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77 Alice Roosevelt—debutante Marguerite Cassini, Never a Dull Moment (New York, 1956), 168–89; Literary Digest, 12 Apr. 1902.
78 He regretted the Literary Digest, 12 Apr. 1902; Cassini, Never a Dull Moment, 194; Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 351; Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt. See also Rixey, Bamie, 196ff.
79 Previous Presidents Thorelli, Federal Antitrust Policy, 586–87. The adverb voluntarily emphasizes that all of Harrison’s, Cleveland’s, and McKinley’s antitrust suits were initiated outside their administrations, at the state or private level.
80 For these reasons Wister, Roosevelt, 209. See also Lamoreaux, Great Merger Movement, 166.
CHAPTER 6: TWO PILOTS ABOARD, AND ROCKS AHEAD
1 It looks to me “Mr. Dooley,” qu. in Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 86.
2 “CHAOS! EVERYWHERE!” The Washington Post, 15 Mar. 1902.
3 “Both compass and” Ibid.
4 On the very day Washington Times, 15 Mar. 1902.
5 Hanna’s presidential Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 349; “The Hanna Presidential Boom,” Literary Digest, 7 June 1902, 23; The Washington Post, 10 Mar. 1901. “There is now in operation the most complete Bureau since 1896, and that Bureau is working day and night for Mark Hanna.” L. T. Michener to Eugene Hay, ca. 24 Dec. 1901 (copy in HKB).
6 They estimated Cleveland Plain Dealer, 13 Mar. 1902; The Washington Post, 15 Mar. 1902; Chairman of the New York Irish Republican League to Mark Hanna, 21 July 1902 (MHM). This last correspondent reported that in a recent poll of his membership, representing Manhattan and the Bronx, more than two thirds had expressed a preference for Hanna.
7 Hanna dismissed the Public Opinion, 27 Mar. 1902; Volnay W. Foster, assistant treasurer of the Republican National Committee, qu. in unidentified news clip (MHM); Toledo Blade news clip, ca. 15 Mar. 1902 (MHM). The dinner was held in New York on 5 Mar. 1902.
8 Deep in his Mrs. Hanna, interviewed by J. B. Morrow, 19 May 1905 (MHM); Robert C. Rhodes, interviewed by J. B. Morrow, 17 Apr. 1906 (MHM).
9 Yet Hanna’s web Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 375–76; Missouri Post-Dispatch, 5 Apr. 1902, news clip in MHM. Gould, Reform and Regulation, 40, discounts the strength of Hanna’s web, finding it “fragile.” That may have been the case later on, but contemporary sources are united in depicting the Senator as the GOP leader and likely nominee in 1904. He remained at this apex of power through the rest of the year.
10 It was understood John T. Flynn, “Mark Hanna—Big Business in Politics,” Scribner’s, Aug. 1933; Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 272, 344–45, 373.
11 Such eminence A. B. Hough, interviewed by J. B. Morrow (MHM); The Washington Post, 29 Mar. 1902.
12 The Commanding General The Washington Post, 15 Mar. 1902.
13 “General Miles’s most” Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 1902.
14 Not content with TR to Nelson A. Miles, 17 Feb. 1902 (TRP; suppressed). See also TR, Letters, vol. 3, 245.
15 The letter was TR, Letters, vol. 3, 232, 240–42, 244–47.
16 He had hardly Washington Evening Star, 19 Feb. 1902.
17 Root wrote separately 57 Cong., 1 sess., 1902, S. Doc. 205, pt. 1, 1–3; Leopold, Elihu Root, 36; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 338–39.
18 Root’s words masked 57 Cong., 1 sess., 1902, S. Doc. 24, pt. 1, 881–85. For racism among United States soldiers in the Philippines, see Richard E. Welch, Jr., Response to Imperialism: The United States and the Philippine-American War, 1899–1902 (Chapel Hill, 1979), chap. 8, and for their moral degeneration see Stuart Creighton Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation”: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899–1903 (New Haven, 1983), chap. 10.
19 So damning was Taft qu. in The Washington Post, 11 Apr. 1902. Attached to the report was the statement of a provincial official that one third of the