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96. See Che. passim.
97. Trib., Oct. 10, 1898; two Herald clips, both dated Oct. 15, in TRB.
98. Ib.
99. The following account of TR’s campaign day is based on “Roosevelt On A Wild Goose Chase,” article in Her., Sep. 15, 1898.
100. Ib., and Sep. 16, 1898; Gos.142.
101. Her., Oct. 15, 16, 1898; Trib., Oct. 23; Che.57–8. TR had been aware for some time that Judge Daly would not receive the Democratic nomination, and had seen to it that he appeared on the Republican ticket. He considered this nomination “a great card for us.” Che.57.
102. Her., Oct. 16, 1898; Che.59.
103. Her., Oct. 18, 1898; Che.60.
104. Ib.; Gos.141–2.
105. Her., Oct. 18, 1898; World, same date.
106. Her., Oct. 18, 1898.
107. Che.61.
108. Her., Oct. 18, 1898; O’Neil qu. Mor.896.
109. Che.63; Sun, Oct. 21, 1898.
110. Ib.
111. TRB clips, passim.
112. Sun, Oct. 21, 1898; cf. p. 634.
113. Press clip, n.d., in TRB; see, e.g., TR’s chivvying of Quigg in Mor.887.
114. Sun, Oct. 25, 1898.
115. Ib.; Clarke, John Proctor, “Random Recollections of Campaigning with Roosevelt,” TRC; TR.Auto.127.
116. Sun, Oct. 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 1898.
117. Ib., Oct. 29, 1898.
118. Che.66; Rii.203–7.
119. Mor.918; Pla.537–8; Troy Times, Nov. 5, 1898, qu. Gos.143.
120. Ib., 149. TR scored 661,715 to van Wyck’s 643,921. The narrowness of TR’s margin (17,794) can be gauged by contrasting it with Gov. Black’s in 1896—787,516 votes to a Democratic total of 574,524. Ib.
121. Che.68, qu. Depew and Platt; TR.Auto.282.
122. Mor.888.
123. EKR to Emily Carow, June 22, 1900, TRC. TR’s Lowell Lectures are described by Rev. William E. Barton in “Theodore Roosevelt: An Address,” pamphlet, 1919, in the Walter Merriam Pratt collection (TRB). “They were the most popular Lowell Lectures I have heard.”
124. Original manuscript of The Rough Riders in New York State Library, Albany.
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1. Par.123.
2. See TR.Auto.293–4, and below.
3. Because January 1, 1899, fell on a Sunday, TR and other elective officials had taken their oaths in the Secretary of State’s office shortly after noon on Sat., Dec. 31, 1898. Sun, Jan. 1.
4. TR.Auto.286.
5. Ib.
6. Ib., 290.
7. Obvious as such a publicity policy may seem in this media-conscious age, it was near-revolutionary in the shadowy world of New York State politics at the end of the nineteenth century. A comprehensive study of TR’s whole career as a publicist has yet to be written: should any skilled historian undertake the project, it would be of revelatory significance and interest.
8. Sun, Jan. 3, 1899.
9. See Roseberry, Cecil R., Capitol Story (New York State, 1964) 9, and passim.
10. Sun, Jan. 3, 1899.
11. See Public Papers of Theodore Roosevelt, Governor (Albany, 1899–1900) 248–9; Gos.196; Pri.209; and Che. passim for discussion of various aspects of this Annual Message.
12. New York State Legislature, A Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, Feb. 21, 1919, 37
13. TR.Auto.295. Superintendent G. W. Aldridge had asked to be suspended while certain charges purporting to involve him in the “canal steal” were being investigated. Gos.208.
14. TR.Auto.294–5.
15. Che.72; Mor.891–902.
16. Gos.209; Che.72–3, 178–9. TR had private doubts about Partridge at first (“I do not think he is a very strong man”), but they turned out to be unfounded. The superintendent effected a 25% saving in public works expenses by Oct. 1, 1899, and was singled out by the Eve. Post to be a model state official. Che.178–9.
17. Youngs, William J., “A Short Résumé of the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt [Governor],” TRP., 4; Gos.209–14; Har.114; Che.73. See ib., passim, for analyses of other gubernatorial appointments. TR’s only personal indulgences were the selection of his old mentor, Joe Murray, as First Deputy in the Public Works Dept., Avery D. Andrews as Adjutant-General, and some impoverished Rough Riders to unimportant sinecures.
18. Che.75; Har.122.
19. Secretary William J. Youngs declared that “the happiest moments of the Governor’s administration were the 15-minute talks with reporters, morning and afternoon.” Un.