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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), as President, to Henry W. Putnam et al., Washington, 27 September 1904. Two pages, 4to, on White House stationery, marked "Personal".
"YOU SAY JUST WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE I DESERVE TO HAVE SAID ABOUT ME."
ROOSEVELT THANKS EIGHT MEN FOR THEIR SPIRITED ENDORSEMENT IN THE 1904 CAMPAIGN. "Your letter has given me real pleasure," Roosevelt writes, "because in stating your reasons for supporting me you say just what I would like to believe I deserve to have said about me." Eight men had written to praise Roosevelt and promise him their votes: "We propose to vote for you," they said, "because we like your courage, your honesty, and the intelligent frankness with which you meet complicated political problems and try to serve the best interests of the whole people with the tools which those people have placed in your hands. We support you because we think it more important to have for President a man whose purpose and motive we can always trust, than one with whose conclusions we can always agree." They were willing to put into office a man with whom they did not always agree, "in order to secure in politics the success of real, independent manhood. This we regard as one of the great issues of the present campaign..." Roosevelt answers by asking, "I wonder if you appreciate how much such a letter means to me? I deem it an ample reward in itself for all that I have at least striven to do that there should be American citizens such as you have above described. Win or lose, I shall do my best so to carry myself that you need feel no cause for regret at having written me."
In addition to Putnam, the other seven who had signed the letter to TR were Samuel Davis, Robert S. Sturtevant, Walton L. Crocker, James P. Prince, William Frederic Berry, Edward P. Merriam, Eben A. Thacher.
"YOU SAY JUST WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE I DESERVE TO HAVE SAID ABOUT ME."
ROOSEVELT THANKS EIGHT MEN FOR THEIR SPIRITED ENDORSEMENT IN THE 1904 CAMPAIGN. "Your letter has given me real pleasure," Roosevelt writes, "because in stating your reasons for supporting me you say just what I would like to believe I deserve to have said about me." Eight men had written to praise Roosevelt and promise him their votes: "We propose to vote for you," they said, "because we like your courage, your honesty, and the intelligent frankness with which you meet complicated political problems and try to serve the best interests of the whole people with the tools which those people have placed in your hands. We support you because we think it more important to have for President a man whose purpose and motive we can always trust, than one with whose conclusions we can always agree." They were willing to put into office a man with whom they did not always agree, "in order to secure in politics the success of real, independent manhood. This we regard as one of the great issues of the present campaign..." Roosevelt answers by asking, "I wonder if you appreciate how much such a letter means to me? I deem it an ample reward in itself for all that I have at least striven to do that there should be American citizens such as you have above described. Win or lose, I shall do my best so to carry myself that you need feel no cause for regret at having written me."
In addition to Putnam, the other seven who had signed the letter to TR were Samuel Davis, Robert S. Sturtevant, Walton L. Crocker, James P. Prince, William Frederic Berry, Edward P. Merriam, Eben A. Thacher.