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12. These facts were repeated, in another interview, by the Sun of Feb. 26.
13. Hearings, passim; see also Put. 401–11.
14. See Put.396–405 for a more detailed account of TR’s efforts on behalf of these bills. Qu. Put.399.
15. Hunt, supplementary statement, 14.
16. Put.397–9.
17. Ib., 415. Arthur, despite his excellent record in the White House, had alienated party conservatives with his support of Civil Service Reform, while failing to convince the reformers that he was sincerely on their side.
18. Put.420–3 minutely analyzes TR’s attitude to Blaine at this time.
19. N.Y.T., Jan. 18, 1884.
20. Hunt, supplementary statement, 16; Pri.79. Put.418 fn. agrees that revenge was “unquestionably one object,” but suggests that larger political ambitions guided TR.
21. Ib.416.
22. World, Apr. 23, 1884. See also Sun, Trib., N.Y.T., etc., Apr. 23–5 for general convention coverage. These newspapers, and Put.413–24, provide the basis of the following account.
23. Sun, Apr. 23, 1884.
24. Put.417; Sun, Apr. 23, 1884.
25. Sun, Apr. 24, 1884; Trib., same date.
26. Sun, Apr. 24, 1884.
27. Eve. Post, N.Y.T., Sun, Apr. 24, 1884. Rochester Morning Herald, May 13.
28. Sun, Apr. 24, 1884 (See Ch. 9, n. 4). Put.416.
29. World, Apr. 25, 1884.
30. HUN.31; Hunt, supplementary statement, 16–17.
31. HUN.31.
32. Ib., 41, 68.
33. World, Apr. 25, 1884.
34. N.Y.T., Apr. 25, 1884; Eve. Post, Apr. 29.
35. Cutler to B, Apr. 18, 1884 (TRB mss). A more typical press comment: “Theodore Roosevelt has won a brilliant victory by keen intuitions and resolute, swift action, which place him at the front of his party in the state … his young head is dizzy tonight with the congratulations being heaped upon him.” Philadelphia Press, n.d., in TR.Scr. See ib. for the avalanche of praise TR earned at Utica.
36. HCL, Address to Congress, Feb. 9, 1919.
37. See Put.400; Hud.146; HUN. passim. Harper’s Weekly, Apr. 19, 1884.
38. Hud.146.
39. Ib., 147.
40. The following anecdote closely follows ib., 148–9. Hudson, reminiscing many years later, mistakenly writes “Chicago” instead of “Utica,” but otherwise his story coincides with legislative and historic facts. See also Put.400–1 and Nev.142.
41. Cleveland proved as good as his word on the Tenure of Office Bill, which he vetoed, to TR’s extreme mortification, on May 10, 1884. The other bills were rewritten, repassed, and approved on May 15. For Cleveland’s opinion of TR’s bill-writing at this time, see below, Ch. 14.
42. World, Apr. 25, 1884; Hunt, supplementary statement, 23.
43. Ib., 23 and 6; HUN.73; Lod.21.
44. Mor. 66–7.
45. Put.430; Mor.68.
46. “I already had every room empty,” B remembered in COW.
47. Description of HCL based on Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library reprint, 1996), 419–20; Gar.124–8 and passim; Wis.153 ff; the unpublished Autobiography of Mrs. Joseph Alsop Sr. (Alsop papers, TRC); Howard of Penrith, Lord Esmé, Theatre of Life (London, 1936) 2.105; Put.426; Mor.5, 163.
48. Mrs. Joseph Alsop Sr., Autobiography; Wis.158.
49. Gar.61.
50. Lodge had lectured at Harvard during the period that TR was there, and met him once or twice at the Porcellian (Lod.25). There was another brief encounter at St. Botolph’s Club, Boston, in the winter of 1882/3 (see Ch. 7, n. 18). Apparently they took little notice of each other on these formal occasions.
51. Put.426–7; Pri.88.
52. See Put.426–9 for another, more detailed discussion of their relationship.
53. Put.430; Sun, June 2, 1884; Trib., June 4.
54. Un. press clip, qu. Foraker, Joseph, Notes of a Busy Life (Stewart & Kidd, 1917) 167.
55. See Mor.69.
56. James G. Blaine, Chester A. Arthur, George F. Edmunds, John A. Logan, John Sherman, Joseph R. Hawley, Robert T. Lincoln (son of the late President),