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31 “He looked, as usual” Baker, notebook M, 34–35 (RSB). TR’s speech is in Gould, Bull Moose, 51–56.
32 A citizen of TR, Letters, 7.570–71; The New York Times, 13 July, 1 Aug. 1912; Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 273ff.; Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 190.
33 a convenient code Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 141.
34 “Friends,” he yelled Ibid., 175.
35 “My fellow citizens” The New York Times, 10 Sept. 1912.
36 gloved hands clapping Ibid.
37 Two nights later Donovan, The Assassins, 136. According to the self-styled “written proclamation” of John Schrank, quoted in the New York Press, 15 Sept. 1912, the time of this vision was 1:30 A.M. on the 12th. For his earlier vision of McKinley and TR at the same hour on 15 Sept. 1901, see Morris, Theodore Rex, 17.
38 his oratory became impersonal Exhorted by a Progressive official to “come out stronger” against WW, TR said, “No, that would be entirely wrong. Give Wilson a chance to make good. Don’t handicap him before he has had an opportunity to do anything.” David S. Hinshaw interviewed by J. F. French, 1922 (TRB).
39 Only California When TR arrived in Los Angeles on the 16th, 200,000 people lined the streets and shouted his name. Mowry, TR, 276.
40 “a quiet, steady” The New York Times, 23 Sept. 1912.
41 “There was no applause” David S. Hinshaw interviewed by J. F. French, 1922 (TRB). White wrote a charming account of TR’s visit to Emporia in his Autobiography, 493–96.
42 five 78 rpm shellac discs Victor C-12406 through 12410, all recorded on 22 Sept. 1912. These recordings and four cylinders recorded the previous month for the Edison Company can be heard on numerous Internet sites. The most representative is “The Right of the People to Rule,” downloadable from the Library of Congress’s American Memory archive (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem). It contains TR’s famous exhortation to “Spend and be spent.” Another, “The Progressive Covenant with the People,” ends with him declaiming his Armageddon line with enormous relish. The pleasant voices of Wilson and Taft can be heard on the Vincent Voice Library website at http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/.
43 “I am hoarse” TR to KR, 27 Sept. 1912 (TRC).
44 Arkansas. Tennessee. At Memphis, on 26 Sept., TR gave a far-seeing, nonpartisan address to the Levee Convention. In language clearly written for the most part by Gifford Pinchot, he called for wholesale federal development and protection of the Mississippi drainage basin, using the plant and technology that would soon become available to the United States upon completion of the Panama Canal. See Gould, Bull Moose, 126–36.
45 “Theodore Roosevelt has” African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, 29.2 (Oct. 1912).
46 “It is impossible” The New York Times, 29 Sept. 1912. See Gould, Bull Moose, 136–42, for an account of TR’s successful appeal for support in New Orleans, and Arthur S. Link, “Theodore Roosevelt and the South in 1912,” in North Carolina Historical Review, 23 (July 1946) for TR’s popularity elsewhere in Dixie: “Roosevelt found … that it was his misfortune that people often shout one way and vote another.”
47 He practically called The New York Times, 29 Sept. 1912.
48 He blustered on George Roosevelt trip journal, 29 Sept. 1912; Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 187; The New York Times, 30 Sept. 1912; Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 276. The Atlanta Constitution report quoted in Gould, Bull Moose, 143–48, downplays the hostility TR provoked.
49 He got the impression Willard Straight to Henry P. Fletcher, 3 Oct. 1912 (STR).
Chronological Note: The investigation had been triggered by an article in the August issue of Hearst’s Magazine, showing that the payment had originally been made by John D. Archbold of Standard Oil to Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania. The latter, an archenemy of Progressivism, claimed in 1912 that he had accepted it