost of bread a few cents and at the same time cut off his opportunities for a larger and more genial living. The problem then is to reduce duties so as to induce healthful foreign competition and increased supply but not to reduce to an extent which will affect real prosperity-prosperity, however, to be defined in the terms of the wage earner and not in those of the taker of excessive profits. With a few exceptions, theT.R. -3- July 20, 1912. problem of adjusting specific duties should best be left to an expert tariff board. (2) The s-called trusts or rather the abuses of the so-called trusts are undoubtedly another cause of our disturbed economic conditions. These large combinations created not only under tariff protection but through natural economic laws have resulted in many cases in unreasonable monopoly profits and in waste and extravagance both in the methods of their combinations (Fictitious stock valuations upon which dividends and taxes are paid) and their present industrial and financial operation. How then should the so-called trust problem be attacked with a view to the prevention of waste, the taking of excessive profits and the securing of a proper service for a reasonable return? I believe with you, sir, that the answer lies in the extension of the Federal governmental power expressed in the commission or bureaucratic ideas so as to bring within government supervision and control the manufacture and sale of those commodities extensively entering into the common economic life of the people such as coal, steel, wool, meat, etc. where conditions as to the production and cost of such necessities demand positive relief, i.e., generally where there is permanent socalled trust control and real competition has been eliminated. All this with a view to the establishing of maximum prices allowing for reasonable profits, such prices to be based on the standardized production cost of standardized articles and so far as possible the valuation of actual property capital invested. In other words, this means an extension of the positive constructiveT.R. -4- July 20, 1912. policy of control and regulation such as we already have in regard to interstate transportation and as to state public utility corporations dealing in gas, electricity, municipal street transportation, etc. I note by this morning's Press that the report of the Stanley committee declares against this principle, pronouncing it as "semi-socialistic." As part of and supplemental to the trust program is the general policy of conservation of our natural resources. To prevent in the future the possibility of monopoly profits in public commodities and the increasing of our present difficulties, our natural resources still undisposed of, should be rigidly conserved for the benefit of the general public. Legislation providing for leasehold systems such as advocated by Mr. Pinchot should be advocated. In all events, the Government should absolutely retain title and practical control of its forests, coal lands, water powers, phosphate beds, harbors. etc., so that the people as a whole will in effect share in the profits accruing with the operating individual or corporation. As further supplemental to this trust problem, I think there should be advocated a common sense enforcement of the Sherman Law to punish criminally wicked practices of oppression, fraud, and immoral competition but that the law should be amended so as to make legal all fair and legitimate combination under the supervision, however, of a commission or bureau as above. (3) A third cause is the high and unnecessaryT.R. -5- July 20, 1912. cost of delivery or transportation of necessities and merchandise from the producer to the consumer; the profits taken by the express companies stand out as a conspicuous item of this toll. In order to help remedy this condition there should be advocated the immediate establishment of a comprehensive parcels post system. (4) The repeated profits taken by middlemen who, in many cases, perform a service easily dispensed with; this includes not only those who are legitimately engaged in business as middlemen but also those who from time to time "corner" the market on articles of food and manipulate prices through the wrongful use of cold storage and the control of trade exchanges. The establishment of a parcel post should help to remedy this condition; also the enforcement of comprehensive laws punishing criminally the cornering of markets and the manipulation of the prices of articles of food by the commission men. The real answer, of course, seems to lie in the establishment of co-operative systems among producers with a view to marketing their goods in common so eliminating the unnecessary middle profits. (5) The periodical financial panics which we have from time to time and which result in such tremendous sudden loss and the complete breaking down of the economic fabric are undoubtedly another cause; aside from the unelasticity of our currency, these panics seem to be largely caused through the evils of speculation and gambling on the big central stockT.R. -6- July 20, 1912. exchanges. Undoubtedly, we should have new monetary legislation rendering our currency more elastic and our credit system capable of receiving shocks. Panics, however, are but a manifestation and it would seem that the great evil of stock gambling and the systematic taking of the foolish public's money (which in turn affects us all) might in some way be reached and remedied through the Federal control of national banks. (6) The neglect of scientific and extensive farming. It is undoubtedly another cause of the high cost of living. The demand for agricultural products has been steadily increasing. Our farmers, however, have not been getting adequate returns for their labor nor have they efficiently and economically used their natural resources. Generous appropriations should be made to establish experimental stations and to spread sound farming education. The farmer should be encouraged by the Government in every way possible. The present head of the Department of Agriculture has apparently outlived his usefulness and an extraordinary able man should be placed at the head of the Department, such as Dean Bailey of Cornell University whom you, sir, appointed chairman of your Country Life Commission. The second big question confronting us is broadly social and in many of is phases intimately connected with the economic issue. It is, as so well phrased by you, sir, the question of securing social and industrial justice to theT.R. -7- July 20, 1912. millions of Americans whose lives are cast along the lines of hard and dangerous toil. This brings into the field of discussion all the purpose of modern scientific philanthropy and the so-called socialistic measures looking to the amelioration of labor conditions. I believe that the new party should proclaim the principle that one of the chief ends of government is the securing for the multitude of its people of better living and working conditions through scientific legislation and that this work should not be left solely to private benevolence and individual endeavor as has largely been the case. Generally, I think that the new party should advocate legislation both federal and by various States establishing (1) uniform and reasonable hours of labor where the conditions of particular industries (4) automatic compensation for injuries suffered by working men in the course of employment where the risk is a necessary incident of the industry; (5) commissions to fix minimum wage scales where after thorough investigation, the conditions of a particular industry so demand. No less important is the insistence by the Government on proper living or home as well as labor conditions. This includes the matters of proper housing and the treatment of the sick but honest poor. There should, I think, be established a national bureau of health to wage war on the great diseasesT.R. -8- July 20, 1912. and to carry on educational campaigns co-operating with the excellent work already being done along these lines, notably in New York State. The matter of the food of the multitudes is, of course, highly important and in this respect our pure food laws should be strengthened and rigidly enforced. The third and perhaps most pressingly important issue is the political issue - "shall the people rule?" This question is after all the most important for upon its answer must depend the securing of all the reformative measures advocated. The machinery of our government is out of date ad we must change and simplify it. As a people, we have been too prone to glorify our forms of government and make fetiches of our constitutions. We are now beginning to realize that a constitution and government are but means to an end and that when they fail to be effective as such, they should be changed and not supported for their own theoretical and historical sake. We have discovered that this machinery is in many respects too complex and not sufficiently sensitive to proper control; because of this very cumbersomeness of the present government machine, we have lost control of it and the problem now is to reclaim the control of government from the few who have undoubtedly been using it to their own private ends. This, indeed, I take it, is the immediate cause of the new party. We have got to get rid of the bread and butter politician as a controlling factor in legislation and in order to permanentlyT.R. -9- July 20, 1912. rid ourselves of him and of his overlord, the corrupt business influence, we must through legislation affectuate a new system of political operation whereunder the people will have at the very start at least an equal chance to defeat the out and out politician. The most effective instrument to bring about this condition has undoubtedly been the direct primary. As also instrumental along this line are the presidential primaries, the direct election of United States Senators, the publication of campaign contributions before elections, the Massachusetts ballot, the recall, the initiative and the referendum. I further think that the so called recall of judicial decisions is an entirely proper, legitimate and even conservative method of rendering more easy the obtaining of necessary social and industrial legislation in those cases and State where the Courts fail to keep abreast of the times and persist in regarding the law as so much precedent and not as a progressive science. The same end is now served through various amendments to our State constitutions which, however, is always a tedious and often dangerous method. I apologize for the tiresome length of the foregoing and am conscious of the fact that what I have written is after all but a poor paraphrasing of what you, sir, sociably, and others have been advocating for some time. I speak, however, as a matter of self-relief for it seems to me that upon those who have had some training, however, slight, is placed a duty of speaking and doing, no matter how tritely or ineffectively - of how, otherwise,T.R. -10- July 20, 1912. are our problems to be solved? I address this communication to you, sir, as the effective leader of a movement which, while it may not win the election, will undoubtedly prove a vital force for progressive government, and which holds positive promise of substantial achievement. I am, sir, Most respectfully, W. W. Taylor T/HForm 1671 [*[7-20-12]*] THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 25,000 OFFICE IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGERS _ RECEIVER'S No. TIME FILED CHECK 10 Ny 7 11 48 a 16 SEND the following message subject to the terms} on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Oh Oriental Hotel July 20 Manhattan Beach Ny 20 TO Col Theo Roosevelt Oyster Bay Am pleased to lunch with you tomorrow sunday arrive Oyster Bay train leaving Brooklyn eleven twenty one Charles R. Van HizeOFFICE OF W. A. WADSWORTH GENESEO N. Y. July 20, 1912 [*8*] Dear Theodore I received a telegram from you (or your office) yesterday asking me to act as chairman of the Progressive County Committee. Under other circumstances I would be delighted to do so, but I really cannot just now for I am hardly able to keep up with my regular work, as it is. You may think I belong to a "privileged class" but I am really handling a very large business. I have not only aOffice of W. A.Wadsworth 2 Geneseo N. Y. very large estate, but besides that [2] specialities of $75000 fruit farms and $50000 cattle farms, and my chief clerk is over seventy and my cattleman sick. I am not at all well myself and I am expecting to go on a camping trip with a doctor shortly to see if I cannot bring myself up to par. Besides I have never been "in politics" and the detail would be new and exacting. If I can help as an individual even into "going down into my jeans"Office of W. A. Wadsworth 3 Geneseo N. Y. I w'd do so but the other thing is impossible just now. D. G. is flying around full of youth and enthusiasm but I don't think he has quite got in touch with the natives Henry Curtis who has been spoken of would I think be a good man. Yrs W A Wadsworth There is a lot of feeling here against the machine but we want to crystalize our aims into a short pithy formula W.SOMMER, COLBY & WHITING LAW OFFICES 738 BROAD STREET NEWARK, N.J. FRANK H. SOMMER EVERETT COLBY BORDEN D. WHITING CHARLES L. WILLIAMS EDWARD O. STANLEY, JR. ERNEST L. QUACKENBUSH '[*11.*] July 20th, 1912. [[shorthand]] Attention of Mr. Harper. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir:- Captain Ira Harris, formerly Supervisor and Inspector of Steam Boats, Second District, under your appointment, called to see me through instructions from you. I have put Captain Harris in touch with our County Chairman in his County, but he has in mind working amongst sea faring men, who are not confined to Jersey residence. After conferences with various gentlemen in his profession, the enclosed draft has been submitted for consideration by the Committee on resolutions which may be chosen to prepare the Progressive Platform, and in the short time available, Captain Harris has secured endorsements from officials in marine organizations, which I have attached to his proposed plank, and enclose herewith. If my own impression is of importance, i would state that, after an extended talk with Captain Harris, I am convinced that he and his friends can be helpful in the coming campaign, and that a marine plank in the platform, along the lines suggested, would be advisable if there is room for it. I have enclosed in brackets the phrase which it would seem to me, at this particular juncture, unwise to insert. Respectfully yours, Borden D. Whiting (Enc.) BDW/ADPForm 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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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 [*[7-20-12?]*] [[shorthand]] RECIEVED AT 10 NY WN 214 NL 4 ex Springfield Ill July 20-21 Col Theo. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay NY.. Dr. Jno doyle one of the members who represented the Roosevelt club of Sangamen County in the meeting in Chicago to call a progressive party convention will be in New York next Monday on business. The Roosevelt Club have asked him to call on you and give you an account of the Chicago motion and the situation in Sangamen County Springfield and the state. Since the doctor left we have learned that Representatives of the Republican Press that Deneen assembled in Springfield last Tuesday and passed a resolution against a third or Progressive State Ticket were all what may be termed the Deneen Patronage press call on the Governor afterwards and he inquired of each one separately concerning the sentiment in their locality and every one reported it as very strong for you. He asked if it could be changed and they said they thought not. He is reported to have asked most of them individually to try. It is necessary under the primary law to have at least one state candidate preferably the Governor to give us any standing as a party in the next state primaries. A party is not recognized by law unit it casts two percent of the total vote for a candidate for a state office. H. W. Wilson, V. P. Roosevelt Club..... 905-aEnc in Grey 7-20-12[*7/20/12 Record-Herald Chicago-*] "BOLTER" DEALS BLOW TO ROOSEVELT PARTY George B. Weimer, Mayor of San Jose, Withdraws From Movement. SUPPORT OF DENEEN CAUSE Declares New Organization Will Die Soon Unless Change Is Made. Roosevelt men of Illinois were dealt a blow yesterday by another "bolter." The latest to disclaim the new party is George B. Weimer, Mayor of San Jose, who represented the twentieth congressional district at the party conference when the call for a state convention was issued. He asked that his name be erased from that document. Mr. Weimer, like Charles E. Merriam, Dr. John Doyle, John Simon and Fred S. Wilbur, the other members of the provisional committee who "bolted," assigns as his reason that the Roosevelt propaganda isn't a genuine progressive movement. He says that were it bona fide an entire state ticket would have been placed in the field. WITHDRAWS BY LETTER. In an open letter to J. Medill McCormick withdrawing from the "Bull Moose" party, Mr. Weimer said: I request that you omit my name from the call for the third party state convention which is to convene in Chicago Aug 3. next. I represented the twentieth congressional district in the conference and was for the Richberg amendment which provided for a full state ticket. I do not care to be party to any third party movement unless it be a real, progressive third party, one which would appeal to democrats as well as Republicans. This you cannot do unless a full third party state ticket be placed in the field. It would be inconsistent for any man, Democrat or Republican, to join a new third party and support national nominees and then ask support for the nominees in the state who had been named by the old party. PREDICTS EARLY DEATH. Progressives should decide for them- selves just what course they would pursue in this state and if we let the Deneen job holders and chief lieutenants of the old party dictate as to our future policies then the third party movement will surely die in its infancy. Governor Deneen has had ample time in which to decide his course in relation to the new third party; his action at the Republican national convention has fully demonstrated his attitude toward Roosevelt. The people cannot be fooled with imitations they want real true, progressive principles more than the man and will not consent to any deals or bargains with the old party chieftains in order to win recognition. They are not ready to sacrifice party regularity for expediency under any conditions unless genuine. As I have stated I should like an opportunity to fight the battle for real progressive principles, but cannot do so unless a full state ticket be placed in the running. GEORGE B. WEIMER. SPRAGUE IS FOR TAFT. A. A. Sprague, whose name was announced as a member of the local committee on arrangements for the "bull moose" national convention, in a telegram last night to THE RECORD-HERALD from St. Paul denied he favored the third party movement. "I am a Republican and for Taft," he declared in his messages. MERRIAM MEN DEFER ACTION. The Progressive Republic League—the Merriam-Jones organization—held a meeting yesterday and decided to delay action upon the programme as announced by the Rooseveltians until after Governor Deneen has said where he stands regarding the Roosevelt candidacy. This answer will be given at 10 o'clock Monday morning, when the committee of five headed by Mr. McCormick meets with the state executive in Springfield. The league will hold another meeting Tuesday night at the City Club and talk over matters. Yesterday's session was secret. "We decided to await Governor Deneen's answer." Harold L. Ickes said after the meeting. "We think the conference and the committee of five are playing into the governor's hands, but we want to be assured of that before we take that action." PLAN FOR WARD MEETINGS. Organization work—particularly in Cook County—occupied the attention of the third party leaders at the progressive headquarters, Congress Hotel, yesterday. No choice of a hall for the state convention has yet been made, but scouts were out looking after one and also planning for the ward meetings next Saturday, when delegates to the state convention will be elected. John F. Bass, who is handling the Cook County organization work, said every ward would have its own say in electing delegates. All those who participate in the ward meetings must subscribe to support the nominees of the state and national conventions as an evidence of loyalty. Charles D. Davidson of Gary has been appointed county chairman of the new party in Lake County, Indiana. He was named yesterday by District Chairman G. R. Coffin.Travis Club SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS July 21 - 1912 Mr Theodore Roosevelt, Care of "Outlook". New York. My dear Sir:- I have just read your analysis of "Mr Tafts Majority" in the Outlook under date of July 6. Now I am a[n] loyal Republican or rather have been & the present situation is very perplexing to me. I have been living in Texas for six years but am a New England Yankee. Now what gets me is this. ie. there is no state in the Union where [is] Boss rule is so glaringly, boldly, and insultingly in force as here in Texas. What few Republicans there are of us here have absolutely no voice in political matters. Lyon has been absolutely dictator & was even whenTravis Club San Antonio, Texas you were president. We know down here what kind of a man he is & we know the kind of man he has put in federal positions here, & you backed him up all thru your administration. Now I have absolutely no use for Mr. Taft & will not vote for him under any circumstances, & it was a disgrace the way he stole the convention, but on the other hand everything Taft & his worst bosses did, Lyon did [ju] & has done here in Texas [here] for you & you accept his efforts. Now what is a poor fellow to do?? To be frank, I can't see where your methods differ from Mr. Tafts. There are twenty five Republicans in this city that are in the same confusion of mind that I am. Can you clear this up for us? I voted for you once, I would like to again, if you can clear up some of these difficulties. Very Sincerely A. S. Lascomb P. O. Box 942Batavia, N. Y. R. Nov. . July 21. 1912 My dear patient Roosevelt-- It's just one step at a time I have taken. It has seemed to my husband that I wa making a darn fool of myself, but my if he only could have known that I was perfectly willing to be a fool if he only could get wisdom thereby and not suffer the anguish I have suffered not for myself but for everyone who has yet to go over the road and who may not see the land. I promise beyond the vale of tears. There is nothing to fear. There is no need of anguish and tears. It is simply trusting and obeying, taking the one step at a time without complaining. Being and doing our best. Your love and patience have been a guiding star and may they continue to be so to those who have yet to cross the narrow sea. My meek, imperfect life on earth is done. My Lord is so good to me. How can I ever praise Him enough for His love and His goodness. My hopes have ever been to be a helpful companion to a wise, good man, and to lose my own life in him; to help him see what is to be seen and to do what is to be done. My hopes are about to be realized. It is with no regrets I take the step, as I have the assurance that in a little while all the faithful once will realize their fondest hopes, too, and we shall all be one happy family. My husband is happy. He has no regrets at my going and it's just as I would have it be. Yours lovingly and obediently Alice G. FolgerCOPY Los Angeles, July 21, 1912. Mr. Meyer Lissner, Los Angeles Cal. Dear Mr. Lissner: Here is a plank for the National Progressive platform, the adoption of which I believe will make Theodore Roosevelt the next president of the United States: The United States should no longer lag behind the other great nations in the improvement of its waterways; and our destiny as a leader in the progress of the world demands in this, asin other matters, that we abandon the timid, halting and ineffective policies of the reactionary parties. The harbors of our three coasts should without delay be placed in condition to accomodate their share of the traffic of the Panama Canal. The channels of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers should be permanently deppened and protected; their upper waters connected by ship canals with the Great Lakes, and their tributaries fully utilized as carriers of our internal commerce. The problem of improving the Missour River should be courageously attached, and all the resources of modern engineering employed in its practical solution. Every stream in the country that is susceptible of being canalized or otherwise made navigable should be included in a comprehensive plan of waterways development. Most of this work is national in aim and scope; and in its execution the resources and credit of the national government should be unhesitatingly employed. The resolute and far-seeing statemansship which, after a century of futile proposals , gave us, by one bold stroke, our great isthmian canal, may be relied upon to carry to success this progressive program of national development and conservation. I wish you would call Colonel Roosevelt's attention to this subject. I believe it will appeal to him as the best possible method of uniting every section of the country and every class of citizens, including the rapidly growing socialistic element, for real progress. Very truly yours, (Signed) John J. Hamilton.Encl in Lissner 11-24-1250 Richelieu Terrace Newark, N.J. 7/21/12. [*T*] Col. Roosevelt Dr. Sir On the 15th I sent to you to the Outlook office an article of over 20 pages. I sent it by registered mail but failed to demand an answer. The article I believe would more then interest you, if so you were granted the right to publish it. Now here comes the strange part of itwith the article I sent a short note saying if the article did not interest you to kindly return same. I sent inclosed postage for return mail. The article has not been published It has not been returned, nor have I heard in reference to it. I still hold the register receipt. Kindly inform me if you received the above mentioned articleResp. Frank Hotchkin 50 Richelieu Terrace Newark, N.J.[*[7-21-12?]*] Form 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 message only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Night Letter. 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Roosevelt, Am counting with great pleasure on seconding nomination at Chicago we will have complete and enthusiastic delegation from Colorado reports from over state tremendously encouraging sentiment among people almost unanimous in favor of straight out progressive party am hoping yet to dissuade Stewart from mistaken course complete account of situation in my letter should reach you Monday if you have time would consider it favor if you will read my complete statement Ben B LINDSEYDR. A. E. SCHEBLE TOLEDO, OHIO Toledo O July 21-12 Hon Theodore Roosevelt New York Dear Sir: Many of us here - I have been a Dem - await with deep interest some authoritative information respecting the New Party. To be successful decisive action must be taken at once, by men in whom people have confidence. Garfield is all right but if you depend on Wallie Brown you may well exclaim as did Charles I of England when making his last appearance. "Put not your trust in princes nor any son of man, for in them is no salvation." Considerately, A. E. SchebleForm 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 messages 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 RECEIVED AT 7/21/12 [[shorthand]] OysterBay 24 mc 52 N. L. 2ex Boone Iowa 21. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay Do you advise nominating state ticket not withstanding state tprimary. Do you advise action on Aldrich monitary bill. present intention is nominate thirteen electors and say nothing about state ticket leaving voters in counties and districts free to put candidates on ticket by petition this only way left under law John L. Stevens, provisional committeman 1 0:18 P.M. [*add*]STEVENS, FRY & STEVENS ATTORNEYS AT LAW BOONE NATIONAL BLDG. BOONE, IOWA J. L. STEVENS H. E. FRY J. E. STEVENS [*10.*] July 21, 1912 [*Personal*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I dislike to write this letter but have promised to do so. Uncle Henry Wallace, of the Wallace Farmer, requested me to warn you against Mr. Pierce, the editor of the Homestead. Prof. P. H. Holden has also requested me to do likewise. Mr. Pierce says he is anxious to do everything possible to promote your interests and desires neither position nor notoriety and is perfectly willing that we confer any distinction or honor upon Mr. Wallace and that it will make no difference with his position. Each one has spoken to me confidentially in the above matter. This all comes from a long bitter feud between Mr. Wallace and Mr. Pierce, the details of which are unnecessary. The point, as you will observe, is to avoid making Mr. Pierce your representative in any manner. One word about the telegram sent you by me requesting an answer to Mr. Pierce's telegram. When I sent it I was not aware that Mr. Pierce charged Mr. Wallace and the editors of the Register and Leader with circulating the charge that you prevented the nomination of Mr. Cummins. It would make no difference to me whether you had or not as I fully agree with you that no honest man should accept a nomination from a convention controlled by fraudulent votes. I enclose an editorial from Wallace's Farmer. Uncle Henry assures me that he is for you. I tendered him the chairmanship of the convention and he declined it and said that he had more influence if he kept out of the convention. I think you will have the support of Wallace's Farmer and you already haveSTEVENS, FRY & STEVENS ATTORNEY AT LAW BOONE NATIONAL BLDG. BOONE, IOWA J. L. STEVENS H. E. FRY J. E. STEVENS -2- the very earnest support of the Homestead, Mr. Pierce's paper. It is reported that Mr. Pierce is about to start a daily paper in Des Moines. I do not know whether it is true or not, but as he has the means to do so, it is creating considerable anxiety in the minds of the Register and Leader people and the Wallace's Farmer. I hear good reports from many of our county conventions yesterday and enclose an editorial by one of our country editors, which, considering the fact that he was for many years a Standpat editor, I think is pretty good. He is usually quite accurate in his figures and estimate of results. With kindest regards and best wishes, I am Yours truly, J. L. Stevens J.L.S./MSNY Times July 21/12 VOL. LXI...NO. 19,902. VISIT TO ROOSEVELT CASTS DOWN LEADERS Jerseymen Go Away Moody and the Colonel Again Declares Against Compromise. HE IGNORES DISSENSIONS But Evidence Accumulates That Harmony is Lacking—Poor Chance in New England. Special to The New York Times. OYSTER BAY, N.Y., July 20.—Developments to-day served rather to broaden than heal over what seems here to be the impending break in the third party. Leaders from New Jersey and the New England States, who came to Sagamore Hill, went away in no pleasant mood, and when Col. Roosevelt was seen later he was aggressive. He was asked if any course had been decided upon to relieve the situation in the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and he clung to his ultimatum that he would sanction no compromise of any kind. "The plan of action will be left to the States themselves," said he, "but as I have said, I will not sanction any arrangements which will let Roosevelt and Taft electors go before the people and have the popular vote decide for whom they shall cast their ballots." To this he added that he would also oppose the indorsement of any State candidate of another party where the State candidate was not heart and soul with the Progressive cause. He was asked flatly if he would say anything about the reports of a branch among the leaders of the party and replied: "You who were with me in Chicago know how much truth there is in that." Despite, Col. Roosevelt's cheerful view it was apparent from what his visitors said that he heard little from them encouraging him. George L. Record, one of the New Jersey leaders, admitted that all was not going on peacefully within the third party. "I am in favor of making the fight at the primaries and placing Roosevelt electors on the Republican ticket," said Record. "Some of the others believe, in fact the consensus seems to be, that it should be made a straight third party movement. "I don't see the use of throwing away the chance to win." Charles H. Thompson, who has been selected by Senator Dixon, the Roosevelt campaign manager, to lead the fight in the New England States, and who made no effort tho hide the fact that he looks upon it as a pretty hopeless battle, was asked if he counted on any of the New England States. "No," said he, but he added that some of the other leaders in New England were more hopeful. Not a leader from Pennsylvania or Maryland, where the situation which threatens the open break first came up, was near Sagamore Hill to-day. Col. Roosevelt received Herbert Knox Smith, who resigned as head of the Bureau of Corporations to aid the Colonel in his fight, and Prof. Charles McCarthy of Wisconsin University, who wanted to take over economic subjects with him. Mr. Record arrived at Oyster Bay on an early train, and before he went to Sagamore Hill seemed willing enough to talk of New Jersey politics as they relate to the progressives. It would be easy to carry the primaries there for Roosevelt, he said, as there wasn't a bit of Taft sentiment in evidence. "I don't see why some of the others are against such a plan," said he. Asked if he thought there was a good chance to win in New Jersey on a straight third party ticket, he replied. "Well, a great movement like this would naturally have to develop slowly, and no definite plan has been reached yet. Of course, the nomination of Wilson makes the situation in New Jersey more difficult." Asked what plan he though would be adopted in the end, whether an attempt would be made to capture the Republican Party or not, he simply replied that the Progressives of New Jersey would probably defer to the wishes of Col. Roosevelt. Herbert Knox Smith, who was with Mr. Record, said that he had come on to ask Col. Roosevelt what he wanted him to do. It was probable that he would make some speeches, he said. Charles M. Thompson, who started in the Roosevelt fight as the Vermont manager, talked freely of the situation in New England. He was asked if there was any sentiment for President Taft in the New England States. "Yes, there is," he replied, especially in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. Wilson has strength in Massachusetts and Roosevelt is probably the strongest in Maine. "Some seem to think that Wilson will run ahead in the New England State and that Taft will trail him. I don't believe that." He was asked just what he meant by that statement, and replied that if Wilson did run ahead of the other candidates, and he gave the impression that such was his belief, Roosevelt would run second. Mr. Thompson said that a great meeting of the Progressives in New England would probably be [...] Progressive League of Central New York PRESIDENT, MERWIN K. HART …… UTICA SECRETARY, JOHN N. ALSEVER …… SYRACUSE TREASURER, DELMAR E. HAWKINS …… SYRACUSE Vice-Presidents Onondaga County, J. A. GRIFFIN …… Syracuse Fulton County. L. N. LITTAUER …… Gloversville Lewis County, PERRY G. WILLIAMS …… Lowville Chenango County, W. N. TRUESDELL …… Sherburne Montgomery County, W. S. DUELL …… Amsterdam Cayuga County, W. M COLLIER …… Auburn Oswego County, N. S. BENTLEY …… Oswego Madison County, W. STANLEY CHILD …… Oneida Oneida County, A. C. LANGDON …… Utica Herkimer County, T. DOUGLAS ROBINSON …… Jordanville Vice-Presidents Cortland County, R. C. DUELL …… .Cortland Tompkins County, PROF. ALFRED HAYES, JR …… Ithaca Chemung County, C. A. PULFORD …… Elmira St. Lawrence County, EDGAR A. NEWELL …… Ogdensburg Tioga County, BYRON L. WINTERS …… Waverly Steuben County, W. W. BABCOCK …… Bath Wayne County, CHARLES T. ENNIS …… Lyons Schuyler County, J. A. CLUTE …… Watkins Delaware County, H. N. GARDNER …… Walton Jefferson County, ISAAC L. HUNT …… Adams Syracuse, N.Y. July 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. [*15.*] Dear Sir: I am instructed by the Executive Committee of this League to notify you of the adoption of the following resolution at a recent meeting of the Committee, held in Utica: Whereas- the primary cause of the present political crisis in this country is the corrupt alliance between crooked politics and crooked business; and Whereas- the instrument by which this alliance has been affected is boss-ruled party machinery; and Whereas- the leading purpose of the proposed National Progressive Party is the establishment of popular government; and Whereas- popular government is impossible so long as party machinery, the only agency by which popular government may be carried on is undemocratic and unrepresentative; therefore Be it resolved by the Executive Committee of the Progressive League of Central New York that the only direct, effective and permanent means of establishing popular government is a party system or organization by which not only party nominees to public office, but also party leaders, party committee, party rules and party policies, local, state and national may be determined by the will of the rank and file of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOSEPH A. GRIFFIN, Syracuse, Chairman W. M. COLLIER, Auburn M. K. HART, Utica T. D. ROBINSON, Jordanville D. E. HAWKINS, Syracuse N. S. BENTLEY, Oswego J. N. ALSEVER, Syracuse W. N. TRUESDELL, Sherburne W. M. GOULD, NewarkProgressive League of Central New York PRESIDENT, MERWIN K. HART …… UTICA SECRETARY, JOHN N. ALSEVER …… SYRACUSE TREASURER, DELMAR E. HAWKINS …… SYRACUSE Vice-Presidents Onondaga County, J. A. GRIFFIN …… Syracuse Fulton County. L. N. LITTAUER …… Gloversville Lewis County, PERRY G. WILLIAMS …… Lowville Chenango County, W. N. TRUESDELL …… Sherburne Montgomery County, W. S. DUELL …… Amsterdam Cayuga County, W. M COLLIER …… Auburn Oswego County, N. S. BENTLEY …… Oswego Madison County, W. STANLEY CHILD …… Oneida Oneida County, A. C. LANGDON …… Utica Herkimer County, T. DOUGLAS ROBINSON …… Jordanville Vice-Presidents Cortland County, R. C. DUELL …… .Cortland Tompkins County, PROF. ALFRED HAYES, JR …… Ithaca Chemung County, C. A. PULFORD …… Elmira St. Lawrence County, EDGAR A. NEWELL …… Ogdensburg Tioga County, BYRON L. WINTERS …… Waverly Steuben County, W. W. BABCOCK …… Bath Wayne County, CHARLES T. ENNIS …… Lyons Schuyler County, J. A. CLUTE …… Watkins Delaware County, H. N. GARDNER …… Walton Jefferson County, ISAAC L. HUNT …… Adams Syracuse, N.Y. July 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. [*15.*] Dear Sir: I am instructed by the Executive Committee of this League to notify you of the adoption of the following resolution at a recent meeting of the Committee, held in Utica: Whereas- the primary cause of the present political crisis in this country is the corrupt alliance between crooked politics and crooked business; and Whereas- the instrument by which this alliance has been affected is boss-ruled party machinery; and Whereas- the leading purpose of the proposed National Progressive Party is the establishment of popular government; and Whereas- popular government is impossible so long as party machinery, the only agency by which popular government may be carried on is undemocratic and unrepresentative; therefore Be it resolved by the Executive Committee of the Progressive League of Central New York that the only direct, effective and permanent means of establishing popular government is a party system or organization by which not only party nominees to public office, but also party leaders, party committee, party rules and party policies, local, state and national may be determined by the will of the rank and file of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOSEPH A. GRIFFIN, Syracuse, Chairman W. M. COLLIER, Auburn M. K. HART, Utica T. D. ROBINSON, Jordanville D. E. HAWKINS, Syracuse N. S. BENTLEY, Oswego J. N. ALSEVER, Syracuse W. N. TRUESDELL, Sherburne W. M. GOULD, NewarkProgressive League of Central New York PRESIDENT, MERWIN K. HART …… UTICA SECRETARY, JOHN N. ALSEVER …… SYRACUSE TREASURER, DELMAR E. HAWKINS …… SYRACUSE Vice-Presidents Onondaga County, J. A. GRIFFIN …… Syracuse Fulton County. L. N. LITTAUER …… Gloversville Lewis County, PERRY G. WILLIAMS …… Lowville Chenango County, W. N. TRUESDELL …… Sherburne Montgomery County, W. S. DUELL …… Amsterdam Cayuga County, W. M COLLIER …… Auburn Oswego County, N. S. BENTLEY …… Oswego Madison County, W. STANLEY CHILD …… Oneida Oneida County, A. C. LANGDON …… Utica Herkimer County, T. DOUGLAS ROBINSON …… Jordanville Vice-Presidents Cortland County, R. C. DUELL …… .Cortland Tompkins County, PROF. ALFRED HAYES, JR …… Ithaca Chemung County, C. A. PULFORD …… Elmira St. Lawrence County, EDGAR A. NEWELL …… Ogdensburg Tioga County, BYRON L. WINTERS …… Waverly Steuben County, W. W. BABCOCK …… Bath Wayne County, CHARLES T. ENNIS …… Lyons Schuyler County, J. A. CLUTE …… Watkins Delaware County, H. N. GARDNER …… Walton Jefferson County, ISAAC L. HUNT …… Adams party or by their elected representatives; and Be it further resolved that the National Progressive Party, in its first National Convention at Chicago, should promulgate as its chief article of faith, belief in and strict adherence to a system of party organization which shall be thoroughly democratic in structure and operation, and that such system be binding upon every member of the party in every part of the nation. Resolved that the Secretary of this League be hereby directed to forward at once a copy of these resolutions to the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Yours truly, John N. Alsever Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOSEPH A. GRIFFIN, Syracuse, Chairman W. M. COLLIER, Auburn M. K. HART, Utica T. D. ROBINSON, Jordanville D. E. HAWKINS, Syracuse N. S. BENTLEY, Oswego J. N. ALSEVER, Syracuse W. N. TRUESDELL, Sherburne W. M. GOULD, Newark[*Austin*] [*6.*] Department of Commerce and Labor BUREAU OF STATISTICS Washington July 22, 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Col. Roosevelt: The brief letter from you which was written just before your departure for Africa I find among my keepsakes and it is so cordial in its tone that I feel that I may perhaps without impropriety bring to your attention the fact that the pending legislative appropriation bill proposes to consolidate the bureaus of Manufactures and Statistics into one organization under the title of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and that I am hoping to be considered worthy of continuing the work in the enlarged field as the head of the new bureau. I do not know whether you will feel like making a recommendation to the appointing powers but if you still have the kindly opinion of my work, which you have been good enough to express on former occasions, and should feel willing to say just a word in any way agreeable to you, I should appreciate it more than I can tell you. I often recall, my dear Mr. Roosevelt, the midnight scene at the White House in which you so highly honored me with your expression of confidence in my statistical work and judgment in the matter then under consideration, and shall always prize this and the numerous other evidences of your personal friendship which I have received during the 20 years since our acquaintance began,-2- when you were a member of the Civil Service Commission and I a newspaper correspondent. Very truly yours, O. P. AustinBERTRON, GRISCOM & JENKS BANKERS 40 WALL STREET NEW YORK LAND TITLE BUILDING PHILADELPHIA 19 BD. DES CAPUCINES PARIS LAURENCE V. BENET EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE TELEPHONE No. 144-51 TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "LAURBENET, PARIS" 19 BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES PARIS July 22, 1912. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear Colonel Roosevelt, An important matter has come up that may necessitate my going to Constantinople, and I have not the pleasure of having made the acquaintance of any Turks It has occurred to me that you might without inconvenience give me a letter of introduction there, which I shall be very careful not to use unduly. Ted wires me that you have been good enough to do this, and I very greatly appreciate your kindness. I can well understand that you are overwhelmed just now with important matters, and I earnestly hope that you will come through them satisfactorily and without any detriment to your health. Mrs. Alexander is going motoring with us tomorrow, and she would send many messages if she knew I were writing. Please give my very kind regards to Mrs. Roosevelt, and believe me, Very sincerely yours, S. R. BertronCABLE ADDRESS “EABIG” TELEPHONE 1993 BROAD ERNEST A. BIGELOW COUNSELOR AT LAW 15 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK July 22nd, 1912. [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, New York. My dear Colonel Roosevelt:- I believe that this nation is facing a crisis unparalleled since the decade prior to the Civil War. I believe further that you alone possess the entire confidence of the people, and at the same time have the experience and the ability to circumvent the machinations of the powerful and adroit leaders who have been placed in charge by the oligarchy of special privilege. I think I am of the average type of plain American citizen, unpolitic and unpolitical, nursed on the traditions of ten generations of Massachusetts blood, with all which that implies of instinctive appreciation of what concerns the welfare of this republic. It will not offend you to be told that you may well be proud of possessing the affection and esteem, almost reverence, of the plain citizens, of whom I count myself one. With this profession of faith I take the liberty of again urging the matter of the sugar tariff, even at the risk of appearing presumptuous. Neither the Republican nor the Democratic platform carries an adequate and unambiguous declaration as to the tariff.ERNEST A. BIGELOW 15 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK (#2) With characteristic futility, the Democratic platform declares it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional right or power to impose tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue. This is like he headlines in the New York Sun," for, concealed in the text, is the further declaration that the system of tariff taxation "is intimately connected with the business of the country and we favor the ultimate attainment of the principles we advocate by legislation that will not injure or destroy legitimate industry." - the same sort of talk that resulted in the tariff so successfully tinkered by the late Senators Gorman and Murphy of Troy. The Republican platform discloses an intent further to defraud the voter with the device of a tariff commission. The information collected by the tariff board was of doubtful value at best but with the Honorable "Jimmy" Reynolds as factotum, it was a joke. The fact is, of course, that both parties are so tied up with the excessively protected industries that neither dares to come out flatfooted with a declaration for the reduction of specified duties. The average citizen is in no mood to be put off with these generalities. It is obvious to us that to make a sweeping reduction all along the line would result in injury to legitimate enterprises, but injury to illegitimate enterprises does not worry us in the least and yet it is these illegitimate enterprises whichERNEST A. BIGELOW 15 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK (#3) the platform-framers had in mind. I have a large acquaintance among all classes and types of people and I think I speak accurately when I say that the rank and file of the voters, and of their women-kind who help them to form their opinions, will be convinced of good faith in this regard only by specific declaration that the tariff on certain egregiously protected necessities of life will be reduced. Of all protective duties that on sugar is the most unjustifiable, exorbitant, trust-fostering and malignantly personal. Its defenders, their history, their cause, and their results presented to the electorate it would fire at once their resentment and their determination to support a party which should credibly promise to eradicate the evil. The facts have not been told by half. There is, at this moment, pending a fulmination which will disclose a scandalous perversion of law and of justice, whereby the Sugar Trust directly benefits at the expense of the United States Treasury and with the connivance and active assistance of the Treasury Department. As counsel for the Federal Sugar Refining Company it has been my work to fight for fair play from the railroads, combined s they were to benefit the Havemeyer regime. As part of this fight, the Federal Company instituted the proceedings in the so called "Lighterage Case," which Judge Archbald, of the CommerceERNEST A. BIGELOW 15 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK (#4) Court, had before him at the time of his alleged negotiations with one of the defendant carriers. For ten years Mr. Spreckels was estranged from members of his family because he refused to yield his convictions and obey the behests of the Sugar Trust. I mention these details to show you that we have intimate and grievous knowledge of the evils of which I speak, and I repeat that this knowledge will be at the disposal of whoever will fight the fight, not for the Federal Sugar Refining Company but for the people of these United States. Consider the value of an illuminating political legend, varied as occasion arose, inscribed on the thousands of packages of sugar which leave the Federal refinery daily and enter 40% of the households east of the Mississippi river. The next time you pass Moore's grocery in our home town, observe the Federal barrels on the sidewalk and you will appreciate the virtues of this sort of tuition. The sugar schedule, with its "Dutch Standard" etc. is obscure, and purposely so, to suit the devious intentions of its beneficiaries; but the elucidation of the subject is simple, and convincing facts can be presented in concrete form to the voter. For this purpose we are at your disposal, provided it is the intent of the National Progressive Party to declare unqualifiedly for a substantial reduction in the tariff on raw and refined sugar.(#5) ERNEST A. BIGELOW 15 WILLIAM STREET,NEW YORK Because I believe that you are the man of the hour and of the crisis.- because I believe your success depends upon the wat in which your tariff plank is framed,- because I believe that the way yo frame that plank is to point it with a direct promise to reduce the duty on at least one necessity of life, I write this letter and remain Faithfully yours, Ernest A. Bigelow[*ack 7-23-12*] [*5.*] Girard Life Insurance Company OFFICERS NATHAN T. FOLWELL PREST. RICHARD H. WALLACE VICE PREST. ALBERT SHORT SECY AND ACTUARY AND SUPERINTENDENT OF AGENCIES. JOSEPH S. POTTER TREASURER. DIRECTORS NATHAN T. FOLWELL RICHARD H. WALLACE ALBERT SHORT GEORGE H. BUCHANAN SAMUEL B. VROOMAN JOSEPH M. STEELE JOHN H. BROOKS THOMAS R. PATTON ALLEN P. ERLEY SAMUEL D. DIBERT ALBERT F. YOUNG PETER T. WATT GEORGE C. MATZEL THOMAS J. MAYS, M.D. DREXEL BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA. JOSEPH H. BISSELL, GENERAL AGENT 105 SOUTH 16TH STREET EAST ORANGE, N. J. July 22, 1912 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. My dear Mr. Roosevelt:- I have been a Republican Regular Always, as have my four brothers; also two sons, now voters. You will have the entire family vote, besides anything I can do or say to influence any one else to do the same. Respectfully yours, Joseph H. Bissell General Agent, Girard Life Ins. Co.Edward C. Carrington Edward C. Carrington, Jr. Campbell Carrington LONG DISTANCE PHONE, C.& P. ST. PAUL 1006/ CABLE ADDRESS "NEDCAM." "WESTERN UNION CODE" Carrington & Carrington Attorneys & Counselors at Law. Md. Telephone Bldg. Baltimore, Md. E.C.C. July 22nd, 1912 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y. My dear Colonel Roosevelt: I do think it important that you make a brief statement that I may read to the State Convention, to be held here Thursday next, at noon. This, to my mind, should follow the general theory of the call, namely - that it is an invitation to all citizens, irrespective of past party affiliation, to join in a movement, primarily based on an attempt to repudiate machine domination of the Republican party. We have here in Maryland a rather embarrassing situation. We have over 55,000 registered negro voters, a large number of whom are illiterates. As the state is normally Democratic, it is apparently a matter of difficulty to beat both Wilson and Taft, the state machine being, as you know, in sympathy with the latter. Your message, if you will pardon the suggestion, should, therefore, be an appeal to citizenship,Edward C. Carrington Edward C. Carrington, Jr. Campbell Carrington LONG DISTANCE PHONE, C.& P. ST. PAUL 1006/ CABLE ADDRESS "NEDCAM." "WESTERN UNION CODE" Carrington & Carrington Attorneys & Counselors at Law. Md. Telephone Bldg. Baltimore, Md. Col Theodore Roosevelt; -2- letting future party affiliation work itself out. There is a tremendous amount of opposition to Wilson among a large number of Democrats in this state. If we could retain our strength among the Republicans, and get the support at the polls of the very large number of Democrats who are dissatisfied with Wilson's nomination, we have some chance of success. As to the formation of a third party in Maryland, we have all come to the conclusion that it is the wise thing to let this phase of the situation remain in a state, more or less, of abeyance until after the Chicago Convention. Faithfully yours, Edward C. Carrington, Jr. BH Form No. 168. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. ---------INCORPORATED--------- 25,000 OFFICES IN AMERCA. 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. BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 172 Fifth Ave., N.Y. B28NY ED 37 [[shorthand]] [*2.*] ST PAUL MINN JULY 22/12 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, OUTLOOK, 287 FOURTH AVE, NYC. S Y GORDON LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND ROOSEVELT CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR CAN GIVE VALUABLE INFORMATION CONCERNING MINNESOTA CONDITIONS IF YOU COULD SEE HIM THIS WEEK SUGGEST YOU IMMEDIATELY WIRE HIM PERSONAL INVITATION CARE MERCHANTS HOTEL ST. PAUL. I.A. CASWELL.................237PMBRONSON M. CUTTING PRESIDENT F. C. WILSON VICE-PRESIDENT J. WIGHT GIDDINGS SECRETARY CHAS. M. STAUFFER TREAS. AND GEN'L MGR. SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN NEW MEXICAN REVIEW EL NEUVO MEXICANO NEW MEXICAN PRINTING COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1862 PRINTERS, BINDERS, BLANK BOOK MARKERS FLAT OPENING BLANK BOOKS A SPECIALTY PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO NEW MEXICAN PRINTING COMPANY. SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO July 22, 1912 [[shorthand]] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Colonel Roosevelt: This is just a line of my sincere gratitude for your kind letter, and still more for the inspiring telegram you sent us for the paper. I realize that it was asking you to do a great deal to send a special message to an individual paper; and I shouldn't have suggested it if I had not felt some it would be for the good of the cause. Thank you a thousand times. This newspaper work comes hard, at first, as I have had no experience at all. But it is great fun, and promises to become evenmore absorbing as the situation develops. If there is anything special we can do out here, please let us know. Sincerely always, Bronson M. CuttingDUNN AND DUNN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW NOS. 914 AND 915 MEARS BUILDING, SCRANTON, PA. ARTHUR DUNN JOHN T. DUNN July 22, 1912 [*2.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: Thank you for your letter of the 15th instant. You may be interested in the enclosed newspaper clipping which explains my position fully. Anything that I can do to forward the Progressive movement will be a real pleasure. Sincerely yours, Arthur Dunn AD/SForm 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 message 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 A30CAN GJ 62 N L [[shorthand]] JULY 22, 1912 MACON GA [*21*] THEODORE ROOSEVELT [*X53 ms*] NEW YORK INFORM SENATOR DIXON AT ONCE ON MY AUTHORITY THAT CROSBY GATES, 'MCCLURE,' WALKER AND MITCHELL ARE ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS IN ORGANIZING PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN GEORGIA AND THAT THE MAN TO RELY ON IS ROGER A DEWAN ATLANTA; HE SHOULD BE GIVEN SUPREME AUTHORITY AND THE FACT CARRIED THROUGH ASSOCIATED PRESS. TIME IS IMPORTANT ELEMENT JUST NOW AND QUICK ACTION VITAL TO ORGANIZATION HERE. H S EDWARDS 237AMJ. H. ADAMS, PRES. TOM L. FLEMING, V-PRES. J. F. FLEMMING, SEC. AND TREAS. THE CO-OPERATIVE MANAGER AND FARMER FLOUR EXCHANGE, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. CHICAGO OFFICE 305-315 SO. LASALLE ST. W. B. FREEMAN IN CHARGE CHICAGO, ILL. July 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt New York City, Dear Mr. Roosevelt: With best wishes for the success of the THIRD party, with yourself at the head, I am Very Sincerely, W. B. Freeman6 F.A. Greene, Geneva, N.Y. Hon Theodore Roosevelt. New York N.Y. Dear Mr. Roosevelt You will see by the inclosed clipping form the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle that you have started something in Ontario Co. it looks now as through you were to have a good following in this county. Any suggestions that you might make will be appreciated Very truly yours Dr. F.A. Greene July 22 '12[*1.*] FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY Publishers 44-60 E. 23d St. NEW YORK 133-4 Salisbury Sq, LONDON, E.C. NEW YORK July 22, 1912. Mr. Frank Harper, Secretary to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My dear Mr. Harper: We are sending you herewith galley proofs of Colonel Roosevelt's Civic Forum address, on "The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood," which I think he may care to read before the matter is paged up. With thanks for your kind attention, we are, Yours sincerely, Funk & Wagnalls Company F. W. HalseyST. LOUIS NEW YORK Hecht Bros. & Co. MANUFACTURING CLOTHIERS. 1224-26 WASHINGTON AVE. ST. LOUIS. July 22, 1912. [*4.*] Col. Theodore Roosevelt: Enclosed you will find my suggestion for the New Party Name. If I could make the Platform for the New Party, it would be very short. No life positions; not eligible for election or appointive office for two years after term expires. Nation and states to furnish all election expenses and make it a penitentiary offense for to use money for self, friend or committee. The people never will get in power while the parties or candidates have to ask the wealthy corporations and individuals to furnish them with money. Let your slogan be "Put the People in Power, first, then the Tariff Referendum Recall will be adjusted." I think the American people, regardless of Creed, should worship men like William J. Bryan, Roosevelt, Hearst and Folk for you all have had the courage to talk out in meeting against the Political Huckster. Respectfully, T. T. Hathaway Hex Clothes ST. LOUIS NEW YORKForm 168 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY 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 the 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 BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 14 NY DI CK 11 Sacramento, Calif Jly 22 [*[1912?]*] Col Theo Roosevelt, Trying send men Oregon and Washington as suggested will wire later. Hiram W. Johnson 210pForm 2289 D. 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 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 ten times the amount paid for transmission; 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 [*Ms*] RECEIVED AT the WESTERN UNION BUILDING 195 Broadway, N.Y. ALWAYS OPEN [*JUL 22 1912*] [*X120 Ms*] A 10 N KB 134 NL, MONTGOMERY ALA JULY 22 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, CARE THE OUTLOOK, NEWYORK. FORMER GOVERNOR COMER ATTACKING MY ACTION IN RAILROAD RATE CASES ASSERTED IN CHURCH BACCALAUREATE BEFORE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY THAT YOU APPOINTED ME JUDGE AT THE INSTANCE OF THE RAILROADS OR THAT THEY OR THEIR OFFICERS BROUGHT SOME PRESSURE OR INFLUENCE TO BEAR UPON YOU TO OBTAIN THE APPOINTMENT. I KNOW THE STATEMENTS IS UNTRUE YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN GIVE POSITIVE TESTIMONY IN THE MATTER. OF COURSE I HAVE NOT PUBLISHED AND WILL NOT REFER TO YOUR PERSONAL LETTER FROM OYSTER BAY OF AUGUST 14 NINETEEN SEVEN AFTER YOU THOUGHT BEST NOT TO GIVE ME LIBERTY TO DO SO I ONLY ASK NOW THAT YOU KINDLY WIRE AT MY EXPENSE SIMPLY WHETHER THE L AND N OR AN OTHER RAILROADS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH SUGGESTING OR OBTAINING MY APPOINTMENT THOS G JONES 237AWILLIAM KENT SECOND CALIFORNIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. WASHINGTON D.C. July 22, 1912. Mr. Frank Harper, Secretary, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. Dear Sir: Yours of July 20th duly received. There are pending before Congress several bills of most vital importance and in which I am particularly interested. I do not feel at liberty to leave the job until they are de- termined one way or the other. I regret my inability to go to New York this week. Yours truly, WK/FBA William Kent [*[7-22-12]*] [*4.*] 111 BROADWAY My dear Col. Roosevelt,- I am inclosing a letter received today from Mr. Bynum who has charge of my little shooting place in North Carolina. Mr. Bynum is a lawyer well known in his particular district and his letter was in replyto one I wrote asking him to tell me honestly how the feeling ran in his part of North Carolina. I think you may rely upon what Mr. Bynum writes- With much regard Sincerely yours James H Kidder July 22/12Rochester, N.Y. 7/22/12 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Contributing Editor, The Outlook; Dear Sir:- A large plurality of the voters are aniously awaiting the promulgation of the platform upon which you will consent to be the Standard Bearer of The Progressive Party and a large majority of them, particularly the Traveling Men's organizations, are hoping there will be a plank in said platform compelling the adoption by railroads of the Automatic Stop as a mechanical check upon engineers and motormen, thus preventing such dreadful fatalities as have recently happened on the Lackawanna, St. Paul and Ligonier roads. Engineer Schroeder, who contributed toward the dreadful Corning, N.Y. accident, told the writer on the day of the Coroner's inquest, when he gave in his testimony, that this device would surely have prevented that collision: that railroads do not want it for they want engineers to disregard "blocks"(semaphore signal) out of order and set against them, that time will not be lost. He further said "the people will have to demand this device for the railroads will never adopt the voluntarily". It was through your instrumentality that the appropiation2 of $50.000 was made by the Congress four or five years ago under which the Block Signal and Train Control Board was created by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Judge Cooley being made chairman, you doubtless recollect. It was not long before this board was completely dominated by the railroads through their representative, Azel Amos, formerly connected with the N. Y. Central Lines and aside from the dissipation of the appropiation referred to, nothing eventuated in the form of relief for the traveling public, which comprises every soul in the United Stats, including visitors from other countries. No collisions occur in the Subway, the Penna. R.R. tunnel or the Hudson & Manhattan. Why? They are protected by the Automatic Stop! You understand that this device acts mechanically and automatically when engineers and motormen fail from and cause, death, carelessness, whiskey, sudden illness, accident, slumber, lost in snow or sand storms and fog. There are devices with a record of 99.8 efficiency; the cost of installation and upkeep is ridiculuosly low: they will successfully operate on surface roads in winter. Why not grant the travelers by rail immunity from death by collision?3 By law, steamship companies must furnish life preservers; hotels, fire escapes; factories safety devices and fire escapes; theatres, fire estcapes and numerous exits; schools and other public buildings, fire escapes, all for the preservation of human life. Even the railroads are obliged by law to provide safety devices for the preservation of the lives of their employees, but there is no such law for the safeguarding of the traveling public against the calamitous head-on and rear-end collisions. In this particular, this country needs a Moses and they all look to you as the logical leader in all things progressive. Yours most respectfully, Joseph Noyes King #47 Fair Place.[*This man has been in communication with James at Sagamore Hill*] 942 - S. St. N.W. Wash. D. C. July 22 1912 [*8.*] Col Theodore Roosevelt My dear Sir, I trust you will pardon me for taking one second of Your precious time. I recieved a letter from James (your Butler) stating that You had literature explaining the Brownsville Controversy, and that he would like me to aid him in distributing some of itsI have a small interest in an insurance company, that is doing business in the D.C. Md. Del. Penn. and N.J. I get the officers to give me a list of the most reliable agents. The list I am sending James consists of seventy two agents operating in thirty nine cities and towns, representing about twelve thousand voters. I hope you will capture them all. I have not consulted the Judge Advocate of the Navy Col. as to the violation of the law, but if I am court-martialed and sent to a military prison, these will be the happiest days of my life, if I know this little act aids you the least in your great work. You have only four friends on the Sylph, as kind as you were to us all. They join me in best wishes for your health and success in the great work you have undertaken, I name the four Widman Holmes Payns and I. my kindest regards to Mrs. Roosevelt and the family I am yours very respectfully, C. B. Sec. Dr. W. J. McCraun, Twenty-fourth and O Streets. The Party I Am Working for. South Omaha, Neb. July 22, 1912. 190 [*13.*] Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Sir: Your personal influence has been such as to give the Nation two presidents. Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. You occupy a strange phenomenol position, which may give you the opportunity to make a third man president of the Nation. But you must secure him from the ranks of the privates, he must be practically unknown having a great deal of individuality as well as some future regarding him that will create an interest and thought in every American home. (Can you improve on the above.?) Respectfully yours, W. J. McCraun, P.S. The above cut will give 15 reasons why I would make a Libral Just Progressive & Honorable President. WJMcCEncl in Beveridge 8-9-12MONTANA - THE TREASURE STATE GLENDIVE THE GATE CITY The Dawson County Review FOUNDED 1898 James A. Metcalf, Owner and Editor Glendive, Montana July Twenty-second 1912 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York City. My Dear Colonel- Attached clipping from the Treasure State, published in Butte, organ of the Tafties, will give you an idea of the going comment, and of my personal participation in affairs. I am misquoted in one respect, namely, as to probability of success, and i also attach hereto carbon copy of an explanation which I am asking the Treasure State to publish, and which I will at least publish myself. I don't know just where Senator Dixon is. I wired him last night on an important matter. Hon. F.J. Edwards of Helena, to whom Dixon referred the matter of calling the recent Progressive Conference in Helena, at which I was chosen secretary, sends me a long list of names and asks me to begin personal correspondence, looking to thorough organization. I can certainly handle this successfully, and it is of prime importance to both your own interests and those of Senator Dixon in this state that this work be undertaken. But I cannot work without funds. I have shamefully neglected my own business of late, and have done it gladly. But it is a physical and financial impossibility for me to go ahead here without funds. I wish I could, but I can't. That's the situation in a nutshell, Very Faithfully Yours, James A. Metcalf DAWSON COUNTY THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL EMPIRE OF MONTANA HOMES FOR 200,000 PEOPLEFor encl see 7-22-12Glendive, Montana July 22, 1912. Mr. J. H. Raftery Editor Treasure State Butte, Mont. Dear Mr. Raftery - May I ask that you kindly publish this in correction of a possibly excusable error in your editorial comment of last week in connection with my humble efforts on behalf of the Progressive Party cause in Montana. I don't as a rule, believe much in newspaper "explanations." They usually make matters worse, but I hope that, in this instance, I can make myself thoroughly clear. You quote me as saying that "the new party does not expect to win any elections this year, but that the members are determined to make a beginning and will be satisfied if they succeed in launching the organization." That is partially correct, but very largely erroneous. I replied to what I supposed was a personal question as to my own attitude toward the new party, and I said that, so far as I was concerned, it makes absolutely no difference whether we win this fall or not, for I am in their movement as a matter of principle and am not consulting political expediency or mere party success. As a matter of fact, we do expect that the new Progressive party will win "some elections." We honestly and earnestly expect to place Theodore Roosevelt in the White House and are not basing our hopes on mere speculations either. Colonel Roosevelt ought, by every logic and precedent of politics, to carry these states where he was accorded such handsome majorities in the primary elections precedent to the Chicago convention. If that be true, we can already credit him with the electoral vote of California, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, South Dakota - and probably Michigan and Missouri. Then you may add to the list as strong probabilities North Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska AND MONTANA. The rapidly crystallizing sentiment in the East indicates a very strong hope that Roosevelt will also carry Massachusetts, and he is considered at least an even competitor with Wilson for New York, as things now stand. The great mistake now being made by the reactionaries of both the old-2- parties is that they greatly underestimate the strength and extent of the Progressive Party movement. And many of them are due to receive certain surprises during the next few months. The “solid south” is a fertile field for the new party because it eliminates from consideration the divisional party barrier erected during the Civil war, which still stands in spite of the disappearance of mere sectional bitterness, as a hereditary obstacle which the Republican party as such can never overcome. And the South, like the North and the East and the West, is thoroughly ready for a new political deal. I would not attempt to predict how extensively the new Progressive party will operate this year in the county elections. That must be determined very largely by the county workers themselves. But you have correctly represented me as being solicitous concerning the legislature, since we are obliged, under the freak law which Montana now possesses as a weak substitute for a senatorial primary, to endorse Senator Dixon in a state convention and then seek the election of members of the legislature who will support him. Nor do I believe we will be able to step there. In order to make the Progressive party a real power in the state, we must build it from the ground up. Judging from telegrams and letters which I have personally received during the past three days the Progressives of Montana need not worry about Senator Dixon "being deposed" by Colonel Roosevelt, or quitting the game on his own motion. His every declaration is clear-cut and concise in favor of the new party, from the ground up. Speaking of recent defections from our ranks: The issue is now clearly drawn. The Progressive Party is duly organized, and no man can longer consistently call himself "progressive" without joining heart and hand with those who are making the first really effective fight for Progressive principles. Thanking you for giving this the same publicity you gave to the previous comment, I am Very Sincerely Yours, James A. Metcalf.Encl in Metcalf 7-22-12[*[7/22/12]*] WILLIAM J. NICOLLS ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS COAL 311 PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING PHILADELPHIA AUTHOR - "AMERICAN COALS" 'COAL CATECHISM' MEMBER - AM. SOC. C.E. COAL EXPERT Dear Colonel Roosevelt, Why not call our new party "The Commonwealth" party. Surely no name expresses its purpose so fitly. - Commonwealth - ie, Common - weal " - Independent community " - Republic " - Federated States " - Public Welfare " - (French) bien public Cordially & sincerely With regards Wm Jasper Nicolls July 22d 1912Geo. W Perkins 71 Broadway New York July 22nd, 1912. My dear Col. Roosevelt:- I think you will want to read the enclosed -- especially the paragraphs marked in red ink. Sincerely yours, Geo W Perkins Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.For encl see 7-17-12[*19.*] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON July 22, 1912. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. Dear Sir: I hope you will not consider it too much of a presumption on my part to ask of you, as I hereby do, in the midst of your important and pressing affairs, an interview to discuss the Philippine question. My excuse for the liberty I am taking now, of asking of you this favor, is the fact that some five years ago when, being on a short visit in this country I had the high honor of being invited to lunch with you at Oyster Bay, you authorized me to all upon you whenever I should need your help or advice in behalf of any people. If it would suit your convenience, I should appreciate very much that the interview I am soliciting may take place before your platform of the progressive party, to be submitted at the Convention at Chicago, is finally written. Very respectfully yours, Manuel L. Quezon Resident Commissioner from the Philippines.Douglas Robinson 128 Broadway New York, July 22nd, 1912. Cable Address "Ryraport," New York. Dear Sir:- I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of July 20th, and in reply would say that I have this day deposited $1,000 to the credit of Colonel Roosevelt's account in the Astor Trust Company,as requested. Yours very truly, Douglas Robinson Frank Harper, Esq., #287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. July 22/12 My Dear Colonel Is it possible that Senator Dixon appointed such a weak kneed warrior to conduct any fight, I am compelled to believe these alleged interviews are faked, if not the sooner you distribute a new brand of liquor amongst your Generals the better, Sincerely your friend William A Scott Hon Theodore Roosevelt New YorkFor enc see 7-21-12Washington D.C. July 22,1912. Hon.Wm. Flinn, Pittsburgh, Pa. Dear Sir:- Referring to your letter of July 15th, in which you express surprise or astonishment that I, who am in the Government Service would be engaged in or desire to support a movement against President Taft, I would desire to state in defense of, No. I should not say defense, (for I consider that it is the duty as well as privilege of every American Citizen to take part in any political movement that tends to betterment of existing conditions regardless of whether he is in or outside Government Service,) but in explanation of my position, that I do not consider that I owe any allegiance or any deference to the President, or that I am under any obligation to him or any representative of him. Should I consider that I was in any manner under any obligation to Mr. Taft, or in any way an official connection with his administration, then I would resign at once. As an ordinary clerical employee under the Civil Service I am doing my small part for the Government or the country as a whole, and not for the President, and consider that I as an American Citizen am entirely free to follow the dictates of my own reason as to what is the proper course to follow. although perhaps partly in defiance of a regulation or rule enacted under Republican Party Administration that no Civil Service Employees shall engage in politics, while to appointees to higher positions2. either through the President or the heads of Departments, the privilege is given of not only engaging in politics but are directed to do so, yet these persons, just as much Federal Employees as the humbler Civil Service appointee, who are in a position to coerce and intimidate subordinates are given free rein and even encouraged in political activity. It is about as un-American a principle or practice as I could conceive of, yet is and has been upheld by successive Republican Administrations. I do not consider that it is either legally or morally right or in accord with the fundamental principles of our government. While I do not approve of the political activity as evidenced under present conditions, support of certain parties or movements through compulsion, yet I consider that it is due and right that every employee should be free to follow in any way he sees fit his convictions without jeopardizing his position or future welfare. This principle or rather creed of mine, that under our system of government everyone is free to follow his own convictions and that fitness for office or any position should be the possession of the necessary qualifications therefor and not the currying of favor, is what lead me into the Government Service. In 1900, upon the advice of friends, being an unsophisticated country youth and in experienced, I applied to W. W. Greist, machine politician of Lancaster County for endorsement as Census Enumerator, and was laughed at as a fool for my temerity and advised that he "had nothing to do with it." As a matter of fact I knew that that should have been the truth but as an actuality I knew it to be a lie. Greist held no office, was in no way connected with the Federal Government, yet he had the say as to who should be Census Enumerators3. who would be paid from the Federal Treasury. These Census Enumerators were appointed on Greist's recommendation through the Supervisor of the District. They became Federal Employees. Why? In payment of services rendered Greist in local politics. The Federal Government or Treasury used to pay personal obligations. My determination was then and there made in connection with that incident. Through the medium of Civil Service Examinations I succeeded in securing a Federal Appointment. In 1902, becoming interested in the Congressional Election, I was privately advised by friends that I would better cease political activity against Greist or I would lose my position, then in the city post-office. To me and my view of thinking, this was astounding, that I (under no obligations to Greist and he with no connections as to the Federal Government by whom I was employed and paid,) should be subservient to his wishes or desires, it was repulsive and abhorrent and an insult to what I consider manhood in anyone, to give up honest convictions or sacrifice principle, and I so informed my 'friends' and also advised them that I should do as I saw fit regardless of what action Greist might take, but I then and there made another determination and have followed it steadily and in 1914 unless ill-health or some unforeseen circumstances prevent 'Will Greist" is going to get the hottest political campaign of his life and unless I fail to understand the underlying Lancaster County sentiment and the sturdy principles of the "Pennsylvania Germans" as they are termed, it will be a case of down and out for the man who has set himself up as the dictator in matters political in that district. For eight years I have studied politics and government 4. first hand in Washington. During six of these years Greist has been the Representative of the 9th District. In that time he has not taken active part nor been prominently mentioned once in connection with a single piece of important legislation. He has not had a single important committee assignment, and has ever been a "Lorimer-bell-weather brand of representative," obliged to vote as directed of follow the lead of some other "Regular" member preceding him in the roll-call. A man who refers to carrying his district in his vest-pocket and to some members in parts of his district as no more than ordinary cattle is certainly a fine "representative of the people" in Congress. In the spring primaries he was the 'trust me' brand of candidate who had not the moral strength of his own convictions to state squarely and fairly whom he favored, but whose only explanation was a statement to effect that he would support the party nominee and the person whom it was considered best for the Party to have, so he voted for Hughes at Chicago, for the sake of 'harmony' he explains it, as Taft and Roosevelt were the cause of too much friction and represented a factional quarrel. However he was sufficiently worried before the Primary about the Roosevelt sentiment in the 9th District, as to resort to trickery in placing a duplicate (faked) set of Roosevelt Delegates on the ticket ad thereby dividing the opposition strength. The Wilson sentiment is enormous in the 9th District since the nominations. If the Third party does not give the voters a chance to express their sentiment for Roosevelt and a Progressive Congressment, there will be a big drop in the Republican vote. A Wilson Democrat is preferable to a Greist Republican anytime.5 There is no obligation, either moral or legal, that persons selected at the spring Primaries on the strength of Roosevelt sentiment should now resign as nominee on the Republican ticket because through questionable manipulation at Chicago, Taft has been made the head of the Party ticket instead of Roosevelt. These persons should remain on the ticket as they were chosen. They should be obliged to state publicly and it should be published everywhere the preference as between Taft and Roosevelt (or the choice of the Third Party in case someother than Rosevelt should be selected) The people will then be informed as to whom they are voting for. For those persons nominated in the spring Primaries who endorse Roosevelt of the Third Party, the latter will not antagonize them but will please them on its own Party ticket also and for all persons professing allegiance to Taft[y] opposition candidates will be placed on the Third Party. There should be an entire Third Party ticket in order that those who desire to break entirely away from to Regular Republican Party or the Regular Democratic Party may do so and vote a straight Third Party ticket . If this arrangement does not suit the Taft people, (having lost out in the spring Primaries) they are at perfect liberty to place in nomination opposition candidates to the "Roosevelt" men selected at the Primaries. There is no legal or moral right under which they can claim that these men should resign. Had the Taft people won the majority of nominations, [and] they would not for a minute consider giving them up. The people selected these candidates on the strength of the sentiment that Roosevelt would be the Party nominee. Had they expected otherwise they would not have voted. The people should be given a fair and square opportunity to express their preference in voting and it can be done only in this way. (over)Enc. in Shellenberger 7-23-12 6. There are some people who will prefer Taft and others who would not vote for him under any circumstances. The way to satisfy all regardless of their preferences is to allow them the opportunity to express such preference in the final vote in November. If it is fully understood just where such elector stands on the matter of the Presidential nominee, those persons who desire to be regular and vote the Republican ticket can do so and vote for the known Taft electors. Those persons who desire to be regular yet vote for Roosevelt can do so and vote for the Roosevelt electors and the out-and-out Third Party people can vote a straight Third Party ticket. Without carrying this system into Congressional Districts and making a fight against all "reactionaries" as represented by Greist in the 9th District, by putting up opposition candidates a general victory throughout the country would be nullified in Congress by the presence of such men as Greist who are not in sympathy with a single principle advocated by the Progressive element. As stated before, and I am positive November returns will bear me out, a Wilson Democrat is preferable to the rank and file of American voters to a "Greist-type Republican." Very respectfully, A. H. ShellingerBEDFORD CITY, VA., July 22 1912 Col Roosevelt My Dear Sir— We are arranging to have a meeting in Roanoke City the 30th July—If we could say, that we would have you there, we would advertise throughout the State & have a large turnout. Let us know about this, & if possible be there, you have a Large number of friends & followers in Va. Very truly &c J. T. SperryPOSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY [*[7-22-12]*] POSTAL TELEGRAPH NIGHT LETTERGRAM COMMERCIAL CABLES NIGHT LETTERGRAM The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company (Incorporated) transmits and delivers this night lettergram subject to the terms and conditions printed on the back of this blank. CLARENCE H. MACKAY, PRESIDENT. RECEIVED AT DELIVERY No. 944 BROADWAY, N. Y. OPP. FLATIRON BLDG. TEL. 2291 GRAMEROY [*BR*] INDEPENDENT COMPETITIVE PROGRESSIVE 4—257 JUL 23 1912 [*M 9*] x115ch sx 45nl Desmo ines Ia July 22 12 Teho. Toosevelt, Cr Outlook Office, N. Y. I had phone talk with Dixon today he requests me to report my former request for nice long night letter Tuesday that I may read to convention Wednesday if you deem best it will please me and an enthusiastic convention address me Savoy Hotel DesMoines John I. 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VAIL, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, GENERAL MANAGER RECEIVED AT 11 Wn 25 Montpelier Vt July 22. [*[12]*] Col. Theo Roosevelt, Oyster Bay New Hampshire elects full delegation to Chicago & full election ticket appoints state committee to file on state officers wherever not progressive a third party ticket. C.H. Thompson 1225PRundschau Zweier Welten ~ Review of Two Worlds ~ 134 West 29th Street New ~ York Offices of George Sylvester Viereck July 22nd, 1912 Dear Mr. Harper:- Do you know by any chance at what time of the day Colonel Roosevelt was born. A charming woman friend of mine, who is also a great admirer of Mr. Roosevelt, would like to have his horoscope read for her own satisfaction, not for publication, of course. She would like to find out whether this is a lucky year for the Colonel. I am trying hard to write a Bull Moose battle hymn, but I am afraid that Babylonian antiquities lend themselves more readily to my pen than moral uplift. 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Regret it will be impossible to accept kind invitation for tuesday am writing . S. Warburton.. 124op-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. WASHINGTON D.C. Dictated. July 22, 1912. Frank Harper, Esq., c/o The Outlook New York City. My dear Sir: I received your kind invitation this morning to meet Colonel Roosevelt at Luncheon on Tuesday, at one o'clock. I sincerely appreciate the courtesy extended, but matters in connection with Congress will prevent my acceptance. However, if I could meet the Colonel on Tuesday the 30th instant, I should be very glad to come to New York. My plans now are to leave for the West on the 30th instant, and if I could meet him on that date I could arrange my plans accordingly. Very sincerely yours, S. Warburton Second District, Washington. PHILIP P. WELLS WASGINTON, D. C. 1841 Lamont St., N.W. July 22, 1912. 15. My dear Col. Roosevelt: Though probably unknown to you I wish to let you know that you have my good wishes and will have my support in the new Progressive Party movement. I am in the Federal service and am therefore barred from taking part in the work of party organization, but I shall vote the ticket in November, if there is a Progressive ticket in Connecticut to vote, and shall aid the movement by such private influence as I have opportunity for. It was one of the great privileges of my life to enter the public service under your administration (February 19, 1906). I was Law Officer of the Forest Service from March, 1907, until February 1, 1910; then Counsel of the National Conservation Association until May 1, 1911; and since the last date have been Chief Law Officer of the Reclamation Service in Secretary Fisher's office. In all these positions I have given attention to the legal and administrative problems of Conservation in general and of public control of water power in particular. I feel strongly that the place of Conservation in the Progressive program has been somewhat obscured of late, and I believe it will be in great danger in the event of a Democratic victory. I have no means of knowing how Governor Wilson regards it, but manyDemocratic leaders who cannot fail to have great influence in that event are bitterly hostile to it. On Friday last Senator Reed of Missouri (who is, I understand, on Governor Wilson's personally selected campaign committee) openly denounced the Conservation policy in the Senate with sympathetic comment from other Democrats. On the other hand, Mr. Rainey in the House came out strongly on the right side of the water power question, following the trail blazed by your Rainy River and James River veto messages. If he adheres to his expressed purpose free and easy dam license bills will no longer have smooth sailing in the House. (In passing I may add that a large number of such bills have been enacted by Congress and approved by the President since you left the White House, contrary to the policy declared by you in those messages. The "General Dams Act" of 1910, like the much praised "Withdrawal Act" of the same year, was a costly retreat from the position you had taken and held.) Mr. Rainey's action shows that some Democrats are Conservationists, but I have little hope that the party as a whole will be such. Its inherited jealousy of the Federal Government in general and the Executive branch of that Government in particular would lead me to this conclusion without the distinctly hostile note in the Baltimore platform and the Overman resolution (S.Res.362) to investigate the forest Service, introduced on the dat of Senator Reed's attack. At the best the Democratic Party will be of divided counsels in this matter all its tradition and habits weighting the scales on the wrong side. If Mr. Wilson as President should take up -2- the cause of Conservation he would arouse bitter opposition and jeopardize the success of other party measures which will have a prior claim on his enthusiasm. I have had occasion to define "Conservation of Natural Resources" as follows:(Nelson's Loose Leaf Cyclopaedia) "A phrase recently brought into general use to express foresight and restraint in the exploitation of the physical sources of wealth as necessary for the perpetuity of civilization, and the welfare of present and future generations; also the measures necessary to secure such foresight and restraint. The "natural resources" here in view correspond closely to "land" as defined by the classical economists, and include the earth's surface, with the forests and other vegetable crops upon it; the mineral deposits within it; also the waters found on the earth's surface, considered as a means of transportation and agricultural production, and as a source of food and power. For clearness of thinking, it seems desirable to exclude from this conception human beings and institutions. Measures for education, the restraint of child labor, the promotion of eugenics, the improvement of political conditions, should therefore be considered elsewhere. So also goods produced from natural resources (classified as "capital" by the economists), and their preventable waste by fire, by inefficient methods of transportation and manufacture, etc., lie outside the scope of this inquiry. Foresight and restraint are needed to prevent waste and monopoly - that is, to perpetuate the natural resources, as far as possible, for the benefit of present and future generations, and to insure to all men a measurably equal opportunity to use them. The foresight and restraint may well be imposed by every thoughtful and righteous man upon himself. But the vastness of the modern industrial organization, the delicate interrelations of its several parts, the pressure of competition and of greed, the enormous increase in man's power of destruction when backed by a great capital and armed with modern inventions, and the danger to human welfare when this power falls into ignorant or reckless hands, all demand the collective exercise of foresight and restraint acting through political authority. Conservation is therefore a problem in the social control of individualism." I sincerely hope that the declaration of the Progressive Party on this matter will be sound and cleat, for this is an inherent -3-part of the movement for social justice through extended public control. The new party, as I understand it, is to be the political instrument for making this movement effective. While victory at the polls can hardly be looked for this year our foundations for 1916 should be firmly laid. I inclose copy of "Outlines of Water Power Policy," prepared by me for the National Conservation Association, which may interest you; also a copy of my letter of this date to Dr. Luther. Respectfully, Philip P. Wells Col. Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, New York City. Inclosures.For 1 enc. see Wells 7-22-121841 Lamont St., N.W. July 22, 1912. Dear Sir: Progressives are presumably scarce in Connecticut and I therefore hasten to enroll myself among them. I regret that my present position in the Federal service precludes an active part in the party organisation, but I shall support it as a private citisen in all proper ways. I am a resident of Middletown, was formerly an officer of Yale University, and have known Mr. Herbert Knox Smith very well here in Washington. I rejoice in your leadership of the new party in Connecticut. I inclose a copy of my letter of this date to Col. Roosevelt. Sincerely yours, (Signed) PHILIP P. WELLS Hon. Flavel S. Luther, Hartford, Connecticut. Inclosure.[*[Enc in Wells 7-22-12]*]Enc in Johnson ca 7-22-12 7-23-12The Rightful Nominee To the Editor of The North American. There are any number of straight and square Republicans who are not taking a hand in the third-party movement, for the simple reason that they believe that the progressive wing of the Republican party is the dominant, militant and all-controlling factor in that organization today. They point out that the progressive movement was in- cubated and born within the confines of the Republican party. They cite the fight in the house of repre- sentatives during the closing months on the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, when he sent message to that body admonish- ing some of the members thereof and de- nouncing the methods employed by other mem- bers, high in the council, and management of the then policies of congress. 'On January 4, 1909, Mr. Roosevelt, in a message to the house, said, among other things" "This issue is simply, does congress de- sire that the government shall have at its disposal the most efficient instrument for the detection of criminals and the prevention and punishment of crime, or does it not? The action of the house last May was emphatically an action against the interest of Justice and against the interest of law-abiding people, and in its effect, of benefit only to law- breakers. I am not now dealing with motives; whatever may have been the motive that in- duces the action of which I speak, this was beyond all question the effect of that action. Is the house now willing to remedy the wrong?" The house of representatives then under the management and control of Speaker Cannon and his followers, refused to provide for an appropriation asked by President Roosevelt for the purpose of detecting fraud against the government, running it down and punishing the offenders. From the day forward, the revolt against Cannon and his regime in the house became a burning issue. Roosevelt stood with the "insurgents," as they were then called, against Cannon, Payne, Daizell and other standpatters in the house. He has a fight on with the senate, too, but this was the real fight. It culminated when Cannon was removed from the committee on rules of the house and his wings severely clipped by the pro- gressive Republicans. They went home in the early summer of 1910 and swept the west in their fight for pro- gressive principles. They grew in numbers and developed in strength until, at the national Republican con- vention in Chicago last month, they consti- tuted a majority of the action Rebuplican delegates from the states that furnish the votes to elect a president. Several of these progressive Republicans have sought legal counsel, relative to the pos- sibility of securing the lawful rights of the delegates who were not permitted to take their seats in the national Republican convention. They have been advised that they only way whereby the power of the courts may be in- voked relates soley to the performance of some duty by a public official who holds a re- sponsible office for a fixed term. A political convention, they have been ad- vised, is not amenable to the courts, although its action may be so amenable when taken in connection with the performance of a public duty by a public official, for instance, in pre- paring a ballot or making up a list of electors. Since receiving these opinions from eminent lawyers in Washington, some of them sena- tors and congressmen, those progressives who claim that Roosevelt is the real Republican nominee have taken this position: Theodore Roosevelt is the nominee for presi- dent of the United States by the rightfully elected and uncontested majority of the dele- gates to the late national Republican conven- tion of Chicago. The rightful and uncontested majority of delegated to that convention were elected by substantial, emphatic majorities at primary elections, where a majority of the Republican voters prevailed, in spite of the opposition of those who not only denied the right of the Republican voters to express their will in popu- lar primaries, but denied the rights of the delegates thus elected to assume the responsi- bilities and take the control over those mat- ters which, by virtue of such popular Repub- lican primaries, were vested in such delegates. The rightful and uncontested majority of delegated to the late Republican national con- vention, in protest of such action and in fur- ther protest against the national committee which denied the rights of a majority to rule and overturned the efforts of the rightful and uncontested majority of the delegates to carry out and obey the will and register the in- structions as given them by a majority of Re- publican voters, assembled at Orchestra Hall on June 22, 1912, and nominated Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for president in conformity to the expressed will of a majority of the Republican voters of the country, who stand back of that nomination. Colonel Roosevelt is therefore entitled to the support of every honest Republican who be- lieves in the right of a majority to rule and of every voter who believes in common decency and fair play. These progressive Republicans, therefore, will continue the fight, and support Roosevelt and the right in this campaign. FREDERICK A. JOHNSON. Washington, D. C., JULY 12. [Editor's Note. - Mr. Johnson is connected with senate committee on interstate commerce, of which Senator Clapp is chairman.]point. No official reply has been made to this proposition as 'yet. PROGRESSIVES OF ONTARIO ORGANIZE Elect Officers and Discuss Plans at Geneva Meeting. Special Dispatch to the Democrat and Chronicle. Geneva, July 19. - The National Progressive party formed a temporary organization in this city to-night in the office of Hunt & Hosmer. It is understood that this will eventually become the county organization of the new party. F.W. Hosmer, provisional county chairman, called the meeting to order. About fifty former members of the Republican party were in attendance. Among them were ex-alderman Dr. Frank A. Greene, Dr. G.B. Young, member of the Board of Health; Frederick Whitwell, former member of the Republican Committee and George H. Huey, a prominent Republican leader. The organization was formed by the elec. of Dr. Greene as president; Alby C. Boyd, secretary; T.M. Crouse, treasurer; all of this city. The sentiment of the meeting was that a full county ticket be put in the field and a county convention was called to take place in the Town Hall at Canandaigua on the afternoon of Thursday, July 25th. At this convention six congressional delegates will be selected.Encl in Metcalf 7-22-12Page 4 THE TREASURE Insurgents Stirring. The Bull Moosers started to snort a little at Helena this week and on July 29 they will hold what is called a "mass convention: for the purpose of nominating a full list of candidates. They may also have a platform although none of those active in the preliminaries seemed to know just what the paramount issue would be except Roosevelt. At fist no regular ticket as thought of, but when Mr. James A. Metcalf became aware that Senator Dixon is to be a candidate for re-nomination he decided that something must be done about the legisture. Mr. Metcalf, who seemed to dominate the insurgent gathering, was elected secretary and may be looked upon as the leader of teh Roosevelt movement in Montana. Frank J. Edwards, the former Mayor of Helena, "Swede" Murphy of Butte and a number of other more or less prominent men sat in the symposium but htey had very little to suggest. Mr. Metcalf told me that the new party did not expect to win any elections this year, but that the members were determined to make a beginning and would be satisfied if they succeed in launching the organization. The defection of Judge Cheadle and others who were supposed to be ardently insurgent, will not deter the little band of Dixonites who seem chiefly moved by a desire to be known as having absolutely withdrawn from the republican party. Senator Meyer of Carbon county was conspicuously missing from the Helena convention, and although he is supposed to be aggressively at war with the regulars and has pronounced plans for a campaign for congress, yet the leaders assembled at the Capital City didn't know just where the Carbon senator intends to head in. Senator Meyer's bold defiances, uttered at Livingston during the recent convention, will probably prevent him from any chance at the regular nomination for congress and unless the Roosevelts follow the example of Judge Cheadle by coming back meekly into the fold, they are not likely to get much consideration at the republican state convention. Munsey's published statement that Senator Dixon is to be "again deposed" by Roosevelt has had a depressing effect upon the Bull Moosers of Montana, some of whom are yet honestly mistaken in the belief that the Colonel is the only Moses in their wilderness of political unrest.