VOLUME 45 January 13, 1904 to February 25, 1904 SERIES 245Indexed to page 43-78, 95,104,132,170, 204, 246, 274, 319, 334, 365, 414, 464. EndState - 39,120, 132, 151, 209, 214, 301. Treasury - War - 112, 131, 190, 200, 248, 253, 396, 474. Attorney General - 61, 173, 195, 365. Postmaster General - 49, 105, 152. Navy - 33, 130, 266, 344, 424. Interior - 250. Agriculture - Commerce & Labor - 118, 430.Adams, Hon. H.C. 4. Aldrich, Hon. Edgar, 16. Appleby, T. F. 29. Alderman, Prest. E.A. 206. Anthony, A. A. 215. Aldrich, Hon. N. W. 313. Allison, Hon. W.B. 328. ABA B Barnes, jr. Hon. W 23 Butler, Dr. N. M. 26, 193, 170, 309, 395, 469, Bishop, J. B. 57, 76, 82, 97, 189, 205, 240, 264, 458, Brownlow, Hon. W. P. 75 Brewer, A. J. 94 Bentley, W. G. 116 Burne, Hon. C. H 150 Butler, E. H 161 Black, Hon. F. S. 194 Brave, Ben 207 Brown, Hon. E. R. 233 Bonham, Hon. Scott 254 Bigelow, Dr. W. S. 274 Bacon, Robt. 281, 452 Barber, Capt. H. A. 345 Bullock, Dr. Jos 382 Bowlker, Mrs. Kath. 389 Boyd, Hon. C. S. 439 Burlon, Hon. J. E. 461 Burr, W.H. 470 Brave, Ben 481 Brown, F. V. 496 Bonaparte, Hon. C. J. 497 C D Cortelyou, Hon. G. B. (Secr. Comm. & Labor) 118, 430 Coad N. J. 13 Critz, F. A. 30 Crane, Hon. W. M. 44, 156 Chatterton, Hon. F 45 Chadwick, H. 46 Caldwell, Miss Margaret 59 Clews, Henry 83 Clayton, Hon. Powell 89, 416 Cleaveland, F. E. 91 Cullom, Hon. S.M. 136, 290 Chamberlain, Hon. G. E. 141 Collier, Robt 143 Chapin, H. B 153 Carter, Hon. G. R. 177 Cowles, Mrs. W. S. 199 Carlisle, C. A. 222 Crozier, Brig-Genl, Wm. 249 Carnegie, Andrew 265, 356, 357 Clarkson, Hon. J. S. 318 Cockrell, Hon. F. M. 321 Childs, Hon. H. A. 380 Costigan, jr. G.P. 404 Campbell, Hon. Jno. 422 Cassatt, A. J. 440, 468 C DC D Denbigh, Earl of 25 Doherty, H. F. 28 Davies, Hon. J.C. 36 De Rochambeau, Comte 43 Dodge, Gen, G. M. 107, 352, 372, 478 Derby, R. A. 158 Duke, Gen. B. W. 179 Dick, Hon. Chas 260 De Constans, Baron, D'Estournelles 284 Davitt, Michael 384 Davis, Richd, Harding 390 Doyle, Rev. A. P. 392 Dewey, Adml, Geo 441 Dryden, Hon. Jno. F. 473 Dodge, J. M. 486EF Emmerson, Chas. 113, Edgell, G.S. 154, Edison, Thos. A. 311, Eliot, Prest. C.W. 428, Egan, Dr. Maurice F. 495,Fairbanks, Hon. C.W. D. 388 Fourier, Capt. 98, Fo?r?er Rep. Club, Youngstown. Ohio, 273, Fisher, W.L. 275, 450, Foranner, Hon. J.B. 302, 476, Francis, CS. 305 Forll, Char. U. 330 Frothingham, Hon. Louis, 350. Felton, Hon. C. A. 374, 414, Frys, Hon. W.P. 399. Fischer, V. G. 411, Fox, jr, Jno. 434 Frothingham, Hon. L.A. 465,G H Gresham, Otto 60, Greer, Rev. Dr. D. H. 73, Gleeson, Capt. M. C 84, Gibbons, Cardinal 86, Gamble, Stewart 128, Gilman, Dr. D. C. 225, Gorbel, Prof. Julius 226, Goodspeed, J. W. 283, Gregory, Lady Auguste 285, Gilbert, Dr. Levi 303, Goodrich, J. P. 310, Gamble, Hon, R.J. 361, Gilder, Richd. Watson 378, Griscom. Hon. L. C. 391, 456, Grosscup, B. S. 429, Garber, Hon. Jno. 431 Graham, G. E. 455 Grunsky, C. K. 487 G HGH (see Front) Hay, Hon. John (Secy. of State) 39, 120, 151, 209, 214, 301 (see front) Hitchcock, Hon. E. A. (Secy. of Int.) 250, Hurd, E.F. 9, Hubbill, W.C. 20, Hanna, Hon. M.A. 22, Heaton, J.E. 58. Hardin, J.W. 77. Harvey, Col. Geo. 100, 238, Heatwole, Hon. J.P. 124, Hammond, Q. M. 126, Hunt, Hon. W.H. 135, 467, Harvey, Col. Geo., 160, Hooper, Wm, 221, Hinkle, Hon. A.H. 252, Heinselman, David, 273, Harlan, Hon. Jno. M. 286, Hopkins, Hon. A.J. 289. Hunt, Leigh, 316, Hoffman, Albert, 323, Higgins, Hon. Frank W. 381, Howland, Wm. B. 387, Holmes, Hon. O.W. 408, Howard, Gen. O.O. 415, Houser, D.M. 421, Harrod, B.H. 427, 465, Hawkins, Paul R. 449, Hecker, Col. F.J. 477,IJ Jackson, A.W. 7, Jusserand, J.J. 262, Jamieson, Hon. T.N. 342, Johnson, R.U. 393, Jordan, Dr. D.S. 405, Johnston, B.S. 491, Jerome, Hon. W.J. 498 (See front) Knox, Hon. P. (Atty. J ) 61, 173, 195, 365, King, Sen. H. C. 70 Kroger, Henry , Prest. 155 Kenyon, A. N. 218 Kent, Wm 282 Kennan, Jr. 402K L Levi, Mrs. Leo N. 1, Littledale, St. George 17, Lounsbury, Dr. J. R. 31, 125, Lacey, P. H. 37, Lewis, A. H. 66, 96, 134, Lippincott, J. S. 74, Lummis, Chas. F. 90, Lewi, Hon. L.L. 95, 407, Lowdon, J. G. 129, 472, Loomis, Hon. F. B. 132, Lambert, Dr. Alex., 157, Lodge, Hon. H. C. 208, 230, 453, 457, Leeson, Jr. 228, Lindley, Hon. J. T. 247, Lawson, Victor F. 291, Long, Hon. Jno. D. 349, Legislature Reporters Assn. 455,M M Moody, Hon. W. H (Secy of Navy) 33, 130, 266, 344, 424 (See front) Mitchell, Hon. Mason 2, Mills, Brig. Gen. A. L. 8, Monod, Francois 24, Morley, Jno. 63 Morton, Paul 71, 251, 320, 400, Marks, Dr. M.M. 109, Morrow, Hon. Wm. W. 122 Matthews, Brander 140, 202, 267, 475, Mellen, C. S. 148, 306, Moore, T. H. 174 Merritt, E. R. 204, Montant, A. P. 213, Mitchell, Hon, Jn. H. 227, Murphy, W. D. 235 Montant, D. P. 239 Murphy, Hon. Franklin 244, 288, 326, Mebane, B. Frank 329, Moot, Adelbert 426, Mackay, C. H. 493,MM M Bee, Silas, 3, 341 M Gaffey, E. 35 M Comas, Hon. L. E. 73 M Kim, Chas. F. 123, 312 M Lane, Hon. R. M. 261 M Lees, Thos 279 M Cabe, Bishop C. C. 300N O New England Alumni Assn. D. K. E. 7. Northrop Prest. Cyrus. 48, 398. Noyes, W. S 121. Natl. Schurtzenbund of U. S. 155. Nixon, Hon. S. F. 231. Neeman, L. W. 232, 277. Noyes, Frank B. 293. Nilson, Hon. Knute. 410. Noble, Alfred. 418.NO Odell jr. Hon. B. B. 201, 322, 406 Ohio Repub. League 254 Osborn, C. D. 280P Q (see front) Payne, Hon. H. C. (PM.C.) 49, 105, 152. Pitcher, Maj. Jno. 15. Parsons, jr. J. R. 18, 27, 138. Payne, W. R. 38. Pritchard, Hon. J. C. 88. Platt, Hon. T. C. 92, 196, 325, 419, 460, 471, 483. Pardee, Hon. Geo. C. 127. Philbin, Hon. E. A. 142. Platt, Hon. O. H. 163. Pinkham, Mrs. M. I. 170. Peabody, Hon. J. H. 197. Patterson, R. W. 295. Potter, A. K. 304. Proctor, Hon. Redfield. 355, 425, 444 Piplblad, E. F. 375. Parsons, Wm. B. 417. P QP Q Quay, Hon. M. S. 210, 373, 412 Quay, Miss Coral 379(See Front) Root. Hon. Elihu, (Secy. of War) 112, 131, 245, 339 367, 443 Roosevelt, Kermit 5, 50,114, 187, 255, 337, 432 Rollins, T.S. 47 Rice, Cecil S. 52 Roosevelt, jr. Theo 55, 110, 184, 256, 335, 437 Riis, Jacob A. 69, 298, 299 Roosevelt, H. Emlen 198 Rice, Mrs. Cale Y. 223 Riis, Mrs. Jacob A. 234 Roosevelt, Jno. E. 241 Robinson, jr. Mrs. Douglas, 258, 383 Riis, E.V. 272, Reid, Hon. Whitelaw, 307, 314 Roots, Hon. F.T. 308 Rainsford, Dr. W.S. 324, 351, Raynolds, J.S. 348, Rhys, Jno. 354, Roosevelt, Hon. Robt. B. 423, Robinson, Sanford, 482, R S R SVW Vattmann, Rev. E. J. 146 Viljoen, Jen. B 216 Von Briesen, Arthur 242, 359, 371, 435R S Shaw, Hon. L. M. (Secy of Treas.) (See front) Sutherland, Hon. Geo 10, Smalley, Geo. 14, Spponer, Hon. J. C. 21, (See below) Shaw, Dr. Albert 32, 191, Sulger, Hon. Wm. 34, Smith, Hon. Wm. Alden 40, 315, 319, Suffolk County (NM.) Assn. 41, Short, Jno. F. 42, Sickles, Gen. D. E. 62, Spooner, Hon. J. C. 21, 78, 117, 162, 420, Stranahan, Hon, N. N. 144, 236, Simons, Hon. C. C. 170 Stow, Vanderlynn 171, Strauss, Chas 172, Stores, Hon. Bellamy 181, Sherrill, C. H. 182, Schiff, Jacob H. 203, Spring, Hon. Alfred 217 Snelling, R. Paul 243 Smyth, Jno. M. 259 Schurman, Pres. J.G. 268 Strauss, Hon. O. S. 287, Shipp, Mrs. M. B. 340 Sterburg, Baron H. 353. Seligman, J. N. 403 T U Taft, Hon. Wm. H. (Secy. of War) (see front page) 190, 200, 248, 253, 396, 474. Thuring, Prest. C. F. 87. Tiffany, J. B. 93. Treadwell, Col. G. C. 99. Thorndike, Mrs. R. S. 108. Thornton, David. 147. Trevelyan, Sir. G. O. 164. Tracy, Gen. B. F. 178.V W Wilson, Hon. Jos (Decy of Agric) (See front) Woodward, Hon. Jno. 6, Warfield, Hon. S.D. 11, 175 Wilson, Prest. Woodrois. 12, 180 Wheeler, Sen. Jos. 19 Welch, Davis 41 White, Stewart E. 67 Wiley, Louis 133 Worthington, R. N. 137 Wilson, Geo, J. 145 Wilson, A. E. 159 Wilson, W. C 183 Washburn Hon. W. D. 211 Wheeler, Everett P. 220, Wood, Mrs. Leonard 237, 454 Winthrop, Hon. B. 246 White, Sir W. H. 271 Washington, Booker J. 327, 494, Warfield, hon. Edwin 331, Ward, Mrs. Geo. C. 347 White, W. A. 363 Wilson, W. H. 385 Walker, Rear, Adml, J. G. 386, 484, 488 White, Henry 394 Wadsworth, Hon. Jas. W. 397 Williams, Hon, J.S. 401 Walker, F. A. 449 Webb, J. E. 451 Wheelan, F. H. 466 Williams, Hon, F. B. 479 Welch, Dr. W. H. 490 Winthrop, F. 492YZ Yerkes, Hon. Jon. W. 68, 485,1 January 13, 1904. Mrs. Leo N. Levy, New York, N. Y. Pray accept my sincere sympathy in your bereavement. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (Charge the President's private acct.)2 January 13, 1904. My dear Mr. Mitchell: Your letter was most interesting. I have taken the matter of Dr. Wilson up with the State Department. I am very glad you are to stay in the consular service. Gracious me! how I wish I could have been with you on that hunting trip to Mt. Kilima-Njaro! It is very good of you to send me the horns. I think I shall accept them for the White House, where they will be genuine ornaments. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Mason Mitchell, United States Consul, Zanzibar, Africa.3 January 13, 1904. My dear Mr. McBee: I thank you for the article. Your friendship has meant much to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Silas McBee, Editor, The Churchman, 47 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y.4 January 13, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Adams: I thank you for your kindness and I appreciate to the full the editorial you sent me. It said just the things I would like to try to deserve to have said. With regard, genuine thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Adams, House of Representatives.5 January 13, 1904. Dear Kermit: Just a line. Since you left the weather has been bad. Mother and I have not been able to ride; although we are going to take a short ride around the White Lot this afternoon in the snow. I took a couple of walks and once played single stick with Roly Fortescue. I am up to my ears in work. Your loving father, J. R. Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass.6 January 13, 1904. My dear Judge Woodward: I wish I could accept, but it is simply out of the question. I have more on my hands now than I can possibly attend to, and I can not go into anything new. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Woodward, Supreme Cour, Appellate Division, Brooklyn, N.Y.7 January 13, 1904. My dear Sir: I am glad to have an opportunity of extending,through you, cordial greetings to those who may attend the dinner. It is sure to be an enjoyable occasion, and I should very much like to be with you. The Association has my hearty good wishes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Allen W. Jackson, Secretary, New England Alumni Ass'n, D. K. E. 367 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass.8 January 13, 1904. My dear General: It was a very real pleasure to me to be able to nominate you, and [for] I feel that I have done a service to the country. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brigadier General A. L. Mills, U.S.A., Superintendent Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.9 January 13, 1904. My dear Mr. Hurd: Your letter is so manly and straightforward that I must write you a line of acknowledgment. It is always a pleasure to hear from a sincere and honest man. Without again going over at length the reasons which have influenced me in my course in the matter to which you refer, I wish to thank you for the kindly spirit in which you have written me, and to assure you that I appreciate your interest in the subject which has troubled not only you and me, but many others. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward F. Hurd, Recording Secretary, Local No. 5,I. B. of B., 157 E. Tallmadge Avenue, Akron, Ohio.10 January 13, 1904. My dear Mr. Sutherland: Mr. Scott has just shown me your very kind letter to him. Believe me, I appreciate it. I wish I could see you some time. With real regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George Sutherland, Keith Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.11 January 13, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Warfield: I showed to the Postmaster General the letter I had written you and told him my feeling about you, based on my long personal knowledge and upon your reputation. It is a disagreeable thing for me to say that, as you will see by the enclosed memorandum, the Department, and I may add the Department of Justice also, do not take quite the view I do. Will you send me back the enclosed memorandum with any comments you may choose to make? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*Since writing the above I have seen Mr. Bond; and shall*] Hon. S. Davies Warfield, [*take up the materials*] Postmaster, Baltimore, Maryland. [*he submits.*] Enclosure.12 January 13, 1904. My dear Mr. Wilson: If the chance comes and I can appoint Captain Landon, subject to the claims of some others who have been a long time on the list, it will give me real pleasure to do so. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.13 January 13, 1904. Personal My dear Mr. Coad: In reference to the clipping you enclosed with your letter of the 8th instant, I have to say that Mr. Root by my authorization and direction testified as follows before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs (the President of the United States cannot, of course, testify before a committee); "I think, also, I ought to allude to the remark of Gen. James H. Wilson here as to the conversation with the President. Of course the President cannot be a witness. The President informs me that General Wilson is mistaken, and that no such conversation regarding General Wood's presence at the San Juan fight that day ever took place between him and General Wilson. That could not have taken place, because General Wood was there, and the President saw him there, as all these other officers did." Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William T. Coad President, Federal Railroad Company, Rapid City, South Dakota.14 January 13, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Smalley: I am really obliged to you for sending me that article from the Times. Will you be in Washington any Friday in January? If so, let me know, as I should like you to come to one of Mrs. Roosevelt musicals, which take place on the evening of Friday. With regard. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George Smalley, 2 East Forty-fifth Street, New York, N. Y. 15 January 13, 1904. My dear Major Pitcher: Do not do anything about the elk for New Zealand. I find I can get them here from the National Zoological Park. With many thanks. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Major John Pitcher, U. S. A. , Fort Yellowstone, Wyoming.16 January 13, 1904. My dear Judge: I thank you for your letter of the 12th. I have sent it at once to Lodge. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Edgar Aldrich, United States Courts, Boston Mass.17 January 13, 1904. My dear Littledale: The enclosed copy of letter shows that we are all right about the wapiti for New Zealand. You want three males and seven females. Under the law I shall have to ask for animals valued at $300 from the New Zealand government in exchange. I shall accept their own valuation of anything sent me. They can order any wild beast collector to send me some animals, if they have not got any. If it were possible for them to send me or procure for me some chamois in exchange, of course I should rather have them. It would be well to have [?????] people [sent /act?] at once. In great haste, and with regard, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. St. George Littledale, Bracknell, Berks, England. (enclosure)19 January 14, 1904. Dear Jim: All right, I shall speak to Mr. Pruyn along the lines you suggest. With love to Fanny, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. R. Parson, Jr., Secretary, University of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y.19 January 14, 1904. My dear General: I thank you for your kind letter. I had seen the alleged interview, but I was sure there was some mistake about it. With regard. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt General Joseph Wheeler, 267 St. Clair Street, Cleveland, Ohio20 January 14, 1904. My dear Mr. Hubbell: Pray accept my best wishes, and extend my warm regards to the bride. I wish it were possible for me to be with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. C. Hubbell, 143 West 11th Street, New York.21 January 14, 1904. My dear Senator Spooner: I must just send you a word, old man, to thank you most heartily for the speech - or perhaps I should say the debate yesterday. By George, I congratulate myself and the country that you are in the Senate! Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Spooner, United States Senate.22 January 14, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Hanna: When you get back here, the first time that you come in I would like to speak to you about the statement attributed to Governor Durbin in the New York Sun as to my interview with him. I suppose it is hardly necessary for me to say, in reference to the enclosed clipping, that I never made any such statement, or said anything that could be construed into making it. I congratulate you on the astounding triumph which was consummated yesterday by your election to the United States Senate. I am glad you are coming so soon, as they are making an ugly fight in the Panama business, and I think it very desirable that you should be here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. A. Hanna, Cleveland, Ohio. (enclosure)23 January 14, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Barnes: I thank you cordially for your letter of recent date, and was interested in all you wrote. As regards Colonel Ham, I think very highly of him, and should an opportunity arise I shall be glad to see if something cannot be done for him. At present, however, I am trying to place Captain Landon, and until he is provided for I am unable to give any definite promise as to what I can do in the matter. It was delightful having Mrs. Barnes and you here at dinner. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William Barnes, Jr. , Albany, N. Y.24 January 15, 1904. My dear Sir: M. Jusserand has just sent me your letter. I have forwarded it immediately to my publishers, saying that unless other arrangements have been made, it would be a great pleasure to me to have you undertake the work. With assurances of my high esteem, and many thanks for your kind expressions, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt M. Francois Monod, Ursulines, Saint-Denis, France.25 January 15, 1904. My dear Lord Denbigh: I think that photograph admirable; and it makes me feel rather ashamed of having only six children! Give my warm regards to Lady Denbigh. It was such a pleasure to meet you both, as well as to meet your command. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt The Earl of Denbigh, Newnham Paddox, Lutterworth, England.26 January 15, 1904. Dear Murray: I do not know whether I can do anything about that business. I shall see whether it is possible for me in any way to interfere, and let you know. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President, Columbia University New York, N. Y.27 January 15, 1904. Personal. Dear Jim: Will you treat the enclosed from Butler as purely confidential, and send it back to me with any comment you care to make? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James Russell Parsons, Jr. , Secretary, Board of Regents, Albany, N. Y. Enclosure.28 January 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Doherty: I have your letter of the 14th instant, and I congratulate you on receiving the medal of the United States Life Saving Service. it is an honor or which any man should be proud. With best wishes, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Hugh F. Doherty, 152 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.29 January 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Appleby: I greatly regret that it is not possible for me to accept the kind invitation of your Club to be present at the first annual banquet. I should consider it an especial privilege to be with you on that evening and join in paying tribute to the great martyred Lincoln, whose life was so all-important to our country and whose memory we all so much revere. Permit me, through you, to send cordial greetings to the members of the Club and their guests, and to express best wishes for the success of the banquet. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. T. Frank Appleby, Pres. , Lincoln Republican Club, Asbury Park, N. Y.30 January 15, 1904. personal. My dear Mrs. Gritz: It would be a real pleasure to me if I could do as you desire, but you do not realize, and naturally cannot realize, how few positions there are such as that you desire, and how rarely the vacancies occur. I have now many men whom I am earnestly desirous of appointing. Regretting I cannot write you more favorably, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Frank A Critz, 4 Fallkill Place, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.31 January 16, 1904. My dear Mr. Lounsbury: I thank you for your letter. Well, one must be philosophical about such things. It is a pity that a little group of noisy, partially will meaning, and very foolish, people should herald themselves abroad with the effect of seeming to put a great university on the wrong side. However, it can't be helped. I wonder if you know how much I enjoyed the evening you spent with us! With warm regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. T. R. Lounsbury, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.32 January 15, 1904. My dear Dr. Shaw: There are some things i don't like to put on paper. will you come down to see me not long hence? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Review of Reviews, 11 Astor Place, New York.33 January 16, 1904. Personal To be Secretary of the Navy: Has Howard Paul Wright been selected for appointment to the Marine Corps? I hope so. T. Roosevelt34 January 15, 1904. My dear Congressman Sulzer: Today I went over all the papers in the Considine case with the Attorney General. The case is not one in which, under normal and ordinary conditions, I would be willing to act; but in view of what Judge Thompson and the warden say, and of the offer to give Considine immediate employment if he released. I have decided that I can with propriety do as the Judge recommends. That is, if the Judge will recommend that Considine be pardoned on the first of July next, in accordance with his letter to George F. Considine of December 28th last, I will grant the pardon. I have sent a copy of this letter to Judge Thompson. Will you kindly show this letter to Congressman Sullivan? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William Sulzer, House of Representatives.35 January 16, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. McGaffey: I thank you for the volume of poems. I have read the first one, in your own handwriting, the sonnet to Fame! and I am sure I shall like the others as much as I do this one. With warm regards to the "family". Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ernest McGaffey, Mayor's Office, Chicago, Illinois.36 January 16, 1904. My dear Mr. Davies: I have no recollection about the post office to which you refer. I suppose, if you say so, the name has been sent in. Is this the office where you requested me to have no name sent in until after election? That is the only one that I at the moment recall, but I shall have a report from the Postmaster General made to me at once. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Davies, Camden, N. Y.37 January 16, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Lacey: Your picture please me particularly, for if there is one thing that I do desire to stand for it is for a square deal, for an attitude of kindly justice as between man and man, without regard to what any man's creed or birthplace or social position may be, so long as, in his life and in his work, he shows the qualities that entitle him to the respect of his fellows. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Paul H. Lacey, 6317 Sangamon Street, Chicago.38 January 16, 1904. My dear Mr. Payne: I remember you perfectly, and I thank you for sending me the picture. Will you send the enclosed letter to Mr. Lacey? With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. William R. Payne, National Bond and Trust Company, 159 La Salle Street Chicago. Enclosure39 January 16, 1904. To the Secretary of State: I am anxious to aid in any way I can in promoting the appropriation by Congress of an adequate sum for the proposed Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland. If Mr. Tawney, or any other member of the House Committee, comes to the Department with any inquiries, I should like the Department to state that we will do all we can to secure foreign exhibits, notably the essentially national exhibits at the St. Louis Exposition and securing the necessary facilities about housing and caring for them. Theodore Roosevelt40 January 16, 1904. My dear Mr. Smith: The furniture for the red room of the White House which was presented by the Grand Rapids Furniture Association and manufactured by Messrs. Retting & Sweet, has been put in place and is greatly admired. I accept the same for the Government, and wish through you to cordially thank the Grand Rapids Furniture Association and Messrs. Retting & Sweet for there courtesy in the matter. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm, Alden Smith, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.41 January 16, 1904. My dear Mr. Welch: I thank you cordially for the kind invitation conveyed in your letter of the 14th instant. It would afford me much pleasure to attend such a meeting of my neighbor of Suffolk County, but I regret to say I am utterly unable to leave here while Congress is in session and so many important matters are up for consideration. Will you convey my regards to your assembled guests and my best wishes for a successful banquet, and believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. David Welch, President, Suffolk County Association, 35 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.42 January 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Short, I thank you for your telegram. Pray give my regards to the entire Albright family and above all to Mrs. Albright. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John F. Short, Editor, Republican, Clearfield, Pa.43 (copy) January 15, 1904. Monsieur le Comte: I have received the letter which you addressed to me on the 23rd ultimo relative to the bust of Washington which you, with other compatriots of France, wish to send to me as an evidence of your and their gratitude for the welcome extended by the American people and myself on the occasion of the unveiling of the Rochambeau statue at Washington in 1902. It will give me great pleasure to receive the bust and I thank you for the thoughtful courtesy which has prompted your action. I appreciate to the fullest extent the cordial expressions of your letter. It was to me indeed a pleasure to meet both the Comtesse de Rochambeau and yourself while here, and I gladly availed myself of the opportunity which the dedication of the status to your illustrious ancestor afforded to show my grateful recognition of his inestimable services. I am, Monsieur le Comte, with high regard. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Original sent to Secretary Hay for transmission to Comte de Rochambeau.)44 January 18, 1904. Personal. Dear Governor: I thank you for your letter. The only people I shall have down from New York now will be certain business men whom Root thinks it important I should see. Root's idea is that a great deal of the feeling against me in New York's business world comes from the fact that few of them really know me and can stand up for me, and that it would be a good thing to have a few of them whom I do happen to know come on here and get a sense of being in touch with me. I shall treat Black exactly as you suggest. You were extremely kind to have come here, and I appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. M. Crane, Dalton, Mass.45 January 18, 1904. Personal. My dear Governor Chatterton: I was not aware of the movement to which you refer. I shall take it up at once. I can assure you that no injustice is intended to be done, or will be permitted to be done, to the people of Wyoming. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Fenimore Chatterton, Governor of Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyoming.46 January 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Chadwick: I have your letter of the 15th instant, and the matter to which you refer is receiving careful consideration. I take pleasure in enclosing you a personal letter from the President. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Mr. Henry Chadwick, 245 Steuben Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Enclosure. Personal. My dear Mr. Chadwick: I congratulate you heartily upon your entry into your eightieth year and fiftieth year in journalism. It is given to but few men to enjoy the privilege of active participation in the affairs of life for so long a period, and you are entitled to the good wishes of all for the part you have taken in behalf of decent sport. With great regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry Chadwick, 245 Steuben Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.47 January 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Rollins: I view of the receipt of $100 by ex-Governor Russell from Miss Darby, and in spite of assuming that his explanation is correct, I feel that it would be out of the question to appoint Mrs. Russell. Will you not give me the name of some other thoroughly good man or woman for the place? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Thomas S. Rollins, Asheville, North Carolina.48 January 18, 1904. My dear President Northrop; All right! I shall try at once whether I have any influence with that branch of the administration! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Cyrus Northrop, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 49 January 18, 1904. Personal The Postmaster General: Unless there is good reason to the contrary, I desire that the 27,000 messenger and star route mail carriers have their accounts audited and paid monthly, instead of quarterly. Please report to me about this. Theodore Roosevelt50 January 18, 1904. Dear Kermit: Thursday and Friday there was a good deal of snow on the ground, and the weather was cold, so that Mother and I had two delightful rides up Rock Creek. The horses were clipped and fresh, and we were able to let them go along at a gallop, while the country was wonderfully beautiful. Today, after lunch, Mother took Ethel, Archie and Quentin, each with a friend, to see some most wonderful juggling and sleight of hand tricks by Kellar. I went along and was as much interested as any of the children, though I had to come back to my work in the office before it was half through. At one period Ethel gave up her ring for one of the tricks. It was mixed up with the rings of five other little girls, and then all six rings were apparently pounded up and put into a pistol and shot into a collection of boxes, where five of them were subsequently found, each tied around a rose. Ethel's however, had disappeared, and he made believe that it had vanished,51 but at the end of the next trick a remarkable bottle cut of which many different liquids had been poured, suddenly developed a delightful white guinea pig, squirming and kicking and looking exactly like Admiral Dewey, with around its neck Ethel's ring, tied by a pink ribbon. Then it was wrapped up in a paper and handed to Ethel and when Ethel opened it, behold there was no guinea pig but a bunch of roses with a ring. There is no use in anybody's ever telling me about anything supernatural! it could not be half so wonderful as the things I saw today. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton , Massachusetts.51 but at the end of the next trick a remarkable bottle cut of which many different liquids had been poured, suddenly developed a delightful white guinea pig, squirming and kicking and looking exactly like Admiral Dewey, with around its neck Ethel's ring, tied by a pink ribbon. Then it was wrapped up in a paper and handed to Ethel and when Ethel opened it, behold there was no guinea pig but a bunch of roses with a ring. There is no use in anybody's ever telling me about anything supernatural! It could not be half so wonderful as the things I saw today. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton , Massachusetts.52 Personal January 18, 1904. Dear Cecil: Well, I am very, very sorry, as we all of us are, that you are not coming here. All along I had a feeling that it was too good to be true. I have a strong desire during the period when I am "up", to have the people I am fond of around me; just as there are quite a number of people I should like to have visit me here in the White House: Morley, Trevelyan, and Edward North Buxton, for instance. I wish those Russian books you sent had been translated. The pictures look fascinating, and I should suppose the stories just the kind you could translate so well. Both Mrs. Roosevelt and I were delighted with your Persian book, - Mrs. Roosevelt more, perhaps, than I was with the actual Persian story itself, because I have what we will euphemistically, and in a vein of strained compliment, call a robustly Occidental type of mind. But I read what you yourself wrote for the foreword and the epilogue again and again, and I could see Persia before my eyes as I read, and the endless, shadowy perspective of its strange and mighty past stretched backward through the ages that have gone. Their thoughts are not our thoughts! Nothing could be truer; but I am not sure of the reason. It is not merely that they are an Oriental people, or a non-Aryan race. the Finns and Hungarian, although of course much mixed with our own blood, are perhaps less akin to us by race, and53 2 certainly far less by speech, than the Persians; yet they do not differ from us a bit more than the Slavonians and Croats do. There have been moments during the past two years when I have felt that the non-Christian and non-Aryan, far-eastern Japanese were in some essentials closer to us than their chief opponents; and I am certain that there is an immense amount we could learn from the Japanese with extreme advantage to us as a nation. Certainly they are less alien to us than, for instance, the Balkan Slavs who have become Mohammedans. Their [??] is utterly different from that of the Persians. I never know whether to be most astonished at the complete divergence between portions of the same race which have adopted antagonistic creeds and cults, or at the complete change which creed and cult suffer when adopted by a different race. Here I have been having most interesting times. I have succeeded in accomplishing a certain amount which I think will stand. I believe I shall put through the Panama treaty (my worst foes being those in the Senate and not those outside of the borders of the United States) and begin to dig the canal. It is always difficult for me to reason with those solemn creatures of imperfect aspirations after righteousness, who never take the trouble to go below names. These people scream about the injustice done Colombia then Panama was released from its domination, which is precisely like bemoaning the wrong done to Turkey when Herzegovina was handed over to Austria. It was a good thing for Egypt and the Soudan, and for the world, when England took Egypt and the Soudan. It is a good thing for India that England should control54 3 it. and so it is a good thing, a very good thing, for Cuba and for Panama and for the world that the United States has acted as it has actually done during the last six years. The people of the Unites States and the people of the Isthmus and the rest of mankind will all be the better because we dig the Panama Canal and keep order in its neighborhood. And the politicians and revolutionists at Bogota are entitled to precisely the amount of sympathy we extend to other inefficient bandits. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Cecil Spring Rice, Care Foreign Office, London, England.55 January 18, 1904. Dear Ted: I don't believe I shall be able to write you two boys often, for really nothing goes on except public business, and that goes on all the time. As we have the social season pretty well at its height, and as the days are so short, I find it very difficult to get out and get any exercise, and generally work from soon after nine in the morning until close on seven in the evening - Mr. Loeb longer. The Panama and the Wood fight are dragging on their weary length, but I think I shall win out on both. Of course, for the next ten months I have lively times ahead of me, and no human being can foretell whether I shall be beaten out of the nomination, and whether, if nominated, I shall be defeated or win: but whatever comes, I shall feel that I have really accomplished a great deal, and some of the things I have done will last long a while. I have had two or three rides in the snow since you left, and a couple of walks, not particularly exciting, because of the59 snow and ice it was not possible to scramble over the cliffs; and I have played broadsword with Roly Fortescus. I am a little better than he is but he is picking up. One time he gave me an awful rap on the back of my right hand, and it was kept sore by the number of people with whom I had to shake hands. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. , Groton School, Groton Massachusetts.57 January 17, 1904. Personal. My dear Bishop: I understand that General Hubbard is anxious that his firm shall be established as a financial agency at Panama. Would there be any object in my communicating with him through you? Would it serve a useful purpose? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, Editor Commercial Advertiser, New York.58 January 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Heaton: I was much amused with your letter and appreciate it. I have sent it to John Hay. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Edward Heaton, New Haven, Conn.59 January 18, 1904. My dear Miss Caldwell: Those pheasants and woodcock were delicious. I do not know when I have tasted anything better. With hearty regards. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Marguerite Caldwell, Care the Duchess of Sutherland, Dunrobin, Castle Sutherland, Scotland60 January 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Gresham: Your letter interested me much. Pray thank Col. Blodgett for me. Certain railroad interests are of course trying to prevent the canal being built. I do not think they will succeed. With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Otto Gresham, 701 Tacoma Building, Chicago, Ill. 61 January 18, 1904. Personal The Attorney General: Messrs. Blackburn and Mott, both of North Carolina, desire appointment under you. Is it, or is it not, feasible to do as they wish? consult me about it. Theodore Roosevelt62 January 18, 1904. Personal. My dear General Sickles: As soon as I received your former letter I went to certain Senators of the Post Office Committee to find out if they would object to Gen. Randolph. These men are good friends of ex-Senator Wolcott, and I wished to avoid trouble with them at present if possible. I found they would strongly object to Randolph and I am afraid it will be impossible to do anything with them. I am very sorry because I wished to appoint him both on account of his record and your backing him. Sincerely your, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. D. E. Sickles. 23 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.63 Personal January 17, 1904. My dear Mr. Morley: Come by all means in October, if that is your only time. But if you could put off your visit to December it would be better for several reasons. In the first place, during October we shall be closing the presidential canvass, and if I am nominated for President there will be a good deal of work on hand. In the next place, Congress does not meet until December, and I should particularly like you to meet representative men of the Senate and the House. I don't mean merely men who would be congenial to you, but the men who are leaders, who represent different bodies of opinion in the country, without regard to whether you would be apt to like them or not; for I should desire you to see the real forces at play in our political life. But if October is your only time, come then by all means, and I shall try to show you as much as possible. Mrs. Roosevelt and I will both enjoy having you at the White House. As I said in my previous letter, it is a temptation to me to write you at inordinate length about your Life of Gladstone. Incidentally, you started me to re-reading Lucretius and Finlay. Lucretius was an astounding man for pagan Rome to have produced just before the Empire. I should not myself have thought of comparing him with Virgil one way or the other. It would be too much like comparing say Herbert Spencer with64 2 Milton. Excepting that part dealing with death, in the end of the third book (If I remember aright), I am less struck with the work because of its own quality (as a finished product, so to speak) than I am with the fact that it was opening up a totally new trail - a trail which for very many centuries, indeed down to modern times, was not followed much farther. He had as truly a scientific mind as Darwin or Huxley, and the boldness of his truth-telling was astonishing. As for Finlay, I have always been fond of him. But I would not like to be understood as depreciating Gibbon. Personally I feel that with all their faults Gibbon and Macaulay are the two great English historians, and there could be no better testimonial to their greatness than the fact that scores of authors have each made a comfortable life reputation by refuting some single statement of one or the other. Of course, in reading the Gladstone I was especially interested because of the ceaseless unconscious comparisons I was making with events in our own history, and with difficulties I myself every day encounter[ed]. A man who has grappled, or is grappling, with Cuba, Panama and the Philippines, has a lively appreciation of the difficulties inevitably attendant upon getting into Egypt in the first place, and then upon the impossibility of getting out of it, in the second. Perhaps I was interested most of all in your account of the closing years of Gladstone's career, in which "Home rule" was the most important question he had to face. I suppose I am one of a large multitude to whom65 3 your book for the first time gave a clear idea of what Gladstone's actual position was in the matter, and of the gross injustice of the assaults upon him. You make it clear, for instance, that from the standpoint of Gladstone's assailants even, there was far more to be said against [uniting?] and families of the leaders who opposed him and the leaders who deserted him than against him. To my mind you prove your case completely, - and I have always been inclined to criticize Gladstone on this point, although I have personally been a home-ruler ever since reading Lecky's account of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. On no position do I feel more cordial sympathy with Gladstone's attitude than as regards Turkey and the subjugated peoples of the Balkan Peninsula. Looking forward to seeing you here next year, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt John Morley, Esq., Flowermead, Wimbledon Park, London, S. W. England66 January 19, 1904. Personal My dear Mr. Lewis: I anticipate real pleasure in reading "The Boss," and I thank you for sending me a copy with your autograph. I was so glad to catch a glimpse of you the other night. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. A. H. Lewis, 457 West 148th Street, New York.67 January 19, 1904. My dear White: I shall consult Gifford Pinchot about the forest reserve matter at once, and put your letter before him. You shall have the letters you desire when you come on the spring to spend a couple of days the White House. I look forward to seeing you then. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Stewart Edward White, Santa Barbara, California.68 January 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Yerkes: Will you thank Mr. Stephen for those mallards? It was extremely kind of him to think of me. I shall enjoy eating them, and I should have enjoyed even more shooting them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department.69 January 19, 1904. Dear Jake: Unfortunately, before I received your note about that Minnesota post office the appointment had been made in regular routine course. I had no idea the man was an old soldier, and indeed I knew nothing about it save that in regular routine fashion, when a vacancy arose, the nomination was made out and sent in. I am sorry I did not know about it sooner. I return the letter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jacob A. Riis, 524 Beech Street, North, Richmond Hill, N. Y.70 January 19, 1904. My dear General King: Three cheers for you, and especially for the mother of the youngest grandchild! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. Horatio C. King, 375 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.71 January 19, 1904. Personal. My dear Morton: That is first class. I was immensely amused and pleased with Heath's interview. I had a pleasant time with Lorimer the other day. I most sincerely hope you will be sent as a delegate. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Paul Morton, 77 Jackson Street, Chicago.72 January 19, 1904. My dear Senator: I regret to say I have already designated those appointments to the Naval Academy. I am very sorry I did not receive your letter and the papers before. Is the boy too old for next year? I gave him a chance last year. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. L. E. McComas, United States Senate.73 January 19, 1904. My dear Dr. Greer: I have your note of the 18th. I wish I could be present at the consecration, but regret that is is an impossibility for me to leave Washington while Congress in session. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, 342 Madison Avenue, New York. 74 January 19, 1904. Dear Dundas: I am sorry to say that on that position, which is a sinecure, is to be abolished, [so] no one can [is to] be appointed. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. Dundas Lippincott, Walnut & Broad Streets, Philadelphia.75 January 19, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Brownlow: I thank you heartily, and thoroughly appreciate what you have done and are doing. With warm regards, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. P. Brownlow, House of Representatives.76 January 19, 1904. Personal. My dear Bishop: I enjoyed both editorials, and especially the classic comparison as to Health. What a delightful creature he is! I can not tell you at length all the intrigues that have been going on. There has been a great deal of work done by the big moneyed men on Hanna's part, and Hanna's attitude has bee that of acquiescence. He has not ventured to come out openly. I do not believe he will be able to cause me much trouble. What I mind most is that his attitude is making it very hard for me not to take sides in Ohio. When the Foraker people champion me and the Hanna people oppose me, it is difficult to avoid standing by my friends. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York, 77 January 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Hardin: I sincerely thank you for your letter. I have always thought very highly of General Franklin Bell, but now I think more highly than ever for him. He is indeed as honorable and high-minded a gentleman as he is gallant and skillful as a soldier. I have taken the liberty of retaining a copy of General Bell's letter to you and have sent it with yours to Secretary Root. Later I shall show them to Governor Taft; and if the opportunity does not come to promote General Bell while I am President, I shall show these letters to my successor. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. J. W. Hardin, Finchville, Kentucky. Enclosure.78 Personal. January 20, 1904. My dear Senator Spooner: Have you seen Bunau-Varilla's letter? If so, you will notice that we have the authority of the man who as Panama's agent signed the treaty, for interpreting it exactly in the sense of the amendment adopted by the Committee. My dear Senator, I appreciate to the full all the reasons that have actuated you, and I believe that if the treaty were to be made over again, it would be better to have these changes inserted; but I cannot speak with too great emphasis as to my belief in the unwisdom of putting in any amendments now. The reason I asked Secretary Hay to see you and go over the entire treaty line by line with you before we signed it, was to avoid the necessity of amendment in the Senate. That you and he in going over it as you did should now and then leave in some expression which it might be well to have changed was inevitable. I have not a question that if we now let two weeks pass and then went carefully over the treaty again, some new improvement would suggest itself to us; but I feel that these improvements are in no sense vital and that it is eminently not worth while to make them and incur thereby the slightest risk to the treaty. This treaty in its present shape gives practically everything to the United States which we can possibly desire - for the amendments in reality merely clear up small doubtful points of79 - 2- construction. Now, if the treaty gets back to them, those Panama people will feel that we have definitely committed ourselves to Panama as against Nicaragua, and to the Republic of Panama as against Colombia. They will feel that we have made amendments and that they are perfectly at liberty to make amendments themselves in their own interest. Of course, it is possible that we can persuade them - as I shall endeavor to do if the need arises - to adopt the treaty with only our amendments; but if factions have sprung up among them, these factions will contend for the advantage of position among their people, and the temptation to introduce amendments in Panama's interest will be great. If they do adopt such amendments, then the treaty will have to be returned to the United States, and the whole matter threshed out again in the Senate to our infinite disadvantage as a party and from the administration's standpoint. Then if we decline to agree to the Panama amendments we shall have to get the Panama legislature to withdraw them, and months of irritating delay may follow. People talk of my "forcing" the Panamans to accept whatever we desire. Why, my dear Senator, I never should have one-half as strong a case for forcing the Panama people to do as I desire, as I had for my action in recognizing Panama as against Colombia; and yet you know the great uneasiness caused among my friends by my action in that instance, and especially by their fears lest I might have acted too80 -3- quickly; although the action itself was conditioned upon my acting thus quickly. Understand me, I suppose that with great exertion and worry we can probably get the Panama people to accept the amendments and to let the treaty go through; but there is a good chance that we would not be able to and that the successful result of our work would be, if not imperiled, at least delayed for many months, and meanwhile all of us who were responsible for the policy here put in an absurd position. I feel as strongly as I can that when such is the case it is in the highest degree unwise to adopt any amendment that is not vitally necessary , and I feel no less strongly that the proposed amendments are not necessary at all, and that in view of Bunau-Varilla's letter and of the fact that the United States Government will have the clear right to construe the doubtful claims as this letter says they should be construed, it would be a matter of very small consequence indeed to have the amendments adopted at all. When such is the case I do not think that as responsible leaders of a great party, and above all as representatives of the whole country, we have any right to jeopardize a great policy even to a slight degree, for the purpose of obtaining in a given way certain objects81 -4- which can with absolute certainty be gotten by methods already adopted. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Spooner, United States Senaate. P. S. If it is believed that to have these amendments adopted by the permanent government of Panama would add respectability to the treaty, why the end can be achieved just as well by getting a declaration from this permanent government adopting and making their own this treaty; and there would not be one-hundredth part of the difficulty in getting such a declaration that there would be in getting ones amendments adopted without further amendments of theirs being added.82 January 20, 1904. Personal. ([??]) (General Hubbard) My dear Mr. Bishop: May I ask you to see General Hubbard and find out from him exactly what it is he desires in connection with a financial institution or agency at Panama? Of course, if I can properly do what is desired, I shall be glad. Will you kindly see the General and write me in full about it? Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, Commercial Advertiser, New York, N. Y.83 January 20, 1904. My dear Mr. Clews: I sincerely thank you for your kind letter, and appreciate it. I had a very enjoyable talk with Herbert Parsons yesterday. What a fine fellow he is! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Henry Clews, Esq. , 11 Broad Street, New York, N. Y.84 January 20, 1904. My dear Father Gleeson: I accept the photograph with the greatest pleasure, and I shall paste your letter on the back so as to identify it always. With hearty good wishes for the success of the Missouri and of all aboard her, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Chaplain Matthew C. Gleeson, U. S. S. Missouri, Newport News, Va.85 January 20, 1904. My dear Senator: Shoemaker is a first class fellow, and if I can give him what you desire I shall. There are, however, three or four names ahead of him on the list whom I should have to consider. Nevertheless, if I can appoint Shoemaker I certainly shall. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, United States Senate86 (Copy in the President's book. Original to be sent in longhand.) January 20, 1904. My dear Cardinal Gibbons: I was greatly interested in the address of the Cardinal Archbishop of Capua which you sent me, and am pleased that he should have found something to quote from me. Moreover, my dear Cardinal, I was equally pleased with your personal note. As soon as Governor Taft comes home I must see you to talk over two or three matters of some importance. With renewed regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Maryland.87 January 21, 1904. My dear President Thwing: I wish I could dine with Washington Alumni Association, but it is out of the question. may I, through you, extend my hearty good wishes to them? I should like to have the pleasure of seeing you while you are in Washington. I should like to have you at the White House. When are you to be here? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Charles F. Thwing, Western Reserve University, Cleverland, Ohio.88 January 21, 1904. My dear Judge: I thank you heartily. Will you thank Mr. Allison for me? I appreciate his friendship. I shall see Mr. Brownlow soon ans then I shall consult you as to what further steps I should take. Of course I shall not breathe Mr. Allison's name to anybody. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J., C. Pritchard, supreme Court, District of Columbia, Washington, D. C.89 Personal January 21, 1904. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I thank you very much for your letter. I shall take up the matter of the circular at once. I have not even gone so far as you thought, for I have not felt that all office holders should be debarred from going to the convention. I have simply made the request that as few as possible shall go. For instance, in Georgia at my specific desire one postmaster will go, as he is the man whom I should like to have second my nomination from my mother's State. He is Harry Stillwell Edwards, the author. All I desire is that office holders shall not neglect their offices, and shall not cause scandal. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Powell Clayton, United States Ambassador. Mexico City, Mexico.90 January 21, 1904. Dear Mr. Lummis: I guess I shall have to wait until I see you and then tell you at length my point of view. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles F. Lummis, Editor Out West, Los Angeles, California.91 Personal, Not for publication January 21, 1904. My dear Sir: I am greatly interested in your letter. You have evidently a most admirable institution. It is not my province to say what Congress should do in such a matter as this, but I shall most carefully look into it with the earnest hope that shall find myself able to help you as you desire. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. F. E. Cleaveland, Secretary, Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, 1808 H Street, N.W., Washington.92 January 21, 1904. My dear Senator Platt: Those appointments have been made out. My impression is that Ames was put in as an alternate. I am sorry to say they were decided upon several days ago, the nominations have been made and there is nothing more I can do. Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, United States Senate.93 January 21, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Tiffany: I wish to thank you personally, and through you , all of those who at the annual dinner of the Steinway employee drank my health. I appreciate it. With hearty regards. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J.. Burr Tiffany, Care Steinway & Sons, New York , N. Y.94 January 21, 1904. Dear Mr. Brewer: I thank you for your letter of the 15th instant, and send cordial good wishes for the most enjoyable banquet. I am of course deeply interested in the success of every proper effort to combat the forces of evil, of which there are so many in our complex civilization. And I ask you all remember that progress upward and forward in this work needs men and women who will resolutely face the conflict, needs men and women of [?] virtue and of strength, and above all needs men and women with the sense of duty ever live in their hearts. I wish I could be with you. With renewed good wishes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. A. P. Brewer, Paster Idie Members' Guild, Epworth Memorial Sunday School, Cleveland, Ohio.95 January 21, 1904. Personal. My dear Judge: I am very much obliged to you. I think you are right about not going as a delegate. As District Attorney I fear it would be unwise for you to do so, and I would like as a few office holders as possible to be sent. Can you not come up to see me some time next week? If you should come up here with any members of your family on Friday, then I could get you all to attend the musical in the evening and could arrange personally for an interview with you. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. L. L. Lewis, United States Attorney, Norfolk, Virginia.96 January 22, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Lewis: I thank you for that letter. Meanwhile I have been reading "The Boss." I am greatly struck by it, and wish you would come on here and give me a chance to talk it over. Before you come on I wish you would look at a book, written I think by Elliott Flower, call "The Spoilsman." The part I want you to look at is the really very good way in which it recites the downfall of the nice, respectable grocer, who is elected as a reformer to the Board of Aldermen from an East Side district, and who finds that hid people look at reform in the abstract and reform in the concrete from two wholly different standpoints. It is written by a man who does not know the East side from within the political machine in any way as you do, but it recites incidents which I can parallel out of my own experience, and which I shall tell you. With regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Alfred Henry Lewis, 457 West 148th Street, New York.97 January 22, 1904. My dear Mr. Bishop: I thank you for your letter giving General Hubbard's views and wishes as to having his International Bank appointed as the fiscal agent of the Government at Panama in the event of the canal treaty going through. Will you tell General Hubbard that I shall take the matter up at once with Secretary Shaw; that I believe what he desires can be done, and that I shall notify him through you as soon as we can come to a decision? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 98 January 22, 1904. My dear Captain Fournier: You are exceedingly good to send me the three volumes. I had no idea how elaborate your work had been. I anticipate with great pleasure reading what you have written. With renewed thanks, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Fournier, Military attache, French Embassy, 1640 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C 99 January 22, 1904. My dear Colonel Treadwell: I have just got your telegram as to your father's death. His career had been long and honorable, and I extend you our sincere sympathy. With great regret. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt col. George Curtis Treadwell, Albany, N. Y.100 Private and personal. January 22, 1904. My dear Harvey: Thank you for your note. It will always be a pleasure to me to see you and Mr. Pulitzer, either together or separately. While I am writing you I shall, against the advice of Secretary Root, take up some paragraphs in your last number concerning the army. I told Root I should write you, but he took rather a pessimistic view of what you had said, feeling that the people of the Weekly really could not believe what was there said, and that therefore there was no use in trying to enlighten them. However, I shall take the off chance! In the first place I enclose you a copy of my letter to Secretary Root. On his advice, which I became convinced was sound, I did not bring it before the Senate Military Committee because it seems highly undesirable to get into a public row on a question of veracity with anyone. Of course, General Wilson simply traded on this fact. He was repeating from memory a private conversation held when he was my guest at my house three years before. [??] if what he had said was accurate this would [???] have been the act of a cad, for remember that his testimony against Wood on this point amounted only to the repetition of injurious hearsay gossip. As a matter of fact, there was not one word of truth in what he said. he had help no such conversation with me either about Guasimas or San Juan, and101 -2- the incidents he describes as taking place at the two points, never took place and nothing resembling them ever took place. What I think had roused Root's ire, however, was what was said in the paragraphs subsequent to the one I have mentioned. In the first place, you speak of Wood's conduct at San Juan as having been the cause given for his extraordinary promotion. Of course, his conduct at San Juan was simply one of the causes which led to his promotion to be a brigadier general of volunteers in the fall of 1898. He behaved well in the battle, as did certain other brigade commanders, and showed that he was a fighting man who could handle a brigade well in a stiff affair. But it was the extraordinary record he made as Governor of the Province of Santiago that won him from Root and McKinley the Governor Generalship of the Island of Cuba, and it was his conduct as Governor General of Cuba which, in the opinion of Root and McKinley, entitled him to be made brigadier general in the regular army. I most cordially approve of what they did in these instances; but remember that it was they who did it and not I. You seem to think I have jumped Wood out of his place and over somebody. On the contrary, I have promoted him in regular order of seniority. There are other men I have singled out to jump over the heads of their seniors, but I have [????] strictly in order of seniority. I also believe that it is true that no man below him is in any way as well fitted for the position of102 - 3 - January 22, 1904. major general as Wood is himself, save only Franklin Bell. Franklin Bell is four numbers below Wood, was made brigadier general at about the same time, and was at the time jumped much further than Wood was, as he then only hold the rank of first lieutenant whereas Wood hold the rank of Captain. So much for Wood. Now for Young and Miles. When Root and I decided that we could not conscientiously issue an order of commendation for Miles on his retirement, we did it with our eyes open. We knew that there were plenty of designing people who would mislead ignorant people into the belief that we were doing wrong to a gallant veteran, and we deliberately faced this because we felt that we has no moral right to condone and justify conduct in the Lieutenant General of the Army, which, if it became at all common among his subordinates, would literally lower our whole army to the level of some South American State where each man is playing for his own hand with utter indifference to the welfare of either the army or the country. Of course, I cannot say this publicly. I can no more enter into a personal controversy with Miles than I could with Wilson; but if you will turn back to the record of Wilkinson, who was head of the United States army at the beginning of the 19th Century, you will find the only man who, as head of that army, has ever behaved as badly as Miles did, and with the sole exception of103 -4- venality Miles' conduct has been as bad as that of Wilkinson. He has been disloyal to his chief, Secretary Root, and incidentally, of course, to myself and my publication; he has been disloyal to the army, and therefore Loyal to the country. Throughout the time he served under me as Lieutenant General he did nothing but intrigue for his own political advancement, and he sought to gain this advancement by the foulest slandering, and by aiding and abetting the slandering, of the army of which he was the head. When I was governor of New York he asked me to enter into an arrangement with him by which I should run as Vice President on a ticket with him as President, and he then explained to me that he based his hope of our overthrowing McKinley upon the prospect of disasters to the army in the Philippines. In other words, he, the Lieutenant General of the Army, was hoping and praying that the army under him would be beaten and disgraced, so that it might help him to political advancement at the expense of the chief whose chief military adviser he was suppose to be. Such conduct strikes me as pretty base. By the way, the writer of the paragraph in question must have forgotten that Miles owed his great advancement at the end of the Civil War, by which he was put over the heads of so many men whom I regard as his superiors, purely to the social ans political influence of the Sherman family in which he had married. Root and I considered whether we could issue an order on his behalf citing how well he104 -5- had done in the Civil War and that he had done fairly well in the Indian wars - although there was grave discredit attaching to his conduct in connection with the Wounded Knee matter on the occasion when he exercised his largest independent command - and simply omitting all reference to what he had done as Lieutenant General. We came to the conclusion that we could not do this . His service aside from that as Lieutenant General had not been superior to that of scores of other veterans of the Civil War, and as Lieutenant General he had been merely an element of great mischief in the army and the most serious obstacle that Root has encountered in his efforts to put the army on a proper plane. When you come on I shall be delighted to go more into details on all these points about which you have any curiosity about. Of course, as I say, I cannot go into these matter publicly while I am President. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. George Harvey, Harper's Weekly, New York, N. Y.105 Personal. January 23, 1904. To the Postmaster General: I should like yo to bring before me all the papers and other information in reference to the appointments at Lima and Napoleon, Ohio, concerning which I enclose two petitions. Apparently the present incumbents are holding over, and have been holding over for a year or two. At Lima, as you will see, the Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and in all seven of its eight members of the Executive Committee petition for the appointment of W. A. Campbell and urge that he be appointed immediately. At Napoleon the Chairman, Secretary, and the Treasurer, and including them, all five members of the Executive Committee petition for the appointment of Elmer A. Palmer. It thus appears in each case the local Republicans are practically unanimous in requesting that these men be appointed. The appointments, in my judgment, have been held up long enough, and unless excellent reason can be shown me to the contrary I desire to make them now. It is neither wise nor106 proper that there should be longer delay, for we have given the most ample time for the reconcilement of differences, and I do not think we are justified in longer refusing to carry out the wishes of the local people. So kindly put before me all the papers in the case at your earliest convenience. Theodore Roosevelt Enclosures The enclosures are a letter from Senator Foraker enclosing petitions as above set forth urging the early appointment of W. A. Campbell and Elmer A. Palmer as Postmaster at Lima and Napoleon, Ohio, respectively; the Senator requests that the nominations be made immediately. 107 Personal. January 23, 1904. My dear General: I have just seen Mr. Charles H. Murray, the Chairman of the New York County Committee. He is exceedingly desirous that you should be a member of the Advisory Committee to which Elihu Root, Cornelius N. Bliss, Morris K. Jesup, Jacob H. Schiff, and two or three other men of the same stamp belong. He says we need strengthening among the old soldiers, and that no man's name would be strengthen it so much as yours. I agree with him absolutely. Your work need not be heavy, but you will be of real aid if you will consent to serve on the Committee. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York.108 January 23, 1904. My dear Mrs. Thorndike: You are very good to have written me. Let me know in advance before coming here; [and] then I shall go over with you all the matters you mention. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Rachel Sherman Thorndike, 244 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass.109 January 23, 1904. Dear Mr. Marks: I thank you for your letter and through you the members of your Association for their kind invitation, which I appreciate, but which I very much regret it will be impossible for me to accept. I send you and your associates hearty good wishes for the most enjoyable banquet. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Marcus M. Marks, President, National Ass'n of Clothiers, 13 Astor Place, New York, N. Y.110 January 23, 1904. Dear Ted: I thought that letter of Gordon Russell's most interesting . I don't know when I have seen anything that expressed better just exactly what I feel about the democratic party, past, and present. When you write to him, tell him how much I liked it. I am glad you are thinking slowly over the Army and Navy business. When you come back Easter we can talk the whole matter over together. I appreciate all you say about your fondness for the frontier, and your feeling that your aptitude for mathematics would help you in the Army. For several days here it was bitterly cold, and there was enough snow to make the riding delightful. I wore the fur jacket that uncle Will gave me from his prize money, and had some great gallops through the woods and along the roads and over the fields. The last two days it has thawed and rained, but this afternoon Mother and I will try for a ride111 together. In addition to my endless political work, the social season is in full swing, and I shall be more glad than I can say when it is finished. Uncle Rob has turned up here with several of his family. And I thoroughly enjoy seeing the genial old pirate. This brief expression of affection for your grand uncle is for your eyes alone. Your loving father. Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. , Groton School, Groton Massachusetts.112 Personal. January 21, 1904. Dear Elihu: I return that letter. I am very much pleased with it. What a fine fellow the General is! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War. Enclosure113 January 23, 1904. My dear Mr. Emmerson: That is very interesting. I suppose Mr. Roosevelt must be a distant kinsman of mine, although I have not before heard of him. I am glad to learn that he was a good citizen and a good soldier. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Emmerson, Albion, Illinois.114 January 23, 1904. Dear Kermit: I enclose you three such cunning letters, which the Garfield boys wrote me when I sent them my photograph. They live so far away that Archie and Quentin do not seem to see much of them, as they have developed other playmates. Ethel is as good as gold with both the little boys. I have been so busy that I have hardly had time for even the shortest rump with them, though now and then I am able to do what Quentin calls "play tickly" on the bed [??????] Loretta, the parrot, has fairly become one of the household. I had no idea that parrots could become so sociable and intelligent. The other day Archie was in bed with a headache. I found Mame sitting beside the bed and Loretta in her cage between them on the bed. She was having the most lovely time, with the feathers on her head and neck ruffled up, chuckling and talking away in low tomes, and alternately shaking hands with115 first one and then the other of her companions. She was evidently as pleased as she could be, and upon my word, of the three I felt as if at the moment she was intellectually taking the lead herself. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. Enclosures116 January 25, 1904. W. G. Bentley, Pres., Western Society Army of the Potomac, Room 1153, Monadnock Building, Chicago, Ill. I warmly appreciate the compliment of the invitation to attend the banquet of your Society this evening, and regret that pressure of public business will prevent an acceptance. To those assembled at the banquet I send hearty greeting. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.117 January 25, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator: Certainly, use the copy of that cablegram in any way you care to. With hearty thanks. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John C. Spooner, United States Senate. P.S. I have just received your first letter. if you will treat this note as purely confidential, old man, I should say that I made the earnest appeal to you because it struck me you were about the biggest man around? Come in and we will discuss all these questions.118 January 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Cortelyou: If I have the power I should like to direct that the Chinese merchant of whom I talked with you be admitted. It seems to me that this is merely a case of belief or disbelief in certain testimony. Now , I know Quan Yick Nam and know he is entirely honest and intelligent. This man is a kind of partner of his. He is a Chinese merchant who has lived in this country, has temporarily been in China, and is now coming back. The policy of the law is to favor merchants and students. The severe restrictions around the law are for the purpose of preventing imposition by which Chinese laborers will come here under pretense of being students or merchants. As a matter of fact, in this case we know that the man is genuinely a merchant, that he has left here in good faith, gone back on good faith to China, and is returning in good faith to the Untied States. Not only should he be let in, but it seems to me the case should be treated as a precedent.110 I have been for a long time uneasy about the way in which Chinese merchants and Chinese students have all kinds of obstacles thrown in their way when they come to this country. I think it is a serious damage tho our people when this is a case. We wish to enlarge our trade with China. We wish to make over firmer our intellectual hols upon China. It is for our interest that Chinese merchants should come here and that Chinese students should come here. It is very much against our interests that Chinese laborers should come here and compete with our own workmen. Everything should be done to prevent the latter coming in by any fraud or evasion, but we should at the same time do everything to prevent harshness being done to the merchants and students. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. B. Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 120 January 25, 1904. Dear John: I am delighted to received a letter from you written in a vein that shows you are recovering. I should be sorry if Clay backslides. The democratic opposition to the treaty, which is essentially in the interest of the democratic states, is a rather uncomfortable manifestation of what we now have a right to expect in partisanship in regard to treaties. Still, I do ot think they will beat us. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt I enclose [?] award, to my letter. Return it when you have read it. Hon. John Hay, Greenwood, Thomasville, Ga.121 January 25, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Noyes: I thank you heartily for your very kind letter of the 23rd instant. Believe me, I appreciate your friendly interest in me. With regard, Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Walter S. Noyes, Littleton, N. H.122 January 25, 1904. My dear Judge Morrow: You are more than kind. You have given me just the information I desire. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. W. Morrow, U.S. Circuit court of Appeals, San Francisco, California. 123 January 25, 1904. My dear Mr. McKim: It was awfully good of you to send me those turkeys. They were delicious. Let me say again that there was no gift I have recently received that pleased me more than the movable book holder - or whatever you call it. - which I now have by my desk. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles F. McKim 160 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.124 January 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Heatwole: You are very kind, and I greatly appreciate your letter and what you tell me. Of course, my dear sir, I should pay no heed whatever to any assertion about you such as that you refer to. With hearty regard, Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Joel P. Heatwole, Northfield, Minnesota.125 January 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Lounsbury: Three cheers for you! Really, I am greatly pleased at what you have done. I entirely agree with you that normally it is not wise to sign petitions, but when the offense has been committed, it is an act of general public service to minimize its effects as much as possible. I shall be properly surprised when the petition comes! Now, is there any chance of your coming down to Washington again? If so, cannot you spend a night at the White House? I should like to get Lodge and one or two of the elect to meet you. Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt Dr. T. R. Lounsbury, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.126 January 25, 1904. Dear Charlie: I do not know that Irish intends to resign. If he does, I shall carefully consider Cutter's name. With love to Hattie, in great haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Mifflin Hammond, 264 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.127 January 25, 1904. Personal My dear Governor Pardee: Since I have been President no case has come before me where I felt a more utter disgust for the man than this of Lieutenant Robichon. Usually I regret having to dismiss a man even when it is necessary. In this case I feel that the offender is so contemptible a creature that it is gratifying to be able to perform the public service of turning him out of the army. His conduct was infamous in itself; but he capped this infamy by himself making public the name of the poor woman, herself the daughter of one officer and the wife of another, who shared with him his guilt. The testimony is so disgusting that it ought not to be sent through the mail. I send you what Secretary Root has said about it. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George C. Pardee, Governor of California, Sacramento, California. Enclosure.128 January 25, 1904. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 19th instant enclosing resolutions adopted by your Club. Permit me, through you, to extend to the members of your Club my cordial thanks for their more than kind words. They give me great encouragement, and I shall strive to deserve them. With assurance of my hearty appreciation of your action, and best wishes for your organization, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Steward Gamble, President, The Garfield Republican Club, 30 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.128 January 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Lowdon: I am in receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant, and am delighted with what you tell me. With hearty regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. G. Lowdon, Abilene, Texas.130 January 26, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Secretary: In view of the repeated resolutions introduced in the Senate calling for information about the action of the administration in connection with the recent revolution on the Isthmus of Panama. I desire you to lay before me copies of every dispatch or other document sent from or received in your Department since May 1st, last, which has any bearing whatever on the events that have happened on the Isthmus. Be careful to send me every dispatch or document of any kind, sort or description, whether sent from the Department or sent to it, and whether in your judgment it should be kept secret or not, as I wish to have all the information before me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy.131 January 26, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Secretary: In view of the repeated resolutions introduced in the Senate calling for information about the action of the administration in connection with the recent revolution on the Isthmus of Panama. I desire you to lay before me copies of every dispatch or other document sent from or received in your Department since May 1st, last, which has any bearing whatever on the events that have happened on the Isthmus. Be careful to send me every dispatch or document of any kind, sort or description, whether sent from the Department or sent to it, and whether in your judgment it should be kept secret or not, as I wish to have all the information before me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root Secretary of War.132 January 26, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Secretary: In view of the repeated resolutions introduced in the Senate calling for information about the action of the administration in connection with the recent revolution on the Isthmus of Panama. I desire you to lay before me copies of every dispatch or other document sent from or received in your Department since May 1st, last, which has any bearing whatever on the events that have happened on the Isthmus. Be careful to send me every dispatch or document of any kind, sort or description, whether sent from the Department or sent to it, and whether in your judgment it should be kept secret or not, as I wish to have all the information before me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. B. Loomis, Acting Secretary of State. 138 January 26, 1904. My dear Mr. Wiley: Through you let me extend my good wishes to the society of the Genesee. I wish it were in my power to be with you. With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Louis Wiley, Society of the Genesee, New York, N. Y.134 January 26, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Lewis: I have your letter, and look forward to seeing you next month. The book I mentioned to you is of value only on the point which I indicated. "The Boss" I like, but I think it very much too cynical and pessimistic - unwarrantably so; which I shall explain to you when we meet! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Alfred Henry Lewis, 487 West 148th Street, New York.135 January 25, 1904. My dear Governor; I am in receipt of your two letters of the 19th instant. I intend you for that judgeship and no one else. I hope I can make them wait until you get through your governorship. In any event I intend you to be the judge. I thank you for the copy of your message. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Hunt, Governor of Porto Rico, San Juan, Porto Rico.136 January 26, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Cullom: The enclosed memorandum from Mr. Loomis explains itself. The Culberson resolution taken literally as it now stands would mean to turn over the entire correspondence of the State Department about Panama for the last sixty years which is abound. We have nothing to conceal, no documents which it is against the public interest to make public. Everything of importance has already been given to the public. I would suggest that the resolution be amended so that it go back not further say than May first, last. Outside of that, of course, the usual proviso that we shall not send anything incompatible with the public interest (although in this case there is nothing that I know of which we cannot send) will make it all right. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. S. M. Cullom, United States Senate.137 January 26, 1904. My dear Sir: Will you permit me, through you, to convey to the citizens of Santa Cruz my best wishes for the success of the dedication exercises of their new library? Nothing, it seems to me, can do more good in a community than a free library which offers to each man and to each woman the opportunity to help himself or herself to the wisdom that he or she has the ability or the desire to acquire. Such a library is of incalculable worth and deserves the support and encouragement of everyone who is interested in the welfare of his or her fellow citizens, for to such welfare education in its largest sense is of first importance. I am very glad to send my good wishes for the new library. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert H. Worthington, Santa Cruz, California.138 January 27, 1904. Dear Jim: I have your letter of the 26th instant. Butler is coming down to make a speech Saturday evening before some association here, and is to pass the night with me. I shall not see him for very long. I shall not show him your letter, nor speak of the subject unless it arises. Since four years ago I came over to your side in the matter, he has hardly over talked of New York State educational work with me, save once or twice when he has evidently believed that I was actively championing your side, and wanted to lay his side before me. He knows well my attitude forward you; and he thinks I know nothing about educational work and am guided purely by your advice and influence. He had been a very true friend of mine, and has supported me in many different ways. This would not make me for a minute back him up where I thought he was wrong, or back him up in any move against you; it will 130 make me try to preserve my friendship with him, without touching on the points concerning which he and another dear friend (you) are at odds. The little I have done in this business, as you know, has been on you side. It has been purely in the way of suggestion toward certain men not in active politics and in the way of calling attention to the action of one or two men to whom you especially object. With love to Fanny, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. r. parsons, Jr. , Secretary, University of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y,.140 January 27, 1904. Dear Brander: I am very very sorry to hear of your mother's death. There is nothing one can say, even to one's close friends, under such circumstances that will in any way comfort them. it was very good of you under such conditions to remember about the French translation of my books. No , I have not seen the translation of the New York and I cannot imagine what interest it could have for French people; nor have I seen the article by Jules Lemaitre. Do you happen to have it handy? With warm regards to Mrs. Matthews, believe me. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews 681 West End Avenue, N.W. Cor. 93d Street, New York, N. Y.141 January 27, 1904. My dear Governor: If I have to appoint such a commission I shall most carefully consider Mr. Thomas' name, and it will give me a peculiar pleasure if I find myself able to appoint him. With regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. E. Chamberlain, Governor of Oregon, Salem, Oregon.142 January 27, 1904. My dear Mr. Philbin: Once again let me thank you. You have shown such admirable temper and poise in connection with this last phase of the report as to [?] supplement the energy and fearlessness with which you went into the whole business. Let me thank you especially for your concluding words about myself. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Eugene A. Philbin, 52 William Street, New York, N. Y.143 January 27, 1904. My dear Mr. Collier: I am really obliged to you for the picture, and prize it. It was exceedingly good of you to send it. I telephoned over to the Post Office Department at once on receipt of your letter, and am delighted that everything was arranged satisfactorily! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Collier, 20 Gramercy Park New York.144 January 27, 1904. My dear Stranahan: I have your letter of the 25th, and it is first class. I am very much obliged to you. It was just what the situation demanded. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. N. N. Stranahan, Collector of Customs, New York.145 January 27, 1904. My dear Mr. Wilson: Pray present my regards to yours associates and to your distinguished guest. I wish I could be present with you the evening you receive him. With best wishes, and renewed regrets at my inability to be present with you, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George T. Wilson, Chairman, 120 Broadway, New York.146 January 27, 1904. My dear Father Vattmann: I am very much interested in your report, and am exceedingly glad you are in Porto Rico Just at this time, and look forward to seeing you on your return. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Edward J. Vattmann, San Juan, Porto Rico.147 January 27, 1904. My dear Mr. Thornton: I wish it were possible for me to accept, but I have already refused the invitation of the Republican Club of New York their banquet on the same date, and I have sent them Mr. Moody to speak in my place. It would be out of the question for Taft to speak so soon after coming here. I shall try to find you somebody who can speak, but the appeal comes so late that it may be simple impossible. Will you allow me to say that the people who are frightened by such cartoons as those you enclose must be a very feeble folk indeed? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. David Thornton, President Union League Club, Brooklyn, N. Y.148 January 27, 1904. Personal. Dear Mr. Mellen: Mr. Loeb has shown me your letter to him of October 26th, enclosing copy of letter of Senate O. H. Platt. To use the vernacular of our adopted West, you can bet your bed-rock dollar that if I go down it will be with colors flying and drums beating, and that I would neither truckle nor trade with any of the opposition if to do so guaranteed me the nomination and election. In the first place, I believe I shall win. In the next place - and what is infinitely more important - I am going to fight it out on the line I have chosen without deviating a hand's breadth from it, win or lose; for I am sure that the policies for which I stand are those in accordance with which this country must be governed, and up to which we must all of us live in public or private life, under penalty of grave disaster to the nation. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. S. Mellen, President, New York, New Haven & Hartfprd R. r. Co. , New Haven, Connecticut. 150 January 27, 1904. My dear Mr. Burke: Will you say to Judge Lund that I shall be pleased to have Mr. Kurkoske name his son after me, and appreciate the compliment? Pray give his my regards, and particularly Mrs. Kurkoske. I take pleasure in sending you a photograph for my young namesake. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles H. Burke, House of Representatives Enclosure151 January 27, 1904. Dear John: I agree with you entirely. I shall see Lodge about the matter at once. Frye is savagely angry with both Root and me for our attitude in the shipping matter, and I think this is one of the causes that have made him announce that he will vote against the confirmation of Wood, and that I am not a safe man to nominate for President. We can do nothing with him. I took Mrs. Hay in to dinner last evening, and had a charming time. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Hay, Greenwood, Summerville, Georgia.152 January 27, 1904. Personal To the Postmaster General: The enclosed letter partially explains itself. I do not recollect anything about Miss Dreyer. But can we not ask the new postmaster to have a thorough examination of the case? If it can be done privately, we will then know just how we should stand as to Baumhoff also. Please talk this matter over with me. T. Roosevelt The enclosure is a letter addressed to Congressman Rodenberg, mentioning the cases of Generals Smith and Wood, and protesting strongly against the action taken in the case of Miss Dreyer, who was discharged from the St. Louis Post Office.158 January 27, 1904. Dear Harry: I look forward to seeing all eight of you here on February 3rd. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. H. B. Chapin, Boston and Albany Railroad, Boston, Mass.154 January 27, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Edgell: I thank you very much, and heartily appreciate your kindness. But upon my word, it gives me a half melancholy feeling, and takes me back to over twenty years ago, when buffalo meat on the plains was a staple, and not the rarest of luxuries. With renewed thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George S. Edgell, 192 Broadway, New York155 January 27, 1904. Gentlemen: I sincerely wish I could accept your invitation and take part with you in the shooting contest. Unfortunately, this is impossible. I feel most strongly that all possible encouragement should be given to the practice of rifle shooting in our country, and that every organization such as yours deserves cordial support because it tends so efficiently to further this end. Such societies do good in any country, but in ours peculiarly so in as much as in any crisis we must depend upon our volunteer citizen soldiery for our army; and if a man has been trained to shoot well he has acquired the most essential of the qualities of physical address which are necessary in a soldier. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt The National Schuetzenbund of the United States, Henry Kroger, President, 468 Greenwich Street, New York.156 44 January 28, 1904. Personal. My dear Governor: I think it important that I should see you as soon as possible. Aldrich thinks there should no longer be delay. I wish you meet both Aldrich and Knox. Can you not some here at some early day? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. Murray Crane, Dalton, Massachusetts.157 January 28, 1904. Dr. Alexander Lambert, On train arriving in Washington 3:40 pm today, from New York, Pennsylvania R. R. Come up in rough walking clothes. Theodore Roosevelt President Private Record.158 January 28, 1904. My dear Derby; I wish I could accept, but it is simply out of the question. I am very sorry. I hope I shall see you at Groton. I am to make no public speech on the trip. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Roger Alden Derby, Porcellian Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts.159 January 28, 1904. My dear Mr. Willson: I have your letter of the 26th instant, with enclosure. All I have to say is, I have great confidence in you. I have also great confidence in Mr. Knott, in Mr. Yerkes, and Governor Bradley. Now, cannot you gentlemen somehow get together? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Augustus E. Willson, 516 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky.160 January 28, 1904. Personal My dear Colonel Harvey: I thank you in the first place for your exceedingly frank and goodnatured letter, and in the next for the editorials which struck me as admirable. But then, perhaps I am prejudiced! Looking forward to seeing you again, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Colonel George Harvey, Harper's Weekly, New York.161 January 28, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Butler: That editorial you sent Mr. Loeb with your note of the 26th is first class, and I thank you for it. With warm regards, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. E. H. Butler, Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, N. Y.162 January 28, 1904. Personal. Dear Senator Spooner: Referring to the attached, I hope you can go to this dinner. If it is impossible, I hope you will urge Senator Quarles to go. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt When you come here, always come straight into my room Ho. John C. Spooner. United States Senate. Enclosure the enclosure is a letter from Wm. c. Wilson, Corresponding Secretary, 27th Assembly District Republican Club, 55 Liberty St., New York, requesting the President to use his influence with Senator Spooner, Senator Lodge or Senator Quarles to attend the Club dinner on February 10th.163 Personal. January 28, 1904. My dear Senator: That communication from the New Hampshire man that was published was a printed circular. I send you our copy. It was evidently sent broadcast. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. H. Platt, United States Senate. Enclosure.168 Personal January 25, 1904. My dear Sir George: On the whole we have cause to be grateful to Professor Bury for his address inasmuch as it called out your really noble article on history; for the small amount of damage which Bury can do will be infinitely outweighed by the good you have done. Nor will this good be confined to students and scholars, from whichever point they approach the study of history; surely many busy men will feel the gratitude that I feel toward one who says what we know ought to be said but which we lack both the power and the time to say. As for me personally, inasmuch as I have to keep an iron grip on my temper as regards all men who in actual practice at the moment wittingly or unwittingly proceed and false theories of government or upon false applications of good theories, it is fine satisfaction to be able to get angry with Mr. Bury and at the same time have the comfortable feeling that it does no harm either to him or to me! Of course in your article what you said constructively - where with wealth of illustration you showed what history could do and could mean to statesman, to philosopher, to lover of literature, to the mere private citizen who possesses catholicity of taste, - even outweighs the value of your destructive criticism of Mr. Bury's contentions. In particular I wish to thank you for your emphatic protest against those writers who in endeavoring to be moderate and 165 - 2- impartial in leaving the impression that is really no different between the good and the evil, the great and the small. True impartiality, true justice, as as far as possible removed from the dreadful habit of painting all character drab-colored. Hamden ans Washington are doubtless not pure white, and here and there it might be possible to find touches of gray in the character of Philip of Spain and Louise the XVth of France; but we do violence to the facts, and ethically we sin if in comparing the four men we fail to show that by every canon of the higher life - social, political, spiritual - two are white and shining souls and two stand in that black circle which numbers the meanest and the most contemptible and yet sometimes the lost dreadful enemies of mankind. The "Impartiality" which would only study the flaws in the character of the two great and good men and set forth the occasional trick of virtue in the two evil doers would be a shame and a mockery. But aside from your actually showing what history should be, I am exceedingly glad that you spoke so plainly of Mr. Bury's proposition to make it what it should not be. I am sorry to say that I think the Burys are doing much damage to the cause of historic writing. In a very small way I have been waging war with their kind on this side of the water for a number of years. We have a preposterous little organization called I think the American Historical Association, which, when I was just out of Harvard and very ignorant, I joined. Fortunately I had enough good sense, or obstinacy, or something, to retain a subconscious belief that, inasmuch as books166 -3- were meant to be read, good books ought to be interesting , and the best books capable in addition of giving one a lift upward in some direction. After a while it dawned on me that all of the conscientious, industrious, painstaking little pedants, who would have been useful people in a rather small way if they had understood their own limitations, had become because of their conceit distinctly noxious. They solemnly believed that if there were only enough of them, and that if they only collected enough facts of all kinds are sorts, there would cease to be any need hereafter for great writers, great thinkers. They looked for instance at Justine Windsor's conglomerate narrative history of America - a book which is either literature or science in the sense in which a second rate cyclopedia in literature and science - as showing as "advance" upon Francis Parkman - Heaven save the mark! Each of them was a good enough day laborer, trundling his barrowfull of bricks and worthy of his hire; as long as they saw themselves as they were they were worthy of all respect; but when they imagined that by their activity they rendered the work of an architect unnecessary they became both absurd and mischievous. Unfortunately with us it is these small men do most of the historic teaching in the colleges. They have done much real harm in preventing the development of students who might have a large grasp of what history should really be. They represent what is in itself the excellent revolt against superficiality and lack of research, but they have grown into the opposite and equally noxious belief that research is 167 -4- all in all, that accumulation of facts is everything, and that the ideal history of the future will consist not even of the work of one huge pedant but of a multitude of articles by a multitude of small pedants. They are honestly unconscious that all they are doing is to gather bricks and stones, and that whether their work will or will not amount to anything really worthy depends entirely upon whether or not some great master builder hereafter arrives who will be able to go over their material, to reject the immense majority of it, and out of what is left to fashion some edifice of majesty and beauty instinct with the truth that both charms and teaches. A thousand Burys, and two thousand of the corresponding Germans whom he reverentially admires, would not in the aggregate begin to add to the wisdom of mankind what another Macaulay, should one arise, would add. The great historian must of course have the scientific spirit which gives the power of research, which enables one to marshal and weigh the facts; but unless his finished work is literature of e very high type small will be his claim to greatness. Even in science itself I think we shall see a turning back from the mere dry-as-dust fact-collecting methods after a while. We shall certainly see such turning back along some lines. Take the old faunal naturalists for instance, of whom Audubon is an example. Audubon did not have anything like sufficient store of facts to enable him to give judgments that could not be reversed, and he was too much of an outdoor's man, too little of a closet man. But for the last thirty or forty years, the period covering the Germanization of our colleges and universities in this country, the tendency168 -5- has been to produce shoals of little scientific men, who though free from Audubon's shortcomings were also completely free from any touch of his greatness. During these years the scientific college people have as a rule worked on the theory that the highest duty of a would be naturalist - whom, by the way, they call a biologist - is to work in a laboratory with a complex apparatus which will enable him to study for an indefinite period minute infusoria and to write upon sections of tissue. All of this is excellent work if it is understood that it is work merely of preparation, that it represents only the gathering of material for some man of large mind to mould into matter of importance. But as it is treated as the be all and end all, the result has been a lamentable dearth in America of work in the abstract sciences which is of notable and permanent value. I have a friend, Hart Merriam, who is a great mammalogist. He himself suffers a little from this wrong training, and I am afraid he will never be able to produce the work he could, because he cannot see the forest for the trees. He cannot make up his mind to write a great lasting book, inasmuch as there continually turns up some new series of shrews of meadow mice or gophers concerning which he has not quite got all the facts; and he turns industriously aside once more to the impossible task of collecting all these relatively unimportant facts. Still he does understand that we should not leave to story books the vital life histories of our birds and mammals, and he at least has aspirations toward the proper kind of production;169 -6- but he is almost unable to find among college graduates any one fit to act as his assistant in the field or to help him find out the facts which should be fount out; for the average college graduate of a scientific turn has had all his impulse toward originality carefully taken out of him, and he leaves college a stereotyped well meaning little creature, only fit for microscopic work in a laboratory. Now such work is good, but it is chiefly good in so fat as it gives a wider and deeper foundation of knowledge to the scientific man like Darwin or Huxley; or even to the nature -writer like John Burroughs or White of Selborne. There- I have not been able to deny myself the pleasure of writing you this wholly irrelevant letter. Meanwhile I have kept waiting a good friend from whom I am anxious to learn some facts regarding the present political condition in California, and I must have him up; so good by and good luck. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sir G. O. Trevelyan, Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland.170 January 29, 1904. Mrs. M. I. Pinkham: The Rectory, Owntonna, Minn. I have great pleasure in sending greetings to the ladies of St. Paul's Paris of Owatonna, and best wishes for the success of their entertainment today. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. January 29, 1904. Hon. Charles C. Simons, Chairman, Detroit, Michigan. Permit me to join with the members of your organization in paying tribune of love and Esteem to the memory of the late President McKinley. With all good wishes for the success of the celebration in honor of the anniversary of his birth. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Charge to the President's private acct.171 January 28, 1904. Personal. Dear Van: Referring to your letter to Mr. Loeb of the 22nd instant, the more I have thought over the matter referred to the more impossible it has seemed to me to speak to the French Ambassador about it. I wish you were coming on here this winter; but I shall tell Wheelan just why I ought not to do such a thing. With warm regards to Mrs. Stow. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Vanderlynn Stow, San Francisco, California.172 January 29, 1904. Dear Mr. Strauss: I thank you and through you the members of your Club, for the very kind invitation to be present at your annual dinner. pray extend to your assembled guests my best greetings and wishes for a very pleasant occasion, and my real regret that I am unable to be with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Strauss, 141 Broadway, New York.178 January 29, 1904. To the Attorney General: Please report whether we should not try to take some strong steps through the State Department to call the attention of the Spanish Government to the great desirability of giving us the information needed. T. Roosevelt Refers to letter of January 27, 1904, from Hon. Wm. E. Chandler, President Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, stating that there has been no information whatever furnished by Spanish to officials of the United States in endeavor to ascertain facts relative to claims which are pending.174 January 29, 1904. J. Hampton Moore, Chairman, Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. Please convey my hearty regards to all present and my greetings to your guest of honor. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Answer D.H.175 January 29, 1904. My dear Mr. Warfield: I took your letter and all the other correspondence in the case before the Cabinet today. the Attorney-General is clearly of the opinion that unless you refund that money we ought to bring suit for it. As I told you, the Postmaster General does not take the view that I do of your conduct. Personally, I am sure that you did not intend to do anything that was wrong, but I feel that nevertheless you did do what you ought not to have done, and that you should under the circumstances refund the money, precisely as in somewhat analogous cases many other postmasters have refunded sums of money; as, for instance, the postmaster at Salt Lake City has been required to refund a sum of money. In these cases we have sometimes removed the postmaster as well as requiring him to refund the money; in other cases we have taken the view that I have taken in this case, namely, that though the action cannot be passed by, and though the money should be refunded,176 we credit the postmaster with good faith and take no action further than that of requiring the money to be refunded. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. S. Davies Warfield, Postmaster, Baltimore, MD. Of course please treat all my personal correspondence with you as private not for the official use.177 January 29, 1904. My dear Governor Carter: I have your letter of the 13th instant. All right, we will treat that incident as closed. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. G. R. Carter, Governor of Hawaii, Honolulu, H. I.178 January 29, 1904. My dear General: I have your letter of the 28th instant. I think that position is entirely sound. I have sent your letter to the State Department. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. B. F. Tracy, 71 Broadway, New York, N. Y.179 Personal. January 29, 1904. My dear General: Many thanks for your letter of the 27th. All that you say is true. I wish I could make those men agree. Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt Gen. B. W. Duke 212 East Broadway, Louisville, Ky.180 January 29, 1904. My dear President Wilson: I am very sorry you could not come to the dinner, and still more sorry for the cause. With regards to Mrs. Wilson, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.181 January 29, 1904. Dear Bellamy: I have your letter. It is absolutely all right; we will treat the incident as closed. Nothing would persuade me to accept your resignation, old fellow, and I am sure John Hay feels as I do. When I see you I shall explain, as I do not like to do on paper, both how fully had been the steps taken by Hay in investigating the matter, and the use that was made against me of your letter. I shall give Hay your note. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Bellamy Storer, Embassy of the United States, Vienna, Austria.182 January 29th, 1904. My dear Mr. Sherrill: I beg to extend through you my warm regards to the members of your Club. The 27th Assembly District includes with thin its borders most of what made the district which for three years I represented in the New York Legislature, and, naturally, I take a peculiar interest in its fortunes. It is upon the effort of such men as those who make up your association that we must largely depend for success in the effort to achieve good government. I know many of your number well; I believe in you; I am genuinely sorry that I cannot be with you at the dinner; and I extend to you my heartiest good wishes for your success in the future. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles H. Sherrill, 30 Broad Street New York. N. Y.183 January 30, 1904. William C. Wilson, New York City. Accept heartiest congratulation and best wishes for both mother and child. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (Charge to the President's private acct.)184 January 29th, 1904. Dear Ted: Indeed I do understand your interest in all things affecting me, old boy, and I shall write you at length about the political situation. I do not write you such a letter all the time because I do not want you to feel that all my correspondence with you is of a stilted and Chesterfield's letter-to-his-son style. In political, as in life generally, the strife is wellnigh unceasing and breathing spots are few. Even if the struggle results in a victory, it usually only opens the way for another struggle. I believe we shall win out in the Panama business as soon as we can get a vote, for I think we shall confirm the treaty by a three to one majority; but they are filibustering and talking every which way in the vain hope that something will turn up to help him. In the Wood controversy also I think we shall win out, although possibly there will be an ugly fight. The only legislative matter looming up concerning which I feel uncomfortable is the service pension bill, which I think is on the whole right, but which contains possibilities of mischief on account of the hostility with which it is regarded by many business people, and by lots of good young fellows who do not realize how much the soldiers did in the Civil War, and how much we owe them. By the way, if I were you I would not discus the labor union question from the side that labor unions are harmful. I think they are185 2 beneficial if handled as they should be, and that the attack should be made, not upon the principle of association among working people, but upon the abuses in the manifestation of that principle. As regards myself personally, Senator Hanna and the Wall Street crowd are causing me some worry, but not of a serious kind. I doubt it they can prevent my nomination. Senator Hanna has not kept his promise to me of last June, and has been intoxicated by the thought that perhaps he could either be nominated himself, or at least dictate the nomination; but he will be thwarted completely if he makes the effort, and I think he will grow sullenly conscious of the fact and refuse to make the effort. He has caused me a little worry, but not much. The Wall Street people of a certain stripe - that is, the rich men who do not desire to obey the law and who think that they are entitled to what I regard as improper consideration merely because of their wishes - will do their best to secure the nomination for him, or at least to use him to beat my nomination and secure that of a third person. I think they will fail; and that when they realize that failure is ahead of them they will turn in and support me. But some others will try to elect a democrat. A good many of them who are very bitter against me now will come over to my to my side when the campaign is actually on. I doubt if they can do much against me as far as the nomination is concerned. The election is a different matter. Of course I may be utterly mistaken, but personally186 3 The West generally; but in the big cities, and especially in the eastern big cities, the extreme labor union people and every one of anarchistic or socialist tendencies on the one hand, and the arrogant man of wealth on the other, will probably both combine against me. If the democrats put up a strong candidate upon whom all their factions can unite, I shall have a hard tussle. Nobody can say whether I shall win or lose. In any event, I have done a good many things worth doing while I have been President, and I have has the public service administered with efficiency and integrity. I am worked very hard at present, and it is only now and then that I can get off in the afternoon for a ride with Mother or a walk with some friend. When the social season is over, I think I shall have a little more leeway. Ever your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. P.S. Be careful not to let any of these letter in which I speak of political subject lie about where they can be seen by any one.187 January 29, 1904. Dear Kermit: I have not with great disaster in my part of the stable. Renown's roaring grew so bad that we were afraid that he would choke down when he galloped, and he is now beginning a month's treatment with blisters and injections to see if he can be cured. Bleistein's quarter crack tended to make him limp, and they have begun a three months' course of treatment with him, which amounts practically to trying to grow a new hoof. So I am reduced to Wyoming. Today it has snowed quite heavily, and I have persuaded Mother, with many misgivings, to see whether she on Yagenka and I on Wyoming can not have a good ride in the snow. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Alexander Lambert came, and I took him and Pinchot and Garfield and one or two others for a three hours' walk. An inch of snow had fallen, and underneath it the roads were glare of ice. I fell down twice full length, and all the others from once to six or eight times apiece.188 None of us were hurt, and we had a lovely walk. I shall be very glad when the social season is over, because then I can either work or rest in the evenings, and will be able much of tenner than now to get exercise in the afternoon. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt. Master Kermit Roosevelt Groton School. Groton, Massachusetts. January 30, 1904. P.S. Mother and I had to give up our ride because it was so slippery the horse could not stand up. This afternoon at a quarter to six I am to have a full hour's game of hide-and-go-seek and everything else with Ethel, Archie, Quentin, the Garfield children, and one or two other of their friends. This play is by stipulation because I have seen so little of them during the past week or two. The other day Quentin was with Sheffield at support and Sheffield proposed a game of bear, where upon Quentin said, "How can we play bear without a father?'189 January 30, 1904. Personal. Dear Bishop: That is an admirable editorial. I am interested and pleased at what you tell me as to the change of sentiment in New York. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York, N. Y.190 February 1, 1904. Personal. To the Secretary of War: If possible i should like to have the maneuvers held in Texas this year. if that is impossible, then at least to have the Texas troops ordered up to take part in them; but my especial desire is that Texas should have the maneuvers. I think the South should have one set of maneuvers. THEODORE ROOSEVELT191 January 30, 1904. Private & Personal. My dear Dr. Shaw: I think your last editorials on the Wall st- Hanna business altogether admirable, and you have stated the case exactly as it is. Moreover, I believe that your editorials are among the causes which, within a comparatively short space of time, will make this Wall Street-Hanna movement against me break down utterly. In confidence, I can tell you that outside all the Southern States I am now as certain as I well can be that if Hanna made the fight, and with all the money of Wall Street behind him, he would get the majority of the delegation from no State excepting Ohio; and from the South I should have from the third to a half of the delegates, and most of the remainder would have been pledged to me and would have to be purchased outright against me. I believe that the best advisers among my opponents themselves see this and have very nearly made up their minds to give up the contest. In a few192 weeks I think that most of the Wall Street republicans will have concluded that they have to, however grudgingly, support me. So much do I believe this that I am a little uneasy lest our opponents may then raise the cry that I have made terms with them. Fortunately, my nomination has become assured, in my judgement, before they give up the contest. Besides, I do not think even such rather thick-headed people as my opponents would venture to try to make term with me now, although there was a tentative effort in that direction in October and November last. I shall treat them with scrupulous fairness any how; and in no event would I have done either more or less. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Albert Shaw, Review of Reviews, 13 Astor Place, New York, N. Y.193 January 30, 1904. Dear Murray: As I hear Albert Shaw has gone out west, will you hand him this letter as soon as he return? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.194 February 1, 1904. My dear Governor Black: I earnestly hope you will be able to come down here and see me. I find that on Wednesday evening I am down for the G. A. R. banquet, and as it seems doubtful how early that evening you can get here anyhow, if you are willing I shall make our engagement any time Thursday afternoon you say. If you care to, it would be a great pleasure to me to have you at lunch on Thursday at 1:30 and we could then have an uninterrupted talk immediately after lunch. This shall be just as you desire. I suppose it is needless for me to say that in spite of the absence or Mrs. Black, if you care to come to the supper after the reception on Thursday evening it will be a very great pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt and me. But as a matter of fact I believe you hate formal functions even more than I do, and so I hardly expect to see you! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frank S. Black, 170 Broadway, New York, Y. N.195 February 1, 1904. Personal. To the Attorney General: I am informed that a close personal friend of mine in Minneapolis alleges that he know Tim Byrnes made $20,000 last year by getting pardons through me. Will you have some one look up the records to find out as far as possible all cases in which Byrnes has been interested in securing pardons? Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. C. Knox, Attorney General.196 February 1, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator: At your convenience I should like to see you. I hope we will nominate no candidate for the congressional vacancy caused by McClellan becoming mayor. It would be a hopeless contest, and it seems to me inadvisable to go into it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. t. C. Platt, United States Senate.197 February 1, 1904. My dear Governor: I thank you for having sent me the copy pf that bill. I shall look through it at once, and from the way you speak of it I take it for granted I shall be able to support it. I would not be able to make a definite promise until I have gone thoroughly into the matter. With great regard. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James H. Peabody, Governor of Colorado, Denver, Colorado198 February 1, 1904. Dear Emlen: Your letter was a comfort to both Edith and myself. I so enjoyed catching a glimpse of little Christine. It is dreadful that Aunt Lizzie does not seem to improve more quickly and pleasantly. Dr. Morris told us a good deal about her. About the pensions I have much difficulty. You see that there is the precedent of the Mexican veterans' service pension, which was passed by a democratic House ans signed by Cleveland just 39 years after the close of the Mexican War. It is very difficult now to explain to the veterans of the civil War that they are not entitled to the same treatment given to the veterans of the Mexican War. However, I am still anxiously trying to reach some satisfactory solution. I hope to reach it [??] the question was raised by those who wish to attachment. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt, 33 Wall Street, New York.199 February 1, 1904. Darling Bye: Tell Mrs. Reid that I regarded the information she gave, especially that about Miles, as very important. Give my warm love to dear old Will. I look forward to seeing yuo soon. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. William S. Cowles, Care Captain William S. Cowles, U.S.S. Missouri, Newport News, Virginia200 February 1, 1904. Personal Dear Will: The writer of the enclosed is a trump. He is a man I know personally, and who did admirable service at Santiago. If he can be promoted to a major in the staff department and retired, I desire to have it done. Will you find out if it can be done? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosure the enclosure is a letter from Capt. Henry Anson Barber, Commissary, 28th Infantry (formerly of cavalry), who requests that he be promoted to major in staff department and retired, as he can not remain in active service on account of injured (for wounded) leg. 201 February 1, 1904. Personal My dear Governor: I had a very satisfactory letter from Stranahan about his talk with you and also a very satisfactory visit from Nicholas Murray Butler. He will have two or three things to tell you from me when he next sees you. I have written the Senator that I think it inadvisable to put up any candidate in the district lately represented by Mcclellan in Congress. It would be a hopeless contest and it seems to me very inadvisable to go into it. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Governor of New York, Albany , N. Y. 202 February 1, 1904. Dear Brander: Thank you so much for the volumes. You are awfully good to have taken such trouble. I am interested and curious in reference to the translation of "New York", and the letter I shall read with real pleasure. I am rather amused that I, who have always championed Dreyfus, or to speak more correctly, reprobated the attack on him, should be selected as a club by an anti-Dreyfus man. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Mathews, 681 West End Avenue, New York.203 February 1, 1904. My dear Mr. Schiff: I value and appreciate your letter of the 31st ultimo and thank you for what you so kindly say. It was a great disappointment not to have you and Mrs. Schiff at the dinner, With earnest hopes that you will enjoy your European trip, and that Mrs. Schiff will be much benefitted by it, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Jacob, H. Schiff, 965 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.204 February 1, 1904. Dear Reeve: I shall be very glad to see Viljoen. Is he the man who wrote that very interesting book? About the pension business, I shall speak to you at length when we meet. I have not been advocating it, but it is very serious question how to meet it. We must remember, Reeve, that the chief trouble we have now is that President Cleveland and a democratic House passed a service pension for the veterans of the Mexican War 39 years after its close, and the case, by analogy, is very strong. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. E. Reeve Merritt, Union Trust Company of new York, New York.205 February 1, 1904. Personal. Dear Bishop: Many thanks for your letter of the 1st and enclosure. in the first place, I absolutely agree what you say about the Foraker amendment. It contains an element of good and an element of bad. But it was such a foolish and mischievous thing to introduce it at this time that I got Knox to make public his repudiation of the same proposal a year ago and to say that we still stood where we did then. By George! What rascally dishonesty the Evening Post people stoop to. not merely in politics but in business. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 206 February 1, 1904. My dear Mr. Alderman: I thank you for your letter and kind words. I value your friendship. I enclose the letter of introduction to out Minister, as you request. with warm regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Edwin a. Alderman, The Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, La. Enclosure. P.S. I find that the State Department has forwarded the letter to you direct.207 February 1, 1904. Personal My dear Mr. Brave: I thank you warmly for your kindness and am deeply interested in what you say. I am particularly pleased that you are to vote this fall. I earnestly wish to see every Indian reach the status where he will vote and be every respect on an entire equality with the white citizens. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ben Brave, Oacoma, South Dakota.208 February 1, 1904. Personal Dear Cabot: I return the manuscript of the introduction. I have not a thing to suggest. (Some small grammatical matters you will of course find on the final drafts.) It seems to me to be in the best possible taste, and from the political standpoint, to say just what should be said. I am very much obliged to you, old fellow. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt From the purely political view, I have suggested one change at the bottom of p. 4; not to be carried out if you obliged. Hon. R. C. Lodge, United States Senate.209 February 3, 1904. To the Acting Secretary of State: Tell Mr. Peirce that there is no change whatever to be made in Coburg. Let Saylor start at once for Coburg. Hughes is entitled to no further consideration whatever from the State Department, and no representation of his is to be heeded. As for the attacks on Saylor, they were fully considered at the time of the original appointment and now need no investigation whatever. This is a transfer of a man who has done well in one consular position, to another consular position. The consular position to which he is to be transferred is to be left as it was when the transfer was ordered, and none of the charges which were passed upon at the time of Mr. Saylor's original appointment are to be considered. I would like action taken immediately in accordance with these directions. Theodore Roosevelt210 February 3, 1904. Hon. M. S. Quay, St. Lucia, Fla. Telegram received. Matter has been arranged exactly as you desire it. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Official)211 February 2, 1904. My dear Mr. Washburn: I have found out just about what I anticipated from the Department of Justice in reference to the matter you spoke to me about. You stated that an intimate friend of mine in Minneapolis had asserted that he know that Mr. Timothy Byrnes had made twenty thousand dollars by securing pardon of federal prisoners during the last year. These pardons are all gone over most carefully by Attorney General Knox in person, after a preliminary examination by Mr. Easby-Smith, the pardon attorney of the Department of Justice. I then pass upon them. Most of the pardons granted have been for offenders with no money whatever - men who could not pay anybody. Attorney General Knox informs me that Mr. Byrnes has never appeared before him or to his knowledge borne any relation whatever to any pardon case. So far as I remember he has never appeared before me, or written or spoken to me, about any pardon case. he has never mentioned a pardon case to any one in this office. Mr. Easby-Smith, the pardon attorney, informs the Attorney General that he has never heard Mr. Byrnes' name; that Mr. Byrnes has never appeared before him; and that he can not find any record in which Mr. Byrnes has taken any part either as counsel or petitioner for any prisoner.212 2 In other words it appears that this man, who states he is an intimate friend of mine and that he knows the facts, has been guilty of repeating not merely a piece of injurious and scandalous gossip, but a downright lie without one shadow of foundation in fact. I regard such conduct as in its effects criminal. You are entirely at liberty to show this letter to the gentleman in question, whoever he may be. I wish he had had the manliness to give you his name. Moreover, I ought to add that, as this was the only specific accusation alleged in reference to Mr. Byrnes, it seems to me that you should ponder well whether all the feeling you have against Mr. Byrnes is not based upon equally idle and malicious gossip. It was a pleasure to see you the other afternoon. Give my regards to your father. Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. D. Washburn, Jr. , 302 Guaranty Loan Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota.213 February 3, 1904. A. P. Montant, 71 Worth Street, New York, N. Y. Convey our deepest sympathy to Mrs. Townsend and your wife. We are greatly grieved. I wish it were in my power to come on to the funeral but fear it is utterly impossible. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Charge to the President's private account.214 February 3, 1904. To the Secretary of State: I have had a talk with prominent representatives of the Senate and House on the subject, and I find that the International Exchange Commission will certainly not be made permanent and that no appropriation will be made for its maintenance beyond the close of the present fiscal year. I think you should cable Mr. Conant who, I understand, is now in Europe, to return at once, and you should write Professor Jenks to close his mission in the far east and return so as to be here by the close of the present fiscal year. You should also again warn each of these gentlemen against submitting any proposition to any government or even appearing to commit this government to any definite policy. Their mission is one of investigation and not negotiation, and this should be again called to their attention. Theodore Roosevelt215 February 3, 1904. Confidential My dear Mr. Anthony: I thank you heartily for your letter of the 1st. By this time you have doubtless seen that Attorney General Knox sent out an authorized repudiation of the bill in question. If you come to Washington I should like to tell you certain things I can not put upon paper about the matter you are interested in. With hearty regards, I am. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Richard A. Anthony, 122 Fifth Avenue, New York216 February 3, 1904. My dear General: I thank you heartily for the photograph, which I genuinely appreciate and shall always keep. It was a real pleasure to have you at lunch. With high regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt General B. Viljoen, Care of Mr. E. Reeve Merritt, Union Trust company of New York. New York.217 February 3, 1904. Personal My dear Judge Spring: I shall take up that postmastership at once, and I thank you for writing. While there are many feature in the outlook that I do not like, yet I believe as the time comes around much of the trouble that now exists will have vanished. With hearty regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Alfred Spring, Judge, Supreme court, Franklinville, N. Y.218 February 3, 1904. My dear Mr. Kenyon: It is matter of great regret to me that I can not be with the Republican Club on the occasion of the Lincoln Dinner. I feel very strongly that the celebration of Lincoln's birthday has more than any mere historic significance. The particular problems which Lincoln had to meet have passed away; but the spirit, the purpose, the methods with which he met them are as needed now as they ever were, and will be needed as long as free government exits, and as long as a free people tries successfully to meet its manifold responsibilities. The principles for which Lincoln contended are elemental and basic. He strove, for peace if possible, but for justice in any event; he strove for a brotherhood of mankind, based on the theory that each man can conserve his own liberty only by paying scrupulous regard to the liberty of others. He strove to bring about that union of kindliness and disinterestedness,219 with strength and courage upon which as a foundation our institutions must rest if they are to remain unshaken by time. With cordial well wishes for the success of your organization, believe me, Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert N. Kenyon, Chairman, 54 West 40th Street, New York.220 February 4, 1904. My dear Mr. Wheeler: I think that piece admirable, and I am very glad you wrote it. With warm regard, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Everett P. Wheeler, Battery Park Building, 21 State Street, New York, N. Y.221 February 4, 1904. Dear Billy: We missed you. I wish you could have been present. I hope things are now going well with you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. William Hooper, 101 Milk Street, Boston, Mass.222 February 4, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Carlisle: I heartily thank you for your letter, and I am very glad that you are to be a delegate. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. A. Carlisle, Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co., South Bend, Indiana.223 February 4, 1904. My dear Mrs. Rice: Your letter gives me real pleasure. Indeed, I shall welcome receiving the books. from you and [????}. I am old-fashioned. or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one I want, in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it. You recollect what Oliver Wendell Holmes says in "Over the Teacups" apropos of some French books? It is to the effect that there are certain sights and sounds which if seen or heard leave an indelible stain, so that the man or woman is never quite as clean afterwards, and that this is doubly true of whatever appeals to the imagination. I do not want people to shirk facts or write what is not so, and it is often necessary to dwell on painful things; but I feel that they should be dwelt upon in proper fashion and not224 for the sake of giving a kind of morbid pleasure. Give my warm regards to Mr. Rice. I hope we shall see you both. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Cale Young Rice, 410 Victoria Place, Louisville, Kentucky.225 February 4, 1904. My dear President Gilman: The enclosed request seems to me to be for a worthy object. I of course do not know what other plans you have, but I venture to call this to your attention. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. D. C. Gilman, President, Carnegie Institution, 1774 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington , D. C. Enclosure. Enclosure is a letter from Prof. Julius Goebel, Stanford University, Cal., requesting $5000 from Carnegie Institution to enable him to make certain reserches concerning German immigration to the United States.226 February 4, 1904. My dear Professor Goebel: I do not know that my word will have any effect, but I shall write to the Carnegie people at once backing your request. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Prof. Julius Goebel, Stanford University, Cal.227 February 4, 1904. My dear Senator: I am in receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo. I heartily thank you, and greatly appreciate what you have said. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John H. Mitchell, United States Senator.258 February 4, 1904. My dear Mr. Leeson: Senator Lodge has sent to me your letter to him. It gives me real pleasure. Curiously enough, just before receiving it I was reading, at the suggestion of a Grand Army friend from Illinois, the opening portion of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity. He begins his first book as follows: "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governor as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers; because they know the manifold defects where-unto every kind of regimen is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider." It seems to me that a good many of our friends of the present day forget this simple and obvious truth; and believe me, my dear sir, this makes it all the more heartening to see228 such a letter as yours, With high regard. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. J. R. Leeson, 95 South Street, Boston, Mass.230 February 4, 1904. Dear Cabot: Do you think the enclosed is all right? If so, send it to Mr. Leeson Sincerely yours; Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, United State Senate. Enclosure.231 February 4, 1904. My dear Mr. Speaker: It is out of the question for me to promise about a consulship. There are no consulship vacant at present. There are very many applicants whom we sincerely desire to place. All I can say is that Mr. Reade is one of the gentlemen whom I am anxious to place, and shall if I can. I wish I could say more. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. S. F. Nixon, Speaker of the Assembly, Albany N. Y.232 February 4, 1904. Personal My dear Mr. Neeman: Your letter astonishes me. I can not help thinking that you are misinformed. I think that Mr. Payne's health is greatly improves, and hope he will long continue a member of my Cabinet. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. L. W. Neeman, The Milwaukee, Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.233 February 4, 1904. My dear Senator Brown: I thank you for your letter of the 2nd instant. No one has hinted to me that you were against me; but I am utterly surprised at what you tell me as to your feeling about my action in reference to Davies and McClelland. I shall give you all the particulars when we meet. With warm regards to Mrs. Brown, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elon R. Brown, Senate Chamber, Albany, N.Y.234 February 4, 1904. Dear Mrs. Riis: Your letter was [only] such as only you or Jake could have written. No one can read those chapters and not feel that Jake wrote out of his own heart. He has done me infinitely more than justice - infinitely more. It is the book of a most loving and devoted friend. As for the royalties, I know Jake and you too well to think that such a consideration ever entered your heads. In fact, to be frank, I do not think that such consideration ever do enter the head of either of you quite enough. I am more mercenary, at any rate where you two are concerned, and I earnestly hope that my being President will cause that book to have a big sale and thereby enable Jake to put a little more by for me. I return the letter you enclosed. I was interested in reading it. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Jacob A. Riis, 524 Beech Street, North, Richmond Hill, N.Y.235 February 4, 1904. My dear Sir: The President has received your note of the 3rd instant, and has taken pleasure in writing a letter for you to Collector Stranahan, which I enclose herewith. Very truly yours Wm. Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Mr. William D. Murphy, 130 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.236 February 4, 1904. My dear Collector Stranahan: Mr. William D. Murphy is a first-class fellow and has been a stanch friend of mine for many years. I wish you to know him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. N. N. Stranahan, Collector of Custom, New York, N. Y.237 February 4, 1904. My dear Mrs. Wood: Have you seen the current number of Harper's weekly? It is much better then I had dare to hope. I send to the editor , Harvey, copies of my letters about Leonard, but I did not dare to hope that he would use them so at length. I feel very grateful to him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Leonard Wood, 23 Lanier Place, Washington.238 Personal February 4, 1904. My dear Colonel Harvey: I am not only please but I am very much touched at the editorial in Harper's Weekly n the Wood and Miles cases. I had not the remotest idea that you would find yourself able to say what you have said, and I wrote to you chiefly because during our last talks together I had become very much interested in and attracted by you, and thought I would like to have you know the facts. Believe me, I appreciate your generosity in the matter. Not the least service you have rendered me in that you have enable me to write to Mrs. Wood, who has suffered terribly, and show her what you have said. I have minded General Wilson's testimony most of all because I have had a feeling that Wood might himself conclude I really had said something upon which Wilson based it. With hearty regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Colonel George Harvey, Harper's Weekly, New York.239 February 4, 1904. Dear Gussie: Indeed we know how to grieved you are, and I am sure that you know also how devoted Mrs. Roosevelt and I were to Mr. Townsend. I feel as if he were one of the family, and I mourn with you. With love to all, Ever your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. A. P. Montant, P.O. Box 1271, New York.240 February 4, 1904. Personal. Dear Bishop: This is a first class editorial. Of course I wish you had a freer hand, and hope you will have a freer hand. But that was a mighty good editorial anyhow. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York.241 February 5, 1904. Dear John: Can't you come on with Nannie on Wednesday, and both you and she come to the Army and Navy reception on Thursday and to the supper afterward? If Gladys and Jean would enjoy the reception, by all means bring them to it. The supper, however, is for "grownups." then we will get Mannie and Gladys and Jean to take a lunch with us some day while they are here. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. John E. Roosevelt, 44 Wall Street, New York.242 February 5, 1904. My dear Mr. Von Briesen: I have just received the report. I thank you again, and through you all the other members of the commission for the trouble and time they have taken. I am immensely impressed with your proposition about the Staats-Zeitung. the man to communicate with is Murray Crane, but as you know, we shall not have anything like the campaign fund that was raised in 1896 and 1900. That conference will be sure to do excellent work and I am glad you have had a committee started. It is unnecessary to say that I approve of all you have done. With heartiest thanks, I am. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur con Briesen 49 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. 243 February 5, 1904. My dear Snelling: That was all right; but I felt that in view of the publicity given to the Mayor's visit it would perhaps be just as well for us not to talk of certain matters. Believe me, however, that it was the greatest pleasure to see the Mayor, as well as you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R. Paul Snelling, Saco and Pettee Machine Shops, Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts. 244 February 5, 1904. My dear Governor: I agree with every word that you only say about Root's speech. It was a masterpiece, and none but he could have delivered it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt hon. Franklin Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey. 245 February 5, 1904. Dear Elihu: The enclosed letter is but a sample of what I hear on every side. It has become almost flat for me to express to you my realization of all you have done for me. Suffice it to say that no service that any other man within or without the Cabinet might now render me, could equal the service you did as by your speech made just after leaving the Cabinet at this very time, and to the very audience to which you spoke. I thank you many times over for it. I knew I should miss you; but I think Mrs. Roosevelt realized even more than I did how much I should miss you. I feel your loss all the time. Taft is doing admirably, as it is hardy necessary to say. Give my love to Mrs. Root. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root. 32 Liberty Street, New York. Enclosure,246 February 5, 1904. My dear Judge: Your letter of the 23d instant received. Your action, if possible, raises you even higher in my estimation. I have in mind a position, not yet vacant but which I think will be some vacant where I think you can do admirable service, and to which your promotion could be made without grieving any man. Of course there is nothing positive about this as yet, however. With warm regards to Mrs. Winthrop, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. Beckman Winthrop Manila, P.I.247 February 6, 1904. My dear Sir: I have just received your letter and thank you most warmly for your kind words. If those whom Abraham Lincoln called the plain people are satisfied with the way in which I have tried to perform my duty I fee thrice over rewarded. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas J. Lindley, Westfield, Indiana248 February 6, 1904. Dear Mr. Taft: Senator T. C. Platt has just been in to see me about John t. Mc.Donough. I told him that we could arrange that he should have transportation for himself and family on a Government transport to San Francisco. Will you arrange about this? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War.249 February 6, 1904. My dear General Crozier: The rifle is a little beauty. I have sent the check and I cordially thank you for all the trouble you have taken. I have asked for the case to be made and also for some cartridges. May I through you extend my warm thanks to Colonel Phipps for the great interest he has manifested and for his care and watchfulness that the workmanship should be of the best; and may I also through you thank Mr. R. T. Hare for his painstaking work in sighting the rifle? With regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Brig. Gen. William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, War Department.250 February 5, 1904. Personal. The Secretary of the Interior: When the report of the investigation upon the Dawes Commission comes in, before any action is taken upon it and before it is made public in any way, bring it to me. T. Roosevelt251 February 6, 1904. My dear Morton: Upon my word I think that Mr. Dooley had given the needed supplement to Ingalls' ode on opportunity! I think the two should be read together. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Paul Morton, 77 Jackson Street, Chicago , Ill.252 February 6, 1904. My dear Mr. Hinkle: I have had under consideration the invitation presented to me by Senator Foraker to attend the May musical festival in Cincinnati. I earnestly wish I could go, but it is simply out of the question. I can not leave Washington at that time. It would be a very great pleasure to me if I were able to accept, and I beg you to express to your associates my gratitude for their thoughtfulness, and my regret at not being able to take advantage of it. Sincerely yours, Theodore yours, Hon. A Howard Hinkle, Cincinnati, Ohio.253 February 6, 1904. Personal Secretary Taft: Unless there prove to be sufficient to the contrary, I should like to appoint Colonel Jasper Ewing Brady, of Los Angeles, California, on the Board of Visitors to West Point. T. Roosevelt254 February 6, 1904. My dear Mr. Bonham: Through Senator Foraker I have just received your very kind invitation to be present on February 12th. I wish it were my power to accept, but I already have had to refuse a number of invitations for that day, and it is out or my power to get away from Washington. It is a matter of regret to me that on the anniversary of the birth of the great President, whom we also claim as the greatest of all republicans, I can not be with you to join in commemorating his memory. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Scott Bonham, President, Ohio Republican League, 519 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.255 February 5, 1904. Dear Kermit: Upon my word I have bad luck with my horses! Wyoming is now roaring. I am utterly unable to explain why my three saddle horse s should all show something wrong in the wind, while not another horse in the stable does. Yet I can't see what I have done to make them go wrong. The other day a nice old boy came in - a veteran of the Civil War, from Illinois. He was as pleasant as possible and in the course of the conversation he handed me some verses which he had written to read to his grandchildren. I like them so much that I send them to you herewith. Mr. John McIlhenny spent a couple of days with us. I took him a long walk in the snow and as he was out of condition he got very puffy indeed. Mr. John Greenway is here and he and I had a good ride today. Mother and I have been having lovely rides in the snow. I wish you could have seen mother reading Robin Hood for I suppose the hundredth time to all three children tonight. Ethel, Archie and Quentin all lay on the sofa with her, round-eyed and absorbed. Your loving father Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton school, Groton, Mass.256 February 6, 1904. Dear Ted: I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed. Secretary Root left on Monday and Governor Taft took his place. I have missed, and shall miss, Root dreadfully. he has been the ablest, most generous and most disinterested friend and adviser that any President could hope to have; and immediately after leaving he rendered me a great service by a speech at the Union League Club in which he said in most effective fashion the very things I should have liked him to say; and his words, moreover, carried weight as the words of no other man at this time addressing such an audience could have done. Taft is a splendid fellow and will be an aid and comfort in every way. but as mother says he is too much like me to be able to give me as good advice as Mr. Root was able to do because of the very differences of character between us. If after fully thinking the matter over you remain firmly convinced that you want to go into the arm well and good. I shall be rather sorry for your decision because I have great confidence in you an I believe that in civil life you could probably win in the end a greater prize than will be open to you if you go into the army - though of course a man can do well in the army. I know perfectly well that you will have hard times in civil life257 -2- Probably most young fellow when they have graduated from college, or from their post-graduate course, if they take any , feel pretty dismal for the first few years. In ordinary cases it at first seems as if their efforts were not leading anywhere, as if the pressure around the foot of the ladder was too great to permit of getting up to the top. But I have faith in your energy, your perseverance, your ability, and your power to force yourself to the front when you have once found out and taken your line. However, you and I and mother will talk the whole matter over when you come back here on Easter. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. , Groton School, Groton, Mass.258 February 6, 1904. Darling Corinne: Will you give my warm regards to Miss Robb? I am always interested to hear about her. Both her father and mother were dear friends of mine in the old days. It was delightful; catching even the hurried glimpse of you which was all I got this time. I am up to my ears in work. Hastily yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs, Douglas Robinson, Jr. , 422 Madison Avenue, New York,259 February 8, 1904. John M. Smyth, Chicago, Ill. Accusations, but with nothing specific, have been made against Jamison. Are you sufficiently well acquainted with the facts to tell me that in your judgment Jamison is n honest man who will do good service as naval officer! Answer. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Official)260 February 8, 1904. My dear General Dick: The Post Office Department feels that we should not longer wait to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the postmaster at Columbus Grove, Ohio. Charles B. Morris has been recommended by the local republican committee, as well as by senator Foraker. Unless there is good reason to the contrary I think this appointment should be made at once. Please notify me without delay. I should write to Senator Hanna were he not sick. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. Charles dick, House of Representatives.261 February 8, 1904. Hon. Robert M. McLane: Mayor, Baltimore, Maryland. I share the horror of our people at the appalling catastrophe which has befallen Baltimore. If there is anything the Federal Government can do pray call on me at once. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Official)262 February 8, 1904. My dear M. Jusserand: Herewith I send you back the Chanson de Roland. I have enjoyed it particularly because it is the first copy I ever read which had the old French and the modern French Interpaged; so that I was able to read the old French, which I could not otherwise have done. There are a dozen points that I want to talk over with you, and as soon as the social season is over I shall get Madame Jusserand and you to come around to lunch. Do you regard the Venetian manuscript as being as authentic as the older English manuscript? I hope so, because I particularly like a certain generous side to the description of the Moorish king, Margaris, who would have been so great a baron if he had only been a Christian? and who seems to me to have more individuality than any of the other characters after the three great heroes of the epic and Charlemagne.263 It seems to me that it is somewhat doubtful to put the poem after the Norman conquest, and by an Anglo-Norman, on so slender a ground as the mention of the conquest of England for Poland and Byzantium are also mentioned as having been conquered. With hearty thanks, Sincerely Yours, Theodore Roosevelt M. J. J. Jusserand, French Ambassador, Washington.264 February 8, 1904. Personal Dear Bishop: Thank you for the editorial, which I appreciate. I do not suppose the democrats will nominate Gray. In the first place he is too good a fellow, and in the next place it would be an absurdity to run him against the republican party when he owes his position to one republican President and his prominence to another one. However, the democracy is capable of doing absurd things, and the people are capable of pardoning them. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York.265 February 8, 1904. My dear Mr. Carnegie: Mrs. Roosevelt will greatly appreciate the whiskey, and I have already profited by the quotation from the calendar! How is that for a fair division of labor? I hope we shall see you both again not too long hence. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 5 West 51st Street, New York.266 February 8, 1904. Personal Dear Moody: I think the enclosed by Bat Masterson will appeal to you! Sincerely yours T. Roosevelt Hon. William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy Enclosure The enclosure is a clipping from the New York Telegraph of February 6th, containing a statement by Bat Masterson concerning his visit to Washington, and his call upon the President.267 February 8, 1904. Dear Brander: Of course I shall be delighted to see your young French friend whenever he comes on with a letter from you. I have been greatly interested in LeMaitre's criticisms. Later, if you can get on to Washington, I want you to come to lunch and I shall discuss some of them with you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, New York.268 February 8, 1904. Personal My dear President Schurman: On receipt of your letter I at once saw Secretary Wilson. He informs me that he has written you in the matter; that his testimony was intended for the private information of the committee, and was due to the effort to explain criticism against him for permitting his Department to make a disproportionate expenditure of effort on behalf of Cornell, and that he did not refer in the least to Cornell in the present but to what had been done by Cornell in the past. It is a very regrettable matter and I do not in the least wonder that you were angry. Secretary Wilson, however, I am sure, had no intention of making any attack on Cornell, or any public allusion to it, but was trying to justify the efforts his Department was making on Cornell's behalf. He is as sorry as any one can be that the incident should have occurred.269 With renewed regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President J. G. Schurman, Cornell University Ithaca, N. Y.270 February 8, 1904. Dear Murray: Many thanks for your letter. I hope Bishop can keep on where he is. I am very much obliged for all you have done. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York.271 February 7, 1904. My dear Sir William: I have just received form ambassador Choate the copy of your address delivered before the Institution of Civil Engineers, and I thank you for your kindly remembrance and anticipate reading the address. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Sir William Henry White, President Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, Westminster, S. W., London, England.272 February 8, 1904. My dear Edward: Naturally, your letter please me. Do you know that I feel really uncomfortable when I read what your father has said of me, because he looks at me through such rose- colored glasses that I know the real life cannot possible come up to the picture? With hearty good wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward V. Riis, Care of B. H. Madison, Esq. , Haywards, California.273 February 8, 1904. My dear Sir: Permit me through you to thank the Foraker Republican Club most warmly for it resolutions in reference to myself. I appreciate your loyal kindness to the full. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. David Heinselman, President Foraker Republican Club, Youngstown, Ohio.274 February 8, 1904. Personal Dear Sturgis: That is a first class book. I wish I could see you and talk over various matters. Poor Japan has more important things to attend to than Jiu Jitsu at present! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. W. S. Bigelow, 60 Beacon Street, Boston.275 February 9, 1904. My dear Mr. Fisher: Before I received your protest I had made the appointment and issued the following statement about it: "After the bill creating a naval officer at Chicago was signed by the President and the Senators from Illinois suggested the nomination of Mr. Jamieson, the President stated that as he did not know Mr. Jamieson personally, he would like the recommendation of some business men on his behalf. Senator Hopkins asked the President if the recommendation of Mr. John M. Smyth would be satisfactory, and the President replied entirely so. Accordingly the President sent the following telegram to Mr. Smyth.: Accusations, but with nothing specific, have been made against Jamieson. Are you sufficiently well acquainted with the facts to tell me that in your judgment Jamieson is an honest man who will do good service as navel officers? Answer. THEODORE ROOSEVELT and received the following reply: I know Mr. T. N. Jamieson intimately. He is honest, able and worthy of trust. He will perform his duties with fidelity and intelligence. I do not think you can make a better selection than Dr. Jamieson, and I earnestly hope for his appointment. Respectfully, JOHN M. SMYTH. The president has also received strong endorsements which run as follows: 276 -2- From ex-Comptroller Eckels: I have known T.N. Jamieson, personally, a number of years and I am certain he will make an excellent officer and I heartily approve appointment. From John C. Black, President, Continental National Bank: Regarding the appointment of Mr. T. N. Jamieson as naval officer at Chicago, I will say that I have known him intimately for thirty-eight years and I am entirely sure that he will in all respects fill the office proposed for him in an manner that will be a credit to the government and to himself. From John J. Mitchell, President Illinois Trust and Saving Bank: I wish to commend the appointment of Dr. Jamieson to the position of naval officer at Chicago. I believe him to be qualified, competent and honest. Letter follows. Also from Charles G. Dawes, Amour & Co., Frederick M. Blount. Vice President Chicago National Bank, B. M. Chattell, Cashier Illinois Trust ans Savings Bank, Seigel Cooper & Co., Rothschild & Co., and from score of other business men and firms." I never heard of Mr. Jamieson until his name was suggested to me. I received protest against him, but not one specific accusation. If the above mentioned business men, including Eckels, Dawes, Smyth, Black, Mitchell and Armour, have not told me the truth, I really hardly know where to turn. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Since the above was written Judge Ironcup and Mr. Paul Morton have unqualifiedly endorsed Jamieson to me. Mr. Walter L. Fisher, Chicago, Illinois.277 February 9, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Nieman: I thank you for your letter. Of course treat my reply as strictly personal also. It seems to me that Mr. Payne's friends are curiously over-sensitive in what they refer to. In my latter, published at the time with the correspondence, I expresses my hearty approbation of all that he had done in the investigation. To have gone out of the way to praise him for having been honest in the investigation when I submitted the documents at the close of it, would have been just like my stating that John Hay was honest and had not inspired the Panama revolution, in one of my later communications. In each case it would have been simply silly. But I confess I am utterly at a lose to understand one sentence of your letter. You speak of getting statements278 from me and Mr. Beavers. Surely you must understand that if I had the slightest idea that you would get a statement from Mr. Beavers, nothing would persuade me to give you a statement from me. Have you not made some mistake in the name? Do you seriously think of having an interview with Mr. Beavers? Let me also add that while I was very seriously alarmed about Mr. Payne's condition last summer, I think he is immensely improved now. Of course your letters make me a little uneasy about him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. L. W. Nieman, The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisoncins.279 February 9, 1904. My dear Sir and Comrade: I am genuinely pleased [and gratified] by your very kind expressions concerning myself. I appreciate your friendly interest and thank you heartily for writing, With all good wishes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Thomas McLees, 1 Washington Avenue, Zanesville, Ohio.280 February 9, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Osborne: I thank you for your letter of the 6th, and very deeply appreciate your courtesy, but I am afraid it will be impossible for me to go to Michigan at all this year. The mere announcement that it was possible I might go has stirred up a prefect hornets' nest. - if I may apply the word "hornet" to a kindly soul who has his feelings hurt because I go somewhere else and not to his own State. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Chase S. Osborn, Sault de Sainte Marie, Michigan281 February 9, 1904. Dear Bob: I have your letter of the 7th. Come on here at any time and take lunch with me, and we will talk everything over. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Robert Bacon, 1 Park Avenue, New York.282 February 9, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Kent; I am very sorry to disagree with you, but before I had received your telegram I had informed Senators Hopkins and Cullom that I would appoint Mr. Jamieson. I of course knew nothing of him and had never heard his name until he was suggested to me. I then told them that if they would procure for me the endorsement of certain leading business men of him I would appoint him. I have received the most unqualified endorsement of him from John M. Smyth, Charles G. Dawes, Armour & Co. , James H. Eckels, Siegel Cooper & Co. , Rothschild & Co., John J. Mitchell, President of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, John C. Black, President of the Continental National Bank, and numerous others including Judge [?]. Under the circumstances I could not do other than appoint him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William Kent, Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois.283 February 9, 1904. My dear Mr. Goodspeed; I am very sorry to disagree with you, but before I had received your letter I had informed Senators Hopkins and Cullom that I would appoint Mr. Jamieson. I of course knew nothing of him and had never heard his name until he was suggested to me. I then told them that if they would procure for me the endorsement of certain leading business men of him I would appoint him. I have received the most unqualified endorsement of him from John M. Smyth, Charles G. Dawes, Armour & Co. , James H. Eckels. Siegel Cooper & Co. , Rothschild & Co., John J. Mitchell, President of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, John C. Black, President of the Continental National Bank, and numerous others including Judge [?] . Under the circumstances I could not do otherwise than appoint him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. T. W. Goodspeed, The Quarangle Club, Chicago, Illinois.284 February 9, 1904. My dear Mode Constans: I have your letter of January 22nd and enclosure. I have sent them to My. Hay and shall take the matter up with him at once. Meanwhile, I earnestly hope you are coming to this country. I look forward to seeing you. With real regard. Sincerely your, Theodore Roosevelt Baron d'Estournelles de Constans, 131 Rue de la Tour, Paris, France.285 Written out by hand. February 9, 1904. My dear Lady Gregory: I look forward to the receipt of your book. I know I shall enjoy it thoroughly. I do hope you will come to this aide some time. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Lady Auguste Gregory, Coole Park, Gort, County Galway, Ireland.286 February 9, 1904. My dear Justice Harlan: I am afraid such action as that you propose would be resented by Baltimore. At the suggestion of Senator Gorman we ordered the troops there; and then were noticed that the Legislature did not care to have them. I have proffered my aid to the Mayor of Baltimore, and he has informed me that there is no need for aid, but that he would let me know if the need arises. It would be unfortunate, to say the least, if I took such a step and Baltimore repudiated it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John M. Harlan, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, Washington.287 February 9, 1904. Confidential. My dear Mr. Straus: Unfortunately, Japan has notified us that she would regard any attempt at mediation as unfriendly because she insists the Russia is simply striving for delay and intends to take advantage of every delay to perfect her preparations, so that Japan's interests imperatively demand either an immediate agreement or else war. Russia, meanwhile, has given us to understand that if we have anything to propose it must be to Japan and not to her. We sounded France and found she would not help in any way toward mediation. At present we have been endeavoring to secure the guaranty of China's neutrality. I think to try secure what we know to be impossible at this time would merely do damage. Secretary Hay strongly thinks so too. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Oscar S. Straus, 42 Warren Street, New York.288 February 9, 1904. My dear Governor Murphy: I thank you heartily for your kind invitation to attend the annual dinner to the New Jersey Legislature. I wish I could accept but it is simply out of the question. I have more on my hands now than I can attend to, and I can not accept another invitation. I am sincerely sorry. With regard. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Franklin Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey.289 February 9, 1904. My dear Senator Hopkins: The enclosed letter conveys certain serious charges against Mr. Jamieson. I think Mr. Jamieson should make a statement in reference to them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. A. J. Hopkins, United States Senate. Enclosure. 290 February 9, 1904. My dear Senator Cullom: I thank you hearty for the copy of the resolutions. Will you extend my thanks to Mr. Reeves? With great regard. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. S. M. Cullom, United States Senate.291 February 9, 1904. My dear Mr. Lawson: Before receiving your telegram I had informed Senator Hopkins and Cullon that in accordance with their request I would appoint Mr. Jamieson, and his nomination had gone in to the Senator. I had never heard of Mr. Jamieson until the two senators presented his name to me. I then told them that if they would procure for me the endorsement of him by certain business men, I would appoint him. You have by this time doubtless seen the telegrams sent me by John M. Smyth, James H. Eckels, John J. Mitchell, and John C. Black, and the statement that Charles G. Dawes, Mr. Blount, Siegel Cooper & Co. , Amour & Co., and a large number of other gentlemen, had endorsed him. Judge Grosscup personally assured me that he regarded Mr. Jamieson as an entirely honest man, though a machine politician, and that he thought the appointment fit and the criticisms without any justification. Mr. Paul Morton told me the same thing. Now, my dear sir, I am perfectly willing to go into a fight with the two United States senators from any State when they recommend to me a man against whose character or capacity anything definite can be proved; but if the man whose names I have given above have advised me incorrectly, I don't know where I could go for advice, and I don't see what justification I would have for refusing to appoint the man recom-202 -2- mended to me by both senators, when in addition they produce backing of this character. In all of these matters I have endeavored to keep out of every factional contest, and simply to demand of the senators, in the cases of routine appointments such as this preeminently is, that they give me a man of a character such as Mr. Eckels, Mr. Dawes, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Black, and Judge Grosscup testify Jamieson to be. I am, of course, exceedingly sorry that this matter should have come up at all. As I say, I never heard of Dr. Jamieson until his name was presented to me, and know nothing of him now except that there seems to be this wide and to me wholly inexplicable contradiction in the judgment of excellent men upon him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Victor F. Lawson, Editor Chicago Daily News, Chicago.293 February 9, 1904. My dear Mr. Noyes: Before receiving your last letter I had written you as follows: Before receiving your telegrams I had informed Senator Hopkins and Cullon that in accordance with their request I would appoint Mr. Jamieson, and his nomination had gone in to the Senator. I had never heard of Mr. Jamieson until the two senators presented his name to me. I then told them that if they would procure for me the endorsement of him by certain business men, I would appoint him. You have by this time doubtless seen the telegrams sent me by John M. Smyth, James H. Eckels, John J. Mitchell, and John C. Black, and the statement that Charles G. Dawes, Mr. Blount, Siegel Cooper & Co. , Amour & Co., and a large number of other gentlemen & firm, had endorsed him. Judge Grosscup personally assured me that he regarded Mr. Jamieson as an entirely honest man, though a machine politician, and that he thought the appointment fit and the criticisms without any justification. Mr. Paul Morton told me the same thing. Now, my dear sir, I am perfectly willing to go into a fight with the two United States senators from any State when they recommend to me a man against whose character or capacity anything definite can be proved; but if the man whose names I have given above have advised me incorrectly, I don't know where I could go for advice, and I don't see what justification I would have for refusing to appoint the man recommended to me by both senators, when in addition they produce backing of this character. In all of these matters I have endeavored to keep out of every factional contest, and simply to demand of the senators, in the cases of routine appointments such as this preeminently is, that they give me a man of a character such as Mr. Eckels, Mr. Dawes, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Black, and Judge Grosscup testify Jamieson to be. I am, of course, exceedingly sorry that this matter should have come up at all. As I say, I never heard of Dr. Jamieson until his name was presented to me, and know nothing of him now except that there seems to be this wide and to me wholly inexplicable contradiction in the judgment of excellent men upon him. I now have your letter with the charges affecting Jamieson's private character, there being the first charge I have received against him. I asked Judge Grosscup about them, without mentioning your name. 294 2 Judge Grosscup asserted that he did not believe there was the slightest foundation for them, so did Mr. Camion; and Mr. Paul Morton. However, I shall at once take them up, omitting of course, the final paragraph, in which you refer to Mr. Lorimer. It may be necessary for me to ask that you give me the "highest authority" upon which you make the charges. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frank B. Noyes, The Record - Herald Chicago, Illinois.295 February 10, 1904. My dear Mr. Patterson: Before receiving your telegram I had informed Senator Hopkins and Cullon that in accordance with their request I would appoint Mr. Jamieson, and his nomination had gone in to the Senator. I had never heard of Mr. Jamieson until the two senators presented his name to me. I then told them that if they would procure for me the endorsement of him by certain business men, I would appoint him. You have by this time doubtless seen the telegrams sent me by John M. Smyth, James H. Eckels, John J. Mitchell, and John C. Black, and the statement that Charles G. Dawes, Mr. Blount, Siegel Cooper & Co. , Amour & Co., and a large number of other gentlemen, had endorsed him. Judge Grosscup personally assured me that he regarded Mr. Jamieson as an entirely honest man, though a machine politician, and that he thought the appointment fit and the criticisms without any justification. Mr. Paul Morton told me the same thing. Now, my dear sir, I am perfectly willing to go into a fight with the two United States senators from any State when they recommend to me a man against whose character or capacity anything definite can be proved; but if the man whose names I have given above have advised me incorrectly, I don't know where I could go for advice, and I don't see what justification I would have for refusing to appoint the man recom- 296 2- mended to me by both senators, when in addition they produce backing of this character. In all of these matters I have endeavored to keep out of every factional contest, and simply to demand of the senators, in the cases of routine appointments such as this preeminently is, that they give me a man of a character such as Mr. Eckels, Mr. Dawes, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Black, and Judge Grosscup testify Jamieson to be. I am, of course, exceedingly sorry that this matter should have come up at all. As I say, I never heard of Dr. Jamieson until his name was presented to me, and know nothing of him now except that there seems to be this wide and to me wholly inexplicable contradiction in the judgment of excellent men upon him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R. W. Patterson, Editor Chicago Tribune, Chicago. P.S. I have just received your second telegram. Until I had received it I had no idea what candidate Jamieson favored. When we appointed Lawrence Murray I was charged with having encouraged the Deneen people. Lawrence Murray was appointed to a far more important position. I have just received the following letter from J. J. Mitchell, which is one of scores from men of similar character: "My dear Mr. President; I understand that some complaint has been lodged against the appointment of Dr. T. N. Jamieson as Naval Officer in Chicago on the ground that he is unfitted for the position, and making some charges297 3- against his honesty. He has been known to the writer a number of years and is a valued patron of our bank. He has been active in politics and doubtless has incurred some displeasure, but as to his ability and integrity I do not think either can be fairly attacked. As a man he stands well and should make an efficient official." Do you not think it unreasonable to expect me to turn down both United States Senators when they recommend for a not very important position a man such as Jamieson has been vouched for? I have never hesitated to antagonize any Senators when I thought they recommended men who were unfit, but never in my experience has it occurred to me to refuse to turn down for such an office as this man recommended as Jamieson has been recommended to me.298 February 10, 1904. My dear Mr. Riis: In response to your note of the 6th instant, I send you the enclosed statement by the President concerning the matter to which you refer. The enclosures which accompanied your letter are herewith returned. Faithfully yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Jacob A. Riis, Esq. , 524 Beech Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y. Enclosures.299 Experience shows that the day of rest is essential to mankind; that it is demanded by civilization as well as by Christianity. Theodore Roosevelt This statement was sent to Jacob A. Riis, Esq., with a note of transmittal for the Secretary's signature, February 10, 1904.300 February 10, 1904. Personal. My dear Bishop McCabe: I wish it were possible for me to sop that war, but of course as you see now it is impossible. I did all I could but I could accomplish nothing. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop C. C. McCabe, Evanston, Ill.301 February 10, 1904. To the Secretary of State: Roger Sherman Green, Vice and Deputy Consult General at Rio de Janeiro, wishes to go to Formosa. Can he be sent? He knows Japanese. Senator Hoar Wishes it! Who else is intent to counting, Theodore Roosevelt.302 February 10, 1904. My dear Sir: Your communication of the 31st ultimo, with enclosure from Dr. Levi Gilbert, editor of the Western Christian Advocate, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been received. The President has taken pleasure in writing a letter to Dr. Gilbert, which I enclose herewith. Very truly yours. Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Hon. J. B. Foraker, United States Senate. Enclosure.303 February 10, 1904. My dear Sir: The growth of Methodism in this country has been one of the distinctive features of American development, and it now is, as it has ever been in the past, fruitful of blessings for the entire body social and political. I congratulate you upon the long service your paper has rendered in this cause. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Levi Gilbert, Editor, The Western Christian Advocate, Cincinnati, Ohio.304 February 10, 1904. K. K. Potter, Lockport, N. Y. Am deeply shocked and grieved at the news. Pray give my deep sympathy to the family. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.)305 February 10, 1904. My dear Mr. Francis: I have your letter of the 8th instant and the enclosed editorial, for which I thank you heartily. It was a real pleasure to see you the other day. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles s. Francis, The Troy Times, Troy, N. Y.306 Personal. February 10, 1904. My dear Mr. Mellen: It seems to me that in your speech at Hartford on January 21st, a copy of which Garfield has given me, you stated the case as to the proper attitude of corporations and their managers better than I have known it elsewhere to be Stated. I intend to crib from you address for my message to Congress next year. With high regard. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. S. Mellen, President, N, Y. , N. H. & H. R. R. , New Haven, Conn.307 Personal. February 10, 1904. My dear Mr. Reid: I thank you for your letter of the 9th. I guess your decision in all right. I have had some very interesting information recently about the Wall Street cabal. While of course it is necessary to be on our guard, I think that as an organized movement affecting the nomination it has collapsed. The important point is the election, but about that it is too early to speak as yet. With warm regards to Mrs. Reid, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, 451 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.308 February 11, 1904. My dear Mr. Roots: I thank you for your kind letter and enclosure, which I return herewith. It will be pleasure to see you any time you are here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Francis T. Roots Farmers and Merchants Trust Co. , Connersville, Indiana309 February 11, 1904. Dear Murray: I entirely agree with what you say. Evidently, for the reasons you ascribe, it is better not to attempt to get Bishop on the Tribune. I am very sorry at what you tell me about Parsons. I have been uneasy over his extreme bitterness. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.310 February 11, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Goodrich: I thank you heartily and appreciate your kindness. I have not had the slightest uneasiness about Indiana since our conversation. You will be pleased to learn, of course for your own personal information, that the situation has greatly improved in New York. If we can keep things as they are now, there is no reasonable doubt of our carrying the election. I do not know anything about the rural mail carrier matter of which you speak. As soon as Mr. Bristow gets well I shall take it up with him. With hearty thanks. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. J. P. Goodrich, Chairman, Republican State Committee, Winchester, Indiana.311 February 11, 1904. Thomas A. Edison, Waldorf Astoria, New York, N.Y. I congratulate you as one of the Americans to whom America owes so much; as one of the man whose life work has tended to give America no small portion of its present position in the international world. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private account)312 February 11, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. McKim: I have your letter of the 30th. The House committee was a unit in favor of reducing the width below 600 feet, and accepted the 600 feet as a compromise. The architects of the commission should appear at once before the Senate committee. They ought already to have appeared before the House committee. I ought to add that while I have been willing to defer to the views of the architects in this matter, I have never personally felt any particular fondness for very broad and entirely straight malls. This, however, is a personal feeling. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Charles F. McKim, 160 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.313 February 11, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Aldrich: The enclosed explains itself. Is there anything I can do to help the matter through the House, or have you anything to suggest? I have something amusing to tell you in reference to our conversation the last time you were here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, Unites States Senate. Enclosure.314 February 11, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Reid, What Twombly said was interested. I shall drop a words of caution to the different Departments all to set together. How absorbing the far eastern business has been! I cannot understand Russia having been caught so unprepared and supine after a course of four years or longer of aggression. (This expression is, naturally, confidential!) I think the State Department's course had been very wise. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, 451 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.315 February 11, 1904. My dear Mr. Smith: I hate to have to write you, but I have no alternative. I am afraid it is simply impossible for me to come on July 6th to /Michigan. I have been hoping against hope that I might arrange it; but the mere announcement that I was considering the invitation has brought me so many other requests of such importance as to make it evident that I would cause serious trouble if I went to Michigan and did not go to the other places, both coming and going. In other words, I could not go to Michigan unless I made a regular trip of several days' duration and several speeches on each day. Of course, this is out of the question, and to my very great regret I shall have to give up my hoped-for visit to Jackson. I am exceedingly sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William Alden Smith, House of Representatives318 February 11, 1904. My dear Mr. Hunt: Mrs. Roosevelt and I were exceedingly interested in the two letters of yours forwarded for our reading by Nicholas Murray Butler and Mr. Clarkson. I cannot say how absorbed I was in your account of that wonderful river voyage through a primeval world. Think of the 20th Century suddenly going back into the world as it was when the men of the unpolished stone period hunted the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros. My dear sir, when I get through this work, whether it is a year from now or five years from now, if I have the physical power and you still desire me, I shall most certainly accept for that trip into equatorial Africa. I congratulate you on your boy's feat. I am vain enough to think that my boy, Ted, would be fit to be his companion.317 With warm regards to Mrs. Hunt. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Leigh Hunt, Esq. , Care of Hon. j. S. Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs, New York, N. Y. P.S. I think the opposition to my renomination has disintegrated, the Wall Street combine having found that it could literally do nothing. As to the chances in the election, it is as yet too early to speak.317 With warm regards to Mrs. Hunt. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Leigh Hunt, Esq. , Care of Hon. j. S. Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs, New York, N. Y. P.S. I think the opposition to my renomination has disintegrated, the Wall Street combine having found that it could literally do nothing. As to the chances in the election, it is as yet too early to speak.318 February 11, 1904. My dear Mr. Clarkson; I was so much interested in Leigh Hunt's letter that I wish you would forward to him the enclosed. Faithfully yours, T R. Hon. J. S. Clarkson, Surveyor of Customs, New York, N. Y. Enclosure.319 February 12, 1904. Hon. Wm . Alden Smith, Grand Rapids, Mich. I great you and your honorable guests, and join with you in paying honor to the memory of Lincoln. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Charge to the President's private account.320 February 11, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Morton: Do you know Arthur L. Adams of San Francisco? He is spoken of very highly to me as Isthmian Canal Commissioner. Can you tell me who , in your judgment, are the very best business man and engineers on the slope for me to choose from? I want the very biggest men you have got. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Paul Morton, Esq., 77 Jackson Street, Chicago, Illinois.321 February 12, 1904. My dear Senator Cockrell: How is that appropriation for the War college going on? Is there any hitch about it? Root was greatly interested in it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. M. Cockrell, United State Senate.322 February 12, 1904. Personal. My dear Governor; I want to thank you cordially for your speech about me before the 27th District Club. Can't the call for the State convention be issued soon? Several of the people interested in the Congressional conventions have asked me that this should be done. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr. Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.323 February 12, 1904. My dear Mr. Hoffman: I thank you for your letter of the 10th instant, and appreciate your having written. I am gratified by your friendly expressions concerning me. With good wishes, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Albert Hoffman, Traders National Bank Building, Mt. Sterling, Ky.324 February 12, 1904. My dear Dr. Rainsford: Is there any chance of your being Washington at any time within the next few weeks? I should particularly like to see you. If you can come down will you not let me know in advance so that I may arrange to have you at lunch or dinner. Moreover, if you will bring some rough clothes, and if you are willing to take a slow walk with a President, who, like Mr. Tracy Tupman, has become both old and fat, I should like to take you down Rock Creek where, if you go on the foot path and not on the carriage road, the scenery is really beautiful. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. W. S. Rainsford, 209 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y.325 February 12, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Platt: Several people interested in Congressional conventions have asked that the call for the State convention be issued now, or at least as soon as it is convenient. Don't you think it would be well to have this done? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, United States Senate. 326 February 12, 1904. My dear Governor Murphy: I have just seen in the paper the news of the death of Mrs. Murphy. I hope you will not deem it intrusive of me to send you a line to express my profound sympathy with you in your great grief. There is no word I can say to lighten your load; I wish that there were. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Franklin Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J.327 February 12, 1904. My dear Mr. Washington: I shall read your address through carefully and I am certain it will be both with pleasure and agreement. I saw Mr. Scott and his committee the other day and made one or two suggestions about the address, which I knew would meet with your favor. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.328 February 12, 1904. My dear Senator Allison: How is that appropriation for the War College going on? Is there any hitch about it? Root was greatly interested in it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. B. Allison, United States Senate.329 February 12, 1904. My dear Mr. Mebane: I thank you heartily for your letter and I think your suggestions admirable. I hardly know how to get at The Outlook matter, but I shall write to Dr. Rainsford and take the chance of seeing him personally. Meanwhile let me assure you how deeply I appreciate your courtesy. I look forward to seeing you when you are next in Washington. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. B. Frank Mebane, Spray, N. C.330 February 12, 1904. Charles M. Foell, President, Marquette Club, Auditorium, Chicago, Ill. Many thanks for your telegram. I wish I could be present and join with you in paying honor to the memory of Lincoln. through you permit me to send my best wishes to the members of your club and your assembled guests. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Charge President's private account)331 February 12, 1904. Sir: I am in receipt of the following resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maryland, duly certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Maryland, and authenticated by your signature as Governor thereof: "Join Resolution. "A Joint Resolution requesting the President of the United States to direct the Secretary of War to dispatch United States Troops to Baltimore City. "Whereas an exigency has occurred by reason of a great conflagration in the City of Baltimore, which makes it desirable that troops shall be placed on guard around the burnt district in the said city, and "Whereas the police force of the said City and the available military force of the State have become exhausted by reason of long continues and arduous service, "Therefore, be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland. That the President of the United States, be and he is hereby requested, to direct the Secretary of War of the United States to despatch such troops of the United States as may be required for the occasion to the City of Baltimore, to be used there for the protection of property, the patrolling of streets around the burnt district, and for the maintenance of public order and peace, for such length of time as may in the judgment of the Governor of this State be necessary. "And be it further resolved, That the Secretary of State, be and he is hereby respectfully requested, to send a copy of these Resolutions duly attested under the seal of the State, to the President of the United States. "SPENCER C. JONES, President of the Senate. "GEORGE Y. EVERHART, Speaker of he House of Delegates." I, Oswald Tilghman, Secretary of State of the state of Maryland, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a 332 2 Joint Resolution passed by the General Assembly of Maryland on February tenth, nineteen hundred and four. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and, by order of the Governor, attested by his signature, have affixed the Great Seal of the State of Maryland, at the City of Annapolis, this (SEAL) 11th day of February, in the year nineteen hundred and four. By His Excellency the Governor< OSWALD TILGHMAN EDWIN WARFIELD Secretary of State These resolutions were delivered to me by Adjutant-General Riggs, of the State of Maryland, with the statement that you, as Governor, thought that there was not now occasion for the use of Federal troops in the City of Baltimore; that should the troops be sent, in compliance with the resolutions, you would at once request their withdrawal, and that you desired to convey your opinion thus expresses officially to me through your Adjutant-General. The power of the President of the United States to use the Unites States army to maintain peace and order in any State grown out of Section 4, Article 4, of the constitution, which reads as follows: "Section 4. the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature (or of the Executive when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence." In pursuance of the authority thus conferred, legislation was enacted early in the history of the government, which is now embodied in Section 5297 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which read as follows: "In case of an insurrection in any State against the Government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President, on application of the Legislature of such State, or of the executive, when the Legislature333 3 Cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, which may be applied for, as he deems sufficient to suppress such insurrection; or, on like application, to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as he deems necessary." Occasion has recently arisen for the construction of Section 5297, and it is contained in a telegram sent by my direction, by Secretary Root. to the Governor of Colorado, who had asked for troops to suppress local disturbances. Secretary Root said: "The President has no lawful authority to comply with the request contained in this dispatch. His authority in such cases is regulated by title 69 of the United States Revised Statutes. The circumstances detailed in your dispatch indicate that if any of the provisions of that title are applicable they are the provisions to be found in Section 5297. Under that section disturbance must amount to an insurrection against the government of the State and there must be an application by the legislature of the State if it is in session or can be convened; or if it is not in session or cannot be convened, then by the Executive. Upon such application the President is authorized to employ such part of the military forces of the United States as he deems necessary and sufficient to suppress such insurrection. He cannot place such forces at the disposal of the Governor of the State but must himself direct their operations and he must be furnished with such facts as shall enable him to judge whether the exigency has arisen upon which the Government of the United States is bound to interfere. Such exigency requires both that there shall be a disturbance amounting to an insurrection against the State and that it is beyond the power of the civil police and military forces of the State to control." It is sufficiently clear from this construction, and from other precedents which might be cited, that after the application by the Legislature, or the State Executive when the Legislature cannot be convened, there still remains in the President discretion to determine whether domestic violence or insurrection calling for the use of the Army of the United States in its suppression in fact exists. In the present case the resolution of the Legislature of the State of Maryland do334 4 not in terms declare the existence of domestic violence or insurrection; and even if the resolutions could be construed to imply existence or imminence of such a condition, they expressly delegate to the Governor of the State the power to determine that the necessity for the use of troops set forth in the resolution has ceased to exist. As already stated, I am officially advised, through the Adjutant General of the State, by you the Governor of the State, that domestic violence requiring the presence of Federal troops does not now exist, and that if the Federal troops are sent under this resolution you will, in pursuance of the terms of the resolution, notify me that their presence is not necessary. Under these circumstance I must, of course, decline to comply with the request of the Legislature. Respectfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland Annapolis , Maryland.335 Be sure not to let this letter stay around where it could be seen by anyone, for it might cause trouble. February 10, 1904. Blessed Ted: I loved your letter coaxing for one of the six Arabian stallions, and if they had actually come to me I would not have been able to resist keeping one for your use as long as I was the White House. But alas, it was all a newspaper story! They really went to the St. Louis Exposition, and so you will not be able to disturb your parents by witching the world with feats of horsemanship. Just at the moment what I most earnestly hope is that I shall have any horse whatever for you to ride when you come home at Easter. All three of my saddle horses are absolutely gone in the wind so that I can't ride them at all; and Yagenka is also touched a little. I think it is undoubtedly due to our stable, and I have had them put in another. I hope soon one of mine will get well. Yagenka I think certainly will. So at present I can't ride. When I get any exercise it takes the form of a walk with one of my faithful body-guard-Garfield, Pinchot, Cooley or Fortescue. I have been able to get very little exercise indeed this winter. I think the opposition to Panama is pretty well over and I shall be surprised if within a week or so we do not have the treaty ratified. Of course, there will be many perplexing problems to face during the actual work of constructing the canal. San Domingo is drifting into chaos, for after a hundred years of freedom it shows itself utterly incompetent for government work.336 -2- Most reluctantly I have been obliged to take the initial step of interference there. I hope it will be a good while before I have to further. But sooner or later it seems to me inevitable that the United States should assume an attitude of protection and regulation in regard to all there little states in the neighborhood of the Caribbean. I hope it will be deferred as long as possible, but I fear it is inevitable. I am greatly interested in the Russian and Japanese war. It has certainly opened most disastrously for the Russians and their supine carelessness is well-nigh incredible. For several years Russia has behaved very badly in the far East, her attitude toward all nations, including us, but especial toward Japan, being grossly overbearing. We had no sufficient cause for war with her. Yet I was apprehensive lest if she at the very outset whipped Japan on the sea might assume a position well-nigh intolerable toward us. I thought Japan would probably whip her on the sea, but I could not be certain; and between ourselves - for you must not breath it to anybody - I was thoroughly well pleased with the Japanese victory, for Japan is playing our game. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Groton School, Groton, Mass.337 February 10, 1904. Darling Kermit: I don't know where that first quotation comes from. The last is from Dryden's "Saint Cecelia" Ode, of which I have always been very fond. I am sorry to say that the saddle horse (except Algenquin!) are now laid up on account of their wind. I have had them put into another stable. Even Yagenka is touched a little. I have had the following delightful letter from Quan Yick Nam, one of whose partners was held up by a merciless agent of the Department of Commerce and labor, until I ordered his release and his entry into the country: "My dear Sir: I want to thank you for your honesty and probity. My partner have been admitted on Saturday 6th last; the partners of my store all of them to acknowledge your a favor have Mr. Lun Sing this change to attend the business in the firm. I wish to see the Commissioner call to the store again then he will to see Mr. Lun Sing in the store all times. I am not only self reform. I reform all the partners and friends also, and I will furnish all328 -2- information to Hon. Geo. B. Cortel to run down the wrong doing I will help the Government as I can. I beg to remain, Yours respectfully, Quan Yick Nam." Quentin has had a little mouse, which mother named Nibble, in a bop, as a pet, for forty eight hours; but poor Nibble has died -- probably of too much affection. Your loving father T. R Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton. Mass. 339 February 12, 1904. Dear Elihu: All right, I shall send Judge Speer's letter to Senator Hoar and ask him about it. Taft is doing admirably . We have had an experience with the Maryland Legislature and Governor in connection with the call for troops, which beats Scotty's determination not to quote your testimony because it was not delivered under oath! With love to Mrs. Root. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Mutual Life Building New York, N. Y.340 February 13, 1904. My dear Mrs. Shipp: Few things have given me more pleasure than to be able to do what the widow of my comrade in arms desired. With best wishes for your future, believe me. Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Margaret Busbee Shipp, Raleigh, N. C.341 February 13, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. McBee: I thank you for your letter of the 12th. While I do not believe in comparisons among great men as a rule, yet if I should have to say who is the first American, I should say Washington. He was both soldier and statesman as well as far-seeing and lofty-minded patriot. Lincoln was not the soldier. \With hearty regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Silas McBee, Editor, The Churchman, 47 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y.342 Personal February 13, 1904. My dear Kr. Jamieson: You have now received your appointment. You know the bitter criticism this appointment has evoked. So far as this criticism represents merely the spirit of faction I care not a jot for it. But some of it is due to a genuine distrust of your motives and actions- which it is needless to say I do not share or I should not have appointed you. Now, I wish you not merely to show yourself an upright and efficient officer, but to be able to prove this by your conduct of the office so clearly that the good men who have been opposed to you shall see their error. For instance, I learn that Mr. Marshall Field and the other importers have been much concerned over your appointment lest you might not have the necessary business aptitude and disinterestedness to make a good official. I have informed them that I should exact from you a highest standard of public service, as I343 shall from Mr. Hoy and my other appointees - and by the way, you may show this letter to Mr. Hoy. I therefore request you to call upon Mr. Marshall Field to explain to him your purposes and intended action in the office, and to try to convince the merchants of Chicago at the outset that they will have no more efficient and loyal public servant than you. Wishing you well, I am, Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. N. Jamieson, Naval Officer of Customs. Chicago.344 February 13, 1904. Personal. Dear Mr. Secretary: That is the first-class letter of Folger's. He is the right man for the place. Next Cabinet meeting I think we ought to consider whether there is any need of sending additional ships to Asia. I doubt it, at present. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy.345 February 13. 1094. Confidential. My dear Captain Barber; I have had the War Department look up your request. There is now no vacancy to which you could be appointed with the rank of major. The first that will happen is that of Assistant Chief of the Record and Pension office, now held by Major John Tweedale. He will be retired June 01, 1905. I could retire him before, but it would be an ungracious thing to do unless with his assent. Of course, I may not be President in June, 1905. If I am, I should gladly appoint you as major and have you retired if you could not continue to serve. Do you know Major Tweedale enough to make any arrangement with him by which he would retire prior to June, 1905, so that I should have a chance to promote you as you desire before March346 4th of that year, when mu present term ends? It will be a real pleasure if I can do anything you desire. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Capt. Henry Anson Barber, U.S. A. , Presidio, California347 February 13, 1904. My dear Mrs. Ward: I thank you so much for the two pictures of mother. It was very thoughtful of you to give them to me. I need not to say how much we enjoyed seeing you the other evening. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. George Cabot Ward, 111 East 29th Street, New York, N. Y. 348 February 13, 1904. My dear Mr. Raynolds: Three cheers for the Raynolds family and the stork. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Joshua S. Raynolds, Las Vegas, N. M349 February 13, 1904. My dear Governor: Do you think I ought to go to any public meeting during next summer? President McKinley went to none in 1900, as I recollect. This is all that would make me hesitate. I appreciate your kindness in writing me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John D. Long, 337 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.350 February 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Frothingham: When you get through the session is there any chance of your coming to Washington? I should particularly like to see you and introduce you to Taft and one or two others. I have been very proud of your election as Speaker. I like to see a Harvard man of the right sort coming forward in the right way. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Louis Frothingham, Speaker of the House, State House, Boston, Mass.351 February 15, 1904. My dear Dr. Rainsford: Will you dine with me the 23rd instant and spend the night? Can you get on early enough to go off to walk with me, starting from the White House, say about 3:30? And then after dinner we will have the evening to discuss matters in. I think I shall get Taft to come to dinner. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford, St. George's Rectory, 209 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y.352 February 15, 1904. Dear General: I have your letter of the 13th. Senator Hanna is a very sick man, but I still have hope. I agree with every word you say about those two speeches. I have taken the liberty of sending your letter to Moody. I thank you for writing me. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Gen. G. M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, N. Y.353 February 15, 1094. Dear Speck: Let me congratulate you on your excellent speech and also upon the way in which it was received. We greatly enjoyed having the Baroness at lunch. In a day or two I must get you to come around to lunch, that I may talk over the events in the far east with you from a military standpoint. I wish that when you get the chance you would on my behalf congratulate His Majesty upon the excellent results of the course taken at his suggestion in reference to securing the neutrality of China. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Baron H. Sternburg, German Ambassador, 1435 Massachusetts Avenue.354 February 15, 1094. My dear Mr. Rhys: I anticipate reading your book, and I am sure I shall enjoy it. What is your daughter's name? Pray write to her at once to let me know when she comes to Washington, and I shall arrange to have her see Mrs. Roosevelt and me. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. John Rhys, Jesus College, Oxford, England.355 February 15, 1904. My dear Senator Proctor: The War College appropriation is all right, is it not? Root was greatly interested in it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Redfield Proctor, United States Senate.356 February 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Carnegie: This is to introduce to you Mr. Gifford Pinchot, of whom I have already written you. Mr. Pinchot is the man who has done more for the preservation of the forests than any other man in this country. He has been able to do what he has, because to great energy and knowledge he has added entire disinterestedness and sanity. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Andrew Carnegie, Esq., 2 East 91st Street. New York, N. Y.[*357*] February 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Carnegie: I have given a note of introduction to you to Mr. Gifford Pinchot. You doubtless know his family in New York. While abroad possibly you have met his sister, who is married to Allan Johnston, now Secretary of the Embassy at Vienna. Mr. Pinchot is a Yale man, belonging to a family of large wealth. There was no need for his doing any work, as the world commonly understands need. But he had the right stuff in him and was not content to be an idler on the earth's surface. He took up the study of forestry. At present he is the chief forestry officer of the Government, and he has done more than any other one man in this country for the preservation of the forests, having rendered literally invaluable service. He is gifted with the utmost energy and the zeal that only comes to one who is wrapped up in his work; and in addition to358 these qualities he has others, the lack of which would render the first useless - excellent judgment and sound common sense. I know very few men indeed about whom I can write as I write about him. He wishes to lay a certain matter before you, and I bespeak of your courtesy an interview for him. When next you come on here I wish you to meet Taft. I think you will like him, and I hope you will have a chance to discuss Philippine matters with him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Andrew Carnegie, Esq., 2 East 91st Street, New York, N. Y.359 Confidential February 15, 1904. Not sent My dear Mr. Von Briesen: There was a time when I think Carl Schurz rendered real services - perhaps I might call them great services - to this country. Occasionally of recent years he has shown sanity and patriotism, as for instance in his recent article on the colored question in the South. On all such occasions I have been glad to give the frankest and fullest recognition of his services. But my own view is that, on the whole, he has for many years represented exceedingly undesirable tendencies and principles in public life. I do not think that the young American of today should have Carl Schurz held up to him as an example. As I say, when he behaves well, as he did about the colored question in the South recently, I am only too glad to say of him , and to him personally, that I think he has done well. But on the whole, of recent years, I think he has done ill. I think he has been one of the forces for evil and not for good. I think his example has been unfortunate and his influence bad. Under such circumstances it would be difficult for me - or at least it seems at first sight that it would be difficult for me, consistently with my own self-respect - to take a stand such as I have taken as regards no other citizen of this country, and to endeavor to secure signal honor of an unprecedented kind for him. Moreover, I do not believe that360 2 Congress would take any such step as you suggest, and certainly not without the most bitter debate and without the opposition of all the men I think stand for most in that body. I hope you will understand me. I have none but the kindliest feelings toward Mr. Schurz. But it seems to me questionable whether, even if we had the ability, we would be morally justified in paying signal and unusual honor to a man who has done for good no more than many other American citizens, and who has offset his stand for good by lamentable public shortcomings in judgment and action. I hate not to agree with you, but I feel I ought to write you in this way. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur Von Briesen, 49 Wall Street, New York. 361 February 15, 1904. My dear Senator Gamble: Mr. George Kennan has just brought to my attention the bill for the opening of a portion of the Rosebud Reservation in Gregory County, House bill 10,418. I have seen Secretary Hitchcock and Assistant Secretary Ryan, and from what they tell me I do not like the looks of the bill in its present form. I cordially agree with the policy of opening the Indian reservations to bona fide settlers so far is compatible with reserving for the Indians the lands they themselves need for agricultural or pastoral purposes, and on condition that for the surplus lands they get adequate payment. But I am not satisfied that the provisions of the present bill, as I understand them, give a sufficient price to the Indians. Ample care must be taken to see that the Indians get the money without question, that the settlers pay it, and that there is no chance for the Indian to be defrauded by 362 ferring of payments or in any other way getting out of making them. Moreover, apparently trustworthy statements are made to me to the effect that the flat price asked for the whole is altogether too small. It has been suggested to me that it would be satisfactory to make that price the minimum, offering the lands at public auction under the homestead law. Of course, the amendment would have to be carefully drawn, so as to provide or permit of regulations for the sale of the land from time to time. I know that in a way it is none of my business how you frame the law in Congress; that my duty comes when I have either to sign or refuse to sign the bill. But I am so anxious that settlers shall have the right to obtain these lands on terms just, not only to them but also to the Indians, that I do not want to take the chance of the bill coming to me in such shape that I could not give my assent to it. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert J. Gamble, United States Senate.363 Personal. February 15, 1904. My dear White: I believe such an editorial from you would be extremely useful and I hope you can see your way clear to go into the arrangement. Either Mr. Loeb or Nicholas Murray Butler could give you from time to time any information that you desired or that they thought would help you. As a matter of fact. I do not think you would need any coaching from outside, however. I thank you heartily for what you say of me. Jake Riis has painted me in altogether too vivid colors, and I am deeply touched by his championship; and my dear sir, I am greatly touched by yours also. You know what I am trying to do. I want to avoid being a fool of the goo-goo or mugwump kind and be perfectly practical, and face men and events as they are. At the same time I want to make things better and not worse. In internal affairs my aim is entirely simple, whether I am dealing with trusts or labor unions, with feeling against the Negro or feeling against the Jew or the Catholic. That is, I am trying to secure the treatment of each man on his merits, and not from the standpoint of his class, Whether this class be based on occupation, financial standing, creed, or color. I want to help the corporation or labor union 364 -2- which does well. I want to cinch it when it does ill. I wish to stand by the capitalist when he is decent and by the wage-worker when he is decent, and against either when he is not decent. And as a great means to this end I want to have it understood that the law is obeyed by every one. I am concerned to learn that Mrs. White is not well. I wish it were in my power to see you and talk over many things. Is it hopeless to expect that later on in the spring or summer you may come East? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. W. A. White, Esq. , The Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas.365 February 16, 1904. To the Department of Justice; I enclose herewith a bill introduced by Senator Clapp and Representative Steenerson, which has just passed, in reference to the Chippewa Reservation. I call you attention to the section on page 14 which I have marked. Assistant Secretary Ryan of the Interior Department holds that under this section. If the parties who should bid at the first sale chose to conspire together and refrain from bidding, they would immediately after that sale was closed have the right to take the land outright at the flat price of your dollars, provided it had not been bid for at the first sale or suction. Much of this land is worth, as I am informed, ten, fifteen, twenty and even thirty dollars an acre, and it would therefore be greatly to the interest of, as the Assistant Secretary says, the parties wishing to get the land366 cheap to conspire to refuse to bid and then be able to get it at the flat price of four dollars. Mr. Steenerson says that the bill cannot interpreted as Assistant Secretary Ryan has interpreted it. Will you kindly see Mr. Steenerson and, if Senator Clapp had returned, Senator Clapp also Senator Nelson and Assistant Secretary Ryan at once and report to me immediately, as the bill will shortly be before me for action? Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure.367 Personal. February 15, 1904. Dear Elihu: I am delighted that the Union League Club is to publish your speech in full. I agree with every word you say as to the conditions [??] in New York. The evil had gone very deep and the effects were becoming noticeable far from the original center. It needed a great speech - a speech which was not only masterly in matter but in manner, and which came from some one whose name demanded attention - in order to produce the necessary effect. I fully believe that you produced that effect. Scores of men have written to me about it, none more enthusiastically, by the way, than our staunch friend, General Grenville M. Dodge. He has just told me that he wishes Hay would now make a speech on our foreign policy which could be put with yours, and Moody's speech at the Republican Club, and issued as a campaign document. I can conceive of no more effective document. Hanna's death has been very sad. Did I tell you the last letter he wrote was one to me? As soon as he was serious sick I called at the hotel, as a matter of course. For some inexplicable reason this affected him very much, appeal go to the generous and large-hearted side of his nature, and he at once sent me a pencil note running as368 -2- "My dear Mr. President: "You touched a tender spot, old man, when you called personally to inquire after me this a.m. I may be worse before I can be better, but all the same such "drops" of kindness are good for the fellow. Sincerely yours, M.A. HANNA. "Friday p.m." No man had a larger traits than Hanna. He was a big man in every way and as forceful a personality as we have seen in public life in our generation.. I think that not merely I myself, but the whole party and the whole country have reason to be very grateful to him for the way in which, after I came into office, under circumstances which were very hard for him, he resolutely declined to be drawn into the position which smaller man of meaner cast would inevitably have taken; that is, the position of antagonizing public policies if I was identified with them. He could have caused the widest disaster to the country and the public if he had attack and opposed the policies reforming to Panama, the Philippines, Cuban reciprocity, army reform, the navy, and the legislation for regulating corporations. But he stood by them just as loyally as if I had been McKinley. Mrs. Hanna has been very much shattered; and it has all been very sad. Panama is certainly going through, and I think they will vote about the 23d. We shall get nearly half the democrats, and I don't think we shall loose a single republican. Even Hoar, by a path so bewilderingly devious that I am really unable to follow the winding, has come around369 -3- to the support of the treaty. Yes, it was on the suggestion of "Bill the Kaiser" that we sent out the note on the neutrality of China. But the insertion of the word "entity" was ours. His suggestion originally was in untenable form; that is , he wanted us to guarantee the integrity of China south of the latitude of the Great Wall, which would have left Russia free to gobble up what she really wanted. We changed the proposal by striking out the limitation, and Germany cheerfully acceded! It is a good thing to give Germany all credit for making the suggestion. As a matter of fact, in this instance Germany behaved better than any other power, for in England Lansdowne drove us half crazy with thick-headed inquiries and requests about our making more specific exactly what it was highly inexpedient to make specific at all. Indeed the Japs showed themselves pas masters in the practical application of Davis Harum's famous gloss on the "Do unto others" injunction. They did it fust! Oh, if only our people would learn the need of preparedness, and of shaping things so that decision and action can alike be instantaneous. Mere bigness, if it is also mere flabbiness, means nothing but disgrace. Moody, by the way, is being harried by Hale in naval matter until he feels like crying. Still, we do make progress. I have been , on the whole, delighted with Upton's book, and I think you rendered a great service in publishing it. But it is a one-sided 370 -4- book. Take his account of the 1813 campaign. The serious invasions of Canada in that year were made by two old army officers, Wilkinson and Hampton, with two regular armies amply sufficient in size for the look.They would have succeeded if they had been under the two militia, or volunteer, officers Jack Brown and Andrew Jackson. They failed because they were under two incompetents, who had seen long service in the army. I other words, Upton should have remembered to qualify continually what he said by remembering that mere length of service, that mere calling troops"regulars", amount to nothing whatever. When are you coming on to Washington? Remember that you and Mrs. Root and Miss Edith are to stay with us whenever you are here. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. Elihu Root, 32 Liberty Street, New York. 371 Personal. February 16, 1904. My dear Mr. Von Briesen: If I could see you I would explain at length my feeling in this matter. As I must write, let me say it seems to me impracticable and on the whole inadvisable to take such steps as you suggest. There are many honorable men in public life for whom, or on whose behalf, similar requests might be made, and the precedent might be a very uncomfortable one. I hate not to agree with you, but I feel I ought to write in this way. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur von Briesen, 49 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. 372 February 16, 1904. My dear General Dodge: Since you wrote me poor Hanna has died. I am very sorry. I shall bring your letter to Hay's attention at once and see if he can make the speech. I think your suggestion admirable. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Gen. Grensille M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, N. Y. [*372*] February 16, 1904. My dear General Dodge; Since you wrote me poor Hanna has died. I am very , very sorry. I shall bring your letter to Hay's attention at once and see if he can make the speech. I think your suggestion admirable. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, N.Y.373 February 16. 1904. My dear Senator Quay: I have your letter of the 3d. Was Woodworth's father in the Army or Navy of the United States? All of the appointments for this year have been made, but if his father was in the Army or Navy of the United States I think I can appoint him for next year if you strongly wish it. You know I only appoint sons of Army or Navy officers. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt The Topelius books have just come. You are awfully kind. I shall read them at once. Hon. M. S. Quay, United States Senate.[*374*] February 16, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Felton: What do you know of Charles S. Wheeler, Garret W. McEnery and Wm. S. Goodfellow, three lawyers of San Francisco? One of our most prominent eastern jurists says he regards them as the three biggest lawyers there. How do you feel about it? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. C. N. Felton, Care of Hon. Geo. C. Perkins, United States Senate.[*375*] February 16, 1904. Ernest F. Piplblad, Lindsborg, Kansas. I deeply regret to learn of the sad news you have telegraphed me. Pray express my sympathy to President Swensson's bereaved family. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Charge to the President's Personal Account.[*378*] February 16, 1904. My dear Gilder: I am very much pleased, of course, with those allusions to me. I saw Johnson's son the other day, and was concerned to know that you are still so far from well. I hope Florida will set you on your feet soon. Coming back, can you not stop in Washington with Mrs. Gilder and take dinner with us? I should so like to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, The Century Company, Union Square, New York, N. Y.[*379*] February 16, 1904. My dear Miss Quay: I am very much obliged for the Topelius books. I look forward with genuine pleasure to reading them, and deeply appreciate your and your father's courtesy. With high regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Coral Quay, 1612 K Street, Washington, D. C.380 February 16, 1904. My dear Judge Childs: I have just found out the during my absence in the West last year, you were thoughtful and kind enough to write me a letter of congratulation on the outcome in the franchise tax case. I now hasten to tell you how much I appreciate your good words. It was characteristic of you to write, and I am greatly mortified at my seeming neglect to answer. If your letter had either been seen by my Secretary, Mr. Loeb, or by me , it would have been acknowledged at once; but it must have gotten into the hands of some clerk who did not understand its importance. Again heartily thanking you, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Henry A. Childs, Supreme Court, Buffalo. N. Y.381 February 16, 1904. My dear Governor: I am very much obliged to you for your letter. I have written Judge Childs at once. I never knew that he had written me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. Frank W. Higgins, Lieutenant Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.382 February 17, 1904. My dear Doctor: I take the liberty of sending for Archie, because he and my boy are namesakes, the enclosed check, to be used in your discretion in any way you see fit. With regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Joseph Bullock, Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.383 February 17, 1904. Darling Corinne: Thank McDougall Hawkes. I had already written, on O'Brien's suggestion, both to the Senator and to the Governor as to the date of fixing the convention. I do not quite see my way clear to do anything with Mr. Bliss. I have been as nice as possible with him. Poor Hanna! His death was veritable tragedy. With love to Douglas, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Jr. , 422 Madison Avenue, New York.384 February 17, 1904. My dear Mr. Davitt: I have already begun to read Joice's two volumes with genuine interest. I thank you heartily for them and also for the two blackthorns, which, coming at the beginning of the Presidential year, i shall accept as good omens! It is always a real pleasure to see you. You must never go through Washington without letting me know. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Michael Davitt, The New Willard, Washington, D. C.385 February 17, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Wilson: Your letter was most interesting and gave me a bit of inside news which I though of value. Would you object to my sending it to Dawes? Judging by what you say, Mr. Kent stands in very urgent need himself of profiting by good advice. I am interested in what you tell me about his action concerning Graeme Stewart. I wish I could come to Chicago as you suggest, but it is out of the question. I hope some time to see you here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Walter H. Wilson, President, The Merchants Club, Chicago, Illinois.386 February 17, 1904. My dear Admiral Walker: What do you think of the enclosed? Have you been able to find out anything about those four lawyers? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rear Admiral John G. Walker, 79 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. Enclosure. The enclosure is a letter from Lewis A. Hicks of Berkeley, Calif., in behalf of Mr. Grumsky for appointment of Panama Canal Commission.387 February 17, 1904. My dear Mr. Howland: I thank you heartily for the first copy of Jake Riis' book. I feel Jake has portrayed me not as I am, but as I ought to be, and all I can say is that I shall try my best to live up to the portrayal. With heartiest good wished, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Wm. B. Howland, The Outlook Company, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y.388 February 17, 1904. My dear Senator Fairbanks: I was very sorry you went away as there were several things I should have liked to talk over with you; but Senator Beveridge had been waiting half an hour before you came in, and I did not feel I could pass him by. It is very good of you to have brought me the telegram about my endorsement by the 12th district convention. I thank you heartily for it. With regards and thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, United States Senate.389 February 17, 1904. Dear Katie: I shall see Dr. Kin with pleasure. Whether I can say anything to the Chinese Minister I do not know, but if the opening comes, after my talk with Dr. Kin, I shall do so with pleasure. In great haste, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Katharine Bowlker, 282 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.390 February 17, 1904. My dear Davis: I send you the enclosed with pleasure. All I ask is that you do not let any one else know that I have given such a thing to you. It would bring a shower of like requests upon my head. Keep it between Griscom and yourself. Good luck go with you! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Richard Harding Davis, Marion, Massachusetts. Enclosure.391 February 17, 1904. My dear Mr. Griscom: You know Richard Harding Davis as well as I do. He had been close to me in many ways, and I was an eye-witness of his admirable work at Santiago. Any way you can help him by procuring for him a pass, or in any other way, will be much appreciated by me. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Lloyd G. Griscom, Minister of the United States, Tokio, Japan.392 February 17, 1904. My dear father Doyle: I am afraid it would be out of the question for me to make any address. Cannot you have a special delegation, say two or three hundred, come to the White House where I would receive them, greet them and the whole body ' through them, and shake hands with them? Would not this do? Of course, give me a chance to see you personally more at length. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. A. P. Doyle, 120 West 60th Street, New York, N. Y.393 February 17, 1904. My dear Johnson: It was a pleasure to see your son and to help out in the forestry matter. While I could not write a letter to be published, I can make a statement which Gifford Pinchot can quote at the beginning of his article. This will, I think, achieve your purpose. I am very much obliged for the book. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R. U. Johnson, The Century Magazine, Union Square, New York.394 February 17, 1904. Personal My dear White: Your letter interests me. The views of Quincy, Croker, etc., shall be kept entirely to myself. Poor Hanna has just died. Thank Heaven, before he became sick the whole opposition to me had collapsed. Hanna was a very strong personality, with many large and generous traits. I am much obliged for your information about England's attitude toward the Yang-tse valley. It is borne out by her recent action. Germany, I am bound to say, has acted very well. Was it not astonishing that the Russians should have shown themselves so utterly slack and unready? With heartiest good wishes, believe me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry White, 6 Whitehall Gardens, S. W., London, England.395 February 17, 1904. Personal. Dear Murray: What an infamous sheet that paper is! Upon my word, I fail to see any difference in point of truthfulness between it and the Journal. Do get on here whenever you can. I have so much to speak of with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.396 February 17, 1904. Personal. My dear Judge Taft: In California we must look out about Jasper Ewing Brady. I have been informed that he was $1600 short with the New York Life Insurance Company by whom he was employed, and that he went to California for this reason. Sincerely, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War.397 February 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Wadsworth: I earnestly hope you can see your way clear to accept in the Committee on Conference the two Senate changes which allow $1000 for transporting and fencing the Miller and Lux herd of elk, and raise the Biological Survey from division to bureau rank. I do not know when I have written to any one about a matter in conference between the two Houses, but I have taken a very great interest in the governmental work which is most affected by these two changes. I know all about them, and I do most earnestly hope that you will be able conscientiously to support them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. James W. Wadsworth, House of Representatives.398 February 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Northrop: I fear there would be no chance to put Mr. McMullen on the commission. The qualities required are of a very technical type. It is a great pleasure to hear from you. I wish I was able to see you more often. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Cyrus Northrop, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.399 February 18, 1904. My dear Senator Frye: The Senate ceremonies at Senator Hanna's funeral were impressive in every way; and to me the most impressive and the touching part was your final sentence. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. P. Frye, United States Senate.400 February 18, 1904. My dear Morton: You speak of Captain Payson in a way that entitles him to the most serious consideration. It is possible, however, I may have to take a lawyer from the Pacific slope. I shall let you know later. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Paul Morton, Esq., 77 Jackson Street, Chicago, Illinois.401 February 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Williams: Before I received your note I had already appointed, or rather Taft had appointed, General Duke. I regret not being able to do what you desire. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John S. Williams, House of Representatives.402 February 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Kennan: I thank you heartily for your note. You have exactly my idea as to the two bills. In view of the seeming honesty of the backers of the Minnesota bill, and of the failure to oppose it until it reached me, I shall sign it. But as for the South Dakota bill, I have notified the people in charge of it that in its present shape it is objectionable, and if they do not make it satisfactory I shall refuse to sign it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. George Kennan, The Mendota, Washington.403 February 18, 1904. Personal My dear Mr. Seligman: In strict confidence, I am inclined to think that William Barclay Parsons is an even better man than Burr, although Burr is a good man. I do not wish you to speak of this, however, as I have not come to a final decision. Woodward is a fine fellow. I should like you to write a letter to Admiral Walker about him, stating what you have stated to me. Walker will undoubtedly be on the Commission. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, Mills Building, New York.404 February 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Costigan: Through you I extend my heartiest greeting to the brethren of the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club. Somehow the combination of the Rocky Mountains and Harvard has always struck me as a mighty good one. With best wishes, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Geo. P. Costigan, Jr., Pres., Rocky Mountain Harvard Club, Earnest and Cranmer Building, Denver, Colo.405 February 18, 1904. Personal My dear Dr. Jordan: I hear highly of Marx. I doubt if he has had quite the wide business experience that I should expect in the man I take from the Pacific Coast, if I take an engineer. I have been considering Garber, Slack, and Pillsbury, if I take a lawyer; Schutzler, Gunski, and Adams, if I take an engineer; and Paysen, if I take a business man and an engineer. But this is all for your private information. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. David S. Jordan, Care President Hadley, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.406 February 18, 1904. My dear Governor: I have your letter of the 16th. Good! Just let me know in advance, so that I may have your room ready. Any day will be agreeable to me except February 23rd and 24th and March 12th. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.407 February 18, 1904. My dear Judge Lewis: You are entirely at liberty to say from me, and show this letter (although of course not for publication) to any one who doubts what you say, that the administration is taking no part in any contest within the party in any State; that in Virginia, as in the other Southern States, my desire is to see a genuine republican party in which the lead shall not be taken by office holders, and that as between two equally good men for any position of leadership such as that you mention, within the party lines, my choice is for the non-office holder. This statement can not be made universal, because there are leaders who should undoubtedly remain active as such even though they hold office; but they should not become leaders by the mere fact of holding office. Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. L. L. Lewis. Merchants' National Bank Building, Richmond, Virginia.408 February 18, 1904. Dear Judge: Do not think me hard-hearted and suspicious if I put down the hero of that specila-delivery-stamp Coller as a crank of the first water. How much do you really know about him? He is evidently a gentle, harmless creature; but I fear that he is much worse than dangerous. That is, that he is a long-winded bore. Don't you think it would be better for me not to see him unless he can tell me the specific thing it is he wishes to see me about? A roving commission to do away with evils in trusts, labor unions and the like, without any hint of specific methods makes me feel rather doubtful. I am very busy; and though I have time for recreation (including that which a worm-eaten heart can take in light opera) I have not time for an hour's discussion of intricate subjects with a gentle,406 fuddled friend, who never gets any "forrader." What do you know of the man/ Cannot he write me any questions he has to put to me? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. O. W. Holmes, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1720 I Street.410 February 19, 1904. My dear Senator: I heartily thank you for your note enclosing the resolution of the republicans of Hennepin County. I am glad, by the way, that the bill for the sale of the lands proves to be in such shape that it is all right. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Knute Nelson, United States Senate.411 February 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Fischer: I have succumbed. Mrs. Roosevelt and I have come to the conclusion that we will enjoy that Simons so much as to warrant the loss of interest on the money! And we believe that it will be a fair investment for the children. So I shall send you a check for $2000 for it. Was that not the sum you mentioned? Do you wish the check now, or can I send it to you April 1st? I cannot say how I enjoyed my glimpse of your picture today. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. victor G. Fischer, 527 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C.412 February 19, 1904. My dear Senator Quay: You have been so kind to me in so many ways that I hate to be in any way unreciprocative. If I could consider the claims of any man or of any State, I should certainly take a Pennsylvanian. But it does seem to me that in handling this Commission I should do nothing on the ground of locality, save to give a representation of one member to Pacific Coast and of one to the Gulf ; and even on these two points, if I fail to get the right men I shall unhesitatingly pass by both the Coast and the Gulf. The engineers I am inclined to appoint are William Barclay Parsons and Noble. Both names have suggested themselves to me, and been suggested by others, so far as I know without either of the men having been spoken to; and I don't know whether either would or could accept. I have had to refuse to appoint an admirable young fellow in whom Lodge was intensely interested, though I was able to place him on the Philippine Commission. Senator Platt has been interested in a first-class man, Burr, who is entirely fit for the position; yet I am inclined to think, although I have not definitely made up my mind, that Parsons is the better man; and although he has no backing whatever, if I come to the conclusion that he is the better man, I think I ought to appoint him. Parsons is a New York man. Where Noble comes from I don't know,413 2 and, indeed, I don't really care. He is in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad and I hope he is a Pennsylvanian, but I haven't an idea. He is digging their tunnel under the North River. In any ordinary appointments I am only too glad to consider political recommendations and the recommendations of my friends, and I should do the same even on extraordinary occasions where so much was not involved. But when we come to a position like this I feel as I do when I am choosing a judge for the Supreme Court, that I must have an eye single to the way the work will be done. I hope you do not think this the letter of a prig. I very earnestly hope you will soon be well enough to come back. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. M. S. Quay. Kilcaire, St. Lucie, Florida.414 February 19, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Felton: How about Mr. Garber? I know him, and in some ways he seems to be the biggest lawyer west of the mountains. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. C. N. Felton, Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa.415 February 19, 1904. My dear General Howard: Your letter of the 18th instant has been received. The President never writes personally to the head of a foreign country in a case like this, but he takes the utmost pleasure in enclosing a personal note to Ambassador Powell Clayton. Will this do? Very sincerely yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. General O. O. Howard, Care Y. M. C. A. , Northampton, Massachusetts. Enclosure416 February 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Ambassador: Neither General O.O. Howard nor his nephew stands in much need of an introduction from me; but may I ask that you personally convey to President Diaz my statement that General Howard is that living veteran of the Civil War whom this country most delights to honor, and that to have the opportunity of doing anything he asks is a privilege which is genuinely appreciated? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Powell Clayton, United States Ambassador, Mexico City, Mexico. 417 February 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Parsons: On the new Isthmian Canal Commission, which is to consist of seven members, I should like to appoint you. I hope you can serve. My aim is to have the Commission the best and most representative body of the kind that has been appointed. Trusting to hear from you at as early a date as possible, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William Barclay Parsons, 320 Broadway, New York.418 February 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Noble: On the new Isthmian Canal Commission, which is to consist of seven members, I should like to appoint you. I hope you can serve. My aim is to have the Commission the best and most representative body of the kind that has been appointed. Trusting to hear from you at as early a date as possible, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Alfred Noble. 43 Astor Court Building, New York.419 February 19, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Platt: After carefully thinking over our conversation the other day, it still seems to me that Barclay Parsons and Noble are the two best men from the engineering and administrative standpoint for the Isthmian Canal. If either of them refuses to take it, Burr is the next best. With regard. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, United States Senate.420 February 19, 1904. Dear Senator Spooner; I forgot to congratulate you on your speech when you were here today. Now, my dear sir, If I tried to congratulate you every time that I think you have rendered some signal feat of service to the country and to the party, I should spend my leisure hours in little but writing you commendatory notes. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. C. Spooner, United States Senate.421 Personal February 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Houser: Will you not let me know about that [?] matter at your earliest convenience? I do not think action can be longer delayed. Can you not wire me on receipt of this note? I am very sorry to have to write you in this way, but I am sure you will understand that I have no alternative. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. D. M. Houser. The Globe-Democrat, St. Louis.422 Personal. February 19, 1904. My dear Judge: I thank you for your letter and am pleased at what you say. I felt just as you did about Shafroth's speech. It was a magnanimous thing on his part, and by implication a severe rebuke to Teller; for if Shafroth was not elected, neither was Teller. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John Campbell, Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Denver, Colorado.423 February 20, 1904. Dear Uncle Rob: I shall take that matter up at once. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, 57 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.424 February 20, 1904. Private. My dear Moody: Will you look into this letter from my uncle, Robert B. Roosevelt, and take up the matter personally? Evans is a good fellow, but he may allow his vindictiveness to cloud his judgment. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy. Enclosure.425 February 20, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Proctor: I most earnestly hope that Hart Merriam's division can be made a bureau in the department of Agriculture. As a sportsman and lover of nature I know that without any words from me you will do all you can to keep in the provision appropriating some money for the transfer and guarding these last survivors of the great herd of California elk. Do, when you battle for these subjects, get into, and keep in, the same frame of mind as when you were in the Civil War, or moose hunting, or guiding the President after a wild boar! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Redfield Proctor, United States Senate.426 Personal February 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Moot: That is a good picture, and the interview accompanying it shows that the mother is of the right kind and knows how to rear her children. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Adelbert Moot, 45 Erie County Savings Bank Building, Buffalo, N. Y.427 February 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Harrod: On the new Isthmian Canal Commission, which is to consist of seven members. I should like to appoint you. I hope you can serve. My aim is to have the Commission the best and most representative body of the kind that has been appointed. Trusting to hear from you at as early a date as possible, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Benjamin H. Harrod, Civil Engineer, New Orleans, Louisiana.428 February 20, 1904. Personal. My dear President Eliot: I have your letter of the 19th instant. Symmes is a very good man, but I think there are two or three even better men. I shall probably choose Garber, the head of the bar in San Francisco, if he will accept. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Charles W. Eliot, Care of President Arthur T. Hadley, 93 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Conn.429 February 20, 1904. My dear Mr. Grosscup: At last I am able to write you that your suggestions have been carried out to the letter. After not a little diplomacy Cole has been put in as Superintendent of the Forest Reserve, and Ludden will be kept where he is for the time being. I am very much obliged to you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. B. S. Grosscup, Tacoma, Wahington.430 Personal. February 20, 1904. Dear Mr. Cortelyou: The enclosed letter from Von Briesen explains itself. I don't think we should delay a day in publishing that report. When will it be out? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Enclosure431 February 20, 1904. Hon. John Garber, Berkeley, California, Confidential. I desire to appoint you as one of the seven members of the Isthmian Canal Commission. You will be the only lawyer on the Commission, the other six being now as eminent in engineering and in business. This is to be the great feat of the Century and I am choosing the commissioners as carefully as I choose justices of the Supreme Court or members of the Cabinet. I feel that those who are chosen owe it as a duty to the country to accept. Please wire me. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Official.432 February 19, 1904. Dear Kermit: You will find that poem in your anthology - the "red line book" I think is what you call it. The weather here has been o bad that we could hardly have ridden anyhow. I once took Wyoming out, but he blew like a small steam engine as soon as I tried to put him at any speed. Yagenka is fortunately getting well, but I feel rather hopeless about by own horses. I wish you could have been at lunch the other day when Buffalo Bill was there, together with John Willis, who used to hunt bear and white goat and caribou and elk with me in Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia. Buffalo Bill is really a fine follow, a medal-of-honor man, who fought gallantly in the Civil War and the Indian wars; was one of the most remarkable scouts we ever had on the plains; and who is now a good citizen much interested in irrigation besides his Wild West433 show. Last evening about nine we heard a noise in the nursery, I went in, and there were the two little boys in the fire light, sitting up in bed, chuckling and trying in turn to repeat poems to one another. I was received on term of frank friendship, as a boon companion who happened to have strolled in, and in my turn repeated the [?] concluding cantos of the saga of King Olaf. Occasionally I walk with Roly Fortoscue or some other friend, and this afternoon I am going to have about with the broadswords with Roly. But I eat too much and have very little exercise, and work all the time in sedentary fashion, and so I naturally get all out of condition. I hope you will enjoy seeing Sister. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.434 February 20, 1904. My dear Fox; I wish you all luck on your eastern trip. You were with me a part of the time during the Santiago campaign, and I know how well fitted you are from every standpoint as a war correspondent. You are at liberty to show this letter to any of our officers, civil or military, whom you may meet, and to say from me that I shall heartily appreciate any courtesy shown you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. John Fox, Jr., Palace Hotel, San Francisco.435 Personal February 20, 1904. My dear Mr. Von Briesen: Most emphatically I regard the work of the Commission as admirable in every way. Secretary Cortelyou and Mr. Garfield are at present in Ohio, having gone there to attend Senator Hanna's Funeral. As soon as they return I shall have the report published. As for the Wood matter, it will soon be up in the Senate. Then I shall see if we can not get Mr. Root's statement, Foraker's report, and perhaps one or two other speeches put forth as documents. Frankly, however, I feel disheartened as to getting the public to understand certain things. A more vile and infamous and utterly baseless attack has never been made upon a high-minded public servant. Probably you know that I have done nothing whatever but promote Wood in the order of his seniority. For special and marked service McKinley436 singled him out for a brigadier generalship three years ago. Then was the time he was jumped; but at that time his nomination, out of order, was confirmed, and very little talk was made about it. Since then he has done better service than any other brigadier general, and the attacks against his character are not merely without one particle of foundation, but are made or instigated by the thieves to whose thefts he put an end. And I have simply promoted him in his order, declining to jump any less worthy man over his head. These are the facts. They have been published hundreds of times, yet people refuse to see them. I don't know how to make them [more evident]. I shall let you know as soon as Secretary Cortelyou comes back. I think the report will be published immediately. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur Von Briesen, 49 Wall Street, New York.437 February 19, 1904. Dear Ted: Poor Hanna's death was a tragedy. At the end he wrote me a note, the last he ever wrote, which showed him at his best, and which I much appreciate. His death was very sad for his family and close friends, for he had many large and generous traits, and had made a great success in life by his energy, perseverance and burly strength. As for me personally, the point had been passed where he could either harm or hurt me to any appreciable extent. Buffalo Bill was at lunch the other day, together with John Willis, my old hunter. Buffalo Bill has always been a great friend of mine. I remember when I was running for Vice-president I struck a Kansas town just when the Wild West show was there. He got upon the rear platform of my car and made a brief speech on my behalf, ending with the statement that "a cyclone from the West had come; no wonder the rats hunted their cellars!"438 [Roly Fortescue is moving Heaven and earth to get a chance to start for Korea to see the fighting. He is an adventurous, eager little fellow, and I like him.] As for you, I think the West Point education is of course good for any man, but I still think that you have too much in you for me to be glad to see you go into the Army, where in time of peace progress is so much a matter of routine. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt [It is curious that though Roly can--as he ought to--easily outlast me at walking, and indeed probably at riding, having better wind and being rounder in limb; yet in a bout with the single sticks or broadswords I can wear him down and do him out so that he loses his wind and his strength.] Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.439 February 20, 1904. My dear Mr. Boyd: I have your letter of the 19th instant. It is always a pleasure to hear from you, but in this case I am sorry to say I have already decided on the men for the Panama Commission, from the East. With regard, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles S. Boyd, Superintendent of Public Works, Albany, N. Y.440 February 21, 1904. Mr. A. J. Cassatt, President, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 202 West Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Personal. Can you possibly come here tomorrow and talk with me on the matter of national importance? Theodore Roosevelt. (Official.)441 February 20, 1904. Personal. Dear Admiral Dewey: Reports indicating a condition of serious disturbance and grave danger to important American interests have been coming to me for a considerable period from Santo Domingo. I am led to think that matters are growing more serious all the while in Santo Domingo, yet, owing to the interruption in the cable service, I am unable to get late and comprehensive news. I wish, therefore, if compatible with your other duties, you with the assistance of Mr. Loomis and Admiral Taylor and Commander Sargent would go to Santo Domingo, investigate conditions and give me a full, impartial searching account of the situation as it now presents itself to your eyes. I442 I want to get at the truth and shall also be glad to have you make any suggestions bearing upon conditions there that may occur to you, and which you think would contribute to a full understanding of the situation. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Admiral George Dewey, Navy Department. P.S. Of course carry on your investigations directly [??] with the least [??] publicly; I do not wish these to be any [??] that you [??/] in official [????????????????]443 February 21, 1904. Dear Elihu: Won't you and your family make your headquarters at the White House for just as long as you can on Thursday afternoon, and let me know when to expect you? I shall read your speech this afternoon. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Mutual Life Building, New York, N. Y.444 Personal. February 20, 1904. My dear Senator Proctor: I thank you for your courtesy in showing me that letter from your [?] correspondent. If you knew him and could show him this letter, I should write you at length, setting forth why I considered his letter wholly unwarranted and why I regard it as carrying its own antidote. But it is hardly worth while to write at length concerning the letter of a man who may be writing to you under an assumed name; for I notice he gives no specific address. There are one or two points I should like to make, however. This correspondent is either wholly ignorant of the facts, or else does not write in good faith. For instance, he says that, "Not one of the Brigadier Generals who have been nominated in the past two years has been in any way distinguished for any command in the field, in Cuba, China, the Philippines, or anywhere else." Yet later he mentions Baldwin, Wint and Lee, each of whom was promoted by me, and each of whom was promoted for service in the field in Cuba, China and the Philippines. Evidently your correspondent's memory is of the shortest. In the next paragraph he says, "Among recent nominations, I will mention those of General Wood to be Major General; Generals Carter, Bliss, Barry and Mills to be Brigadier Generals. Each one of them, except Mills, was a staff officer and445 -2- non-combatant when appointed General, and have not risked their skins to bullets, nor the health of their bodies by work in the field in Cuba or the Philippines." Now, this statement is simply false. Mills was actually shot and left for dead at Santiago. Barry has done well in the Philippines. Wood served with distinguished gallantry in the Santiago campaign, and is now serving with quite as great efficiency as any other man in the Philippines has shown, against the Moros. He has been [adamantly? in the L?? [?] and the [??] . Your correspondent, if ignorant of these facts, is not entitled to write at all; and unless he is ignorant of them his effort to suppress them must be set down to pure malevolence. In the next paragraph he says that General Mills has never commanded a troop as Captain, and was acting as a staff officer and non-combatant in Cuba. I really hardly know whether to state that this falsehood is malevolent, or absurd. As I have said before, he was shot and dreadfully wounded at Santiago during the battle in which he at one time acted as squadron commander and in which he showed distinguished gallantry, being in the thick of the fighting up to the very time he was hit. If he was a non-combatant, then all I have to say is that there is not a combatant in the army. When your correspondent says of these officers that they would not have received the rewards they have enjoyed for the past few years except for the influence of their Washington friends, he says what is not true; and he either knows it is not true or else he has no business to write about what he knows nothing about. Of course the President and Secretary of War, one of whom recommends and the other446 -3- makes the appointments, have to stay in Washington. But there has not been the smallest pressure, political, social, or personal, for any of the officers I have mentioned. they have all been chosen purely on their records, and because it was deemed that they could render good service. Again, when your correspondent says of various men that ninety-nine percent of the army know that they are far better and more efficient officers then General Wood, he either states what is not true or he makes a serious reflection upon the intelligence of the army. I respect all the men he mentions, but not a single competent man whom I know, who is fit to pass judgment upon them, would far a moment regard any one of them as being equal to General Wood in capacity to render good service - as being, for instance the equal of General Wood as Governor General of Cuba, or in his present position in handling the Moros. I have not the time to go over every absurdity or your correspondent, but I call attention to his final paragraph, when he speaks of the efficiency of Napoleon's army being due to the feeling that every soldier carried in his knapsack a marshal's baton. for once he has mentioned a truth and he actually has not the wit to see that it was because Napoleon declined to fill up the general officers from the list of amiable, elderly incapable, and did give rapid promotion to the younger men that he rendered his army so terrible to the army. When a man mean at a promotion because to promote man was in [??????????????] So much for your correspondent. Now my dear Senator, for your own letter. I am at a loss to know quite what you mean. I absolutely realize that If I fail to convince the members of the Senate Committee447 -4- on Military Affairs that the men I recommend for promotion are men whom it is for the interest of the army to see thus promoted, I had better stick strictly to seniority. I am equally convinced that to stick strictly to seniority means to do what I can to bring about the death of the army by dry rot. When I was in the Santiago campaign there were two facts in connection with the regular army officers which impressed me with equal vividness. One was the great efficiency of the lieutenants and junior captains; the other was the comparative inefficiency of most of the regular army officers of field rank. Of course there were exceptions in each case, but the rule was as I have stated it. Take Mills, of whom your correspondent complains. He was then a first lieutenant. I was associated intimately with him. I should have been delighted to have seen him in command of the brigade and to have served under him. There were other captains and lieutenants in the cavalry division toward whom I felt in much the same way. But with two or three exceptions I did not feel in the least that way about the officers actually commanding the regiments. On the contrary I felt that I was a great deal better man than they were, and in an actual fight I knew, and every one else knew, that I showed myself such. I do not want to put the names down on paper, but when I see you I shall give you the names and facts in detail. In making promotions during my term I have tried roughly to equalize the number of those made as rewards for past services, and the number of448 -5- those made with the hope of getting good service for the army in the future. In the latter case the promotion has been made among junior officers after the most painstaking effort by the Secretary of War and by me to get at the relative worth of the different individuals. In the recent nominations either General Chaffee or General Young has been consulted in every case; and to the best of my belief every promotion has had the approval of one or both of them. It is entirely possible, and indeed probable, that sometimes we have all of us erred in our judgment as to the man promoted, and that sometimes we have passed by some good, quiet man, who has never happened to have had the chance to show the stuff that was really in him; but I most firmly believe that on the whole the promotions have been of good men, and I am absolutely certain that the average man we have promoted in this way has been beyond all comparison better than the average man we should have gotten by adherence to the principle of mere seniority. Could not you and some members of your Committee come up some day to see me, and let me take up with entire frankness, for discussion among us, the names of all possible candidates, so that I may show you just exactly what has influenced me? With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Redfield Proctor, United States Senate. Enclosure February 22, 1904. Paul R. Hawkins, Commander-in-Chief, Fred. A. Walker, Adjutant General, National Legion of Spanish War Veterans, Worcester, Mass. I thank you cordially for your kind telegram of greeting. Pray convey to the assembled comrades my warm regards. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.)450 Personal. February 22, 1904. My dear Fisher: I thank you for your letter which I have read with great interest and much concern. I should like to see you if at any time you happen to be in Washington. Since I wrote you President Harper, of the University of Chicago, has cordially commanded Jamieson to me. Do you wonder that an outsider finds it difficult to steer himself in such matters? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Walter L. Fisher, 107 Dearborn Street, Chicago.451 February 22, 1904. Dear Frank: I hear that you and Mrs. Webb may come on to Washington soon. Let me know in advance. It would be such a pleasure to have you both dine at the White House. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frank Egerton Webb, 49 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.452 February 22, 1904. Dear Bob: Did you get my last letter? When can you come on here to take lunch or dinner? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Robert Bacon, Esq., 1 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y.453 February 22, 1904. Dear Cabot: On Wednesday night Benjamin Ide Wheeler dines with me. Can't you come too? Would not Nannie like to come? Wheeler is an interesting man. Then if you are free I shall dine with you Friday, and if I may leave the matter open, I'll dine with you Thursday also, in case I find the Roots are not going to stay to dinner. I shall let you know that afternoon. I need not say that I want you to tell me exactly whether this is convenient or not. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, United States Senate.454 February 22, 1904. My dear Mrs. Wood; I send you a copy of a letter from Senator Proctor, with an enclosure, and of my letter in response. I have sent you these various letters because I thought you and Leonard might some time like to look over them. I think we shall have a vote on Leonard's nomination soon now, and I am as certain as any one can be that we have a good margin. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Leonard Wood, 23 Lanier Place, Washington. Enclosures455 February 22, 1904. Gentlemen: I shall cherish the memory of the occasions when as Governor I was your guest. I wish it were possible for me to be with you now. May all good fortune attend you is the wish of Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Legislative Reporters Association, Albany, N. Y. February 22, 1904. My dear Ed: Your telegram received, and I enclose letter. With best wishes, Faithfully yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Mr. George Edward Graham, Associated Press, Albany, N. Y.456 February 22, 1904. My dear Mr. Griscom: This is to introduce to you my kinsman by marriage and former member of my regiment. Lieutenant Granville Roland Fortescue of the United States Army. Lieutenant Fortescue has obtained six months leave in order to visit the seat of the war. If you can secure him permission to go with one of the Japanese armies I shall be glad. It is a pleasure to commend him to your courtesy. He can be depended upon in every way. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Lloyd C. Griscom, United States Minister, Tokyo, Japan.457 February 23, 1904. Dear Cabot: Of course it would be silly to give up the dinner to the ambassadors. I am awfully sorry, however. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, United States Senate.458 Personal February 23, 1904. Dear Bishop: Indeed you were not meddling about the immigration office. I was very sorry to receive the letter, and of course more sorry that it was necessary to write it; but it was your duty. I have been hoping and praying for three months that the San Domingans would behave so that I would not have to act in any way. I want to do nothing but what a policeman has to do in San Domingo. As for annexing the island, I have about the same desire to annex it as a gorged boa constrictor might have to swallow a porcupine wrong-end-to. Is that strong enough? I have asked some of our people to go there because, after having refused for three months to do anything, the attitude of the San Domingans has become one of half chaotic war towards us. If I possibly can I want to do nothing to them. If it is absolutely necessary to do something, then I want to do as little as possible.459 The government has been bedeviling us to establish some kind of a protectorate over the Islands, and take charge of their finances. We have been answering them that we could not possibly go into the subject now at all. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. B. Bishop, The Commercial Advertiser, 187 Broadway, New York.460 Personal February 23, 1904. My dear Senator Platt: In accordance with our conversation I saw Representative Littauer and told him that you had said the appointment in his district could now be made as they were made in other Congressional districts, and I have notified Postmaster General Payne to the same effect. I understand entirely, my dear Senator, that, as said by you, this is on "my own responsibility." I shall send you back the letter from Senator Mitchell tomorrow. With regards to Mrs. Platt, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, United States Senate.461 Personal. February 23, 1904. My dear Mr. Burton: I respect your character and ability so highly and believe so in your power for good, and therefore, as a corollary, in your power for evil if it is misused ; and I am so confident in your good judgment, that I write you a word in reference to your speech on the navy. As you can imagine, this speech was a genuine shock to me. To have Mr. Gorman and Mr. Williams advocate policies which, if carried out, mean jeopardy to the nation's interest and honor, is what we must expect; but that you should take what seem to me such a course is a matter of grave concern. Let me point out very briefly what I regard as the fundamental error in the position of those who now wish to stop our building up the navy, and who nevertheless belong to the republican party. The one unforgivable crime is to put one's self in a position in which strength and courage are needed, and then to show lack of strength and courage. This is precisely the crime committed by those who advocate or have acquiesced in the acquisition of the Philippines, the establishment of navel stations in Cuba, the negotiation of the treaty for building the Panama Canal, the taking of Porto Rico and Hawaii, and the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine, and who nevertheless decline to advocate the building of a navy such as will alone warrant our attitude in any one, not to say all, of462 -2- these matters. It is perfectly allowable, although I think rather ignoble, to take the attitude that this country is to occupy a position in the New Word analogous to that of China in the Old World, to stay entirely within her borders, not to endeavor to assert the Monroe Doctrine, incidentally to leave the Philippines, to abandon the care of the Panama Canal, to give up Hawaii and Porto Rico, etc., etc., and therefore to refuse to build up any navy. It is also allowable, and as I think, in the highest degree far-sighted and honorable, to insist that the attitude of the republican party in all these matters during the last eight years has been the wise and proper attitude, and to insist therefore that the navy shall be kept up and built up as required by the needs of such an attitude. But any attempt to combine the two attitudes is fraught with the certainty of hopeless and ignominious disaster to the Nation. To be rich, aggressive, and yet helpless in war, is to invite destruction. If everything that the republican party has done during the past eight years is all wrong; if we ought not to have annexed Hawaii, or taken the Philippines, or established a kind of protectorate over Cuba, or started to build the Panama Canal, then let us reverse these policies and give up building the navy; but to my mind it is to inflict the greatest wrong on the generations who come after us if we persevere in these policies and do not back them up by building a navy. Mr. Williams, for instance, is against the fortification of Subig Bay. He affects to regard the fortification of Subig Bay as a menace to the463 -3- independence of the Philippines with which it has nothing in the world to do. I do not know how much his attitude is due to sheer ignorance, or unwillingness or inability to think things out, or how much it is more affectation. Of course, in any event, for him, coming from a state where his party supremacy and his own political success rest wholly and exclusively on the basis of governing the majority of his fellow citizens, who happen to have different colored skins, without their consent, it is hypocritical and base to make the false plea that he does for the Filipinos. An honest but misguided enthusiast can make such a plea and retain his self-respect, when it is known that at home he is equally sincere in insisting that all men, of whatever race, however incompetent, shall have equal chances to govern themselves. But for a man by his life and by every act which gratifies his own ambitions at home to prove the negative of what he asserts in reference to people abroad, is even more base than it is foolish. Without regard to this, however, Mr. Williams' attitude about Subig Bay is monstrous in view of what we have seen happen before our eyes to the Russians at Port Arthur because of their unpreparedness. If we are to have a naval station in the Philippines; if we are to have a fleet in Asiatic waters, or to exert the slightest influence in eastern Asia where our people hope to find a market, then it is of the highest importance that we have a naval station at Subig Bay. If we are not to have that station, and are not to have a navy, then we should be manly464 -4- enough to say that we intend to abandon the Philippines at once; not to try to keep a naval station there; and not to try to exercise that influence in foreign affairs which comes only to the just man armed who wishes to keep the peace. China is now the sport and plaything of stronger powers because she has constantly acted on her belief in despising and making little of military strength afloat or ashore, and is therefore powerless to keep order within or repel aggression from without. The little powers of Europe, although in many cases they lead honorable and self-respecting national lives, are powerless to accomplish any great good in foreign affairs, simply and solely because they lack the element of force behind their good wishes. We on the contrary have been able to do so much for the Hague Tribunal and for the cause of international arbitration; we have been able to keep the peace in the waters south of us; to put an end to bloody misrules and bloody civil strife in Cuba, in the Philippines, and at Panama; and we are able to exercise a pacific influence in [at] China, because, and only because, together with the purpose to be just and to keep the peace we possess a navy which makes it evident that we will not tamely submit to injustice, or tamely acquiesce in breaking the peace. This letter is for you personally. I write it because I respect you and like you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Hon. T. E. Burton, House of Representatives.465 February 23, 1904. B. H. Harrod: Civil Engineer, New Orleans, Louisiana. Charges have been made to me and to various senator concerning a matter connected with your administration while on Drainage Commission for New Orleans. Please send me as soon as possible full statement of facts. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Official February 23, 1904. Hon. Louis A. Frothingham, Speaker of the House, Boston, Massachusetts. Would it be just as convenient for you to come Saturday, March fifth instead of March twelfth? Lodge and Moody are engaged on latter night. Theodore Roosevelt President's private account 466 February 23, 1904. My dear Wheelan: I hear nothing but good of Olney. What I shall be able to do in the matter of course I cannot say yet. It will be difficult not to do what the Senators request if they present a thoroughly good man. As to the other matter. I do not think I could take the initiative. it is a most admirable object, but you do not know how many excellent societies would feel hurt if I took a more active part in others than in theirs. It was the greatest pleasure to see you and Mrs. Wheelan here. Mr. F. H. Wheelan, 301 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.467 February 23, 1904. Personal. My dear Governor: I have your letter of the 16th instant. When do you think it will be proper for you to go - next October? There are complications in that Montana judgeship matter that make me feel that you are the man in preeminently for the place. I delighted at the news you give me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Hunt, Governor of Porto Rico, San Juan, P. R. 468 Personal. February 23, 1904. My dear Mr. Cassatt: You are very kind to have taken so much trouble in the matter. Of course I can not put Noble on the Commission if it is impossible for him to visit Panama, and so I shall reluctantly have to give him up. But I hope that the Commission will later be able to make use of his great talents in some advisory capacity. I wish to thank you again for the way in which you came down to see me the other day. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. A. J. Cassatt, President Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Philadelphia.469 Personal February 23, 1904. Dear Murray: I am sorry to say I have had to ask Burr to go on the Commission. I asked William Barclay Parsons and Noble. The former conditionally accepted and the latter refused, and though I was reluctant, in view of what you had said, to take Burr away from Columbia, I had no alternative. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York.470 Personal February 23, 1904. My dear Mr. Burr: I desire to appoint you on the Isthmian Canal Commission. I hope you will be able to accept. Will you please telegraph me at once? I need not tell you the kind of man I am trying to put on the Commission, nor my appreciation of its tremendous importance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. H. Burr, Boulevard and 117th Street, New York.471 February 23, 1904. My dear Senator Platt; I am happy to be able to tell you that I have been able to offer Mr. Burr the appointment after all, Mr. Noble having found he was unable to accept. It is a very genuine pleasure to me to write you this. Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. c. Platt, United States Senate.472 Personal, February 23, 1904. My dear Mr. Lowdon: Perhaps a year from this spring I may be able to get down to Texas. do you know Colonel Cecil Lyon? He has been planning a wolf hunt for me. If I am able to go to your ranch I am sure I need not say it will be a great pleasure. I hope you can arrange with Mr. Lyon about the details. Meanwhile I wish you would come to Washington some time and give me a chance to see you. Can't you come here with colonel Lyon? Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt Mr. J. G. Lowdon, Abilene, Texas.473 February 23, 1904. My dear Senator Dryden: I am afraid I ought not to go to that reception, much as I should like to. I find that it would form what would be taken as a precedent in so many other cases that it might lead to genuine embarrassments. I am very sorry, for I hate not to do anything you ask. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John F. Dryden, United States Senate.478 February 23, 1904. Dear Governor Taft: This is the wife of the Scott who has just been shot among the Moros and had his hands badly hurt. If the boy can be appointed I shall be glad. Scott is the man I hope to see take Mills' place at West Point when Mill goes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosure.475 February 23, 1904. Dear Brander: I am much obliged to you; and am amused at your British namesake having included me in his armoury. Did not Butler do up the Evening Post in fine shape? I liked your French friend very much, and I wish my work had given me a chance to see a little of him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, N. W. Corner 93d Street, New York, N. Y.476 Personal February 23, 1904. My dear Senator Foraker: After thinking it all over and consulting various people, I feel that in those two matters ? [offices] it might cause misconstruction and very disagreeable comment if I made the appointments at this particular time. I have had enough experience of the effect of malevolence upon ignorance to make me wish to avoid such comment if possible; am I think a very little delay will do it in this case. The delay will be short. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. B. Foraker, United States Senate. I congratulate you on the passage of the treaty's [and now?] in which you have shown much leadership and rendered such [?] service.477 February 24, 1904. My dear Mr. Hecker: It is my purpose to appoint you on the Panama Canal Commission, a Commission which I intend to compose only of the ablest and best men available for the purpose in this country. I trust you can accept. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Frank J. Hecker, Union Trust Building, Detroit , Michigan.478 February 24, 1904. My dear General: I have sent your letter to Admiral Walker, with a line of my own stating that I entirely agreed with all that you said, and felt that your judgment could safely be followed as regards Captain Gallagher. I know Walker will be prejudiced in favor of whatever you recommend. and I feel sure that the rest of the Commission will want to follow your advice. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Grenville M. Dodge. 1 Broadway, New York.479 Personal. February 24, 1904. My dear Mr. Williams: I take it for granted that there is no intention of making the Louisiana delegation all white. I think it would be a mistake for my friends to take any such attitude in any State where there is a considerable negro population. I think it is a great mistake from the standpoint of the whites; and in an organization composed of men whom I have especially favored it would put me in a false light. As you know, I feel as strongly as any one can that there must be nothing like "negro domination." On the other hand, I feel equally strongly that the republicans must consistently favor those comparatively few colored people who by character and intelligence show themselves entitled to such favor. To put a premium upon the possession of such qualities among the blacks is not only to benefit them, but to benefit the whites among whom they live. I very earnestly480 hope that the Louisiana republicans whom I have so consistently favored will not by any action of theirs tend to put me in a false position in such a matter as this. With your entire approval I have appointed one or two colored men to office in Louisiana. There must certainly be an occasional colored man entitled by character and standing to go to the National Convention. Sincerely Yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. B. Williams, Patterson, Louisiana.480 hope that the Louisiana Republicans whom I have so consistently favored will not by any action of their tent to put me in a false position in such a matter as this. With your entire approval I have appointed one or two colored men to office in Louisiana., There must certainly be an occasional colored man entitled by character and standing to go to the National Convention. Sincerely Yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. B. Williams, Patterson, Louisiana.481 personal February 24, 1904. Dear Mr. Brave: I thank you, and through you Mr. Rencountre, for the cane. I appreciate it. I wish to do everything I can for the Indians. I have sent the resolutions to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, saying I hope he will look especially after your interests and keep then fresh in my mind. Sincerely your friend, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Ben Brave, Lower Brule, South Dakota.482 Personal. February 24, 1904. My dear Mr. Robinson: If "A. Spectator" is willing to divulge his name, I should like very much to have him come on here and see me. I was delighted with that pamphlet, and all my friends - including first and foremost among them my wife - have been equally delighted. I regret to say that Lodge seemed inclined to go even so far as to agree with the views of Spectator on some of my literary efforts. - But we will pass over that. Seriously, It seems to me that A. Spectator put the case as regards my attitude in reference to capital and labor, and Panama, and the Monroe Doctrine, just as I would like to have it put. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Sanford Robinson, 59 Wall Street, New York, N. Y.483 Personal February 24, 1904. My dear Senator Platt: I return to you herewith Senator Mitchell's letter. I seems to me that the only course open for you at this time is to continue to act as Chairman of the Committee. With great regard, Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt United State Senate. The enclosure is a letter from Senator Mitchell, addressed to Senator Platt, stating that if Senator Platt desires the Chairmanship of the Committee, on Interoceanic Canals, Senator Mitchell will be glad to see him made chairman, but that if he does not want it, Senator Mitchell thinks Senator Platt should not take it simply to prevent Senator Mitchell from securing the chairmanship.484 February 24, 1904. My dear Admiral Walker: The enclosed letter from General Dodge explains itself. I need say nothing to you as regards Generals Dodge's high character and sound judgment. I have no doubt from what he says that Gallagher would be an admirable man to have under the Commission. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rear Admiral John G. Walker, U. S. N. (retired) President Panama Canal Commission, Washington. Enclosure 485 February 24, 1904. Dear Commission Yerkes: This is to introduce to you Father A. P. Doyle, of New York, who is as straight a man as I know; and, I have found that I could always rely absolutely on what he told me. I ask that you hear him, and if you find you can properly do as he requests I shall be glad. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John W. Yerkes. Commission of Internal Revenue.486 Personal February 24, 1904. My dear Mr. Dodge: Mr. Birkinbine is an excellent man. I have felt for the particular purpose in view Messrs. William Barclay Parsons and Burr were even better. I have been endeavoring to get not merely good men, but those who among the good men seemed to me on the whole the best. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. James M. Dodge, Nicetown, Philadelphia, Pa.487 February 25, 1904. C. X. Grunsky, City Hall, San Francisco, Cal. I desire to appoint you on the Isthmian Canal Commission. Will you accept? Please advise by wire. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Official)488 February 24, 1904. My dear Admiral: I enclosed you a letter from Dr. Welch. It gives exactly what he thinks of Dr. Wright, and I wish to Heaven he could get from other people, whose opinions we desire, such exact and straightforward information as this letter contains. As you know, I feel that the sanitary and hygienic problem in connection with the work on the Isthmus are those which are literally of the first importance, coming even before the engineering matters; because the health of the laborers and of the employees generally must be good or else no engineering work can be put through. I wish the Commission to get the very best medical man in the country to have the hardship and supervision over this work, and I desire the Commission to consult Dr. Welch, Dr. Osler, Dr. Polk of New York and others of their standing in securing this man. I should like to have the commission consider General Dodge's489 letter at the same time you consider Dr. Welch's on this general subject. As you know, I expect the Commission to pay heed to no considerations save that of securing the very best service that can be secured; and this, above all, in matters pertaining to sanitation. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rear Admiral John G. Walker, 79 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.490 February 24, 1904. My dear Dr. Welch: I sincerely wish that more people of your standing would write me in reference to possible candidates exactly such letter as you have written. I enclose you a copy of the letter which I have sent Admiral Walker in regard to it. With thorough appreciation, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. William H. Welch, 935 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland Enclosure.491 February 24, 1904. My dear Mr. Johnston; Your letter pleases me very much and I thank you for it. I appreciate your having written it. Sincerely your, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Bartlett S. Johnston, 239 East German Street, Baltimore, Maryland.492 February 24, 1904. My dear Mr. Winthrop; I find that Taft feels very strongly that it would be unwise and would cause much heart burning and jealousy if I appointed Beckman over the heads of several good public servants who have been longer in the Islands than he has been. he feels that now is not time to appoint him. I have another appointment in view for him which I think he will like. But I do not think that the opportunity to make it will come until next fall. Of course, something may occur to prevent it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frederic Winthrop, 439 Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts.493 Personal February 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Mackay: I am genuinely pleased at your having accepted a position on the Advisory Committee of the Republican County Committee. I feel that you have rendered a real service to the party and therefore to our people generally. With hearty thanks. Sincerely your, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Clarence H. Mackay, 253 Broadway, New York.494 Personal February 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Washington, I hear grave accusations against Cohen- accusations from sources that make me very doubtful about him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Principal Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.495 Personal February 25, 1904. My dear Dr. Egan: You could not prevent my reading "The Warning of Sexton Maginnis": When I have read it I shall make you come in to lunch and talk it over. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, 212 North Capitol Street, Washington.496 Personal. February 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Brown: I am delighted at what you say about the canal. I have appreciated the attitude of the southern people toward the canal, as shown by their breaking away from the effort to make it a party measure. About the office holder going to the National Convention, my feeling is this. I do not wish to lay down a general rule. For instance, I am informed that Mr. Evans wishes to go. By leadership and standing he is entitled to go, and I would not regard his office holding as a bar. But I do feel strongly that district attorneys ought not to go, at least as a rule, and that as regards marshals, internal revenue collectors, postmasters, etc., others things being equal it is better that non-office holders should go. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Foster V. Brown, Chattanooga, Tennessee.497 February 25, 1904. Dear Mr. Bonaparte: I have your letter of the 24th. All right, go ahead with that brief. Can you come over next week and take lunch with me? I would like to discuss not only the Indian school question, but the report of the Indian territory investigation, which I have read through and which seems to me excellent. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, 601 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland.498 February 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Jerome: I shall give your letter to Admiral Walker, and tell him that my experience with you has been that what you said could be [implicitly?] relied upon. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William Travors Jerome, District Attorney, New York.