Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [311]
That Butes went: AB to DCS, 2/27/1904.
In the fall: Undated, unsigned report, filed in December 1908 Folder, JP-CU, Box 58.
The $1.5 million Liberty: JP, May 1906 Folder, Box 39, JP-CU.
As a result: JP to GWH, 4/1907, JP-CU.
On a Sunday morning: The visit was on July 26, 1908. A copy boy, Alexander L. Schlosser, who later became an editor, recorded the events of Pulitzer’s visit to the World. See JWB, 208–214.
Clarke smiled but: GWH and DCS agree on the number of visits Pulitzer had made to the building since its construction.
The truth was: JP and Clark Firestone, conversation transcript, 8/5/1908, WP-CU.
Two months before: NYW, 5/10/1908; BoGl, 5/10/1908, 13; WaPo, 5/2/1908, 2, AI 28.
In August, Pulitzer: FC to JP, 2/8/1908, WP-CU.
In fact, Bryan’s: Ibid.
Pulitzer instructed Cobb: JP to FC, quoted in DCS-JP, 328.
Pulitzer’s efforts were: Notes 7/6/1908, WP-CU.
Without knowing Pulitzer’s motives: DCS-JP, 340.
CHAPTER 29: CLASH OF TITANS
On the evening: NYT, 10/2/1908, 3.
According to rumors: Frank Cobb, “How the Story Came into the Office,” 3, EHP, Folder 21.
The story had immense appeal: Roosevelt, Autobiography, 553.
Speer left his office: NYT, 2/23/1915, 13; JP to Adolph Ochs, 3/26/1908, NYTA.
After listening to: DCS-JP, 352.
Around ten o’clock: Frank Cobb, “How the Story Came into the Office” DCS-JP, 353.
As soon as: Whitley later claimed that he had told Van Hamm the article was untrue. But the World wisely kept the copy of the proof that Whitley marked up. According to Frank Cobb, “It shows that Mr. Whitley scratched out the name of Charles P. Taft and substituted Henry W. Taft. Then he erased the name of Henry W. Taft and restored the name of Charles P. Taft.” (Cobb, “How the Story Came into the Office,” 1–2.)
“But for Mr. Cromwell”: Ibid., 4.
Over the next: JP telegram, 10/2/1909, quoted in DCS-JP, 343; NYW, 10/14/1908, 1, and 10/21/1908, 1.
The articles, while conceding: Indianapolis News, 11/2/1908.
Pulitzer was sailing: JP to FC, 11/3/1908, JP-LC; DCS-JP, 349.
With the election over: TR to William D. Foulke, 12/1/1908, reprinted in ChTr, 12/8/1908, 1.
An astonished Pulitzer: WaPo, 12/7/1908, 2; DCS-JP, 356.
Roosevelt had not mentioned: Cobb, “How the Story Came into the Office,” 9.
By the time the Liberty: NYW, 12/8/1908.
“I do not know”: JP conversation notes, 8/27/1908, JP-LC.
“When I was”: TR to HS, 12/9/1908, HSP.
Roosevelt wanted revenge: Alfred H. Kelly, “Constitutional Liberty and the Law of Libel: A Historian’s View,” American Historical Review, Vol. 74, No. 2 (December 1968), 429–452.
Stimson found the envelope: HS to TR, 12/10/1908, HSP. To begin his research in a stealthy manner, Stimson had to obtain the Attorney General’s permission to requisition $10 to buy old issues of the World. “No source is open to me to read the files of the World for that month in connection with the Panama matter without possible danger of arousing interest and publicity”: HS to AB, 12/21/1908, NARA MD.
Impatient, Roosevelt looked: Rhodes, The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 271.
“It seems to me”: TR to Knox, 12/10/1908, Roosevelt, Letters, Vol. 6, 1418–1419.
Next, Roosevelt composed: WaPo, 1/17/1909, 1.
On December 15: ChTr, 12/16/1908, 2.
Two minutes into the message: NYT, 12/16/1908, 1.
While Roosevelt was seeking: Thwaites, Velvet and Vinegar, 57–58.
Pulitzer also summoned: Van Hamm to JP, 1/7/1909, WP-CU.
This didn’t satisfy: JP to DCS, 12/16/1908. WP-CU.
There was nothing: JP memo, phoned to Cobb, 12/15/1908, JP-LC.
By nightfall, Pulitzer: Mr. Pulitzer’s statement, 12/15/1908, JP-LC.
It was a half-truth: Memo written on board Liberty, 6/26/1908; JP to Williams, 9/12/1908, JP-LC.
Aid came from: ChTr, 12/7/1908, 6. Bryan also wrote a supportive note to Cobb. Bryan to FC, 12/19/1908, WP-CU.
Pulitzer believed prison: JP note to Robert P. Porter, 12/15/1908, JP-LC; Notes, 12/16/1908, JP-LC; DCS to JP, 12/17/1908, WP-CU.
The Liberty’s southerly course: WaPo, 12/20/1908, 2; ChTr, 12/20/1908, 2; JP to Cobb, 12/18/1908, and Notes of Mr.