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172 “The extremes of” Qu. in Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 243.
173 Roosevelt thought he TR, Works, vol. 15, 314. For a survey of at least some of Everyman’s feelings at the time of TR’s accession, see Louis Galambos, The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1890–1940 (Baltimore, 1975), chap. 4.
174 “Bob” and “Tom” These two candidates were Robert M. LaFollette and Tom L. Johnson.
175 Far-flung and lonely TR, aside from being precociously sensitive to American public opinion, had read Henry George, Edward Bellamy, and Henry Demarest Lloyd, all premature voices of Progressive protest. Faulkner, Decline of Laissez-Faire, 369.
Historical Note: The word progressive had not yet acquired a specific political meaning in 1901. At the moment of TR’s accession, the Atlantic Monthly predicted the rise of a new party, founded on opposition to privilege and concentrated power, “anti-corruption, anti-spoliation, dedicated to public ownership of utilities and railroads, and telegraph systems” (“The Future of Political Parties,” Sept. 1901). For a concise survey of the origins of Progressivism, see Stanley P. Caine’s essay in Lewis L. Gould, ed., The Progressive Era (Syracuse, 1974).
176 ROOSEVELT’S REVERIE Chicago Tribune, 17 Sept. 1901; Kohlsaat, From McKinley, 104; Statistical History of the United States (New York, 1976). For an analysis of the political, social, and economic differences between Northern and Southern blacks in 1901, see W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black North in 1901: A Social Study (New York, 1902; repr. 1969).
177 Census statistics such as Southern blacks contributed one third of the total convention ballot. The Washington Post, 12 Mar. 1902.
178 The South was Herbert Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna (New York, 1912), 298; Richard B. Sherman, The Republican Party and Black America: From McKinley to Hoover, 1896–1933 (Charlottesville, 1973), 19–20; Horace and Marion Merrill, The Republican Command, 1897–1913 (Lexington, Ky., 1971), 74–75; The Booker T. Washington Papers, ed. Louis R. Harlan (Urbana, 1972–1989, vol. 6, 336 (hereafter Booker T. Washington Papers).
179 “burly, coarse-fibered” TR to William Allen White, 27 Aug. 1901 (WAW). The compound adjective is incorrectly transcribed as “unterrified” in TR, Letters, vol. 3, 135.
180 To consolidate his TR, Letters, vol. 3, 149. TR reportedly talked at length about his Southern strategy on the train. H. H. Kohlsaat to editor, The Atlanta Constitution, 7 June 1903.
181 “Theodore” Rhodes, McKinley and Roosevelt, 218. Rhodes got this quotation from Hanna, who was his brother-in-law. By 1905, TR was denying that the train meeting took place. But Kohlsaat, From McKinley, 102–3, and Joseph L. Bristow interview, 6 Dec. 1938 (HKB), confirm it, as does Lincoln Steffens in McClure’s, July 1905. TR’s reply to Steffens suggests that he was denying the substance of the conversation, not its occurrence. TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1254.
182 at twenty past Buffalo Express, 17 Sept. 1901.
183 There was neither Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and New York Sun, 17 Sept. 1901.
184 As usual in moments The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 1901; John Hay, Letters and Extracts from His Diary, ed. Henry Adams (privately printed, 1908), vol. 3, 232.
185 “Divide off” The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 1901.
186 “Something should be” Ibid.
187 For a moment New York Sun, Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 1901. EKR recorded TR’s arrival at the Cowles house that evening “looking very grave and older, but not at all nervous. All the country seems behind him” (Diary, 16 Sept. 1901).
CHAPTER 1: THE SHADOW OF THE CROWN
1 I see that “Mr. Dooley” [Finley Peter Dunne], 28 Sept. 1901, Presidential scrapbook (TRP). See also Mr. Dooley on Ivrything and Ivrybody, ed. Robert Hutchinson (New York, 1963), 169–70.
2 on the morning Waldon Fawcett, “President Roosevelt at Work,” Leslie’s Weekly, n.d. Presidential scrapbook (TRP); Washington Evening Star, 20 Sept. 1901.
3 As the President New York Journal, 24 Sept. 1901.
4 A pall of