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57. See TR in Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1884.
58. Lod.11 implies that he and TR made rather more free with this information than the facts seem to indicate.
59. Qu. Sul.215–6.
60. White, Andrew D., Autobiography (Macmillan, 1905) 1.204 ff.
61. See Mor.71. TR’s incorrigible optimism made him set the ratio at “fifty-one cases out of a hundred” for vox deo, and the remaining forty-nine for vox diaboli.
62. The following faces from the album of TR’s coming years were visible in the crowd: Benjamin Harrison (50), John D. Long (46), Russell A. Alger (48), Thomas C. Platt (50), Marcus Alonzo Hanna (46), William McKinley (41), Elihu Root (39), Joseph D. Foraker (37), Carl Schurz (55), Chauncey Depew (50). See also Sul.215–6.
63. Sul.215.
64. Put.441; Alex.4.23, TR.Scr.; Sun, May 31, June 1–4, 1884; Chi. Trib., June 2.
65. Sun, June 2, 1884; un. clips qu. Foraker, Life, and in Sul.217.
66. Sun, June 2, 1884. See also Boston Herald correspondent, qu. World, June 9: “He is simply an honest, straightforward young man, with a great big load of brains and a tremendous personal energy, which goes beyond anything I have ever seen … all his movements and conversation are of the kind which indicates that he thinks much more rapidly than he can by any human possibility talk.”
67. Sun, June 2.
68. Ib., and World, same date.
69. Ib.
70. Chi. Trib, June 4, 1884.
71. Ib.; pictures in New York Public Library Collection. Sun, June 4.
72. Collage from various newspapers cited passim.
73. Chi. Trib., June 4. According to Andrew D. White, who overheard this remark, it was made on the last day of the Convention, when the portrait of Lincoln dominating the hall was suddenly removed. But contemporary newspapers confirm that Garfield’s portrait replaced that of the Emancipator at the beginning of the proceedings.
74. Put.431–2, various newspapers cited passim.
75. Sun, June 4, 1884; Chi. Trib., N.Y.T., same date; Put.430 fn. and 434.
76. Sun, June 4, 1884; Put.434.
77. Mor.72; TR.Wks.XIV.37.
78. Sun, June 4, 1884; World, same date. (But see Chi. Trib., June 4, ed.) Note that Putnam, whose biography is flawed by occasional racial bias, studiously leaves out the key element in TR’s speech (p. 435).
79. Put.435; Sun, June 4; Foraker, Life, 161. Mrs. Foraker, in her own, excellent autobiography, I Would Live It Again (Harpers, 1932), remembers TR at this time as a “scowling and raspily positive” young man whose “fire and point of view” attracted her husband. She notes the irony of the fact that it was a black man that brought them together, and a black regiment (at Brownsville) that caused their spectacular falling-out in 1907.
80. Sun, June 4, 1884.
81. Ib., June 5, 1884.
82. Ib., June 6, 1884.
83. Chi. Trib., June 6, 1884.
84. Andrew D. White, Autobiography, 1.206–7; Chi. Trib., Sun, June 6, 1884.
85. Mor.72. “Governor Long” was John D. Long, TR’s future superior at the Navy Department.
86. N.Y.T., June 7, 1884.
87. Sun, June 7, 1884.
88. Ib.; see Put.440–1.
89. Ib.; Sun, June 7, 1884; HUN.23.
90. Chi. Trib., June 7, 1884. See also Andrew D. White, Autobiography, 1.205; other newspapers cited passim.
91. Qu. Sun, June 7, 1884; qu. Har.40.
92. Sun, June 7, 1884; Chi. Trib., same date.
93. Nation, June 12, 1884; N.Y.T., June 7.
94. World, June 7, 1884. According to the unpublished memoirs of Eugene Hay (LC), TR privately told fellow delegates that he had been sounded out by the Blaine forces as a possible Vice-Presidential candidate.
95. See Put.446.
96. St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 9, 1884. See also Put.448. In another careful self-positioning, TR had by now separated himself from the Free Trade Club, which was anathema to protectionist GOP conservatives. “I’m a Republican first; Free Trader afterwards,” he wrote a club officer, Poultney Bigelow. Quoted in unpublished biographical sketch of TR by Bigelow in Poultney Bigelow Papers, New York Public Library. (Undated