Description
TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,”
One page, 6.75″ x 9.25″, personal letterhead
November 16, 1914
In fine condition
Letter to pastor and magazine editor John Wesley Hill, in full: “I have your welcome letter and thank you for sending me your kindly comment, but I do not hear the bee buzzing a bit. The result of the election was most gratifying, however. The elimination of Roosevelt and the Progressives seems to be complete, except in California, and there they need a little more hard times and a fool-killer among the Republicans. My own impression is that we ought to nominate Hughes, but we can not do it by a preliminary canvass. We have to let these little fellows rattle around in their dry pods and make a noise, and then spring Hughes’ name on the convention, after the convention becomes disgusted with the paucity of good material.” Occurring in the middle of President Woodrow Wilson’s first term, the elections of the 64th United States Congress witnessed a resurgence of the Republican Party following party divide in the wake of the 1912 presidential election. Although Republicans were bolstered by the rejoining of several Progressives, it was still not enough to reclaim control of the House of Representatives nor make any significant impact within the Senate.
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