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31. Ib.
32. Sun, Oct. 26, 1886.
33. The following account of the Cooper Hall meeting is based on N.Y.T., Oct. 28, 1886; supplementary details from Trib., Star, World, same date.
34. N.Y.T., Oct. 28, 1886.
35. Commercial Advertiser, Oct. 27, 1886.
36. World, Oct. 28.
37. Daily News, Trib., Oct. 29, 1886.
38. See TR’s own Oct. 28 analysis in Mor.8.1426. See also Trib., Nov. 4, 1886, for his confession that there was a mid-campaign moment when victory seemed possible.
39. Alex.71.
40. Ib., 71; Nev.460–2; GEO. clip., un., Oct. 5, 1886; Nev.464.
41. Daily Graphic, Oct. 22, 1886. This slogan was repeatedly bandied by Democratic newspapers as the campaign progressed.
42. Trib., Oct. 29.
43. B to Edith in Europe, Oct. 23, 1886. (Derby mss.)
44. The following narrative based on N.Y.T., Oct. 29, 1886; Trib., same date.
45. See ib.: “Mr. Roosevelt has given much attention to the colored men, among whom he is a favorite.”
46. Ib.
47. Ib.; N.Y.T., Oct. 29, 1886.
48. Bamie had relocated earlier in the year to 689 Madison Avenue.
49. Mail and Express, Oct. 30, 1886.
50. World, Oct. 31, 1886. Hewitt, in appealing for Republican votes, suavely played on TR’s fears. “I trust that at some future time he will receive the reward due to his energy, his ability, and his character, but he has made a mistake. He has allowed himself to be the tool of designing men.” Qu. Nevins, Hewitt, 468.
51. Sun, Oct. 31, 1886.
52. Her., Oct. 31, 1886.
53. GEO. passim.
54. Journal, Oct. 26, 1886; Daily Graphic, Nov. 1.
55. Lincoln, Charles T., ed., Messages from the Governors, VII, 1072, qu. Nevins, Hewitt, 142.
56. Her., Oct. 31, 1886; Trib., Oct. 29.
57. Her., Oct. 31, 1886.
58. Mail and Express, Oct. 30, 1896; Nevins, Hewitt, 463; Condon, “Election of 1886,” 363.
59. For a more optimistic election-eve forecast, see Trib., Nov. 1, 1886.
60. Telegram, Nov. 3, 1886.
61. GEO. clip, un., Nov. 3, 1886.
62. Her., 3.
63. Nevins, Hewitt, 468.
64. This was TR’s first defeat at the polls. He would not suffer another such until 1912.
65. Sun, Nov. 3, 1886; Lod.150.
66. Sun, Nov. 4, 1886; World, same date.
67. Alex.82. Nevins’s figures differ slightly at 90,466, 67,930, and 60,477. Historically, the average Republican Mayoral vote was 98,715 (Eve. Post, Nov. 3, 1886).
68. Alex.82–3; Eve. Post, Nov. 3, 1886.
69. Trib., Nov. 4, 1886.
70. “I do not disguise from myself that this is the end of my political career,” TR told Robert Underwood Johnson. The poet wrote many years later: “I cannot remember to have seen a man so cast down by political defeat.” Johnson in TR.Wks.X.342.
71. Luther B. Little int. FRE. See also Alex.83, and Abbot, Lawrence F., Impressions of TR, 6: “I never heard him talk about it—as he was glad to do about his other political experiences.”
72. Daily Graphic, Nov. 3, 1886. For sample range of other comments, see Comm. Adv., Nov. 3; letter to Eve. Post, Nov. 5; F. B. House int. FRE. Other recommended reading: Hurwitz, Howard L., TR and Labor in New York State, 1880–1900, and Condon, “Election of 1886.”
73. N.Y.T., Nov. 7, 1886; COW; see also Mor. 115. The Times erroneously reported next day that Corinne and her husband, Douglas Robinson, sailed with them too. Why TR was at such pains to conceal his departure, now that the campaign was over, is a mystery. Perhaps he merely felt weary of crowds and fuss. The formal news of his engagement certainly caused a sensation. Elliott, who saw TR off, went on to a society wedding afterward and found the congregation buzzing with conversation, not about the bride and groom, but about Edith and Theodore. (E to B, Nov. 10, 1886, FDR.)
74. N.Y.T., Nov. 7 and 8, 1886.
75. All from COW.
76. Portrait of CSR from Gwy. passim; Roosevelt family letters; COW.; Cha.
77. N.Y.T., Nov. 14, 1886; TR.Auto. 33; COW.
78. TR.Auto.33.
79. COW.
80. Gwy.48. “Roosevelt