Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [306]
Using homeless men: DCS, “Memo for Mr. Pulitzer on the Newsboys’ Strike,” 7/27/1899, WP-CU.
As the strike continued: David Nasaw, “Dirty-Faced Davids and the Twin Goliaths,” American Heritage, Vol. 36, No. 3 (1985), 46; NYT, 7/27/1899, 3.
A clever ruse: The compromise broke the strike but was recognized by others as a loss for the newsboys. For example, newsdealers who had supported the boys withdrew their support, declaring the strike a failure: NYT, 8/1/1899, 4.
Facing the resolute partnership: DCS to JP, 7/26/1899, WP-CU; DCS, “Memo for Mr. Pulitzer on the Newsboys’ Strike.” 7/27/1899. WP-CU Seitz also told Pulitzer he had paid no bribes: NYT, 7/28/1899, 4.
This was no longer: DCS to JP, 7/26/1899, WP-CU.
When David Graham Phillips: JP to GWH, 12/22/1910 reprinted in DCS-JP, xii–xiii.
The pressure was: JP to Merrill, quoted in DCS, 246.
One could never: JP to WHM, reprinted in DCS, 247.
Despite the outburst: JP to DGP, 8/17/1899, JP-LC.
Pulitzer, however, was: Maurice, The New York of the Novelists, 139; Marcosson, David Graham Phillips and His Times, 208.
In Phillips’s novel: Phillips, The Great God Success, 11.
Following the settlement: DCS to JP, 10/5/1899, WP-CU; DCS, “Memorandum for Mr. Pulitzer on Los,” 7/31/1899, WP-CU.
The two managers: DCS, “Memo for Mr. Pulitzer on Mr. Seitz’ Conversation with Los,” 8/14/1899, WP-CU.
Proposals for a peace treaty: Nasaw, The Chief, 110; JP to BM, 8/29/1898, JP-LC; DCS to JP, October 4, 1898, JP-LC; memo, 12/19/1898, JP-LC; see also Nasaw, The Chief, 148–149. The squabble over the wire service would not die. Hearst enraged Pulitzer when he started using wire copy from the Journal in his Evening Journal. Pulitzer sued. Faced with the threat of being personally dragged into court, Hearst vowed to terminate the negotiations and resume his attacks on Pulitzer in the paper, “making it as personal and as powerful as he can,” Carvalho warned.
Keenly aware of: JP to DCS, 7/24/1899, JP-LC.
Combination instead of: JP to DGP, 8/23/1902, The Sherman act specified, “Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony.”
Remaining in Bar Harbor: JP to DCS, 8/19/1899, JP-LC.
Pulitzer placed high hopes: JP to DCS, 8/25/1899, JP-LC.
Like a nervous suitor: JP to DCS, 9/4/1899, and 9/5/1899, JP-LC.
Upon finally sitting: DCS, “Memo for Mr. Pulitzer on Mr. Seitz’ Conversation with Los,” 8/14/1899, WP-CU.
From the start, both: DCS, “Memo for Mr. Pulitzer on Los and Treaty,” 8/3/1899, WP-CU. “By the way,” said Carvalho, “Mr. Pulitzer is taking a great deal of my time and much of our money in fighting an Associated Press suit against the Journal, in which he will be beaten on several important points. It seems to me that any agreement ought to be preceded by the abandonment of that suit.” Seitz tried to keep the issue off the table by arguing that it would resolve itself in court. His view prevailed, and he and Carvalho decided to draft a contract to bring to Hearst and Pulitzer. “Of course,” Seitz told Pulitzer, “I could see that a treaty of peace was hardly feasible while an active war went on.”
While the men negotiated: JN to JP, 8/8/1899, WP-CU.
Pulitzer pledged: JP to DCS, 9/23/1899, JP-LC. The proposed contract may be found in WP-CU, Box 12, 9/1–15/1899.
When Norris reviewed: JN to JP, 9/7/1899, and BM to JP, 9/14/1899, WP-CU.
Pulitzer ignored both: JP to DCS, 9/2/1899, JP-LC; DCS, “Memo for Mr. Pulitzer on Mr. Seitz’ Conversation with Los,” 8/14/1899.
As with crushing: JP to DCS, 9/23/1899, JP-LC.
The negotiations dragged: DCS to JP, 11/23/1899, WP-CU.
“I cannot get over”: Marcosson, Phillips, 98–99.
With the arrival of winter: Phillips, The Great God Success, 170, 274, 278–279.
CHAPTER 26: FLEEING HIS SHADOW
Muffled sounds of screaming: NYT, 1/10/1900, 3;