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78. Eve. World, June 3, 1896; World, June 4.
79. Ib.
80. Ib.
81. Trib., June 9. The day before, this paper had become the first to call for Parker’s resignation. According to Jessup, Philip C., Elihu Root (Dodd, Mead, 1938) I.190–191, TR and Andrews drew up the charges together, although they publicly denied this.
82. Max Fishel, Eve. World reporter, int. FRE. Jan. 1922, TRB; see also TR.Scr.
83. Riis, Jacob, Making of an American (NY, 1902) 334–5.
84. Ib.
85. AND.199; Gos.68.
86. See Trib., June 9, 1896; World, June 10.
87. N.Y.T., June 22, 1896. This newspaper contains the fullest session-by-session account of the Parker trial, and its issues of June 12, 13, 19, 22, July 3, 8, and 9 form the basis of the following summary. Other sources: AND.198–9; TR.Scr.
88. World, July 8, 1896; AND.158 agrees TR was too hasty in promotion procedures.
89. World, July 8, 1896; Mor.546.
90. Her., June 26, 1896; Sun, July 3.
91. N.Y.T., July 10, 13, 1896
92. See, e.g., Lod.212; Pri.158. It will be remembered that TR had helped make Reed Speaker in 1889 (Ch. 16), and doubtless expected to be rewarded with a Cabinet post if he helped make him President.
93. Rho.12.
94. TR, qu. Dun.20.
95. TR to HCL, Feb. 27, 1896 (LOD.).
96. TR to B, Mar. 21, 1896 (TRB); Pla.212–4; qu. Pri.159.
97. Lod.222; Mor.543.
98. N.Y.T., June 19, 1896; Rho.16–17.
99. N.Y.T., July 19, 1896.
100. Mor.543.
101. N.Y.T., Aug. 11, 1896; World, Aug. 3.
102. Her., July 22, 1896: “Henceforth it will be war to the knife in the councils of the heads of the Police Department.”
103. Mor.545.
104. This is confirmed in Mor.556 and Lod.229.
105. See Lod.214.
106. Mor.512, 519; TR to B, Apr. 26; Mor.542, 544. Bamie Roosevelt had amazed her family by marrying Commander Cowles in November 1895. She was then in her forty-first year. See Rixey, Lillian, Bamie: TR’s Remarkable Sister (David McKay, 1963) 86–7.
107. Mor. 544.
108. Storer, Maria Longworth (Mrs. Bellamy), “How Theodore Roosevelt Was Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy,” Harper’s Weekly, 56 (June 1, 1912). See also ib., Theodore Roosevelt the Child (privately printed, 1921) 15. Mrs. Storer dated this visit “in July 1896” and said that it lasted “several days.” Her memory was slightly in error, since TR in a letter to B, Aug. 2, 1896, writes: “The dear Storers are spending Sunday with us.” They probably arrived Saturday evening, Aug. 1, and left Monday morning, Aug. 3.
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1. TR to CSR, Jan. 16, 1893. See also Storer, “How Theodore Roosevelt,” Harper’s Weekly, 56 (June 1, 1912), Theodore Roosevelt the Child, 15.
2. See Lee. 58–60 and Mott, T. Bentley, Myron T. Herrick, Friend of France (NY, 1924) 72–74 for details of McKinley’s “debt” to the Storers. His financial situation was entirely honorable in that he had endorsed the notes of a friend, totalling $130,000, believing that they would be paid off. The financial panic of 1893 caused the notes to fail, and McK took it upon himself to redeem them.
3. Storer, Child, 1.
4. Ib., 15.
5. Storer, “How TR Was Appointed,” also see subsequent text. Ib.
6. Mark Hanna’s arrival had been widely reported in the local papers, e.g., New York Times, July 29. See Rho.2 for his “comet-like” entry into the political scene. For the early relationship of MH and McK, see Lee.66-9; Rho.9–11; Morg.52 ff.
7. N.Y.T. and Tribune, July 29, 1896.
8. Mor.552. The adjective “coarse” was changed to “rough” by HCL when editing this letter for publication.
9. Ib., 556; Trib., Aug. 4, 1896. Aug. 3 was formal opening day at HQ. The suggestion that TR was being evasive about the two July 28 visits to MH is prompted by the tone of his letter describing the Aug. 3 visit to the Storers: “The day after you left I saw Mark Hanna, and after I thought we had grown intimate enough, the chance arriving, I spoke of Bellamy …” (author’s italics). It seems odd he should write of Hanna thus as a stranger, having dined with him à quatre only six days before.
10. Mor.556.
11. Trib., Aug. 4, 1896; Mor.556.
12. Rho.10, 17–8; Whi.157; TR to B, Aug.