Strikers, he reported . . . were in peril: James H. Peabody to TR, Nov. 16 & 18, 1903, in Carroll D. Wright, A Report on Labor Disturbances in the State of Colorado: From 1880 to 1904, Inclusive, with Correspondence Relating Thereto (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1905), pp. 9–10.
“no lawful authority . . . to control”: Elihu Root to James H. Peabody, Nov. 17 & 19, 1903, in ibid., pp. 9, 11.
“corruption & bribery”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Nov. 18, 1903, RSB Papers.
“had a pad . . . conditions in the West”: RSB to Jessie Baker, Dec. 3, 1903, RSB Papers.
“I believe in”: TR to RSB, Oct. 21, 1903, TRP.
With the president’s blessing: TR to RSB, Nov. 25, 1903, TRP.
“everything the men wanted” . . . to stem the corruption and violence: RSB, “The Reign of Lawlessness: Anarchy and Despotism in Colorado,” McClure’s (May 1904), pp. 43–53.
“I have endeavored”: RSB to TR, April 19, 1904, TRP.
“the most masterly”: The Arena (August 1904), p. 191.
“This language is not”: Wall Street Journal, April 25, 1904.
Roosevelt . . . had it circulated among officials: TR to Carroll D. Wright, Aug. 13, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 891.
On June 6 . . . the “dastardly crime”: Wright, A Report, p. 247.
“the least anarchistic expression”: Weekly Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO), June 9, 1904.
“wives and sisters”: Boston Daily Globe, June 11, 1904.
“in the name of law and order”: Reno [NV] Evening Gazette, June 10, 1904.
“Having refused”: TR to Carroll D. Wright, Aug. 5, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 883.
“If it becomes necessary”: TR to Carroll D. Wright, Aug. 13, 1904, in ibid., p. 891.
“the basis of”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Jan. 29, 1905, RSB Papers.
“as the representative”: TR to Philander C. Knox, Nov. 10, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1024.
“He was most . . . correct & fair”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Jan. 29, 1905, RSB Papers.
the mine owners finally agreed: Wright, A Report, p. 32.
Governor Peabody was forced out of office: New York Tribune, Mar. 18, 1905.
the state legislature passed a state law: Laws Passed at the Fifteenth Session of the General Assembly . . . (Denver, CO: Smith-Brooks Printing Co., 1905).
“barring a cataclysm . . . sullen grumbling”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, June 21, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 840.
“the thunderous demonstration”: San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 1904.
“a lifeless gathering”: Francis E. Leupp, “The Republican Convention,” Outlook, July 2, 1904, p. 490.
“sober and unhysterical”: New York Tribune, June 22, 1904.
An enormous portrait of Hanna: New York Tribune, June 21, 1904.
“because they had to”: Leupp, “The Republican Convention,” Outlook, July 2, 1904, p. 489.
“shadow of the chance . . . he can overcome the people”: WAW, “Seconding the Motion,” Saturday Evening Post, July 23, 1904, pp. 4–5.
this spirit of rebellion . . . to realize “a better world”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 88.
“a new element . . . for his times”: WAW, “Americans Look to Roosevelt to Solve New Perils to Nation,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 24, 1904.
“more than he needed the party”: Minneapolis Journal, Nov. 9, 1904.
“professional politicians . . . grip of power”: Leupp, “The Republican Convention,” Outlook, July 2, 1904, p. 491.
taking control of . . . growl behind them”: Ibid.
With his reputation for honesty: New York Tribune, Nov. 2, 1904.
“People may as well . . . irrevocable”: TR to George Von Legerke Meyer, June 17, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, pp. 838–39.
“a formidable weapon”: TR to Joseph Wharton, Nov. 22, 1904, in ibid., p. 1039.
“a cardinal policy”: Milton W. Blumenberg, Official Proceedings of the Thirteenth Republican National Convention: Held in the City of Chicago, June 21, 22, 23, 1904 (Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith Co., 1904), p. 134.
“four years more”: Public Opinion, June 30, 1904, p. 806.
Roosevelt hesitated: TR to Nicholas M. Butler, Dec. 2, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 838.
“of all men”: TR to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., May 14, 1904, TRJP.
“affectionate congratulations . . . his personal friends”: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), June 24, 1904.
“in exceptionally good humor”: Trenton [NJ] Times, June 24, 1904.
“With genial raillery”: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), June 24, 1904.
“the hero . . . in their hearts”: WAW, “The Great Political Drama in St. Louis,” Collier’s, July 12, 1904.
“eight-year reign was over”: New York World, July 13, 1904.
“robbery of the many”: Milton W. Blumenberg, Official Report of the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention Held in St. Louis, Mo., July 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1904 (New York: Press of the Publishers’ Printing Co., 1904), p. 148.
the nominee was not apprised of his victory: NYT, July 10, 1904.
“the gold standard . . . decline the nomination”: Blumenberg, Official Report of the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, p. 276.
no longer “an issue at this time”: Boston Daily Globe, July 10, 1904.
“was most adroit . . . a clever politician”: TR to John Hay, July 11, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 852.
“all of Cleveland’s”: TR to HCL, July 14, 1904, in ibid., p. 858.
“was stronger”: WHT to TR, July 16, 1904, TRP.
“a hard and uphill fight”: TR to HCL, July 14, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 858.
“I always like”: TR to HCL, July 14, 1904, in ibid.
“was received . . . logical, convincing”: Minneapolis Journal, July 28, 1904.
“characteristically forceful”: Titusville [PA] Herald, July 28, 1904.
“keen and polished”: HCL to TR, July 29, 1904, in TR and HCL, Selections from the Correspondence, Vol. 2, p. 92.
“used few gestures”: Washington Post, Aug. 11, 1904.
mustered no “bugle call”: Boston Evening Transcript, Aug. 27, 1904.
would not run for a second term: Washington Post, Aug. 11, 1904.
“shifty and tricky” gambit: TR to Joseph B. Bishop, Aug. 13, 1904, TRP.
failed to “straddle”: TR to HCL, August 11, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 887.
Taft’s assessment had been correct: TR to HCL, July 22, 1904, in ibid., p. 863.
“His opponents may”: WHT to HHT, Aug. 18, 1904, WHTP.
Roosevelt also circulated drafts: TR to John Hay, July 11, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 853.
“I went at”: William Dudley Foulke, Lucius B. Swift, A Biography (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. for the Indiana Hist. Soc., 1930), p. 73.
“Remarkable”: NYT, Sept. 27, 1904.
“a veritable keynote”: Washington Post, Sept. 12, 1904.
“the challenge contained . . . the Democrats have”: WHT to TR, Sept. 14, 1904, TRP.
“the issues of the campaign”: Washington Post, Sept. 27, 1904.
“a great paper . . . of the people”: NYT, Sept. 27, 1904.
“heart to . . . his campaign”: TR to Joseph B. Bishop, Sept. 28, 1904, TRP.
“take the offensive . . . sit still”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Oct. 26, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, pp. 992–93.
“It seems strange”: WHT to Howard Hollister, Sept. 21, 1903, WHTP.
“mere political discussion”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 2, 1904, WHTP.
“I rather think”: WHT to HHT, Sept. 27, 1904, WHTP.
“right down to”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, June 23, 1904, WHTP.
“a great public document”: TR to HCL, June 28, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 849.
“a masterly argument . . . a truly great man”: Garfield Diary, June 26 & Feb. 11, 1904, Garfield Papers.
presented his speech . . . at Sanders Theatre: New York Tribune, June 29, 1904.
Taft simp
ly but clearly . . . “Philippines for the Filipinos”: Cincinnati Enquirer, June 29, 1904.
Olney’s rebuttal . . . “for they love him”: Ibid.
“I fired my gun”: WHT to TR, July 3, 1904, TRP.
“magical place”: Cincinnati Magazine (August 1979), p. 72.
“The air is bracing”: WHT to TR, July 3, 1904, TRP.
“The next ten days”: WHT to HHT, Aug. 15, 1904, WHTP.
“a bit rusty”: WHT to HHT, Aug. 3, 1904, WHTP.
“the Bench disqualifies”: WHT to HHT, Aug. 15, 1904, WHTP.
“the size of her”: WHT to Horace Taft, Aug. 4, 1904, WHTP.
Taft chose . . . a spirited defense: NYT, Aug. 28, 1904.
“When Theodore Roosevelt . . . previously formed opinion”: Ibid.
“It was a success”: WHT to HHT, Aug. 28, 1904, WHTP.
“It would be . . . support of his administration”: Titusville [PA] Herald, July 29, 1904.
“a text-book for”: Ibid.
a “glorious” triumph: WHT to TR, Sept. 7, 1904, TRP.
“I am pleased”: TR to WHT, Sept. 10, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 919.
“a rather gloomy letter”: TR to Eugene Hale, Aug. 4, 1904, in ibid., p. 880.
“to speak without notes”: WHT to HHT, Aug. 30, 1904, WHTP.
“great surprise” . . . proposed toasts: WHT to Howard Hollister, Sept. 16, 1904, WHTP.
“Mrs. Taft says”: WHT to TR, Sept. 14, 1904, WHTP.
Roosevelt complained freely: TR to WHT, Sept. 5, 1904, WHTP.
Taft described a new diet: WHT to TR, Sept. 2, 1904, TRP.
“infernal liars . . . a corruption fund”: TR to WHT, Sept. 10, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 919.
“playing golf”: WHT to TR, Sept. 7, 1904, TRP.
Taft was immediately dispatched: WHT to TR, Sept. 20, 1904, TRP.
“Do not in any speech”: TR to WHT, Sept. 29, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 960.
“the most auspicious in years”: Washington Post, Oct. 2, 1904.
“After reading”: Ibid.; Hutchinson [KS] News, Nov. 8, 1904.
In daily letters, she related: HHT to WHT, Oct. 3, 4 & 5, 1904, WHTP.
“I hope Charley’s”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 3, 1904, WHTP.
“I wish I could”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 8, 1904, WHTP.
“I don’t think”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 6, 1904, WHTP.
“could not but smile”: HHT to WHT, Oct. 7, 1904, WHTP.
a delegation of cigar and tobacco manufacturers: NYT, Oct. 10, 1904.
“to control cigar makers”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 8, 1904, WHTP.
“just at the anxious time”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 10, 1904, WHTP.
“I feel sure . . . emphasize the issue”: WHT to TR, Oct. 10, 1904, TRP.
“Fiddle-dee-dee! . . . or something”: TR to WHT, Oct. 11, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 980.
“would not run”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 12, 1904, WHTP.
“a man who never . . . liberty and equality”: Valentine [NE] Democrat, Oct. 13, 1904.
“It is the culmination . . . utterly ignored”: Anaconda [MT] Standard, Oct. 9, 1904.
conceding the region to Democrats: Ibid.
“full dinner pail”: Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 18, 1904.
“He is on the side”: New York Sun, July 30, 1904.
populist publications reviled him: TR to Joseph G. Cannon, Aug. 3, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 880.
“without exception” . . . the closed shop: RSB, “Parker and Roosevelt on Labor: Real Views of the Two Candidates on the Most Vital National Problem,” McClure’s (November 1904), pp. 41–42.
“Personally he is”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Sept. 8, 1904, RSB Papers.
“I cannot help feeling . . . but no easier”: TR to RSB, Aug. 27, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, pp. 908, 910–11.
“I am perfectly astonished”: RSB to TR, Sept. 6, 1904, TRP.
“a clear idea . . . preaches class hatred”: RSB, “Parker and Roosevelt on Labor,” McClure’s (November 1904), pp. 51–52.
“thorough and painstaking” methods: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3, 1904.
“the bulk of the voters . . . mass of voters”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Oct. 26, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 992.
“The steady advance”: NYT, Oct. 2, 1904.
“would make the millions . . . a tremendous reform”: LS to TR, Sept. 21, 1905, in LS et al., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 170.
“most emphatically” . . . or take executive action: TR to LS, Sept. 25, 1905, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 36.
“entirely legitimate”: TR to George B. Cortelyou, Oct. 26, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 995.
Roosevelt willingly received hundreds of thousands of dollars: Morris, Theodore Rex, pp. 359–60.
“In view of the open”: TR to George B. Cortelyou, Oct. 27, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 998.
“big business corporations . . . entirely proper”: TR to George B. Cortelyou, Oct. 26, 1904, in ibid., pp. 995–96.
“The fact that”: NYT, Oct. 2, 1904.
corporations . . . “contributed to both campaign funds”: New York Tribune, Nov. 1, 1904.
“in a conspiracy”: NYT, Nov. 4, 1904.
“like a big stick”: Anaconda [MT] Standard, Oct. 9, 1904.
“the prostitution”: Ibid.
Cortelyou and Garfield were reluctant: Garfield Diary, Nov. 3, 1904, Garfield Papers.
“I don’t see why”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 3, 1904, WHTP.
“I am the man”: TR to George B. Cortelyou, Nov. 2, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, pp. 1009–12.
to take the midnight train: Garfield Diary, Nov. 3, 1904, Garfield Papers.
“Blood Money . . . drew out of sight”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 4, 1904.
“direct and fierce . . . in a few moments”: NYT, Nov. 5, 1904.
“The gravamen of these charges . . . unqualifiedly and atrociously false”: NYT, Nov. 5, 1904 (italics in the original).
“he had made no”: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Nov. 7, 1904.
“Parker fails to furnish proofs”: TR to William Loeb, Nov. 6, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1015.
“has knocked Parker flat”: Garfield Diary, Nov. 5, 1904, Garfield Papers.
“Parker’s attacks”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Nov. 6, 1904, in TR et al., eds., Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, p. 83.
“he had never wanted . . . the United States”: CRR, My Brother, p. 217.
“a first-class run”: TR to Rudyard Kipling, Nov. 1, 1904, TRP.
“felt soured”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, June 21, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 840.
a crowd of “home folk”: St. Louis Republic, Nov. 9, 1904.
“sprang briskly”: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Nov. 9, 1904.
he caught the 1:14 train: Washington Post, Nov. 8, 1904.
“not to think of”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Nov. 10, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1024.
“a plurality”: Oshkosh [WI] Daily Northwestern, Nov. 9, 1904.
“a tremendous drift . . . very proud and happy”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Nov. 10, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1024.
“no attempt . . . on the mantel shelf”: Oshkosh [WI] Daily Northwestern, Nov. 9, 1904.
“I am deeply sensible”: Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, p. 137.
“a bid for votes”: TR to Arthur Von Brisen, Oct. 27, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1000; St. Paul [MN] Globe, Nov. 10, 1904.
“use the office”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 387.
“I feel very strongly . . . a new start”: TR to George Otto Trevelyan, Nov. 4, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, pp. 1045–46.
“the greatest popular majority”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Nov. 10, 1904, in TR et al., eds., Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, p. 84.
He had won all . . . unexpected coup: Arthur Wallace Dunn, How Presidents Are Made (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1920), p. 85.
“I am stunned”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Nov. 10, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1024.
“has had a smile”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Nov. 17, 1904, WHTP.
“The do
cument that gave”: Murat Halstead to WHT, April 17, 1905, WHTP.
“thousands of votes . . . willing to admit”: Howard Hollister to WHT, Nov. 10, 1904, WHTP.
“the victory is . . . of the President”: WHT to Henry Hoyt, Nov. 12, 1904, WHTP.
“It is no unheard of thing . . . must be protected”: Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 11, 1904; The News (Frederick, MD), Nov. 11, 1904.
“Unless the Republican party”: Henry Hoyt to WHT, Nov. 11, 1904, WHTP.
“pregnant with promise . . . history of the republic”: Minneapolis Journal, Nov. 9, 1904.
“to the best”: St. Paul Globe, Nov. 10, 1904.
“nothing but praise”: Public Opinion, Nov. 17, 1904.
“to his everlasting honor” . . . his last: New York Sun, Nov. 9, 1904.
willingly cut off his hand at the wrist: Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, p. 138.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: “Sitting on the Lid”
“blue, flecked . . . Roosevelt weather”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 5, 1905.
“the morning sun”: Washington Post, Mar. 5, 1905.
“supremely happy . . . moment of our lives”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 5, 1905.
“a friendly little . . . truculent note”: Public Opinion, Mar. 18, 1905.
“Much has been given . . . great wealth”: TR, “Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1905, in WTR, Vol. 15, pp. 267–69.
characteristic “earnestness”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 5, 1905.
“tempestuous doings”: See Public Opinion, Nov. 24, 1904.
“The Republican party”: WAW, “The Reorganization of the Republican Party,” Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 3, 1904.
“Everybody rejoices”: Ohio State Journal (Columbus, OH), cited in Van Wert [OH] Daily Bulletin, April 5, 1905.
a “handsomely fitted” train: NYT, April 4, 1905.
“like a small boy” . . . office seekers: Washington Post, April 4, 1905.
“much more pleasant . . . the everlasting suspicion”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, April 14, 1905, in TR et al., eds., Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, p. 97.
“wild enthusiasm . . . genuine pleasure”: TR to John Hay, April 2, 1905, in LTR, Vol. 4, pp. 1159, 1156.
“in the saddle . . . wolf hunter”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, April 14, 1905, in TR et al., eds., Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, p. 98.
“up at daybreak . . . band of huntsmen”: New York Sun, April 21, 1905.
“roughened by wind”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, May 7, 1905, in TR et al., eds., Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 99–100.
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