The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [466]
56. Lee.536; Olcott, McKinley, II.274.
57. Sto.248; Butler, Years, 229.
58. Lee.537.
59. See Pri.220; Trib., June 21, 1900. Lee.537.
60. Olcott, McK, II.274–6; Morg.494–5; Trib., June 21, 1900; Lee.537.
61. Butler, Years, 229.
62. Ib., 230–1; Lee.537.
63. Reprinted in Mor.1337.
64. Pri.221; Her., June 20, 1900.
65. N.Y.T., June 20, 1900; Olcott, McKinley, II.275–6.
66. N.Y.T., June 20, 1900.
67. Harper’s Weekly, June 30, 1900; Morg.495; Lee.538; McK qu. Morg. 496.
68. Marshall, Dexter, “The Real Story of How Roosevelt was Named for the Vice-Presidency,” New York Press, Dec. 8, 1907, is the source of much of the ensuing account. See also Mor. 1338 fn; Pla. 241 on Quay. Others echoed TCP’s opinion. See Abbot, Lawrence F., Impressions of TR (Doubleday, 1919) 46; Sto.168.
69. Pri.222.
70. Quay had some Indian blood. See the moving account of his death in TR.Auto.158–161. Other descriptive material from Marshall, “The Real Story.”
71. Ib.
72. Ib.
73. Ib. See ib. for Quay’s further motives in using this victory to get himself back into the Senate.
74. Her., June 21, 1900; Watson, James E., As I Knew Them: Memoirs (Indianapolis, 1936), 58.
75. Albert Shaw, qu. Rii., memo in TRB; Rob.196.
76. World, June 21, 1900; Her., June 22; Harper’s Weekly, June 30.
77. World, June 22, 1900; Mor.1340.
78. World, June 22, 1900.
79. “Rose Coghlan’s Vivid Pen-Picture,” in ib. Miss Coghlan was herself an accomplished actress.
80. Entire speech reprinted in TR.Wks. XIV.342–5.
81. World, June 22, 1900.
82. Her., June 22, 1900.
83. Mor.1342; ib., 1343.
84. TR’s entire campaign itinerary is given in Mor.1508–10. Philadelphia Record, Nov. 4, 1900; Her., Oct. 21. Bryan’s comparative figures were: 546 speeches, 493 towns, 18 states, 2,500,000 people addressed. For an extended discussion of the political issues raised by TR in the campaign, see Har.136–43.
85. Thwing, Eugene, The Life and Meaning of TR (Current Literature, 1916) 257.
86. Sun, Sep. 27, 1900; Trib., same date.
87. TR.Auto.127.
88. See Scharf, Barbara C., Mr. Dooley’s Chicago (Doubleday, 1977) for early relationship of TR and Finley Peter Dunne.
89. Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 13, 1900.
90. See Chicago Times-Herald, Oct. 21, 1900. Less factual, and considerably more annoying to TR, were persistent press rumors that he was often drunk on tour. Similar rumors, stimulated by his high color and constant air of excitement, were to dog him for the next decade. Harper’s Weekly, Dec. 7, 1901; Ickes, Harold L., Autobiography of a Curmudgeon (New York, 1943), 55. See also Morr.82.
91. Hag.RBL.466.
92. Lee.559; Pri.226; Mor.507.
93. Milholland int., FRE; Thayer, William R., Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography (Houghton Mifflin, 1919), 157. See also Dun.I.355. For an almost identical expression of foreboding, in the words of one of Roosevelt’s oldest friends, see Par. 136.
94. Qu. Pri.214.
95. See Har.129–30 for a modern confirmation of TR’s boast. Eve. Post qu. Che.300.
96. In preparing this summary the author acknowledges the scholarly assistance of John Allen Gable, historian of the progressive movement and author of The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party (National University Publications, 1978).
97. “While I know I need not say to my officers in what a deep regard I hold them, they will not mind my saying that just a little bit closer come the men.” TR’s farewell address to the Rough Riders, Sep. 13, 1898, TR.Wks.XI.157 fn.
98. John Allen Gable in letter to the author.
99. TR qu. Morg.508.
100. Mor.3.6–7. Milholland int. FRE.
EPILOGUE: SEPTEMBER, 1901
1. See Mor.4.1343 ff. for a calendar of TR’s Vice-Presidency.
2. Washburn, Charles G., TR: The Logic of His Career (Houghton Mifflin, 1916) 39.
3. Par.137. (See Hag.RF.108 ff. for TR’s domestic activities through the fall of 1901.)
4. Par.137; TR.Auto.338. TR to Steffens, Aug. 8, 1901 (Columbia U., Steffens Papers).
5. Mor.3.1345; Morg.518.
6. The following account is taken from the reminiscence of Frank Lester