LETTER TO MR. WELCH ACCOMPANYING HIS APPOINTMENT AS SHERIFF OF WASHING TON COUNTY July 11, 1900 Mr. HENRY WELCH, North Hebron, N. Y.: SIR: I have concluded to appoint you as sheriff in place of Hulett who has resigned under charges, not venturing to await my decision in the matter. It is unnecessary to say to you that no connection direct or indirect of Mr. Hulett with the office can be tolerated for one moment. I expect you also to remove his under sheriff, clerk and any one else in the office who has had any connection whatever with the purchase of supplies or with any of the acts that have been the subject of charges. I need hardly point out to you that you stand in a position of peculiar delicacy and that it is incumbent upon you to so manage the office as to prevent so much as a suspicion of wrongdoing of any kind attaching to it. I have a right to expect from you that the office shall be managed on the highest plane of efficiency and integrity and wholly without regard to any personal or political consideration. Very truly yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT LETTER TO THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY RELATIVE TO THE ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO DISREGARD THE STATE ELECTIONS BUREAU STATE OF NEW YORK Oyster Bay, November 5, 1900 TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. SIR: My attention has been called to the official order issued by Chief of Police Devery, in which he directs his subordinates to disregard the Chief of the State Election Bureau, John McCullagh, and his deputies. Unless you have already taken steps to secure the recall of this order, it is necessary for me to point out that I shall be obliged to hold you responsible as the head of the city government for the action of the Chief of Police if it should result in any breach of the peace and intimidation. or any crime whatever against the election laws. The State and city authorities should work together. I will not fail to call to summary account either State or city authority in the event of either being guilty of intimidation or connivance at fraud or of failure to protect every legal voter in his rights. I therefore hereby notify you that in the event of any wrongdoing following upon the failure immediately to recall Chief Devery's order, or upon any action or inaction on the part of Chief Devery, I must necessarily call you to account. Yours, etc., THEODORE ROOSEVELT LETTER TO THE SHERIFF OF NEW YORK COUNTY RELATIVE TO THE ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO DISREGARD STATE ELECTIONS BUREAU STATE OF NEW YORK Oyster Bay, November 5, 1900 TO THE SHEriff of the COUNTY OF NEW YORK. SIR: My attention has been called to the official order issued by Chief of Police Devery in which he directs his subordinates to disregard the Chief of the State Election Bureau, John McCullagh, and his deputies. It is your duty to assist in the orderly enforcement of the law and I shall hold you strictly responsible for any breach of the public peace within your county, or for any failure on your part to do your full duty in connection with the election to-morrow. Yours truly, THEODORE ROOSEVELT LETTER TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF NEW YORK COUNTY RELATIVE TO THE ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO DISREGARD STATE ELECTIONS BUREAU STATE OF NEW YORK Oyster Bay, November 5, 1900 TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK. SIR: My attention has been called to the official order issued by Chief of Police Devery in which he directs his subordinates to disregard the Chief of the State Election Bureau, John McCullagh, and his deputies. In view of this order I call your attention to the fact that it is your duty to assist in the orderly enforcement. of the law and there must be no failure on your part to do your full duty in the matter. Yours truly, THEODORE ROOSEVELT At the Y. M. C. A. Meeting in New York City 265 Commerce of New York, with report on New York Assembly District nominations, act to ....... New York Rapid Transit, bill relative to ..... 73 67 82 588 New York City Law Department, bill relating to the.. 89 90 New York City Teachers' Salaries, bill regulating...... 91 ..... ...... New York City, bill to establish a Department of Elec- State Fairs, bill relating to Colored Children, bill to secure equal educational .... |