Brotherhood of Railway Train Conductors, 318
Brown, Henry Billings, 152, 497–98
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 118
Browning, Robert, 123, 129
Brownlow, Louis, 286
Brownsville, Tex., 511, 515
Brownsville Herald, 512
Brownsville incident, 511–15, 537
Brunswick Hotel, 121
Bryan, William Jennings, 194, 281–82, 422, 527, 728
“Cross of Gold” speech of, 187
in election of 1896, 187–88, 195, 212, 407, 552
in election of 1900, 253, 272, 273, 407, 552
in election of 1908, 15, 501, 548, 552–54
legacy of TR claimed by, 552–54
on 1912 Republican National Convention, 697
as progressive, 548, 722
silver standard advocated by, 407
Bryce, James and Elizabeth, 646
Bryn Mawr College, 545, 559, 577, 581, 646, 729
Buchanan, James, 76
Buckle, Henry, 93
Buffalo, N.Y., 555
McKinley assassinated in, 278
Buffalo Express, 75
building contractors, 362–64
building strike of 1903, 362
Bull Moose Party, see National Progressive Party
Bulloch, Anna, 35, 37, 80
Bulloch, Martha (grandmother), 35
Bulloch, Martha “Mittie,” see Roosevelt, Martha “Mittie” Bulloch
Bulloch Hall, 35
Bunyan, John, 480
Bureau of Mines, 638
Burke, Edmund, 94
Burroughs, John, 349, 351
Burton, David, 28, 30
Burton, Theodore, 545
Butler, Edward, 370, 372–73
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 281
Butler, Thomas S., 18
Butt, Archie, 227, 563, 579, 634–35, 638, 649, 652
background and personality of, 565–66
at Beverly house, 582
on Edith, 566, 678
on Nellie, 571, 577–78, 580–81, 646, 661–62, 664
in Philippines, 277, 566
on Taft, 13, 57, 571–72, 575, 595–98, 600, 604, 620–21, 638–39, 652–53, 666
on Taft’s response to Nellie’s stroke, 16, 582
on Titanic, 690–93, 695, 696
on TR, 542, 545, 555, 567–68, 571–72, 671, 678
on TR’s Beverly visit, 640–41
and TR’s return from Africa, 2–3, 5, 7–8, 10, 19–20, 636–37
on TR-Taft schism, 634–37, 643, 645–46, 647–48, 653–54, 677–78, 682–83
Butt, Clara, 13, 643, 677, 683
Butte, Mont., 349–50, 351
Butterworth, Benjamin, 54, 55, 60, 62, 86, 105–6, 135
Bynner, Witter, 471, 488
Byrnes, Tom, 207–8
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 461
Cadwalader’s, 104
California, 91, 148, 149, 263, 327, 351–53, 379, 394, 396, 532, 603, 609, 667, 674, 705, 708, 712, 714, 721, 724, 729
anti-Japanese legislation in, 653–54
direct primary in, 684, 696, 699–700
Southern Pacific Railroad in, 445
California, University of, 267
at Berkeley, 197, 198, 238
California National Bank, 196
Calkins, H., 70
Cambridge, Mass., 4, 410–11
Cameron, Don, 141–42
Cameron, Elizabeth, 141–42
campaign contributions, xi, 291, 346, 482
corporate, 417–20, 517
Hanna’s, 381
public record of, 548, 721
Taft’s, 552
Campbell, Philip, 437, 439
Campbell, Thomas C., 53, 58–62, 71, 86
Camp Wikoff, 232
Canada, 23, 163, 215, 219, 302
reciprocity agreement and, 658–61, 665–66, 688, 694
Canfield, James H., 190–91
Cannon, Joseph, 397, 453, 465, 504, 524, 543, 571, 596, 597, 629, 630, 632
insurgent triumph over, 628
protectionism championed by, 585–88
Canton, Ohio, 380
capital, 386, 396, 400, 403–4, 425, 679
concentration of, 676
labor vs., 183, 318, 324, 351, 414–15, 679
capitalism, capitalists, 206, 296, 300, 324–25, 354, 356, 380, 397, 416, 461, 472, 535
Hanna as representative of, 292
Capitol Building, 107, 185, 569
Manila, 269
Capitol Hill, 344, 396–97, 701
Carlyle, Thomas, 94
Carnegie, Andrew, 31, 297, 667
Carnegie Hall, 673, 686–87
Caroli, Betty Boyd, 118
Carow, Charles, 113–17, 121–23, 133
Carow, Edith, see Roosevelt, Edith Carow
Carow, Emily, 115, 122–23, 154, 240, 264, 367
Carow, Gertrude Tyler, 114–15, 117, 122
Carpathia, 691
Carpenter, Frank, 134–35
Casals, Pablo, 566
Cascade national forest, 517
Cass, Levi, 161
Cather, Willa, 159, 170, 488–89
Catholic University, 17
Catskills, 245
Central Park, New York, 36
Century magazine, 111, 128, 163, 167, 168, 177, 178, 353, 359
McClure at, 166
Chafee, Adna, 301
Chamonix, 469
Chandler, William E., 456
Chanler, Margaret, 142
Chanler, Winthrop, 142
Chapin, Harry, 120
Chapman, Orlon, 106
Charles River, 44
Charleston, N.C., 733
Charleston News and Courier, 455
Chase, Salmon, 25, 26
Chautauqua Institution, 173, 411
Chautauquan, 173–74
Chernow, Ron, 528
Chesapeake Bay, 596
Chestnut Hill, Mass., 4, 47, 64
Chevy Chase, Md., 701
Chicago, Ill., 158, 183, 187, 188, 216, 231, 361, 363, 552, 601, 670, 689, 731, 732
Bull Moose Convention in, 718–21
Municipal Voters’ League in, 368
National Progressive Party convention in, 714, 717
1904 Republican National Convention in, 405–7
1908 Republican National Convention in, 542–47
1912 Republican National Convention in, 697–98, 700–704, 709–10, 713
reformers in, 385
Steffens on corruption in, 369, 372–73
stockyards in, 459–64
Chicago & Alton Railroad, 441
Chicago Daily Tribune, 339–40, 663, 669, 702
Chicago Evening Post, 538
Chicago Record, 179–80, 183–87, 297
Chicago Record-Herald, 285, 295, 309, 361, 626
Chicago Times-Herald, 250, 257
Chicago Tribune, 6, 9, 178, 462, 519, 536, 604, 687–88
Chicago Wigwam, 187
child labor laws, 244, 517, 538, 548, 564, 644, 679, 721
children:
in coal mining, 311–12
rights of, 736
Children’s Aid Society, 37
Children’s Bureau, 716–17
Chimney Butte ranch, 110
China, 432, 525
cholera, 304, 387
Christ Episcopal Church, 114
Christian Science, 489
Chugach National Forest, 611
Cigar-Makers’ Union, 77–78
cigars, 414
home manufacture of, 77–78, 85
Cincinnati, Ohio, 29, 33, 88, 104, 146
Alphonso Taft and, 23, 26–27
in Civil War, 25
general strike in, 103
Longworth and, 430, 738
Nellie in, 90, 100–101, 133, 149–50, 220–21, 301
Notification Day in, 549–51, 715
Phelan in, 215–16
political corruption in, 58–62, 71, 83–84, 381,
383, 434
progressive Republican Club in, 436
Taft and, 21, 51, 57, 99, 100–101, 106, 107, 144, 152–54, 214, 252, 265, 301, 532–33, 553, 555, 737–38
TR in, 221, 309, 524
Cincinnati, University of, 91
Cincinnati Bar Association, 59–60, 61, 63
Cincinnati Civil Service Reform Association, 219
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, 51, 52–53, 58, 61, 63
Cincinnati Enquirer, 100, 322, 411
Cincinnati Evening Star, 28
Cincinnati Free Kindergarten Association, 103
Cincinnati Law School, 33, 50–52, 219
Cincinnati Reds, 220
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, 215–16
Cincinnati Superior Court:
Alphonso Taft on, 25–26
Taft on, 62–63, 101–2, 105–7
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, 220
Cincinnati Times, 28, 556
Cincinnati Times-Star, 29, 174
Citizens’ Union, 235
Civil Service Commission, 11, 108, 130–31, 135–41, 143, 232
Civil Service News, 139
civil service reform, 45, 55–56, 78–79, 85, 86, 409
Civil Service Reform Club, 219, 221
Civil War, 31, 35, 48, 168, 180, 285, 496, 537, 554, 689, 741
Carow business decline in, 114
growth in corporations after, 157
perspectives on Spanish-American War and, 222, 226
Clapp, Moses E., 627
Clark, Champ, 713
Clark, Edgar E., 318
Clarke, Hovey C., 371
class hatred, 417, 449
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain), 334, 349, 441, 488, 658
Cleveland, Frances, 291–92
Cleveland, Grover, 408
in 1884 presidential election, 60
in 1888 presidential election, 130
as New York governor, 78, 83–84, 242
as president, 186, 291–92, 406, 554, 661
and Pullman workers’ strike, 186
TR and, 83–84, 154–55
Cleveland, Ohio, 52, 214, 252, 368, 369, 379, 381, 383, 413, 434, 508, 509, 587
Rockefeller in, 334, 336–37
Cleveland Gas Company, 393
Cleveland Press, 563
Clews, Henry, 280
Clifton Hall, 90, 93
coal, 292, 596
anthracite, 311–19, 367
barons, 323
children in mining of, 311–12
coal strike, 311–19, 321, 322, 367, 415, 416
Baker on, 354–59
coal trust, 312–19
Cochems, Henry, 732
Cockrell, Francis, 345
Cocks, Charles, 651
Cold Spring, 121
Cold Spring Harbor, 715
Cole, George, 368
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 100, 117, 123
College Hill, Ohio, 33
College of Emporia, 190
Collier, Robert, 619, 622
collieries, 291
Collier’s, 326, 616–17, 619, 623, 686
patent medicine investigation in, 464–65
Collins, Eli, 88
Colombia, 427
Colón, 428
Colonial Express, 582
Colorado, 263, 425, 426, 477, 727
irrigation project in, 352
labor wars in, 401–5, 416
Colorado City, Colo., 402
Colorado State Committee, 534
Colson, John, 356–57
Columbia Law School, 27, 68
TR at, 48, 63–65
Columbia Roadster, 165
Columbia University, 281
Columbus, Ohio, 381, 524, 536, 677
TR’s speech in, 678–80, 682, 684, 687, 700
Commerce and Labor Department, U.S., 348, 406, 451
Bureau of Corporations of, 344–47, 418, 437, 456, 461, 561, 669
passage of, 346–47
TR’s proposal for, 293–94, 296, 306–7, 321, 343–44
Commercial Club, 657–58
Committee on the Cities, of NY Assembly, 79, 83
communism, 247
competition, prices and, 338
Confederate Army, 35, 267, 306
Congress, U.S., xi, 155, 192, 224, 280, 296, 302, 348, 412, 439, 445, 504, 505, 526, 535, 536, 594, 629, 630, 653, 716, 728, 749
57th, 305–7
59th, 462–66, 516–17
61st, 637–39, 648
anti-trust legislation and, 344–46
Brownsville incident and, 514
circuit courts created by, 151
civil service reform and, 138
conservation in, 618
conservative bloc in, 19
corporate regulation not addressed by, 307
federal regulations passed by, 465–66
liability act, 56
New Deal in, 185
Philippines and, 274, 526
power over lands in, 606–7
progressive legislation in, 12, 627
railroad regulation in, 19, 447
resistance to TR in, 14, 538, 548, 564–65, 588
special interests in, 632
trusts and, 306–7
Congressional Record, 495–96
Conkling, Roscoe, 45
Connecticut, 292, 308, 413, 414, 498, 556, 651
Conrad, Joseph, 489
conservation, xi, 12, 244–45, 246, 351–52, 517, 570, 594, 741
Conservative Party, Canadian, 665
conservatives:
in Congress, 538
enlightened, 254
on New Nationalism, 645
in Republican party, 12, 278–81, 287, 293, 380, 382, 402, 405, 407, 415, 416, 443, 444–45, 453, 457, 503, 504, 514, 517, 542–43, 553, 572, 586, 600, 627, 629, 638, 641–43, 647, 649, 650, 651, 655, 660, 669, 711, 726
on Taft, 571
on TR’s “Muckrake” speech, 486–87
on TR’s policies, 296
Constantinople, 40
Constitution, Cuban, 506
Constitution, New York, 255
Constitution, U.S., 305, 411, 415, 452, 569, 645, 690, 716
Nineteenth amendment to, 741
and presidential role in labor-management disputes, 314
separation of church and state in, 26
separation of powers under, 607, 711
Seventeenth amendment to, 741
Sixteenth amendment to, 741
TR’s proposals to amend, 296
TR’s succession to the presidency and, 281
used to prevent social reform, 78, 213–14, 564
Constitutional League, 513
contract:
assumption of risk and, 217–18
freedom of, 296, 386
convict labor, 416
Cooper, James Fenimore, 111
Cooper’s Bluff, 118
Cooper Union, 535
copper, 291
Copperheads, 25, 76
corporations, 254, 292, 296, 314, 364, 405, 605, 657, 731
campaign contributions from, 417–20
campaign funds and, 258
courts influenced by, 191–92
federal licensing law for, 517
federal regulation of, 11, 19, 296, 400, 466, 539–40, 564, 586, 630, 721
growth of, 195
improper influence by, 248, 291
increasing concentration of power in, 253
interstate business by, 294, 564
political funding by, 644
post–Civil War growth of, 157
power of, 11
tariffs and large, 548
taxes on, 19, 246–49, 253, 258, 368, 594, 598, 603
TR’s mixed message on, 321–22
on TR’s “Muckrake” speech, 486–87
Corsair, 317
Cortelyou, George:
and corporate campaign contributions, 417–20
as head of Commerce and Labor Department, 347, 348
presidential ambitions of, 524
as Republican National Committee chair, 406
as Treasury Secretary, 528, 531
as TR’s private secretary, 308, 406
Cos Cob, Conn., 495
Cosmopolitan, 228, 326, 481
Cosmos Club, 143
Costello, Mike, 69
cotton, 593
Cove Neck, 112
Cowles, Anna “Bamie” Roosevelt, 6, 36, 39, 112, 120, 122, 735
Alice cared for by, 80, 109, 113, 125, 128
Edith and, 127, 156
homes of, 123, 257, 281
marriage of, 212
spinal curvature of, 37, 113
TR encouraged by, 156
TR’s letters to, 4, 42, 65–66, 82, 83, 84, 111, 121, 129, 132, 140–41, 142, 150–51, 155, 159, 209, 319, 650, 734
Cowles, William S., 212, 224, 281
Cox, George, 383, 434–36
Coxey, Jacob, 184–85
Coxey’s Army, 184–85, 194
Craig, William, 308–9
Crane, Stephen, 170, 225, 311–12, 322
Crane, Winthrop Murray, 308
Creelman, James, 521
Cripple Creek, Colo., 402, 404–5
Critic, 482
Croker, Richard, 237, 281–82, 363
Croly, Herbert, 643–44
Cromwell, William, 552
Cuba, 8–9, 275, 566
elections in, 504–6, 508
sovereignty of, 390, 505
Spanish-American War in, 221–23, 226–27, 229–31, 235, 238
Taft in, 504–8, 512, 519, 521
tariff on exports from, 307
turmoil in, 504–8
war authorized in, 224
Cummins, Albert B., 213, 547, 593, 627, 709, 711, 714–15
Cunningham, Clarence, 611–13
Cunningham coal scandal, 610–21
Current Literature, 619, 658
Curzon, Lady, 271
Cutler, Arthur, 41, 82
Daggett, Mabel, 577
Dakotas, 10, 263, 349, 643
Dallas, Tex., 426
dams, 306, 352–53
Dana, Fanny Smith, 38, 112–13, 117–18, 120–21
Dana, Paul, 294
Dante Alighieri, 150
Darrow, Clarence, 356
Darwin, Charles, 233
Daudet, Alphonse, 176
Davenport, Iowa, 169
Davenport (Iowa) Daily Times, 163
Davis, Agnes, 58, 90, 92, 93, 146
Davis, Oscar King, 287, 574, 729, 731, 732–33
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 227
Davis, Richard Harding, 208, 227–30, 515, 720
Dawson, William, 535
Day, William Rufus, 214, 398
Debs, Eugene, 186, 215, 297, 731, 739
Decatur, Ill., 508, 689
Decatur (Illinois) Republican, 131
Decoration Day, 537
Delaney, Matthew, 580–82
Delta Kappa fraternity, 30
democracy, 159, 302, 449
direct, 731
TR’s view of, 564
Democratic National Convention:
of 1904, 407–10
of 1908, 548
of 1912, 712–14
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