Theodore E. Burton to Charles W. Chesnutt, 16 January 1914
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THEODORE E. BURTON.
United States Senate,
WASHINGTON D. C.
Jan. 16, 1914
Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt,
Williamson Building,
Cleveland, Ohio.
My dear Mr. Chesnutt:
If convenient, I should really like to have the minutes of those remarks last Saturday1 by Monday, as I may use some part of the address in a speech I am to deliver at Youngstown on Tuesday next, for which place I leave Monday evening.2
Yours sincerely, T. E. BurtonCorrespondent: Theodore E. Burton (1851–1929) was a White attorney and Republican politician from Ohio whose political career began in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1880s. He represented Ohio multiple times both in the U.S. House of Representatives (1889–1891, 1895–1909, and 1921–1928) and in the Senate (1909–1915 and 1928–1929). Chesnutt appreciated his politics and supported his run in the Cleveland mayoral election of 1907, which he lost to Tom L. Johnson (1854–1911) before returning to national politics. After the publication of The Marrow of Tradition in 1903, Burton urged Chesnutt to distribute it to a number of U.S. politicians.
1. On Saturday, January 10, 1914, Theodore Burton (1851-–1929) addressed 200 members of the City Club of Cleveland, Ohio, at the Hollenden Hotel ("Race for Gold Is One of the Evils of the Day, Says Senator Theodore Burton," Cincinnati Inquirer, January 11, 1914, p. 2). Chesnutt was a member of the City Club and apparently offered his stenography skills to take minutes at this event. [back]
2. On Tuesday, January 20, 1914, at a meeting of several hundred Republicans and Progressives in Youngstown, Ohio, to discuss a party merger, Theodore Burton (1851–1929) spoke on "The Political Situation of 1914." See The Marion Star, January 21, 1914, p. 11. [back]
