The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [407]
1. Albany Argus, Jan. 2, 1883.
2. Pr.74; Put.278–9.
3. TR to TR Jr. in Mor.634–5.
4. See Put.277–9 for an account of TR’s re-election campaign. His vote was 4,225 against 2,016, with 67 percent of the ballot—an improvement of 4 percent over his 1882 vote.
5. Shaw, Albert, “TR as Political Leader” in TR.Wks.XIV.xvii; Hudson, Recollections, 145; Franklin Matthews in Harper’s Magazine, Sep. 28, 1901, 984. See also Andrew D. White to Willard Fiske, May 26, 1884: “When you remember that this prodigious series of successes of his have been achieved by a man of … college standing … you will realize what a striking case it is. In my judgment, nothing has been seen like it in this State since the early days of Seward” (Cornell U. Libraries).
6. TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 1, 1883.
7. Albany Argus, Jan. 3, 1883; Put. 278 fn.
8. Hudson, Recollections, 251. See Nev. for Cleveland’s rise to power.
9. Tugwell, Rexford G., Grover Cleveland (NY, 1968) 72. “He is a mass of solid hog,” Henry Adams wrote (to C. F. Adams, Jan. 23, 1894). The following physical description of Cleveland is taken from Nev. 57–8 and passim; Carpenter, Frank G., Carp’s Washington (McGraw Hill, 1960) 39–41; Wise, John S., Recollections of Thirteen Presidents (NY, 1906); pors.
10. Nev. 109; Stoddard memo, TRB mss.
11. Hud.143.
12. Nev.57–8; see below, Ch. 11, for details of Cleveland’s paternity case.
13. HUN.39.
14. It will be remembered that TR, then touring Europe with Alice, had exclaimed, “This [the assassination] means work in the future for those who wish their country well.” Upon returning to New York he began attending meetings of the N.Y. Civil Service Reform Association, and was elected its vice-president just before his departure to Albany. “I am heartily in accord with any movement tending toward the improvement of the ‘spoils’ system,” he wrote in his letter of acceptance, “—or, I should say, its destruction.” (TRB mss.)
15. Put.280–1; Nev.123.
16. New York Times, Jan. 25, 1883; Ellis, David M. et al., A History of New York State (Cornell U. Press, 1967) 369; Nev.123; HUN.40.
17. HUN.40. See also N.Y. Evening Post, Jan. 10, 1883: “Mr. Roosevelt … has secured to a remarkable degree the confidence of public-spirited citizens of either party.”
18. Mor.59. There is some doubt over the date of this letter, which TR marks simply “Albany, Monday evening.”: See ib., fn., and Put.274, fn. The latter believes it to be mid-January 1882. But Henry James, whom TR specifically mentions meeting, was not in Boston that January: he had left town on Dec. 26, 1881. James was there through New Year’s 1883, however; so if TR and Alice had gone to Boston for Christmas, the meeting probably took place sometime during the festive season. Jan. 1, 1883, was a Monday, which would explain TR’s advance presence in Albany for the opening of the Legislature. Alice, presumably, joined him on Tuesday or Wednesday, helped him choose rooms, then accompanied him to New York on Thursday, as promised in his letter to Mittie. Note that the letter also mentions his first known reference to meeting with Henry Cabot Lodge.
19. Put.280.
20. Alice’s routine reconstructed from the letters of MBR, C, and E, and Anna Bulloch Gracie’s diaries in TRC.
21. Anna Bulloch Gracie diary, Oct. 2, 1882; Put.307; Par.44.
22. TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 3, 1883.
23. New York Herald, Feb. 11, 1883.
24. HUN.88.
25. Mor.1471.
26. HUN.86 says, “I think the dinner was in 1884.” But he adds, “We had our pictures taken before or after.” A group portrait of the “quartette” is in TRC, but it manifestly dates from 1883, when TR had lost his side-whiskers, but still retained his center parting. Judging by the solemn expressions of all concerned, the picture was taken “before” the dinner. See p. 171.
27. Ib.
28. Qu. Sul.230.
29. TR.Wks.XIII.48; Ib., XIV.18.
30. Put.305; Hunt, supplementary statement, 33–4.
31. Hudson, Recollections, 147. “All the NY dailies gave Roosevelt a good deal of space … and he often got on the