The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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“They got a girl”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 135.
“plan of campaign . . . humble and unknown”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 164.
McClure covered all her expenses . . . scrutinized multiple drafts: Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 99.
“It is not only”: “Miss Tarbell’s Life of Lincoln,” McClure’s (January 1896), p. 206.
McClure’s circulation . . . reached a quarter of a million: Lyons, Success Story, p. 137.
exceeding both the Century and Harper’s Monthly: Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 98.
“great power to stir”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 154.
“Here’s a man”: Ibid., p. 156.
“that Sam had three hundred”: Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 113.
“I found the place”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 160.
allowed her to get on “capitally”: IMT to [Tarbell family], Feb. 26, 1893, IMTC.
“came and went”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 159.
blue eyes “glowed and sparkled”: Ibid., p. 119.
“a stroke of genius”: Ibid., p. 154.
“the sense of vitality . . . good comradeship”: Ibid., p. 153.
The next “permanent acquisition”: Ibid., p. 196.
“an honest paper”: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 77.
“farmers, tinkers”: Ray Stannard Baker, Native American: The Book of My Youth (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942), p. 244.
“every human being”: Ibid., p. 22.
“a wider field . . . import and value”: RSB to his father, Jan. 16, 1898, RSB Papers.
“a devoted admirer . . . alive and talking”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 77.
“something fresh”: Ibid., p. 78.
“To say that I was awed”: Ibid., pp. 78–79.
“It took my breath . . . or anywhere else”: Ibid., pp. 79–80.
“It ‘breaks me all up’ ”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Feb. 1, 1898, RSB Papers.
“This is a magnificent”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Mar. 25, 1898, RSB Papers.
“I like them”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Sept. 17, 1898, RSB Papers.
“a capital team worker . . . anything else about him”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 196–97.
“fishing and hunting . . . lumber camps”: RSB, Native American, p. 11.
he married Alice Potter . . . “resident agent”: Robert C. Bannister, Jr., Ray Stannard Baker: The Mind and Thought of a Progressive (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966), p. 4.
“Ours was a house”: RSB, Native American, p. 38.
“How well I remember”: Ibid., p. 26.
“a prodigious story-teller”: Ibid., p. 48.
“into the lives and sorrows”: Ibid., p. 45.
“My reading was always”: Ibid., p. 47.
Ray assumed responsibility: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 21.
“It went through me”: RSB, Native American, p. 128.
“a great waste of time”: Ibid., p. 163.
“details and facts”: Ibid., p. 164.
“the one thing I needed”: Ibid., p. 169.
well liked in college . . . at the top of his class: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, pp. 34, 40.
“When the time comes . . . successful in any employment”: RSB, Native American, p. 220.
“I felt as though”: Ibid., p. 223.
“Experience soon fades”: Ibid., p. 237.
until his brother Harry . . . replaced him: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 44.
“good working order” of society: Bannister, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 39.
Baker signed up . . . to question the laissez-faire economic principles: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 50.
“anathema” to his father: RSB, Native American, pp. 284–85.
“with the greatest fervor . . . thirsty spirit”: Ibid., p. 255.
“I did not make this”: Ibid., p. 256.
“Great stuff, Baker”: Ibid., p. 297.
“glimpses, street scenes”: Ibid., pp. 291–92.
Ray tried to convince his father: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Dec. 21, 1892, RSB Papers.
“There are thousands”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Dec. 15, 1893, RSB Papers.
“plenty of people . . . plenty of work”: RSB, Native American, pp. 286–87.
“The miserable living conditions”: Ibid., p. 288.
“in the event . . . feels in the same way”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Jan. 3, 1894, RSB Papers.
“I began to know . . . earn a living”: Vivian Graff Rosenberg, Turn of the Century American Journalist, Home-Spun Philosopher, Ray Stannard Baker (Privately printed, 1977), p. 69.
incredible “power of the press”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 12.
“there appeared”: Ibid., pp. 17–18.
“a grand adventure”: Ibid., p. 27.
“the police seemed”: Rosenberg, Turn of the Century American Journalist, p. 72.
“Coxey’s eventful march . . . an act of God”: Louis L. Snyder and Richard B. Morris, eds., A Treasury of Great Reporting: “Literature Under Pressure” from the Sixteenth Century to Our Own Time (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962), p. 222.
“vanished in thin air”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 25.
“benevolent-looking, bearded”: Ibid., p. 35.
“the wildest confusion”: Ibid.
it was later proved . . . $25 million: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 132.
the predatory hold of the Pullman monopoly must be broken: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 38.
“nothing to arbitrate . . . business of the company”: Ibid., p. 38.
“putting the torch”: Ibid., p. 39.
“It does seem”: J. Stannard Baker to RSB, July 6 & 10, 1894, in Bannister, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 51.
“in the midst of the mob . . . toughs and outsiders”: Testimony of RSB, Hutchinson [KS] News, Aug. 21, 1894.
“honeymoon as a newspaper . . . the trouble ended”: RSB, American Chronicle, pp. 45–46.
“the greatest popular orator”: Ibid., p. 62.
“The essential impression”: Ibid., p. 63.
“the commonplace” . . . “the spectacular”: Ibid., p. 45.
“somewhat low . . . as a writer”: Ibid., p. 77.
“Suddenly and joyously . . . to write about it”: Ibid., p. 84.
“What’s the Matter with Kansas?” . . . “wild-eyed” rhetoric: WAW, The Autobiography of William Allen White (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1946), p. 281.
“That’s the stuff!”: Ibid., p. 282.
“more widely than any other . . . in a dozen years”: Ibid., p. 284.
“I had seen cities . . . English poets were their friends”: Ibid., pp. 300–301.
“the smile of . . . a poet”: Walter Johnson, William Allen White’s America (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1947), p. 19.
“his affection and loyalty”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 259.
White’s “love of life . . . high spirits”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 224.
“call on them whenever”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 150.
“The McClure group . . . had real influence”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 301.
“never yielded . . . went back to Kansas”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 223.
His family lived in “the best house”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 69.
“I look back upon”: Ibid., p. 61.
“to get a breeze”: Ibid., p. 42.
“somebody . . . to the ruling class”: Ibid., pp. 61–62.
“devoted and adoring . . . bowed down”: Ibid., p. 25.
“In that Elysian childhood”: Ibid., p. 26.
“He was so good-natured”: Johnson, William Allen White’s America, p. 10.
Summer days were spent . . . a boy’s paradise: WAW, The Autobiography, pp. 45–46.
“I remember as a child”: Johnson, William Allen White’s America, pp. 19–20.
“distinguished citizens”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 67.
“I wa
s not without”: Ibid., p. 83.
“Here . . . was a novel . . . a new door”: Ibid., p. 106.
his “life’s calling”: Ibid., pp. 109, 113.
“establish a home”: Ibid., p. 136.
“a babble of clamoring voices”: Ibid., p. 144.
“natural laws . . . the laboring classes”: Goldman, Rendezvous with Destiny, p. 113.
“As I look back”: WAW, The Autobiography, pp. 143–44.
“ceased to be a student”: Ibid., p. 176.
“We have three crops”: Latham, The Panic of 1893, p. 15.
“police power . . . with a public interest”: Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Guide to the United States Supreme Court Decisions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 203.
The justices denied the state’s regulatory power: Ibid., p. 321.
“reasonable and just”: Interstate Commerce Commission Act of 1887 (24 Stat. 379).
“It satisfies the public”: Gary M. Walton and Hugh Rockoff, History of the American Economy (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990), p. 338.
“Liberty produces wealth . . . instead of servant”: Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth (New York: Harper & Bros., 1902), pp. 2, 494.
“Wall Street owns . . . wages deny them!”: Mary K. Lease, quoted in Levine, Who Built America?, p. 147.
“We meet in the midst . . . people must own the railroads”: Edward McPherson, A Handbook of Politics for 1892 (Washington, DC: J. J. Chapman, 1892), pp. 269ff.
“We prideful ones”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 183.
“demagogic rabble-rousing . . . blinded by my birthright”: Ibid., p. 187.
“pinheaded, anarchistic crank[s]”: Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life, p. 218.
“representatives of those forces”: TR, “The Menace of the Demagogue,” in WTR, Vol. 14, p. 264.
“The ‘best citizens’ ”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 191.
“the first wave”: Ibid., pp. 193–94.
“the black hand . . . for fifty years”: Ibid., pp. 215–16.
becoming his “own master”: Ibid., p. 256.
“I want to live”: Johnson, William Allen White’s America, p. 76.
“The new editor”: WAW, The Autobiography, pp. 260–61.
“the best-known”: Johnson, William Allen White’s America, p. 4.
“was the beginning”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 286.
“seems big . . . just our size”: McClure to John S. Phillips, April 21, 1897, Phillips MSS.
“one of the best journalists”: C. C. Regier, The Era of the Muckrakers (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1957), p. 59.
“Jaccaci probed . . . clinched” the deal: LS, The Autobiography, p. 358.
“like springing up”: Ibid., p. 359.
“He was a flower . . . compromise and peace”: Ibid., pp. 361–64.
“young, handsome . . . society, the press”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 198–99.
“entirely in harmony”: Ibid., p. 199.
“associates in the . . . long friendship”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 221.
“as a kind of Socratic”: Ibid., p. 221.
“his most consistent pose”: Robert Stinson, Lincoln Steffens (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979), p. 1.
“My story is”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 3.
“paints, oils and glass”: Ibid., p. 7.
“palatial residence”: Justin Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens: A Biography (New York: Touchstone, 1974), p. 17.
“If I left home promptly”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 34.
befriended a bridge-tender: Ibid., p. 28.
“in on the know . . . big killings”: Ibid., p. 37.
“Bribery!”: Ibid., p. 48.
“Nothing was what”: Ibid., p. 47.
“the best private school”: Ibid., p. 112.
“brought up to do their duty”: Ibid., p. 111.
“stored in compartments . . . to anything else”: Ibid., p. 119.
“My father listened . . . his interest and retire”: Ibid., p. 128.
having received love “so freely”: Ibid., p. 77.
Not until his own son was born: Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens, p. 21.
“She stands next”: LS to Elizabeth Steffens, Feb. 1, 1891, LS Papers.
“My dear son”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 169.
“on space . . . he told me his”: Ibid., pp. 172–73.
“I came to love . . . a live city”: Ibid., pp. 180–81.
“cool, dull”: Ibid., p. 184.
“was a dismal time . . . in the ruin”: Ibid., p. 187.
“successful men . . . stop to question”: Ibid., p. 192.
“the gentleman reporter . . . accuracy and politeness”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Jan. 18, 1893, in Lincoln Steffens, Ella Winter, Granville Hicks, and Carl Sandburg, eds., The Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1 (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938), pp. 88–89.
“confide in me . . . worth it all”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Mar. 18, 1893, in ibid., pp. 91–92.
“The Evening Post . . . my field, my chance”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Nov. 3, 1893, in ibid., pp. 97–98.
Long opposed to the Tammany regime . . . were delighted to document Parkhurst’s findings: LS, The Autobiography, p. 193.
“a vigilant and well-informed press”: “Interview with S. S. McClure,” The North American (Philadelphia), August [n.d.], 1905.
CHAPTER EIGHT: “Like a Boy on Roller Skates”
Lincoln Steffens was relaxing: LS, The Autobiography, p. 257.
Jacob Riis heralded . . . of Little Italy: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 482.
“head forward”: LS, “The Real Roosevelt,” Ainslee’s Magazine (December 1898), p. 481.
“Hello, Jake . . . “What do we do first?’ ”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 257.
“It was all breathless”: Ibid., p. 258.
An immigrant from Denmark . . . the same year: Thaddeus Seymour, Jr., “A Progressive Partnership: Theodore Roosevelt and the Reform Press—Riis, Steffens, Baker and White (Muckrakers),” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1985, p. 35.
his “life-work” in journalism: Jacob A. Riis, The Making of an American (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1901), p. 197.
“Being the ‘boss’ ”: Ibid., p. 202.
“The sights I saw there”: Ibid., p. 267.
neglected “repairs and”: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890), p. 4.
“Only Riis wrote”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 204.
“beautiful stories”: Ibid., p. 205.
When he narrated . . . the problems were redressed: Ibid., p. 204.
“Why” he asked: Riis, The Making of an American, p. 349.
“The remedy”: Riis, How the Other Half Lives, p. 4.
“Truly, I lay no claim”: Riis, The Making of an American, pp. 309, 317.
“I cannot conceive”: JRL quoted in Riis, The Making of an American, p. 308.
“both an enlightenment”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 169.
“go a long way”: TR, “Reform Through Social Work: Some Forces That Tell for Decency in New York City,” McClure’s (March 1901), p. 453.
“hysterical . . . sentimental excess”: Ibid.
read the book and “had come”: Jacob Riis, “Theodore Roosevelt,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (August 1900), p. 182.
“exposing jobbery” . . . city’s closets: Ibid., p. 181.
“I loved him”: Jacob Riis, The Making of an American, p. 328.
“one of my truest”: TR, “Jacob Riis,” Outlook, June 6, 1914, p. 284.
“two sides . . . were hardest”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 170.
“He had the most flaming . . . mere preacher”: TR, “Jacob Riis,” Outlook, June 6, 1914, p. 284.
“who looked at life”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 169.
“He is a personal friend”: TR to Horace E. Scudder, Aug. 16, 1895, in LTR, Vol.
1, p. 472.
his “state of mind” . . . “wise” mentors: Stinson, Lincoln Steffens, p. 143.
“With astonishment”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 248.
“One police captain”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Dec. 15, 1894, in LS et al., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 107.
a sizable fortune of $350,000: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 485.
Alec “Clubber” Williams . . . the Lexow Committee: LS, The Autobiography, p. 252.
“supreme gift . . . explain themselves”: NYT, Aug. 10, 1936.
“a clean breast . . . the whole rotten business”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 273.
“on the square”: Ibid.
“full publicity”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, p. 59.
“in almost daily”: Ibid., p. 62.
“There began between”: Ibid., p. 58.
“No political influence”: LS, “The Real Roosevelt,” Ainslee’s Magazine (December 1898), p. 481.
“would spare no man”: LS, Scrapbook 1, LS Papers.
a route mapped out in advance: Riis, The Making of an American, p. 330.
those whom he discovered sleeping: New York Sun, June 8, 1895.
“What’s that . . . fan him to death”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, A Biography, p. 139.
“A sorrier-looking set”: New York Evening Post, June 7, 1895.
“Roosevelt on Patrol”: New York Sun, June 8, 1895, Clipping Scrapbook, TRC.
“patrolman hunt . . . a new epoch”: New York Sun, June 8, 1895, Clipping Scrapbook, TRC.
“Police Commissioner Roosevelt”: San Antonio [TX] Daily Light, June 14, 1895.
became an alluring subject: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 495.
“A pair of gold-mounted”: New York Sun, June 23, 1895.
“Few men”: Chanler, Roman Spring, p. 196.
“These midnight rambles”: TR to ARC, June 23, 1895, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 463.
“though each meant”: TR to ARC, June 16, 1895, in ibid., p. 462.
“It is one thing”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 200.
“tore down unfit”: Riis, The Making of an American, p. 344.
“the tap-root” of corruption: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 138.
“The corrupt would never”: LS, “The Real Roosevelt,” Ainslee’s Magazine (December 1898), p. 483.
it “is altogether too strict”: TR to ARC, June 30, 1895, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 464.
“Is there any other way”: LS, “The Real Roosevelt,” Ainslee’s Magazine (December 1898), p. 483.