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68 McClure to co-editor: Lyon, 148; to Page: ibid., 167.
69 “Do nothing unrighteous”: q. Puleston, 182; Roosevelt’s reply: May 3, 1897.
70 Schurz’s visit to McKinley: Fuess, 350.
71 Spectator on the Treaty: June 19, 1897.
72 “Empire Can Wait”: Illustrated American, Dec., 1897.
73 Bryce in the Forum: Dec., 1897, “The Policy of Annexation for America.”
74 “Far distant, storm-beaten ships”: from his Influence of Sea Power on the French Revolution.
75 Reed on Senator Proctor: Dunn, I, 234.
76 “The taste of Empire”: q. Morison and Commager, Growth of the Amercan Republic, II, 324.
77 “Dissuade a cyclone”: NYT, Apr. 7, 1898.
78 Roosevelt to Mahan: Mar. 21, 1898.
79 Mr. Dooley on the Philippines: Dunne, 43. When Mr. Dooley asked Hinnissy if he could tell where the Philippines were, Hinnissy, representing public opinion, replied, “Mebbe I cudden’t, but I’m f’r takin’ thim in, annyhow.” Mr. Dooley wasn’t so sure. “Th’ war is still goin’ on; an’ ivry night, whin I’m countin’ up the cash, I’m askin’ mesilf will I annex Cubia or lave it to the Cubians? Will I take Porther Ricky or put it by? An’ what shud I do with the Ph’lippeens? Oh, what shud I do with thim?”: ibid., 46–47.
80 McKinley on the Philippines: Kohlsaat, 68.
81 Lodge, must not. “let the islands go”: to Henry White, May 4, 1898, Nevins (see Chap. 1), 136.
82 Norton, “We jettison …”: text of the speech in Letters, II, 261–69. The politician who proposed lynching was the Hon. Thomas J. Gargan.
83 The Anti-Imperialists: Lanzar, Harrington, Howe, Fuess.
84 “An abominable business”: Mark Twain-Howells Letters, Harvard Univ. Press, 1960, II, 673, n. 4. See also Mark Twain’s “To The Person Sitting in Darkness,” North American Review, Feb., 1901.
85 Godkin on “inferior races”: Mar. 24, 1898, 216.
86 Carl Schurz, same argument: Schurz, 441.
87 Beveridge’s speeches: Bowers, 68–70, 76; Storey, 38; W. E. Leuchtenberg, “Progressivism and Imperialism, 1898–1916,” Miss, Valley Hist. Rev., Dec., 1952.
88 “We’re a gr-reat people”: Dunne, 9.
89 Roosevelt, “my power for good”: Mar. 29, 1898.
90 Beveridge on Reed: to George W. Perkins, May 31, 1898, Bowers, 71.
91 “Opposition exclusively from Reed”: May 31, 1898, Lodge, Corres., I, 302.
92 Reed begged Clark: Dunn, I, 289.
93 Lodge, “one of the great world powers”: to Henry White, Aug. 12, 1898, Nevins’ White, 137.
94 Mahan, “the jocund youth” and “Deus Vult!”: Puleston, 201.
95 Schurz, “the great neutral power”: Fuess, 354.
96 Saratoga conference: NYT, Aug. 20, 1898.
97 Carnegie, “Let us stand together”: Harvey, Gompers (see Chap. 8), 89–90.
98 Reed “terribly bitter”: Dec. 20, 1898, Lodge, Corres., I, 370.
99 Bryan and the Treaty: Dunn, I, 283; Hoar, I, 197; II, 110; Pettigrew, 206. The dealing in judgeships and other bribes by the Republicans is discussed in W. S. Holt, Treaties Defeated by the Senate, Johns Hopkins, 1933, 171, and in Garraty, Lodge, 201–2.
100 “Closest, hardest fight”: ibid.
101 William James: Letters, II, 289; Perry, 240.
102 Norton, “lost her unique position”: Nov. 18, 1899, Letters, II, 290.
103 Moorfield Storey, “We are false”: Howe, 221.
104 “Most influential man”: Mar. 3, 1898, Letters, II, No. 976.
105 Storey to Hoar: Howe, 218–19.
106 “Touching a match”: NYT, Apr. 23, 1899.
107 “Moody and ugly”: Dunn, I, 298.
108 “Fatigue and disgust”: NYT, Feb. 21, 1899.
109 Tribune: q. Robinson, 380; Times, Apr. 19 and 23, 1899.
110 Godkin on Reed: Letters, II, 239, 241.
111 “The public!”: NYT, Apr. 20, 1899.
112 “How is the horse feeling?”: Pringle, Life and Times of William Howard Taft, 1939, I, 236.
113 Beveridge, “We will not renounce”: q. Wolff, 303.
114 Godkin, “the military spirit”: Life and Letters, 243.
115 Admiral Dewey on the Presidency: Sullivan, I, 311.
116 “Evil genius”: Fuess, 366.
117 Third party and Plaza Hotel meeting: Pettigrew, 320–21; Fuess, 362–63.
118 Aguinaldo on the election: Wolff, 252.
119 “Hold your nose”: Lanzar, 40.
120 Nation’s dissatisfied reader: Oct. 18, 1900, 307.
121 Lodge on Manila; q. Wolff,