ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed as President, to Univ. of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Oyster Bay, N.Y., 22 August 1904. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, marked "Personal," on White House stationery . TEDDY'S DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, ALTON B. PARKER "IS NOT EXACTLY THE MAN WHO OUGHT TO BE CHOSEN PRESIDENT" A politely worded but scathing attack on the Democratic opponent for the White House: "...Of course all things are possible, and Parker may win; but if so it will be because the people do not mind having a man who simply marks time...A Chief Justice of the State of New York who does not know that there is no common law of the United States, and who thinks that independence and self-government are the same thing in the Philippines, is not exactly the man who ought to be chosen President..." The 1904 campaign was largely one of personality, not issues, since Judge Alton B. Parker's and Roosevelt's policies on the key issues were quite similar: both favored independence for the Philippines, the Panama Canal, the gold standard, civil service laws and condemned monopolies. Roosevelt, not surprisingly, outshone the rather colorless Judge in the campaign to win by a veritable landslide to win a second term in the White House. As one wit put it, Parker was defeated "by acclamation."
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President . Typed letter signed as President, to Univ. of California President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Oyster Bay, N.Y., 22 August 1904. 1 page, 4to, integral blank, marked "Personal," on White House stationery . TEDDY'S DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, ALTON B. PARKER "IS NOT EXACTLY THE MAN WHO OUGHT TO BE CHOSEN PRESIDENT" A politely worded but scathing attack on the Democratic opponent for the White House: "...Of course all things are possible, and Parker may win; but if so it will be because the people do not mind having a man who simply marks time...A Chief Justice of the State of New York who does not know that there is no common law of the United States, and who thinks that independence and self-government are the same thing in the Philippines, is not exactly the man who ought to be chosen President..." The 1904 campaign was largely one of personality, not issues, since Judge Alton B. Parker's and Roosevelt's policies on the key issues were quite similar: both favored independence for the Philippines, the Panama Canal, the gold standard, civil service laws and condemned monopolies. Roosevelt, not surprisingly, outshone the rather colorless Judge in the campaign to win by a veritable landslide to win a second term in the White House. As one wit put it, Parker was defeated "by acclamation."
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