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37. Mor.8.1429; N.Y. Tribune, May 22, 1889; Foulke, Spoilsmen, 13.
38. Mor.165; W. Star, June 18, 1889; Foulke, Swift, 37; Foulke, Spoilsmen, 13. According to the N.Y. Evening Post, June 19, Wallace was BH’s old law partner.
39. W. Star, June 19, 1889; Foulke, Swift, 37.
40. Foulke, Spoilsmen, 13–14; Swift, 37.
41. Foulke, Spoilsmen, 14; see also W. Star, June 19, 1889.
42. Mor.165, 166.
43. Ib.
44. Milwaukee Daily Journal, June 20, 1889; House Report 1, 307.
45. Lod.79.
46. House Report 1, 150, 161.
47. Ib., 324, 326, and passim.
48. Ib., 220, 263, 303
49. Ib., 303.
50. W. Post, June 25, 1889, has text of the first report; House Report 1, 324 ff. has text of the second. See also ib., 175.
51. Ib., 327.
52. Mor.167.
53. Ib., 168.
54. Sample editorial opinion, in Chicago Morning News, June 26, 1889: “One of the conspicuous successes of President Harrison’s administration is the Hon. Teddy Roosevelt … More power to him! He has made various spoilsmen of his party as mad as hornets, and he seems to be glad of it.” TR.Scr. give a good idea of the publicity surrounding his Midwestern “slam”: it made headlines as far away as San Francisco.
55. Mor.168–9.
56. N.Y. Trib., June 30, 1889.
57. Mor.173.
58. House Report 1, 177–80. See also testimony below.
59. TR to HCL, July 11, 1889. A fair example of the invective which Lodge deleted when preparing his correspondence with TR for publication. See Bibl., LOD.
60. Mor.171–2.
61. House Report 1, 150.
62. Details from Carpenter, 237–8; W. Post and Star, July–Aug. 1889, passim.
63. Mor.169, 172, 177, 174.
64. Ib., 172.
65. Ib., fn.
66. N.Y. Herald, July 28, 1889; W. Post, July 29, 1889.
67. Reprinted in W. Post, July 31, 1889.
68. W. Post, Aug. 1, 1889; Mor.182; Sievers, Harry J., Benjamin Harrison (New York, 1960), III, 86.
69. Sun, Aug. 1, 1889.
70. W. Post, Aug. 2 and 3, 1889.
71. Ib., Aug. 5, 1889.
72. W. Star, Aug. 5, 1889; Mor.1. 185–6. An intimate of the Harrison Administration remarked at this time that TR was altogether too fond of talking to the press. L. T. Michener to E. W. Halford, Aug. 9, 1889.
73. Mor.182.
74. The following two paras. are taken almost verbatim from TR.Wks.II. 240–1.
75. Ib.
76. Ib., 242; TR, qu. Cut.51.
77. Mor. 175.
78. See Utley, George B., “TR’s The Winning of the West: Some Unpublished Letters,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XXX (1944) 469.
79. Dial, Vol. X.112 (Aug. 1889).
80. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1889. See Utley, “TR’s WW,” 499 ff. for TR’s rueful but appreciative response, and for his subsequent relations with Poole. See, for other assessments of TR the historian, Har.53–61 and 526; Lasch, Christopher, ed., WW by TR (NY 1963) intro.; Wish, Harvey, American Historians: A Selection (NY, 1962); Gable, John A., “TR as Historian and Man of Letters,” cited Ch. 15, n. 55. For other contemporary reviews of WW, see N.Y.T., July 7, 1889; New Englander and Yale Review, 52 (1890); and The Critic, Aug. 3, 1889, which predicted that WW, with all its faults, “will rank among American historical writings of the first order.”
81. Sun, Sep. 22, 1889; Mor.188–90.
82. Mor.188 fn.
83. Ib., 192.
84. Sun, Oct. 6, 1889.
85. The complete texts of both TR’s letters are in Mor. 194–7.
86. TR to B, Oct. 15, 1889.
87. Hag.RF.18; EKR to TR re finances, passim (Derby mss.); TR to B, Oct. 13, 1889.
88. Cecil Spring-Rice, qu. Gwy.101.
89. Lod.196; Mor.199.
90. USCSC, Sixth Report (1889).
91. Dun.I.20. Early in the year, Congressman Reed had obligingly helped Lodge in his attempts to get TR a place in the government. For the relationship of the two most charismatic figures in late-nineteenth-century American politics, see R. Hal Williams, “ ‘Dear Tom,’ ‘Dear Theodore’: The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas B. Reed,” Theodore Roosevelt Journal 20 (1995) 3–4.
92. Lod.88.
93. St.177; Mor.210.