Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [298]
The European sojourn: JPII to JP, 3/21/1908, MHS; Johns, Times of Our Lives, 61.
At home it: WAS, 131.
One friend understood: Dillon to JP, 7/8/1885, JP-CU.
On the morning of December 3: NYT, 12/4/1885, 3 and 7; ChTr, 12/4/1885, 2; ThJo, 11/28/1885, 5.
“All right, but”: JP to Conkling, 12/19/1885, WP-CU; Theron Crawford to JP, 12/9/1885 and 12/14/1885, WP-CU.
Pulitzer and the House: NYT, 12/8/1885, 4; AtCo, 1/8/1886, 1.
To maintain this schedule: He “took very little interest in his Congressional office, and was very irregular in his attendance in Washington” (Edwin A. Grozier to Seitz, 12/10/1917); WaPo, 3/4/1886, 2; Amos J. Cummings in WaPo, 4/18/1886, Dana’s Sun harped on Pulitzer’s poor attendance in Congress. Walt McDougall claimed that one night when he was in Washington with his boss, Pulitzer was almost arrested for drunkenness. “He was lit up to seventh magnitude by a few cocktails,” he said. (Walt McDougall, “Funniest Memories of a Famous Cartoonist,” WaPo, 8/22/1926, SM3.)
Pulitzer found: Edwin A. Grozier to Seitz, 12/10/1917, DCS-NYPL; BoGl, 2/16/1886, 5.
Many of Pulitzer’s colleagues: NYT, 2/27/1886, 2; ChTr 2/27/1886, 1.
When a committee: NYT, 3/13/1886, 3; WaPo, 3/13/1886, 1.
The gentleman in question: JP to Crawford, 2/11/1886, WP-CU.
The committee members: An examination of the Congressional Record may be seen in WRR, 184; WaPo, 3/4/1886, 1; WaPo, 6/28/1886, 2.
When Pulitzer was nominated for: Gibson to JP, 10/10/1884, JP-CU. Full resignation letter appeared in BrEa, 4/11/1886, 1.
The World’s Washington correspondent: Crawford to JP, 4/13/1886, WP-CU.
Pulitzer’s congressional career: JP to Board of New York Press Club, April 1886, JP-CU, Box 6; WaPo, 3/23/1886, 2; Medical Record, 3/27/1886, 366. Pulitzer also mistakenly sent his letter to the New York secretary of state instead of to the speaker of the house thereby delaying the effective date of his resignation until May. (Interview with Donald Ritchie, associate historian of the U.S. Senate Historical Office, 1/17/2008.)
In late June: The landlord, who was not consulted, was not happy. See John Hoey to JP, 9/24/1886, and 10/25/1886, JP-CU.
Since Kate could not: Thomas Davidson to William T. Harris, 10/7/1884, Harris Papers, MHS.
Pulitzer was most frustrated: WHM to JP, 7/28/1886, quoted in WRR, 121.
Next Pulitzer dashed: NYW, 10/28/1886, and 10/29/1886.
Not being among: NYW, 10/28/1886, 4.
As one of: Depew, My Memories, 392.
“Well, gentlemen”: Depew was also willing to curry favor with Pulitzer. On the evening of the festivities honoring the Statue of Liberty, he attended a dinner the Pulitzers gave for the celebrated sculptor Bartholdi in the new residence which they had rented at 9 East Thirty-Sixth Street. During the dinner, Bartholdi’s declaring an interest in seeing Niagara Falls prompted Pulitzer to ask Depew for a New York Central private railcar to convey Bartholdi and the Pulitzer family there. Depew submitted a $500 bill to Pulitzer for the ride, adding that the amount should be “strong enough to pulverize the most enlightened anti-monopolist.”
Hewitt was a: JP to Davidson, 9/24/1886, TD.
In the end: Davidson to JP, 10/7/1886, JP-CU.
On Election Day: TR told Robert Underwood; Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, note 70, 800.
The double triumphs: Edwin Argent to W. A. R. Robertson, 10/14/1886, WP-CU.
Most vexing was: Masy le Doll to JP, 12/11/1886, WP-CU; Walter Hammond to JP, 12/4/1886, JP-CU.
Work and tension: JP to Emile Grevillot, 11/23/1886, JP-CU; Philadelphia Press interview with Pulitzer, reprinted in Bismarck Daily Tribune, 12/07/1886; George Childs to KP, 11/27/1886, JP-CU.
CHAPTER 19: A BLIND CROESUS
Joe Howard, one: McDougall, This Is the Life! 110; NYH, 2/9/1887, 1; ChTr, 2/9/1887, 1; Milwaukee Daily Journal, 2/9/1887, 1.
Howard was not: Churchill, Park Row, 151.
Bennett’s wrath was: Daily Inter-Ocean, 11/27/1887. The interview was conducted by Foster Coates, who would eventually become an editor for Pulitzer.