Yours respectfully, Theodore Rosefelt [** signature]
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 952 Wall Street, New York City.
Thanks for your very friendly letter. I am much encouraged by the news you send and am very glad to hear that the sentiment is so favorable to me. John D. called on me yesterday and left a substantial check, which, of course, will not be recorded in his name. It is needless to say that if I am elected my gratitude will assure a very substantial form and my friends in Wall Street need never fear that their prosperity will be jeopardized by any official act of mine. I shall be in New York Saturday and should like to see you privately at the Metropolitan Club. Mr. Baer, of the Reading Road, will also join us there.
Yours gratefully, Alton P. Barker [** signature]
George K. Jamison, Chairman Hancock County Republican Control Com. Dear Sir:—
I regret very much that I cannot manage to speak before the Farmers’ Institute next Thursday afternoon. I have a luncheon engagement with the President of the Michigan Northern Road and cannot break it. Please express my regrets and say that I hope the farmers, who are the bone and sinew of this great nation, will come forward and do their duty on election day.
Yours respectfully, [** signature illegible]
THE LABORING CLASSES ARE GETTING TOO MUCH MONEY.
OFFICE OF THE CONSOLIDATED COAL MINING CO.
I shall be home Thursday. Am very tired and worn out. I do not believe that I can keep up this pace for six months more. My back aches, I fainted from over-exhaustion yesterday, and the only food I can eat is pre-digested milk. Please have Murphy, the foreman of the mine, discharge the laborers who are agitating for higher wages. We are now paying them 80 cents a day and what can these ignorant German and Irish laborers expect? They never earned that much at home and yet they dare to come over here and make these preposterous demands. I never could tolerate the Germans and Irish anyway. However, do not mention this fact before election day.
Yours affectionately, Henry G Davids [** signature]
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MAYOR HARRISON’S CONFERENCE WITH JUDGE PARKER AT HOTEL SEVILLE, NEW YORK
MAYOR HARRISON TO JUDGE PARKER—“_Judge Parker, I promise you the electoral vote of Illinois. And more than that—_” ]