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49. Ib.; also 265, 264–5.
50. Chicago Tribune, Oct. 16, 1896.
51. Ib.
52. Ib.; see also Ch. 4.
53. TR to Sun reporter, Oct. 28, 1896. On Oct. 17, TR and Bryan addressed simultaneous meetings in Detroit.
54. Sun, ib.
55. N.Y.T., Oct. 18, 1896. Sun, Oct. 28.
56. TR to B, Oct. 22 and 26, 1896; ib., Nov. 1; Mor.566.
57. Rho.29; Stoddard, Henry L., Presidential Sweepstakes (Putnam, 1948) 110.
58. Rho.28.
59. Bee.552.
60. Whi.292.
61. Mor.566; Bee.523. Hanna had, for better or worse, laid the foundations of modern campaign spending by systematically assessing banks and large corporations at ½ of 1% of their capital. Cro.220. His largest benefactor—John D. Rockefeller—gave $250,000. The total GOP campaign cost $3,350,000, a staggering sum in those days. Pri.163.
62. Mor.566. TR, in this letter, uses the adjective “Jew” when describing the bankers. It is the only hint, if hint it be, of anti-Semitism in his vast correspondence, and it pales into insignificance beside the remarks typical of his class and kind, for instance those constantly exchanged by John Hay and Henry Adams. See Wag.230. TR later appointed at least one of his “Jew” fellow-guests at the Victory luncheon, Isaac Seligman, to high state office (Mor.566), and as President he relied much on the counsel of another, Jacob Schiff.
63. TR to B, Aug. 2, 1896.
64. Lod.240; ib., 241.
65. Ib., 242.
66. Storer, “How TR Was Appointed.”
67. Ib. For an insight into McK’s true feelings about the Storers, see Mott, Herrick, 72–4.
68. As late as 1921, Mrs. Storer was convinced McK had said, “I will do this to please you,” but, as will be seen, he could not have said anything of the kind.
69. Mor.569.
70. Storer, Child, 25.
71. Mor.570.
72. TR’s negotiations with and around TCP during the next three months are fully described in Lod.244–66. Gos.172; Morg.267; Lod.244. When HCL asked what “war” TCP had in mind, the Easy Boss replied that TR would interfere with his patronage in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Ib., 245.
73. Ib., 247; see also Mor.569.
74. Ib., 572.
75. Gos.171–2.
76. See Mor.34; 55–58; Choate to TR, Oct. 31, 1881 (facsimile in Lor.192). Mor.59.
77. Lod.249; Pri.169; Her., Dec. 17; Mor.572. In fairness to TR it must be said that he would have come out for Choate if forced to a decision—see ib. Nevertheless, his refusal to speak for his old patron, and his tacit endorsement of TCP, must be regarded as proof of his ruthless ambition and invariable policy of working with the organization whenever possible and expedient.
78. TR to B, Dec. 20, 1896; ib., Nov. 29; ib., Dec. 26.
79. Morning Advertiser, Dec. 31, 1896.
80. Eve. Post, Jan. 1, 1897; Her., Dec. 31, 1896.
81. Qu. Her., Jan. 9, 1897; qu. Pri.169.
82. Eve. Post, Jan. 8, 1897.
83. Ib.; Gos.171. Fourteen years later, when TCP came to write his Autobiography, the memory of those seven dissenters still rankled. Pla.348.
84. TR to B, Jan. 24, 1897; ib., Feb. 28.
85. The Royal Navy, 7 vols. (London, 1897–1903). TR’s volume, which he finished writing during the first week of March (TR to B, Mar. 7, 1897), was published under the title The War with the United States, 1812–1815. For a complimentary British review, see The Atheneum, Dec. 28, 1901.
86. Lod.255.
87. Mor.582.
88. TR to B, Feb. 28, 1897.
89. Ib.
90. TR to T. R. Lounsbury, Mar. 9, 1897, qu. Brant, Donald Birtley, Jr., “TR as New York City Police Commissioner,” unpublished dissertation (Princeton, 1964) 66.
91. See, e.g., Eve. Post, Mar. 1, 1897; World, Commercial Advertiser, Mar. 4; Her., Mar. 6; see also TR in Mor.662.
92. Sun, Mar. 2, 1897.
93. Ib.; Her., Mar. 18, 1897.
94. TR/HCL correspondence in Lod. passim: Lod.253.
95. Bee.525 (wrongly dated after Ambassador Cassini’s arrival in Washington, June 1898).
96. Lod.253. There were, of course, other objections to TR’s appointment. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, for example, considered him over-qualified. Secretary Long concurred with this view. Morg.262.
97. Tabouis, Geneviève, Jules Cambon: Par l’un des Siens (Paris, 1938), 84 (author’s translation).
98. Rho.41; Bee.529.