The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-12-14

iuucn III addressing you lniS IeItef.
Very respectfully,
VIM. H. POPE.
Associate Justice, etc.
Upon June 21st letter was writ
ten, entitled as follows:
White House, Washington,
June 81, 1904.
My Dear Sir
In response to your letter of the
14th instant, I have pleasure in send
ing you, with the Presidents compli
ments, the accompanying photograph
upon which he has placed an auto
graph inscription.
Very truly yours,
VIM. LOEB. JR.,
Secretary to the President
To Hon. VIM. H. Pope, Associate JUS
tice Supreme Court of New Mexi-
co, Santa Fe, N. M.
Thus showing, as you have already
noticed, that instead of complying
with my request to have indicated
what photographer would furnish the
best photograph, the President,
promptly, through his private secre
tary, forwarded such photograph, sui
tably endorsed with his signature.
To this letter, on July first, made
tho fo1ouipo rocn0nSo.
To Hon. VIM Loeb, Jr, Secretary to
the President, Washington, D. C.
My Dear Sir:
l have this day received your let
ter of June 21st. accompanied by
photograph of the President, to be
presented to the county of Roosevelt
upon the occasion of the dedication
of it's new court house. -
My sincere thanks. both personal
and on behalf of the people / repre-
sent, are due the President for this
very generous response to the re-
quest made, and I will thank you very.
much to convey these to him for me.
The gift will be highly priced by
the community for which it was in
tended, and it's presence in their
court room will, am sure, prove an
incentive both to obedience to the
law for whose enforcement the Pres
ident as an official stands, and to
that higher citizenship SO conspicu-
ously exemplif1ed by him in his pri
vate life. l am,
Very respectfully yours,
VIM. H. POPE.
| have had the photograph in ques-
ton suitably framed, and it now gives
me great pleasure to deliver it to
you, Mr.. Chairman, as the represen-
tative of the governing board of the
county of Roosevelt.
I trust that this photograph now
committed to your care, will, as it
hangs in your court room during the
years to come, prove an incentive to
the emulation of those qualities which
irrespective of creed, and irrespective
of politics, we recognize and honor
in Theodore Roosevelt. AS your coun
ty grows in population and prosperi-
ty. may its patriotism keep pace with
its progress May "the higher life"
be the goal toward which your citi-
zenship shall strive. May this build
ing. this day dedicated to the pur.
poses of your courts, ever be the
scene where even-handed Justice
nothing more and nothing less-shall
be administered. And in future
years, when your children and your
children's children shall revisit this
room, and look back upon all that
has been here performed, may they
be able to say that we who have pre-
ceded them have builded well. and
may they add. reverentially. that
they. with Gods help. will bravely
and earnestly carry forward the
work
| Mr.. Clerk. as representing the
i court, you will hand to the Chairman
OF the Board of County Commission
ers, the photograph which has been
sent for this purpose
Thereupon the photograph was by
the Clerk handed to the Chairman OF
the Board of County Commissioners
OF the County Of Roosevelt. Mr.. w
10. Oldham.
Therenpon Mr.. w E. Lindsey. the
Probate Clerk and Ex-Ofacio Clerk
| to the Board OF County Commission
ers OF the county of Roosevelt said:
May it please the court. ladies
and gentlemen This would have
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