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    "title": "Copy of Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock",
    "description": "This letter addresses many ongoing issues in the Department of the Interior, including: appointments of judges, the Frantz case, and law enforcement in Wyoming.",
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    "ocrText": "3\ninvestigation of this kind it is very important that it be so\nconducted as to inflict the minimum of hardship upon the par-\nties accused, if they prove to be innocent. If Frantz and\nhis people are guilty, then the damage to the Republican party\nis greatly increased by having us taking action against them\nin September or October instead of July; while if they are\ninnocent, then the mere fact of the investigation having been\nso long drawn out causes an irreparable damage to the innocent\naccused people, and the benefit which has come in any case to\nthe Flynn faction and to the Democrats will be unaccompanied\nby any benefit in getting at the guilty people. It is mani-\nfestly the purpose of the Flynn crowd and of the Democrats to\ndrag this investigation on as late as possible for the purposes\nof political electioneering, and we do not want to appear to\nhave been used as tools by politicians for their own purposes.\nI can not help thinking that it should have been possible for\nour agents to have finished the case in such shape that an\nimmediate judgment could have been past upon it six weeks ago.\nI do not quite understand the rights of the correspondence\nyou submit to me in connection with United States Attorney\nBurke, of Wyoming, and Mr. Hintze. On their face the letters\nof Messrs. Burke and Clark would show Mr. Hintze's conduct to\nbe entirely improper, and their own conduct to have been proper.\nBut of course there may be facts which show the contrary, which,\nowing to my lack of familiarity with the matter, I am not\npossest of. I will send all the papers to the Attorney General"
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