Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [304]
The strength of the silver movement: ChTr, 7/12/1896, 14; Kazin, A Godly Hero, 61.
Pulitzer summoned the World’s: Eggleston, Recollections, 325–326.
When Eggleston delivered: “He had a wonderful judgement at prophesying and forecasting the elections,” recalled Joseph Pulitzer Jr. “I can remember being impressed by that. It was uncanny the way he could do that”: The Reminiscences of Joseph Pulitzer Jr., October 7, 1954, transcript, p. 67, the Oral History Collection of Columbia University.
Eggleston and Pulitzer: NYW, 8/11/1896.
“You can, if”: JP to James Creelman, 11/4/1896, JC; Milton, The Yellow Kids, 107.
The beauty of the setting: AB to KP, 1/11/1897, JP-CU (misdated as 1896).
Efforts to relieve: JP to KP, 1/14/1897, JP-CU; AB to KP, 1/11/1897, JP-CU (misdated as 1896).
Compounding the council’s woes: JP to DCS, 9/2/1897, JP-CU. The door consumed several letters between Bar Harbor and New York.
As the day neared: AB to DCS, 1/15/1897, JP-LC; BM to JP, 2/16/1903, WP-CU.
What had been called: See Campbell, Yellow Journalism, 25–49.
Clubs and libraries: NYT, 3/4/1897, 3.
Pulitzer knew nothing: McDougall, This Is the Life! 242.
Pulitzer now realized: JP to JN, 8/21/1897, JP-LC; JP to DCS, 8/28/1897, JP-LC.
In a state of: AtCo, 3/18/1897, 1. The paper claimed that the previous year, Morgan had bypassed Jekyll and gone to Florida when he learned that Pulitzer was on the island (AtCo 1/17/1897, 7).
After a month’s rest: Pulitzer added a glass conservatory to the back of the house that he could use as a study and where he could tend to what he called “matters of state”: DCS-JP, 232; WP, 3/31/1897, 7; Eau Claire Leader, 5/20/1897, 11.
Among those who came: JP to James Creelman, 11/4/1896, JC; JP to DCS, 4/28/1897, JP-LC; DCS-JP, 232–233.
Almost as soon: Jones to JP, March 5, 1896, PLFC.
Jones grew tired: JP to JN, 6/26/1897, JP-LC; JP to BM, 6/30/1897, JP-LC. A copy of the signed agreement is in the Fogarty Papers.
With the Jones episode: Letters and telegrams, August 1897, JP-LC.
No one was exempt: KP to AB, date unknown, 1897, JP-CU.
In August 1897: AB to KP, 3/3/1896, AB-LC.
In the fall of 1897: For a discussion of the various versions of Brisbane’s departure, see Carlson, Brisbane, 110–111. Elizabeth Jordan, a journalist who worked with Brisbane at the World, told one person that she heard many rumors as to the reasons but she concluded he was asked to leave because Pulitzer was not getting his money’s worth from him. Reid to Sparkes, 2/28/1938, London 1886–1897 Folder, Box 2, AB.
The social season: ChTr, 8/1/97, 33; Lowell Sun, 12/18/1897, 2.
Lucille made a: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, 1/3/1898, 4; BoGl, 1/1/1898, 12; NYT, 1/2/1898, 7; and 1/5/1898, 4.
In October there was: JP to TD, 10/13/1897, 12/8/1897, and 12/14/1897.
It was left to Butes: AB to JN, 12/31/1897, JP-LC.
CHAPTER 24: YELLOW
In the early morning: NYT, 1/22/1899, 3. Rainsford had been picked by J. P. Morgan for the post.
The moment didn’t: WaPo, 2/18/1898, 7; NYT, 10/28/1898, 1.
Meanwhile, Joseph remained: KP to JP, undated but dated by other elements to the spring of 1898, JP-CU, Box 8.
The warmth between: GWH to KP, 3/29/1898, JP-CU.
Five hundred miles: Milton, The Yellow Kids, 218–220.
His boss already knew: Nasaw, The Chief, 130–131.
Within twenty-four hours: NYW, 2/17/1898, 1; and 2/20/1898, 1.
The staff struggled: Ledlie to JP, 2/15/1898, JP-CU; DC to JP, 4/15/1898, JP-CU.
The epic battle: Chapin, Charles Chapin’s Story, 179.
No more stinging: The complete story may be found in Procter, William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 124.
In April, when: TT, 4/7/1898, 12, quoted in Nasaw, The Chief, 132.
From the command post: GHL to KP, 4/8/1898, JP-CU.
Trying once more: JP to DCS, 5/23/1897, JP-LC; JP memo, April 1898, JP-LC.
Pulitzer joined the chorus: JP to DCS, 2/15/1897, and 3/27/1897, JP-LC.
“If we are”: NYW, 4/10/1898.
Upon completing his: GHL to KP, 4/8/1898, JP-CU; WaPo, 4/20/1898, 8; CP to JP, 5/21/1898, JP-CU.
On his return: KP letter,