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19 Then Barnes announced The New York Times, 17 Aug. 1910; Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 483.
20 But he kept TR had made his vow of “two months’ ” silence on 18 June, which projected freedom to speak around 18 Aug.
21 “Have you seen?” Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 481.
22 “It makes me ill” Ibid., 482.
23 A news flash Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 483. TR made his vow to “close up like a native oyster” on 18 June 1910. Sullivan, Our Times, 4.442.
24 “So they want” Literary Digest, 3 Sept. 1910.
25 “Teddysee” The word is a coinage of the humorous poet Wallace Irwin (1876–1959), who later in the year published a Homeric account of TR’s post-presidential wanderings in 1909–1910 entitled The Teddysee. This book-length parody, forgotten now, is a classic of American satire, rising occasionally to heights of surreal imagination. See. e.g., 38–43 for an account of TR’s Western tour.
26 “Ugh! I do dread” TR, Letters, 7.80.
27 The truth was Ibid., 7.111–13; James Garfield diary, 10 Aug. 1910 (JRGP). TR’s left shinbone had been severely damaged in a trolley accident in Lenox, Mass., on 3 Sept. 1902. For an account of this near-fatal accident and its immediate effects, see Morris, Theodore Rex, 141–43, 146–49, 150. As will be seen, TR continued to be plagued by bone and malaria problems for the rest of his life.
28 “It is incredible” Sullivan, Our Times, 4.449; Literary Digest, 10 Sept. 1910.
29 “I don’t care that” Davis, Released for Publication, 200–201.
30 insurgent candidates were registering The Iowa state convention earlier in the month dramatized the President’s unpopularity in the Midwest. Boos and catcalls drowned out a resolution to endorse WHT for reelection. A giant portrait of TR was then winched down over the platform, to a roar of applause. (Mowry, TR, 128.) See ibid., 129–30 for other progressive triumphs through Sept.
31 his “credo” The word is that of James Garfield, who worked with Gifford Pinchot on TR’s Osawatomie address. Garfield diary, 11 Aug. 1910 (JRGP). See Davis, Released for Publication, 209–11 for TR’s elaborate, and unsuccessful, effort to keep the controversial paragraphs of his address at Denver from reporters.
32 Riding across the prairie Quoted by Carey in Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 236.
33 Yet it had been there TR to Cal O’Laughlin in Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 1910. TR’s dream of leading cavalry volunteers into battle actually predated the Spanish-American War. EKR and Cecil Spring Rice used to call him in the 1890s “Theodore the Chilean volunteer” and “teaze [sic] him about his dream of leading a cavalry charge.” EKR to Spring Rice, 25 Mar. 1899 (CSR).
34 “against popular rights” Bishop, TR, 2.301. See also TR, “Criticism of the Courts,” The Outlook, 24 Sept. 1910, and Murphy, “Mr. Roosevelt Is Guilty.” TR also attacked the Court’s decision in U.S. v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895). The Lochner case remains one of the most controversial in Supreme Court history. See David E. Bernstein, “Lochner v. New York: A Centennial Retrospective,” Washington University Law Review Quarterly, 85.5 (2005).
35 At 2:15 P.M. Nebraska State Journal, 1 Sep. 1910; Robert S. LaForte, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Osawatomie Speech,” Kansas Historical Quarterly, Summer 1996.
36 Addressing himself The following extracts from TR’s “New Nationalism” address are taken from TR, Works, 19.10–30.
37 “The essence of any struggle” William Harbaugh was the first to note the Marxian nature of these words in his TR, 367. He emphasizes, however, that TR’s speech overall was Jacksonian in invoking “equality of opportunity within a propertied framework.… Roosevelt preached no proletarian uprising and envisioned no broad destruction of private property. Nor, significantly, did he call for the upbuilding of labor as a countervailing force.”
38 Gifford Pinchot sat LaForte, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Osawatomie Speech.” The original draft of the speech appears to have been written by Herbert Croly, author of The Promise of American Life, and the final version by Gifford Pinchot. (Miller, Gifford Pinchot, 234–35.) TR’s textual contributions