The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [443]
13. World, July 31, 1896; Trib., Aug. 4; Mor.226–7, 230; Pri.160.
14. Boorstin, Daniel J., ed., An American Primer (U. Chicago Press, 1966) II.573 ff. gives the complete text of Bryan’s speech.
15. Trib., Aug. 5 and 6, 1896, reports that MH was having difficulty attracting “name” speakers who would be effective over a wide area of the country. TR was emphatically in this category.
16. Whi.329. TR told Hanna’s biographer that the Chairman had “not a single small trait in his nature.” Cro.361. In TR.Auto.157 TR wrote with a trace of wistfulness, “I do not think he ever grew to like me.”
17. Description of MH based on sketch reproduced at beginning of this chapter; other sketches and pors. in Review of Reviews, XIV.4. (Oct., 1896). Prose sources: White, William Allen, Masks in a Pageant (Macmillan, 1928) 155 ff.; Whi.292; N.Y.T., July 29, 1896; World, ib., and July 30; Murat Halstead in R. of Rs., cited above; Rho., Sul., Sto., and Bee., passim.
18. Rho.12; Whi.292; Morg.230,253.
19. Ib., 219; Rho.10.
20. See McK to MH, Nov. 12, 1896, qu. Cro.229; also ib., 221. Although the National Committee ended the campaign with a considerable surplus, MH refused to accept reimbursement of the $100,000 he had spent before the Convention. For McK’s metallic quality, see Tha.III.78; White, Masks, 175.
21. MH’s despondency lasted at least through mid-August. Cro.219. TR to B, Aug. 2, 1896; Mor.554.
22. Sun, Aug. 13, 1896.
23. TR was very defensive about this bad publicity. See Lod.230. Certainly the huge size of the crowd and high temperatures (New York was in the middle of a heat wave) must be counted as extenuating circumstances. Other newspapers guardedly praised the security arrangements, and the Democratic National Committee sent a formal note of thanks to Chief Conlin. Even so, there were some peculiar goings-on which the Police Department never satisfactorily explained. George Spinney, TR’s old reporter friend from Albany days, was told that “the doors is locked” when he presented his press pass. Spinney protested, and was instantly arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. World, Aug. 13, 1896. Several other eminent citizens and newsmen suffered the same treatment, as did many members of the general public. These were all “mysteries of reform,” the Sun editors remarked, “to which Mr. Theodore Roosevelt had better apply his intellect without delay.” Ib., Aug. 14.
24. Ib., Aug. 13, 1896.
25. TR to B, Aug. 15, 1896.
26. Mor.558; Herald, Aug. 20, 1896.
27. N.Y.T., July 13, 1896.
28. Sun, Aug. 21, 1896; N.Y.T., World, same date. The Times editorially accused Parker of “intolerable impudence and bravado,” and said he had “wrought inestimable harm on the Police Department and to the whole cause of municipal reform in this city.” Aug. 21, 1896.
29. TR to B, Sept. 13, 1896.
30. Ib.
31. See Boorstin, Primer, II.581.
32. TR to B, Sep. 13, 1896; to HCL, Mor.559; N.Y.T., Sep. 11. There were two GOP headquarters, one in Chicago and one in New York.
33. TR to Evening Post reporter, c. Sep. 11, 12, 1896 (TR.Scr., n.d.)
34. R. of Rs., XIV.4 (Oct. 1896). This periodical gives good monthly summaries of the campaign. See also ib., 5 (Nov. 1896).
35. Ib., see also Cro.; Rho.20 ff.
36. Cro.209; TR to B, Sep. 13.
37. See also TR to B, Aug. 2, 1896; Pri. 162–3.
38. TR.Wks.XIII.153.
39. To the Sound Money League, Sep. 11, 1896. Text in TR.Wks.XIV.25–7. The Chicago platform contained a plank “which condemned the use of the injunction in labor disputes and deplored the judicial invalidation of the income tax.” Pri.163.
40. Lod.236–7; TR to B, Oct. 4, 1896.
41. Ib. The visit probably occurred on Oct. 2 (Lod.237). Cro.215.
42. Lee.88; Cro.215–6; Rho.25.
43. See Ch. 16. TR to B, Oct. 4, 1896.
44. Ib., Oct. 11, 1896.
45. R. of Rs., XIV.4 (Oct. 1896); Cro.217–8.
46. For a good recent account of the campaign, see Morg.209–248. Lod.237.
47. Pri.163–4; TR.Wks.XIV.258–79.
48. Chicago Tribune, Oct. 16, 1896; TR.Wks.XIV.258.