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29 distracted as the George Cortelyou to Booker T. Washington, 27 Sept. 1901 (BTW); Washington to TR, 1 Oct. 1901 (TRP); Louis J. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 (New York, 1983), 307. Washington and TR had known each other since 1898. TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1072; Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 1, 441.
30 Washington’s resistance Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 1, 439, 441; Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 23; Leupp, The Man Roosevelt, 215. See also Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 128ff.
31 State by state C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (New York, 1955), 66–68; World’s Work, Oct. 1901. While expressing sorrow over the death of President McKinley, Washington reminded the editor of the Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser that an estimated 125,000 Americans had participated in the lynching of Negroes. Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 305–6.
32 Washington, whose Washington was not unaware of the power he would acquire as TR’s race adviser. “I presume that for the mere asking I could get from President Roosevelt almost any political office within reason,” he wrote privately. Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 216.
33 after leaving the Booker T. Washington to TR, 1 Oct. 1901 (TRP); Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 1, 12.
34 As his mother Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 1.
35 Blacks and whites See, e.g., Harry Thurston Peck in International Monthly, 1 July 1901, and W.E.B. Du Bois, qu. in Francis L. Broderick, W.E.B. Du Bois.
36 “We can be as” Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 218.
37 Washington’s philosophy Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 385; vol. 1, 220; Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 112; Harlan, “The Secret Life of Booker T. Washington,” Journal of Southern History 37.3 (1971); TR, Letters, vol. 5, 227.
38 Roosevelt, gazing at Donald J. Calista, “Booker T. Washington: Another Look,” Journal of Negro History 49.4 (1964).
39 NO SOONER HAD Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 308; Booker T. Washington to TR, 2 Oct. 1901, in Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 222–23.
40 “[He] wanted to” Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 224.
41 Washington was forced Ibid., 229.
42 Scott delivered Ibid.
43 “Because my experience” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 163–64. TR promised to defer further questions of Southern patronage until Hanna came back to town.
44 Hanna wrote back Mark Hanna to TR, 12 Oct. 1901 (TRP).
45 Despite Hanna’s concern Literary Digest, 19 Oct. 1901; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 31; Washington Evening Star, 14 Oct. 1901; Review of Reviews, Nov. 1901. The appointment of Judge Jones bore fruit in the spring of 1903. See below and TR, Letters, vol. 3, 501.
46 Encouraged, the President Washington Evening Star, 10 Oct. 1901. TR’s equipage eventually comprised a landau, a brougham, a basket surrey, a buggy, a phaeton, and a victoria—but no automobiles, which he felt lacked presidential dignity. He owned two carriage teams and six riding horses, including two Kentucky Thoroughbreds for himself and his wife. With three additional office horses, and four more belonging to William Loeb, the White House stables were soon at capacity. See Herbert Ridgeway, Presidents on Wheels (Washington, D.C., 1971).
47 He scrapped Philander Knox to George Cortelyou, 15 Oct. 1901 (GBC); Washington Evening Star, 30 Oct. 1901; Stuart P. Sherman in The Nation, 9 Nov. 1919; Hay, Letters, vol. 3, 345.
48 Roosevelt in any case Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 369; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 164–70. See also TR’s personal enunciation of Hay’s “Open Door” policy on 27 Feb. 1902 (TRP). Hill, Roosevelt and the Caribbean, 34, notes how frequently, from now on, Hay invoked TR’s authority in his diplomatic correspondence.
49 “Teddy said” John Hay to Henry Adams, 13 Oct. 1901 (TD).
50 Most observers felt 14 Oct. 1901 news clips, Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
51 “For the moment” Frederick A. McKenzie in unidentified news clip, ca. Oct. 1901, Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
CHAPTER 2: THE MOST DAMNABLE OUTRAGE
1 Thousan’s iv men “Mr. Dooley” in Salt Lake City Daily Tribune, 10 Nov. 1901, Presidential