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73 On 22 October Charles C. Goetsch, Essays on Simeon Baldwin (West Hartford, Conn., 1981), 83–86, 142.
74 “So far as I am aware” Goetsch, Simeon Baldwin, 85, 151–52.
75 “When I’m mad at a man” Sullivan, Our Times, 3.232. In a letter to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 4 June 1930, Sullivan quotes TR as saying something almost identical to him (SULH).
76 In an open letter The New York Times, 25 Oct. 1910.
77 fellow-servant defense This argument, in tort suits prior to the establishment of workers’ compensation law, was based on the assumed liability of fellow employees, not their employer, for on-the-job accidents.
78 In a return Goetsch, Simeon Baldwin, 153–56.
79 “the felt necessities” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (Cambridge, Mass., 1963), 5.
80 “One thing always” TR, Letters, 7.162.
81 “stewards for the public good” Goetsch, Simeon Baldwin, 99.
82 two thousand words long TR’s letter to Baldwin is printed in TR, Letters, 7.149–52.
83 Even in 1881 Morris, The Rise of TR, 118–19.
Biographical Note: An essay by Robert B. Charles corrects the received idea, in the above and other Roosevelt biographies, that TR’s youthful legal studies were perfunctory. Charles discovered seven volumes of manuscript notes in the Columbia Law School Library that, in his words, “indicate that TR studied law with vigor.” Painstakingly organized and lucidly written over a period of two years, the notes total 1,189 pages and “lay a foundation for the belief that TR’s study … was broad, systematic, regular, [and] intended to prepare him for private practice.” Charles quotes a classmate’s description of TR: “He was very quick in comprehension, very articulate in examination, and the most rapid and voluminous reader of references in the school.” (Robert B. Charles, “Theodore Roosevelt, the Lawyer,” in Naylor et al., TR, 121–39.) See also Charles’s more extensive survey, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Study of Law: A Formative Venture.” (Unpublished ts. [TRC].) For an appreciation of TR’s judicial philosophy by Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, see Morris, Theodore Rex, 542, 737–38.
84 “I shall waste” Goetsch, Simeon Baldwin, 159. With that, Baldwin privately retained as his counsel Alton B. Parker of New York. Parker could be relied on to go after Roosevelt with vigor, having been defeated by him in 1904 for the presidency of the United States. See also TR’s pre-election summary of his anti-constructionist views on the Constitution in The Outlook, 5 Nov. 1910.
85 “Darn it, Henry” TR quoted in Stimson’s obituary, The New York Times, 21 Oct. 1950. TR’s spiritual and physical weariness in early Nov. 1910 is documented by Hamlin Garland in Companions on the Trail: A Literary Chronicle (New York, 1931), 451–53.
86 The first Socialist Victor L. Berger.
87 For the Republican Hechler, Insurgency, 187; Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 556.
88 Roosevelt, in contrast TR, Letters, 7.156n. A cartoon by Jay Darling in the Des Moines Register showed Roosevelt attempting to drag the camel of New York politics through the eye of the needle of reform, while representatives of Wall Street, Tammany Hall, and the Old Guard hung heavily on its tail. Literary Digest, 19 Nov. 1910.
89 Less than five months John Langdon Heaton, The Story of a Page: Thirty Years of Public Service and Public Discussion in the Editorial Pages of the New York World (New York, 1913), 336; Literary Digest, 19 Nov. 1910.
90 “I am glad” EKR to KR, 31 Oct. 1910 (KRP).
91 Only one journalist Sullivan, Our Times, 4.447.
92 He suggested Ibid., 4.453–54.
93 One piece of good news Goetsch, Simeon Baldwin, 163–64.
94 The governor-elect felt TR, Letters, 7.177.
95 Gradually Roosevelt TR in The Outlook, 19 Nov. 1910; TR, Letters, 7.148, 163.
96 And he was pleased On 24 Sept. 1910, Harper’s Weekly appropriated one of TR’s most cherished slogans in praising Wilson’s economic policy as “a square deal to both labor and capital.” Six days later, WW abandoned his lifetime opposition to state regulation of corporations.
97 On 19 November The New York Times,