Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [282]
Five days following: MoDe, 8/31/1870, and MoRe, 9/1/1870, both quoted in Barclay, Liberal Republican Movement in Missouri, 234–235 (footnotes).
“Upon this question”: Barclay, Liberal Republican Movement in Missouri, 243; The actual vote was 439 2/3 to 342 5/6, according to the convention’s method of counting.
Once resettled on: Pulitzer’s dispatches in the Westliche Post revealed clearly that he had moved into the inner circle of the renegades. His pieces predicted each move of the party split with the clarity only an insider could have. See, for instance, WP, 9/2/1870, 3.
Meanwhile, in the House: ChTr, 9/5/1870, 2; Mountain Democrat, 9/17/1870, 2.
With the conventions: MoDe, 9/21/1870, 4.
As exciting as: MoDe, 11/8/1870, 1; Christensen, “Black St. Louis,” 205–206; WP, 9/3/1870, 3.
On their side: MoDe, 2/19/1870; ChTr, 7/4/1872, 4.
Grosvenor did his: MoDe, 11/5/1870, 2, and 11/8/1870, 2.
On November 3: MoDe, 11/3/1870, 4; original in Oaths of Loyalty 1869, Series XIV, Sub Series B, Dexter Tiffany Collection, MHS. See also MoDe, 11/8/1870, 1.
All the rhetoric: MoRe, 11/8/1870, 2.
In the morning: Peterson, Freedom and Franchise, 188.
In Pulitzer’s ward: MoRe, 11/11/1870, 2; WP, 11/10/1870, 3. The Anzeiger des Westens had a different take on the results. It attributed the Democratic victory to the split in the Republican Party. Pulitzer asked if the editor didn’t realize that this was a loss for Germans. “Is he not aware that it was German-haters, the dyed-in-the-wool McClurgians, the French, and the Negroes that defeated the Liberal Republican county ticket, which was supported by the majority of Germans, through their total defections and in some cases desertion to the Democrats?” The vote totals, particularly in the Third and Fifth wards, the latter being Pulitzer’s, show that it was not the Germans who elected the Democrats. It was the Irish, said Pulitzer. “They, the Irish, played this role in the Tuesday election as well, and the entire glory in which the Anzeiger may sun itself is an Irish-French-Negro victory. He may do this if he wishes, but he should call a spade a spade” (WP, 11/11/1870, 3).
Pulitzer’s friend Joseph Keppler: Frau und Frei (St. Louis, MO: undated but certainly November 1870), MHS.
Out of office: Avery and Shomemaker, Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of the State of Missouri, Vol. 15, 14.
Not quite. Schurz: Peterson, Freedom and Franchise, 207.
Pulitzer did not share: Hutchins declined to be the Democratic candidate against Pulitzer in the 1869 election. I suspect it was his friendship with Pulitzer that caused him to wait for another year to run. He did run eventually, and won a seat in the legislature.
Any concern about: ChTr, 2/2/1871, 2; Peterson, Freedom and Franchise, 191–197; Grosvenor to Schurz, 2/16/1871, CS.
The growing movement: Receipts for payments to Pulitzer for service to the committee from January 11 until March 1 and signed by Benecke may be found in the Accounts of the Twenty-Sixth General Assembly, First Session, MSA.
When the legislative session: Quoted in Peterson, Freedom and Franchise, 198.
But that too: ChTr, 4/22/1871, 2; Every Saturday, 10/28/1871, 418.
Members of the: Missouri Staats-Zeitung, undated clipping, WG-CU, Box 2.
Pulitzer’s patron, State Senator Benecke: Louis Benecke to Pulitzer, 10/26/1871, LB. One wonders if Benecke harbored some doubt about how Pulitzer had handled the committee vote. “If I understand and remember that proxy rule right,” Benecke said to Pulitzer, “you were simply authorized to act as this proxy in order to have a quorum and did not attempt to cast a vote for this till all members present voted. Am I correct?”
Charles Johnson came: Hill was a colorful fellow and was loved by the press for that reason. By the time of Pulitzer’s trial he had been married twice; his second marriage was in a divorce court when his wife drowned while in Europe. A few years