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in behalf of TR’s reelection campaign. The President, he said, not only knew about the $25,000, but had demanded a larger contribution if Standard Oil was not to be prosecuted under the Sherman Act. Although Penrose could not offer any proof of his allegation, he and the ever-vengeful Robert La Follette jointly called for a Senate examination of all contributions to the 1904, 1908, and 1912 campaigns. A subcommittee for the purpose, chaired by Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, grilled TR on 4 Oct. 1912. He preempted his appearance by publishing a long letter to Clapp. In it, he denied Penrose’s allegation, and attached documents from his presidential papers to prove that in 1904 he had directed that no contributions from John D. Rockefeller’s highly unpopular trust should be accepted by the Republican National Committee. See TR, Letters, 7.602–5, and Campaign Contributions: Testimony Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, U.S. Senate, 2 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1913).

50 a conference of The New York Times, 7 Oct. 1912.

51 Wilson had come up Link, Wilson: The Road to the White House, 476–77; Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 260–61; Gould, Four Hats in the Ring, 164–65. For an analysis of the contrasting yet often complementary platforms of TR and WW in the campaign of 1912, see John Milton Cooper, Jr., Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (New York, 2009), 173–80.

52 Johnson had a twenty-two-state Gable, The Bull Moose Years, 111.

53 In Indiana, Albert Beveridge Gable, “The Bull Moose Years” (diss.), 273–84; TR, Letters, 7.595; TR to KR, 1 Nov. 1912, ts. (TRC). For a detailed account of the organization of the Progressive Party, see Gable, The Bull Moose Years, 22–57.

54 “Children, don’t crowd” Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 144.

55 The Colonel was back Davis, Released for Publication, 355–56.

56 Roosevelt seemed a new The Outlook, 12 Oct. 1912; Philip J. Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912: An Intimate Progressive View,” ts. (TRC), 28, 40; Gould, Bull Moose, 151–54.

57 “I’m fur Teddy” Mrs. Rudolph Schori to TR, 21 Jan. 1913, pasted into the manuscript of TR’s autobiography (MLM). Later, in Duluth and Chicago, TR used his briefing book to further effect, quoting some highly xenophobic remarks made by WW about European immigrants “of the lowest classes” in a magazine article in 1899. Gould, Bull Moose, 158–59.

58 Munsey, a strict dieter Munsey’s advice fell on deaf ears. Stoddard, As I Knew Them, 407–8.

59 Rumors persisted Davis, Released for Publication, 362.

60 His speech Gould, Bull Moose, 161–62.

61 After dinner Philip Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912,” 49. TR’s voice loss in the Coliseum was unfortunate, because his speech was an effective attack on WW as governor of the most corporate-friendly state in the Union. “He did precisely and exactly nothing [in New Jersey]. It is as simple to describe what [he] accomplished against the trusts as it is to write a volume on the natural history of the snakes in Ireland. There are no snakes in Ireland.” Gould, Bull Moose, 166.

62 He returned to Chicago Davis, Released for Publication, 369.

63 Roosevelt lies and curses Ishpeming (Mich.) Iron Ore, 12 Oct. 1912, copy in TRC.

64 “Let’s go at him.” Davis, Released for Publication, 369.

65 Later that afternoon The following account of the events of 14 Oct. 1912 is based on the eyewitness reportage of Philip Roosevelt in “Politics of the Year 1912”; O. K. Davis to George Perkins, 15 Oct. 1912, ts. copy (AC); Davis, Released for Publication, 370–90; Oliver Remey, Henry F. Cochems, and Joseph C. Bloodgood, The Attempted Assassination of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt (Milwaukee, Wis., 1912); Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 147–50; and “Incidents in the Political Life of Theodore Roosevelt as Related by Owen Crozier,” ts. copy (TRB).

66 “I want to be” Davis, Released for Publication, 372.

67 “He’ll never get up” Philip Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912,” 54.

68 Looking down, he Ibid.

69 “Don’t hurt him” TR, Letters, 7.705; Philip Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912,” 54.

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