Note from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock

This item includes a note in which President Roosevelt refers to a letter from C.E.S. Wood about Oregon politics. This letter is part of correspondence from September 6 and October 10, in which the President addresses a statement made by Hitchcock about

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THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. Oyster Bay, N.Y., September 6, 1905. My dear Mr. Hitchcock: I am much interested in that letter, but I wish that Heney would give some kind of proof or at least of testimony as to what he says. He has no business to make such a statement about Fulton, Matthews and McBride unless he has something to back it up. Robinson's statement of course deserves at- tention, but Heney would impress me far more favorably if he would only say what he can prove. Sincerely yours, Thirdore Roosele Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, Monadnock, New Hampshire.