the title of “national boss”: Samuel J. Blythe, “The Passing of the Big Bosses,” Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 25, 1922, p. 9.
“the liaison”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 372.
not a single anti-trust suit: Ibid.
“In the final analysis”: LS, “Great Types of Modern Business & Politics,” Ainslee’s Magazine (October 1901), p. 216.
“I told William . . . of the United States!”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 380.
“it would be a great”: TR to LS, June 24, 1905, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1254.
“would be as foolhardy”: New York World, Nov. 29, 1901.
share an intimacy similar: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 392.
“Go slow”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, p. 154.
“It would not”: TR to MAH, Oct. 16, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 176.
“his was the rising”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 400.
“I hope to keep”: Nathaniel Wright Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich: A Leader in American Politics (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930), p. 175.
“a very pretty scene”: Piqua [OH] Daily Call, Nov. 20, 1901.
“made more progress”: Decatur [IL] Daily Review, Nov. 2, 1901.
“Many scribes”: Daily Nevada State Journal (Reno, NV), Nov. 21, 1901.
“one hair’s breadth”: TR to Douglas Robinson, Oct. 17, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 177.
“More and more”: Galveston [TX] Daily News, Sept. 3, 1901.
“going so far as”: Louis A. Coolidge, An Old-Fashioned Senator: Orville H. Platt, of Connecticut (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910), pp. 445–46.
“furnish ammunition . . . in corporate control”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 244.
“very fond . . . companies as a right”: TR to Douglas Robinson, Oct. 4, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 159–60.
“not prying into”: Eric F. Goldman, “Public Relations and the Progressive Surge, 1898–1917,” Institute for Public Relations, Annual Address, Nov. 19, 1965.
“I much enjoyed”: TR to Douglas Robinson, Oct. 4, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 160.
“the proposition . . . to undertake it”: Paul Dana to TR, Nov. 15, 1901, WHTP.
“Your letter causes”: TR to Paul Dana, Nov. 18, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 200.
“A hush immediately . . . unusual attention”: Washington Times, Dec. 4, 1901.
“with scant courtesy”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, p. 161.
“a professed anarchist . . . good and bad alike”: TR, “First Annual Message,” in Hermann Hagedorn, ed., State Papers as Governor and President, Vol. 15 of WTR, pp. 84, 81.
“The captains of industry . . . reasonable limits controlled”: Ibid., pp. 88–89, 90–91.
“Th’ trusts”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 411.
“It is no limitation” . . . touched “the hearts”: TR, “First Annual Message,” WTR, Vol. 15, pp. 91–92, 93, 138.
“No other message”: “President Roosevelt’s Message,” The Independent, Dec. 12, 1901, p. 2967.
“characteristic of the man”: Public Opinion, Dec. 12, 1901.
“skeptical of any . . . over the trusts”: Public Opinion, Sept. 4, 1901.
“refreshing”: Public Opinion, Dec. 12, 1901.
this vast new combination . . . touched a nerve: New York Herald, Feb. 20, 1902.
“had come to see . . . and financial side”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 165.
“revolutionary . . . crusading”: Ibid., p. 166.
“a yearly income . . . the highest purpose”: RSB, “J. Pierpont Morgan,” McClure’s (October 1901), pp. 2, 10.
“were unquestionably . . . ever been seen before”: RSB, “What the U.S. Steel Corporation Really Is, and How It Works,” McClure’s (November 1901).
“the contestants gathered . . . the wreath of power?”: RSB, “The Great Northern Pacific Deal,” Collier’s, Nov. 30, 1901.
“more powerful than”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, pp. 417–18.
Roosevelt asked . . . Philander C. Knox: NYT, Feb. 20, 1902.
A brilliant lawyer: Anita T. Eitler, Philander Chase Knox, First Attorney-General of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901–1904 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1959), pp. 1–2.
“the view that Taft”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 255.
“to test the validity”: New York Herald, Feb. 20, 1902.
“like a thunderbolt”: Washington Post, Feb. 21, 1902.
“a wholesale war . . . it was wholly unprepared”: New York Herald, Feb. 21, 1902.
“If we have done . . . a big rival operator”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt in His Own Time, Vol. 1, pp. 184–85.
“It really seems hard”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 415.
“an unknown country . . . is ended”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt in His Own Time, Vol. 1, p. 183.
“the power of the mighty”: TR, An Autobiography, pp. 423–24.
“served notice”: Wister, Roosevelt, The Story of a Friendship, p. 210.
“that he was President”: William H. Harbaugh, Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961), p. 160.
turned his attention to the beef trust: NYT, April 15, 1902.
“an atrocious conspiracy”: New York World, April 26, 1902.
“that such absolute control”: New York World, April 30, 1902.
“This is the right course”: New York World, April 26, 1902.
“more dangerous to”: TR, “Speech in Providence, R.I., August 23, 1902,” in Outlook, Sept. 13, 1902, p. 113.
distinguish good trusts . . . from bad trusts: TR, An Autobiography, p. 433.
“with the path”: George E. Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Harper Bros., 1958), p. 133.
“a period of”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 233.
“opened and drained”: WHT to Horace Taft, Jan. 6, 1902, WHTP.
their cross-country trip . . . had died the previous day: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, pp. 233–34.
“just the same . . . looks or manner”: WHT to HHT, Jan. 30, 1902, WHTP.
without an invitation to dine: WHT to HHT, Feb. 20, 1902, WHTP.
“If General Chafee”: Chillicothe [MO] Constitution, Jan. 17, 1902.
“compassion and merciful”: WHT to Horace Taft, Jan. 30, 1902, WHTP.
“I have much more”: Henry F. Graff, ed., American Imperialism and the Philippine Insurrection: Testimony Taken from Hearings on Affairs in the Philippine Islands Before the Senate Committee on the Philippines, 1902 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1969), p. 121.
“flying in the face”: Ibid., p. 46.
“somewhat intimate relations”: Ibid., p. 155.
“but we are there”: Ibid., p. 48.
America’s primary responsibility: Ibid., p. 37.
“too progressive . . . educational school”: WHT, “Civil Government in the Philippines,” Outlook, May 31, 1902, pp. 313–14.
“that cruelties have been”: Graff, ed., American Imperialism, p. 92.
uncommon “compassion” and “restraint”: Ibid., p. 95.
“Following his appearance . . . task in hand”: Leroy, “Governor Taft’s Record in the Philippines,” The Independent, Jan. 28, 1904, p. 195.
“there was not anything”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 24, 1902, WHTP.
“I have been hacked”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 3, 1902, WHTP.
“the cure seems to be complete”: WHT to Horace Taft, April 20, 1902, WHTP.
“the crown of Spain . . . were imprisoned”: WHT, “Civil Government in the Philippines,” Outlook, May 31, 1902, p. 319.
“What a splendid”: HHT to WHT, Feb. 24, 1902, WHTP.
In the weeks before the planned trip: Anthony, Nellie Taft, p. 167.
“What a disarrangement”: WHT to HHT, April 23, 1902, WHTP.
“Within twenty-four hours . . . pleasure and pride”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years,
p. 237.
“lively . . . with humor”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 228.
“in a broad spirit”: WHT to HHT, June 10, 1902, WHTP.
Weeks went by . . . negotiations were suspended: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 230.
“would have run its course”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 250.
“I don’t know how”: WHT to HHT, July 26, 1902, WHTP.
“I can not tell”: WHT to HHT, Aug. 5, 1902, WHTP.
Taft’s arrival triggered: Minneapolis Journal, Aug. 23, 1902.
Thirty thousand Filipinos . . . “the government was assured”: Washington Times, Aug. 23, 1902.
“as a real effort”: WHT to TR, Sept. 13, 1902, WHTP.
he promised to work unremittingly: Sandusky [OH] Star, May 24, 1899.
“universal, earnest . . . the Filipino people”: Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 24, 1902.
“I am in the worst . . . calumnies”: TR to H. H. Kohlsaat, Aug. 4, 1902, in Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, pp. 110–11.
“As things have turned out”: TR to WHT, July 31, 1902, WHTP.
“While the result”: WHT to TR, Sept. 13, 1902, WHTP.
“no house of representatives . . . they sang ‘Dixie’ ”: The News (Frederick, MD), July 2, 1902.
“By far the most important”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 512.
“a keen personal pride”: TR to Ethan A. Hitchcock, June 17, 1902 in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 277.
to enable small farmers to settle: TR, An Autobiography, p. 396.
“I regard”: TR to Ethan A. Hitchcock, June 17, 1902 in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 277.
more than half a million dollars: Abby G. Baker, “The White House of the Twentieth Century,” Oct. 22, 1903, The Independent, p. 2499.
“trembled when one walked”: William Seale, The President’s House: A History (Washington, DC: White House Hist. Assoc., 1988), Vol. 2, p. 657.
“had the determination”: Morris, EKR, p. 242.
The plans . . . a library, and a den: The New North (Rhinelander, WI), June 12, 1902.
“I ask that”: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), June 14, 1902.
“Their conduct”: Joseph Bucklin Bishop to TR, June 21, 1902, WHTP.
“in alliance with the trusts”: The Indianapolis Sentinel, Sept. 4, 1902.
“destroy all our prosperity”: TR, “Speech in Fitchburg, Mass., August 23, 1902,” Outlook, Sept. 13, 1902, p. 120.
“the average man . . . standard of comfort”: TR, “Speech in Providence, R.I., August 23, 1902,” Outlook, Sept. 13, 1902, p. 114.
“a sympathetic ear . . . unfocused discontent”: Leroy G. Dorsey, “Reconstituting the American Spirit: Theodore Roosevelt’s Rhetorical Presidency,” PhD diss., Indiana University, 1993, pp. 181–82.
“full power . . . self-restraint”: TR, “Speech in Providence, R.I., August 23, 1902,” in Outlook, Sept. 13, 1902, p. 115.
From Rhode Island . . . overwhelming fervor: Public Opinion, Sept. 4, 1902.
“The booming . . . their holiday clothes”: Daily Times (New Brunswick, NJ), Aug. 27, 1902.
“when the streets were not”: Boston Daily Globe, Aug. 24, 1902.
“small towns”: Galveston [TX] Daily News, Aug. 24, 1902.
William Craig, was caught: New York World, Sept. 4, 1902; Washington Times, Sept. 4, 1902.
“It was a dreadful”: New York World, Sept. 4, 1902.
“I’m all right . . . too bad, too bad”: Washington Times, Sept. 4, 1902.
“Gallop ahead”: New York World, Sept. 4, 1902.
a “memorable conference”: Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich, p. 194.
a resolution . . . that linked tariffs to trusts: Sioux County Herald (Orange City, IA), Sept. 19, 1902.
“The tariff must . . . hell will be to pay”: Walter Wellman to TR, April 18, 1902, WHTP.
the “dynamite . . . to the Republican party”: TR to Nicholas M. Butler, Aug. 12, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 312.
“As long as I remain”: Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Random House, 2001), p. 145.
“make no attempt”: Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich, p. 455, n. 54.
“I do not wish”: TR to Nicholas M. Butler, Aug. 12, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 312.
“a three weeks’ ”: TR to John Hay, Sept. 18, 1902, in ibid., p. 326.
“like that of a man”: Public Opinion, Sept. 25, 1902.
crowds “in comparative silence”: “President Roosevelt at Cincinnati,” Outlook, Sept. 27, 1902, p. 205.
“There are a good many”: TR to John Hay, Sept. 18, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 326.
“a threatening abscess . . . before the needle was removed”: New York World, Sept. 24, 1902; Racine [WI] Daily Journal, Sept. 24, 1902.
“Tell it not”: TR to Orville H. Platt, Oct. 2, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 335.
books that would feed: TR to Herbert Putnam, Oct. 6, 1902, in ibid., p. 343.
“Exactly the books”: TR to Herbert Putnam, Oct. 8, 1902, in ibid., pp. 344–45.
“the most formidable”: Walter Wellman, “The Progress of the World,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (October 1902).
140,000 anthracite coal miners . . . panic was setting in: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 427.
“the sorrows”: John Mitchell, “The Mine Worker’s Life and Aims,” The Cosmopolitan (October 1901), p. 630.
“the average magazine”: Ibid., p. 622.
“yet at the . . . precarious elevators”: Stephen Crane, “In the Depths of a Coal Mine,” McClure’s (August 1894).
“on the descent”: Mitchell, “The Mine Worker’s Life and Aims,” Cosmopolitan, Oct. 1901, p. 629.
“children were brought”: Gompers, Seventy Years of Life and Labor, p. 154.
“reaping the reward”: “Progress of the World,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (November 1902).
estimated profit of $75 million: Walter Wellman, “The Inside History of the Coal Strike,” Collier’s, Oct. 18, 1902.
“When President McKinley”: LS, “A Labor Leader of To-Day: John Mitchell and What He Stands For,” McClure’s (August 1902), p. 355.
“No better strike . . . bitterness or retort”: “Progress of the World,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (November 1902).
“was only a common”: Wellman, “The Inside History of the Coal Strike,” Collier’s, Oct. 18, 1902.
“I beg of you”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 426.
“The doctrine of the divine”: Ibid.
“It will take a load”: New York Tribune, Aug. 22, 1902.
“The coal business . . . you can appear to do?”: HCL to TR, Sept. 27, 1902, in TR and HCL, Selections from the Correspondence, Vol. 1, pp. 531–32.
“I am at my wit’s”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 269.
“Of course, we have”: TR to MAH, September 27, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 329–30.
“no warrant . . . constitutional duties”: “Progress of the World,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (November 1902).
“the Jackson-Lincoln theory”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 464.
“the failure of the”: TR to John Mitchell, et al., Oct. 1, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 334.
“For the first time”: Wellman, “The Inside History of the Coal Strike,” Collier’s, Oct. 18, 1902.
“luxurious private cars . . . a cheap hotel”: Ibid.
footmen in “plum-colored livery”: New York World, Oct. 4, 1902.
“three parties affected . . . general good”: Ibid.
“literally jumped . . . clear as a bell”: Ibid.
“I had not expected . . . may discuss them”: TR’s question and Baer’s insolent reply, reported in ibid., are not included in the official transcript, which TR later acknowledged did not include “all the invectives of the operators.” See TR to Winthrop Crane, Oct. 22, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 359.
“The duty of the hour”: “President Roosevelt and the Coal Strike,” The Independent, Oct. 9, 1902, p. 2383.
“extraordinary stu
pidity . . . irritate Mitchell”: TR to Winthrop Crane, Oct. 22, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 360–61.
“insolent . . . offensive to me”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 466.
“they insulted me”: TR to MAH, Oct. 3, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 338.
“Mitchell behaved”: TR to Winthrop Crane, Oct. 22, 1902, in ibid., p. 360.
“appeared to such advantage”: TR to MAH, Oct. 3, 1902, in ibid., p. 337.
“towered above”: TR to Robert Bacon, Oct. 5, 1902, in ibid., p. 340.
“a set of outlaws”: Morris, Theodore Rex, p. 160.
“by the seat”: Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, p. 109.
“to have any dealings”: New York World, Oct. 4, 1902.
“If this is the case”: Ibid.
“Well, I have tried”: TR to MAH, Oct. 3, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 337.
reveled “in the fact”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 467.
“uncontrollable penchant”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 431.
“a sorry mess”: Public Opinion, Oct. 16, 1901.
“respectful, placable”: Public Opinion, Oct. 9, 1902.
“ugly talk . . . would otherwise come”: TR to Winthrop Crane, Oct. 22, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 362.
“absolutely out of touch . . . misery and death”: TR to ARC, Oct. 16, 1902, in TR, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, pp. 252–53.
“a first-rate general . . . Commander-in-Chief”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 436.
if “the operators went”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, p. 212.
“Don’t hit till”: Wellman, “The Settlement of the Coal Strike,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (November 1902).
“Theodore was a bit”: Jessup, Elihu Root, Vol. 1, p. 275.
“The one condition”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 2, p. 438.
it would be the original architect: Wellman, “The Inside History of the Coal Strike,” Collier’s, Oct. 18, 1902.
Root would make it clear: Jessup, Elihu Root, Vol. 1, p. 275.
“It was a damned lie”: Ibid., p. 276.
“was one of the”: Wellman, “The Settlement of the Coal Strike,” American Monthly Review of Reviews (November 1902).
the composition of the panel: TR to Winthrop Crane, Oct. 22, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 359.
“Suddenly . . . accept with rapture”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 468.
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