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26 “There is a widespread” TR, Works, vol. 17, 104.
27 “It is no” Ibid., 104–5.
28 If Nelson W. Barry, Forty Years, 152; Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich, 9, 172. 73 “The first essential” Ibid., 105.
29 Aldrich’s was a Rothman, Politics and Power, 46; David S. Barry and Elihu Root in biographical file (NWA).
30 His power derived Merrill, Republican Command, 24, 28; speech cards in NWA; Barry, Forty Years, 153. See, e.g., James Anthony Rosmond, “Nelson Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt and the Tariff: A Study to 1905” (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 1974).
31 Roosevelt, in contrast David S. Barry memo, biographical file (NWA).
32 As far as Aldrich Merrill, Republican Command, 24–25.
33 “The nation should” TR, Works, vol. 17, 106.
34 Aldrich believed that Barry memo, biographical file (NWA).
35 Since this was The term Majority Leader was not yet current. Neither was the convenient (and misleading) group term of “the Senate Four” for Aldrich, Spooner, Allison, and Platt. Although these men indeed worked closely together, they often differed on important issues—Aldrich and Allison on the tariff, e.g. Other Republican senators wielded great power in their personal fiefdoms: Henry Cabot Lodge on foreign policy, Eugene Hale on naval affairs, Hanna on labor, and so on. In a letter to his parents, written ca. Feb. 1903, the Chicago newspaper heir Medill McCormick defined the government of the United States as “an oligarchy tempered by the veto” (MHM).
36 “I believe that” TR, Works, vol. 17, 106.
37 THE SENATE WAS Profile of Aldrich based on biographical file (NWA); Steffens, Autobiography, 504; Ainslee’s Magazine, Dec. 1901; Bowers, Beveridge, 313–24; Merrill, Republican Command, 21–26; and photographs in various publications.
38 There were a few Rothman, Politics and Power, 112, 136, 217, 112–15, 136, 183–86, 201.
39 Orville Platt was Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich, 203.
40 What held them Rothman, Politics and Power, 111, 117.
41 He granted TR, Works, vol. 17, 107–10.
42 Clearly, neither subject Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 12, 24–26; Merrill, Republican Command, 26.
43 “The railway” TR, Works, vol. 17, 116–17.
44 “The doctrine of” Ibid., 124.
45 “We are dealing” Ibid., 125.
46 FOR ANOTHER HOUR Washington Evening Times, 3 Dec. 1901; Paul Russell Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist (Urbana, 1985), 93.
47 By two o’clock Washington Evening Times, 3 Dec. 1901; New York World, 4 Dec. 1901.
48 “In the midst” TR, Works, vol. 17, 160.
49 Each had an New York World and New York Herald, 4 Dec. 1901.
50 Democratic leaders, too The Washington Post, 4 Dec. 1901.
51 Members of the Literary Digest, 14 Dec. 1901. “Never in our history,” commented the New York Evening Post, “have we had a more striking example of great responsibility upon an imperious nature.” Negative comment was concentrated in the South.
52 That night, Roosevelt Pittsburgh Times, 4 Dec. 1901; Review of Reviews, Jan. 1902; Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 160; Washington Evening Times, 3 Dec. 1901, and New York Tribune, 4 Dec. 1901.
53 “It is not” Chicago Record-Herald, 5 Dec. 1901.
54 On 7 December Washington Evening Star, 7 Dec. 1901.
55 The quickest way Review of Reviews, Jan. 1902. On 9 Dec., TR received a letter from the black politician Ralph Waldo Tyler, forwarded by Booker T. Washington, warning him that “Senator Hanna will be candidate for President.” Negro officeholders all over the South were prepared “to go to the next National convention with a solid delegation” in support of their patron. No doubt this letter added a spur to TR’s own patronage plans. For his bemused reaction, see TR, Letters, vol. 3, 206.
56 A surprise choice Gage privately admitted that the contrast between TR’s galvanic personality and that of McKinley had left him with a feeling of “chronic sadness.” Gage to Charles