341 Personal April 5, 1904 My dear Mr. Crimmins: Nothing would make me believe that you made the statements attributed to you. I am afraid the Times will permit its partisanship to go very far in such matters. With regards, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John D. Crimmins, 40 East 68th Street, New York.342 Personal April 4, 1904 My dear White: Plunkett had already sent me that book, and I have been much interested in it. I appreciate your having taken the trouble to think of me in connection with it. He is a great deal of a fellow. Do not take Cabot's over-sanguine view of matters. Nobody can tell how this fight will come out. I have been astonishingly successful in getting through the policies in which I believe, and in achieving results; but often the mere fact of having a good deal of a record is more against a man than for him, when the question is as to how people will vote; for my experience is that usually people are more apt to let their dislikes than their likings cause them to break away from their party ties in matters of voting. In other words, the people of the opposite party who like what I have done are less apt for that reason to leave their candidate than the people of my own party who dislike what I have done areapt to leave me. Politicians proverbially like a colorless candidate, and the very success of what I have done, the number of things I have accomplished, and the extent of my record, may prove to be against me. However, be that as it may, we now have a big sum of achievement to our credit. With warm regards to Mrs. White, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*Jack is coming here in a fortnight.*] Mr. Henry White, American Embassy, London. 344 April 5, 1904. My dear Sir and Brother: The invitation to be present on the occasion of the annual visitation of the Grand Lodge to Federal Lodge, No. 1, on April 12th, tendered by your committee, is, I assure you, greatly appreciated; and I regret very much that, as explained to the committee, it will be impossible for me to accept. Trusting that the occasion may be in every way enjoyable, and that the Lodge may derive from it an incentive to even greater enthusiasm in its good work, I am, Fraternally yours, Theodore Roosevelt Wor. N. B. Fugitt, Worshipful Master, Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington [*Sent in Envelope addressed to Williams C Fox (Chmn of Committee) Bureau of American Republics*]345 Confidential April 5, 1904. My dear Sir: Please treat this letter as confidential. Of course I do not wish in any way to seem to dictate in the State policy of the Republican Party in Missouri. I would like, however, to make certain suggestions to you merely for your personal consideration. Apparently, Mr. Folk will be nominated by the democrats. This represents a complete destroying of the old corrupt machine, and the success of the movement for honesty and decency. It seems to me that from every standpoint, if Folk is nominated it would be better for the republicans to endorse his nomination instead of making any nomination against him. In the first place, Folk stands in a pre-eminent degree for those principles of honesty and decency in public service which underlie all good citizenship, and go far deeper than any party differences. I feel that the republicans of Missouri would be acting in a spirit of true citizenship if under existing conditions they turned in and gave Folk a support which would make his victory far more than a mere party success. In the next place, it would seem to me to be wise policy on our part. It is unlikely that any man we could nominate would be able to make headway in a fight against Folk, and therefore it would be better for us not to oppose Folk, and to eliminate him as an issue by nominating no one against him, and then trying for victory as regards the national, congressional, and legislative tickets, claiming, 346 2 as we legitimately could, that the national administration stands for the very forces in administrative matters which Folk himself typifies. I know there will be some republicans who will sulk over being required to support a democrat, but it seems to me that even more will be angered if we fail to support Folk. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Thomas J. Akins, Assistant Treasurer, U.S., St. Louis. 347 Confidential April 5, 1904. My dear Mr. Smith: Root absolutely can not take the chairmanship. So that matter is at an end. Now, don't you think you could prepare a first draft of the platform? I know this is asking a good deal of you, but it would be an admirable thing if you could do it, for I know no one whose rough draft would less likely be altered in the final draft. When Congress adjourns, about the 1st of May, I should like to take up the question of platform, and it would help me greatly if I had a rough draft from you to work upon. Hoping I am not trespassing too much on your good nature, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles Emory Smith, The Press Philadelphia. 348 Personal April 5, 1904. My dear Senator Platt: It may be that I shall want to send in the name of a personal friend not connected with politics for the position of Consul General at Mexico. He comes from New York, but it will not be taken as accredited to you or the State from a political standpoint. If I send it in, the nomination would be no more political than the nomination of Mr. Dunn would have been, had he finally accepted. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T.C. Platt, United States Senate.349 Strictly personal April 6, 1904. My dear President Hadley: In strict confidence and only for your own eye, I send you the enclosed. It is the draft of a letter I had prepared to send a certain friend of ours. After consultation with Root and Moody I come to the conclusion that it would not be worth while to send it. I thought you might be amused to glance at it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Arthur T. Hadley, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Enclosure350 Personal April 4, 1904. My dear [?] I have recently been reading Hadley's admirable volume on "Freedom and Responsibility"; and I have also recently seen the petition signed by a number of very high-minded citizens, including you, which I am informed it is the intention to present to the conventions of both parties next June; this petition being that the United States shall pledge itself to give political independence to the Philippines some time in the future. Now it seems to me that if the signers of this petition, or rather those among them for whose opinions I had the real respect that I have for yours, either appreciated the common-sense doctrines laid down by Hadley in the volume I have referred to, or knew by correspondence, (say with Taft or with Luke Wright - or with almost any other man who was really fit to speak on the subject) what the actual facts in the matter were, they would not sign such a petition. I do not believe the petition will have much effect; but so far as there is any effect at all it will be purely mischievous. The Republican convention will of course not consider it, for the Republican administration is practically endeavoring to better conditions in the Philippines and has met with great success in its efforts, and therefore, can not afford to set back this particular work by doing something which would be worse than foolish. The Democrats may very possibly adopt the program, for they may think that351 2 they will get some votes by it; and they will be wholly indifferent to the damage done either to the Philippines or the United States, provided that damage does not unfavorably affect their chances in the election. To any one not acquainted with the vagaries of human nature it would seem incredible that the southern Democrats in Congress, who include all the Democratic leaders, should be willing to prate about the doctrines contained in the Declaration of Independence, as applied to brown men in the Philippines, when they themselves owe their political existence, their presence in Congress, their influence in the nation, solely to the fact that they embody a living negation of those doctrines so far as they concern the black man at home. It is perhaps even more singular that this incongruity of attitude never seems to strike the conscientious allies of these men in the north. Senator Hoar for instance is to a certain degree logical in demanding for the Filipino and for the negro alike what he does demand. But there is no southern Democrat of any prominence who at this time can keep his place in his party save by brutal insistence upon the evasion and violation of law, upon depriving the negro of the rights which he is constitutionally guaranteed; and there is no one of these southern Democrats who talks about the "consent of the governed" in the Philippines whose hypocrisy is not so apparent as to justly entitle him to the scorn and distrust of honest-minded men. I am not now discussing the attitude of the southerner to the negro; but his relative attitudes to the negro and Filipino. If your petition is favorably acted upon by this Democratic National Convention it will be, 352 3 and can be, only because the southerners who determine the action of that convention believe that an attitude of cynical hypocrisy on their part in this matter may gain them the votes of certain people in the north. It is, however, only of these people of the north that I intend to speak. It seems to me that very many men who sincerely feel that they are conscientious have in this matter of the Philippines acted much as these ancient anchorites and hermits acted, who left society, and ceased to try to do good to their fellow-men, because they became absorbed in the essentially morbid and essentially selfish task of sacrificing all duty to others to the business of trying to save their own souls. The easy thing, the cheap thing, to do is to sign a petition or make a speech in favor of our abandoning a difficult and doubtful task, washing our hands of all responsibility in the matter, and leaving the Filipinos to the impossible task of working out their own salvation. The hard thing, the wise and brave thing, is to keep on doing the work which Taft and Luke Wright and their fellows have been doing with such astonishing success; that is the task of working for the actual betterment, moral, industrial, social, and political, of the Filipinos; the task of laying the foundations of a growth which we believe will in the end fit them for independence. The task is in many respects like that of Cromer in Egypt; though it is greater. You may possibly remember that at one time Cromer suffered a very serious setback because it became widely spread about that the British intended to surrender the government of Egypt; and a period of utter demoralization among the natives followed. So it 353 4 is now in the Philippines. When Bryan or General Miles or any other man, for political or sentimental reasons, excites false hopes of independence among the Filipinos, it invariably and immediately produces a certain amount of demoralization and gives a certain setback to the effort for their betterment; and just such demoralization, just such damage, to the Filipinos themselves, will be caused by the present effort of which I am speaking if it achieves prominence enough to be known in the islands at all. The natives will not and can not be under the control of two sets of ideas at once. Either they will turn their attention to working by practical methods for their own betterment under existing conditions, or they will turn their attention to scheming and planning for what can be done when they are independent. They certainly will not be fit for independence in the next half dozen or dozen years, probably not in the next score or two score years. Further than this we can not say. Therefore any promise of independence, any expression by us of our belief that they will ultimately get their independence (though personally this is my belief) means an expression on our part of the belief of what will happen in a future too remote to entitle it to any weight among those working to solve the problems of the actual present; therefore, any such expression as that which your petition calls for would be either misleading (for of course a promise of independence to the Filipinos means to them a promise of independence in a reasonably near future) or else would be a promise to do them the utmost damage we can do - for this is precisely and exactly what granting them their independence 354 5 independence in the near future would mean. We are far more necessary to the Filipinos than the Filipinos are to us. As Hadley has well said, freedom does not mean absence of all restraint. It merely means the substitution of self-restraint for external restraint, and therefore, it can be used only by people capable of self-restraint; and they alone can keep it, or are ethically entitled to it. It is not a matter to be determined by reading Rousseau in the closet, but by studying the needs in each individual case. There are nationalities and tribes wholly unfit for self-government; there are others singularly fitted for it; there are many between the two extremes. Cuba we believed to be fit for it, provided we threw certain safeguards around her, and gave her a short preliminary training. The event has admirably justified our belief. At the time many unwise people wished us to turn Cuba adrift at once, to her own irreparable damage. This we declined to do. We kept her for four years and then gave her independence under certain qualifications. She is now more prosperous than any other Spanish-American republic of approximately the same size. In San Domingo a hundred years of freedom, so far from teaching the San Domingans how to enjoy freedom and turn it to good account, has resulted so badly that society is on the point of dissolution; and I am now obliged to use every expedient to avert the necessity, or at least to stave off the necessity, of American interference in the island. If I acted purely in accordance with the spirit of altruistic humanitarian duty, I would grant the prayers of the best people of the island and take partial possession355 6 of it tomorrow. I do not do this, chiefly because if I did many honest people would misunderstand my purposes and motives; and so I feel obliged to put off the action until the necessity becomes so clear that even the blindest can see it - exactly as because of the short-sightedness of our people we had to put off turning Spain out of Cuba, although the delay meant the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives and the creation of untold misery in the island, until at last the public sentiment became so aroused as to sustain a righteous war. Now in the Philippines the questions we have to decide are not in the least theoretical. They are entirely practical, and can only be decided if there is knowledge of the facts. The Filipinos are not fit to govern themselves. They are better off in every way now than they ever have been before. They are being given a larger measure of self- government than they ever had before, or than any other Asiatic people except Japan now enjoys. They have immeasurably more individual freedom than they ever enjoyed under Spain, or than they ever could have under Aguinaldo or any other despot - for of course I suppose no one seriously believes that if the Filipinos were free at present their government would represent anything except a vibration between despotism and anarchy. They may, and I personally believe that they will, ultimately become fit for a measure of independence something like that of Cuba; but the surest way to prevent them from so fitting themselves would be to promise them this independence now. Such a promise would mean nothing to them unless356 7 it meant independence in a comparatively short time; it would be taken by them to mean this, and this only; and if they afterwards found that it meant something else they would become convinced that we were treacherous and had broken faith. Meanwhile, they would cease from all effort to build themselves up under existing conditions, and would restlessly plot as to what would happen in the future. The result would be somewhat as if a similar course were taken as regards India, Egypt, Algiers or Turkestan. Don't you think you could come on and see Taft? A more high-minded and disinterested man does not live; and he represents as high-minded and disinterested, aye, and as successful, an effort to help a people as any recorded in history. To mar his work now would be a calamity. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.357 April 6, 1904. My dear Mr. Dunne: This spring, won't Mrs. Dunne and you be in Washington for a couple of days? I should like to get a few people to meet you at dinner, and then to have you at lunch by yourself. There are various things, social, political and literary, I should like to talk over with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Finley Peter Dunne, Care Collier's Weekly, New York.358 April 6, 1904. My dear Miss Gould: Treat this invitation as a suggestion only, and do not accept it if you think your friends' feelings would be at all hurt. How would it do for you to come to lunch with us at 1:30 on the 19th and have your friends come around at 2:30, at which time Mrs. Roosevelt and I are to see them with Secretaries Taft and Moody? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Helen Miller Gould, 579 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.359 April 6, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Rideing: It would be a pleasure to hear from you anyhow, but especially in so pleasant a way. I look forward to reading your book with genuine interest. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William H. Rideing, The Youth's Companion Boston, Massachusetts.360 April 6, 1904. My dear Mr. Wilson: I send you herewith a letter from the President, in response to the invitation extended to him by the Turn Verein of Brooklyn. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr Secretary to the President. Hon. Frank E. Wilson House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Enclosure. April 6, 1904. My dear Sir: Representative Wilson has handed me your very kind invitation to attend the gymnastic exhibition of the Verein, and I very much regret that it will not be possible for me to be present. With thanks for the courtesy of yourself and your associates, and with best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Francis A. Deck, Secretary, Turn Verein, Bushwick and Gates Avenues, Brooklyn, N.Y.361 April 6, 1904. Dear Mr. Landers: I am much interested to see in the program of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of Sutton that a memorial to General Rufus Putnam is to be dedicated. The services of General Putnam in peace and in war entitle him to the gratitude of the Nation, and it is fitting that his memory should be commemorated in the town of his birth. With cordial greetings and hearty congratulations to your citizens, and with best wishes for the complete success of the celebration, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Warren P. Landers, Sutton, Mass.362 Personal. April [?] 1904. My dear Sir: I enclose herewith letters of introduction signed? by Superintendant? to Mr. John Arbuckle Mr. Joseph Wharton, I also enclose herewith two letters from Mr. Wharton addressed to you Very truly yours Wm Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President. Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Enclosures April 7, 1904. My dear Dr. Wharton: Permit me to introduce to you Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay, Commission of Education for Porto Rico. I am delighted to find that you think something can be done for Porto Rican coffee. I use only Porto Rican coffee in the White House at present. Thanking you for any courtesy you can extend to Mr. Lindsay, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Joseph Wharton Philadelphia Bank Building Philadelphia363 April 7, 1904. My dear Mr. Arbuckle: Permit me to introduce to you Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay, Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico. I am delighted to find that you think something can be done for Porto Rican coffee. I use only Porto Rican coffee in the White House as present. Thanking you for any courtesy you can extend to Mr. Lindsay, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. John Arbuckle, Care Arbuckle & Brothers, New York.364 April 8 1904 My dear Colonel: The President will be glad to have you hand the enclosed letter to Mr. Reid, or Mr. Lewis you think it all right. Very truly yours, Secretary to the President Colonel John J. McCook, 120 Broadway, New York. Enclosure. . April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Reid: Permit me, through you, warmly to greet the D. K. E. brethren. I wish it were in my power to be with you tonight. With best wishes for a most successful dinner, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, President, Delta Kappa Epsilon Association, New York.365 April 8, 1904. My dear Mr. Pancoast: Your letter is most interesting. If I ever have to write about wolves again I shall use it. Meanwhile, if you will send me that wolf-skin for my inspection, I shall be particularly pleased [I shall return it at once?] Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Henry N. Pancoast, Riverton, N.J.366 April 8, 1904. Personal My dear Mr. De Young: I want to thank you heartily for your editorials which Representative Metcalf has just shown me. Believe me, I appreciate them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. H. de Young, The Chronicle, San Francisco.367 Personal April 8, 1904. My dear Senator Platt: The name of the man of whom I spoke to you, and whose name I have accordingly sent in for Consul General at Mexico, is James Russell Parsons. Now, about Farquhar's case. The Postmaster General told me that he had already fixed on a man for purchasing agent. He says it is the most important post in the Department, and could not be given to any one in whom he did not have entire confidence. Will you come in and let me go over the Merritt matter with you? I took the matter up with the Postmaster General, but the reports of the inspectors were so very adverse to Merritt that it did not seem to me possible to act favorably upon his case at this time, and so I have just let the matter rest. I asked the Post Office Department not to disturb Hazard. Wynne tells me that you did not think well of Hazard. Would368 you be willing to have me send Wynne around to see you? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. T. C. Platt, United States Senate.369 April 8, 1904. My dear Lewis Let me supplement my thanks of last night by writing you to say how much I appreciate that letter of Andrew Jackson. No gift could please me more. Remember to let me know when you next come to Washington, so that I may have you at lunch or dinner. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Alfred Henry Lewis, 457 West 148th Street, New York. 370 Private April 8, 1904. My dear General Dodge: I learn that Senator Quarles is one of Mills' strongest opponents. Do you think it would be possible to get any Wisconsin people to write to the Senator? All that I want is that the Senator should have put before him Mills' read services, and the cruel injustice it would be to him to turn him down. It was a great pleasure to see you here. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York.371 April 8, 1904. My dear Sir: Permit me, through you, to extend my hearty greetings to the assembled Methodists. It is impossible for any student of the social and religious growth of our people to fail to understand the tremendous influence of Methodism in shaping this growth aright; and I therefore on this occasion congratulate not merely you, but all our country, on what you have done. I wish I could be with you in person, as I am in spirit, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Dr. A. H. Lucas, Associate Editor, Daily Christian Advocate, Albany, N.Y. April 8, 1904. My dear Mr. Sleicher: By direction of the President I send you the enclosed letter for the Methodist Conference. If you think it is all right, will you be good enough to forward it! What a good time we had at the dinner! Faithfully yours, Wm. Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President. John A. Sleicher, Esq., Editor, Leslie's Weekly, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Enclosure.372 Personal April 9, 1904. Dear Emlen: The ideal man for chairman is Root, but his engagements are such that he can not take the place. John Kean is against Murphy. Of course if the choice of Murphy would jeopardize John's chances in any way, nobody would think of it. But, in strict confidence, we do not know quite whom to choose. Murray Crane is, I fear, too sick to take it. We have been so concerned over poor Jack. With love to Christine and Aunt Lizzie, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt, 33 Wall Street, New York.373 April 9, 1904. My dear Provost Harrison: I have sent your letter at once to the Attorney General. I have him[got to] look carefully into the matter of all [the] this Judgeship, having, as I am sure you have, great confidence in the judgment, especially in such a matter. With thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Charles C. Harrison, Provost, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.374 April 9, 1904. My dear Mr. Landon: I have your letter of the 6t and enclosure. I must thank you personally for the manifold proofs of your kindness. Believe me, I appreciate them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Melville, D. Landon, New York News Association, 308 West 85th Street, New York, N. Y. 375 (Copy in the President's book) Original sent in handwriting. April8, 1904. My dear Captain: Pray accept my warm congratulations for yourself and your fiancée. I take pleasure in enclosing my photograph and wishing you all good fortune in the future, I am, Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVLET. Captain Algernon Sartoris, Care of Madame Noufflard, 8 Boulevard Flandrin, Paris, France.376 April 9, 1904. James J. Sheridan, President, Hamilton Club, Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Through you permit me to greet the Hamilton Club and its guests. We should congratulate ourselves that the struggle which ended at Appamattox left us not merely a reunited country, but a country incalculably greater because of its rich heritage in the deeds which thus left it reunited. Theofore Roosevelt Official377 April 9, 1904. Dear Kermit: I was very glad to get your letter. David Gray, the author of "Gallops" has been here. Aunty Bye and Mr. Bob Fergy dined here to-night. Mother and I had a lovely ride together this afternoon. The blood root and hepaticas are out and spring has really come. Archie has celebrated his tenth birthday to-day. Mother gave him a tool chest, and at supper he was as cunning as possible with his ten-candled cake. It is awfully hard work keeping one's temper in public life. Such infamous lies are told. The World and Journal try to get pictures of poor sister when she is at the races; and the Army and Navy Journal, which ought to be a reputable paper, has made as foul and dirty, and as false, an attack on uncle Will as ever was made by any dog in human form. Continually I am goaded so that I almost lose my temper. But of course my one safety at present and for the next seven months is to refuse to be drawn into any personal controversy or betray any irritation, under no matter what provocation. To-day mother and I went to lunch on the Mayflower with good Captain Gleaves. Mother looked so young and pretty in her blue dress and I felt as proud of her as possible. Last night I had to378 -2- spank Quentin for having taken something that did not belong to him and then not telling the truth about it. Ethel and Mother acted respectively as accuser and court of first resort, and then brought him solemnly in to me for sentence and punishment - both retiring much agitated when the final catastrophe became imminent. To-day Quentin has been as cunning as possible. He perfectly understood that he had brought his fate on himself. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Master Kermit Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass. P.S. Good Heavens! The news has just come about your having the mumps. Mother is just starting for Groton to be with you, for I am afraid we can not get you down here. It was the most unexpected stroke imaginable. How I wish we had kept you.379 April 9, 1904. Dear Ted: I am very glad I have been doing this Japanese wrestling, but when I am through with it this time I am not at all sure I shall ever try it again while I am as busy with other work as I am now. Often by the time I get to five o'clock in the afternoon I will be feeling like a stewed owl, after an eight hours grapple with Senators, Congressmen, etc; then I find the wrestling a trifle too vehement for mere rest. My right ankle and my left wrist and one thumb and both great toes are swollen sufficiently to more or less impair their usefulness, and I am well mottled with bruises elsewhere. Still I have made good progress, and since you left they have taught me three new throws that are perfect corkers. I hope that Congress will only be here a fornight more. I have gotten on with them very well, and I do380 not want to take any chances for something wrong happening. I am all at sea as yet as to whom to have for Chairman of the National Committee, which is a very important office. We shall have a hard campaign this year; and if the result depends upon New York State no one can tell how it will come out, so that I want to get as many chances on my side as possible. Your loving father, Theodore Roosevelt Mt. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Groton School, Groton, Mass. P.S. Since writing the above, yours and Kermit's letters about the mumps have arrived. Well, we did play it in bad luck! I am afraid you can not come home at present. Mother starts for Groton this afternoon, and will reach you before this letter. You poor, blessed persons: I am so sorry [?]381 April 10, 1904. Dear Cotty: We were dumfounded at the news that the boys had the mumps. Dr. Rixey had told us that, waiting two weeks, it was absolutely safe to send them back. I am more sorry than I can say, for I appreciate the terrible worry this is to you. Mrs. Roosevelt is going up at once to stay with the boys. With renewed regret, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. Endicott Peabody, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts.382 April 10, 1904. Dear Dan: I have your letter of the 9th, and look forward to seeing you on Saturday, to stay as many days as you can at the White House. Mrs. Roosevelt may be away at Groton School, but I shall be here. Will you be alone, or will Mrs. Wister and the various young " moots" or homesteaders be with you? We have lots of room. I am concerned at what you tell about yourself. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Owen Wister, The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia.383 April 11, 1904 Dear Cabot: On Tuesday evening I find there is a Cabinet dinner, and if you and Nannie are engaged this evening I am afraid this means that both evening are gone. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. H. C. Lodge, United States senate. 384 April 11, 1904. Garrett Def. Kinney, President, Peoria, Illinois. Permit me through you to greet the members of the Kickapoo Club and their guests and wish you a very pleasant evening. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Pr[???]'s P[?]ira[?????] 385 April 11, 1904. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Groton, Mass. If you think it safe for small children to have boys home I shall arrange for private car at once. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.) 386 April 11, 1904. Personal. My dear Colonel Taylor: I have just received your very kind letter of the 8th. The trouble is, of course, that this is a Presidential year. If I should go it would be universally accepted as a bit of campaigning on my part, and that I think would be unfortunate from every standpoint. If it were not the year of the Presidential campaign I should most assuredly accept. I am very sorry to have to answer you this way. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Charles H. Taylor, The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts.387 April 11, 1904. My dear Senator Depew, I thank you for the adverce copy of your speech. I am much pleased with it. It was very good of you to let me see it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Chauncey Depew. United States Senate.388 April 11, 1904. Personal. My dear General Grosvenor: Let me thank you once again. I hope you understand how keenly I appreciate and value what you have done. You have rendered a great service not only to me but to the entire party. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor, House of Representatives. 389 April 11, 1904. Dear Brander: I have your letter of the 10th. I should like much to see Burgess's article. I receive many letters for Woodward. There are, however, one or two points against him which I shall tell you when we meet. With warm regards to Mrs. Matthews, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, New York.390 Aril 12, 1904 Mrs. Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass. Car has been ordered. Will advice you later what time it will arrive. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.) 391 April 11, 1904. My dear Judge: I thank you heartily for sending me that copy of your opinion. I shall read it with the greatest interest. Permit me at the same time to renew my thanks for your repeated kind allusions to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Emory Speer, United States Judge, Macon, Georgia.392 April 11, 1904. My dear Mr. Cary: I wish I could see "Everyman," but I fear in the closing days of Congress it would be well-nigh impossible. Will you not tell Miss Matthison and Mr. Kennedy that I should at least like to make their personal acquaintance. I shall arrange to see them if they will let me know when they are here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Edward Cary, The Times, New York.393 April 12, 1904. David Goodrich, Boston, Mass. Am delighted. Extend my heartiest congratulations to Mrs. Goodrich. Theodore Roosevelt. The President's private account.394 April 12, 1904. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, Mass. Car Riva will reach Groton eight fourteen to-morrow morning, leave Groton twelve-thirty p.m., reach Boston 3 p.m., leave Boston eight p.m., arrive Washington nine forty-five a.m. Thursday. Theodore Roosevelt. (President's private acct.)395 April 12, 1904. Personal. Dear Elihu: Glance through this letter and then return it to me with any comment, if you think it worth while making such. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Mutual Life Building, New York, N. Y.396 April 12, 1904. Dear Mrs. Wheelan: I only wish I was to see the work of the Secretary of the Society of Handpainted Crocodiles! Give my regards to your husband. I was so glad to catch a glimpse of Van Stow the other day. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Fairfax H. Wheelan, 1915 Baker Street, San Francisco, California397 April 12, 1904 My dear Mr. O'Brien: Under the circumstances, your letter of the 9th peculiarly gratified me, and touched me not a little. With cordial thanks and regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John F. O'Brien Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y.398 April 12, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Reid: I want to thank you for the interest I took in your first letter and also for the valuable information you gave me in your second letter. I knew nothing whatever of these facts; and the name of the gentleman in question has merely been casually considered. Of course, nothing will be done without a full inquiry in view of what you tell me; and as a matter of fact I do not believe this particular nomination would have been seriously considered in any event. The name was simply mentioned - just as scores of others are. With warm regards to Mrs. Reid, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Whitelaw Reid, The Tribune, New York, N.Y.399 April 12, 1904. My dear Sir: I thank you for your letter, and I have been greatly interested in your memorial. You touch on a subject of very great importance to the proper development of our national life. It is not possible for me to answer as to whether there is any chance of the Government itself taking such action as you desire. There are very many obstacles in the way; and in any event the lateness of the session of Congress precludes all serious consideration of the question now, even were I prepared in my own mind, as I am not, to advise Congress. I shall, however, at the earliest opportunity go over the matter with Secretary Hay. Assuring you of my profound consideration, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Constantin von Sternberg, 10 South 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.400 Copy. May good fortune ever attend the Friend's School is the earnest wish of Theodore Roosevelt April 13th 1904 Autograph copy sent to Mr. Edward C. Wilson, Friends' School, Baltimore, Md. April 12, 1904. 401 Personal April 12, 1904 My dear Grant: I look forward to reading your piece on the mammals with real interest. It is the kind of thing that always attracts me, and I thank you heartily. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Madison Grant, Secretary, 11 Wall Street, New York.402 April 12, 1904 Personal My dear White: I thank you for "By the Fireside" which I look forward to reading. I may be able to get Knox to write substantially what you wanted in the Bristow matter. With warm regards to Mrs. White, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt William Allen White, Esq., Emporia, Kansas.403 April 12, 1904 My dear Captain Kelly: That is a very interesting report of yours. I shall call for comments on it from the Interior Department. I saw your brother and his family the other day, and it was a great pleasure to meet them. Hoping you are well, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain Luther S. Kelly, Indian Agent, San Carlos Agency, San Carlos, Arizona.404 Personal April 12, 1904. My dear Mr. von Briesen: I was as disappointed as you were that the lack of funds was such as not to enable us to send you to the other side on the immigration matters, as you suggested. I very deeply appreciate all you are doing for me, and am proud of the names that you have obtained for the Western and New York Committees. They are the names if as good Americans, as good citizens, as are to be found anywhere in this country. I have heard some unpleasant comment from New York bankers about [?] petition being circulated by you regarding myself. It seems to me that it would be better not to circulate such a petition at present until we can talk the matter over a little. I need not tell you, my dear Mr. von Briesen, that you and I are apt to have our motives misconstrued, and that*405* what you do is looked at sometimes with especial distrust, from the very fact of your close relations with me, and my well-known affection and regard for you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Arthur von Briesen, 49 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.406 April 12, 1904 Personal My dear Mr. Gilman: I anticipate reading the volume you have so kindly dedicated to me, with genuine pleasure. Thanking you for your courtesy, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. N. P. Gilman Meadville, Pa. 407 April 13, 1904. My dear White: My two school boys have the mumps and are coming home to be isolated in the east wing of the White House. I do not believe that you will be in any danger of infection, but I think I ought to tell you so that you may decide whether you can come or not. In great haste, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Stewart E. White, Player's Club, New York, N. Y. 408 April 13, 1904 My dear Dan: My two school boys have the mumps and are coming home to be isolated in the east wing of the White House. I do not believe that you will be in any danger of infection, but I think I ought to tell you so that you may decide whether you can come or not. In great haste, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Owen Wister, The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. 408 April 13, 1904. Dear Brander: Indeed, I understood about Woodward absolutely. Cannot you get on here some time? I should so like to talk over various matters with you. I was much amused with the printed correspondences. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Avenue, N. W. Corner 93d Street, New York, N.Y. 410 April 13, 1904. Dear Mr. Jones: I am glad to hear the news about the game and to have those excellent photographs. It was very kind of you to think of writing me. Archie will be delighted with the picture of the two little bears. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. C. J. Jones, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. 411 April 13, 1904. Dear Madam: I thank you heartily for your courtesy in sending no the photograph of your family, and congratulate you and Mr. Fasel. I think highly of this kind of citizenship. With good wishes for you all I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Leonard Fasel, 4054 Howley Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 412 Personal April 13, 1904. Dear Senator Gallinger: As Senator Tillman has come back to the Senate, would it not be well to take up Crum's confirmation? I do wish it could be done. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. H. Gallinger, United States Senate. 413 April 13, 1904. Dear Murray: I shall take up that matter immediately with Dr. Wyman. I am very glad you enjoyed yourself. As soon as you get through your press of work I want you to come down here so that I may talk over several matters. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York. 414 Personal April 13, 1904. My dear Dr. Gates: I thank you for the very beautiful volume which you have just sent me, and will gladly present it to Mrs. Roose- velt. I want to thank you heartily for your introduction about Jake Riis. With regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Merrill E. Gates, 1315 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington. 415 April 13, 1904. My dear General Dodge: I am certain that I shall enjoy Napoleon as much as I have your previous volumes. It was very good of you to have thought of me. Do let me see you when you come back. There is much in connection with the Russian-Japanese war that I should like to talk with you about. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt General Theodore A. Dodge, 96 Avenue Kleber, XVIe, Paris. 416 April 12, 1904. My dear Governors: Lemly is a first-class man, and I shall take up the matter of his reappointment at once with Secretary Moody. With regard to Mrs. Long, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon John D. Long, 337 Tremont Building, Boston, Massachusetts. 417 Personal April 13, 1904. My dear Mr. Welsh: I thank you in the first place for your very kind letter, and in the next place for the two volumes. I look forward to reading them. Remember me to Mrs. Welsh. I was so glad to see her. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles Welsh, 78 Fifth Avenue, New York 418 April 14, 1904 Rear Admiral A. S. Barker, U.S. N., Commanding North Atlantic Fleet, Pensacola, Florida. Am inexpressibly grieved and shocked at the terrible catastrophe. I desire to express to you and the officers and man under you my profound grief and sympathy. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 419 April 14, 1904. My dear Mr. Secretary: May I send through you this contribution, to be used for the dependent kinsfolk of the enlisted men who have just been killed on board the Missouri. Under the condi- tions of modern warfare, in order efficiently to prepare for war, risk must be run similar in kind, though not in degree, to the risk run in battle; and these men have died for their country as much as if the ship had been in action against an enemy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy. Enclosure 420 April 14, 1904. My dear Dunne: Is there no chance of your getting down to Washington this spring. I wish you could come, and that Mrs. Dunne could come with you. Then I shall have you at dinner-alone, or to meet a very select assemblage of guests, just as you prefer. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Finley Peter Dunne, Racquet Club, New York.421 April 14, 1904. Dear Mr. Ambassador: I appreciate your letter and thank you for it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Cancelled Baron H. Sternburg, German Ambassador, Washington. See page 437422 April 14, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Attorney General: In the course of the Post Office Investigation, matters developed in connection with the New York and Washington post offices which rendered it necessary to investigate them. I have received inspectors' reports as to both; but I am not entirely satisfied in either case. Another matter has also arisen in the Post Office Department which I have at present under investigation. I deem it advisable that these three cases should be further investigated so that I may be absolutely sure of my ground in each of them; and I would also like to investigate the branches of the Post Office Department which have not already been investigated. It will be necessary for me to have intelligent assistance in the prosecution of this investigation. It seems to me that the person who should assist me should be a423 capable lawyer. Can you suggest any one for this purpose? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. C. Knox, Attorney General. 424 Personal April 14, 1904. My dear Colonel Hepburn: I hope you will be able to put through the Panama legislation. It seems to me absolutely necessary that we should have something of the kind. What are the chances in the matter? With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. P. Hepburn, House of Representatives.425 Personal April 14, 1904. My dear Governor: I am delighted to hear what you tell me about the excise matter, and I appreciate thoroughly what you have done. Now, about Kinkead and Caleb Powers. By all means have the former stop over and see me. I feel that you are rendering not only a service to our party, but what is much more important, to the cause of decent government, by taking up the case of poor Caleb Powers. I think I can promise that the National Committee will help with the funds. It is not often that a political committee has the chance to do so genuine a bit of public service as is implied in helping in this case, and I feel as if we can quietly be of assistance in preventing the judicial murder of an innocent man for political reasons, it is incumbent upon us to render such help. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Frank S. Black, 170 Broadway, New York.426 Personal April 14, 1904. Dear Mr. Dover: I want you particularly to see Dr. Formaneck. I feel he could be of immense assistance among the Bohemians, perhaps especially in Illinois, but also elsewhere through the country. Dr. Formaneck is a man of means and high standing, who wants nothing from us, who has been of great service in the past; and though his business is such that he can not spend as much time for us this year, he is yet willing to spend some time to supervise the translation of documents into Bohemian, and give his advice as to what documents should be translated; and he would also furnish Bohemian speakers etc. Will you see him and talk over the matter with him, and if he misses you today, will you get in communication with him and arrange things so that when the campaign comes on*427* his services will be utilized? Dr. Formaneck's address in Chicago is 612 Throop Street. He expects to leave Chicago about the 1st of May, to be gone a month, so that it would be well for you to communicate with him as soon as possible after your return to Washington. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Elmer Dover, Secretary Republican National Committee, The Arlington Hotel, Washington, D.C. 428 April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Butler: Let me thank you heartily for the editorial. Fur- thermore let me ask if it is possible for me to get a copy of your Expansion Hymn or of any of your poems. I should greatly like to see them. With regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William Mill Butler, 6 Laura Street, Rochester, N.Y. 429 Copy in the President's book. Original sent in handwriting. My dear Senator McComas: Permit me to express my deep sympathy with you in this time of your great affliction. I wish there was some more tangible way in which I could express it. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT Hon. L. E. McComas, United States Senate. 430 April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Ambassador: Permit me to thank you for your kind note of sympathy, which I deeply appreciate, coming at the time of your own loss to which you refer. Assuring you of my reciprocal sympathy, and again thank- ing you, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Comte Cassini, Russian Ambassador, Washington. 431 April 15, 1904. My dear Ambassador: Permit me to thank you and through you your Govern- ment for your kind and courteous letter of condolence. Believe me I appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Senor Don Manuel de Azpiroz, Mexican Ambassador, 1413 I Street 432 April 15, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Attorney General: In accordance with your suggestion I shall appoint Assistant Attorney General Charles H. Robb to assist me in the further investigation of the Post Office Depart- ment. Will you please ask Mr. Robb to report to me for instructions? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. P. C. Knox, Attorney General. 433 April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Griscom: This will introduce to you Mr. Joseph Medill Patter- son of the Chicago Tribune and the Illinois Legislature. Mr. Patterson is a personal friend of mine, and you need not be told how high his family stands in Chicago. Mr. Patterson has already been in China, observing and re- porting the operations of the allied troops in 1900. He is very desirous of getting a chance to see the op- erations of the Japanese in the field. I cordially com- mend him to your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Lloyd C. Griscom, United States Minister, Tokyo, Japan. The above letter was sent to Mr. Joseph Medill Patterson, Chicago Tribune, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 434 302 April 15, 1904. Hon. H. C. Payne, Galveston, Texas. Telegram received. Glad to hear how well you are doing. THEODORE ROOSEVELT [???] 435 April 15, 1904. Darling Bye: I showed Will's letter to Moody, and now return it. It is most touching. The tragedy is well- nigh too dread- ful to think of. You are always in my mind. Ever yours, T. R. Mrs. W. S. Cowles, 1733 N Street, Washington, D.C. Enclosure. 436 Personal April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Secretary: Could you have Mr. Owen Wister and me at breakfast this Sunday? Think it over! I think if we leave it too long the weather may grow rather hot for your specialties. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. L. M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. 437 April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I deeply appreciate your letter of sympathy and regret. Believe me that I understand to the full how sincere this sympathy is, as coming both you personally and from the great nation you represent. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron H. Sternburg, German Ambassador, Washington. 438 April 15, 1904. Dear Will: It is just heartbreaking. The catastrophe seemed impossible to believe. My heart has gone out to you and to all your officers and men, old fellow, throughout these awful days. Barker's last telegram has made us feel pride even in our sorrow. Ever effectionately yours, Theodore Roosevelt Captain W. S. Cowles, U.S.N., Commanding U. S. S. Missouri, Pensacola, Florida. 439 April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Murray: Will you present to Eagle Chief the enclosed photo- graph with the cordial good wishes of his brother's old Colonel? I thank you for having written me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Rev. A. G. Murray, Lock Box 83, Pawnee, Oklahoma. Enclosure. 440 Private April 15, 1904. My dear Mr. Colquhoun: I sincerely thank you for your courtesy. I have already begun to read "Greater America" and am delighted with it as far as I have gone. I shall go over some of your views about the Philippines with Secretary Taft. Without agreeing with you on all the points that you make, let me express my hearty general concurrence with the doctrines you lay down, say on pages 111 and 185. I feel nothing but strong contempt for those citizens, numbering, I am sorry to say, some men who especially pride themselves on their trained intellects and their education, who are entirely willing to sacrifice the actual moral and physical well-being of the Filipinos to some shibboleth of their own which they choose to regard as an abstract principle of political ethics. I heartily believe in a government carried on in accordance with truly*441* ethical principles. But such a government is as far as the poles from one in which practical results for good are sacrificed to an impossible academic definition of liberty and self-government. Is it, to my mind, the mark of a lazy, careless, ignorant, or timid man to advocate the easy task of abandoning our duty toward less advanced races by insisting upon the obvious untruth that they should be treated as, for instance, the Swiss of Norwegians, or men of Vermont and Iowa can and must be treated. Thanking you heartily, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Archibald R. Colquhoun, 43 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, W., London, England.442 Personal April 15, 1904. Dear Will: I return Allen's very interesting communications; also your address before the Kickapoo Club. I should certainly send the latter (after correcting some of the grammatical errors due to the reporter) over to the Outlook. By the way, ought we not soon to telegraph Beckman Win- throp that in a short while I shall want him to be over here to be Governor of Porto Rico? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War. Enclosure.443 April 16, 1904 Personal. My dear Mr. Bliss: Entirely at your convenience during the next two or three weeks could you come on here to take either lunch or dinner? I should like to go over with you together with say Senators Aldrich and Spooner the question of the chairmanship of the National Committee. I hope I am not troubling you too much. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Cornelius N. Bliss, 117 Duane Street, New York, N. Y.444 April 16, 1904 Dear Murray: Ordinarily if delegates are "instructed" I feel safe about them! When they are "directed" I am naturally a little doubtful, especially when I hear on first-class authority that they have uttered dark hints about being "seen". When can you come and spend a night at the White House during which I can "see" you? Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.445 April 14, 1904. Dear Mrs. Pitkin: I very much wish that I could be present at the unveiling of the memorial to the union soldiers' widows at Elmwood Cemetery, Sunday, April 24th, but it is impossible for me to leave Washington at that time. I heartily believe in your work. With hearty thanks for the kind invitation, and best wishes for the success of the unveiling ceremonies, believe me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Lorraine J. Pitkin, President Woman's Relief Corps, Department of Illinois.446 Personal April 16, 1904. My dear Senator Aldrich: Do not forget to have action on the Crum case. I feel not only that Crum is entitled to confirmation, but that politically it would be a bad thing for the Senate to refuse to vote one way or the other upon his nomination. Already we are being taunted with insincerity and timidity in the matter. If Senator Tillman is not well enough to talk, then let him depute to some one else the task of objection. His friends are openly boasting that he is merely doing this as a bit of filibustering. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon . N. W. Aldrich United States Senate.447 April 16, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Dick: I need not point out to you how extremely embarrassing and unpleasant the enclosed clippings are to me, and the false attitude they put me in with reference to Senator Foraker and to the entire Sandusky situation. In view of them, and especially in view of the fact that all my inquiries tend to show that Judson is a man of excellent character, I shall feel obliged to send in his name for collector. I have explained to Mr. Jackson that I do not desire to reappoint the present postmaster, and on his recommendation will send in the name of Mr. James E. Melville instead. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles Dick, United States Senate. Enclosure.448 April 16, 1904. Personal. My dear Senator Foraker: I have received the letter with the two clippings. I have written Senator Dick that I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare for me the nomination of Mr. Judson for Collector of the Port of Sandusky. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. B. Foraker, United States Senate.449 April 16, 1904. My dear Sir: Messrs. Bonaparte and Conrad in their report of last fall recommended that the New York post office should be investigated. The investigation has been made by certain post office inspectors and I have their report. There are certain phases of the case, however, about which I should like additional information. Moreover, it has been my purpose to continue the investigation of the Department at the earliest possible moment. It is not intended by this to suggest that there is anything wrong; but I intend to be fully satisfied as to whether there is or is not anything wrong. Therefore, when you have finished investigating the matter above referred to, and have reported to me thereon, I direct you to investigate those branches of the Post Office Department which have not already been under investigation. If, in investigating any bureau or branch of the Department, you find any abuses,450 you will report thereon to me in full as soon as you have finished your investigation of that branch or bureau, without waiting until the whole scope of your investigation is completed. I have chosen you as especially fitted to do this work because of your service as Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department during the last investigation, your familiarity with its details and with the postal laws, regulations, and the methods of the Department. You will have the co-operation of the Postmaster General and of his subordinates, and every facility of the Department and of other Departments shall be at your disposal. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Charles H. Robb, Assistant Attorney General.451 April 16, 1904. Dear Maxey, I have your letter of April 5th. It will be a pleasure to me to see your friend. Give my love to Jessie. I am sorry you are not coming over this year. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. M. H. Maxwell, 63 South John Street, Liverpool, England.452 April 16, 1904. My dear Judge: In view of your solemn letter and the possibilities therein set forth, I shall refuse for the time being to continue the assaults on the Government and Constitution in which Mr. Bourke Cockran has conclusively shown I have been engaged. "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude" etc., etc. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Good luck! Hon. Charles Wait Thomas, Belleville, Illinois.453 April 16, 1904 . My dear Mr. Secretary: Please return to me the enclosed letter from the Consul- General at London after reading it. I am having many protests about this circular, not merely from foreign countries but from our own merchants in New York, while the Californians are very much afraid that there will be retaliation. My feeling is that the consular circular should be temporarily withdrawn. Then we can take up the matter at some future time of re-issuing it in a desirable form. At present it does not do good and it does considerable harm. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. L. M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. Enclosure.454 April 16, 1904. My dear Bishop Grant: I genuinely regret my inability to be present at the general conference of the African M. E. Church, which assembles in Chicago on May 2d. I wish you well. Every decent citizen must feel a peculiar interest in every movement for the spiritual and material elevation of our colored citizens. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Bishop A. Grant, Indianapolis, Indiana.455 Hon. H. C. Lodge, April 17, 1904. 60 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Just read speech. Congratulate and thank you. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.)456 April 17, 1904. My dear Gilder: I have just read Non Sine Dolore. It has impressed me very much, especially the part you marked. It seems to me that you have expressed the very thought to which in clumsier fashion I strove to give expression in The Strenuous Life. I thank you for having let me see the poem. I earnestly hope you can stop here on your way up. I am anxious to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R. W. Gilder, West Palm Beach, Florida.457 April 18, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Foulke: I am certainly obliged to you for the letter to Gillett which has just been made public. It is one of those cases where I had to get you or Garfield to state the facts, simply because you know them a great deal better than I di[d]. Save in two or three cases I really knew nothing of the exceptions given, accepting the recommendation of the Civil Service Commission without question. Do you think it worth while for Garfield to write a brief statement to Gillett as to the exceptions for the Department of Commerce and Labor? With renewed thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Wm. Dudley Foulke, 1266 New Hampshire Avenue.458 April 18, 1904. Personal. My dear Mr. Gillett: Can you not get Foulke's letter, together with the full reasons for those exceptions, into the Record in some way? also a letter from Garfield? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. F. H. Gillett, House of Representatives.459 April 18, 1904. Dear Speck: The enclosed note explains itself. I spoke to you about the matter a few days ago as you may remember. I do not know what your plans are, and you must not put yourself out; but Sewanee University is a first-class University, and you would do good by speaking there. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Baron H. Sternburg, German Ambassador, 1435 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. Enclosure.460 April 18, 1904. My dear Sir: I wish it were in my power to be present at the meet- ing of the Mining Congress, but it simply is not. I take a peculiar interest in the mining industry because of its importance in that great region of our land in which I passed so many years. I shall confer with Mr. Walcott as to the appointment of the three delegates. With best wishes for the success of your meeting, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. H. Richards, President, American Mining Congress, Boise, Idaho.461 April 18, 1904. Dear Elihu: I have your letter of the 16th returning Dr. Shaw's letter. If you get over here on the 22d can you take lunch or dinner? If so, who would you like to have me ask to meet you? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihu Root, Mutual Life Building, New York, N. Y.462 Personal April 18, 1904. My dear White: Thank you heartily for your letter. I have directed Bristow to send you all the information you request. I hope you are right in your prophecies about next fall. I have not the slightest doubt that you are right as to the forty-three varieties of the informal region which will break loose under given conditions in the next Congress. However, I have a long fork myself, and in such contingency, if I am driven to it, I shall do my share in adding to the entertainment! Do not get it into your head that I am melancholy, however. Sometimes I am a little cast down or a little irritated for a few minutes at the opposition of men who I think ought to be for me. The great thing in this life anywhere is to do with the very best of your ability a job worth doing. That chance I have, and I am enjoying it to the full.463 Remember me warmly to Mrs. White. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. A. White, The Gazette. Emporia, Kansas. April 18, 1904. My dear Comrade Daniels: Your letter gives me real pleasure. I am mighty glad you are to be an alternate to the National Convention; though I wish you were a delegate. With best wishes, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. B. F. Daniels, Marsh Building, Nogales, Arizona.465 April 18, 1904. My dear Judge Jenkins: I congratulate you most heartily and I congratulate the Philippine service upon having you upon the bench. With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon James C. Jenkins, Atlanta, Georgia.466 Personal April 18, 1904. Dear George: Cabot's speech was an admirable one. Mrs. Lodge has just sent it to me. I am more pleased with it than I can well say. With hearty thanks, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George H. Lyman, Collector of Customs, Boston, Massachusetts.467 April 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Hyde: Pray accept my hearty congratulations, and give them especially to Mrs. Hyde. I enclose a photograph for young Theodore. With best wishes for his future, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Charles L. Hyde, Pierre, South Dakota. Enclosure468 April 18, 1904. Personal. _________ Dear Mr. Speaker: Is it not possible to give the Alaskan bills two hours' time? They have passed the Senate and they have been reported from the House Committee. As far as I know there is no objection to them. I suppose that the Alaskans appeal to me because I am popularly supposed to be rather more of a far-westerner than any President we have hitherto had. I know the need of this legislation for Alaska. Cannot it be put through? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives.469 April 18, 1904. My dear Mr. Carnegie: You are always so kind and goodnatured with me that I hesitate to trespass upon your time; yet I shall ask you if you are willing to look through the enclosed letter from an animal sculptor who really has done noteworthy work. I myself bought three of his bronzes at different times, and I have always hoped that we would have at the National Capital a fountain or other work by him. So far I have been unable to persuade a sufficient number of the statesmen at the other end of the Avenue to take my view. I do not know that there is anything that you could or would do with reference to his letter, but as he writes me that you took an interest in one of his groups which I well remember, I deem it well to lay his letter before you for such consideration as you may care to give it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st Street, New York. Enclosure470 April 19, 1904. My dear Judge: I have your letter of the 17th instant. I am very glad you were chosen. Would it be possible for you to come down on Monday next, take lunch with me, and then,if you care to, stay for the musical at the White House in the afternoon? I should so much like to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. G. D. B. Hasbruck, Court of Claims, Albany, N.Y. Enclosure471 April 19, 1904. My dear Mr. Cook: I was really pleased with the volumes of Necker which you sent me through Mr. Loeb. I have long wished to see them, for curiously enough I have never read them. With renewed thanks for your courtesy, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John T. Cook, Albany, N. Y.472 April 19, 1904. Dear Sloan: If you come north in June, can't you arrange to run on to Washington and spend a night in the White House? It would be such a pleasure to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. W. S. Simpson, V.V.N.Ranch, Bovina, Texas.473 April 19, 1904. My dear Governor Carter: Colonel Franklin Bartlett, in whose judgment about lawyers and men I have very great confidence, is earnestly desirous that Mr. Henry E. Highton of San Francisco should be appointed to one of the vacant judgeships of the supreme court next summer. I should like to oblige Colonel Bartlett, and, as I say, I have great confidence in his judgment. Will you be able to see your way clear to recommend him? There are excellent papers on file here on his behalf. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Geo. R. Carter, Governor of Hawaii, Honolulu, H. I.474 April 19, 1904. My dear Dr. Gates: I am much puzzled about the bill to which you refer. Secretary Hitchcock is very strongly opposed to it, and Mr. Francis E. Leupp, whose opinion about such matters I value highly, is also opposed to it. In your letter you say, "The present state of affairs, in which one or more men pointedly discredited by recent investigations have been reappointed or named for new positions of trust in the Indian Territory, has awakened a sense of questioning and doubt as to the purpose of the administration which Is now so widely extended through the country as to cause us grave anxiety." I have not the slightest idea what you mean by this statement. So far as I am aware, no man "pointedly discredited by recent investigations " has been reappointed or named for a new position of trust in the Indian Territory. To whom do you refer? If the "sense of ques-475 tioning and doubt as to the purpose of the administration"' which you refer to as widely extended throughout the country, is based upon facts, I would like to know these facts. If it is based not upon facts but upon imagination, then I am powerless to prevent its existence save by having the facts known. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Merrill E. Gates Board of Indian Commissioners, Washington.476 April 20, 1904. Major Harold C. Megrew, Commander-in-Chief, Spanish War Veterans; Captain Wm. E. English, Commander-in-Chief, Spanish-American war Veterans; Colonel George M. Moulton, Commander-in-Chief, Service Men of Spanish War, Indianapolis, Ind. I congratulate you heartily on the very gratifying news contained in your telegram of the nineteenth. THEODORE ROOSEVELT (President's private account). 477 April 20, 1904. My dear Cardinal Gibbons: I have not the slightest idea what the Bishop refers to. and can only send your note to Taft. I shall let you know as soon as I find out anything. It seems to me that Butch Hendrick should have been in touch with Governor Wright and Commissioner Smith. However, I shall look up the matter at once. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Maryland. 478 April 20, 1904. My dear Mr. Donald: I wish I could be present at the dinner to Mr. Hollis. I feel that all of us owe him a great debt for what he has done for Harvard; and it is a matter of very genuine regret to me that I cannot be present to say so in person. Pray give him my warm regards. Believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Malcolm Donald, 70 State Street, Boston, Mass.479 April 20, 1904. My dear Admiral: I guess if you make a request the request must be counted as granted: I have directed that Captain Emory's son receive one of those appointment as you desire. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Admiral George Dewey, U.S.N. Mills Building, Washington, D. C. 480 April 20, 1904. My dear Travers: I was as pleased as you were at Father Gleason's splendid record. Indeed, we have a right to be proud of him. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Frank C. Travers, 41 Worth Street, New York, N.Y.484 April 21, 1904. W. G. Preuitt, Secretary Montana Stock Growers' Association, Miles City, Montana. Through you Telegram received. Through you I wish to greet the members of the Montana Stock Growers' Association and thank them for their courtesy. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (President's private acct.)482 Personal April 20, 1904. My dear Mr. Secretary: A great many people have been to me about the promotion of Colonel Urell who was in the Civil War and the Spanish War, and is now in your Department. Would you mind looking up the case and reporting to me about it? Urell was in the Spanish American War, and if I can give him some proper position, I should like to. It is not often that one finds a veteran of both the wars. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War.483 Personal. April 21, 1904. Dear Mr. Lacey: Cannot we get that Alaska legislation through? It does seem to me to be very important that this republican Congress should show its genuine care for the welfare of Alaska. Senator Beveridge carefully went over all the Alaska legislation and knows about it personally. Senators Nelson and Dillingham drew the bills. It seems to me with these three Senators as guarantors we are pretty safe on the legislation, and I do think that if possible it should be passed. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. John F. Lacey, House of Representatives.484 Personal. April 21, 1904. My dear Senator Foraker: I am very sorry you are out of town. I wanted not only to talk over certain Ohio matters, but Porto Rican matters, for as Hunt has accepted the judgeship it is necessary to send in the name of the Governor as soon as possible. Four of the present officials in Porto Rico have been recommended to me for Governor-Hartzell, Elliott, Sweet, and Post. Post is the man whom I personally think most fit, but I am convinced that to promote him at present would cause much heartburning and dissatisfaction among the others, and for various reasons I am not willing to promote any of the other three. The man whom I de- sire to put in is Bookman Winthrop. He is recommended for the position by Taft; and before Root went out he spoke to me also about him, and I know him well personally. He has been Secretary to the Philippine Commission485 for several years and is now serving as a judge in the Philippine Islands. I think he is a better man than any now in the Island, and in any event I would not, under existing conditions, be willing to promote any one on the Island. I had desired to say this to you personally, because it is much to be hoped that Winthrop can be appointed and confirmed before Congress adjourns. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. J. B. Foraker, United States Senate.486 Personal April 21, 1904. To the Secretary of the Navy: What steps have been taken to secure good marksmanship among our cruisers? And are the battleships on the Asiatic Station doing as well as the battleships elsewhere in marksmanship? It is the cruisers that would have to do most against torpedo boats, and I am particularly anxious to know how they are doing with guns of six-inch calibre or less. Theodore Roosevelt487 April 21, 1904. Dear Bertie: That information is erroneous. There is one officer of the Army who could probably be promoted to Tweedale's place and retired. The man of course must be in Army so to be appointed. No man in civil life could be put in for such a purpose. With regards to Mrs. Bertie, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R. B. Roosevelt, Jr., 49 Wall Street, New York.488 April 21, 1904. My dear Senator: All right-I shall see the Commissioner at once, and if I can sign that bill, I shall. We got the price of the lands of the Rosebud Agency raised from $3 to $4, which I think is enough. Our agent so reports, and Assistant Secretary Ryan and Commissioner Richards both say the same thing. Trusting that your health is very much improved, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. M. S. Quay, Atlantic City, New Jersey.489 April 21 4 La Majesté Abdul Hamid Sultan de Turquie J'ai reçu le telegramme que votre Majesté a eu la Conte de m'envoyer au sujet du vaisreau conetmit pour la Gouvernment de Votra Majesté par la maison Cra?. Je suis heureuse d'apprendre que les ordres de votre Majesté out ité éxécutés à Sa Oaltsfaction et La prie l'augrrler l'assuriance de ma cordiale amité. Theodore Roosevelt490 April 21, 1904. My dear Governor Richards: What has been done about the matters we talked over with White the other evening? In the northern division of the sierra Forest Reserve, can't the $800 appropriation made for trail tools, wire fencing and the like be sent out at once? You, of course, know better than I that it is absolutely useless to hold this appropriation up for six or eight months pending an investigation by a supervisor. Send it out to some local man, notifying him that he will be held responsible for it, and then investigate afterwards to see what he has done with it. But get the eight hundred dollars out there by the middle of May, not by the middle of November, when all chance of using it will have gone. If, in order to do this you have to strain the feelings of a few bureaucrats, why let them strain. If there is any human being in this country with whom I do not sympathize, it is the type of office individual who has a roll of red tape in place of a gizzard. So as far as you can, handle this whole reserve business on just the lines I have indicated above. Stir up Newhall on the cattle question. The fact that eighteen cattle owners yelled on being required to be decent and conform to regulations is of no earthly consequence. Let them yell and make them conform to the regulations.491 -2- Refuse absolutely to appoint, for Senators or any one else, any supervisors who are not A1 men; and where we have good men in the service who can be promoted to these positions, promote them. Can't a foreman at a slightly increased salary be created to do Newhall's forest work, and let Newhall simply do the paper work? Can't some steps be taken toward giving more power to the rangers locally, having some kind of supervision or inspection to see how they have handled this power? If the man is fit to be a ranger at all it is a great deal better that he should do as much as possible on his own responsibility, without having to refer to Washington the question whether a settler can or cannot take fifty dollars worth of dead timber for firewood. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. W. A. Richards Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C.492 April 21, 1904. My dear Mr. Bowers: I have just learned, through Mr. Stewart Edward White, of the number of golden trout in Volcano Creek, which flows from Mount Whitney, California. These form a singularly beautiful and distinctive species of exceedingly local habitat. As there is always a chance of their being fished out here, I would like to guard against this chance. Can the Fish Commission take measures to distribute and propagate these golden trout in the different, or some of the different, United States Fish Hatcheries? May I ask that you will communicate with Mr. Stewart Edward White, at Santa Barbara, California? I am very anxious that this should be done,and I will be obliged if you will let me know from time to time what progress is being made in the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. George M. Bowers, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 494 April 21, 1904. To all Military Commanders, Forest Supervisors, and Forest Rangers, in the Service of the United States: Mr. Stewart Edward White, who has been of great assistance to me in connection with the study and presentation of the forestry problems of our country, will be traveling through various reservations in the Sierras and Rockies. I request that he be given every facility in traveling through them, and that all courtesies be extended that would be extended any personal representative of mine; and such courtesies I shall esteem as if extended to myself. Theodore Roosevelt495 April 21, 1904 Dear Governor: Is there any chance of your stopping in Washington on the way back? Lit. said there was. If so, let me know in advance. There is, of course, much that I want to talk over with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Hotel Chamberlain, Fortress Monroe, Virginia.