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30 a new, tan campaign hat Sullivan, Our Times, 4.505–6 and 510 (illustration).
31 People packed Nicholas Roosevelt, “Account of the RNC,” 7.
32 “Chicago is” Syracuse Herald and The New York Times, 16 June 1912.
33 “It is a fight” The New York Times, 16 June 1912. Meanwhile, Chicago bookies were betting 2 to 1 that TR would not be nominated. Decatur Sunday Review, 16 June 1912.
34 The crowd in Nicholas Roosevelt, “Account of the RNC,” 12, 16; The New York Times, 16, 17 June 1912.
35 The fervor of William Jennings Bryan, A Tale of Two Conventions (New York, 1912), 10; White, Autobiography, 464; Nicholas Roosevelt, “Account of the RNC,” 20; The New York Times, 17–18 June 1912.
36 cries of “Shame” The New York Times, 18 June 1912. The following extracts from TR’s Auditorium address, entitled “The Case Against the Reactionaries,” are taken from TR, Works, 19.285–317.
37 William Jennings Bryan “The Arabs are said to have seven hundred words which mean camel,” Bryan wrote in his report of the speech. “Mr. Roosevelt has nearly as many synonyms for theft, and he used them all tonight.” Bryan, A Tale of Two Conventions, 16.
38 “I am never surprised” O’Laughlin, “Diary of the National Republican Convention,” 17 June 1912 (OL).
39 the fanaticism of his followers “I can liken it only to a belief in God,” one Taft delegate recalled. “They thought Roosevelt was infallible—I have never known such intensity of feeling before or since.” (Ezra P. Prentice interviewed by Mary Hagedorn, 28 June 1955 [TRB].) William Allen White wrote that he was “thrilled to my heart” by the speech, yet at the same time, “I was disturbed, I suppose a little frightened, at the churning which he gave to the crowd.” Autobiography, 464–45.
40 At Three o’Clock Sullivan, Our Times, 4.511. Sullivan was unsure whether this flyer was circulated during the GOP or Progressive Party conventions of June and August, 1912, respectively. But two accounts by participants confirm the earlier date. Prentice interview, op. cit.; Henry J. Allen in Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 273.
41 “I am for Teddy” Marshall Stimson, “Colonel Roosevelt and the Presidential campaign of 1912,” n.d., memorandum in TRB.
42 By the time Except where otherwise indicated, the following account is based on the reportage of The New York Times, Syracuse Herald, Emporia Gazette, and Atlanta Constitution, 18–23 June 1912, and Official Report of the Proceedings of the National Republican Convention (1912, Internet Archive [http://www.archive.org/]), hereafter Proceedings of the 15th RNC. Mark Sullivan’s account reproduces some brilliant sketches of the conventioneers in action. Sullivan, Our Times, 4.512–30.
43 “the mere monstrous embodiment” Morris, The Rise of TR, 481. For discussion of the relationship between James and TR, see Philip Horne, “Henry James and ‘the Forces of Violence’: On the Track of ‘Big Game’ in ‘The Jolly Corner,’ ” The Henry James Review, 27 (2006).
44 The bands that had White, Autobiography, 463. According to Gould, Four Hats in the Ring, 70, the Roosevelt campaign spent $10,000 on bands during the course of the convention.
45 Victor Rosewater’s gavel Since the convention had not yet elected its chairman, Rosewater presided over its initial business in his capacity as acting chairman of the Republican National Committee. See Rosewater, Back Stage in 1912, 160–64.
46 But first Emporia Gazette, 18 June, The New York Times, 19 June 1912.
47 Contrary to rumors Nicholas Roosevelt, “Account of the RNC,” 24; Lewis, TR, 441.
48 Hadley, a calm Harlan Hahn, “The Republican National Convention of 1912 and the Role of Herbert S. Hadley in National Politics,” Missouri Historical