ROOSEVELT THEODORE Autograph Note Signed TR as President to

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"PARKER FAILS TO FURNISH PROOFS" ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Autograph Note Signed, "T.R.," as President, to his personal secretary William Loeb, Jr., requesting that the Republican newspapers be encouraged to republish an editorial defusing [Judge Alton B. Parker's] attacks against Roosevelt. 1 page, 12mo, faintly ruled paper; even toning overall. [Washington, 6 November 1904]

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"Can't the Republican papers of N.Y. N.J. Conn, Indiana and Ill. be asked to republish the Post's editorial on the attack on me this morning; & it's headlines 'Parker fails to furnish proofs'."
Published in The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, ed. Morison, et al., (1951), No. 3331.
Alton Brooks Parker (1852-1926) served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, 1898-1904, immediately after which he ran as the Democratic nominee for president against the Republican Roosevelt, losing by a wide margin. In the days leading up to the election, Parker delivered a speech at Madison Square Garden during which he charged Roosevelt of having been corrupted by the money of large corporations--a charge which Roosevelt strenuously and repeatedly denied. During a Congressional investigation held a few years later, however, Roosevelt admitted to having accepted campaign contributions from insurance companies.