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112. W. Post Extra Edition, June 23, 1892.
113. BH won on the first ballot, due largely to the support of thousands of his own appointees. Foulke, Spoilsmen, 31–2.
114. Sageser, “Two Decades” (cited in Ch. 16, n. 2) 150 and passim confirms that publicity was the CSC’s main weapon during the Harrison Administration. Sun, qu. Foulke, Spoilsmen, 32. As Har.78 points out, in matters other than Civil Service Reform, Wanamaker’s was the most distinguished Postmaster Generalship since the Civil War. The man was an imaginative innovator, and “a near administration genius.” (Ib.) He has suffered much from TR’s shrewd attacks upon him, even allowing for the fact that right was on the younger man’s side. Today Wanamaker’s handling of the Baltimore affair would be construed as obstruction of justice. It is interesting to note that he, at least in later life, bore TR no ill-will. He tried once to analyze the latter’s “masterful greatness,” and wrote that its secret lay “in the fact that no insincerity lurked behind his ever-welcoming smile.” Qu. Appel, J. H., A Business Biography of John Wanamaker (NY, 1930) 255.
115. See Mor.293; TR.Wks.XIV.141.
116. Mor.275–7.
117. Ib., 277, 290; Lod.122. For a description of TR the polo player, see Harper’s Weekly, July 20, 1892.
118. Mor.289; TR to B, Aug. 11, 1892.
119. See Mor.3.547–63 for an account of the exquisite dialogue between Jones and Ferris. Their “lunatic story” became one of TR’s favorite after-dinner recitations. John Hay was so charmed by this and other Rooseveltian stories of the Old West that he begged him to commit it to paper. The result was a 9,000-word letter which, along with two other classic examples of TR the raconteur, have been separately published under the title Cowboys and Kings (Harvard U. Press, 1954).
120. Mor.290; ib., 3.553. The sheriff’s name was Seth Bullock. He later became one of the more exotic members of TR’s “Tennis Cabinet.”
121. Williams, “TR, CSC,” 51.
122. Un. clip, Sep. 15, 1892, TR.Scr. See also Herbert Welsh, Civilization Among the Sioux Indians (Philadelphia Office of the Indian Rights Association, 1893) 4–7.
123. USCSC, 11th Report, 164–5.
124. The text of this magnificent speech is in TR.Wks.XIV.156–68. See also Hagan, William T., “Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt and the Indian Rights Association,” Pacific Historical Review, 44.2 (May 1975) 187 ff. Hagan protests that TR’s contribution to the improvement of the Indian Service as CSC “has been ignored too long.” He shows how TR acted in concert with Herbert Welsh, of the I.R. Association, to root out injustice and corruption on the reservations, and offer more government employment to Indians. Later Welsh recommended TR to President McKinley as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. “His hold upon the public, his knowledge of the subject, would make him, perhaps, the most valuable man in the country.” As a result of his CSC work, TR was “the best-informed man on Indian affairs to occupy the White House since the Civil War.” Ib., 199–200.
125. Sto.179.
126. Mor.295.
127. Gar.129ff.; see, e.g., the Charleston News & Courier, qu. N.Y.T., Nov. 27, 1892.
128. Foulke, Spoilsmen, 24.
129. Ib., 33.
130. Las.44.
131. See Foraker, Julia, I Would Live It Again (Harpers, 1932) 188.
132. See Gar.150.
133. Foraker, Again, 188.
134. Mor.304.
135. See Carl Schurz to TR, Jan. 4, 1893, qu. Bis.I.52; Pri.131; Har.79; Mrs. Bellamy Storer in Harper’s Weekly, June 1, 1912.
18: THE UNIVERSE SPINNER
1. Chicago Tribune, May 2, 1893. The following description of the opening of the World’s Fair is taken largely from this newspaper, supplemented by the World and Sun of the same date; Northrup, H. D., The World’s Fair as Seen in a Hundred Days (Philadelphia, 1893) and Rand McNally’s The World’s Columbian Exposition Reproduced (Chicago, 1894).
2. Nineteenth-century Americans unhesitatingly accepted the Discoverer as Spanish, just as today he is generally believed to have been an Italian. For what appears to be the last word on the subject, see Morison, Samuel Eliot, The European