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15. Mor.1122–3.
16. Che.172, 166–70.
17. Ib., 172; TR.Auto.325; Che.251; Mor. 1320; Par. 127; Pinkett, Harold T., Gifford Pinchot, Private and Public Forester (U. Illinois Press, 1970) 34, 53; Che.250. See Appendix A, “Conservation,” to Ch. 8 of TR.Auto., 323–325.
18. Public Papers of Theodore Roosevelt, Governor (Albany, 1900) 35–7; N.Y.T. clip, n.d., TRB; Che.251–3; Cut. 86–8. For Pinchot’s early and later relations with TR, see Pinchot, Gif-ford, Breaking New Ground (Harcourt Brace, 1947); Pinkett, Pinchot; Hays, Samuel P., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890–1920 (NY, 1959). See Che.242–53 for a fuller discussion of TR’s environmental reforms at Albany. “All that I later strove for in the Nation in connection with conservation,” wrote TR in his Autobiography, “was foreshadowed by what I strove to obtain for New York State when I was Governor.” (299).
19. Che.98; Mor.1131, 1130.
20. Che.99–100.
21. Mor.1131.
22. Che.74, 101–3; Eve. Post, Jan. 19, 1900; TR. qu. Che.106.
23. Pors.; FRE. int; Mor.1504. TR’s complex relations with Odell (which lasted well into his presidency) are tracked by McC., passim.
24. Mor.1135–6; TR.Auto.302–3; Che. 107–108.
25. Mor.1136.
26. Che.108; TR.Auto.303.
27. Ib. See also Che. 109. Ib. doubts that this meeting took place on the evening specified by TR, without offering any convincing proof that it did not.
28. Ib.; Mor.1141.
29. Sun, Feb. 1, 1900; see also Mor. 1157 fn.
30. Ib., 1157.
31. Ib., 1139–40.
32. Gar.213; Lee.530.
33. HCL was Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Philippines. LOD.I. 404; Lee.338. For a clear-eyed analysis of the vexed subject of U.S. response to the Philippines insurrection, see Gov. 187–89.
34. Mor.1343. See Bur.63 ff. for a short but excellent discussion of TR’s relations with the Philippines. Alfonso, Oscar S., Theodore Roosevelt and the Philippines (NY, 1974) is the only book-length treatment of the subject.
35. Mor. 1160–1. TR sent a similarly strong but courteous refusal to the Republican National Committeeman Henry Clay Payne. Ib., 1162.
36. Mor.1157.
37. Ib., 1161; New York Tribune, June 21, 1900.
38. World, Feb. 11, 1900; see Trib., Feb. 13, 1900.
39. Platt qu. Quigg, cit. Mor.1337. TR’s “rivals” included such minor figures as Cornelius Bliss, Timothy Woodruff, and John D. Long.
40. Mor.489–50; Butler, Nicholas M., Across the Busy Years (Scribner’s, 1940) 226.
41. Lee.531–5.
42. Butler, Years, 226.
43. Mor.1276.
44. Trib., Feb. 13, 1900; New York Herald, Apr. 27.
45. Mor.1278; Dana to TR, Apr. 17, 1900, TRP.
46. Mor.1291; Trib., May 12, 1900.
47. Foraker, Joseph, Notes of a Busy Life (Stewart & Kidd, 1917) 91–2. Foraker also claimed that McK said to him: “I hope you will not allow the convention to be stampeded for Roosevelt for Vice-President.” Qu. Lee.532. In view of the fact that TR and Foraker were bitter enemies later in life, this and the anecdote quoted in the text should be taken with caution.
48. Long, Journal, May 10, 1900: “Personally, if I could be made Vice-President tomorrow, I should like it because of the honor.” LON. There are many other such wistful references in Long’s Journal and letters.
49. Tha.II.342.
50. Mor. 1264. TR had received similar warnings from Benjamin Odell and others. Ib.; Odell int. FRE.
51. Butler, Years, 227; sketch, un. newspaper, in TRB; Pla.384 ff.
52. Butler, Years, 227.
53. Burton later attained the twin distinction of serving in the U.S. Senate and in a Federal prison. Ib., 228. Anecdote from Lafayette B. Gleason int. FRE. See also Butler, Years, 228. Robert B. Armstrong of the Chicago Record, who was eavesdropping outside on a fire escape, remembered the scene somewhat differently. TR, he wrote, was sitting on a wooden chair. Rising in a rage, as the others in the room sought to persuade him, he allegedly lifted the chair high and smashed it to the floor. Then he sighed, and capitulated. Memo in TRB.
54. Butler, Years, 228; Lee.536.
55. Trib., June 21, 1900. Olcott, Charles S., The Life of William McKinley