Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [294]
Early in the race: PD, 2/15/1879, 4. Pulitzer stuck fast to his opposition to Tilden. See, for instance, PD, 2/12/1881, 4. Pulitzer’s early interest in determining the Democrats’ 1880 candidate led Hutchins at the Washington Post to suggest that Pulitzer’s efforts could save the expense and trouble of a convention. (WaPo, 7/14/1879, 2.)
If Pulitzer could: PD, 4/28/1880, 4.
Missouri Democrats gathered: Stealey, 130 Pen Pictures, 347; WaPo, 5/28/1878, 1.
The convention, which: See Official Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention, 1880; Watterson, Marse Henry, Vol. 2, 249–250.
Pulitzer face a quandary: WaPo, 6/25/1880, 1; JP to English, 6/27/1880, N-YHS.
The Democrats’ choice: JSR, 133–134
On his return: ChTr, 6/27/1880, 2; JP to Smith, 6/27/1880, N-YHS.
The Evening Chronicle’s: JSR, 110–111.
Pulitzer was comforted: Ibid., 105–106; PD, 4/30/1880, 4.
On August 8: Johnson, Diary, 8/8/1880, and subsequent entries, WRR 98–99.
To get the nomination: Edward C. Rafferty, “The Boss Who Never Was: Colonel Ed Butler and the Limits of Practical Politics in St. Louis, 1875–1904,” Gateway Heritage (Winter 1992), 54–73.
Butler had a simple: For a discussion of Pulitzer’s payment of the fee, see JSR, footnote 36, 151. Rammelkamp believed that there was some dispute over whether Pulitzer actually paid a fee. It was, however, a common practice and was required of all candidates at the time. Furthermore the Globe-Democrat, edited by the rather scrupulous McCullagh, said that Pulitzer had paid. (GlDe, 9/26/1880, 6.)
Believing that his nomination: JP to Smith, 7/21/1880, N-YHS.
Pulitzer was pleased: Ibid.
On the evening of August 14: Indiana Sentinel, 8/15/1880. “A masterly effort,” said the Washington Post; “a disheartening failure,” said the New York Times. Late in life, Pulitzer thought it one of the best speeches he ever delivered. (JP to FDW, 10/13/1903, SLP.)
As the primary: PD, January 10, 1879, 2. Pulitzer even went so far as to cancel a speech in Indiana so as to see to his own election. (Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel, 9/14/1880, 4.)
With Allen’s entry: GlDe, 9/26/1880, 6.
Calling Pulitzer a demagogue: For a description of the 1879 Senate race, see JSR, 45–47; PD, 9/24/1880, 4; MoRe, 9/24/1880, 1, 4.
The Republican greeted: MR, 9/25/1880, 4; results from GlDe, 9/26/1880, 6; Johnson, Diary, 9/25/1880; WRR, 99.
When Pulitzer lost: Johnson, Diary, 9/27/1880, WRR, 99.
Pulitzer wasted no time: DCS-JP gives Lucille’s birth date as September 30, 1880, but St. Louis’s birth records give it as October 3. In either case, Joseph was in New York at the time: NYT, 9/30/1881, 5; BrEa, 9/30/1880, 4.
Following the party leaders’: AtCo, 10/5/1880, 1; BoGl, 10/01/1880, 1.
Pulitzer had one: Indianapolis Sentinel, 10/8/1880, copy in JP-LOC, Box 1, October 1880 folder.
Despite the size: Ohio Democrat, 10/28/1880, 2.
Pulitzer the journalist: JSR, 138.
When Election Day came: Not all the elections that year were unfavorable. On November 23, Pulitzer was elected vice president of the Western Associated Press: NYT, 11/24/1880, 5.
CHAPTER 15: ST. LOUIS GROWS SMALL
On many nights: William Gentry Jr., “The Case of the Church Bells,” Bulletin Missouri Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 2 (January 1954), 183; Dacus and Buel, A Tour of St. Louis, 116.
Neither the Post-Dispatch: St. Louis Spectator, 12/24/1881, MHS.
A few printers: PD, 5/12/1881, quoted in JSR, 198–199. Eventually, after Pulitzer moved to New York, the Post-Dispatch permitted a closed shop.
Pulitzer claimed that: ThJo, 10/23/1886, quoted in JSR, 196.
Pulitzer talked Daniel Houser into: NYT, 6/19/1881, 5.
There was one paper: ThJo, 12/20/1884, 6; JN to JP, 3/10/1900.
Almost as if: WRR, 74.
In September, the president: ChTr, 9/10/1881, 1; WaPo, 9/10/1881, 1.
When his turn: PD, 9/10/1881, 1; George Barnes Pennock letter, NYW, 11/3/1911.