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28. Thomas R. Marshall, a dry-as-dust midwestern politico, is best remembered for his observation “What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar!” Quoted in Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People 882 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).
29. 2 Roosevelt Letters 192.
30. FDR’s speech is in the papers of the Empire State Democracy, July–August 1912, FDRL.
31. Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt 556 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931); William Henry Harbaugh, Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, rev. ed. 404–409, 419–420 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975). Also see TR to Herbert Spencer Hadley, February 29, 1912, in 7 The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt 513, Elting E. Morison, ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954).
32. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 187.
33. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s, observation is in The Vital Center 23–24 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949). For the Armageddon and Bull Moose quotes, see Harbaugh, Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt 405–406, 419–420.
34. On November 6, 1912, the day after his election victory, Wilson told his campaign manager that he owed him nothing. “Whether you did little or much, remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented that!” William E. McCombs, Making Woodrow Wilson President 208 (New York: Fairview Publishing Company, 1921).
35. The New York Times, September 30, 1912.
36. 1 Diary of Edward M. House 1 (September 25, 1912), Yale University Library. One of the best analyses of the New York convention and its impact on the Wilson campaign is in Arthur S. Link, Wilson: The Road to the White House 494–497 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947).
37. Shortly after he took office, Sulzer refused Murphy’s request to appoint Big Jim Gaffney of the New York Contracting and Trucking Company as state highway commissioner. “It will be Gaffney or war,” said Murphy. Sulzer again refused, and Murphy pulled the plug. None of Sulzer’s legislative program made it out of committee. On May 20, 1913, Murphy upped the ante and told Smith and Wagner that Sulzer would have to be impeached. Smith found the votes in the Assembly, and the articles of impeachment passed, August 13, 1913. Wagner followed through on October 17, and Sulzer was removed from office by a Senate vote of 43–12, the only time a New York governor has been impeached. Characteristically, Murphy made no public comment. Alfred Connable and Edward Silberfarb, Tigers of Tammany: Nine Men Who Ran New York 252–255 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967). Also see M. R. Werner, Tammany Hall 529–555 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968).
38. New York Evening Post, October 3, 1912.
39. The New York Times, August 25, 1912.
40. Thomas Mott Osborne to Thomas Ewing, Jr., October 17, 1912, Osborne Papers, Auburn, New York.
41. Rudolph W. Chamberlain, There Is No Truce: A Life of Thomas Mott Osborne 182–184 (New York: Macmillan, 1935).
42. Freidel, Apprenticeship 146–147.
43. ER, Autobiography 69–70.
44. Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., Roosevelt and Howe 56 (New York: Knopf, 1962).
45. Quoted in Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order 340 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957).
46. Howe to FDR, undated (circa August 1, 1912), FDRL.
47. Quoted in Schlesinger, Crisis of the Old Order 314.
48. Freidel, Apprenticeship 151.
49. Howe to FDR, October 1912, FDRL.
50. ER, Autobiography 70–71.
51. Rollins, Roosevelt and Howe 60.
52. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 197n.
53. Quoted in Davis, FDR: Beckoning of Destiny 296.
54. ER, Autobiography 71.
55. Quoted in Ward, First-Class Temperament 198.
56. When the votes were tabulated, FDR had 15,590 (virtually identical to the 15,708 he had received in 1910). His Republican opponent, Jacob Southard, a Poughkeepsie banker and utility owner, had 13,889, and George A. Vossler,