Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock
This item includes a letter, marked private and confidential, in which President Roosevelt discusses problems and complaints against the Department of the Interior and possible repercussions they might have in the upcoming elections.
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OCR Page 1 of 6Private and
confidential.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
ANSWERED
WASHINGTON
AUG 31 1906
Oyster Bay, N.Y.,
August 27, 1906.
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My dear Mr. Secretary:
After some hesitation I have concluded to send you the enclosed
two letters from Congreseman Sherman and Mr. Fulton, a Republican
County Committee chairmen in the Indian Territory. I do not know anye
thing about the Cherokee payment which it is alleged has caused such
dissatiefaction among the Cherokees. I should like much if you would
give me a statement about it. I have of course received a great many
complaints as to the damage being done politically by the action of
the Interior Department in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, both in the
matter of the investigation of Governor Frants, of the attacke on District
Attorney Embryaadd of the feeling by the Indiane that they have been
troated with harshness by the Department; and the Nationel Republican
Committee are inclined to believe that the feeling thus caused, no mate
ter how ill-founded, will cost us the loss of the delegation in Congress
from the new State. I have not taken this up with you because I of
courge believe that no matter how disestrous to the administration po
litically, we can not for a moment entertain any other thought than to
do exect and equel justice, end if a given course of conduct is right
it must be followed, and if a given official is corrupt or incompetent
he must be punished, no matter what party disaster is brought about
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