The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [439]
89. AND.115.
90. Journal, July 12, 1895.
91. TR.Auto.197.
92. TR.Auto.196; Richardson, Police, 251; John R. Voorhis, former Police Commissioner, int. FRE.
93. Brant, “TR, PC,” 35; New York Police Department, Annual Report, Dec. 31, 1897, 38; TR.Wks.XII.129.
94. TR.Auto.194; AND.105–7.
95. N.Y.T., Jan. 15, 1895; TR.Auto. 194–6; see also AND.137.
96. World, July 1, 1895.
97. N.Y.T., July 1, 1895; Journal, July 26. AND. 137 says that “fully half the force” was employed to administer the Sunday law. Her., July 2.
98. Ib.
99. Comm. Adv., July 8, 1895.
100. N.Y.T., July 18, 1895.
101. Qu. Journal (ed.), July 26, 1895.
102. N.Y.T., July 12, 1895; Her., July 13; see also Mor.466.
103. Her., July 13, 1895.
104. AND.123.
105. Un. clip, TRB; Her., July 17, 1895.
106. Chicago Times-Herald, July 22, 1895.
107. Her., July 17. Author’s italics.
108. Ib.; un. clip, TRB.
109. Her., July 17, 1895.
110. Chicago Times-Herald, July 22, 1895.
111. Mor.469.
112. Ib.
113. Her., July 24, 1895.
114. Comm. Adv., July 25, 1895.
115. Sun, July 25, 1895; N.Y.T., July 27.
116. World, July 29, 1895.
117. Ib.
118. Ib.
119. Spark, Muriel, John Masefield (London, 1953) 38; John Masefield to Hermann Hagedorn, Mar. 25, 1952 (TRB mss.); Igl.111-2. The man who attempted to kill TR in 1912 was a saloonkeeper from New York City. He testified that he first became aware of his future victim during this season of dry Sundays in 1895. N.Y.T., Oct. 15, 1912.
120. Journal, Aug. 6, 1895.
121. AND.137–8; Boston Herald, July 21, 1895 (“They do not seem to understand Theodore Roosevelt very well in his native city”); see also Review of Reviews clip, n.d., in TR.Scr.: “… From San Francisco to New Orleans to Bangor and Minneapolis the daily newspapers are giving him the space that is allotted to the most important subject before the people.” London Times, Aug. 10, 1895; Mor. 472–3.
122. Trib., Aug. 22, 1895.
123. Pri.136, qu. World, July 23, 1895; Rii.29.
124. N.Y.T., Aug. 6, 1895; AND.73.
125. Her., Aug. 14, 1895. “It was a blemish due less to egotism,” Andrews comments mildly (p. 69), “than to the recognition that, in effect, he was actually the Board.” See also Journal, July 12.
126. “Big Tim represented the morals of another era,” TR wrote in his Autobiography. “That is, his principles and actions were very much those of a Norman noble in the years immediately succeeding the Battle of Hastings.” (192.)
127. All from World, Aug. 8, 1895.
128. Mor.475; World, Aug. 8, 1895.
129. HCL to TR, Aug. 31, 1895.
130. TR to B, passim; see also AND.34, Mor.486.
131. Ib., 475; Her., Sep. 6, 1895.
132. N.Y.T., Aug. 24, 1895.
133. TR to B, Sep. 8, 1895. Statistical and other documentary assessments of TR’s crusade in behalf of the Excise Law are given in Ber.105–16.
134. Trib., Sep. 26, 1895. This was, of course, before the age of the press photograph.
135. The following description based on World, Sep. 26, 1895, also Trib., Her., same date.
136. World, Sep. 26, 1895.
137. Ib.
138. Her., Sep. 26, 1895. The warmly admiring tone of this article shows that the yellow press was not blind to TR’s merits.
139. Ib., Trib., same date.
140. N.Y.T., July 22, 1895.
141. Ste.258–60.
142. See, e.g., AND.172. Mor.484; AND.141 ff.; also Trib., May 23, 1895; Har.85.
143. See Mor.477; TR.Wks.XIV.184; TRB clips.
144. Mor.490.
145. Ib., 485–89. See also ib., 488, TR.Wks.XIV.212, and Journal, Jan. 31, 1896, for details of this quarrel, which was later patched up. (Mor.496).
146. Ib., 483, 485; Outlook, Oct. 10, 1895; Mor.480, 490; see Trib., Sep. 12, World, Oct. 29, and Journal, Jan. 31, 1896, for sample articles on TR’s election policies. World, Aug. 19, 1895; Mor.493.
147. Ib., 481, 487, 489, 493; TR to B, Oct. 27, 1895.
148. AND. 176 puts the German vote-loss alone at 30,000. Har.85.
149. Unpublished letter, Nov. 5, 1895, in TRB mss. Specifically, it deals with the Venezuela border dispute between the U.S. and Great Britain, which was then approaching its crisis point.
150. N.Y.T., Nov. 7, 1895;