[Tipped-in:] Typed letter signed "Theodore Roosevelt", as President, to Poultney Bigelow, strongly rebutting Bigelow's statements in an article asserting that some of his and Secretary Taft's military promotions yielded to political considerations. Washington, D.C., 3 April 1905. One page, 4to, on White House stationary (partially mounted on front flyleaf). With a few holograph corrections in Roosevelt's hand.