TLS as president, two pages, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, July 9, 1906. Letter to Grosvenor A. Porter, a cousin of Edith K. Roosevelt. In full: “The most important thing for you to do is just what you have been doing, that is, so administer your office that all the best people will feel that you are about the best official in the Territory. It may be that I may be able to secure your confirmation by the Senate without much active support from the Senators from the new State. But if the Senators choose to oppose your confirmation (that is, always provided they are Republicans) it may be very difficult for me to secure it. I would not on any account have you do anything with any politicians that would mean in the smallest degree a deviation from what is right and straight; but I would like to have you identify yourself as far as is proper with the Republican organization, and let it be known that you are delighted to do what you can for all the heads of the organization, without regard to faction, so long as what they desire you to do is entirely straight.” He adds a handwritten closing sentence, “But the last proviso is all important.” Tape-repaired edge separations to the horizontal mailing fold (passing through his very faded last name in the signature), scattered creases, considerable soiling, and adhesive remnants to blank area of the first page, otherwise very good condition. On September 17, 1907, the people of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories voted favorably to combine the two territories to form the State of Oklahoma. Of the seven congressmen they elected—two to the Senate and five to the House of Representatives—only one was a Republican. Roosevelt nominated Porter to be reappointed as US Marshal for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, but it never got out of committee after charges of immorality and misconduct were made; rather than have the nomination rejected, Roosevelt withdrew it entirely.
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