Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [312]
Summoned, Cobb raced: JP to DCS, 12/19/1908, and Confidential memo to Cobb, 12/23/1908, JP-LC.
Legally, Pulitzer’s guess: HS to Bonaparte, 1/15/1909, CJB.
Despite Stimson’s hesitance: Butt, The Letters of Archie Butt, 314.
Later that night: RHL to JP, 2/7/1909, WP-CU. Earl Harding reported Roosevelt’s words as follows: “As to the men I’m bringing libel suit against, I will cinch them. I will cinch them in Federal Courts, if I can. If I cannot cinch them there, I will cinch them in the State Courts. But the one sure thing is we will cinch them.” Harding, The Untold Story of Panama, 97; WRR, 710; WaPo, 1/31/1909, 1.
With the clock ticking: DCS-JP, 373; JP told DCS “get into the habit of using the cipher as much as necessity requires.” (Notes dictated 2/10/1909, JP-LC); Davis to DCS, 1/18/1909, JP-LC; Notes 2/1/1909, JP-LC.
Pulitzer could not restrain: JP to FC, 1/26/1909; JP undated notes, JP-LC, Box 8.
The Justice Department’s attorneys: BoGl, 1/17/1909, 12.
Stimson was convinced: NYT, 1/17/1909, 1 and 1/19/1908, 3.
Ralph, who feared: NYT, 1/21/1909, 1.
Stimson was infuriated: HS to Bonaparte, 1/21/1909, CJB.
Cobb seized the: “Freedom of the Press,” NYW, 2/6/1909. Amusingly, a compositor changed “persecution” to “prosecution” in setting the editorial into type. FC to JP, 2/6/1909, WP-CU.
In the legal proceedings: WaPo, 2/2/1909, 1.
“Thus far, we”: HS to Bonaparte, 2/8/1909, CJB; TR to HS, 1/28/1909, HSP.
The following morning: NYT, 1/30/1909, 3.
“To put it”: Cobb, Exit Laughing, 156–161.
“Even so,” Jerome continued: Stimson had feared this might be the case. He wrote to Bonaparte that Jerome’s “personal relations with the New York World have naturally made him reluctant to push forward under a charge of officiousness and a desire for personal revenge.” (HS to Bonaparte, 1/28/1909, CJB.)
Stimson remained firmly: Ibid. and HS to Bonaparte, 2/8/1909, and 2/10/1909, CJB.
Bonaparte brought the: Bonaparte to HS, 2/9/1909, CJB; TR to HS, 2/10/1909, HSP.
Stimson did not cower: HS to TR, 2/11/1909, HSP.
On his yacht: Reporters’ notes on grand jury, WP-CU, Box 46; JP dictation, 2/10/1908, and JP notes 2/5/1909, JP-LC; WaPo, 2/18/1906, 1.
Frank Cobb was ready: NYW, 2/18/1909.
Arrest warrants were: JP to FC, 3/1909, JP-LC.
McNamara consulted the attorney general: 2/9/1909, CJB; 2/15/1909, 5/7/1910, NARA-MD; TR to HS, 2/13/1909, HSP; NYT, 2/24/1909, 2; FDW to JP, 2/26/1909, JP-CU.
Meanwhile, the grand jury: HS to George Wickersham, 3/5/1909, NARA-MD.
These indictments, like: A copy of the applicable statute can been seen in Barrows, New Legislation Concerning Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Penalties. The single copy sent to the federal building was not to a subscriber. Rather, it was a copy sent for inspection as required by postal laws.
By the time the Liberty steamed: WaPo, 3/6/1909, 1.
His nerves agitated: Notes, 3/8/1909, JP-LC; GWH to JP, undated but written shortly after his 4/l8/1909 grand jury appearance, in April 1909 folder, JP-CU; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 1.
Clearing Sandy Point: Pulitzer’s staff was always prepared for such an event. In February, money had been given to Tuohy in London for the payroll for the ship’s crew should the Liberty suddenly be overseas. (AB to Davis, 2/9/1909, JP-CU.) JAS to JP, 4/6/1909, JP-CU; DCS-JP, 376–377.
Pulitzer spent the summer: AT to FC, 9/3/1909, JP-LC.
Each side believed: McNamara to George Wickersham, 7/27/1909, NARA-MD; Harding, The Untold Story of Panama, 61.
Harding was among: Harding, Untold Story, 67–70.
Harding decided: Guyol report, EHP.
When Harding and Guyol: The officials reported to Washington that Harding and Guyol told Colombians they were there “to right the great wrong done Colombia by the United States and restore Panama to its former state.” (Huffington to Attorney General, 12/11/1909, NARA-MD.)
Harding concluded: Huffington to Attorney General, 12/11/1909, NARA-MD, Quoted in Guyol report, EHP, Folder 38. Choral hydrate is one of the oldest known sleep inducing drugs and is still