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16 ROOSEVELT DINES A Richmond Dispatch, 18 Oct. 1901; Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years (Baton Rouge, 1970), 36; The Atlanta Constitution, 18 Oct. 1901, Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
17 Some of the more Undated news clips and Presidential scrapbook (TRP). See also Theo Miller, “Booker T. Washington and Some American Writers,” Research Studies 39.4 (1970), and Takahiro Sasaki’s detailed study “Race or Individual Freedom: Public Reactions to the Roosevelt-Washington Dinner at the White House in October, 1901” (M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina, 1984).
18 The storm squalled William H. Lewis, TR’s black classmate from Harvard, spent a night in the gubernatorial mansion, as did a stranded black baritone denied admission to local hotels. TR also entertained Booker T. Washington at Oyster Bay. Presidential scrapbook, Oct. 1901 (TRP); Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 230.
19 Hate mail The Washington Post, 19 Oct. 1901; Presidential scrapbook (TRP); Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 136; St. Louis Mirror, 31 Oct. 1901. The most recent Tillman biography is Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (Chapel Hill, 2000). But see also Francis B. Simkins, Pitchfork Ben Tillman (Baton Rouge, 1944), 1–32.
20 “At one stroke” Richmond News, 18 Oct. 1901. See also Edgar G. Murphy to Booker T. Washington, 19 Oct. 1901 (BTW).
21 BY TACIT AGREEMENT New York Tribune, 25 Oct. 1901; Springfield Republican, n.d., Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
22 ON 21 OCTOBER New Orleans Times-Democrat and St. Louis Republic, 22 Oct. 1901; Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 317; Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 262; Charles P. Taft to William H. Taft, 24 Oct. 1901 (WHT).
23 Roosevelt looked calm New York Herald, 22 Oct. 1901; Platt qu. in Louis Coolidge, An Old-Fashioned Senator: Orville H. Platt (New York, 1910), 512; “Precautionary” [security] file, Oct. 1901 (TRP). Leon Czolgosz approached McKinley with what looked like a bandaged right hand. McKinley reached to shake his left, whereupon the “bandage” spit bullets.
24 Shocked by this New Hampshire Evening Register, 23 Oct. 1901, Presidential scrapbook (TRP); Rhodes, McKinley and Roosevelt, 228.
25 Degrees were awarded Longworth, Crowded Hours, 43; The New York Times and New York Journal, 24 Oct. 1901. TR was awarded an LL.D.
26 Notwithstanding this Frederick S. Wood, Roosevelt as We Knew Him (Philadelphia, 1927), 98.
27 Twain’s private Bernard De Voto, ed., Mark Twain in Eruption (New York, 1940), 30–31.
28 A LARGE CROWD New Orleans Times-Democrat, 21 Oct. 1901; New York Herald and Washington Evening Star, 25 Oct. 1901.
29 ROOSEVELT’S QUERULOUSNESS Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 274–75; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 181, 184. In late October, Senator John L. McLaurin of South Carolina wrote a sympathetic statement explaining TR’s action in terms calculated to reassure the South. But TR refused to approve it. “The President said he did not want anyone to make any explanation for him” (George Cortelyou superscript on original draft [TRP]).
30 “My dear Mr. President” Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 274.
31 Sensing Roosevelt’s need Ibid., 263, 283.
32 Some good, certainly John M. Blum, The Republican Roosevelt (Cambridge, Mass., 1954), 44; Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 305, 324.
33 “the infinite capacity” “TR and the Press,” unpublished ms. (HH).
34 He dutifully announced New York Journal, 30 Oct. 1901.
35 “I have not been” TR to Albion W. Tourgée, 8 Nov. 1901, Letters, vol. 3, 190–91.
36 As the famous See, e.g., TR to Carl Schurz, qu. in Harlan, Booker T. Washington, 321; Wister, Roosevelt, 254; M. A. De Wolfe Howe, George von Lengerke Meyer: His Life and Public Services (New York, 1919), 416, 420; TR, Letters, vol. 8, 981–82.
37 And when Washington Booker T. Washington to George Cortelyou, 20 Dec. 1901 (TRP).
CHAPTER 3: ONE VAST, SMOOTHLY RUNNING MACHINE
1 A hard time Finley Peter Dunne, Observations by Mr. Dooley (New York, 1902), 175.