Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [297]
The next day: “I did not tell him that the cartoon looked like the crab’s eyebrows, without proper reduction to refine its coarse lines.” (McDougall, “Old Days on the World,” 22.)
Pulitzer had wanted: An illustration of a man accused in the Phoenix Park murders ran in NYW, 5/26/1883, 8. The story of the apprehension in Montreal is told in GJ, 95–96; ThJo, 1/10/1885, 3.
Not all the reading public: ThJo, 6/7/1884, 3, quoted in GJ, 111.
Pulitzer enlisted McDougall’s: GJ, 99, note.
Pulitzer had no interest: ChTr, 6/29/1882, 12; NYW, 9/29/1884, 4.
The maliciousness of: Smith to JP, 11/28/1884, WP-CU.
Pulitzer interrupted his: WRR, 206; Henry, Editors I Have Known since the Civil War, 273–274.
As the campaign: NYT, 9/30/1884, 5.
As he spoke: NYW, 10/30/1884, 2. The paper devoted more than an entire page to the evening rally.
The crowd roared: ChTr, 10/4/1884, 10.
The fall campaign: NYT, 10/07/1884, 2; 10/22/1884, 2. E. A. Grozier, Pulitzer’s secretary in 1884, later described how reluctant Pulitzer was to accept the nomination. (Grozier to DCS, 12/10/1917, DCS-NYPL.)
The nomination was: ThJo, 10/11/1884, 5 and 10/18/1884, 2.
On October 16: NYT, October 16, 1884, 5; Hirsch, William C. Whitney, 238–239. For a while it seemed as if Pulitzer might have contributed $5,000 to the Republicans. What had happened was that Pulitzer had written a check to R. Hoe & Company as payment toward a new press. Hoe had given the check to the Republican Party, leading to the rumor that Pulitzer was also supporting the Republicans. See Milwaukee Sentinel, 4/28/1886, 3.
Pulitzer was not done yet: NYW, 10/30/1884, 4.
The “Royal Feast”: NYW, 11/10/1884, 4.
November 4, 1884: Figures ibid.
The World began: NYW, 11/6/1884, 4.
Pulitzer basked in: JP to James Creelman, JC, Folder 74; ChTr, 1/1/1885, 3.
Pulitzer capped off: ChTr, 1/1/1885, 3. Remarkably, newspapers reported on the check’s progress through clearing houses. So much for financial privacy.
CHAPTER 18: RAISING LIBERTY
Piled on Pulitzer’s desk: Correspondence Box 7, WP-CU.
It was all: ThJo, 11/14/1885, 1; James Scott to JP, 3/18/1885, WP-CU; Pulitzer’s friend Gibson was making inquiries for Pulitzer to determine if anyone in St. Louis would buy the Post-Dispatch for $500,000 or more; see Gibson to JP, 1/5/1885.
The news management: ThJo, 1/30/1886, 5.
His election to Congress: Correspondence in Box 5, JP-CU; Silas W. Bart to JP, 4/14/1885, JP-CU; LAT, 1/21/1885; NYT, 1/21/1885, 1.
In early February: AtCo, 2/4/1885, 5.
Politics seemed even less: ChTr, 2/6/1885, 2; NYT, 2/6/1885, 5; WES, 120–121.
Pulitzer expected: WRR, 199; NYW, 3/16/1885, 4.
Cleveland didn’t share: WaPo, 3/9/1885, 1; GD, 3/14/1885; NYT, 3/24/1885, 1 and 4/19/1885, 3; WRR, 186–187.
But Pulitzer was: NYW, 8/6/1884, 4. When the dust settled after the election, Pulitzer resumed promoting the project, arguing that Cleveland’s victory removed the fund-raisers’ last excuse for failure. “Perhaps it has been thought hitherto that a Statue of Liberty erected in the chief harbor of a Republic virtually controlled by monopolists, corruptionists, and self-created aristocrats was both unnecessary and undesirable,” Pulitzer wrote. “This is all at an end now. The people have vindicated their capacity to govern themselves and the life of the Republic has been saved.” (NYW, 11/21/1884, 4.)
The scattered editorials: NYW, 3/14/1885, 4.
The following Monday: NYW, 3/16/1885, 1.
By the next morning: NYW, 3/17/1885.
Rather than start: At about the same time, other groups were raising money for the Washington Monument in the capital. But it received congressional funding and the public’s donations were led not by a newspaper but rather by private organizations.
The public service: NYW, 6/8/1885, 4.
The long hours: The children stayed at the Thorn Mountain House resort in Jackson, NH. BoGl, 8/9/1885, 3.
While Kate shopped: Pulitzer traveled with letters of introduction from George Childs. Henry Moore to John Norton, 5/29/1895, JNP-MHS; ThJo, 6/20/1885, 2; S. P. Daniell to JP, 6/1/1885, JP-CU.
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