6 No. 6. The President's Personal Letter Book From July 29, 1902 to October 22, 1902 2536Indexed 121-130-256-310-325-380-418-438-463 180-End-Attorney General 62-175-310-316-383 Postmaster General 171- Secy. of State 81-90-144-177-195-232 Secy. of the Navy 70-189-223-318 Secy. of War 308-317-367 Secy of the Treasury 226-277 Secy. of Agriculture 89 Secy. of InteriorAdams, Chas. Fallen 98 Alexander, Wm. Felix 135- Aldrich, N. W. 261 Ames, Ch 218 Allison, Gen. W.B. 217 Andrews, Byron 289 Abbott, Dr. Lyman 291-372 Alge, Gen. R.A. 307 Andrews, W.R. 396 [AB]A R Belford, John L. 36-39 Buddy, Lewis, 3d- 63- Bragg, Mrs. E.Y. 85- Brandeyee, E.D. 106 - Breckinridge, J.C. 121 Butler, Nicholas M. 122-130-442 Bishop, J.B. 132-287-373-389-411-440 Bowen, Mrs a.c. 142 - Benson, Arthur C 150- Babcock, J.W. 183- Braun, Marcus 239 Belmont, August 246-326 Bullock, Seth 255- Bacon, Robert 340-363-452 Beresford, Lord Chas 385 Bullock, Stuart E. 387 Billings, Shenard 401 Burdette, Robt. J 417 Baldwin, Arthur D. 455C D Cowles, W.S 21-99-294 Cowles, Mrs. W.S. 30-94-176-243-404 Cortelyou, Geo. B. 40-41 Crane, John 45 Clay, Brutus J. 55- Crimmins, Jno. O 86- Curtis, Chas. 107 Clarkson, J.L. 126-151-266 Chanler, Winthrop 128-184- Crane, W. Murray 133-173-384-421 Cassatt, A.J. 141 Cushman, Edw. P. 209 Connally, Jas. B. 268 Corrothers, Rev. D.L. 311 Craig, Mrs. Isabella 313 Curtin, Jeremiah 320 Clayton, Powell 330 Cleveland, Grover 336-379-401-1/2 Corbin, Gen. H.C. 343 Coupitin Baron Pine W. 353 Cleveland, Mrs. Grover 391 Chandler, W.L. 423 Conatz, Bishop. Thos. J. 428 Copeland, Guild A. 444 Collier, Robt. J. 462Dyer Hubert 8 Dunne F.P. 12-466 Dana Paul 28 Dickens, David 64 Dunn, Geo. W. 66 Dresser, D.L.R. 92-149-207-221 Dodge, Grenville M. 100-101-433 Dodge, Cleveland 127 Driscoll, M.E. 199 Day, James R. 236 Dodge, Col. Theo. A. 265 Dajdog, Circiaco 290 Davis, Richd Harding 319 David, Rev. Ira E. 352 David, L. Clarke 438 Dennison, Lindsay 446Eder Wm Henry 76 Elliot, J. L. 136 Elliott, Maud 163 Edward, King VII - 210 Edward VII, His Majesty 398 Egan, Maurice F. 464 EF EFFrick H.C. 19 Foraker, J.B. 120-164- Fuller, Melville W. 137 Flanagan, Wm. L. 210 1/2 Frye, Wm. P. 214-306-413-50 Fairley, D.B. 327 Fincke, F.G. 345 Fish, Stuynsant 377-386-474 Furie, Jas. G. 416G H Gleaves, Albert 95- Gray, Horace 111- Goddard, Capt. Norton 140-270 Grigsby. Melvin 212- Garfield, J.R. 225- Gibbons, Cardinal 242- Gilder, R.W. 166- Gregory, Elliot 264 Gardner, Mrs. A. P. 277 1/2 Gardner, Q. B 298 Gray, Geo. 408 Griscom, Clement A. 422 Gunton, Geo. 432 Garland, Hamlin 458G H Heald Chas. M. 2 Hoar Geo. J. Hon. 17-110-117-429-472 Hunt, Wm H. 69 - 445 Hay, John 81-90-144-177-195-232-254-304-443 Hammond, E. L. 112-152-205- Harriman, E. H. 147-241- Hanna, Mrs. Mark 168 - Holmes, Oliver W. 169-198- Hawley, Jos. R. 190- Hanna, M.A. 196-200-259-296-332-333-410 Higgins, F.W. 285 Hamilton, Isaac. M. 299 Harrison, Col. Russell B. 321 Haynes, D.O. 366I J Ireland, John 102 - 131 - I JI J Jenkins, Miss. Em. 3 Jenkins Maj. M. J. 9 Johnston, Wm D. 79 Jelke, Ferdinand Jr., 87- Jobe, Herbert K. 273 Janvier, Thos. A. 275 Jenkins, Jrs. J, M.C. 355 Jay, Augustus 420K L Knox, P. C. 62 - 175- Kitson, Gerald 155- Keach, W. H. 346 Kernan, Jus. D. 426 K LK L Lodge Hen. H.C. 15-84-123-124-170-219-261-281-302-365-434 LaFarge C. Grant 24 Lummis, Chas. F. 119-188- Lord, Chester S. 134- Leupp, Francis M. 138- Lowell, Francis C. 143 Littauer, L. N. 160- Lee, Arthur 172- Lowndes, Lloyd 178- La Farge, Mrs. C. Grant 299 Long, Mrs. G. 309 Low, Mayor Seth 324-359-419 Laffan, Wm M. 371 Leland, Chas. G. 380 Lungren, Fernand 381-418 Lee, Jus. Clarence 425 Lowell, Mrs. Josephine S. 479M Mc Moody, W. H. 70 - 189 - 223 - Martin, Edw. S. 179 - 234 - Murray, Thos. Hamilton 197- Minto, Lord 215- Maybury, W. C. 412 Morton, Paul 431 Minott, Geo. L. 480 Mahan, A. T. 481 M McM Mc McBee, Silas 105 - 370 McMahon, James 229 - McKelway, Dr. St. Clair 349 Macdona, H. D. 456 McIlhenny, Jno. A. 469N O Nelson, Knute 67 - 216 - Nash, Harry W. 93 N ON O O'Reilly, R. M. 68-468 Olney, Richard 114 Odell, B.B. 182-284-453 Otis, Harrison Gray 227- Olwin, Dr. J. H. 305 O'Gorman, Bishop Thos. 479P Q Pauncefote The. Hon. Maud 1 Parsons J. R. 6 Proctor J. R. 25-113 Platt, T. C. 58-73-103-247 Pubasco, S. W. 88- Philbin, Eugena A. 96-97-477 Pritchard, J. C. 118- Parker, Mr. & Mrs. Geo. B. 154- Payne, Sereno E. 157- Patteson, L. Louise 165 Payne, H.C. 171- Page, Walter H. 222- Peabody, Endicott 256- Petrie, Mrs. R. S. 272 Patterson, Lt. Wm. L. 295- Platt, Sen. O. H. 314 Porter, Gen. Horace 328 Putnam, Herbert 341-359 Parker, E. W. 406 Post, Regis H. 445 P QP Q Quay, M. S. 108 - 224 - 397 - 430R S Riis Jacob A. 22 - 156 - 185 - 361 Reid Hon. Whitelaw 31-109- 162 - Roosevelt, R. B. Jr. 104 - Russell, Gordon 148 - Ryraport, London 209 1/2 Roosevelt, Fredk 213 - 415 Root, T. H. & L. C. 231- Roosevelt, Theo. Jr. 280-392 Roosevelt, Kermit 282-393 Rockwell, G. L. 342 Riis, Jno. 375 Reynolds, Henry 395 R SR S Sayers How. J.D. 11 Stewart P. B. 13-74-388-439 Stewart, Wm M 34 Steyn, Pieter G. 59- Shoup, Geo. L. 78- Simmons, T.H. 91- Schurman, J.G. 116-158 Steyn, Miss 146- Stranahan, N.N. 180-470 Spooner, John C. 194-312 Shaw, Albert 203-301 Shaw, L.M. 226-277- Sewall, Wm 230- Storer, Eben 288- Sandhaur, Henry 329 Sage, A.J. 344 Shaw, W.H. 351 Stella, Sister 382 Spalding, Bishop J. L. 409 T U Taft, Wm H. (47-52) Tuckerman, Emily 174 Trumbell, Chas G. 208 Tirrell, Chas. Q. 211- Tennison, Lord H 399 Thuring, Chas. F. 414 Thompson, D.E. 471 Thurman, Allen W. 476 T UV W van Schaack, Miss Mary 23 Van Rooyan, I. M. S. 61- 145- von Rebeur-Paschwitz, Lt. Comdr. 65 *Verestchagin, W. 186- von Schleinitz, Emil 193- Veale, Geo. M. 252 Villard, Oswald Garrison 322-369 Van Dyke, Rev. Dr. Henry 348 Ver Planck, Miss Sara M. 350 Van Vorst Mrs. Bessie 449 *Verestchagin, W. 454 V WV W Wreun R.D. 4 Washington, B.T. 5 White W.A. 7-153-159-347-463 Wister Owen 20 Wadsworth W.A. 27 Wetmore, Geo. P. 53- White, Andrew D. 72-244-245- Wheeler, Joseph 77-427 Ware, E.F. 83- Wilson, James 89- Welch, Philip H. 125 Wilcox, Ansley 204- William, Emperor 209 1/2 Williams, Roger D 228 Wiley, Louis 240 Wright, Albert P. 293 Wood, Gen. Leonard 300 [White, Wm A. 349] Warner, B.H. 356 Wilson, Gen. Jus. M. 405 Watkins, Thos. H. 407 Walsh, Thos. F. 424 Wilson, Dr. Woodrow 457 Woodard, J. H. 460 Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart P. 465Yerkes, John W. 561 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. My dear Miss Pauncefote: Mrs. Roosevelt and I read your letter, and we thought it characteristically kind and thoughtful of you to write as you did. If I was able to contribute in no matter how small a degree to having the proper honors paid to the memory of your father, whom I so much respected and admired and of whom I was so fond, I am indeed glad. It pleased us both to have you speak as you did of us here and of your life in Washington. You know that we grew to regard you as friends in every sense, and I am more than glad that you should feel as you do. Give my warmest regards to Lady Pauncefote and to your sisters. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt The Honorable Maud Pauncefote, 19, Chesham Place, S.W., London, England.2 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 26, 1902. My dear Mr. Heald: Naturally your letter pleases me. By the way, my foes now accuse me of giving offices chiefly to Yale men and Rough Riders: I will find out from Mr. Cortelyou whether your very kind suggestion about the train can be carried out. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles M. Heald, Pere Marquette Railroad, Detroit, Michigan.3 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 26, 1902. Dear Miss Jenkins: It is most kind of you to present me with the flowers when passing through North Asbury. They were much appreciated and were afterwards placed on the dining table on the "Mayflower". I take pleasure in appending the six signatures you request, as a slight return for them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Miss Elsie N. Jenkins, 600 Third Avenue, Asbury Park, N. J. Enclosure.4 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. Dear Bob: I am afraid it is out of the question for me come. By the way, can I get fair seats for Ted and his two cousins, who are going? I wish so much that I could go myself. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert D. Wrenn, 45 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.5 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Washington: I had a very nice note from Smith, whom I think is really pleased with his appointment. With Deas I have had some talks, but they were not satisfactory, because somehow our ideas did not "gee". Do you know,I often feel as if I really were hardly fitted to encounter certain classes of politicians. Of course I must, for it is my business. It will be a pleasure to see Mr. Murphy if there is anything I ought to know from him, but I do not want to see him unless he has something definite to say, as I am trying to get a rest. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Booker T. Washington, South Waymouth, Massachusetts. 6 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. Dear Jim: Delighted to hear that things have gone so well. Give my love to Penny. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Mr. J.R. Parsons, Jr., Secretary, University of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y.7 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. Personal. My dear White: I hardly understand what can be meant by Burton claiming that I want the rebate proposition, inasmuch as I expressly stated in my letter that I did not want it, and in my Fourth of July speech that I stood as I stood on my message, and that we were going to win on it. Thank you very much for the editorials. How well Leland has behaved. As regards the marshal, it seems to me that it would be best for me to require the entire delegation to unite before I appoint any one. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. A. White, Emporia, Kansas.8 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. Personal. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 23d instant. Did you see my special message to Congress? If I failed therein to show that as a matter of interest to the United States from the standpoint of her world policy, no less than as a matter of generous dealing with Cuba, we should have reciprocity with her, why I am afraid I could hardly show it in a private letter. Do you recollect the feeling that many Californians had against the admission of Hawaii, on much the same grounds that reciprocity with Cuba is objected to? Well, there proved to be no justification for that feeling, and the same is true in this case. As regards California in particular, the freight charges will always be a heavy factor in favor of her beet sugar as against Cuban can sugar. In the home market the same is true of beet sugar9 in the Rocky Mountains. In my judgment, giving the benefit to Cuban sugar would hurt foreign competitors rather than the growers of the United States. On the other hand, I feel very strongly that we should control the Cuban market in the interest of our own producers; and what is more important, if we are to continue the part we have announced our determination to play on the Isthmus and in the adjoining waters, we must face the fact that ultimately Cuba will have to be put in special relations to us economically no less than from the standpoint of international policy. As I said before, I went into all this in my special message and stated it as strongly as I know how. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Hubert Dyer, 121 California Street, San Francisco, California.10 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. My dear Major: I was glad to hear from you. Good luck go with you always. I have every confidence in you. Faithfull yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major M.J. Jenkins, Collector of Internal Revenue, Charleston, S.C.11 Oyster Bay, N.J., July 29, 1902. My dear Governor: I am in receipt of your favor of the 24th instant. I thank you most cordially. I do not know whether I shall be able to get to Texas this fall, but some time I certainly shall. As you know, my regiment was mustered in inTexas. I have always intended that the next reunion of the regiment should be held in San Antonio. As you know, I have held you in high regard, and it would be a pleasure to renew my acquaintance. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Joseph D. Sayers, Governor of Texas, Austin, Texas. 12 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Dunne: I agree to the clams as inhabitants of Oyster Bay, but I violently protest against the mosquitoes -- at least in our house. Don't you want to come here and try it yourself? Are you in or near New York? If so, could you not come down here some evening and pass the night? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Finley Peter Dunne, Care of Harper's Weekly, New York, N. Y. 13 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. Personal. My dear Stewart: I am in receipt of your letter of the 24th, with clipping from the Rocky Mountain News, and am greatly annoyed and mortified over that publication. I have written very sharply to the Attorney General's office and to my own. Evidently some clerk of mine made the unpardonable error of putting your letter into the public instead of the private files with your other correspondence, and then some one in the Attorney General's Office let the matter be published. The enclosed telegram from Stevenson explains itself. Do you know anything about lliff? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Philip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Enclosure. (Over)P.S.- Since writing the above, your letter of the 26th came. IF you have not already written me, wire the results of the decision of you and Fairley as to Milson. I will of course back up your decision. My suggestion to accept him if he is a good man was made subject to the better knowledge of the case that you, Howbert, Fairley, and others have - being on the ground.15 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 30, 1902. Personal. Dear Cabot: I enclose Hoar's letter. Tell no one you have seen it, and send it back to me. I have written him that if there is anything against Holmes, or any reason why anyone else should be put in the place, I should be delighted to hear from him, and will wait until I do. The foolish letter of Adams, Schurz, and Welsh was simply acknowledged by my secretary. My present intention is to take no further notice of it. They do not give a specific instance, although they say they could give several. It is of course an unpardonable bit of folly and impertinence on their part to speak as they do. If they gave me a definite case I should look it up; but I am in no way bound to ask them what the definite particulars are of cases which they allege that they have, when they do not choose to volunteer the information. If16 I had to write a general answer to their letter, I would either simply send them a copy of my Arlington speech or else take off their individual hides. The latter would be what I should like to do, but I hardly think it is worth while dignifying them. There is one consideration, however: I should like to keep this anti-imperialist issue to the fore in the congressional campaigns, for if it is made the main issue we can certainly beat the Democrats out of their boots. For this reason I have thought it possible it might be well to take some notice of it. I doubt, however, whether they are important enough to keep the public gaze fixed upon them. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*???? has a been a ferocious ???? - ???? of A.P.A- a ????k against Taft! It is on behalf of its ???? I cannot, ???? but you speak in New York ??????????*] Hon. H. C. Lodge, U.S.S., Nahant, Massachusetts. Enclosure.17 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 30, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Hoar: I am in receipt of your letter of the 28th instant. I wrote to you of course so that if there was any reason why Holmes should not be appointed in your judgment, you would tell me. Equally, of course, my statement that I would make the appointment did not mean that I would make it if I was shown that such reason existed. I did not phrase my letter as carefully as if it was an ordinary appointment, simply because Holmes being chief justice in the State, and having the reputation he has, I supposed it was rather a formal matter. But if there is the slightest reason against his appointment I of course wish to know it. Ever since Judge Gray's sickness I have been looking over the field as carefully as I could in Massachusetts, as I wished to fill the place from that State, if possible. Entirely unsolicited by me, scores of people have written and spoken to me about different candidates -- various18 members of the Massachusetts delegation, for instance - ex-Secretary Long - Mr. Olney - members of the bar in Massachusetts - heads of big corporations and banking houses, etc., etc. I had a long talk with Judge Gray himself, and when he left Boston he expected to keep his position until the fall. He has now written me, however, that he wishes to resign at once. Under such circumstances, it seems to me desirable to announce that his place is to be filled forthwith. If there is reason why Judge Holmes should not be appointed, or why some one else should be put in the place, I should of course like to hear it at your earliest convenience; and I shall make no announcement until I hear from you. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, U.S.S., Worcester, Massachusetts.19 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 30, 1902. My dear Mr. Frick: That picture is a beauty. My house is so small that I shall probably take it to the White House, where incidentally,it will do immense good, for the pictures of the White House are not all that fancy would like to paint them! You are awfully kind to have thought of me in so attractive a way. Next winter we count upon having Mrs. Frick and yourself to one of our dinners in the new State Dining Room of the White House; and then you shall see how well the picture looks in its new surroundings. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. C. Frick, Pittsburg, Pa. 20 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 30, 1902. Dear Dan: When are you apt to be going through New York, or in the neighborhood? Whenever it is, unless I am away, I wish you could come down and spend a night - so let me know in advance. I was delighted to learn that the Virginian was being appreciated as it should be. That, my dear [??], is a big book or I am greatly out in my judgment. We are both so glad you are well again, and are looking forward to seeing you here. We want you to give our warm regards to Mrs. Wister. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Owen Wister, Saunderstown, R. I. 21 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 30, 1902. Dear Will: Thank you very much. You are awfully good. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Captain W. S. Cowles, U.S.N., Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 22 Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 30, 1902. Dear Jake: Don't you want to come down to see me some time? Come to lunch. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jacob A. Riis, Richmond Hill, N. Y. 23 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 30, 1902. My dear Miss Van Schnack: It was a pleasure to hear from my grandfather's old friend, and I thank you for writing me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Mary Van Schnack, Box 116, Kinderhook, N. Y.24 Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 30, 1902. Dear Grant: Can you come down Thursday of next week for the night? We shall be so very glad to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. Grant LaFargo, 30 East 21st Street, New York, N. Y.25 Personal. Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 30, 1902. My Dear Procter: Mr. Cortelyou is out for war with the Civil Service Commission about the telegrapher, but I thought I would sign your special rule. It should be understood, however, definitely that every position like that of telegrapher, or clerk, or any other in the White House, must be treated as of a special and confidential type. I would not dream of putting into such a position any man whom there was not good reason to believe was fitted for confidential work. The chance for damage by a foolish or treacherous clerk is very great anyhow, and it would not do to increase it. The recent experiences in the War Department where unauthorized publications have caused serious detriment to the service, are examples in point. I saw Garfield yesterday. I am deeply outraged by the part the fool [????] civil service reformers have taken in backing Mrs. Taylor's suit. The suit has already had a bad effect in making heads of departments afraid to remove recalcitrant clerks. My present feeling is that it will force me to repeal the rule requiring anything in the nature of a trial. What geese some of these civil service reformers are! It is to my mind obvious that in most offices the temptation is not to turn out men improperly, but to keep great numbers26 -2- of clerks who out to be turned out for the good of the service. Real detriment to the public interest is caused by the way in which such action as that taken in the Taylor case affects many heads of bureau or offices. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John R. Procter, President, U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. 27 Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 30, 1902. Dear Austin: Thank you very much for both your letters. Give my love to your wife. I do not know when we met any one to whom both of us took such a fancy so immediately. Next winter we want you both down at the White House, when we shall have decent rooms in which to put you. I which you all luck in your camping. Perhaps those forestry letters might be sent to Pinehot. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. A. Wadsworth, The Homestead, Genesee, N. Y.28 Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 30, 1902. Personal. My dear Dana: There are all kinds of ridiculous stories faked continually by the different newspaper people here. The Associated Press and Seripps-McRae people have not been doing it. After some hesitation, I think I ought to tell you that your man has been doing it. None of the newspaper men come around the house or ever see me, and the stories they send out are for the most part sheer inventions. Your man does not seem to be malicious in his inventions, but he deliberately makes up stories which he thinks might have happened, but which as a matter of fact do not happen. As I say, I do not know that there is much harm in the stories, but still they have not a word of truth in them, and they lean towards the ridiculous. It seems to me that they are not proper stories to be told about the President or the members of his family, and are not proper to appear in the columns of a paper29 like the Sun - being for the most part without any foundation in fact. Next week I shall have a day's target practice on the "Mayflower", and I should like to take the representatives of the three press associations. But I very much wish you would send instead of your present man at Oyster Bay some one who will tell the facts as they are and will not try to make up for the fact that nothing is happening here by having recourse to invention. The plain truth of course is that I am living here with my wife and children just exactly as you are at your home; and there is no more material for a story in one case than in the other! It was a very great pleasure to have you and Mrs. Dana over here the other evening. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Paul Dana, The Sun, New York, N. Y.30 Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 30, 1902. Darling [B]ye: We have just had a fleeting glimpse of Will which did us all good. What a trump the dear fellow is. I thank you very much for the interesting clipping; also for the letter from Lady Lenox. I suppose I need not answer the latter! It was a real pleasure to see you and to be able to hear your very interesting experiences. I have already notified Stranahan about the Reids. I think they were quite right not to remain as private guests. I shall get them over here to lunch as soon as possible. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. W. S. Cowles, Camp Elsinore, Paul Smiths, N. Y.31 Oyster Bay, NY July 31st My dear Mr. Ambassador- Congratulations upon your safe return and upon the admirable manner in which you have handled the whole affair. Cannot Mrs. Reid and you lunch with us entirely alone on Monday next, August fourth? With great regard, I am Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, The [?] N. Y. City[*32*] "See Page 1" [handwritten] Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 29, 1902. My dear Miss Pauncefote: Mrs. Roosevelt and I read your letter, and we thought it characteristically kind and thoughtful of you to write as you did. If I was able to contribute in no matter how small a degree to having the proper honors paid to the memory of your father, whom I so much respected and admired and of whom I was so fond, I am indeed glad. It pleased us both to have you speak as you did of us here and of your life in Washington. You know that we grew to regard you as friends in every sense, and I am more than glad that you should feel as you do. Give my warmest regards to Lady Pauncefote and to your sisters. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [faint signature] The Honorable Maud Pauncefote, 19, Chesham Place, S.W., London, England.[*33*] Personal. Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 1, 1902. My dear Senator Stewart: I thank you heartily for your letter of the 26th ultimo. You are authorized to state that while my relations with Mr. Newlands were perfectly friendly, yet that as a matter of fact in drawing up the irrigation part of my message and in consulting about it I never consulted him in any way, shape or manner. I did consult with you and Senator Warren of Wyoming, and went over the matter with Mr. Pinchot and Mr. Maxwell and several gentlemen in the Interior Department. I also went over the matter with Congressman Mondell of Wyoming and with Judge Van Devanter of that State. When the bill was in the Senate, you and Senators Warren and Gibson were the westerners with whom I went over the matter; in the House, with Congressmen Long, Reeder, and Mondell. As a matter of fact, while the bill was before Congress, the people with whom I spent most of my time about it were the easterners, because it was among them that I had to do missionary work. Thus, I discussed the matter at length with Governor Odell, and it was through his assistance that I was able to get as many New York votes for it. I see Whitelaw Reid on Monday and will then bring up the D.O. Mills34 -2- matter. Surely it ought to be unnecessary for for me to say how eagerly I desire a Republican victory in Nevada this fall. I would rather you do not quote this letter verbatim, simply because it would establish a precedent in letter writing which might return to plague me. But all the statements herein made I shall be delighted to have you repeat, saying that you know from me personally that they represent my feelings. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. M. Stewart, U.S.S., Carson City, Nevada.35 Personal. Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 31, 1902. My dear Father Belford: Before receiving your second letter I had, in answer to your first note, dictated to you the enclosed. I send it to you because I think you ought to know the impression made upon me by Father Wynne's letter in the Post. Frankly, I began to feel rather warlike over the utterly unjustifiable attacks made upon me. I am anxious to avoid a public fight on this business, but I am anxious not for my own sake, but because I think whichever way such a fight came out the effect would be bad upon the country. Your description of Father Wynne's attitude in your letter puts the case on an entirely different basis. I shall be delighted at any time, my dear Father Belford, to have you and him call here. It had better be some evening. Archbishop Ryan has just telegraphed me that he wants to come on and see me next Monday. There is one thing I must say about the friars. Great stress is laid upon the fact that they have been loyal to the United States government. They could not be anything else. It was the United States government which prevented their throats being cut and their36 -2- property confiscated. At no time since the Spaniards surrendered the government to our hands has there been a chance for them even to keep their lives save by the action of the United States authorities. If our hand had at any moment been withdrawn, their property would have been forfeited immediately and death or exile would have been the alternatives for them. Father Wynne should recall the correspondence between Aguinaldo and General Otis when General Otis in vain strove to induce Aguinaldo to release the friars he held captive, and Aguinaldo retorted by saying that the insurrection was waged against Spain and against the friars, because they were really Spain's right hand. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. John L. Belford, 69 South Third Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Enclosure.32 Personal. Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 31, 1902. My dear Father Belford: I thank you for Father Wynne's letter. To be perfectly frank, I do not particularly like what he writes about "restoring confidence in the President". I do not want confidence 'restored' in me save as it has to be done by people who have been misled finding out what I have done. If after knowing how I have acted on the facts as set before me, they still think that that it is a case of "restoring confidence" in me, why they must e'en continue to think so - that is all. I have just seen Father Wynne's letter in the Evening Post. To judge from this letter he thinks that we ought forcibly put Spanish priests in the parishes in the place of the native priests. This strikes me as rather a large contract from every standpoint, even disregarding for the moment the question as to the possibility, under our system of government, of imposing on a parish by the action of the state a certain priest whom its parishioners refuse to receive. There is another sentence in Father Wynne's letter which, appearing as it does in the columns of the Evening Post, strikes me as thoroughly comic. He says that the "leading conspirators instead of freed when taken should have been severely dealt with". The Evening Post has had as its chief stock in trade concerning the Philippines the asser-38 -2- tion that we have dealt too severely with these conspirators and their followers. Moreover, Father Bedford, if you turn back through the files of the Catholic papers which are now attacking us on the line that Father Wynne attacks us, you would see that during the insurrection they have repeatedly attacked us for our severity in dealing with the insurgents, and particularly with some of these insurgent priests. I have seen some very bitter attacks of this kind in these papers during the past six months, and at the time they scouted our perfectly truthful statement that the insurgents if left to themselves intended to drive out without compensation the religious orders. I shall of course be glad to see Father Wynne or any other man whom you think it would be well for me to see. But from Father Wynne's letter it seems to me that he has got an immense amount to learn himself before he attempts to teach any one. Without discussion now the wisdom or unwisdom of having yielded to the request of Archbishop Ireland, sanctioned by Cardinal Gibbons, and allowing Governor Taft to go to Rome for the purpose outlined in Secretary Root's letter, it remains true that what has actually been done in the Philippines has been, by the testimony of every Catholic whom I have met who has been over there, absolutely right and proper, and that it is wild folly to assert such things as Father Wynne does in his closing -3- paragraph. It was a great pleasure to see you and Mr. Philbin and Mr. Travers the other evening. Sincerely yours, [no signature] Rev. John L. Belford, 69 South Third Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 40 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 1, 1902. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: Many thanks for the western schedule. Now, for heaven's sake, confine yourself strictly to having a good time. Everything is going well here. With warmest regards to Mrs. Cortelyou and the children, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon, Geo. S. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, Hempstead, L.I., N.Y. (Over)41 P.S. - First, as to my visit to Newport: I think I would rather go down there on Saturday evening to spend a part of Sunday, so as not to be there on Monday. I would like to spend Monday quietly at Nahant with Lodge. Next, as to the enclosed: I think it would probably be better to write to Mrs. Carse that as there seems to be a split among the temperance women on this question, and as the President cannot possibly enter into any factional contest, he must request that the further use of his letter be discontinued. What do you think? Enclosures.42 Private. Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 31, 1902. My dear Major Crane: Have you seen Mr. Philbin and Father Belford since they took dinner with us? There is much that I cannot now explain at sufficient length on paper which I went over with them. In the first place, remember that in what we advocated doing at Rome we not only acted upon the request of Archbishop Ireland but with the cordial approval of Cardinal Gibbons. We thought that Taft's going to Rome might arouse anti-Catholic hostility. It never entered our heads that we would encounter Catholic hostility. This was the reason why Taft wrote for the Outlook and the Independent, because he thought that was where he would have to convince people. Now about the friars: Until within the last month, I speak literally when I say I had never met a Catholic who did not cordially agree that in the interest of the Catholic church the friars should leave the Philippines. You know John D. Crimmins, and his standing as a Catholic. Well, if you will get hold of his son, Martin Crimmins, an officer in the American army, or get him to show you Martin's letters which were written to Archbishop Corrigan, you will find that he is against the friars remaining in the Philippines. Every Catholic I met who had returned from the Philippines took the same ground43 -2- that Taft did and that Vice-Governor Luke Wright, who has a Catholic wife, did. The parish priests are, as you know, the chief opponents of the friars. Let me repeat again that the People through whom I feared criticism were the extreme anti-Catholics, for our course was taken purely with the purpose of making an arrangement by which Catholic priests to whom the Catholic Filipinos would listen might be substituted for Catholic priests whom they would not even receive. That extreme anti-Catholics might interpret this as improper interference in the affairs of the Catholic church, I thought possible; but I did not think it possible that any one could misinterpret it as an assault upon the Catholic church. I entirely agree with you as to the serious misfortune of not having at least one American Catholic upon the Philippine Commission. At the first opportunity I shall put upon it such a man. There is a Catholic in the Philippines, Judge Smith, who went over there as colonel of the first California regiment, in whom I have great confidence, and I have written for a full statement from him on this friar question. Whatever is done now most assuredly, my dear Major, shall be done under conditions which will render it impossible for any misrepresentation in the future. I have written to Taft that as regards the friars I want nothing done save at the request, if possible, of44 -3- both the church authorities and of the lay Catholics speaking through authorized representatives, and that my own feeling is that unless excellent reason to the contrary can be shown nothing further be done at present, save to continue to do the even-handed justice which we have hitherto done -- for, mind you, not an act has been committed by our government against the friars. All that has been done is to negotiate with the Holy See to see whether if we purchased for the advantage of the friars a large amount of property, which we did not want and from which their parishioners have expelled them, they would in their turn agree to the substitution of other Catholic religious whom the Filipinos would receive, instead of the Catholic religious whom all observers, Catholic and Protestant, in the army and in civil life, agreed that they hated with the most bitter animosity. In conclusion, my dear Major, let me say something as to what you state as to the possible political effect upon my own fortunes. If I stand for any principle whatever, it is for absolute fair play and square dealing as between creed and creed, class and class, section and section, man and man. I could no more do an injustice or connive at an injustice, to the Catholic than to the Protestant -- indeed, I may say that the very fact that I am not a Catholic myself would make me guard their rights with a peculiar jealousy. But I know that according to the light that was given me I have been acting-4- in an absolutely open and straightforward manner for the interests of the Philippine people, religious and moral, no less than material. I think it very unfortunate that any religious question like this should be brought into the arena of political discussion, and I know that you are incapable of any other attitude in the matter than that which I myself hold. But I would not wish any one to think for one moment that I would be influenced in my action on such an important matter by any possible fear of consequences to myself. I should be sorry if I suffered politically for doing what I thought was right, but I would a great deal rather suffer politically than take any step which I deemed hostile to the interest and welfare of the people of the Philippine Islands. I shall now do my best to find out what the facts are from Catholic sources in the islands -- although, as I say, without a single dissenting voice all the information, from Catholics and Protestants alike, who have been in the islands has been to the effect that the action we strive to have the Holy See take would be of the utmost benefit both to the Filipinos and to the church in the islands. Having reached my conclusions and striving to have action taken along them, I shall with the utmost frankness put the whole matter before you and other representative Catholics. I believe that when this is done, you and all of you will come to realize that no man has ever made a more earnest effort than I have to do what46 -5- was fair and wise and just. Then if I am attacked politically for it, I shall defend myself publicly, and I believe that the immense majority of the people of the United States - I believe that the great majority of my fellow Americans of Catholic faith - will cordially agree with what I am doing. If you will come out here and visit me some evening with Frank Travers, I will read you some of Taft's last letters, from which I think you will gain a different idea of the man. He is as free from bigotry as any one I have ever known. As for Root, my dear Major, do you realize that one of General Hills' attacks upon him has been for his supposed favoring of Catholics in the army? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major John Crane, 18 South Street, New York, N.Y.Personal. Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 31, 1902. My dear Governor: There has been the most extraordinary agitation among the Catholics here in the United States, caused by your negotiations at Rome. I was prepared to be attacked by the extreme anti-Catholic people for your going there, but I was completely taken aback by the violent attack made upon us by the Catholics. I think it was a move organized by the anti-Ireland people to get even with him, and they have shown that they control the larger part of the organized Catholic societies, lay and clerical, and papers which give expression to distinctly Catholic opinion. Through some expressions from Broderick, who was so joyful at the failure that he became unwary, we found out that they had full information at Rome of your letters about Ireland for the Cardinal's hat. I suppose Mrs. Sterer sent them to Rome. Apparently they were used to some effect to help beat the negotiations, and were certainly used to arouse feeling against them among the Catholics in this country. A curious feature of the situation is that the anti-Ireland Catholics - those who have called themselves anti-liberals - are now strenuously insisting that it was an outrage for the United States to depart from the traditional policy and try to open negotiations with the Vatican. Going to Rome emphasized what we desired, 48 -2- and focussed the attention of all Catholics upon our effort to secure the withdrawal of the friars; and their interest and existence became focussed also. I enclose you a letter from a prominent Catholic gold Democrat, an excellent man, and a copy of my answer. Please return the letter. There is no question that, aside from all mere appearances, there is a very genuine bitterness among the Catholics, worked up by those who have succeeded in persuading them that the attack upon the friars is really an attack upon the Catholic church. As things have turned out, it has probably been unfortunate that we got you to stop at Rome, for the sincerity and honesty of our efforts to do what was best for the Filipinos, and at the same time do justice to the church, were evidently not believed in, or disregarded, at Rome; and here they have been disbelieved in by the great bulk of the Catholics. The Catholics have at the same time made a great drive at us concerning the school business in the Philippines, where Atkinsons's utterances, such as some of those in his Atlantic Monthly article, have certainly been unfortunate. The very fact that the Catholics only desire an excuse to go wrong on the school question makes it doubly desirable that the excuse should not be given them. Taken together, the matters have rather complicated the political situation here. I am afraid we may be hurt thereby this fall in the congressional elections; although I have great faith that where, as49 -3- in this case, our action has been just and wise and entered upon on the highest grounds, in the end the people will come to recognize it at its proper value. However, this recognition has not now come. My own feeling is that the thing to do at present is simply to sit back in the brichen. We have tried to persuade the church to enter into an arrangement which would be for its own financial interest and for the interest of its Catholic parishioners - an arrangement by which the Catholic laymen of the Philippine Islands would receive Catholic priests to whom they would listen. The church has refused, and our position has been so misunderstood as to cause great bitterness among the Catholics here. Under these circumstances, I feel that, unless you with your superior knowledge of the situation see controlling reasons to the contrary, we should simply sit still and let the friars get along as best they can, treating them exactly as we would treat Protestant preachers whom their parishioners refused to receive. Of course it is none of our business how priests get on with their parishioners. If the parishioners object to them it is not for a moment to be thought of that we should forcibly return them to their parishes; and equally of course we can tolerate no wrongdoing on their part. Can we not let this whole matter go now and simply administer the civil government, leaving the friars and other ecclesiastical bodies to get along as best they can, as they have rejected our help? Write me just what you feel the situation demands;50 -4- and then I can tell what allowance to make for the situation here. At any rate, I am certain that whatever is done should be done as tactfully and inconspicuously as possible and only upon the urgent appeal of the interested parties, who, if possible, should in some shape or other put any request in writing. Excellent Catholics in the United States, for instance, insist that the best Catholics in the Philippines really desire the presence of the friars. We should have good Catholic testimony to show the contrary. I have seen your memorandum to Root about the schools, and entirely approve of it. The teachers must not only be careful to abstain from taking sides for or against Catholicism or any other creed, but they must be careful to abstain from action which gives the impression that they are thus taking sides. I think it most unfortunate that any clergyman should be appointed a teacher. How many such are there in the islands? Can you not take steps to see that hereafter no such are appointed? If so, please take them. Atkinson's utterances seem to be very unfortunate. I agree with you that he should be changed. Can it not be done? Can you not have Judge Smith look into this educational question and also into the friar question and write me at length his views, so that if necessary I could use them on this side? Please have this done unless there is good reason to the contrary.51 -5- What steps should I take about getting (?) out? I think it is important to put Judge Smith in. I was greatly impressed by him, and I feel that we ought to have an American Catholic on the Commission. It has been most unfortunate that in this friar controversy and school controversy we have not had such a man. It would have closed the mouths of our critics if what has been said by you and Luke Wright could have been said by one of their own faith. By the way, give my heartiest regards to Luke Wright. My own judgment is that if you leave he should succeed you as Governor. After his term is over, Smith's turn might come; but it seems to me that Luke Wright has earned the right to be your successor. Do not misunderstand me. If we can get along without friction with the Catholic church I earnestly desire to do so, and I think it is as much to their interest as to ours. If they take an attitude hostile to the public interest in the Philippines and against public morals, and after reasonable explanation persist in this attitude, then I shall take issue with them squarely, fairly, and openly, and I believe I shall beat them as they have never been beaten in this country. But of course from the standpoint of the public interest I earnestly hope such an issue can be avoided. Do write me in full your views, especially as to the present conduct of the schools and as to whether it is possible to drop the friar52 -6- business - unless the church authorities themselves, as well as the lay parishioners, earnestly demand that it be taken up. Also have Judge Smith write me in full about the schools and about the friars. I agree with you entirely that if we could have him made Commissioner and put the schools under him, much of our difficulty would be over. Give my regards to Mrs. Taft. I hope she and the children are well. I have been having a delightful time with Mrs. Roosevelt and the children here at Oyster Bay, riding and rowing and swimming with her, and shooting at a target, playing tennis, etc., with the boys. The day before yesterday I spent the entire day on a long row and picnic with Mrs. Roosevelt, going down the Sound some seven or eight miles and rowing back in the evening. Tomorrow we take all the children and all their small cousins on a big picnic. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Governor of the Philippines, Manila, P. I. Enclosures.53 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. My dear Senator Wetmore: I fear I can only get to Newport for the Chanler christening. My intention is to run down after the speech at Providence Saturday evening, be at the christening Sunday, running up to Boston and Nahant Sunday evening. At Newport I should want to be very quiet, seeing nobody but you and Aldrich, unless you had some special reason why I should see some one else. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George P. Wetmore, U.S.S., Newport, Rhode Island. 54 Personal. Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. My dear Sir: In view of your letter of the 28th ultimo, I am sending a copy of this to Mr. Yerkes. Let me say as unequivocally as possible that I made you no promise and nothing which could properly have been construed into a promise. When I saw you with Mr. Yerkes I had told Mr. Combs I expected to appoint Mr. Thompson to the position. When I saw you I did not feel at liberty to state that Mr. Combs was an applicant for the position, inasmuch as he had asked me at the time not to talk about it unless I was going to give him the place. I told you that I thought very highly of you; that it would give me pleasure to appoint you to any position I could; that I was certain you would fill with credit any position you sought; but as a matter of fact it was useless for me to discuss the question in view of my intention to offer the place to Mr. Thompson. I happen to remember exactly what I said, because I guarded my words most carefully -- being somewhat puzzled by Mr. Yerkes bringing you around, as I had supposed that Mr. Yerkes was friendly to Mr. Combs' candidacy, and so was a little uncertain as to what Mr. Yerkes' presence meant as regards Mr. Combs' candidacy. Very soon after you had left I again saw Mr. Yerkes and at once asked him about the matter55 -2- He then told me he believed you had misconstrued what I had said, judging from certain expressions you had dropped in his presence, and I wrote him a letter on the subject immediately. I should be delighted to have him show you this letter if you desire. Let me reiterate that I did not promise you the position, or say anything which could properly have been construed into a promise. I shall consider your protest against the appointment of Mr. Combs carefully. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Brutus J. Clay, Richmond, Kentucky. Enclosure.56 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Yerkes: I enclose a letter from Mr. Clay with a copy of my answer thereto. I regard Mr. Clay's letter as almost offensive. Under no circumstance could I now appoint him, in view of his not even claiming that there was a misunderstanding, but stating again and again that I had promised him the appointment. If you have not already shown him the letter I sent you, please do so. Also please let me know what weight I am to attach to Clay's protest against Combs. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. Enclosures.57 Oyster Bay, N.Y., July 31, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Yerkes: I enclose a letter from Mr. Clay with a copy of my answer thereto. I regard Mr. Clay's letter as offensive and [?]. Under no circumstance could I now appoint him, in view of his not even claiming that there was a misunderstanding, and stating again and again that I had promised him the appointment. If you have not already shown him the letter I sent you, please do so. Also please let me know what weight I am to attach to Clay's protest against Combs. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. Enclosures.58 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: I thank you for your letter of the 31st ultimo. It was such a pleasure to have you here. What you tell me about Colonel Dunn is a new and important factor in the matter. I shall see Congressman Sherman next week. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, U.S.S., 49 Broadway, New York, N.Y.59 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Steyn: I thank you very much for the psalm book, and appreciate your having remembered me. It was the greatest pleasure to have seen you at dinner. By the way, just this morning I have had Snyman and Reitz out here shooting at the targets with me. I came out ahead! But I told Snyman and Reitz that after all it was only a Boer who lived in America shooting with two Boers from South Africa, so it did not make any difference. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Pieter G. Steyn, Winbury, O.F.C., South Africa.60 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Steyn: I thank you very much for the psalm book, and appreciate your having remembered me. It was the greatest pleasure to have seen you at dinner. By the way, just this morning I have had Snyman and Reitz out here shooting at the targets with me. I came out ahead! But I told Snyman and Reitz that after all it was only a Boer who lived in America shooting with two Boers from South Africa, so it did not make any difference. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Pieter G. Steyn, Winbury, O.F.C., South Africa.61 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. My dear Mr. Van Rooyen: I greatly appreciate the cane, the pen knife, and your photograph. It was very good of you to have sent them to me. I have just been shooting at a mark with Mr. Snyman. I think you did remarkable to make that cane with your pen knife, and I thank you for it again. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. I.M.S. Van Rooyen, Junction Spruit, P.O. Welkem, Winbury, O.F.C., South Africa.62 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Knox: Governor Hunt of Porto Rico complained to me that his private letter about that judge had been quoted also, and that it might have caused him serious embarrassment because of his allusion to the fact that illegitimate relations were so common in Porto Rico. It looks to me as if there had been a little carelessness in sending these papers to the Judiciary Committee, both in the case of Marshal Bailey and in the case of this Porto Rican judge. Of course there was carelessness in my office about sending the papers over to you, but I have gone on the principle of putting everything, confidential or not, before you to help out in arriving at a judgment; but I think the confidential letters should not be given out to senators or anybody else. When are Mrs. Knox and you coming down here? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [faint signature] Hon. P.C. Knox, Attorney General.63 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. My dear Sir: I thank you cordially for sending me a copy of President McKinley's speech. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Lewis Buddy, 3d, Hillside, Canton, Pa.64 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 2, 1902. Personal. My dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 28th ultimo. I have hesitated whether to answer these gentlemen, mainly because in my speech at Arlington I said about all I had to say. If I find they have made any impression, I shall answer them, and dare say I shall do it in the form of a letter. I am much struck with the way Abraham Lincoln used his wonderful gift of homely, yet lofty, power of expression in writing to various correspondents. That letter to Greeley was a perfect masterpiece. With hearty thanks for your courtesy, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt General David Dickens, Boise City, Idaho.65 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 4, 1902. Lieut. Commander von Rebeur-Paschwitz, Naval Attache, German Embassy, Hotel Waldorf, New York City. Replying to your telegram of 3rd the President regrets that he is just about to start to the target practice at Gardners Bay, and will not return until Thursday. Wm. Loeb, Jr., Acting Secretary. Charge Government Rates.66 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 4, 1902. Personal. My dear Colonel Dunn: I have your note of the 1st instant. Major Crane is a good fellow. His attitude on this friar question is fantastic in its injustice. I want to do all I legitimately can to meet his objections, but if these people raise the friar issue and attack us with it, while I shall deplore it from the standpoint of good government, because I object to any religious question being raised, I am perfectly certain that they will be beaten until they cannot stand. I should be only too delighted to go before any body of fair-minded Catholics and state in the minutest detail all we have done. We have followed out in teh friar question what was practically the unanimous wish of the Catholics in the Philippines. I enclose you a copy of my letter to Major Crane. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Geo. W. Dunn, Binghampton, N. Y. Enclosure.67 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 4, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Nelson: I thank you for your letter of the 31st ultimo. I want to get a chance to have a serious talk with you when I visit Minnesota. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. Knute Nelson, U.S.S., Alexandria, Minnesota.68 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 4, 1902. My dear Colonel: I am in receipt of your note of the 29th ultimo. After looking carefully through all the papers I came to the conclusion that you had fairly and squarely won the position on your merits, and it was a real pleasure to appoint you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel R. N. O'Reilly, U.S.A., Chief Surgeon, Department of California, San Francisco, California.69 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 4, 1902. My dear Governor Hunt: The cigars have come. Will you thank the maker in my name for them? It was such a pleasure to see you and Harlan the other day. Good luck go with you always. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. W.H. Hunt, Governor of Porto Rico, San Juan, Porto Rico.70 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 4, 1902. Personal. Memorandum for the Navy Department: In looking through the Target Regulations, it seems to me that a prize and certificate for marksmanship should be given to those responsible for the best shooting with the big guns. These are the ship's weapons. The small arms do not count for much. Could not some small prize be given to each member of the gun crew and a certificate and larger prize to the gun pointer? T. Roosevelt71 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 5, 1902. My dear Ambassador White: It is with real regret that I accept your resignation, for I speak what is merely a self-evident truth when I say that we shall have to look with some apprehension to what your successor does, whoever that successor may be, lest he fall short of the standard you have set. It is a very great thing for a man to be able to feel, as you will feel when on your seventieth birthday you prepare to leave the Embassy, that you have been able to serve your country as it has been served by but a very limited number of people in your generation. You have done much for it in word and in deed. You have adhered to a lofty ideal and yet have been absolutely practical and therefore efficient, so that you are a perpetual example to young men how to avoid alike the Scylla of in-72 efficiency and the Charbydis of efficiency for the wrong. When you return we shall at last have guest rooms at the White House, and I count upon an immediate visit from you. With regards and warm respect and admiration, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Andrew D. White, Ambassador to Germany, Berlin, Germany.[*58*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 5, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: I am very much obliged to you for that letter, and I should particularly like to have you correspond further with Mr. Houk and find out about the situation. With your permission, I shall ask Mr. Clarkson to call on you and discuss it. I thank you heartily. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, U.S.S., 49 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Enclosure.74 [*13*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 5, 1902. Personal. My dear Stewart: I have your recent note enclosing letter from Senator Teller. I am going to appoint Milson, but in my judgment it would be a most unfortunate thing to let the impression gain ground that Senator Teller's approval had anything whatever to do with the appointment of any one in Colorado. Senator Teller has been one of the most embittered and mischievous opponents of the Republican party and of general decency for the last six years, and nothing would prejudice your side in Colorado so much as regards the best type of eastern Republicans as to have it supposed that we were playing in with Teller. Are you going to be east this summer? I much want to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Philip B. Stewart, Colorado Springs, Colorado.75 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 5, 1902. My dear Archbishop Elder: I have received and, it is unnecessary to say, shall most carefully consider your letter and the accompanying petition. Most assuredly, my dear sir, all that I can do will be done to see that the Philippine Islands are administered in the interest, moral and spiritual no less than material and intellectual, of their inhabitants, and, wherever possible, in accordance with the wishes of the Filipinos. I have been in correspondence with Governor Taft and Vice-Governor Luke Wright on the school question, and my information so far is that the present system is working out admirably. As you doubtless know, when we took over the islands there was practically no educational system at all, so far as the bulk of the people were concerned. There was no old foundation on which to build.76 We had to start absolutely new. I shall be able to write you more at length a little later when I get answers to certain communications I have sent to the Philippine Islands. I desire to hear from certain Catholics there. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt William Henry Elder, Archbishop of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.77 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 5, 1902. Personal. My dear General: That report is most interesting. I am very much obliged to you for sending it to me. I should greatly like to see some of the percentages of loss. None of the fighting, through the entire two and a half years of fighting in South Africa, compared in any way with such fighting as you saw again and again in almost any thirty days of your career in the Confederate army. Indeed, it appears from these figures that there was no one day on which the British army did such fighting even as that which we did at San Juan on July 1, so far as the percentage of loss is concerned. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Joseph Wheeler, U.S.A., Care of the War Department, Washington, D.C.78 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 5, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: I sent you that letter merely that you might understand that I was under fire from two sides. I entirely agree with you that it would be an absurdity to treat seriously such a merely technical matter as your alleged violation of the civil service law; but in Perrault's case I got a very unfavorable impression of his conduct. I felt that he had coerced his subordinates and that they testified in fear of him. I wish it were possible to see you, as there are several matters I should like to discuss with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George L. Shoup, U.S.S., Salmon, Idaho.79 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. My dear Sir: I heartily appreciate the cordial invitation extended to me to be present at the Thirteenth Annual Reunion of the Sixth New York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, at Yonkers, N. Y., September 1st, 1902, and regret that engagements already made will prevent my accepting. Permit me to express the hope that the reunion may be in every way a most enjoyable and successful one. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Wm. D. Johnston, Secretary, etc., Scotch Plains, N. J.80 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 5, 1902. Personal. Dear John: After reading White's letter, various emotions struggled for mastery in my mind, but finally amusement predominated over those that were more irritating. The letter is quite true in one way - the position would be "one of retirement". Your letter is of course exactly right, with the unimportant amendment that you might have said that you would leave your present office when the President left his. I think your suggestion of promoting Loomis to Madrid and putting Bryan in his place in Portugal, is excellent. I fear we shall have to give Thompson the job, but it is a shame that we cannot take care of Jackson, who has earned a promotion. Now do you think we should send Bellamy Storer direct to Berlin, or send Tower to Berlin, 81 McCormick to St. Petersburg, and Storer to Vienna? There is no hurry in deciding. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Newbury, New Hampshire. Enclosure.[*82*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Commissioner Ware: Anent the statement you sent me of the losses, and the number of applications for pensions, in the several regiments engaged at Santiago, permit me - purely between you and myself - to do a little boasting on behalf of my regiment. Those official tables show that at Santiago, of infantry and dismounted cavalry there were 24 regular and 6 volunteer regiments - 30 in all. Six of the regular regiments and one of the volunteer regiments (mine) were dismounted cavalry. As regards the other five volunteer regiments, mine suffered almost as heavy a loss in killed and wounded as all of them put together - although each of them had a considerably larger total of men present than mine; and they have applied for more than eight times as many pensions as there were applicants from my regiment. Of the 24 regular regiments, the percentage[*83*] of loss suffered by my regiment was greater than that suffered by any one of 22, including all the regular cavalry regiments. Two infantry regiments suffered a slightly greater percentage of loss, although in each of these two cases the aggregate of loss was greater in my regiment. Of the 24 regular regiments, 19 show a larger percentage of applicants for pensions and 5 a smaller percentage. As regards the relative proportion of loss suffered to number of applications for pensions, my regiment makes a better showing - that is, the proportion of loss is larger - than is the case with any other regiment save one, a regular cavalry regiment. It seems to me that this makes a pretty satisfactory showing for a volunteer organization which had finished its fighting record within sixty days of its muster-in. Naturally, this letter is strictly private. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. E. F. Ware, Commissioner of Pensions.[*84*] [*15*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. Dear Cabot: All your various communications will receive due heed. There is an awful muss over the District Commissionership which I shall explain to you when we meet. I am sending to you, for your private information, a copy of a letter of mine to Commissioner Ware, because I am decidedly pleased with the showing my regiment makes in the official figures of the relative losses suffered, and number of pensions applied for, by the various regiments who served before Santiago. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Is it convenient for you - [???] meet me at Newport at the christening, and then have me on Sunday morning go with you (very early) to Nahant? Hon. H. C. Lodge, U.S.S., Nahant, Massachusetts. Enclosure 85 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Mrs. Bragg: I thank you for writing me. The incident has of course distressed me greatly. The Cubans are a sensitive people, and as they were just starting out it was very desirable that they should feel kindly toward all our representatives. I see by your letter that it was by a deliberate betrayal of your confidence that it was made public. Such conduct is infamous. With warm regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Edward S. Bragg, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. ,86 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Crimmins: I thank you very much for the interesting volume on St. Patrick's Day. What a genuine flail you have for antiquarian matters. I wish you could let Martin tell some of our good friends like Philbin and Crane and McMahon his experiences as to the friar question in the Philippines. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John D. Crimmins, 40 East 68th Street, New York, N. Y.87 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 8, 1902. My dear Judge Jelke: I am in receipt of your letter of the 2d, concerning the invitation to attend the Lebanon Centennial, and have sent a line regretting that I shall be in another State on my northwestern trip on the dates mentioned. It was the greatest pleasure to see you here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Ferdinand Jelke, Jr., Circuit Court, First Judicial Circuit of Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio.88 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 8, 1902. My dear Sir: I thank you and through you the members of the Lebanon Centennial Committee for their very kind invitation to be present at the celebration September 25-27, and regret my inability to accept, as I shall be in another State on my northwestern tour on the dates mentioned. Your citizens have just cause for pride not only in the present material prosperity of your community but in the substantial sum of achievement placed to the credit of the nation by its illustrious sons. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. S. W. Pubasco, Lebanon, Ohio.89 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Secretary: I thank you very much for the platform. I recognized your handiwork, I was sure. When I make my western trip on the 20th of September, can you not join me for at least a part of it? I am very desirous that you should. I shall be in Iowa, as you know, but I should like to have you with me from the time I leave Illinois until the time I pass through on the way home. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.90 [*81*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. Dear John: I have your letter of the 4th, enclosing one from Dr. Hill. I shall probably want to see you before deciding on the German ambassadorship, but it will have to be either Tower or Storer. As you know, I am positively pledged to [them?] on behalf of President McKinley as well as on my own behalf for the first vacancy in an embassy. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Newbury, N. H. Enclosure.91 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Dear Joe: I wish I could accept, but it is out of the question. I shall be more than busy, as you can imagine. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Thornton H. Simmons, Little Nahant, Massachusetts.92 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Dresser; I have your letter of the 5th instant. Work is piling up, and I am so busy now that I fear it is simply out of the question for me to undertake another engagement. You have no conception of the difficulty I find in getting any time to myself. I know nothing of machinery, and on the turbine matter would have to take the judgment of experts - so it would be simply gratifying my own curiosity to go. I thank you for your thoughtful and characteristic courtesy in the matter. Let me know when you can find out if that bear hunt can take place in October. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. D. L. R. Dresser, 15 & 17 Greene Street, New York, N. Y.93 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. My dear Sergeant: Your letter gave me real pleasure. I always like to hear about the regiment, and I would rather be called Colonel by its members than given any other title by any one. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sergeant Harry W. Nash, Macabebe, P.I.94 [*30*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Darling Bye: I am awfully sorry to learn you have bronchitis. It is dreadfully hard luck. I thoroughly enjoyed having the Reids to lunch, and I think Edith was almost as interested as I was. She and I have just been for a day's target practice on the "Mayflower". I am bound that that excellent vessel shall be associated with something more relevant to her functions as a war-ship than a mere yacht! Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. W.S. Cowles, Camp Elsinore, Paul Smiths, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. My dear Captain Gleaves: I should like some suggestion from you as to how we can use the "Mayflower" as in a certain sense an experimental vessel for marksmanship. As you know, I am greatly interested in bringing the marksmanship of our navy up to the highest standard. It seems to me something could be done in the way of making the "Mayflower" not only an example to all the ships of the navy as regards marksmanship, but a vessel upon which we could experiment with a view of finding out what system secures the best results. I would like you to write me a letter which I may afterwards discuss with the chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Lieut. Commander Albert Gleaves, Commanding U.S.S. "Mayflower", Care of Navy Department.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Philbin: I thank you very much for the information you give me in your letter of the 6th instant about the affect of Mr. Byrne's speech. How true it is that we have to be careful about our friends! Byrne is a most zealous Catholic and opposed to the party represented by Archbishop Ireland. I had supposed that whatever he said could not possibly be offensive to any other Catholics. When I next see you I shall show you my letter to Taft. There is one thing at least,, my dear sir, of which you can be sure: I play this game absolutely openly. So far as I have the power, you will know the position taken on every phase of the church and school matter in the Philippines, and why it is taken. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. Eugene A. Philbin, 111 Broadway, New York, N.Y. (Over)97 P.S. -- I am just in receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, enclosing copy of a letter from Father Wynne. I am greatly indebted to you for all you are doing.98 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 8, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Adams: I thank you heartily for your courtesy in sending the books to Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. We both enjoyed them greatly. With best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Chas. Follen Adams, 59 Waverly Street, Roxbury, Mass. 99 [*21*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 8, 1902. Dear Will: Many thanks. I am very much worried about Anna too. I think we can do something with the gun pointers by experimenting aboard the "Mayflower". Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain W.S. Cowles, U.S.N., Navy Department, Washington, D.C.100 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 8, 1902. My dear General Dodge: Permit me to express through you to the members of the Society of the Army of the Philippines my great regret that my engagements make it impossible for me to attend their Third Annual Reunion. Naturally those of us who served in Cuba look with a particularly keen interest and sympathy upon all that has been done by our valiant brethren who have so nobly fought for the honor of the flag and the cause of civilization in the Philippine Islands. I greatly appreciate the honor done me in asking me to attend. Nothing would give me greater pleasure, and it is with keen regret that I am obliged to refuse. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 8, 1902. My dear General: May I ask you to send the enclosed letter to the officials of the National Society of the Army of the Philippines? Unfortunately, I am already engaged up to the neck. I wonder if you realize how much I enjoyed meeting you at West Point! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Enclosure.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 8, 1902. Personal. My dear Archbishop Ireland: I thank you heartily for the copy of your admirable sermon. I shall be delighted to see Bishop O'Gorman. Pray tell him to notify me in advance, so that I may have him at lunch or dinner. I must surely meet you for a satisfactory talk when I get to Minnesota. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Archbishop John Ireland, St. Paul, Minnesota. 73 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Platt: I saw Sherman Thursday. He has not changed his attitude. I told him as nearly as I could recollect exactly what you had said. He responded that of course I "could eliminate him from the contest, but no one else could", and that unless I thus eliminated him he remained as a candidate. I explained the whole situation to him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt {signature] Hon. T.C. Platt, U.S.S., 49 Broadway, New York, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 9, 1902. Dear Bertie: That is a timely piece of Roley's. I read the editorial with the greatest interest, and I thank you for writing me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. R. B. Roosevelt, Jr., 49 & 51 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. McBee: To tell you the truth, I had hoped that the Marshall's Life of Washington was a present, but I did not quite dare to believe it. I thank you most heartily. You could have given me nothing I would have appreciated more. By the way, have you ever thought of some young fellow who would like that student's position in China. I would be delighted to take some nominee from Suwanee or wherever else you think best. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. Silas McBee, 47 Lafayette Place, New York, N.Y.106 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 9, 1902. Dear Ned: Your letter comes too late for me to write to Fred. I am going to try to get him down to the White House next year. It was such a pleasure to hear from you. Faithfully yours, Mr. Edward D. Brandegee, Southampton, L. E. 107 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Congressman Curtis: Your letter embarrasses me, for I cannot write for publication such a letter as you suggest. If I did it for you I should have to do it for Mr. Long; and it would open an endless vista. Indeed I do appreciate your friendship and understand it, and I believe every one knows that I do. I thank you most warmly for what you have done and for what you are doing, and I look forward to seeing you in Kansas. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles Curtis, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.108 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: I have your telegram of the 8th. It is a big jump to put a man from a captaincy into a brigadier generalship, a bigger jump than I have ever yet made. I do not know as yet whether there is a vacancy, but it would be pretty rough to skip everybody of higher rank unless they are markedly inferior to Scott in service and attainments. I shall look into the matter very carefully. As you know, I have fixed his son, and if the opportunity comes I intend to show some marked favor to Scott. I esteem him as highly as you do. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M.S. Quay, U.S.S., Philadelphia, Pa.109 31 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Reid: Thank you heartily. I saw Stewart the other day and he was immensely pleased. I need not say how much I enjoyed your visit here. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Reid. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Purchase, N. Y.110 17 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. My dear Senator Hoar: Let me thank you for your kind and considerate letter of the 7th instant. I appreciate it much. It would now be an idle formality for me to consult the public at large about Judge Holmes -- whatever it might have been well to do at the beginning -- and so I shall announce his appointment. I am looking forward to seeing you at Worcester soon. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. G.F. Hoar, Worcester, Mass. P.S. Have just received your letter of the 9th, and it is unnecessary to say I accept with greatest pleasure the kind invitation of Mrs. Hoar and yourself for lunch at Worcester.111 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. My dear Judge Gray: To-day I have announced the appointment of Judge Holmes, and with renewed regret I accept your resignation. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Horace Gray, 1601 I Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.112 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Private. My dear Judge Hammond: I have your letter of the 7th instant. I think I shall have to make everything bend to greeting Luke Wright, for he is one of the two or three people who I feel have done most for their country during the past few years. But it would be a very great convenience to me if it were possible to give him a reception about October 22 or 23. Is this possible? Let me know unofficially. Meanwhile, I will try to find out whether the November 1st date is possible. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon E. S. Hammond, United States District Judge, Memphis, Tennessee.113 25 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. My dear Procter: The enclosed letter is from Miss Drayton, the daughter of a Confederate General. When I went to Cuba she loaned me her father's field glasses. Do you think what she requests can be brought about? I am very anxious to have it done if it can be arranged. Will you do me the favor to take this letter to the two Departments concerned and see if Miss Drayton's wishes can be met? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John R. Procter, President, Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. Enclosure.114 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Olney: If I were to be anywhere in your neighborhood I should certainly stop and see if a President could do any better with you than a Civil Service Commissioner once did; but, alas, I do not think I shall be in your vicinity. If you will come down and visit me here you shall play tennis with me and also with a young cousin who I think could give you a really interesting game. You will be pleased to know that after full consideration I have determined to appoint Judge Holmes in Judge Gray's place. I guess I shall offer [?] Can you [???] Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Richard Olney, Falmouth, Massachusetts.115 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Schurman: I thank you heartily for your letter of the 6th and for the editorial. The speech I had already read with the keenest interest. I like the 3 R's, but it is a question with me whether the revision of the tariff may not, for the time being, have to go on by reciprocity rather than by outright legislation. If I could get the legislation upon which, for instance, I am sure you and I could agree, I would favor it most heartily; but there are a good many men of a good many minds in Congress, and if I advocated any scheme of general revision I would like to have some idea where it was coming out. Personally, I am rather skeptical as to making a serious impression upon the trusts through the tariff. Such trusts as the Standard Oil and the anthracite coal it certainly would not touch at all.116 With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. G. Schurman, Breezy Knowe, East Hampton, L. I.117 110 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Hoar: Let me thank you for your very kind and considerate letter. I appreciate it much. It would now be an idle formality for me to consult the public at large about Holmes - whatever it might have been well to do at the beginning - and so I shall announce his appointment. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, U.S.S., Worcester, Massachusetts.118 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: I had not heard of the death of Mrs. Pritchard, and I regret extremely to learn of it. Pray accept my deepest and most sincere sympathy. On the 22d of this month I leave for my New England trip. Could you come out here on the 21st for lunch, at 1:30? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. C. Pritchard, U.S.S., Marshall, North Carolina.119 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Private. My dear Mr. Lummis: Of course I shall be only too delighted to accept the picture from Mr. Lungren. There are few things I should value more. I look forward to the receipt of your report with interest. You greatly impressed Congressman Sherman of New York with what you were doing. I am glad you think well of Jones. I have been a good deal shaken about him because of certain things. But if he really makes up his mind that he wants to learn, and will try to learn, he can do better than almost any new man we could put into the position. Is there anything I ought to do now about the two orders to which you refer? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Chas. F. Lummis, Los Angeles, California.120 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. My dear Senator: I am in receipt of your letter of the 8th concerning the case of Colonel Quinton. You never ask me for the promotion of any man who is not a first-class soldier; so that I found it a very easy matter to grant your request. I do not know about Colonel Quinton, but I shall have his case looked up at once and earnestly hope I may be able to meet your wishes in the matter. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. B. Foraker, Cincinnati, Ohio.121 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. My dear General: The swagger stick has come, and I am very much obliged to you. It is beautiful, and I especially like the little buffalo head on the handle. With warm regards, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brigadier General J. C. Breckenridge, Inspector General, War Department, Washington, D. C.122 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Personal. Dear Murray: I did not know there was a vacancy in the Board of Indian Commissioners. I jump at the chance of appointing such a man as Draper. The enclosed letter and telegram explain themselves. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.123 84 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 11, 1902. Personal. Dear Cabot: I guess I shall appoint Forbes, but I do not like even to express an opinion now, for I dare not make up my mind until I get the whole list before me. I have been chuckling over your account of the disposition of the regiment, and Edith will be equally amused. Of course I shall stay Monday with you at Nahant; but do you really think I have got to go to Boston on Monday evening? Remember that I have spoken in Boston on Commencement Day, and I very earnestly desire to avoid speaking again, if it is possible. Friday I spent the night camping out for the benefit of Kermit, Archie and a small cousin. They all had a thrilling time enjoying the discomforts, and were compensated by hearing a fox bark and later seeing it. As124 there was an 8-mile row in the evening and an 8-mile row the next morning back, and very little intervening sleep, I was able to accept the ending of the trip with philosophy. I have had what is on the whole a very nice letter from Hoar, and shall announce Judge Holmes' appointment to-day. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon H. C. Lodge, U.S.S., Nahant, Massachusetts. P.S. - I do not want to go to Boston at all. If I do go couldn't I speak before the Social Settlement people? They have been bothering me to talk to them for some time. I hail the chance on these trips to talk to some special body on some special subject, for it is a terrific strain to have to meet the same kind of an audience and to make the same kind of a speech again and again.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Welch: I want to thank you, even as late as this, for what "The Jeffersonian" did on my behalf two years ago, and I am glad to have a few copies now. Your mother has been kind enough to give me a copy of your father's book, which I greatly value. Thanking you again for what you wrote in the paper, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. Philip H. Welch, 351 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Clarkson: I thank you heartily for all your letters, and am greatly pleased with what you tell me as to the political situation. I was especially interested in the letter of Mr. Ford and the questions from the New World. I have known Mr. Patrick Ford of old, from the time I took up the cudgels for Mr. Eagan [sic, Egan], our minister to Chile - and a mighty good one too. I wish much I could see Mr. Ford. Perhaps the easiest way would be to have you bring him on to Washington as soon as I get back there. If you happen to come across him I wish you would give him my regards. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] [handwriting illegible, mentions a Judge Burrow?] Hon. James S. Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs, New York, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. Dear Cleve. : That is awfully kind of you, old fellow, and I greatly appreciate it; but it would not be possible for me to accept. I shall be here only for a fortnight in September, and I would not able to leave during that time. Let me thank you most heartily again. With love to you and yours, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. Cleveland Dodge, 99 John Street, New York, N.Y.128 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. Dear Wintie: Can't you arranged [sic] for me the Sunday I am in Newport to go over with you to see Florence La Farge? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. Winthrop Chanler, Newport, Rhode Island.129 Personal. [*122*] Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. Dear Murray: Many thanks for what you did on the friar question. I think that it shows signs of losing its acuteness. Now about the tariff: There is no question that there is dynamite in it. It is the only matter now in view which has given me grave concern. There is a widespread feeling that it should be altered, but there is an equally widespread difference as to what the alterations should be, and there is no doubt whatever that if they are too extensive, or if anything in the nature of a general revision takes place, there will be a panic or something approaching to it, with consequent disaster to the business community and incidentally to the Republican party. Personally I think it of very much less consequence what tariff we have than it is to have continuity of tariff policy. I doubt if any possible change in the tariff for the next ten years would do as much good as the certainty that the tariff would not be changed during the next ten years. However in our government "if the red slayer think he slay," it has about as much effect as if he actually does slay. If the majority of our people want tariff revision or tariff reduction in some shape, then it is the part of wisdom to try to get it in a manner130 -2- which will do the least harm to the business community and to the party. The best way would be, undoubtedly, to get it through reciprocity treaties; but neither McKinley nor I have been able to persuade the Senate so far to put through these treaties. Another good way would be to cut down on half a dozen schedules; but to do this would necessitate getting a substantial agreement among practically all the Republican members of the Senate and House. Yet another way of which I have thought is to have a commission appointed along the lines you and I talked over two years ago, so as to make the tariff a question for scientific discussion and administration rather than for partisan agitation. It is altogether too far ahead to say anything definite. But my hope is that the Democrats will take some extreme position. If, for instance, they declare in favor of a tariff for revenue only, with the abolition of all duties on trust-made articles, then I think we should beat them out of their boots. At present all people who are even slightly discontented with the existing tariff can join in shooting at it. I hope that when the test comes they will find themselves obliged to choose, not between one policy and all other possible policies, but between two given policies. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt I do not wish to split my own party wide open on the tariff question under some [?] [?] is to count [?]. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.131 102 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. Personal. My dear Archbishop: I think you must realize that when you make a request I start with a prejudice in favor of granting it! Senator Foraker has also written me about Colonel Quintin, and I have directed that his record be looked up. If I can do what [?] [?] he desires it will give me genuine pleasure. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Archbishop Ireland, St. Paul, Minnesota.132 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. Personal. My dear Bishop: The two editorials were delightful. Upon my word, what comic creatures these anti-imperialists are! I did not know that Boutelle had "fired" Schurman. Think of solemn Erving Winslow's view of himself! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. J.B. Bishop, Commercial Advertiser, New York, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. My dear Governor Crane: I am very anxious to get to New Haven in time to leave in the afternoon by boat - if possible by three o'clock or thereabouts. How early a bird are you? Couldn't we leave in the morning in time to make the boat? Then I could take lunch on the train going down to New Haven. How will this do? I suppose I could accomplish what I am after if I reached New Haven at four o'clock. I look forward to seeing you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. W. Murray Crane, Governor of Massachusetts, Dalton, Massachusetts.134 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. My dear Mr. Lord: Will it be possible to have Lindsay Dennison go with me on my trips? He is a trump, and as you know I can tell him everything. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Chester S. Lord, Esq., New York Sun, New York, N.Y.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 13, 1902. My dear Mr. Alexander: I thank you very much for that exceedingly interesting letter. I sent it to my close friend, Stewart Elliot's son. It was most kind of you to think of me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. William Felix Alexander, Augusta, Ga.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 13, 1902. Dear John: The enclosed letters explain themselves. When are you coming back? Edith and I are so anxious to see you. Do come out and see us at once. I hope it will be when I am here, but Edith says be sure and come out anyway, for she will be here, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] J.S. Elliot, Esq., Care of Mrs. Elliot, The Mendota, 20th Street & Kalorama Avenue, Washington, D.C. Enclosures.Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 14, 1902. My dear Mr. Chief Justice: Your letter gives me the sincerest pleasure. I am delighted that you approve of my choice. You may rest assured that I shall do my best always to give you fit associates on the bench. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. Melville W. Fuller, Sorrento, Maine.138 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 14, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Leupp: I thank you for the editorial; and I do not thank you for the tantalizing invitation, simply because I cannot accept it! How I should like to meet just the people you mention in just the place you mention! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Francis M. Leupp, Correspondent, New York Evening Post, Washington, D.C.139 Confidential. Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 14, 1902. My dear Goddard: I thank you for your invitation for Litchfield, but it is out of the question for me to accept. I do not know much about the local situation in New York - at least not enough to advise. As for my own nomination, it will come or not, in my judgment, accordingly as to whether the mass of the Republicans do or do not believe in me. While as to this I think it would be foolish to disregard any proper precaution, yet I feel very strongly that the right and wise thing for me to do is to bother my head very little about it - to do the best I can as President, and then to abide by the result with philosophy. You ask why I did not send in a message asking the repeal of the duties on beef, and you attack Knox and Root. I do not at all mind your writing frankly, but I shall write you with equal frankness in return. What you say about duties on beef can only spring from your absolute ignorance of the country as a whole. Protection, as Tom Reed said, is right as a principle, but infamous as a preference. We have got to protect the farmer if we protect the manufacturer. To strike exclusively at farm products, without140 -2- any compensating reduction in manufactured articles, would be criminal as well as foolish. There are a good many unwise things I could have done last year, but no one thing as supremely foolish as to send in an official message advocating the abolition of the duties on beef. I entirely agree with what you say as to the agitation over trusts and as to the importance of the subject. But I am literally astounded that you should fail to realize that Attorney General Knox has done more against trusts and for the enforcement of the anti-trust law than any other man we have ever had in public life. I do not believe that your view as regards him on this subject is the view of the people at large; but if it is, then the fault lies with the people for not taking the trouble to think, or for not having the capacity to see straight. Knox is in my judgment the best Attorney General we have ever had and the most efficient man in dealing with the trust problem. As for Root, while I do not agree with his views on trusts, the fact remains that he has been during the last three years the most useful public servant in this entire land. He has done more for the country than any other man I know, and it would be a veritable calamity to have him leave the administration. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Norton Goddard, 100 Bleecker Street, New York, N.Y.141 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 14, 1902. My dear Mr. Cassatt: I am in receipt of your letter of the 12th. Jackson is a fine fellow, but a year and a half ago I was pledged on behalf of myself and President McKinley on this ambassadorship. I am sorry to have to write you this. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. A. J. Cassatt, Bar Harbor, Maine.142 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 15, 1902. My dear Mrs. Bowen: I am deeply sensible of the compliment paid me in bestowing my name on the son of a comrade of the Spanish War. With best wishes for his future, and congratulations to Mr. Bowen and you, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. A. C. Bowen, Hopkinton, Iowa.143 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 15, 1902. Personal. Dear Frank: I was very much pleased by your letter of the 13th; for long experience has taught me that even the wisest men and truest friends sometimes resent a man doing in the concrete what they believe in the abstract he should do! Your name was one of the four that I went over most carefully for Judge Gray's place; but from the beginning my judgment made me think that, taking everything into consideration, Holmes was probably the right man to choose. Thanking you again for your most kindly and manly letter, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Francis C. Lowell, Cotuit, Mass.144 90 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 15, 1902. Personal. My dear John: As you know, I have been in doubt which course to follow as to filling the vacancy caused by Ambassador White's resignation - that is, whether to put Tower in Berlin, McCormick in St. Petersburg, Storer in Vienna. I am informed, however, that the Vienna people would not like to have a Catholic. Is this true? Is there any way you can find out? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Newbury, New Hampshire.145 61 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. My dear Mr. van Rooyen: I like your cane so much that I am going to send you a hunting book that I wrote, and I hope you will like it. With cordial good wishes, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. I. M. S. van Rooyen, Junction Spruit, P.O. Welkom, Windbury, O.F.C., South Africa. Enclosure 146 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 12, 1902. My dear Miss Steyn: Your father gave me the psalm book which he intended to give to you. will you accept from me a copy of one of my hunting books to make amends? With cordial good wishes, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Steyn, Care of Pieter G. Steyn, Winbury, O. F. C., South Africa. Enclosure. 147A Aldrich Coll. Warwick. August 14, 1902 My dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant concerning the District Commissionership, and by direction of the President to state that it will have careful consideration. Very truly yours, Wm Loeb, Jr. Acting Secretary to the President.147 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Harriman: I thank you for your very kind message which I have just received from Governor Odell. I take the liberty of sending you a copy of a speech which I intend to make, in which I touch upon trusts. Will you send it back to me with any comments you choose to make? If possible, I should like to have it by Wednesday. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. H. Harriman, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.148 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. To Whom It May Concern: Mr. Gordon Russell, the son of my old friend, the Rev. Alexander G. Russell, of Oyster Bay, served as tutor for my two boys during one summer, and gave great satisfaction. Mr. Russell is a graduate of Princeton - a scholar and teacher, and a gentleman in every sense of the word. I have known him from his boyhood, and I am glad to vouch for him in the highest terms. Theodore Roosevelt [signature]149 92 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Dresser: I am very much indebted to you for the trouble you are taking. I wish I could answer you definitely out of hand, but I do not feel that I can, because my movements have got to be uncertain just at present. You see Luke Wright is coming home and I want to be in Tennessee to greet him. Could you give me a couple of weeks leeway? My mouth fairly waters as I think of what that hunt would mean. Does your friend understand that I could only be off on the hunt five or six days? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. Daniel LeRoy Dresser, 15 Greene Street, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.150 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. My dear Mr. Benson: I thank you for your book and shall read it with great interest. Having four boys of my own, the subject naturally appeals to me. By the way, have you come across a little book by Dean Briggs of Harvard, touching upon some of the problems of college education? I have forgotten its name, but it is really worth your while to get it. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. Arthur C. Benson, Eton College, England.151 126 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Clarkson: I have told Governor Odell that I should ask you to call on him. Will you do so? I had a most satisfactory talk with him. When I get back from my New England trip I may get you to come out here to see me again for a short while. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. James S. Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs, New York, N. Y.152 112 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. My dear Judge: In case it proves impracticable to have a meeting in October, as I suggested, do you think it would be possible to have it about the 11th or 12th of November? It may be that I can get down on November 1, as you suggest, but I am having some difficulty in arranging my plans for about that time. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. E. S. Hammond, United States District Judge, Memphis, Tennessee.153 7 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. My dear White: I like the book greatly, and Mrs. Roosevelt and I are both very much pleased that you should think of me in connection with it. I look forward to seeing you at Topeka. Thanking you again, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. W. A. White, Emporia, Kansas.154 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 18, 1902. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Parker: I am in receipt of the photograph of my young namesake, and greatly appreciate your courtesy. With best wishes for his future, and kind regards to you both, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. and Mrs. George B. Parker, 29 Oliver Street, Rahway, N. J.155 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Colonel Kitson: I am glad to hear of your promotion, and yet I cannot but be very sorry that you are going to leave us. It has been a real pleasure to have known you and your charming wife, to whom pray present my warm regards. Remember me to Lee when you see him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Gerald Kitson, 4 Hospital Street, Montreal, Canada.156 22 Oyster Bay, N. Y. August 16, 1902. Dear Jake: Your note made me sad. it was so like you in the midst of your own sorrow to be thinking of others; and it was such a pleasure to be able to do what you asked. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jacob A. Riis, 524 Beech Strret, North, Richmond Hill, N. Y. 157 Oyster Bay, N. Y. August 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Payne: I have your letter of the 15th. That is a new question you present you present, but off-hand I should say that I absolutely agree with you. Do not take this as a definite statement, but it represents my present views; and if I should change them I surely let you know. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Sereno E. Payne, N. C., Auburn, N. Y.158 116 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 18, 1902. My dear Mr. Schurman: I am in receipt of yours of the 16th, with enclosure. I shall talk with Congressman Babcock to-night about the campaign book. Being accustomed to practical politics, you probably realize the immense difficulties I have to deal with in such a manner. I was pleased with the letter from Charles Francis Adams to you. Have you noticed the curious result of my action about General Smith? It was as clearly right as any action could be, although most unpleasant to take; but it has resulted seemingly in making him a hero in quite a number of places, and especially with the Philippine army people. At the reunion of the National Society of the Army of the Philippines at Council Bluffs, Iowa, it was seized as the occasion of a general attack on me. Sincerely yours, President J. G. Schurman, East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y.159 159 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 18, 1902. My dear White: I have just read the first forty pages of " The Simple Life," and am delighted with it. I do not know when I have read anything I liked as much. I thank you sincerely for sending it to me. I shall crib from it in some of my speeches. Faithfully yours, William Allen White, Esq. Emporia, Kansas.160 156 Oyster Bay, N. Y. August 18, 1902. Dear Lucius: I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th. I had a very satisfactory talk with the Governor. He told me the best thing all around, which would secure your nomination, and would meet with the entire approval of Sherman, whom the Governor was to make Railroad Commissioner, would be to have Sherman withdraw and have Ray nominated in the event of Davies being nominated for the New York Supreme Court Bench. I told him if this was agreeable to Sherman it was entirely so to me. He told me that removed the last trouble anywhere in the State. Faithfully yours, Hon. Lucius N. Littauer, Gloversville, N. Y.161 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 18, 1902. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pauls: I thank you for your letter of the 14th instant, and will be delighted to have you name your son after me, and greatly appreciate the compliment. With best wishes for his future, and regards to you both, I am Sincerely yours, Mr. and Mrs. Pauls, 2331 Fiftieth Street, Chicago, Ill.162 109 Oyster Bay, N. Y. August 18, 1902. My dear Mr. Reid: I am in receipt of your letter of the 15th instant. I fear I shall be unable to arrange to attend Miami University at the time you suggest, but I shall go over my schedule at once with the Cincinnati people and find if it is possible. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Camp Wild Air, Paul Smith's, N. Y. 163 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 18, 1902. Dear Maud: It was very sweet of you to write. Corinne writes me that she has been having a lovely time in England, and is coming back soon. I am trying to get what rest I can here. Thereis no hurry about the letter for John. Faithfully yours, Miss Maud Elliott, The Mendota, Kalorama Ave. and 20th Street, Washington, D. C. 164 Oyster Bay, N. Y. August 18, 1902. 120 My dear Senator: I am in receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, in reference to the German Ambassadorship. Do you recollect our conversation about that place? If so, you will remember that I was pledged on behalf of McKinley as well as on behalf of myself. I look forward to seeing you when I get out West, if you do not get East before I start on the trip. Faithfully yours, Hon. J. B. Foraker, Cincinnati, Ohio.165 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 18, 1902. My dear Miss Patteson: I thank you for the little autobiography, and I am sure I shall enjoy it as much as the children. I like my children to have pets. I want them to grow up feeling that it is inconceivably base to be cruel to the weak. I do not know whether I most despise cowardice in the face of the strong or cruelty to the helpless. Sincerely yours, Miss S. Louise Patteson, Forest Hill, Cleveland, Ohio.166 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Gilder: Thank the other senders of the round robin. I see you know the form of official designation by which I should be addressed. I wish I could come, but I can't this year at least. Tell brother Leupp I very much desire to talk over the District of Columbia Commissionership with him, but I do not suppose I shall be able to. Always yours, Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, Lee, Massachusetts. 167 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Mrs. Hanna: I have your letter of the 14th instant. It was very good of you to have thought of me so pleasantly, and I wish it were possible for me to come; but I do not get anywhere in the neighborhood of your delightful summer home until long after you have gone. Won't I see you in Cleveland anyhow? I should give a good deal if I had Mark her now. There is much I wish to talk over with him, from the tariff to the woes of the Congressional Committee who have just been out here to see me, feeling most gloomy over the outlook for the next House. They cannot get any money and they don't know what to do. By the way, this information is only for yourself and Mark! Let me thank you again for writing me. It was characteristic of you. I am getting as much of a holiday168 as I can under difficulties, for I have scores of visitors. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Mark Hanna, The Shack, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 169 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Judge: I have your letter of the 17th. Pettigrew said that South Carolina was too small for an independent republic and too large for a lunatic asylum. The Senate is not too large for a lunatic asylum, and if there is any opposition whatever to your confirmation, I shall certainly feel it fulfills all the conditions of one. Seriously, I do not for one moment believe that a single vote will be cast against your confirmation. I have never known a nomination to be better received, but I shall write to Lodge and get his advice on the point you raise. Then if necessary I shall withdraw my official tender of the place to you and wait until the Senate convenes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Beverly Farms, Mass.170 [*124*] Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. Dear Cabot: All right! I won't go to Bloomfield's meeting. The enclosed letter from Judge Holmes explains itself. What shall I say? Ever yours, Hon. H. C. Lodge, Nahant, Mass.171 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. Confidential. My dear Mr. Payne: The Congressional Committee are very short of funds, and of course with as close a contest as we have on, and with our wealthiest friends looking upon me somewhat askance, they have their work cut out for them. Do you not think you could help them or tell them how to get help? I have asked Chairman Babcock to write you. I earnestly hope something can be done for them. Faithfully yours, Hon. Henry C. Payne, Hotel Touraine, Boston, Mass.172 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Lee: If you are in the neighborhood of New York on September 15th, won't you and Mrs. Lee come out here to lunch on that day, as I should very much like see you? The ferry leaves foot of East Thirty-fourth Street at 10:50 and you can go back on the 4:14 train. With regards to Mrs. Lee, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Arthur Lee, Winter Harbor, Maine.173 [*133*] Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. Confidential. My dear Governor: Is it not possible for Massachusetts to help out the National Congressional Committee? The situation in three or four states is ugly and there has been great difficulty in collecting sufficient funds -- a difficulty for which I fear I am in part responsible by my action through Attorney General Knox as regards some of these so-called trusts. When I see you next week I would like greatly to talk over the matter and see if some aid cannot be extended to the committee. I know how hard it is always to have demands made upon you of Massachusetts. I am trying to do what I can in New York, but the need is great. Always yours, Governor W. Murray Crane, Dalton, Mass.174 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Miss Tuckerman: I am in receipt of your very kind note of the 17th instant and wish I could accept, but I simply dare not. I shall be in the hands of divers statesmen at that time and won't venture to make any engagements for I shall have far less pleasant duties than to lunch with you. I am so glad you are back. Give my warm regards to your mother, and believe me, Faithfully yours, Miss Emily Tuckerman, Ingleside, Stockbridge, Mass.175 62 Oyster Bay, N. Y.? August 19, 1902. Confidential. My dear Mr. Knox: Can you see Mr. Babcock, the Chairman of the Congressional Committee? The committee is in financial straits. The people who might contribute heavily are not people to whom I can write as you may well imagine. Now would it not be possible to get some contributions among our friends in Pittsburg who have believed in the course we have followed? I have asked Chairman Babcock to write you requesting an interview. I earnestly hope you can grant it and that you may be able to advise him as to what should be done. Faithfully yours, Hon. P. C. Knox, Attorney General, Castalia Fishing Club, Castalia, Ohio.176 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. 94 Darling Bye: Davis is a very good fellow but will not take the Commissionership. I have asked Lee to bring his wife out to lunch on September 15th. I am so glad you are getting over your bronchitis. Ever yours, Mrs. W. S. Cowles, Camp Elsinore, Paul Smith's, N. Y.177 144 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. Confidential. Dear John: The members of the Congressional Committee have just been in to see me, feeling decidedly blue. The outlook for the next House is bad. Naturally I take a great interest in the matter. My plutocratic friends in New York hardly feel toward me with sufficient benevolence to warrant me writing them. I have asked the committee if they won't write to you and get you to appoint a time when one of them could see you. They are rather at their wits' end how to proceed. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, Newbury, N. H.178 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Governor: I am in receipt of your letter of the 18th, and am very sorry about the prospective loss of those two Congressmen in Maryland. It is a great misfortune. We ought surely to carry the House. Thanking you for your kindness in writing me, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, The Cloisters, Newport, R. I.179 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. Dear Dan: I am in receipt of your letter of the 19th instant and wish I could have done better for your friend than the alternate's position, but it was all there was. You don't know how hard it is, when there are so many good men who apply for a position, to have to disappoint a great majority. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Edward S. Martin, Esq., York Harbor, Maine.180 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Collector: I am in receipt of your favor of the 18th instant in reference to my attending the laying of the cornerstone of the new Custom House. Most unfortunately my trip occupies from the 19th of September to the 8th of October. Unless there is some real reason -- some reason which Governor Odell for instance regards as of great weight -- I do not want to make another speech at that time. I am to speak at the New York Chamber of Commerce in November. With many thanks for writing me, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. N. N. Stranahan, Collector of Customs, New York, N. Y.181 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. Confidential. My dear Governor: Messrs. Babcock, Hull and Overstreet of the Congressional Committee have just been in to see me, feeling very gloomy indeed about the Congressional outlook. They are particularly downcast over the result of the interview with Mr. Harriman. You would do me a great favor if you would ask Babcock or one of the others to see you. I asked Babcock to call upon you anyhow but I think he feels a little doubtful without an invitation from you. The most important thing is to carry the Governorship of New York. Nothing must interfere with that, but it is very important indeed to carry the next House also. You are the only man in New York to whom I feel I can turn in this particular crisis. Can you advise the committee and tell them how to act? I earnestly hope you can give them the benefit of your counsel and if necessary intercede for them. By the way, I sent my speech to Mr. Harriman, stat-ing that I did so in consequence of our conversation. I suppose Sherman was entirely content with the arrangement when you told him. With warm regards to Mrs. Odell, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. B. B. Odell, Governor, Albany, N. Y.183 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. Confidential. My dear Mr. Babcock: I have written to all of these gentlemen. I told Odell I wanted you to call upon him. I wish you would do do as soon as possible. It was a very great pleasure to see you three out here the other night. Faithfully yours, Hon. J. W. Babcock, Chairman, etc., 1135 Broadway, New York, N. Y.184 128 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 20, 1902. Dear Winty: I have your letter of Tuesday. Those plans are eminently satisfactory. Do you think we could use the yacht to go over to see Florence La Farge, the next morning? Most certainly to leave at three o'clock in the afternoon would give us ample time. It would be folly to have any arrangement to bring all the newspaper men. Let it be announced that this is a purely private and personal visit to you, as I am to be Godfather at the christening, and that no one is expected. I certainly will not want any one with me, but it is barely possible that it would be better to have Mr. Cortelyou. I shall see him and let you know. The others can go direct to Boston. [?] Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Winthrop Chanler, Esq., Newport, R. I.185 156 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 20, 1902. Dear Jake: I am in receipt of your letter of the 19th, with enclosure. If I accede to the request of the Sunday School Times for a message, it means that I would have literally scores of similar requests. Now, do you think I can differentiate? I would like your judgment. I was obliged to decline the invitation to address the meeting in the interest of the Beth Israel Hospital. If I should accept an invitation of this sort it would cause no endless embarrassment. I am glad to have the good news about your boy. I am sure he will come out all right. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Jacob Riis, Esq., Richmond Hill, N.Y.186 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 20, 1902. My dear Mr. Verestchagin: I am in receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, and regret to hear of the illness of your son, and that I shall not be able to see you. I earnestly hope you will find him all right. I thank you very much about the picture and am looking forward eagerly to seeing it. With best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt W. Verestchagin, Esq., Care Russian Embassy, Washington, D. C.187 Confidential. 119 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 20, 1902. My dear Mr. Lummis: One word confidentially. I do not like your paper to be used to boom Newlands, as in your last piece about irrigation. The bill is not the Newlands' bill at all. He had for instance, far less to do with preparing it than Senator Stewart of Nevada, or Congressman Mondell of Wyoming; and I consulted him far less than I did Senator Gibson of Montana and especially Senator Warren of Wyoming. Mr. Newlands had absolutely nothing to do with getting the bill through, but he has since industriously worked a newspaper bureau to give him the credit. This bureau has gone so far as to publish fake interviews with the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. The chief work that has been done was not by the western people at all. I had to devote myself to the easterners, and all that I had to do with Newlands was to make it evident that I would not back the extreme scheme with which he had been identified, the backing of which meant that nothing whatever would be accomplished. As soon as we got the westerners to agree upon a moderate bill, and could show that we were not going to do anything like what Mr. Newlands had originally proposed, then it only remained to bring the easterners in line, and that caused hard18 -2- work, but we finally did it. I write you thus at length because I have been convinced that Mr. Newlands had sought to exploit this bill for his own political purposes. Of course, treat this letter as entirely confidential and for your own information. I thank you for sending me the typewritten copy of the report, and I return it to you herewith. Is the action of the Interior Department satisfactory? I stirred them up instantly after hearing from you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Charles F. Lummis, Esq., Los Angeles, Cal.189 70 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Secretary Moody: The enclosed letter from Mr. Judson, Dean of the University of Chicago, explains itself. I think it would be a very good thing if [for] you would [to] make the opening address of the campaign in Chicago - and a good thing for me too. Now don't you think you could go? I hope you can. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. H. Moody, Haverill, Mass. Enclosure.190 74 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: It was pleasant to hear from you, but surely it was unnecessary even to say to me what you did. I should believe nothing from any man who said you were hostile to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Jos. R. Hawley, United States Senate, Washington, D. C.191 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Confidential. My dear Mr. von Steinitz; Let me ask your advice, in strictest confidence, about the new ambassador to Berlin. Before President McKinley died I promised, on his behalf and at his request, that the next vacant embassy should go to Bellamy Storer, whom McKinley had meant to send to Vienna. So this is a promise which I am in a double way bound to keep. Moreover, Storer has been an exceptionally faithful and competent public servant. I should send him to Berlin without question if it were not that Mr. Frederick W. Holls informs me that you and the other representatives of the German Lutherans would violently object. The Kaiser himself, as I happen to know, would rather like to have him; But if our German Lutherans would really object, it may be that I could transfer Mr. Charlemagne Tower from St. Petersburg to Berlin and send Storer either to192 St. Petersburg or Vienna. Please treat this as strictly confidential, and give me your views. Secretary Hay thinks that Storer ought to go to Berlin, but until I see him I cannot tell whether the reasons which he gives would outweigh the reasons which Holls alleges or not. [???] Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Emil von Steinitz, Editor, The Germania, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.193 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Attorney General: What is the reason we cannot proceed against the coal operators as being engaged in a trust? I ask because it is a question continually being asked of me. If you have to go to Paris, good luck go with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. C. Knox, Care of Castalia Fishing Club, Castalia, Ohio.194 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Spooner: This is purely confidential. After the election is over, would you be willing to have me put Mr. Richard T. Ely in the place of Mr. Taylor as Third Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. C. Spooner, U.S.S., Madison, Wisconsin.195 177 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Secretary Hay: It may be that the Lutheran Germans will bitterly resent a Catholic being sent to Berlin, and that it would be better to make the other changes which I suggested - putting Tower into Berlin. Could you find out whether Berlin would accept Tower? Is it necessary to find out whether McCormick would go to St. Petersburg? Why cannot we buy the Panama isthmus outright instead of leasing it from Colombia? It seems to me to be a good thing. I think they would change their constitution if we offered enough. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Newbury, New Hampshire.196 177 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Hanna: Is it true that you are coming east? If so, can you not spend a night with me out here? I want to go over a little of the tariff business with you, and I also want to recite to you the melancholy tale told me by the Congressional Committee as to the congressional outlook this fall; for they are needing help. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. A. Hanna, U.S.S., Cleveland, Ohio.197 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 19, 1902. My dear Mr. Murray: I warmly appreciate the cordial invitation which you extend on behalf of the American Irish Historical Society to attend its anniversary celebration to be held at the Narragansett Hotel, Providence R. I., on the evening of Friday, August 29th. It would afford me genuine pleasure to be present on this occasion and I deeply regret that the itinerary of the New England trip does not contemplate my being in Providence on the evening mentioned. Otherwise I should be most happy to send an acceptance. Accept my best wishes for the complete success of the meeting, and believe me, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Thos. Hamilton Murray, Secretary-General, etc., Boston, Mass.198 169 Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Judge Holmes: After consulting one or two people, I feel that there is no necessity why you should be nominated in the recess. Accordingly I withdraw the recess appointment which I sent you, and I shall not send you another appointment until you have been confirmed by the Senate, which I think will be two or three days after it meets. Meanwhile, I strongly feel that you should continue as Chief Justice of Massachusetts. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. W. Holmes, Beverly Farms, Mass.199 169 Oyster Bay, N.Y., August 21, 1902. My dear Congressman: Colonel DeWitt has an honorable career, but O'Reilly is beyond all question the man for the position now. I gave one promotion for the purpose of retirement, but it did not seem to me that among the others there was anyone who stood out so very especially eminent as to make it advisable. I am very sorry not to be able to write more encouragingly. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. E. Driscoll, M.C., Syracuse, N. Y.200 196 Northfield, Mass., September 1, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Hanna. Good. I am very much obliged to you. I will appoint the 16th of September. Would you like me to send the "Sylph" to New York to take you out to Oyster Bay? Give my warm regards to Mrs. Hanna and tell her how I am looking forward to the Sunday at your house at Cleveland. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. A. Hanna, Cleveland, Ohio. P. S. - I could have you taken out from New York on the "Sylph", getting out in time for lunch, and spending the afternoon and night; or if you desire it I can have you taken out in the afternoon in time for dinner, so that we will have the evening and whatever of the following morning is necessary together.201 196 Northfield, Mass., September 1, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Aldrich: I enclose a letter from Senator Allison. I have arranged for Senator Hanna to come on the 16th, at which time I shall expect you. Now in view of Senator Allison's plea shall I let him off until I get him in Chicago or somewhere else further west; or do you think it best that you and I should jointly get him on for the date mentioned? It is such a long journey for him that I hardly like to get him to come. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island. P.S.- I could have you taken out from New York on the "Sylph", getting out in time for lunch, and spending the afternoon and night; or if you desire it i can have you202 taken out in the afternoon in time for dinner, so that we will have the evening and whatever of the following morning is necessary together.203 Northfield, Mass., September 1, 1902. My dear Dr. Shaw: I have greatly enjoyed this month's Review of Reviews, and I appreciate deeply what you have said about me. It may be I shall want to see you between the 11th and 18th of September, or it may be that I can keep it until after the 9th of October. Where will you be from now on? I should like to get you and Murray Butler to come out for a night to Oyster Bay. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor, Review of Reviews, New York, N. Y.204 Northfield, Mass., September 1, 1902. My dear Mr. Wilcox: I earnestly wish I could accept, but it will not be possible to be in Buffalo on that date. I am exceedingly sorry. You are more than kind to have thought of us, and if I could come I should certainly stay with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ansley Wilcox, Buffalo, N. Y.205 152 August 30, 1902. My dear Judge Hammond: I should prefer that the date should be about the 13th or about the 20th - that is the 13th or 14th or the 19th or 20th. Which of those two sets of dates do you think is best to name? If it is safe to allow the 13th being chosen, I think that date would be the best; but we don't want to run the risk of having Judge Wright fail to get here. Let me know at which end of the week you think the date had best be placed, and then I will name the day at once for you, as you so kindly request. With hearty regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Ed Hammond, Memphis, Tenn206 149 Northfield, Mass., September 1, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Dresser: It is not possible for me to give you the exact dates yet, as I am in consultation with the Memphis people as to when Judge Wright will be there. I do not see how we can get to New Orleans in addition to Memphis when we are making so short a trip, although I should particularly like to. How long would it take to get from our hunting grounds to New Orleans and back? Also will you tell me how long it will take to get from New York to Memphis? I shall to have to leave New York at midnight after the Chamber of Commerce dinner the evening of the 11th, and if I made my stop at Memphis at the beginning of the trip as I should like to, it would I suppose be possible for me to get there in time for the 13th. If I have to put my speech in Memphis on the 20th, then could we not get from Memphis to Philadelphia in time for me to speak on the evening of the 22d? Now it does not seem to me that if we are going to 207 149 make any kind of a hunt there will be much chance for visiting New Orleans also. Can you give me the times so that I may judge a little better? I am very much obliged to you for the trouble you are taking. There will be no one on the party but myself, unless I can persuade a friend, John McIlhenny, to come with me, and I doubt if I can do it because he would insist upon going to New Orleans. Bear and wildcat are exactly what I want. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. D. LeRoy Dresser 346 Broadway, New York, N. Y.208 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 3, 1902. My dear Mr. Trumbull: Your note of recent date has been brought to my attention. I am glad to learn of the special rally day of the American Sunday School workers to be held in the near future for the purpose of outlining the winter's campaign in Bible study and character training. Every effort looking to improvement in methods for Bible study and instruction should of course be most earnestly supported. The Sunday school workers are entitled to the hearty support of all well-wishers to the nation. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles G. Trumbull, Editor of the Sunday School Times, Philadelphia, Pa.209 Oyster Bay, N.Y., September 4, 1902. My dear Mr. Cushman: I wish to thank you for the beautiful magazine holder which you presented to me. I am delighted with it. It was very kind of you to think of me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward P. Cushman, Lynn, Massachusetts.209 1/2 Oyster Bay, N. Y. September 4, 1902. Ryraport, London. Not hurt in the least. Theodore. Official. Oyster Bay, N. Y. Sept. 4, 1902. William I. R. Posen, Am deeply touched and gratified by your thoughtful message. Was not hurt in the least. Theodore Roosevelt. Official.Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 6, 1902. His Majesty, King Edward VII, London. Please accept my hearty thanks for your kind and thoughtful inquiry. My hurts were trivial. Theodore Roosevelt. CABLE. [above text duplicated]210 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 4, 1902. Personal. My dear Captain Flanagan: I thank you most cordially for your letter of the 26th ultimo. One of the pleasantest associations that I had in connection with the Governorship of New York was with you. You have shown me such repeated kindness that I am almost ashamed to accept another evidence of it. With warm regards to Mrs. Flanagan, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain William L. Flanagan, 262 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y.211 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 4, 1902. My dear Mr. Tirrell: I send you the enclosed letter, which explains itself. My boy is at Groton, and it would be a great favor to us if, as Mr. Peabody suggests, you could see your way to recommend Miss Caryl, the sister of the deceased postmistress, to take her place. It is an appointment I should like to make. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles Q. Tirrell, Natick, Massachusetts. Enclosure.212 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 4, 1902. My dear Colonel: I am in receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant and do wish I could have been with you on that ride. I thank you for the nugget. It was delightful to get such a graphic picture of Nome. Good luck, [? ?? to all.] Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Melvin Grigsby, Nome, Alaska.213 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 6, 1902. Dear Fred: In the awful pressure I have been under I had forgotten my promise to send you the photograph, but I now forward it to you herewith. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frederick Roosevelt, C/o Messrs. Drexel, Harjes & Co., Paris, France.214 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Senator: Your note of the 5th instant touches and pleases me very greatly, and I thank you deeply for it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. P. Frye, Lewiston, Maine.215 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Lord Minto: You were very kind to write me. Yes that was a noteworthy function; and I am glad, my dear sir, that it should be you who as Governor-General, reviewed the troops of the two nationalities. Give my warm regards to Lady Minto. My chance for a holiday is very, very small. By the way, I am expecting Colonel Arthur Lee and his wife to lunch with me next Monday. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Lord Minto, Governor-General of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.216 [*67*] Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Senator: I am in receipt of your favor of the 5th instant, and shall take up at once with the Secretary of the Navy, the case of Pay Director Speel. Of course, I do not know the candidate; so shall not promise you anything until I can go over the matter with the Secretary. I thank you so much, my dear Senator, for your very kind words about myself in the concluding paragraph of your letter. I look forward to seeing you soon. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Knute Nelson, Alexandria, Minn.217 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 10, 1902. My dear Mr. Ames: Senator Lodge has sent me your note with Mrs. Eckstorm's letter. They have given me real pleasure. I had already known of your admirable speech at the Reform Club. Will you tell Mrs. Eckstorm how much I liked her letter? Sewall is a trump. He would have been down to see me whether I was President or not, just the same, and of course he would have had just the same greeting from me in one case as in the other. Will you tell Mrs. Eckstorm also that while in no way deserving the kind words she speaks of me, yet I must in return say that to my mind she is as to the philosophy of the question exactly right in her letter. I think a thoroughgoing democracy of spirit, as far removed as possible from demagogy, is absolutely essential to the working out of our problems here.With great appreciation of your kindness, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. C. H. Ames, 120 Boyleston Street, Boston, Mass.219 170 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 10, 1902. Dear Cabot: Many thanks for your letters. I shall write to Mr. Ames at once as I am really pleased both with his letter and that of Mrs. Eckstorm. I like your Portland speech. I have not been able to find out when the Senators are coming out on the 16th, but they will all be here. Will it be most convenient for you to come out in the morning or the afternoon? If you can come out in the morning I have arranged that a private car be attached to the 11:00 train from Long Island City, which will bring you here in time for lunch. In great haste, ever yours, T. R. My bruises are getting all right. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Nahant, Mass. P. S. I have directed the Postmaster General to reappoint Mr. F. H. Bristow as postmaster at Elkton, Ky.220 207 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Mr. Dresser: The Memphis Gun Club has been wild to have me join them and insist that they have the best dogs for Bohbo. Now they are very kind but when I go hunting with Bohbo my idea would be to have just as few people as possible; You and I and Fish; perhaps a friend of mine like John McIlhenny, and if there are one or two planters from whom Bohbo has had to get hounds, why of course we must have them too. But the fewer the hunters the better the sport. It has always been my experience that every additional man took away from a hunting trip. I write this just to tell you what I was asked to do, and to put you on your guard; although I am sure that is needless. I do hope Bohbo will understand that we must get as many dogs as possible, because if we take a five days hunt there it won't do to have a slip-up.221 By the way, instead of visiting New Orleans, would it not be possible at the close of the hunt to come home by the way of Tuskegee? With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. D. Le Roy Dresser, 15 Greene Street, New York, N. Y.222 Oyster Bay, N.Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Mr. Page: I like your article upon me so well that I must write to thank you for it. I shall hope soon to see you in Washington. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Walter H. Page, Editor of The World's Work, New York, N. Y.223 189 Oyster Bay, N. Y. September 10, 1902. My dear Mr. Moody: I am in receipt of your favor of the 4th instant. By all means go to the Marquette Club, and speak on the Navy as you suggest. I agree with you that it would probably be the best type of speech for you to make. Do you think it would be possible for you to join me for the last two or three days of my northwestern trip, say about October 4th? I should like to talk over many things with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.224 108 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Senator: There are several things that I wish to see you about -- chiefly to thank you: but also to speak a word about the tariff. Will you be in New York prior to the 19th instant? If so could you come out and lunch with me at 1:30 p.m.? You can take the 11:00 o'clock train from Long Island City. Any day will suit me, except that on the 16th, Hanna, Aldrich, and Allison are coming here. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. S. Quay, U.S.S., Beaver, Pa.225 168 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Garfield: I am in receipt of your favor of the 9th instant concerning the circular sent out by the republican state central committee of Iowa. You have taken exactly the right action. I have at once notified Secretary Shaw that I entirely agree with your note and that immediate steps should be taken to explain that federal office- holders need not contribute a cent save of their own free will, and will not be jeopardized in any way by a refusal to contribute. Furthermore, that the committee should at once be brought up with a round turn in the course of action they are following. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James R. Garfield. U. S. Civil Service Commissioner, Washington, D. C.226 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Mr. Secretary: The enclosed correspondence explains itself. It seems to me that immediate action should be taken, in the first place to explain publicly, if necessary by a circular, or otherwise, to all federal officials, notably those under the Post Office Department and Treasury, that they need not contribute a cent, save of their own free will, and that they will not be jeopardized for not contributing. Furthermore, I think that the republican committee should be notified at once that I very strongly disapprove of such a circular as that they have sent out. Cannot this be done? Please return enclosures with your reply. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.[*227*] Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear General Otis: I am in receipt of your favor of the 2nd instant, concerning Dr. Frank Donaldson. I did not know that he wanted newspaper work. I know nothing of his capacity for such. My letter of introduction was in his personal capacity, because he is a good fellow, did good work in my regiment, and I did not like to refuse him a line of friendly reference. I thank you heartily for your very kind invitation, and am delighted with what you tell me about Governor- to-be-Pardee. With heartiest well wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, Los Angeles, Calif. P. S. I have heard that Dr. Donaldson did good newspaper work in Denver, but I cannot speak of my own knowledge.228 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Colonel Williams: I am in receipt of your favor of the 8th instant, with attached clipping. Will you personally tell Mr. Walton that I sincerely thank him for his editorial. I do not in the least mind any one opposing me politically, but when I meet a good American it is a great pleasure to have him recognize that I am one also. Give my warm regards to Governor Beckham. I am afraid it will not be possible for me to go to Frankfort. You have no idea how I am run with requests to go everywhere. With warm regards, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Roger. D. Williams, Lexington, Ky.229 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. My dear Mr. McMahon: Your letter of the 10th instant is so excellent that in the first speech I make on my northwestern trip I am going to bodily crib part of it -- so, my dear sir, make up your mind to see me getting credit for plumes borrowed from you! With hearty thanks, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt James McMahon, Esq., President, 51 Chambers Street, New York, N. Y.230 Oyster Bay, N.Y., September 11, 1902. Dear William: I enclose you that sock as a sample. Be sure and send it back to me. Could you get me two pair like it? I want them soft, but just as heavy as this -- in fact if anything a little mite heavier. Remember that I shall count on seeing you and as many of your family as you can persuade to come with you down in Washington some time in January. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt William Sewall, Esq., Island Falls, Maine. Enclosure.231 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 11, 1902. Gentlemen: I thank you very much for your remembrance. My small boy Kermit, by the way, at once inquired if it was your little boys that he used to drive the cows with, and I told him yes. You are very good to have thought of me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mssrs. T. H. and L. C. Root, Farmington, Conn.232 195 Oyster Bay, N.Y., September 12, 1902. Dear John: I have your note of the 11th and am very glad you are to be with the G. A. R. on October 6th. I shall review their parade on the 8th, but I cannot get there on the 6th. Of course your view as to the proper length of the telegram goes! That was a delightful [???] I do [???] Ever yours, T. R Hon. John Hay, Newbury, N. H.234 195 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 13, 1902. Dear Martin: I look forward to reading the poems, and so I know will Mrs. Roosevelt. By the way, I hope I am not divulging a secret when I say that I find Ted and your boy engaged on a history of Rome together. For Heaven's sake don't tell your boy unless he violates the confidence himself! Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt {signature] Mr. Edward S. Martin, Century Club, New York, N. Y.235 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 13, 1902. My dear Chancellor Day: I am rather surprised at your letter of the 12th instant. I do not know what the papers have said. Is it possible that they have omitted to mention the fact that I attended divine service twice on that Sunday, once in camp together with the whole regiment, and once in the evening at the First Baptist Church at Chattanooga! As for their stating that the day was "one of sport and fun", I cannot help but feel, my dear sir, that if you had been aware of what I did, you would be yourself in a position to pass judgment upon this statement. The time outside of that mentioned above in which I was attending church services, was spent in going over the battlefields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. I can wish nothing better for any man in whom the spirit of reverence is to grow than to visit with proper feeling these great battlefields during the time intervening between morning and evening service. The alternative was that I should not236 have seen them at all, and should have shown discourtesy to the commonwealth land ridge the forum of the state and the Mayor of the City. I do not ordinarily answer letters of this kind, but I have a very high regard for you, and I feel confident that what you have written is due to a gross misrepresentation of the facts as to my visit to Chattanooga, and I have therefore taken pleasure in writing you. A more [scandalous?] misuse of words than to call my visit one "of sport and fun" cannot be imagined. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. James B. Day, Chancellor, Syracuse, N. Y.239 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 15, 1902. My dear Sir: I thank you cordially for your very kind invitation of the 13th instant. I wish I could be present with you to pay tribute to the memory of Kossuth, but early on the morning of the 19th I start on my western trip and it would be impossible for me to leave here the evening before. No American can fail to feel the greatest admiration for Kossuth's high character and mighty deeds. I am proud as an American that while he was living our country should have received him with the eager honor it showed. Pray present my regards to all the members of your club, and believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Marcus Braun, Esq., President, Hungarian Republican Club, 54 St. Mark's Place, New York, N. Y.240 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 15, 1902. Very great credit is due to all those connected with the arrangements for the dinner to the American press in honor of Prince Henry of Prussia during his recent visit to the United States. It was eminently fitting that such a dinner should be given in our country, in which the press has attained a power greater than that which it holds in any other land. Theodore Roosevelt Sent to Mr. Louis Wiley, New York Times New York, N.Y. 241 147 Oyster Bay, N. Y. September 15, 1902. My dear Mr. Harriman: When I come back from my northwestern trip I must have a chance to see you, for I want to talk over several matters connected with the tariff and so-called trusts, and the general industrial and political situation. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. H. Harriman, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 242 Copy in President's Book: Autograph letter as follows: Sagamore Hill, Sept. 15, 1902. My dear Cardinal Gibbons: Let me thank you most heartily for your kind and thoughtful note. It was characteristic of you to send it. I hope to see you as soon as I return to Washington. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt243 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 15, 1902. 176 Darling Bye: I am very much obliged to you for what you told me about Mr. Harriman. It was important, and I appreciate your writing me. Give my warm regards to the Reids. Ever yours, T. R. I write the [?] [?ort?] as soon as the [?eader] came. Mrs. W. S. Cowles, Camp Elsinore, Paul Smiths, N. Y.244 72 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 15, 1902. My dear Mr. Ambassador: On the day you open this you will be seventy years old. I cannot forbear writing you a line to express the obligation which all of the American people are under to you. As a diplomat you have come in that class whose firmest exponents are Benjamin Franklin and Charles Francis Adams, and which numbers also in its ranks men like Morris, Livingston and Pinckney. As a politician, as a publicist, and as a college president you have served your country as only a limited number of men are able to serve it. You have taught by precept and you have taught by practice. We are all of us better because you have lived and worked, and I send you now not merely my warmest well-wishes and congratulations, but thanks from all our people for all that you have done for us in the past. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Andrew D. White, U. S. Ambassador, Berlin, Germany.245 244 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 15, 1902. My dear Mr. Ambassador: Will you read the enclosed on your seventieth birthday? I have sealed it so that you can break the seal then. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [faded signature] Hon. Andrew D. White, U. S. Ambassador, Berlin, Germany.246 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 16, 1902. Dear Augie: I am very much obliged to you for your letter. You make my mouth water by your invitation. If I can come sometime most certainly I will. I should like very much to see you and talk over several matters with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt August Belmont, Esq., 23 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.247 103 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 16, 1902. My dear Senator: I am in receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, with enclosure from Mr. William H. Burr. I shall carefully consider Mr. Burr's claims before making a decision. I presume some man will be taken from New York, but I should like to see you and talk the different men over before I come to any decision whatever in the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas C. Platt, 49 Broadway, New York City.252 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 16, 1902. 103 My dear Sir: I very much appreciate the cordial invitation extended to me to attend the reunion of the members of the Medal of Honor Legion, Philadelphia, November 7th. It would give me great pleasure to be with the members of the Legion on this occasion and express to them in person my genuine admiration for their heroic services, which so worthily merited the signal honor conferred on them by their country , and to assure them of my hearty best wishes for themselves and for their organization. As, however, the imperative nature of my engagements for the date set for the reunion makes it impossible for me to be present, which occasions me very real regret, I beg that you will be good enough to convey to the members of the Legion this expression of my good-will and my warm congratulations. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. M. Veale, Commander, etc., 727 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.253 232 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 18, 1902. Dear John: I think that an extra session in November on the Cuban tariff business would be inadvisable. I want the treaty with Cuba, therefore, in time to permit us thoroughly to go over it in November, so that we may send it in to the Senate the minute the Senate convenes, with an appropriate message. I might deem it well in addition to my annual message to send in this special message about the Cuban treaty. Under these circumstances I think we should have the Cuban treaty in time to be sure that we are satisfied with it, by say the 10th of November. Objections to the appointment of Meyer to Berlin arose at once, which included the rather strange belief that he was of Jewish origin, which meant that his name would definitely prevent his receiving social recognition. Therefore, unless you hear from me to the contrary, I think it would be well to have the State Department announce, say next Wednesday, that Tower is to go to Berlin, McCormick to St. Petersburg, Storer to Vienna, Hardy to Spain, Bryan to Switzerland, and Thompson to be appointed to Brazil.254 [?] 2 I saw Senator Hanna and Postmaster General Payne about the latter, and they both say he is a straight man morally, and in point of ability and fitness away ahead of Bryan, our present Minister to Brazil. I delighted the conference of Senators by reading aloud the analogy you drew in reference to the admiration of the mugwump for the ruffian, as typified respectively by Mr. Garrison and Mr. Tom Johnson. Well, to-morrow I take up the burden again and start off for a three weeks' nerve-shattering trip. I have grave and delicate questions to meet, and though I had a most pleasant conference with the Senators, they were able to help me but little. However, I was glad to find that all of them, including Senator Hanna, thoroughly approved of my position on the trusts. I must handle the tariff also. I fear, especially in view of Speaker Henderson's extraordinary action, that it would be fatal to me not to handle it; and yet, it will be a matter of the utmost difficulty so to handle it as not to cause great damage. There are a good many worse things than the possibility of trolley car accidents in these trips! Love to all of you, and especially to the bride-elect. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, Newbury, N.H.255 Oyster Bay, N.Y., September 18, 1902. My dear Captain Bullock: Just a line to say I like your letter so much to Ted. He had a first rate trip and got lots of prairie chickens and afterwards had some good fishing. Personally I should very much rather have him get on a saddle horse and sleep out than go on a Pullman car. But still the little fellow worked hard and shot well. He can outwalk me and beat me with a shotgun already, and is pretty nearly as good as I am with the rifle, and quite as good on a horse; so I would not be in the least afraid of having him go with you. I shall count upon seeing you in Washington sometime this winter. I do not care much for grouse shooting, but I felt much interested over the news that you had corralled some wildcats. Yours friend, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Seth Bullock, Deadwood, S. D.256 Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 19, 1902. Dear Cotty: I am in receipt of your note of the 16th. Congress will have just come together at the date mentioned and it is a simple impossibility for me to leave Washington. I could not do it. Moreover, I question whether having been to Harvard at commencement, it would do for me to go again, when I have to refuse so many requests to go elsewhere, much though I should like to be present on this particular occasion. I earnestly hope you and Fanny will thoroughly enjoy yourselves. Give her my warm regards. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Endicott Peabody, Groton School, Groton, Mass.[*257*] 124 September 27, 1902. My dear Senator: First, as to a matter of great importance, which is the coal strike: I hope you can come down here as soon as you get any definite information of the kind of which you spoke, so that I may go over the matter with you. Wire me in advance, because I can certainly see you, unless, which I think improbable, there is to be a further operation on my leg. Now as to a second matter. I do not suppose you have ever looked at the law about political assessments, but it is very stringent. Suits are being brought under it all the time, and I have difficulty now and then in steering some of my best friends aright in the matter, because they do not know what the law is. A circular was recently sent to some of the governmental employees over your signature, which technically appears to come within the law. Of course, I understand that these circulars are sent in most cases without any knowledge on the part of the[*258*] man whose name appears on the bottom. The people in Philadelphia have been agitating to bring suit in the matter, and the Civil Service Commission have called it to my attention. The same thing happened in Iowa a few weeks ago, but the circular was at once withdrawn as I think this should be. Can you not get Mr. Andrews, the Secretary, whose name appeared with yours on the circular, to call on Mr. Garfield of the Civil Service Commission and find out exactly what ought to be done? Mr. Garfield, a son of the late President, is a thoroughly practical fellow, an active Republican, who served four years in the Ohio State Senate, and it is safe to follow him in matters of this kind. With great regard, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. M. S. Quay, U. S. S., Beaver, Pa.[*259*] September 27, 1902. 200 My dear Senator: For more reasons than one I am very sorry that I am not to be with you a week from Sunday at Cleveland. I am a good deal puzzled over the tariff situation, especially as I find the feeling in the Northwest. But what gives me the greatest concern at the moment is the coal famine. Of course, we have nothing whatever to do with the coal strike and no earthly responsibility for it. But the public at large will tend to visit upon our heads responsibility for the shortage in coal precisely as Kansas and Nebraska visited upon our heads their failure to raise good crops in the arid belt, eight, ten or a dozen years ago. I do not see what I can do, and I know the coal operators are especially distrustful of anything which they regard as in the nature of political interference. But I do most earnestly feel that from every consideration of public policy and of good morals they should make some slight concession. I do not suppose there is the least chance of your being able to get down to Washington, but if you are anywhere in my neigh-borhood, do let me see you, and at any rate, do write me and tell me if you have anything in the world to suggest. I had a great time in Cincinnati, and also in Detroit. I read with interest your speech in the pamphlet "Peace and Plenty," which you kindly sent to me. With warm regards to you all, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Hon. M. A. Hanna, Cleveland, Ohio.[*261*] 219 September 27, 1902. Dear Cabot: First, let me say how pleased I was to know that Gussie had practically won his nomination. I forgot to mention it before because everything had been swallowed up in the anxiety about Constance. Now as to what you say about the situation. I entirely agree with you that it is alarming, and chiefly from the cause you mention. There is a further cause. Now that there is complaint of high prices at home, people are being very much worried at the way articles are sold at a lower price abroad than they are sold here. The fact is undoubted. It is of course due to the further fact that in every business the surplus is disposed of at below the regular prices. The popular way of expressing the fact is that the trusts sell goods lower abroad than at home, because of the way they are pampered by the tariff; yet the type example being used, for instance, in Kansas is the price of a pair of American shoes in Kansas and in London respectively; and of course there is no shoe trust. This is a tariff question pure and simple, and has no relation whatever to the trusts. Yet I think it has a good deal of a hold on the popular mind. Moreover, in the Northwest there is a good deal of formless and vague uneasiness about the trusts and in favor of tariff revision. But the real concrete trouble is in connection with the coal strike. The tariff of course has nothing whatever to do with the matter, as there is no tariff on anthracite coal. The coal operators are not combined so as to enable us legally to call them a trust; and if they were, all that we could[*262*] 2. do would be to proceed against them under the law against trusts, and whatever might be the effect as between them and the consumers in ordinary times, such a proceeding would damage, slightly at least, both them and the working miners, and would therefore have no possible effect of a favorable nature upon the present strike - even if it were not improper to take it. There is literally nothing, so far as I have yet been able to find out, which the national government has any power to do in the matter. Nor can I even imagine any remedial measure of immediate benefit that could be taken in Congress. That it would be a good thing to have national control, or at least supervision, over these big coal corporations, I am sure; but that would simply have to come as an incident of the general movement to exercise control over such corporations. All this is aside from the immediate political effect. The same unreasoning feeling which made the farmer in Kansas hold the government responsible because he himself had tried in vain to carry on an impossible agriculture in the arid regions, will now make the people hold the government responsible if they do not get enough coal. I have been in consultation with Quay, on the one hand, and with Sargent on the other, as to what I can do, each of them having been in touch both with representatives of the operators and with Mitchell. One of the great troubles in dealing with the operators is that their avowed determination in connection with the present matter is to do away with what they regard as the damage done to them by submitting to interference for political reasons in 1900. From the outset they have said that they are never going to submit again to having their laborers given a triumph over them for political purposes, as Senator Hanna secured the triumph in 1900. They are now repeating with great bitterness that they do not intend[263] 3. to allow Quay to bully them into making any concession for his political ends, any more than they would to allow Hanna to do it for his. I shall soon see Quay again, and I may see Hanna. I shall see Sargent and Wright. Unfortunately, the strength of my public position before the country is also its weakness. I am genuinely independent of the big monied men in all matters where I think the interests of the public are concerned, and probably I am the first President of recent times of whom this could be truthfully said. I think it right and desirable that this should be true of the President. But where I do not grant any favors to these big monied men which I do not think the country requires that they should have, it is out of the question for me to expect them to grant favors to me in return. I treat them precisely as I treat other citizens; that is, I consider their interests so far as my duty requires and so far as I think the needs of the country warrant. In return, they will support me, in so far as they are actuated purely by public spirit, simply as accordingly as they think I am or am not doing well; and so far as [simply according to] they are adroitly wealthy [???] their private interests they will support me only on points where they think it to their interest to do so. The sum of this is that I can make no private or special appeal to them, and I am at my wits' ends how to proceed. I shall consult Root in the matter. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, Nahant, Massachusetts. P. S. I shall make no more tours this year, and no speeches until after election; then only three or four special ones in November. I have delivered my message, and hope you like what I said about the tariff.264 September 29, 1902. My dear Gregory: Mrs. Roosevelt and I are so delighted with "Rolling Stones" that I must write and thank you. I think you are doing a really first-class work - don't think me a prig if I say it is "work" of a most needed missionary type. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Eliot Gregory, Esq., Care Century Magazine, Union Square, New York, N. Y. 265 September 29, 1902. My dear Colonel Dodge: Having a moment's leisure I write you a personal word of thanks for your two books, which I have been reading with the greatest pleasure. I hope you liked the photograph I sent you of my horse jumping. It was taken May 2d last. I happened to be out at the Chevy Chase Club here in Washington. However, I do very little jumping nowadays, as I find I cannot afford to get laid up through any fault of my own - it is bad enough to be laid up through no fault of my own. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Care Henry C. Dunn, Publisher. Boston, Mass.266 151 September 29, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Clarkson: I am in receipt of your communication of the 27th instant, with enclosure from Booker T. Washington. It is I am sure needless to say that I agree absolutely with your views as to the Negro question and the Republican party in the South. It is in my mind equally an outrage against the principles of our party and of our government to appoint an improper man to a position because he is a Negro, or with a view of affecting the Negro vote; or on the other hand, to exclude a proper man from an office or as a delegate because he is a Negro. I shall never knowingly consent to either doctrine. Now in view of this, it seems to me we had better appoint our District Attorney in Alabama right away.267 Will Scott object to the appointment of Rheulach? I should much rather appoint him than Parsons because I have heard very well of Rheulach. Will you let me know as soon as you can if Scott objects to him? Scott is a [?]; I do hope we can get one Alabama congressman. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James S. Clarkson, Surveyor of the Port of New York, New York, N. Y.268 September 29, 1902. My dear Mr. Connolly: I have enjoyed so many of your pieces so much that I cannot forbear writing to say so. It is always a matter of personal pleasure and pride to me when we develop an American author who strikes a new note, or who strikes an old one so well and clearly as to win a distinct place for himself. At times I feel a little depressed over the twilight that has come not only upon American poetry but upon American letters generally, and it is such a relief to see really good work - work which gives a promise of living. No amount of material prosperity would console me for the loss on the one hand of the essential manhood of the nation, the manhood which is symbolized by Wesley Mars and Tommie (1) Ohlson and Tommie Ohlson's wife; and on the other hand (1) By the way - ought this not to be "Oleson" ?269 of the appreciative and literary faculty necessary to understand and describe it, and thereby not only to give it expression but to lead it. By the way, do you not like Owen Wister's "Virginian"? Another good novel that appeared last year was the "Blazed Trail", which dealt with the lumber jacks. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt James B. Connolly, Esq., Care Scribner's Magazine, 155 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.270 140 September 27, 1902. My dear Goddard: I thank you very much for your letter of the 26th and accompanying book, which I will read at the first opportunity. Certainly you did score tremendously. As for you, I firmly believe that you will rise continually higher in influence. I cannot expect to see much of you now, for to say that I am busy is to put it mildly, but I shall follow what you do with the greatest interest. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Capt. Norton Goddard, 102 Bleecker Street, New York, N. Y.271 September 27, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: I felt very blue about not visiting the west, but of course there was no alternative. I had gone literally up to the last hour I could go. I am particularly pleased that you liked the Logansport speech. I thought I had substantially the idea that we agreed upon at the time you were in Oyster Bay. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. B. Allison, U. S. S., Dubuque, Iowa.272 September 27, 1902. My dear Mrs. Petrie: Pray permit me to express my deep sympathy with you in the death of Mr. Petrie. I appreciate your having written me. With renewed sympathy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. E. T. Petrie, 85 Beech Street, East Orange, N. J.[*273*] Personal. September 29, 1902. My dear Mr. Jobe: As a fellow Harvard man I must thank you for your exceedingly interesting book. I have been delighted with it. Of course this letter must not be published, or used in any way. But I feel a desire to express to you my sense of the good which comes from such books as yours and from the substitution of the camera for the gun. The older I grow the less I care to shoot anything except "varmints". I do not think it at all advisable that the gun should be given up, nor does it seem to me that shooting wild game under proper restrictions can be legitimately opposed by any who are willing that domestic animals shall be kept for food; but there is altogether too much shooting, and if we can only get the camera in place of the gun and have the sportsman sunk [somewhat?] in the naturalist and lover of wild things, the next generation will see an immense change for[*274*] the better in the life of our woods and waters. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] P.S. But I am still something of a hunter, although a lover of wild nature first! Mr. Herbert K. Jobe, Care of Doubleday, Page & Co., Publishers, New York, N. Y.275 September 29, 1902. My dear Mr. Janvier: I was so pleased to get your book. Last summer we heard a great deal about you both from Miss Beaux. Will you be in Washington next winter? If so, be sure to let us know, so that we can have you both break bread with us in the White House. With many thanks, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Thomas A. Janvier, Care of Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York City.276 259 September 29, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Hanna: This is strictly confidential. Perhaps Knox has told you, but if not I write to say, for your own ear, that the Panama title is all right. Root is the only other man I have told. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. A. Hanna, U. S. S., Cleveland, Ohio.277 226 September 29, 1902. Hon. L. M. Shaw, New York, N. Y. All right to stay over tomorrow. I went over your speech with Knox and wish to go over it with you before it is delivered. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Official.278 279/2 September 25, 1902. Dear Constance: I send this note in typewriting because I am in bed too, one of the bruises I got in the trolley accident having developed in a mildly unpleasant way. I am so relieved to know from your mother's last letter to Edith that you are now better. Dear Constance we are very fond of you and we are so concerned that you should not be well. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. A. P. Gardner, Hamilton, Mass.[*279*] September 25, 1902. Blessed Ted: The bruise on my leg developed into a small abscess and I had to give up my western trip and come home and go to bed. Mother is just too pretty for anything, and has something of the air of triumph in attending me that she had when you were under her charge at the White House and all danger in your case had passed. Don't bother yourself about writing me too much, but let mother or me know now and then how you are getting on with your studies, whether you have begun football, and anything else you think of interest. Evidently you have taken good care of Kermit and have been a great comfort to him, and I am much pleased about it. Let me know how he seems to be getting on both in his studies and among his classmates, and whether he has tried his hand at football. All of the White House people received us with great[*280*] enthusiasm here, although of course we are not yet in the White House. One of the policemen came over last night especially to find out if Archie had come too. My western trip, as far as it went, was a great success. I was received with rather noteworthy enthusiasm and was able to make two or three speeches which I deemed of importance. Thank Heaven the abscess did not come from the bruise on my face which still remains swollen slightly, although the accident took place over three weeks ago. Your loving father, [signature not visible] Master Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Groton School, Groton, Mass.281 [*261*] September 25, 1902. Dear Cabot: It is exasperating to be laid up with this infernal leg trouble, but thank fortune I was able to make my speech on the trust and on the tariff. I am greatly relieved to hear that Constance is getting better. My leg was attended to just in time, as (in strict confidence) there had begun to be trouble with the bone. But I think it will be all right now, though I am not allowed to put it to the floor even for a moment. At present my chief regret is that Washington is not nearer Nahant so that I might see you. Ever yours, Hon. H. C. Lodge, U. S. S., Nahant, Mass.[*282*] September 25, 1902. Blessed Kermit: Yours and Ted's letters have gone chasing me over the western country and I shall not see them until they come back, for as you probably know, the bruise on my left leg that I got from the trolley accident developed into a small abscess and I had to come back to Washington where I am very happy, with mother taking charge of me. She looks just as pretty as possible and I think feels more than ever that I am just the biggest of her children. From what mother tells me your letters seem to show that you are getting on very nicely. Don't bother yourself with writing, but now and then do tell me just how you are, how you get on with your lessons, whether there is any boy to whom you have taken a fancy, whether you have tried any of the football - in short whatever there283 is to say. Out at Indianapolis I met the cunning little girl whose father had sent me that bull dog puppy - or rather sent it to Ted. Did you find you needed the football trousers? Your loving father, Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass.284 182 September 25, 1902. Personal. My dear Governor: I congratulate you heartily on the outcome, and think the platform admirable. Now I do not suppose there is anything I can do to help out, but of course if there is command me in any way. You will be very busy until after election, but some time between election and the first of the year I should greatly like to see you, to go over various New York matters with you. With warm regards to Mrs. Odell, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. B. B. Odell, Governor of New York, Executive Chamber, Albany, N. Y.285 September 25, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator: Mrs. Roosevelt said to me when the news of your nomination arrived: "There, if you were running for Governor, Senator Higgins would be the very man I should want to have running for Lieutenant Governor on your ticket." -- So my congratulations must be accepted as coming from both of us. As you probably know, on Stranahan's suggestion I spoke to Senator Platt about your nomination last summer; but at that time all the idea seemed to be that a Brooklyn man should have it. I am confident that you will win handsomely in New York, but I think the canvass should be managed just as if we needed every solitary vote. Faithfully yours, Hon. F. W. Higgins, Olean, N. Y.286 132 September 25, 1902. Personal. My dear Bishop: Many thanks for your letter of the 24th. I am entirely well, but I suppose it will be a week or ten days before I can get out. At present I have to keep my leg up all the time, because (in the strictest confidence) there has been danger of bone trouble which if it got fairly started would lay me up for some months. We took the thing just in time. Before you sent me the editorials I had read the Commercial Advertiser itself and was, of course, delighted with them. I agree, moreover, with what you say about the trip. I had delivered my messages and there was but little more that I could say. You did use up the Times to perfection. What it, the Boston Herald, Philadelphia Record and Ledger, and Chicago287 Times-Herald have kept on saying about the tariff and the trusts is parrot-like nonsense - so nonsensical as to seem incompatible with sincerity. Good bye and good luck. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, Editor, 187 Broadway, New York, N. Y.288 September 25, 1902. My dear Sir: Your favor of the 19th instant has been received, and I am very much obliged to you for your courteous suggestion. Inasmuch, however, as I am moving about considerably and will have no permanent address for some time, I do not feel that I should undertake to avail myself of your kind offer. Very truly yours, Mr. Ebon Storer, 60-62 Murray Street, New York, N. Y.289 September 25, 1902. Dear Andrews: I received your note at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Cincinnati, and was hoping to be able to take a run out to Avondale to see you all, but it was impossible as our movements were controlled by a schedule. Mrs. Loeb is staying at Albany but will be here on the first of October to open up our house. I presume we shall see you here soon. I received a notification from the Secretary of the Chapter of my election, and that the degree would be conferred on the middle of last month, but I wrote him that it was, of course, impossible for me to be there and requested their indulgence until some time in October. Sincerely yours, Byron Andrews, Esq., Care Mrs. Scovel, 975 Dana Avenue, Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio.290 September 25, 1902. My dear young Friend: I was so pleased with your letter to my son that I send you this letter to say that I was very much interested in what you wrote about your teacher, about the big bats and about the waterfall. I believe you will grow up to be a good man. I have very much at heart the welfare of all the people of the Philippine Islands. I send you herewith my photograph. Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Master [Cir?aco] Dagdog, Sta Marea, Slocos Sur, P. I. 291 September 26, 1902. My dear Dr. Abbott: In what I suppose was your editorial on Trusts, in which you divided up the matter under heads, do let me say how pleased I was, especially with the last heading. One reason why in my speeches I dwell so much on what seemed to me to be the fundamental qualities of good citizenship is that in the last analysis it is upon these qualities we must rely for the real solution of every vital problem that comes before us. As you said, and as I like to say in private, though it sounds a bit demagogic for public utterance, we must make it definitely understood that the State is master of the corporation, and not the corporation master of the State. But the State can use its mastership wisely and only if its average citizenship is on a high level of integrity, resolution and homely good sense. By the way, I wish you would look at the last paragraph of my Detroit speech. I struck it off just before I made the speech, because I felt that perhaps I had hardly292 laid quite enough stress upon our prosperity, and when I came to write this down it expanded of itself into being not a statement of our prosperity, but a statement as to why, in my judgment, it ought to be not only our pride,but our duty to exult over the nation's position, to be confident in her future and eager to have her not shirk her duties, but endeavor to do them right. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Lyman Abbott, The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.293 [*Personal*] September 26, 1902. My dear Sergeant: I thank you cordially for writing me. I was sorry to learn of the death of poor Nash. It was a great surprise to me. As regards the Philippine bill, it was the best I could get, and on the points to which you allude was all we could get through in the teeth of the violent Democratic opposition. I wish that our opponents could be persuaded to act upon this Philippine matter from the standpoint of the honor and interest of our people; not to use it for purely political ends. If they would only follow the course of your namesake, that gallant and able Democrat, General Luke Wright, the whole business in the Philippines would be settled just as much as things are settled in Porto Rico. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sergeant Albert P. Wright, P. O. Box 357, Manila, P. I.294 49 September 26, 1902. Dear Will: It was very good of you to write me and send the clipping. What paper was it from? I am all right, except that I must keep my leg quiet for a week or so. Love to Anna. I wish I could be playing bear with Sheffield myself. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Commander W. S. Cowles, U.S.N, Farmington, Conn.295 September 26, 1902. My dear Lieutenant Patterson: Your thoughtful letter of the 14th instant has been received, and is genuinely appreciated. Personally I am feeling very well and so far as I can discover have sustained no permanent bad effects from the trolley accident. The President, as you may have learned, has had to abandon the western trip upon which he started on the 19th instant, by reason of a small abscess which developed on his left leg between the knee and the ankle, as the result of the Pittsfield, Mass., incident. The matter is not at all serious, but is temporarily disabling. He will doubtless be entirely recovered from this in a week or two. With kind regards, believe me, Sincerely yours, Lt. Wm. Lay Patterson, Henry Barracks, Cayey, P. R.296 [?] Theodore Roosevelt297 September 30, 1902. Dear Florence: Pardon a line in typewriting, as I am not yet up. I loved your note, and I am sorry to say that I had already read the book - was it not on Grant's recommendation? One of the things I most look forward to next winter is when you both visit us here in the White House. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. C. Grant La Farge, 101 East 19th Street, New York City.298 September 29, 1902. Dear Gussie: I have been so concerned about Constance that I have only just been able to take the proper pride in your triumph. I congratulate you with all my heart. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Augustus P. Gardner, Hamilton, Massachusetts.299 October 1,1902. Isaac Miller Hamilton, President, National Republican League, 1314 Marquette Building, Chicago,Ill. At the opening of the National Convention please express to those present my cordial greetings and hearty best wishes for a successful session. Theodore Roosevelt Charge, The President's Private Acct.300 October 1, 1902. My dear General: I have your letter of the 17th and am looking forward to seeing you. I want to find out lots of things about the Germans, and I want to hear about Generals Roberts, French and Kelly-Kenny. Let me know as soon as you get back on this side. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Wood. I am glad she is well and hope the children are too. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brigadier-General Leonard Wood, U.S.A., Care of the War Department.301 203 October 1, 1902. My dear Dr. Shaw: I think I shall use your paragraphs about the coal strike in my efforts to make the operators and the miners understand that, speaking solely on behalf of the public, I think there is a vital need of resumption of operations. Apparently the operators do not seem to understand that the present system of ownership, or at least of management in the anthracite fields, is on trial. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, The Review of Reviews, 13 Astor Place, New York, N. Y.302 PERSONAL 181 September 30, 1902. Dear Cabot: After a second operation my leg seems really to be on the high road to recovery though there are features I do not enjoy--the dressing for instance. After consultation with Root, Knox, Murray Crane and others on the one side, and after previous consultation with Senator Quay, Sargent and others from their standpoint, I have been inclined to think that there was a chance of my doing something anyhow. I have not yet worked the matter out perfectly clearly in my mind, but yesterday Root went on to see Morgan and explain to him that in three or four days I should take action, probably by inviting the operators to come to see me and requesting in good faith an effort on their part to come to an agreement, by arbitration or otherwise, with the miners. Thus I shall have a free hand to do what I deem best. I may be unable to do anything now, but I may tell them that I shall advise303 action along the lines I have explained in my speeches but of a much more radical type in reference to their business unless they wake up. I am also however, to see the representatives of the coal miners. At any rate I am thoroughly awake and will do what I can. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, U.S.S., Nahant, Mass.304 254 September 29, 1902. Personal. Dear John: I sent your letter to Choate at once. What an awful calamity of a serio-comic sort such action would be. Alice always insisted that Prince Henry ought to have made her colonel of a lancer regiment, but I think naming the torpedo boat after her was far better; and as for me, I earned the title of Colonel of the Rough Riders, and if I should be offered any such preposterous title as that of honorary colonel of an English regiment, I should feel more humiliated than amused. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Newbury, N. H.305 October 1, 1902. My dear Dr. Oliver: I have just seen your very kind and pleasant letter to Senator Beveridge,wherein you declined to be treated as a professional adviser. Let me thank you warmly as a friend. May I, through you, express similar thanks to Doctors Cook and Jameson? With high regard and the heartiest appreciation of what you did for me, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. J. H. Oliver, Indianapolis, Ind.306 214 October 1, 1902 My dear Senator: I have your letter of the 26th ultimo. Recent information from the State Department is to the effect that the original charges against Colonel Dickey have been substantiated, and that in any event he should not be re-appointed. As I said before, the only way to restore him would be to go back to things in the original condition, including the removal of Gottschalk. With the information at hand now I certainly think that Dickey is better out of the service. The treaty with Cuba is not yet sufficiently advanced to be able to count on an extra session. With hearty good wishes, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. P. Frye, U.S.S., Lewistown, Maine.307 October 1, 1902. My dear General: I do not suppose it is any affair of mine, in theory at least, who comes here as Senator. But you must let me send you a personal line to say how glad I am that you will be down here. With regards to all your delightful family, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Russell A. Alger, Detroit, Mich.308 October 2, 1902. Dear Mr. Secretary: Is it not possible to give the Cavalry a smaller spur, by preference one fitting into the heel? At any rate one which will interfere as little as possible with their walking. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War.309 October 2, 1902. My dear Mr. Long: I wish to thank you for the beautiful scarabacus which I have just received. I shall prize it greatly. I think I shall have it made into a pendant for the neck, to be worn by Mrs. Roosevelt, as in that way it will be less liable to receive damage. With renewed thanks, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John G. Long, Consul General of the U. S., Cairo, Egypt. 310 175 October 1, 1902. To the Attorney General: Do you not think that this proposed appointment of Judge Lewis as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia would be an excellent thing? It seems to me that it would be entirely ideal. When does the vacancy occur? T. Roosevelt311 September 29, 1902. My dear Sir: I thank you sincerely for the cordial invitation extended to me to attend the exercises to be held in Galbraith Church on Sunday next. I should be glad to be present and express my congratulations on the progress your race has made. As it is, however, impossible, will you not be good enough to convey to those present my great regret, and assure them of my best wishes for their future. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. S. L. Corrothers, 423 Q Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.312 194 October 1, 1902. Personal. Dear Senator: I am delighted with your letter. I thought that the tariff speech would meet your views. I only hope Uncle Mark does not mind it. I am really very fond of him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Spooner, Madison, Wisconsin313 October 1, 1902. My dear Mrs. Craig: I cannot refrain from sending you just a line to express my deep sympathy with you in the loss of your son, and to say how I and all my family had grown to respect him and to be fond of him. With great regards, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Isabella Craig, 4334 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Ill.314 October 2, 1902. My dear Senator: In the first place let me thank you for sending me Walter Gordon Merritt's pamphlet on "The Boycott". In the next place about myself. I am all right and as happy as can be. Tell it not in Oath, but really I have enjoyedthis nine days seclusion, although the cutting into the leg itself was not unalloyed pleasure! I see Mrs. Roosevelt all the time, as she has come on here to take care of me. I read everything from "Pendennis" and "Our Mutual Friend" down [up] to the last study of European interests in Asia. I do not have to see the innumerable people whom there is no object in seeing, but whom I would have to see if I were not confined to my room with my leg up, and I am able to do all the important work, like that affecting the coal strike, just exactly as well as if I were on two legs. Moreover, before the accident came I was able to make my speeches on the trusts and the other important points that I thought I ought to cover. I should have very much liked to have visited my stanch friends315 of the farther west, but I shall do that next spring. In other words, it would have been a horrid misfortune at times in the past to have had such an accident. I shudder to think what it would have meant when I went to the war - but it is literally not of the smallest consequence now. I have to be quiet because I cannot touch my foot to the ground, but in a few weeks I am sure it will be all right. It was very, very nice of you, and very characteristic of you, to write and inquire in such a way. With warm regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. H. Platt, Washington, Conn.316 310 October 2, 1902. To the Attorney General: How about the Marshalship in Montana? Governor Hunt seems to think well of Lloyd. What is the status of the case? T. Roosevelt317 308 October 2, 1902. To the Secretary of War: If Atkinson has resigned my judgment is that a change in the commission should be made at once on the lines you and I have talked over, before Atkinson's successor is put in. T. Roosevelt318 223 October 2, 1902. To the Secretary of the Navy: The naval intelligence report is very interesting, but in my opinion altogether too bulky. The mere bulk of any document of that nature is against it. T. Roosevelt319 October 2, 1902. My dear Davis: I thank you for Captain Macklin. I shall read it with the utmost interest. I have only time for a line, for I am up to my ears in the coal strike. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Richard Harding Davis, Marion, Mass.320 October 2, 1902. My dear Mr. Curtin: I thank you heartily for "The Pharaoh and the Priest. I am sure I shall greatly enjoy it. I wish I could see you again in the not distant future. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, Bristol, Vt.321 October 2, 1902. Dear Colonel Harrison: I desire to express to you and through you to the members of the Spanish-American War Veterans' Association and the citizens of Indianapolis my most cordial appreciation of the reception extended to me on the occasion of my recent visit to your city. It was a matter of keen regret to me that I was unable, under the peculiar circumstances, to meet personally the members of the Columbia Club. Please be good enough to express to them my hearty thanks for their courtesy to myself and those who accompanied me. Thanking you personally for your very efficient and kindly attentions on that occasion, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel Russell B. Harrison, Chairman, Executive Committee, Indianapolis, Indiana.322 Personal. October 2, 1902. My dear Mr. Villard: Many thanks for your letter of the 1st instant, and the editorial, which I read with great interest. Up to and including the first ten lines of the concluding paragraph, what you advocate is almost exactly on all fours with what I had intended to say; until I have made the most earnest appeal I can from the standpoint only of the interests of the public, without any attempt to pass upon the merits. I shall not try to say anything either to the strikers or to the operators which will look like an effort to go into the merits of the case. If, however, it becomes necessary for me to speak I had always intended to address each side along the lines that are set out in the editorial in question; that is, I shall explain to the strikers on the one hand that violence and lawlessness are intolerable and that above all every effort to destroy the mines, such as interfering with the pumping operations, puts those making it in a far worse attitude than the operators can possibly put themselves; because it renders it impossible to relieve the coal famine. On the other hand I should explain under such circumstances to the operators that they cannot assume that theirs is a private business. On the contrary by their action they are jeopardizing the whole system of private management of the coal fields and are rendering it likely that drastic action323 -2- will be taken in the way of authorizing governmental regulation of their work. Permit me to add that this coal strike situation emphasizes as in no other way it would be possible to emphasize the desirability of dealing with these so called trusts or great corporations along the plans outlined in my speeches. I have not advanced that plan for political reasons any more than I shall act here from political reasons. I am a politician, or at least try to be one, but in a crisis like this or with a subject as important as that of trust regulation, I should be literally incapable of considering aught besides the good of the country as I see it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, The Evening Post, New York, N.Y.324 October 3, 1902. My dear Mr. Mayer: If necessary I shall make public your telegram, but the time has not come yet where it is necessary. I read to the operators and miners this morning the paper which you will have probably seen in this afternoon's press and then gave them until three o'clock to think it over. What they will do when they come together I do not know. I agree with all you say in your telegram and letter, and if necessary will take my position later on. As regards the pamphlet you sent me, Secretary Root read its substance in the press, and Knox read it through [this morning] in pamphlet form. Both agree that the position taken by Chaplin is an absurdity. There is no possible analogy between the Federal courts upholding the constitutionality of a state's regulating a business in that state and the appointment by the Federal Government of a receiver for a business within a [that] state. His conclusions as regards the receivership are absurd and his promises merely amount to a long explanation which no wise man would contravert, that in this anthracite coal situation the public has an interest. As far as I know325 [inverted] only the more foolish among the coal operators themselves deny this position. The Attorney General also says that the Sherman anti-trust law does not apply; that the sugar decision directly bars the case in point unless it can be shown that [duty?] is a good for [hospitality?] and that if it did apply (bar the case of the fool), proceedings might [would] have to be taken against the labor union exactly as we would have to proceed against the syndicate. He is going to draw up a little brief on the matter which I can then look over myself. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Seth Low, Mayor, New York, N. Y.326 October 4, 1902. Dear Augie: I have your note of the 3rd. I am sorry to say I am now put down on short allowance as to seeing anybody. So I think you had better defer your visit until I am in a little better shape. I particularly want you to see Secretary Shaw before he comes to make his annual report. With best luck, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt August Belmont, Esq., 23 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.327 October 4, 1902. D. B. Fairley, President, Chamber of Commerce, Gilbert McClarg, Chairman, Arrangement National Irrigation Congress, COLORADO SPRINGS,Colo. H. B. Maxson, Secretary, Antlers Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colo. Accept my hearty good wishes. Nothing has been done in which I have taken a greater interest during my Administration than the inauguration of nationally-aided irrigation. THEODORE ROOSEVELT 328 October 4, 1902. My dear General: That was certainly a very nice little place in the Figaro. I am much pleased with it and thank you for having sent it to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Horace Porter, Paris, France.329 October 4, 1902. My dear Mr. Sandham: If I could get a copy of my first letter to you I would gladly send it. I simply can't send a new letter to you. It is something the President does not do and ought not to do. With best wishes Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry Sandham, Care, The High Commission for Canada, 17 Victoria Street, London, S.W., England.330 October 4, 1902. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I was greatly pleased and interested by your letter. If, as the time approaches, you think seriously of resigning your position as Ambassador, please come to no conclusion without writing me well in advance and letting me have time to communicate with you. The result in Arkansas was to my mind absolutely conclusive as showing that the voters were with the regular organization. How I wish we could get a Republican Congressman from Arkansas. With many thanks for your kind expressions about myself, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Powell Clayton, Ambassador of the United States, Mexico, Mexico.331 216 October 3, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Hanna: Well, I have tried and failed. I feel downhearted over the result both because of the great misery [? of] made for the mass of our people, and because the attitude of the operators will beyond a doubt double the burden on us [while] when standing between them and socialistic action. But I am glad I tried anyhow. I should have hated to feel that I had failed to make any effort. What my next move will be I cannot yet say. I feel most strongly that the attitude of the operators is one which accentuates the need of the Government having some power of supervision and regulation over such corporations. I would like to make a fairly radical experiment on the anthracite coal [?] to start with! At the meeting to-day the operators assumed a fairly hopeless attitude. None of them appeared to such advantage as Mitchell whom most of them denounced with such violence and rancor that I felt he did very well to keep his temper. Between times they insulted me for not preserving order (and they evidently ignored such a trifling detail as the332 United States Constitution) and attacked Knox for not having brought suit against the miners' union as violating the Sherman Anti-trust Law. You have probably seen my statement and Mitchell's proposition. I regarded the latter as entirely fair and reasonable. Now it is over, I may mention that if the operators had acceded to it I intended to put you on the commission or board of arbitration. But the operators declined to accede to the proposition or to make any proposition that amounted to anything in return; and as I say I must now think very seriously of what the next move shall be. A coal famine in the winter is an awful ugly thing, and I fear we shall see terrible suffering and grave disaster. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. A. Hanna, Cleveland, Ohio.333 332 Personal. October 5, 1902. My dear Senator: I have sent Carroll D. Wright to Mitchell with the suggestion that if the miners will go back to work I will appoint a commission to investigate all matters at issue between the parties and will do whatever lies in my power to secure action according to their report. If you can get at Mitchell I hope you will and have him adopt this plan. It seemed to be the next move for me to take. If he consents to the commission I shall want to get your advice, as to whom to put on it. On second thought it seems to me best not to have you, as the operators might think I was putting on someone who would prejudge the case. However, there is no use in discussing this until we find whether Mitchell will accept the proposition. I have hated to interfere; But I feel bound to do everything that I can to avert the impending catastrophe. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. A. Hanna, U.S.S., Cleveland, Ohio.334 October 5, 1902. My dear Mr. Cleveland: Your letter was a real help and comfort to me. Throughout this matter I have been thinking of what you and Mr. Olney did in the Pullman car strike, and have been going over with Carroll D. Wright what, from his inside knowledge, he believed were your views at that time; and if ever the necessity arises for my interference to restore order in Pennsylvania on the call of the constituted authorities, or to protect government property by force of the United States regular army, I shall try to use this force with the same firmness that you showed. But it has been rather exasperating to have our more foolish friends yelling that it was my business to send troops into Pennsylvania when there is as yet no more warrant for doing so than there is for Mayor Low to send his New York police there. Of course, as a matter of fact, I cannot send them in at present, when no government property has been menaced and when there has been no appeal to me by the constituted authorities. I would have just as much right to send them to Troy when there was a railroad strike; or to have demanded them when I was Police Commissioner and there was a clothing cutters' strike. The attitude of the coal operators at the conference before me was very exasperating. They used language toward Mitchell and his colleagues which was well calculated to make them so angry that they would consent to nothing. They refused point blank to even consider what I regarded as Mitchell's entirely fair proposition. Some of them assailed me for not335 2. having put troops in Pennsylvania -- they might just as well have assailed you for not leading an independent body of coal and iron police thither -- and one, Mr. Willcox, made a long argument to show that the Attorney General was derelict in his duty in not bringing suit to dissolve the labor union on the ground that it was violating the Sherman law. This last proposition, by the way, may be considered as an offset to the proposition contained in Mr. Champlin's pamphlet to which you refer. Under the Sherman Act Mr. Willcox on behalf of the operators wishes me to bring suit against the miners, and Mr. Champlin that I should bring suit against the operators in the interest of the miners. Of course if I brought suit against either I should probably have to bring suit against both; and under the decision in the sugar case it seems to me perfectly clear that neither the miners nor the operators, as such, could possibly be held to have violated the Sherman law. I am very reluctant in view of the operators' attitude toward me to propose any plan to them at all. Curiously enough, if they had given me an opportunity I should have proposed just the plan you outlined, that is that there should be a resumption of operations until April first, [?] after which time the two parties might seek to reach an agreement; and then when the distress of the public would not be so terrible on account of the approach of warm weather, there would be less danger from their going on with their quarrel. By the way, you may have noticed that your old friend, The Sun, is now attacking me with the same infamous disregard of the truth that it used in its assaults upon you. I think I shall now tell Mitchell that if the miners will go back to336 3. work I will appoint a commission to investigate the whole situation and will do whatever in my power lies to have the findings of such commission favorably acted upon. This seems to be the only step I can now take, or at least the best step at the moment to take. I feel the gravest apprehension concerning the misery pending over so many people this winter and the consequent rioting which may and probably will ensue. Now, my dear sir, let me thank you again for the real aid and comfort you have given me. You know what a pleasure it is to hear from you at any time. By the way, I was very glad to be able to make your friend O'Reilly Surgeon General. I know how well you think of him. With warm regards to Mrs. Cleveland, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt P.S. Of course, if the Pennsylvania authorities would do their whole duty, there would be no need to appeal to me at all. Hon. Grover Cleveland, Princeton, N. J.337 Strictly Personal. October 5, 1902. Dear Bob: Do you recollect when you wrote me a similar letter over four years ago just before the outbreak of the Spanish war? I have always prized that letter and now I shall prize this. I send you a copy of a letter ex-President Cleveland has just sent me and my answer thereto. Of course these letters are not to be made public, but if you have any friends upon whose discretion you can entirely rely, to whom you think you would like to show them, why do it. The situation is bad, especially because it is possible it may grow infinitely worse. If when the severe weather comes on there is a coal famine I dread to think of the suffering, in parts of our great cities especially, and I fear there will be fuel riots of as bad a type as any bread riots we have ever seen. Of course once the rioting has begun, once there is a resort to mob violence, the only thing to do is to maintain order. It is a dreadful thing to be brought face to face with the necessity of taking measures, however unavoidable, which will mean the death of men who have been maddened by want and suffering. I feel that whatever I possibly can do to avert such a necessity I must do; and that I must not cease in my efforts while even the slightest chance of success remains. At the conference between the miners and the coal operators in338 -2- my presence John Mitchell towered above the six operators present. He was dignified and moderate and straightforward. He made no threats and resorted to no abuse. The proposition he made seemed to me eminently fair. The operators refused even to consider it; used insolent and abusive language about him, and in at least two cases assumed an attitude toward me which was one of insolence. This was not important. But it was important that they should absolutely decline to consider matters from the standpoint of the interests of the public in any way. One of them demanded outright and several of them hinted that they were going to demand, that I use the United States Army in their interests, being seemingly ignorant that I had no power whatever to send into the mines a single soldier, unless the Pennsylvania governmental authorities,being unable to preserve order, appealed to me to do so. They kept referring to Cleveland's course in the Debs' riots as offering a parallel, which was of course either ridiculous or dishonest on their part; and Cleveland's letter to me shows how entirely he sympathizes with my attitude in the matter. There is not the remotest resemblance between the situation in the coal fields as it now exists and the situation in Chicago when Cleveland interfered to protect national property. The operators forget that they have duties towards the public, as well as rights to be guarded by the public through its governmental agents. It is amazing folly on their part clamorously to demand by the public the exercise of the police powers, at no matter what expenditure of blood and money, and yet to resent any suggestion that they have duties toward the public of which its governmental representatives must take cognizance. Owing to the peculiar division of our powers under339 -3- the constitution, while Boston and New York are as much interested as Philadelphia in the coal famine, only Pennsylvania has immediate power to deal with the situation. If the trouble comes through disorder by the miners who thereby prevent people who wish to go to work from going to work, then Pennsylvania should afford the fullest protection, by any exercise of the military, friendly to the miners, union or non-union men, who may wish to work, and to the property of the mine owners. If the attitude of the mine operators on the other hand is insolent and improper then Pennsylvania through its legislature should take immediate action. I do not think I need assure you that in case I am called upon to act, through the inability of Pennsylvania to keep order and on the demand of her constitutional authorities, I will guarantee that order will be kept and life and property absolutely respected, and all men alike made to yield obedience to the law. But I wish to feel that I have done everything in my power to bring about a peaceful solution before any such dreadful alternative is forced upon me. The operators by their attitude have done all in their power to render such a peaceful solution impossible. But I have determined to inform Mitchell that if the miners will go back to work I will appoint a commission to investigate all the matters at issue and that I will do whatever I can to secure favorable action on their findings. I know nothing of the merits of the quarrel. Each side insists that it is wholly right. Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, in whom I have the utmost confidence has reported to me that while the issues are very complicated and while it is very hard to decide as 340 -4- to the rights and wrongs of the matter, there is certainly right and wrong on both sides. This finding alone in my opinion shows the impropriety of the operators attitude in declining to submit to any arbitration; or to have matters adjusted by a commission or committee of conciliation. At any rate, whatever, with my limited powers, I can do toward securing a peaceful settlement, if possible in the interests of both parties, at least in the interests of the general public, will be done; and if the worst comes to the worst, no matter how dreadful any responsibility put upon me, I shall try to meet it faithfully and fearlessly. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Bacon, Care of J.P. Morgan & Co., New York, N.Y. P.S The Sun in view of my attitude seems in [?hi?d] to go over to the Democracy; which in New York has just declared for national ownership of the coal mines! Apparently the Sun fails to understand that what I am doing offers the surest ground for hope of [????ful] opposition to much [?] [?] that of liberal [?] [?].341 October 6, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Putnam: As I lead, to put it mildly, a sedentary life for the moment I would greatly like some books that would appeal to my queer taste. I do not suppose there are any histories or any articles upon the early Mediterranean races. That man Lindsay who wrote about pre-historic Greece has not put out a second volume, has he? Has a second volume of Oman's Art of War appeared? If so, send me either or both; if not, then a good translation of Niebuhr and Momsen, or the best modern history of Mesopotamia. Is there a good history of Poland? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress. 342 October 6, 1902. My dear Sir: I thank you for your letter of the 2nd instant. I had looked forward with particular pleasure to attending the National Convention of Employers and Employees at Minneapolis and am extremely sorry that it was not possible for me to be present. I hope that the results of the Convention may prove of far-reaching good. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. G. L. Rockwell, Secretary General Committee, 533 Andrus Building, Minneapolis, Minn.343 October 4, 1902. My dear General: I thank you heartily and was greatly interested in your letter. I want to see you as soon as you get home. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Henry C. Corbin, Hotel de France et Choisoul 239-241 Rue St. Honore, Paris, France.344 October 6, 1902. My dear Mr. Sage: I have your letter of September 7th, and hope you can come here next year, as I want to see you. I always believed that the eland could be domesticated even in our arid west. If you introduce it into Australia you will have done a great service. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt A. J. Sage, Esq., 231 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Australia.345 October 6, 1902. Personal. Dear Fred: It would never do for the President to express any preference, either personally or sectionally, as to who should be Speaker. I know nothing that would be so certain to embroil me with the entire House. The conference failed, but I would not be willing to feel that I had not done whatever I could to prevent what I fear will be a serious calmity. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. F. G. Fincke, 30 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y.346 October 7, 1902. My dear Mr. Keach: In November I do not think it will be possible to have any member of my Cabinet go to the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce dinner, but Knox has a speech which I regard as the most important any member of the administration is to deliver, and I should particularly like him to deliver it at your Chamber of Commerce if the meeting can be held early next week. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt W. H. Keach, Esq., Care of Attorney General Knox.347 159 October 6, 1902. Personal. My dear White: I was very much pleased with both your articles, of course. I have only time to send you a line, as I am up to my ears in the coal strike business. I get a good idea of Lincoln's worry at the time when bodies representing on the whole a majority of the people were about evenly divided in denouncing him because he did not go far enough, and because he went too far. There is an influential body of people with the New York Sun as their chief representative who are denouncing me for "showing sympathy with the miners," and even [think] assert that I ought to send troops into Pennsylvania -- which at this time I have just as much power to do as you have. There is [a] another large body which demands that I "seize the mines," or "take the coal barons by the throat", or perform some other magnificent feat of a quality even less substantial than iridescent. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt William Allen White, Esq., Emporia, Kansas.348 October 6, 1902. Personal. My dear Dr. Van Dyke: I thank you heartily for your letter of the 4th instant. The situation is as puzzling a one as can well be imagined. You may be interested to know that President Cleveland has written me a most cordial letter about what I have been doing. I really appreciated it, coming from him. Of course the fundamental difficulty with my action lies in the fact that under our Constitution Pennsylvania can act and I cannot, and the National Government cannot. If anything were needed to emphasize the wisdom of what I have been saying about trusts, this incident would supply the lack. However, I am going to continue to do all I can to relieve the present situation. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, University Club, Fifth Avenue and 54th Street, New York, N. Y.349 October 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. McKelway: I was much struck by your editorial to-day. It made me wish you could inoculate with a little horse sense, the Sun on the one hand and the Journal on the other. If it is not too inconvenient for you to come on here this week, I would like to show you or let you see from the inside what I have been doing. Two-thirds of the requests that have been made upon me, which range from taking the coal barons by the throat and seizing the mines under the law of eminent domain to sending in the army and forcing the miners to go to work, would be ludicrous if they did not show such a painful fogginess in the minds of so many people. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. St. Clair McKelway, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y.350 October 7, 1902. My dear Miss Ver Planck: I shall at once send some flowers and an inquiry as to your mother's health to the hospital. I hope she will soon be better. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Sara M. Ver Planck, The Farragut, Washington, D. C.351 October 7, 1902. My dear Mr. Shaw: Secretary Moody has just presented me the very handsome little ditty box you sent me. I am very much obliged to you for it. I shall keep it and value it. With regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. H. Shaw, Haverhill, Mass.352 October 7, 1902. My dear Dr. David: That is a first-class quotation from Joshua. I wonder whether after all Abraham Lincoln did not turn to it now and then. I shall try to live up to it, and shall do according to the law and turn neither to the right hand nor to the left, though I think two-thirds of the people who write me about this strike seem to desire that I shall turn either to the right hand or to the left. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Ira E. David, Brockton, Mass.353 Copy for letter book October 6, 1902. My dear M. Coubertin: I am in receipt of your letter and thank you cordially for your kind words. Of course as I told you everything I can do for the Olympian Games will be done. I wish from time to time you would write Mr. Caspar Whitney, editor of Outing, 239 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. He is our best authority in amateur sport. I was delighted to hear what you tell me about M. Tusserand, and I am looking forward to seeing him. By the way, I have just been reading his interesting volume on Piers Ploughman. With regard, I am, Sincerely yours, Baron Pierre W. Coubertin, 40 Rue de Lubeca, Paris, France.354 October 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Jenkins: Your letter is one which I really prize and shall keep it on file where I keep the few special letters which I want to preserve for my children. I receive unintelligent praise and unintelligent blame, and one of the things I especially liked about your letter was your saying that you knew I would exert the power I had within constitutional limitations. There seem to be such and extraordinary number of fellows in the country who demand that I confiscate the mines, or appoint a receiver, or march troops into the district, or "make the miners go to work", or "take the coal barons by the throat", or do something or other else which I have no more power to do than, for instance, the Governor of Wisconsin or the Pres- 355 ident of the Mexican Republic. All my best thought and effort is being devoted and will be devoted to securing some good result. What I can do I will do, but how much it will amount to neither I nor anyone else can now say. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John J. Jenkins, M.C., Chippawa Falls, Wisconsin. P. S. I have just received your telegram of the 6th, and would like to have you give me your views as to the powers of Congress to dispose of the matter referred to. T. R.356 October 7, 1902. My dear Mr. Warner: Let me through you extend the most hearty greetings to the members of the Grand Army. I have regretted greatly that my inability to leave my room hitherto has prevented my joining personally in the greeting. If the weather is good to-morrow, I shall for the first time leave the house so that I may drive along the line of the parade and see the men to whom this country owes more than to any others within its borders. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. B. H. Warner, Chairman, Citizens' Committee, Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, D. C.357 324 October 6, 1902. Personal. My dear Seth: I am very much obliged to you. That is very important. I shall consider it when I come to the appointment of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Seth Low, Mayor, New York, N. Y.358 341 October 8, 1902. My dear Mr. Putnam: I owe you much! You sent me exactly the books I wished. I am now reveling in Maspero and occasionally make a deviation [with] into Sergis' theories about the Mediterranean races; and am girding up my loins to try to believe that the Greeks and Romans in an infinitely remote past came from Africa instead of Asia, as I was taught in my simple youth. But I do not like the Poland. It is too short. I had wanted to look up some of the details of the wars of Gustavus Adolphus with the Poles, as seen from the Polish standpoint, and also some particulars of the Mongol invasion. It has been such a delight to drop everything useful - everything that referred to my duty - everything, for instance, relating to the coal strike and the tariff, or the trusts, or my power to send troops into the mining districts 359 districts, or my duty as regards summoning Congress - and to spend an afternoon in reading about the relations between Assyria and Egypt; which could not possibly do me any good and in which I reveled accordingly; while my wife, who prefers belles-lettres, has read Shakespeare, which she brought down, and Tennyson which Ethel brought down. I have been reading Thackeray, Dickens, and Scott myself recently, and felt as if I simply had to enjoy a few days of history. Mrs. Roosevelt and I are so pleased, by the way, to know that Mrs. Putnam is to be with you this winter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.360 Personal. October 8, 1902. Dear Jake: First,about your boy: I suspected that you would not wish any definite answer given him; moreover, I could give no definite answer without knowing what his real desires and aptitudes were. Second, about the will: Of course I will serve as trustee if you wish, but I would deem it far better if you chose some men of business capacity and left written directions, which you know I should regard as sacred, that I was to consult and advise with your wife on every point of interest to her. I am not a business man and none of my own kinsfolk ever put me in as trustee in their wills. It would be far better to put in another man as trustee with me in the advisory capacity I have outlined above; but whatever you wish I will do. Now as to what you say at the outset of your letter. I have been so indignant with the mine-owners that it has been difficult for me to control myself in reference to them. Their action vindicated in striking manner the wisdom of the position I have taken about the big corporations. The fact that a constitutional amendment will take time is for rather than against my proposition. I hope we will be able to do a good deal by legislation in the interval; but a constitutional amendment must come. In your just anger at the mine-owners, however, do not361 185 -2- forget what I have forced myself to remember, namely, that the miners themselves are wrong on many points. I fear there has been a good deal of violence in the mine regions, though about this I shall shortly be able to speak with greater confidence. I do not see why the miners seem to be about to refuse my request to go to work so that poor people shall have coal this winter, while I appoint a commission to investigate into the whole matter and report thereon. If the operators had refused to accept the report of this commission the miners would have been in a far stronger position than at present, in the event of their deciding to strike, while if the operators had accepted it then the effect would have been precisely what it would have been had Mitchell's original proposition been closed with by the operators. Meanwhile I am slowly going on step by step working within my limited range of powers and endeavoring neither to shirk any responsibilities nor yet to be drawn into such hasty and violent action as almost invariably provokes a reaction. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jacob A. Riis, Richmond Hills, N. Y.362 Strictly personal. October 7, 1902. Dear Bob: I have your letter of the 6th. Have you ever read Hay and Nicolay's Lincoln? I studied it not merely with pleasure but with profit this summer, and in this present crisis it is curious to see exactly the same tendencies of the human heart coming to the front. Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides at every phase of the struggle for unity and freedom, so I now have carefully to guard myself against the extremists of both sides. The men who wish me to proceed under the Sherman anti-trust law against the miners' union are if possible one shade more foolish than the others who wish me to proceed under the same law against the coal operators as such - I say "as such" because if they aren't a railroad [?oo?] they [?] amenable to it. But no immediate relief could be had by either type of application. So the men who wish me to send troops to the mines on the present state of facts and without further investigation, are just as foolish as those who wish me to convene Congress with the idea of siezing the mines under the law of eminent domain, or appoint a receiver for them, or take some similar action. Moreover, my dear Bob, as you write frankly, let me with equal frankness in return say that the turbulence and violence you dread is just as apt to come from an attitude of arrogance on the part of the owners of property and of unwillingness to recognize their duty to the363 340 -2- public as from any improper encouragement of labor unions. I hear absolutely contradictory statements as to the amount of lawlessness in the Pennsylvania mining districts, and I am not competent to say which set of statements is true. If I were Governor of Pennsylvania I should do as he has done; that is I should call out the troops. I should see to it that absolute protection was guaranteed; but in view of the action of the operators the other day I should most emphatically summon the Legislature together to find out what steps were necessary in the judgment of the people of the State to take as to the management of the corporations themselves. Mitchell's proposition the other day was an eminently fair and proper one. I have written him desiring him to order the miners back under its terms, with a statement that I would appoint a commission to look into all the grievances. I do not suppose he will accept it. He ought to; but the language used by the operators at the conference was exquisitely well calculated to prevent any kind of yielding on the part of the miners. If he rejects it, my next step will probably be to inform myself fully as to the conditions in the districts by competent official authority. In the event of being called on to assist in enforcing order I am ready to act at once. I am not yet prepared to say what legislation I should advise or what action can be taken through the courts of law. The case for action must, of course, be very clear before I act without or against the desire of the State authorities. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Robert Bacon, Esq., 23 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. 364 October 7, 1902. Personal. Dear Cabot: I have your note of the 5th instant, with enclosures. I am feeling my way step by step trying to get a solution of the coal matter. Most of my correspondents wish me to try something violent or impossible. A minor but a very influential part desire that I send troops at once without a shadow of warrant into the coal districts, or that I bring suit against the labor organization; the others demanding that I bring suit against the operators, or that I under the law of eminent domain, or for the purpose of protecting the public health, sieze their property, or appoint a receiver, or do something else that is wholly impossible. My great concern is, of365 302 course, to break the famine; but I must not be drawn into any violent step which would bring reaction and disaster afterward. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, U. S. S., Nahant, Mass. 366 October 7, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Haynes: I am greatly obliged to you for sending me those clippings and for the action you have taken in the matter. I hope to see you shortly before the convening of Congress. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. D. O. Haynes, General Manager, New York Commercial, 396 Broadway, New York, N. Y.367 317 October 9, 1902. My dear Mr. Root: I deeply regret that it is not possible for me to be present this afternoon at the presentation by the Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association of the District of Columbia representing the laboring men of our country to the Grand Army of the Republic of a corner stone for the proposed memorial bridge. It is most gratifying that the project to erect this splendid memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War has been received with such universal favor, and I have great pleasure in sending best wishes for the success of the exercises this afternoon. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root368 October 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Villard: I shall probably have to take public notice of the claim that I ought to or had the power to send troops into Pennsylvania uninvited under the present conditions. It is one of the numerous propositions advanced by both sides which, to be frank, are simply absurdities. Every day I receive a certain number of requests from panic- struck people to send the army into Pennsylvania. Recently they have quoted the law to which you referred. This was the last piece of reconstruction legislation, being designed to allow the army to go into the southern states in behalf of the negro. It was probably repealed by the law of 1878. It is certainly inoperative save where it coincides with the constitution. Under existing conditions and at this time to send troops into Pennsylvania would be only one degree more foolish than to adopt the favorite advice tendered me by the other369 322 side, which is to summon Congress and take steps to seize the mines under the law of eminent domain. I suppose Mitchell will refuse my suggestion. This will be wrong on his part, although not so wrong as the original action of the operators in refusing to adopt it, when Mitchell made it conditional upon their accepting it. If you will turn back to the editorials you sent me you will find that in them you especially dwelt upon the fact that the President's action was proper largely because of the reason that it was predicated upon my having no power in the premises. In those editorials it seemed to me that you went further than I should have gone in alleging that I had no power; but I think you are now going further in demanding the exercise of power than at this time and under these conditions I conceive I ought to go or could go. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, Evening Post, New York, N. Y.105 October 9, 1902. Strictly personal. My dear Mr. McBee: Just a private word to say how admirable I think your "chronicle and comment" account of the coal strike conference is. As myself a strong conservative and one who expects to have to battle in the future as often as I have battled in the past against the people who wish to assail or jeopardize property, I have bitterly regretted the attitude of the coal operators. I wish the miners would show more sense now; but at the conference it was the operators who sinned against the light. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [signature] Mr. Silas McBee, 47 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y.371 October 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Laffan: I thank you very much for your letter. I am pleased to learn what you say and of course accept it without reservation. If at any time you care to go over with me the various positions which I have taken with which you disagree (and in which, I may paranthetically remark, I have the unqualified support and approval of both Knox and Root, than whom no abler men or truer public servants ever sat in the Cabinet) why it will always be a pleasure to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William M. Laffan, 170 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.372 291 October 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Dr. Abbott: While I do not agree with Messrs. Spehr, Abbott and Howland, yet the question has no passed, as Mitchell has refused taking their views. My directions to the commission will be based explicitly upon the propositions contained in his suggestion in No. 1. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Lyman Abbott, The Outlook, New York, N. Y.373 287 October 9, 1902. Personal. My dear Bishop: The statute referred to is the last of the reconstruction legislation passed by Congress. It was probably repealed by the law of 1878, and would certainly be ineffective where it reverses the provisions of the constitution. As a practical matter, if I should now send troops to Pennsylvania the first result would be a violent altercation with the Pennsylvania authorities and a possible collision between the regulars and the militia. Moreover, it is perfectly clear as a matter of law that the power of the President to send troops when federal property is not jeopardized or federal laws defied, nor personal rights guaranteed by the constitution in question, is strictly limited. I may have to explain this in public. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, Commercial Advertiser, New York, N. Y. (Over)374 P.S.- Whenever you want to come on here I shall be glad to see you.375 October 8, 1902. Dear John: No one could advise you about going out west, because the term is too vague. A young man with no place and no chance in the east, and of great physical hardihood would be apt to do better in the west; but the special industries of the west need special training. No man is worth anything on a ranch unless he knows how to handle cattle or sheep or horses, as the case may be. I would not dare to advise without knowing intimately your characteristics and what you are to do, and then my advice might be valueless. With regard, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Riis, 524 Beech Street, Richmond Hills, N. Y.376 October 10, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Fish: I thank you very much for the information about the bear hunt. Of course we must have some one who knows the country thoroughly. If I go bear hunting there must be no chance for a slip-up, but I hope we can be sure of this. But, my dear sir, if this coal strike is not settled, I do not see how I can possibly go. I should not care to, nor in my judgment would it be seemly for me to be off on a party of pleasure while there was widespread want and suffering among our people. Nevertheless, I shall go to Memphis in any event. Perhaps I may take that chance to visit Tuskegee or even New Orleans. As for there being a prejudice against my visiting Tuskegee in the south I can hardly believe it, and if it obtains I should certainly disregard it. I know no one whom I 377 believe to be doing better work for men of both colors in the south than Booker Washington. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, 214 Broadway, New York, N. Y.378 Personal. October 10, 1902. My dear Mr. Cleveland: Will you excuse me for not writing? It is almost impossible for me to write in my present position. I am very sincerely sorry to have to say that the doctors tell me that in all probability it will be out of the question for me to go to Princeton on the 25th. The wound in my leg is healing rapidly, but I shall have to exercise great care because I have narrowly escaped serious trouble with the bone, and the doctors say it would be to the last degree imprudent to go so soon on a train, with the necessary getting on and off and moving about and being in crowds. I am very sorry. Mrs. Roosevelt has been so much pleased at Mrs. Cleveland's kind invitation. Now I am going to requite you ill for your hospitality by asking you to do a service which I know you will be most reluctant to undertake, and which I only ask because I feel we are in the midst of so serious a crisis and one so deeply affecting the welfare of our people. My efforts to get the operators and miners to agree failed, chiefly through the fault of the operators. I then asked the miners to go back to work so that the pressing necessities of the public might be met, promising at once to appoint such a commission as Mr. Mitchell had sug-379 336 -2- gested, and stating that I would do all in my power to have (the recommendations of that commission adopted, of course meaning that I should do all in my power to have) whatever legislation they advocated enacted, as well as backing up their recommendations in all other ways. But Mitchell refused on behalf of the miners to entertain this proposition. In other words, both sides have resolutely persisted in regarding first their own interests and treating the interests of the public as wholly secondary, and indeed as not to be considered at all. I shall now direct Carroll D. Wright to make a full and careful investigation of the present conditions and of the causes that have led to these conditions, including the question whether there has been violence and if so to what extent; and what if any steps should be taken to prevent the recurrence of these conditions. I wish to join with him two eminent men - men of such character that save in a crisis like this I would not dream of appealing to them to render any government service. In all the country there is no man whose name would add such weight to this inquiry as would yours. I earnestly beg you to say that you will accept. I am well aware of the great strain I put upon you by making such a request. I would not make it if I did not feel that the calamity now impending over our people may have consequences which without exaggeration are to be called terrible; and I feel that your services may be invaluable to the nation at this time. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Grover Cleveland, Princeton, N. J.380 October 10, 1902. My dear Mr. Leland: I am very much obliged to you for your thought of me. I genuinely appreciate it. I look forward with keen pleasure to starting the volume. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Chas. Godfrey Leland, Villa Margherita, Limestre Pistorese, Italy.381 October 10, 1902. My dear Mr. Lungren: Some time ago I made up my mind I would not accept presents of real substantial value; but I simply cannot adhere to my resolution in this instance. The picture you have sent me is just exactly the kind of picture I should most wish to have had if I had been asking for a present, and I shall accept it with the utmost pleasure, and, my dear sir, with a keen appreciation not only of its worth as a painting but of your kindness in giving it to me. It makes me thoroughly homesick for the great plains to see it, and Mrs. Roosevelt is as delighted with it as I am. I have had it on the chair here all the morning so that I might keep looking at it. With hearty regard and renewed thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Fernand Lungren, Nutley, N. J. 382 October 11, 1902. My dear Madam: I want to tell you how much I appreciate your kindness to me during the time I was under treatment at your hospital, the 23d of last month. The speed and accuracy with which everything was done showed the highest degree of efficiency on the part of yourself and your subordinates; and I am deeply grateful to you and to them for the care and attention shown me under the peculiarly trying circumstances of the occasion. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sister Stella, St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana.383 316 October 12, 1902. Hon. P.C.Knox, Attorney General, Care Speer-Point, Marion, Pa. (If not delivered forward to Hotel Schenley, Pittsburg,Pa.) The Senator objects strongly on personal grounds to the men you named. Please communicate with him at once at Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, and try to get and agreement with him on some suitable man. Theodore Roosevelt (Official)384 173 October 12, 1902. Hon. W. Murray Crane, Governor of Massachusetts, Dalton, Mass. Much concerned to learn of accident. Hope you are now all right. Theodore Roosevelt (Charge President's private account)385 October 11, 1902. My dear Lord Charles: I am so sorry not to have seen you while on this side of the water. Captain Cowles tells me you may be back in January. If so, will you not let me know? I should like to have you break bread in the White House. There is much I would like to talk over with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, 247 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.386 October 11, 1902. Personal. 377 My dear Mr. Fish: If the coal business is settled I will go with the greatest pleasure, but as I wrote you I would not have the heart to go, nor do I think it right to go, until this business is settled. But I shall surely go next year, if not this, and I hope it will be possible to do so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, 214 Broadway, New York, N. Y.387 October 11, 1902. My dear Stuart: I thank you for your letter. You have no conception of the pressure of every kind upon me and the impossibility of my answering letters myself. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Stuart E. Bulloch, 10 Orquhart Street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.388 October 13, 1902. 74 My dear Stewart: if you are still in the East come and see me at once. Unless there is an extra session I shall surely make that trip. Does Johnny Goff think that we can get bear? I am awfully sorry he has been wounded and I hope he beat the "tourist" who inflicted the wound, severely. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Philip B. Stewart389 375 Personal. October 13, 1902. My dear Bishop: Do you think you are fully alive to the gross blindness of the operators? They fail absolutely to understand that they have any duty toward the public. Most emphatically I shall not compromise with lawlessness. But with a hundred and forty thousand workmen idle there is certain to be some disorder. I have been told, on excellent authority, that this disorder has been very great in the present instance and of a very evil kind. On equally good authority I am told the exact contrary. I shall speedily find out for myself. But in any event what has been done so far in now wise justifies a refusal to have some dispassionate body settle the respective rights and wrongs of the two parties. The coal operators and their friends and their allies of the type of "The Sun" have been attacking me, just as they attacked me about the trust business. Do they find much comfort, not only in the speeches of Bryan and Tom Johnson, but of David Hill and of Olney? Do they not realize that they are putting a very heavy burden on us who stand against socialism; against anarchic disorder?390 A word as to the interference of politicians. Quay and Hanna are Senators; Odell is Governor; I am President. If any one of us interferes in a spirit of mere political trickery, or to gain political ends of an unworthy kind in an unworthy manner, if he threatens or hectors, why he should be condemned without stint. But the heaviest weight of condemnation should be reserved for [each] any one of us who represents the people and who yet fails to do all in his power in the interest of the people to bring to an end a situation fraught with such infinite danger to the whole commonwealth. If during the ensuing week there comes some heavy riot on the East Side in New York, in my judgment the operators, more than the miners, are responsible for it. Meanwhile I am sure that you know that I shall take no step which I do not think can be justified by the sound common- sense of both of us six months or a year hence. I shall do whatever I can to meet the present emergency, but I shall not meet it in a way that will invite future disaster. Come on here at any time. You know I will always be more than glad to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, New York, N. Y.391 October [?] 1902 My dear Mrs. Cleveland: I am very sorry that we have not been able to find the Dante of which you wrote some time ago. I have caused a further careful search to be made, but no trace of it has come to light. Mrs. Roosevelt joins me in kindest regards to yourself, Mr. Cleveland and the children. Very sincerely yours,392 280 October 12, 1902. Blessed Ted: I can now get about on crutches. As the stairs are steep and narrow, whenever I go down them I feel that I may possibly "pitch-pole". Nother goes home tomorrow. She says she is leaving me to take care of Ethel; I have gloomy forebodings that after a brief struggle Ethel will take care of me. To-day being Sunday, she has gone out to Dr. Rixey's where she will spend the night. When you see Mr. Billings I wish you would tell him that we had more genuine satisfaction out of his letter to mother than he can imagine. Ever your loving father, T. R Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Groton School, Groton, Mass.393 282 October 13, 1902. Blessed Kermit: I am delighted at all the accounts I receive of how you are doing at Groton. You seem to be enjoying yourself and are getting on well. I need not tell you to do your best to cultivate ability for concentrating your thought on whatever work you are given to do - you will need it in Latin especially. Who plays opposite you at end? Do you find you can get down well under the ball to tackle the full-back? How are you on tackling? Mother is going to present Gem to Uncle Will. She told him she did not think he was a good dog for the city and therefore she gives him to Uncle Will to keep in the city. Uncle Will's emotion at such self-denying generosity almost overcame him. Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit. When she takes him out walking he carries her along as if she was394 a Roman chariot. She thinks that Uncle Will or Eda can anchor him. Yesterday she and Ethel held him and got burrs out of his hair. It was a lively time for all three. Your loving father, T. R. Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass.395 October 13, 1902. My dear Mr. Reynolds: General Torrance presented me with the hair bridle. I thank you so much for it. It was very kind of you to send it. You know how highly I esteem the First Minnesota of glorious memory. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry Reynolds, Waseca, Minnesota396 October 14, 1902. W. R. Andrews, 1417 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. I have just seen your telegram to Commissioner Garfield. Am certain Senator Quay is ignorant of what you are doing. No name of any person in the Government service should be on the circular. The Civil Service Commission has asked me to bring the matter before Attorney General. If I am obliged to do so I shall of course lay it before him for action as in all other cases of violation of the Civil Service law. I shall refrain from doing this to-day; so that if you see fit, you may wire me that the name of no Federal official shall appear on any such circular and that those sent out are withdraw. I speak mildly when I say I feel deep regret that this foolish action should have been taken, which bids fair to undo the excellent effect of the previous unconditional withdrawal. THEODORE ROOSEVELT397 257 October 14, 1902. Senator M. S. Quay, Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, Pa. Andrews has sent out another circular, containing on the heading your name and his. I know this is done without your knowledge. It is a piece of irritating and purposeless folly, and unless instantly withdrawn, the Attorney General will have to take action under it, and the good effect of the previous withdrawal is completely nullified. THEODORE ROOSEVELT398 October 14, 1902. His Majesty, Edward VII, London, England. I greatly appreciate the courtesy you have shown to the three Generals. I am well and am pleased to learn from the Ambassador that you have now completely recovered. Theodore Roosevelt399 October 15, 1902. My dear Sir: I have received the kind letter of congratulation which you have sent me in behalf of the great commonwealth of Australia, and hasten to return my most sincere thanks for this expression of courtesy and good-will. I am much touched by400 your generous words, coming from a people far removed in distance, but near in sympathy and kinship. I am, Sir, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt His Excellency, The Right Honorable Lord Tennyson, Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia.Vol. 6 401 1/2 October 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Cleveland: I appreciate so deeply your being willing to accept that it was very hard for me to forego the chance of putting you on the commission. But in order to get the vitally necessary agreement between the operators and miners I found I had to consult their wishes as to the types of men. Of course I knew that it was the greatest relief to you not to be obliged to serve, but I did wish to have you on, in the first place, because of the weight your name would have lent to the commission, and in the next place, because of the effect upon our people, and especially upon our young men, of such an example of genuine self-denying patriotism - for, my dear sir, your service would have meant all of this. I do not know it whether you understand how heartily I thank you and appreciate what you have done. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Grover Cleveland, Princeton, N. J.401 October 15, 1902. My dear Mr. Billings: First let me thank you especially for your letter to Mrs. Roosevelt about Ted and Kermit. It gave us the greatest satisfaction. I earnestly hope that Kermit will be able to work on his Latin and to cultivate habits of attention so that he can keep up with his form. As for Ted's foot-ball, I leave that entirely in your hands and am well satisfied to abide your decision. Now about Larned: Is he the son of an officer? If not, I can do nothing for him. Almost the only chance the officers have to get their sons appointed is through me, and I always give them the preference. I am very sorry to have to write as discouragingly. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Sherrard Billings, Groton School, Groton, Mass.402 October 16, 1902. Darling Bye: I was very much interested in Mr. Reid's letter. The situation in the coal strike has been as difficult as it well could be. I do not know that I have ever had a more puzzling or a more important problem to deal with. One great trouble was that the little world in which the operators moved was absolutely out of touch with the big world that included practically all the rest of the country. Without going so far as one prominent member of my Cabinet, who, in speaking of the Philippines, remarked that in his judgement Manhattan was our most troublesome insular possession, I yet feel that in a peculiar degree New York is not representative of the country, and what is more that almost each considerable section of New York is peculiarly unrepresentative of the State as a whole. The commercial and business world, the world of Wall Street, of the banks, of the big mercantile houses, and of the clubs, has absolutely no touch with the world of the East Side; just exactly as the little knots of idealistic reformers, who mean well but do not know, have no kind of touch with the great and rather sordid political machines of the city, which emphatically do know, and often do not mean well at all. The trouble with this particular coal strike was that the conditions were absolutely peculiar because we dealt with a necessity of life. There would be no warrant in interfering under similar conditions in a strike of iron workers. Iron is not a necessity. But I could no more see misery and death come to the great masses of the people in our large cities and sit by idly, because under ordinary conditions a strike is not a subject for interference 403 2. by the President, than I could sit by idly and see one man kill another without interference because there is no statutory duty imposed upon the President to interfere in such cases. Great though the questions involved were as between capital and labor, and vitally though I deemed it that violence should be stamped out and the right of the non-union man or of anyone else to work without hindrance established, yet everything had to give way to the prime necessity of saving the people as a whole from a fearful calamity or rather, had to be postponed to thus saving them. When the calamity has been averted then the other questions can be taken up. If the water supply of New York was deliberately polluted by the Governmental authorities so that the New Yorkers within twenty-four hours would be dying of thirst or of disease, then every other consideration would have to give way to bringing such a condition of affairs to an end. The trouble with excellent gentlemen who said that they would far rather die of cold than yield on such a high principle as recognizing arbitration with these striking miners, was, that they were not in danger of dying of cold. They would pay extra for their coal and would get insufficient quantities and would suffer discomfort; but the poorer people around about them would and could get no coal, and with them it would not be discomfort but acute misery and loss of life. In other words, thes people really meant that they would rather somebody else should die of cold than that they should yield. Such a position is impossible. Now the operators have acceded (and parenthetically, may Heaven preserve us from ever again dealing with so wooden headed a set, when I wished to preserve their interests); and Mitchell has yielded. If the miners do not back him up, we have at any rate made an enormous stride in advance, for we have the issue of right and wrong clearly defined, and I think that the404A TELEGRAM. NIGHT. White House, Washington. October 16, 1902. Hon. Grover Cleveland, Princeton, N. J. Strictly personal. Deeply grateful for your letter. Propositions that have been made since have totally changed situation so that I will not have to make the demand upon you which three days ago it seemed I would have to for the interest of the nation. I thank you most deeply and shall write you at length. Theodore Roosevelt. Official.404 243 3. strike will practically be broken. But I earnestly hope that the miners will back him up and that in a day or two the strike will be over. It has been delightful to see so much of Will. Affectionately yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. W. S. Cowles, Care, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Ophir Hall, Purchase, West Chester County, N.Y.405 October 16, 1902. My dear General: I take it for granted that you will serve on the commission, in the same way [sense] that you would do any soldierly duty imposed upon you. May I see you at your earliest convenience? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brigadier General John M. Wilson, 1773 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 406 October 16, 1902. My dear Mr. Parker: I feel that as a patriotic American you must consent to serve on the commission to which I have appointed you. I hope to see you as soon as convenient to you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. E. W. Parker, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 407 October 16, 1902. My dear Mr. Watkins: I earnestly hope you will serve on the commission. I think its appointment averted a terrible danger which was imminent over all our people. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Thomas H. Watkins, Scranton, Pa.408 October 16, 1902. My dear Judge: You can render no more important service to the country than by serving on the commission to which I have appointed you. I am sure you will accept, for it is as much your duty as it was your duty to serve on the Peace Commission. May I see you at an early date? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George Gray, Judge, U. S. Court, Wilmington, Delaware.409 October 16, 1902. My dear Bishop Spalding: I am sure you will see that your highest duty requires you to accept my appointment on the commission. I earnestly hope I can see you and talk over matters at as early a date as will suit your convenience. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop John L. Spalding, Peoria, Illinois.410 333 October 16, 1902. My dear Senator: Late last night when it became evident that we were going to get a commission which would be accepted by both sides I remarked "Well, Uncle Mark's work has borne fruit" and everybody said"Yes." The solution came because so many of us have for so long hammered at the matter and gained a little here and a little there until at last things got into shape which made the present outcome possible. I hardly suppose the miners will go back on Mitchell. If they do, they put themselves wholly in the wrong. I earnestly hope you are now in good shape physically. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. A. Hanna, Cleveland, Ohio.411 389 October 16, 1902. My dear Bishop: I thank you heartily for your telegram, and am deeply touched by the editorial. Mitchell's acceptance, I think, renders the proposition sure to go through -- although even now I do not like to shout lest it should prove that after all we are not out of the woods. But at any rate the situation is cleared tremendously. The commission I think is about as good a commission as could well be imagined. Clark, the labor man, comes in the class of Arthur and Sargent. It seems to me that I can almost guarantee entire justice and substantial wisdom from such a commission. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, Editor, Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York, N. Y.412 October 16, 1902. My dear Sir: I thank you heartily for the resolutions and shall consider them carefully. As you may have noticed, a new condition has arisen [phase has come up] and I do not know what will be the result. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. C. Maybury, Mayor, Detroit, Michigan.413 306 October 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Frye: I hate to send you the enclosed about your friend Dickey, but I think you ought to see them; and in view of them I fail to see how even to oblige you I could put Mr. Dickey back in the service. I am awfully sorry. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William P. Frye, U.S.S., Lewiston, Maine. Enclosures.414 October 16, 1902. My dear Mr. Thwing: Naturally your letter pleases and touches me, and I thank you for it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Charles F. Thwing, LL. D., Cleveland, Ohio.415 213 October 16, 1902. Dear Fred: I am now all right again. Give my love to Mamie. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frederick Roosevelt, Hotel Regina, Paris, France.416 October 16, 1902. My dear Mr. Furie: You say you are only a "common coal miner." Somehow I think from your letter that you are a good American, and so I am very glad to hear from you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James G. Furie, Bridgeville, Pa.417 October 16, 1902. Personal. Dear Mr. Burdette: I thank you cordially for the copy of "Smiles Yoked with Sighs". I genuinely appreciate your courtesy in sending it and shall read it with great pleasure. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert J. Burdette, Sunnycrest, Pasadena, Cal.418 381 October 16, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Lungren: Let me thank Mrs. Lungren on behalf of Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. Most certainly I have no objection to the picture being reproduced in the article, and I hope you will say how very much pleased I was with it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Fernand Lungren, Nutley, N. J.419 357 October 17, 1902. My dear Mr. Mayor: I thank you for your letter of the 16th. Indeed I feel that we ought all of us to be deeply grateful for the result. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Seth Low, Mayor, New York, N. Y.420 October 17, 1902. Dear Gussie: I thank you for your note of the 15th. It was the greatest pleasure to appoint your son, in the first place for your own sake, and in the second place because I think him such a fine young fellow. Now I should like to have him come on and see me before he goes abroad. I want to say a word or two to him about his position over there. I want him to take his duties very seriously and above all to remember all the time that his usefulness is conditioned upon his remaining genuinely American and realizing that his duty is to all our countrymen, wholly irrespective of their social condition. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Jay, Esq., Newport, R. I. 421 384 October 17, 1902. My dear Governor: Well, we have put it through! I am very very thankful that you came on to see me about it. But heavens and earth, it has been a struggle! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. Murray Crane, Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.422 October 17, 1902. My dear Mr. Griscom: Of course I will be delighted to autograph that book. If Mr. Guest wanted merely an ordinary copy of course I would be glad to send it myself, but as he desires an extra-good copy I suppose you will have to send it to me to autograph. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Clement A. Griscom, 305 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.423 October 17, 1902. My dear Senator: Your note makes me feel humble and yet glad, for though I know I do not deserve at all what you say, I do like to have you say it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. L. Chandler, 1411 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.424 October 17, 1902. My dear Mr. Walsh: I wish to thank you particularly for your more than generous allusion to what I did in connection with irrigation. I hope soon to see you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas F. Walsh, Washington, D. C. 425 October 17, 1902. Personal. My dear Lee: Your note made me almost uncomfortable, for it overpraised me; but I thank you for it and appreciate it most heartily. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Clarence Lee, 1832 North Bouvier Street Philadelphia, Pa. 426 October 17, 1902. My dear Mr. Kernan: I thank you for your note of congratulation, and I thank you even more for the letter that preceded it. Your praise really means a great deal to me. I wish I could see you! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John D. Kernan, 39 Liberty Street, New York, N. Y.427 October 1902. 77 My dear General: I thank you for your letter. Good luck! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Joseph Wheeler, Care of War Department, Washington, D.C.428 October 17, 1902 My dear Bishop Conaty: I thank you for your letter. I am glad you approve of my choice of Bishop Spalding. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop Thomas J. Conaty, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.429 117 October 17, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Hoar: In thanking you for your telegram I feel I ought to tell you how much I owe throughout this business to Carroll D. Wright. His attitude has been so manly and one of such good sense that he has been a real strength and help. On the one side he has understood clearly that where the very life of the people was at stake it was out of the question to treat the subject as one in which the operators could of right say that the public had no concern. On the other hand, he has equally clearly understood that it was vital to establish and keep established the principle that the non-union man, or the union man who chose not to strike, would be protected in his life and his rights; in other words, that we intended to do absolute justice to every man, whether he were capitalist or wage-worker, union man or non-union man. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, U.S.S., Worcester, Mass. 430 397 October 17, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Quay: As it seems that we are both to be congratulated, I begin by congratulating you! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt P.S Why has Andrews never even acknowledged my telegram? I wanted three days in rain, and then turned the matter over to the Attorney General. Hon. M. S. Quay, U.S.S., Beaver, Pa.431 October 17, 1902. Personal. My dear Morton: Before receiving your letter I had made up my mind, partly from the way in which the gentleman in question was recommended and partly from those who recommended him, that he was distinctly not a man I wanted to put on. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Paul Morton, 77 Jackson Street, Chicago, Illinois.432 October 17, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Gunton: I thank you heartily for your letter. If you are on here during the next week I should like to talk with you about two or three things. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George Gunton, 41 Union Square, New York, N. Y.433 [*101*] October 17, 1902. My dear General: Among the people to be congratulated you are one. Your visit here helped me much and I thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, N. Y.434 [*434*] Personal. October 17, 1902. Dear Cabot: On the suggestion of Foulke I shall write you one incident while it is fresh on my mind, in connection with this coal strike. The wild advice I have received in reference to it is really extraordinary. I must show you a letter from Stuyvesant Fish which is as startling of its kind as anything I have ever read. Also another from good Dr. Van Dyke which is to the effect that if federal troops are sent into the district they should enforce altruism at the bayonet's point on the operators. The crisis came at the last moment. Between the hours of 10 P.M. and 1 A.M. I had Perkins and Bacon on here, on behalf of Morgan, but really representing the operators. Neither Morgan nor anyone else had been able to do much with those wooden-headed gentry, and Bacon and Perkins were literally almost crazy. Bacon in particular had become so excited that I was quite concerned over his condition. The operators had limited me down, by a fool proviso, to five different types of men, including "an eminent sociologist". This was a ridiculous proviso because I could have appointed bad men in every case and yet kept to its letter; and435 -2- they ought to have given me a free hand. The miners, on the other hand, wanted me to appoint at least two extra members myself, or in some fashion to get Bishop Spalding (whom I myself wanted), and a labor union man on the commission. I regarded their contention as perfectly reasonable, and so informed Bacon and Perkins and the operators. The operators refused point blank to have another man added, and Bacon and Perkins came on nearly wild to say that they had full power to treat on behalf of the operators, but that no extra man should be added. Finally it developed that what they meant was that no extra man should be added if he was a representative of organized labor; and argue as I could, nothing would make them change; although they grew more and more hysterical, and not merely admitted, but insisted, that the failure to agree meant probable violence and possible social war. It took me about two hours before I at last grasped the fact that the 'mighty brains of these captains of industry had formulated the theory that they would rather have anarchy than tweedledum, but that if I would use the word tweedledee they would hail it as meaning peace. In other words, that they had not the slightest objection to my appointing a labor man as "an eminent sociologist", and adding Bishop Spalding on my own account, but they preferred to see the Red Commune come than to have me make Bishop Spalding or anyone else its "eminent sociologist" and add the labor man. I instantly told them that I had not the slightest objection whatever to doing 436 3 an absurd thing when it was necessary to meet the objection of an absurd mind on some vital point, and that I would cheerfully appoint my labor man as the "eminent sociologist". It was almost impossible for me to appreciate the instant and tremendous relief this gave them. They saw nothing offensive in my language and nothing ridiculous in the proposition, and Pierpont Morgan and Baer, when called up by telephone, eagerly ratified the absurdity; and accordingly, at this utterly unimportant price we bid fair to come out of as dangerous a situation as I ever dealt with. Love to Nannie, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, U.S.S., Nahant, Mass. P. S. In secrecy, Stuyvesant Fish's proposition was that the bituminous miners were entitled to get all the benefit they could out of the stoppage of the anthracite coal supply, and that with "all due respect to my humanitarian motives," he must protest on behalf of the operators, miners and carriers engaged in the bituminous coal trade against any effort of mine to secure a settlement437 4 which would interfere with the legitimate extension of their business! The only analogy I could think of would be a protest by the undertakers against the improper activity of the Government quarantine officers in preventing the admittance of Asiatic cholera to our shores. As for the multitude of croatures who want me to "sieze the coal barons by the throat," on the one hand, or on the other hand, to "stamp out the lawlessness of the trades unions" by the instant display of force under the penalty of being considered a demagogue - why, I couldn't begin to enumerate them. T. R.438 October 18, 1902. My dear Mr. Davis: I am in receipt of your note of the 17ht, with enclosure. Who would not be gratified to have such things said of him as you have said of me in your editorial? I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. L. Clarke Davis, Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa.439 [*388*] October 18, 1902. Dear Stewart: I have your letter of the 14th. There was nothing in my letter except that I said I was sorry not to have seen you and that in all human probability I should turn up for that hunt next spring, unless there is an extra session. So tell Johny not to shoot this [?]; and to be dead me or get a bear. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Philip B. Stewart,Esq., Colorado Springs, Colo.440 411 October 18, 1902. My dear Bishop: I am in receipt of your letter of the 17th. Now I am being very much overpraised by everybody, and although I suppose I like it, it makes me feel uncomfortable too. Mind you I speak the literal truth when I say I know perfectly well I do not deserve what you have just said of me in that editorial. It really seems to me that any man of average courage and common sense who felt as deeply as I did the terrible calamity impending over our people would have done just what I did. But it is awfully nice of you to think so well of me. That cartoon is delightful and I shall send it at once to Mrs. Roosevelt. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, Editor of the Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York City. P. S. The Sun seems to me to be insane. They speak of me441 as encouraging lawlessness. It knows perfectly well that on every occasion I explained that the preservation of law and order would have to be the first consideration. 442 [*130*] October 18, 1902. Dear Murray: You say the very things I should like to have said of me. No, I did not see the Post editorials. The Sun I think has gone fairly mad. It practically states that I have been encouraging lawlessness, when it must know perfectly well that I have warned the miners in the most unequivocable terms against it, and have informed them that if I had to bring in the United States troops I would guarantee that all violence would stop in twenty-four hours; & that I have stood squarely for justice to its non union men. Let the Stracheys come to Washington after November 23rd. Then I hope to have them both stay at the White House. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York City.443 304 =. October 18, 1902 My dear Mr. Secretary: The enclosed letter from Senator Frye explains itself. I have told him that I shall direct you to make a thorough investigation of the whole case and to judge each man on his merits and without regard to anything whatsoever but his merits. If they are both bad or unfit men, then Colonel Dickey will be kept out and Mr. Herdliska will be put out. If they are both of them fit men, Mr. Herdliska will be kept and Colonel Dickey restored as soon as possible. If one has proved to be a good public servant and the other a bad public servant, steps will be taken accordingly. All I desire is that the Department shall satisfy itself, not by legal evidence, but by such evidence as would appeal to a good business man in relation to one of his subordinates, as to the fitness or unfitness of each man, and I shall decline in any way to be swerved from treating each case on this basis. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. Enclosure.444 Confidential. October 17, 1902. My dear Mr. Copeland: Your letter pleased me so much that I must send you a line of thanks. Of course you must not come on unless it happens to suit your convenience; but if you do, I can see you without fail at any time during the next ten days. After election, between ourselves, I should like to get a holiday for a week if it is possible, and it will not be possible unless I go off into the wilderness somewhere. They follow me up everywhere else. I have had fairly hard work this summer, but I do not know that even you can imagine the relief I feel over the settlement of the coal strike. I was fairly haunted with the thought of the misery that would come to the poor people in our great cities and of the terrible social convulsion that might possibly be produced. I should have endeavored to meet any crisis, no matter what it was; but I am more than grateful that the crisis seems to be over. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Guild A. Copeland, Editor Daily Advertiser, Boston, Mass.445 October 18, 1902. My dear Sir: The President wishes me to say that it affords him great pleasure to send you the enclosed note of introduction to Governor Hunt of Porto Rico. Very truly yours, George Cortelyou Secretary to the President Mr. Rogis H. Post, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. [*69*] Dear Governor Hunt: This is to introduce the friend of whom I spoke to you, Mr. Regis H. Post, of Harvard and New York, who is visiting Porto Rico with his wife. He is as you know a great friend of mine and I heartily commend him to your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Hunt, Governor of Porto Rico, San Juan, P. R.446 October 18, 1902. Personal. Dear Denny: I liked both articles of yours in Everybody's Magazine very much. I shall show Mrs. Roosevelt the one in reference to small Archie; and I want to thank you for the good taste with which you wrote it - you even omitted his name. As for the other story, is it a true exposition of life among the mountaineers? It is both melancholy and powerful. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Lindsay Dennison, The Sun, New York, N. Y. 447 Private. October 18, 1902. My dear Mrs. Van Vorst: I must write you a line to say how much I have appreciated your article, "The Woman who Toils". But to me there is a most melancholy side to it, when you touch upon what is fundamentally infinitely more important than any other question in this country - that is, the question of race suicide, complete or partial, which must follow from the attitude of our people as a whole toward wifehood, motherhood, and fatherhood, if the feeling that you describe among the girls you met in the factory is typical of the class generally -- for that is the numerically dominant class of our peoples. In the same magazine there was an article on the unemployed rich. I do not think the writer appreciated what a dreadful type she was describing. Superficially the Newport girl there set forth and the girls who were your companions are very unlike, but in essentials they seem to me to be identical. An easy, good-natured kindliness, and a desire to be independent, that is, to live one's life purely according to one's own desires, are in no sense substitutes for the fundamental virtues, for the practice of the strong racial qualities without which there can be no strong races - its qualities of courage and resolution in both men and women, of scorn of what is mean, base, and selfish, of eager desire to work or fight or suffer as the case may be, provided the end to be gained is great enough, and the contemptuous putting aside of448 -2- mere ease, mere vapid pleasure, mere avoidance of toil and worry. I do not know whether I most pity or most despise the foolish and selfish man or woman who does not understand that the only things really worth having in life are those the acquirement of which normally means cost and effort. If a man or woman, through no fault of his or hers, goes throughout life denied those highest of all joys which spring only from home life, from the having and bringing up of many healthy children, I feel for them only deep and respectful sympathy; the sympathy one extends to the gallant fellow killed at the beginning of a campaign, or the man who toils hard and is brought to ruin by the- fault of others. But the man or woman who deliberately avoids marriage and has a heart so cold as to know no passion and a brain so shallow and selfish as to dislike having children, is in effect a criminal against the race and should be an object of contemptuous abhorrence by all healthy people. Of course no one quality makes a good citizen, and no one quality will save a nation. But there are certain great qualities for the lack of which no amount of intellectual brilliancy or of material prosperity or of easiness of life can atone, and which show decadence and corruption in the nation, just as much if they are produced by selfishness and coldness and ease-loving laziness among comparatively poor people as if they are produced by vicious or frivolous luxury in the rich. If the men of the nation are not anxious to work in many different ways, with all their might and strength, and ready and able to fight at need, and anxious to be fathers of families, and if the women do not recognize449 -3- that the greatest thing for any woman is to be a good wife and mother, why, that nation has cause to be alarmed about its future. There is no physical trouble among us Americans. The trouble with the situation you set forth is one of character, and therefore we can conquer it if we only will. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Bessie Van Voorst, Care of Everybody's Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa.450 413 October 18, 1902. Personal. My dear Senator Frye: I have at once turned your letter over to the State Department with instructions to be sure that they do exact and thorough justice to both gentlemen concerned. I hope that you will have forwarded to them any proof as to the allegations against Mr. Herdliska, for of course if he has been guilty of the matters charged he must be removed at once. Now, my dear Senator, I think you know that there is no man whom I am more anxious to oblige than you, and I am sure that you, with your own high sense of duty, agree with me that in the case of such accusations as those against Mr. Dickey I would be false to every profession I have ever made as to demanding integrity and efficiency in the government service if I paid heed to any consideration except the guilt or innocence of the man himself.451 To the best of my ability justice shall be done. The report of the State Department is specific and definite, but no one will be more pleased than I if its injustice can be shown. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. P. Frye, U.S.S., Lewiston, Maine.452 October 18, 1902. 363 Personal. Dear Bob: You are one of those who genuinely helped me, and I [hope] I realize fully that I too was simply one of those who by the accident of his position was able to do something toward bringing the strike to a close. Now can't you get on here soon, just for the sake of talking everything all over? I cannot walk with you, but I will mount you on one of my horses. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Bacon, 23 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.453 284 October 18, 1902. Personal. My dear Governor Odell: I do not wish to add to your burdens, but of course I am extremely concerned about the situation in New York. Will you send me a line as to what you think of it and if there is anything I can do? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.454 October 18, 1902. 186 [?] My dear Verestchagin: I want to thank you so much for the very handsome cross. It is a beauty and I value it deeply because of the giver. I am so anxious to see the picture. With high regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. Verestchagin, Care Russian Embassy, Washington, D. C.455 October 18, 1902. 116 My dear Mr. Baldwin: Mr. Gardfield gave me your memorandum. It was a real help and I thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur D. Baldwin, Society for Savings, Cleveland, Ohio.456 October 17, 1902. Dear Harry: I am very glad that Phillips or anyone else should come to you as an authority on the old days of the attempt to impeach Westbrook and all my struggles in the Legislature. What fun we had, after all! I thank you heartily for sending on the cross. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. D. Macdona, 247 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 457 October 18, 1902. My dear President Wilson: I have kept hoping that I might be able to get on to see you inaugurated, but the doctors are positive that for at least ten days I ought not to take a railway trip. I have now begun to ride a little, but I am not allowed to do any walking outside of the house as yet. I had a bad bruise on the leg-bone which nearly caused serious trouble, and I ought not to take any chances. I am very, very sorry. I hope to see you on here this winter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Woodrow Wilson, President, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.458 October 19, 1902. Dear Mr. Garland: Curiously enough, I was about to send you the enclosed when your letter of the 16th came. I wish to make my message short this year; and so let any corrections or suggestions you have to put in about the Indians be as brief as possible. But I wished either you or Mr. George Bird Grinnell to go over what I have said. No, mountain sheep are true sheep. The so-called white goat, however, is a mountain antelope, and what we call antelope is not an antelope at all, but an entirely unique creature - the only hollow horned ruminant which sheds its horns. I shall do all I can to further any rational scheme of extending the national parks. I thank you heartily for what you say about the coal strike. I feel that it was a great crisis and459 I am more grateful than I can say that we are through with it. With warm regards to Mrs. Garland, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hamlin Garland, Esq., West Salem, Wis. P.S. Please return the paragraph about the Indians with your suggestions at once.460 October 19, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Woodard: Of all the letters I have received I am inclined to value yours of the 16th instant the most, because you see just the dangers which were to me so evident, and the points which I hope we have gained. Of course there will come troubles now. Every strike will mean that some people will accuse me of being the cause of it by having settled the coal strike, and others will insist that I interfere to stop it, heedless of the fact that such interference or intervention of mine, as in the case of the coal strike, must occur only in extreme cases. But it was essential that organized capital and organized labor should thoroughly understand that the third party, the great public, had vital inter-461 ests and overshadowing rights in such a crisis as that through which we have just passed. The speech of Attorney General Knox came in the nick of time to emphasize the permanent lesson of the strike. I wish that capitalists would see that what I am advocating and what the Attorney General has so well set forth is really in the interest of property, for it will save it from the danger of revolution. Of course the demagogues and agitators will not be pleased with the plan, for its essence is that it shall work easily and quietly and without injustice. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt J. H. Woodard, Esq., The Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio.462 October 19, 1902. My dear Mr. Collier: I thank you heartily for your note. I should particularly like to have Mr. Wellman write such an article as you suggest. I never see the Journal, so I don't know what it said. The Sun's attitude was amazing. What I chiefly felt in reference to it, and the forces behind it, was the melancholy recognition of the fact that we have among our people representatives of the same greedy and wooden-headed stupidity, in the face of great changes, which has so often acted as the provocative of revolutions in the past. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert J. Collier, 29 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.463 [*347*] October 19, 1902. My dear White: I shall send your letter of the 16th instant to Carroll D. Wright at once; but I shall give them a free hand in choosing their own subordinates. I took no single man who was backed by any politician because I regard it as vital that this whole business should be free from the taint of the politician of the "darker" order, as you term it. It was big business. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas.464 October 20, 1902. Personal. My dear Dr. Egan: Thank you heartily for the book. I think, by the way, I shall have to make Mr. Neill, of the University, together with Mr. Moseley, assistants to the Recorder, when the Commission is organized - but do not say anything about this as I may be obliged to change because of something now unforeseen. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Maurice Francis Egan, LL. D., 212 North Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. P.S.- Are you willing to take an abnormally frugal meal? If so, will you come in to lunch with me on Tuesday at one-thirty?465 October 20, 1902. Personal. My dear Mrs. Ward: I thank you heartily for your note. When Secretary Moody comes back I will tell him I hope he will sign; and if it is a bill affecting the District of Columbia, what I can properly do I will do. At this moment, my small daughter being out ,I am acting as nurse to two wee guinea pigs, which she feels would not be safe save in the room with me - and if I can prevent it I do not intend to have wanton suffering inflicted on any creature. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Newton Center, Mass. 466 [*12*] October 20, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Dunne: I have not had the heart to write to you until this coal strike was out of the way. Now I feel like throwing up my hands and going to the circus; but as that is not possible I think I shall try a turkey shoot or bear hunt or something of the kind instead. Thanks to my infernal leg, I shall not be able to get back to Oyster Bay and therefore shall not be able to have you spend a night with me as I had hoped. So I will get you to come down again to Washington as soon as we get settled in the White House. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Peter Finley Dunne, Care of Harper's Weekly, New York, N. Y. P. S.- Nothing that you have ever written can begin to approach in screaming comedy the inside of467 the last few conferences before I appointed the strike commission, and especially the complicated manoeuvers by which, weaving in and out among the tender susceptibilities of the operators and the miners, I finally succeeded in reconciling both to the appointment of the president of a labor union as an "eminent sociologist". Fortunately I possessed a sense of humor, and moreover was resolutely bent on having certain men on the commission, and entirely indifferent to what names they were called if only I could get them there. I have a letter from an eminent railroad man which I must also show you. If you or anyone else produced it and ascribed it to a fictitious character all people would unite in saying that it was too gross a caricature to possess literary value; nor were many of the suggestions I received from both sides of the controversy much behind it.468 [*68*] October 20, 1902. My dear Dr. O'Reilly: Will you look into the enclosed case? The young man comes of excellent stock and would be a credit to the service should he enter. Between ourselves, he has a theory that he is being discriminated against because he is of Jewish ancestry. I am sure that is not so; but I wish you would give the matter a little attention. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Surgeon General R. M. O'Reilly, U.S.A., War Department. This refers to Dr. Edwin M. Mendel, Room 404, 100 William Street, New York, N.Y.469 October 21, 1902. Dear John: If I am in luck about the 13th of next month, I shall try a bear hunt in Mississippi or Arkansas. It has been arranged for me by Stuyvesant Fish, of the Illinois Central Road. I am trying to keep everything about it very secret. Do you think you could come along? I should so like to see you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John A. McIlhenny, Averys Island, Louisiana.470 180 October 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Collector: The enclosed letter is from an humble friend of Mrs. Roosevelt and mine. Her husband is a horse-car conductor in New York City. Is it a possible thing to get him the place he wants, at about sixty dollars a month? I do want it very very much. If you cannot do it, will you consult Mr. Clarkson or Mr. Williams? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. N. N. Stranahan, Collector of the Port, New York City. Enclosure.471 October 21, 1902. Confidential My dear Mr. Thompson: Will you, confidentially, let me know what the outlook for Congressman is in Nebraska? I am greatly interested in the Congressional campaign in your State and earnestly hope we can gain as many as possible. I should like to hear from you what the probabilities are. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. D. E. Thompson, Lincoln, Nebraska. 472 Personal. [*429*] October 21, 1902. My dear Senator Hoar: With very great reluctance I have decided to do as you request in the case of these Goldberg children. The only possible excuse I can make for issuing the order to keep them here is that I desire to test the truth of the time that will be needed to cure them, and see whether the opinion of the government doctors is correct or not. As for issuing the general order such as you suggest I do not think it is possible. The testimony is very strong from the government side that these cases are not slight and that they were not contracted aboard ship. In working any general law I suppose there are there are bound to be individual cases of hardship, but it does seem to me that there can be nothing more healthy to the community as a whole than to insist upon the health of the alien immigrants coming hither. The very disease in question has recently become so prevalent in New York City as to be a scourge in the schools, and the school authorities attribute it to the presence of immigrants just exactly suffering as these children. I cannot afford to stand for a policy under which to save hardship to a very few individuals I invite the entry of disease into this country and abandon the effort to keep out diseased immigrants. I question if I have the legal right to do what I am doing in this case, and I cannot [???out] either a473 -2- precedent, but I wish to [see the] test whether or not our officials are right or wrong in their diagnosis of the case. The way to reach this evil is not by perpetually letting down the bars, with the certainty that in a short while we cannot keep them up at all, but by the passage of such a bill as went through the House last session, which allows us to inflict a heavy penalty upon the steamship company bringing over such an immigrant. When the steamship companies, which in every way strive to evade the law, are made to understand that they will be heavily punished for do soing, we shall be safe from their taking aboard diseased children with the evident belief that when they are once on this side the law will not be enforced against them and the steamship company will be so much ahead. I remember the case of the Syrian children so well that it serves as an additional argument for my doing what you desire in this case, but, my dear Senator, I want to bring out as early as I can my feeling of the dangerous nature of the precedent that I am establishing. As soon as you can come on here I shall have you meet Mr. Sargent, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Billings, and shall direct them to prepare full statistics in connection with this part of the execution of the immigration laws. I want to show mercy wherever it is possible, but I do not want to show mercy in a few individual cases at the cost of doing real and serious damage to the country as a whole. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, U.S.S., Worcester, Mass.474 [*386*] October 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Fish: The doctor still shakes his head a little about my leg, and it is evident that I shall not be able to do very desperate riding, but heaven knows when I would have another chance to go bear hunting under such auspices - and I am going to make the effort, now that the coal strike is settled. Can I find how many days it will take to make a thoroughly good hunt? I wan to get a bear sure if I go down there; and I don't want to slip up on it. If in addition I could visit Tuskegee I should be very glad, but this must come only if I can do it in addition to the bear hunt. I feel I really need and almost deserve a holiday. I will leave New York on the night of the 11th, go to the bear grounds, then if necessary stay there until I have to come back to Memphis on the afternoon of the 19th. I would a good deal rather give up Tuskegee than ["scan?"]475 the bear hunt, especially as I shall go to Tuskegee some other time. Is there any hunter with whom you would like me to correspond personally to find out anything about the hunt? At any rate, I'll go myself, and we must get a bear! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, 214 Broadway, New York, N. Y. P.S.- Do let me beg you to have this kept as secret as possible and to let whoever has charge of the dogs keep it secret that I may come. If the reporters got on to it and followed us I might have to give up the whole trip. You ask me what friends I will have along. I do not know whether I can get Elihu Root to go along; I should like to very much. Otherwise, there will be no one but John McIlhenny and I suppose Secretary Cortelyou. Let me thank you heartily for all the trouble you are taking.476 October 21, 1902. My dear Mr. Thurman: Your note was so very pleasant that I must thank you personally for it and say how much I appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Rosevelt Hon. Allen W. Thurman, Columbus, Ohio.477 [*97*] October 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Mr. Philbin: Perhaps you do not know that you had a very narrow escape from being on the commission yourself. In considering New Yorkers I went over five or six different names - yours, Fairchilds, and others. I finally asked John D. Kernan to service on the commission as I had originally planned it. The new turn given by the operators' proposition made it necessary to make a rearrangement. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Eugene A. Philbin, The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia.478 October 21, 1902. My dear Mrs. Lowell: I am very much pleased with your note and thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, 120 East 30th Street, New York, N. Y.479 October 21, 1902. Personal. My dear Bishop O'Gorman: I thank you heartily for your letter. Will you convey my warm regards to the Holy Father and my appreciation of his courteous message? I was sure you would be pleased with Judge Smith's appointment; and I think Bishop Spalding's choice was just the right one. With hearty regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop Thomas O'Gorman, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.480 October 25, 1902. My dear Mr. Minott: Let me through you thank the reception committee most heartily for the very handsome chair. I appreciate it both for itself and because of the donors, and because it reminds me of the visit to Gardner which I so much enjoyed. With renewed thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Geo. L. Minott, For the Reception Committee, Gardner, Mass.481 October 25, 1902. My dear Captain Mahan: I enclose Admiral Bowles's memorandum which please return to me. He seems to show that instead of an increase of 50 percent in tonnage meaning an increase of less than 10 percent of offensive power, which you state seems to be the case in the English navy, there is in the American navy an increase of 50 percent in offensive power for an increase of 25 percent in tonnage. I have had up Admirals Taylor and Bowles and have gone over the matter with them and they are now going over the matter further with the Secretary. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Cat. A. T. Mahan, U.S.N., Navy Department.