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92. TR to B, Sep. 20, 1886; Sew.92; see financial analysis in Put.588–90.
93. Hag.RBL.424–5; Sew.93.
94. Brown, Dee, Trail Driving Days (Scribner’s, 1952) 224–5.
95. Ib.; Hag.RBL.431.
96. Lan.239–42; Hag.RBL.431; Brown, Trail Driving, 225.
97. Put.590; Sew.95.
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Important sources not listed in Bibliography: 1. Nevins, Allan, Abram S. Hewitt, with Some Account of Peter Cooper (Harpers, 1935).
1. New York Times, Oct. 14, 15, 1886; Leslie’s Illustrated, Oct. TR had reached Oyster Bay from Dakota on October 8.
2. Alex.144; see Ch. 7. George had been nominated on Sep. 23, 1886.
3. Nevins, Hewitt, 467; TR.Wks.VII. 136.
4. Alex.76; Nevins, Hewitt, 461–4.
5. Bailey, Thomas A., The American Pageant (Boston, 1956) 555; see Barker, C., Henry George (1955).
6. Nevins, Hewitt, 461; Condon, Thomas J., “Politics, Reform, and the Election of 1886,” New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 44.4 (Oct. 1960) 367. 1886 was a year of great unrest in the labor movement. In all, about 1,500 strikes occurred across the country, crippling at least 10,000 establishments. Chicago was chosen by the half-million strong Knights of Labor as a focal point of a number of May Day strikes. That city was also, unfortunately, home to several hundred anarchists, who used the strikes to further their own violent aims. The Knights therefore became associated, in the public mind, with communist subversives. Tensions built up rapidly in Chicago, and on May 4, at a labor meeting in Haymarket Square, somebody threw a dynamite bomb which killed seven policemen and wounded seventy bystanders. TR’s reaction to this incident was typical. “My men here in Dakota are hardworking, laboring men, who work longer hours for no greater wages than the strikers; but they are Americans through and through; I believe nothing would give them greater pleasure than a chance with their rifles at one of the mobs … In relation to the dynamite business they become more furiously angry and excited than I do. I wish I had them with me, and a fair show at ten times our number of rioters; my men shoot well and fear very little.” Nevins, Hewitt, 463–1; Alex.74 ff.; Bailey, Pageant, 537–9; Put.603; Mor. 100.
7. GEO., un. clip, Oct. 6, 1886.
8. World, Sep. 26, 1886; Alex.112; see Ch. 9.
9. New York Journal, Oct. 16, 1886.
10. Mor.111; New York Tribune, Oct. 16, 1886.
11. Mor.111.
12. World, Oct. 17, 1886; Mor.111. The local Republican party was somewhat embarrassed for funds in 1886. Before turning to TR, the bosses had considered nominating such millionaires as William H. Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt. (GEO., un. clip.)
13. See below, Ch. 15.
14. See, e.g., New York Star, Oct. 17, 1886; Alex.79; Sun, Oct. 21.
15. Nevins, Hewitt, is the standard biography.
16. Nevins, Hewitt, 465; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1970 ed., 11.467.
17. E. L. Godkin in The Nation, Oct. 14, 1886. “Der’s no use tryin’,” TR’s old backer Joe Murray said of a youthful Roosevelt supporter. “Yer can nominate him, but yer can’t elect him.” Asked why not, Murray explained, “Why, if he were elected mayor, der boys [Hess, Biglin, et al.] wouldn’t have peace day or night—and dey knows it.” A. W. Callisen to TR, May 14, 1916 (TRP).
18. Mor.111-2, 115.
19. Star, Oct. 16, 1886; Trib., same date; N.Y.T., Oct. 17.
20. Ib.; Trib., Oct. 16. See Mor.110-11 for TR’s acceptance letter.
21. Sun, Oct. 21, 1886; Eve. Post, same date.
22. Ib., Oct. 27, 1886.
23. Mor. 112–3.
24. See TR.Wks.XIV.70–1.
25. Mor.114.
26. Star, Oct. 28, 1886.
27. N.Y.T., Oct. 28, 1886; Journal, Mail and Express, same date.
28. N.Y.T., Oct. 28, 1886; Star, same date.
29. Telegram, Mail and Express, Trib., N.Y.T., Journal.
30. GEO. passim. TR’s double-dictation technique was as follows. While reporters scribbled down his answer to a question, he