5.5” tall with long vertical stickpin. Reads “Vice President/Roosevelt/And/Foraker/Meeting/Oct. 16,/1900.” 3/16” hole at top plus .5” right corner stain and tiny fabric loss. Red stain on lower 1.5” from color bleed off some other item. Foraker supported TR for VP, and spoke often during the campaign, but broke with TR over railroad regulations and had major disagreement over the Brownsville Affair with Foraker fighting to have the black soldiers TR dismissed reinstated. They had an angry confrontation at the 1907 Gridiron Dinner. October 16, 1900 was a more cordial meeting. TR was campaigning in Ohio and spoke that day in Dayton and also Columbus, the capitol, where the meeting likely occurred. The same day, probably that evening, on stationery of the “Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Louis Railway Co./Office Of The President/Chicago” TR began a letter to his older sister “Darling Bye” and headlined it “Dayton, O. Oct. 16th, 1900.” He mentions some family details and then states “Personally I Feel Like A Football Man Who Has Gone Stale. Unless There Is Some Incident That Stimulates Me, I Go Through A Meeting Now In A Perfectly Jaded Manner. I Am Always Afraid Of My Voice Giving Out.” A rare one day artifact from TR’s 1900 campaign trail. Likely future Senator Charles Dick was there as well to preserve this item in his collection. From The Senator Charles Dick Collection. We will send a photocopy of the letter with the ribbon.