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27 Taft and Governor Wilson chose The New York Times, 3 Sept. 1911.
28 Wilson’s statement Ibid. TR’s political enemy, Governor Simeon Baldwin of Connecticut, also contributed to this peace manifesto.
29 As an example TR, Letters, 7.448. See also Lodge, Selections, 2.404–5.
30 “The fact of” Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 753. TR’s article was prominently quoted and summarized in The New York Times, 9 Sept. 1911, under the headline ROOSEVELT ASSAILS THE TAFT TREATIES. See also his even more emphatic year-end statement in TR, Letters, 7.447–50.
31 “This is the only” The following conversation is taken from Stoddard, As I Knew Them, 315–17. Stoddard was the editor of the New York Mail at the time.
32 On 15 September In preparation for the President’s arrival, the City Club in St. Louis installed new elevator cables. The New York Times, 14 Sept. 1911.
33 Canadians had voted The New York Times, 6 Sept. 1911; Pringle, Taft, 750. For a full discussion of the reciprocity issue, see Pringle, Taft, 582ff.
34 He had supported TR, Letters, 7.345. George Dangerfield links the cession of power from the Lords to the Commons on 10 Aug. 1911 to the subsequent decline of reform Liberalism in Britain. Unionist Toryism, too, was doomed to disappear with the rise of militant labor and the onset of World War I. George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (London, 1935; Stanford, Calif., 1997), 63–69.
35 I found I was TR, Letters, 7.362. The full text of this letter, completed 1 Oct. 1911, is in ibid., 7.348–99. Five days later, TR wrote a sequel, describing his visit to Great Britain as special ambassador to Edward VII’s funeral, but with the extreme circumspection that always characterized his discussion of diplomatic matters, he addressed it to an American friend, David Gray, on the ground that it might be too frank for English eyes. See TR, Letters, 7.401–15. Later he changed his mind, and allowed Gray to send a copy to Sir George Otto Trevelyan.
Historiographical Note: In 2009 a third “posterity” letter written in this same period by TR to Trevelyan, and carbon-copied to Gray, came to light. Obviously intended to supplement TR’s tour reminiscences with an equally primary account of some of his earlier dealings with Wilhelm II and other statesmen, the letter, dated 9 Nov. 1911, has been published in facsimile, with an accompanying article and appendices. See Gregory A. Wynn, “ ‘Under Your Own Roof’: An Important TR Letter Discovered,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 30.3 (Summer 2009).
36 She was knocked The accident dislocated the top three vertebrae in EKR’s neck. EKR diary, 30 Sept. 1911 (TRC); TR to KR, 2, 5 Oct. and to Fanny Parsons, 6 Oct. 1911 (TRC); TR, Letters, 7.432; Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 373–74. EKR’s diary remains blank through 10 Nov. 1911.
37 The family doctor TR, Letters, 7.429–36; New York Tribune, 21 Oct. 1911; TR, Works, 18.262. TR’s speech, entitled “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood,” was an early formulation of his views on welfare and the judiciary, which became central elements of the Progressive Party platform in 1912. It appears in TR, Works, 18.244–75.
38 Germany being “compensated” MacDonogh, The Last Kaiser, 325.
39 Meanwhile Taft Mowry, TR, 184; La Follette, Autobiography, 532. According to Mowry, the receptions accorded WHT in the Midwest were so chilly, he was jokingly said to have added some Southern states to his itinerary, “so that he might thaw out.” For an account of the Progressive convention’s rather ambivalent feelings regarding La Follette, see Margulies, “La Follette.”
40 Roosevelt was stunned TR, Letters, 7.430. The claim in Mowry, TR, 191, that “Roosevelt’s reaction was as instantaneous as it was violent” is not supported by TR’s behavior during the next two months, nor by the tone of his public references to the Taft administration. Mowry’s pioneer researches in the Roosevelt papers were sometimes hampered by his tendency to take TR’s political temperature and find it feverish. This misperception, shared by many