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Notes
All biographical facts, anecdotes and quotations by or about Reed are from Lodge, McCall or Robinson except where otherwise stated. All quotations from Roosevelt are from the Morison edition of his Letters, for which I have given the dates and dispensed with volume and page references.
1 “Out of whose collar”: De Casseres. The following quotations in this paragraph, in order, are from Clark, I, 287; Leupp; McCall, 248; Dunn, I, 165; Foulke, 110; Porter. “The ablest running debater” was said by Rep. John Sharp Williams, Democratic Leader of the House; “the greatest parliamentary leader” by Lodge; “far and away the most brilliant” by Clark, II, 10.
2 Henry Adams on his brother John: Sept. 1, 1894, Letters, II, 55.
3 Bryce, “apathy …”: III, 326–28.
4 Lewis Morris, “Damn the consequences”: “Biographical Sketches of the Four Signers from New York,” Americana, Aug., 1914, 627.
5 “A human frigate” and “How narrow”: Day.
6 “Calculated … to obstruct legislation”: Rep. Frye of Maine.
7 “All the wisdom”: Clark, I, 286.
8 “Voting for him on the sly”: Porter.
9 Palmerston’s popularity: Peck, 276.
10 Choate anecdote: Barry, 142.
11 On Balzac: Porter.
12 “We asked the Tom Reeds”: Lodge, Corres., I, 77, 120.
13 “Theodore, if there is one thing more than another”: q. George Stimpson, A Book About American Politics, New York, 1952, 342.
14 “Theodore will never be President”: Leupp.
15 “Ambitious as Lucifer”: Cullom, 243.
16 “It becomes a tyranny”: Dunn, I, 35.
17 “The largest human face”: Clark, I, 277–78.
18 ff. “The Chair directs”: All remarks by the Speaker and Representatives in the account of the Quorum fight are from the Congressional Record, 51st Congress, First Session.
19 ff. “Pandemonium broke loose”: Dunn, I, 27. Reporters and other eyewitnesses quoted on the Quorum fight are Dunn, I, 24–32; Peck, 200–202; Fuller, 219–21. The New York Times gave the story four columns on page 1 on both Jan. 30 and 31.
20 Reed’s Rules: Fuller, 228.
21 Roosevelt on Reed’s reform; Forum, Dec., 1895.
22 “Biting a green persimmon”: Mount (see Chap. 1), 192. Sargent had difficulty with the portrait and destroyed his first version. “His exterior somehow does not correspond with his spirit. What is a painter to do?… I could have made a better picture with a less remarkable man. He has been delightful.” Reed claimed that he liked it although “I am willing to admit that the picture is not so good-looking