Woodrow Wilson to William Sulzer

Title

Woodrow Wilson to William Sulzer

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP17902

Date

1913 July 29

Description

Woodrow Wilson writes to William Sulzer about making federal appointments.

Source

Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia

Subject

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Text

My dear Governor Sulzer:

Your letter of July twenty–second has brought very vividly to my mind again the difficulties we labor under here in making federal appointments. Of course, the systematic effort in the matter of recommendations is always made by the local organization. We have not the opportunity or the means to go out and look for candidates or for information about those who are candidates, and very often information by which we would wish to have been guided comes to us after a nomination is sent to the Senate.
I can assure you that we are doing our best to show our appreciation of the best elements in the party and that we will welcome the fullest information for our guidance.
Whether, in the present circumstances when I am staggering under a burden of work which there are not hours enough for me to dispose of, I can see the gentlemen you speak of who wish to come down for an interview, I can not now say, but certainly I shall manage in some way to learn what their advice is.


Woodrow Wilson


Hon. William Sulzer,
Governor of New York.

Original Format

Letter

To

Sulzer, William, 1863-1941

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Temp00416.pdf

Tags

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to William Sulzer,” 1913 July 29, WWP17902, First Year Wilson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.