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40 Both of them New York Sun, 14 July 1902.
41 Friends again Ibid.; “President’s Official Yacht Rivals Those of Royalty,” unidentified clip, 15 July 1902 (HH); Edwin A. Falk, “USS Mayflower,” pamphlet in TRC.
42 “Bully! Bully!” New York Sun, 15 July 1902.
43 ROOSEVELT’S DECISION Literary Digest, 26 July 1902. The dismissal was announced on the sixteenth. It made TR highly unpopular with the Army, and was seen even by anti-imperialists as a stern and cathartic punishment. See, e.g., Charles Francis Adams to Carl Schurz, 31 July 1902 (CS).
44 Even the Anti-Imperialist League leaders protested that Roosevelt had dramatically sacrificed General Smith in order to protect hundreds of other American war criminals. On 22 July, Charles Francis Adams, Carl Schurz, Edwin Burritt Smith, and Herbert Welsh published an open letter to TR (in TRP), alleging abuses “far more general” than any he had admitted. For negative public reactions to it, see Literary Digest, 9 Aug. 1902.
45 “I think he” Charles Francis Adams to Carl Schurz, 4 and 21 Aug. 1902 (CS).
46 ALMOST UNNOTICED TR, Letters, vol. 3, 302; William H. Taft to TR, 27 Oct. 1902 (TRP).
47 He dreamily informed TR, Letters, vol. 3,288.
48 “Now … in the” Ibid., 289.
49 Having thus briskly The Washington Post, 27 July 1902.
50 FOG DELAYED John A. Garraty, “Holmes’s Appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court,” New England Quarterly, Sept. 1949; G. Edward White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self(New York, 1993), 301.
51 Oliver Wendell Holmes Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (Boston, 1944), 120; photographs in Supreme Court Historical Society, Washington, D.C.; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (Cambridge, Mass., 1963), 5.
52 In his world Alexander M. Bickel and Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., The History of the Supreme Court of the United States (New York, 1984), vol. 9, 70–71; Holmes, Common Law, 5. Sheldon Novick, Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston, 1989), 283.
53 Theodore Roosevelt TR, Letters, vol. 3, 288.
54 After returning to Novick, Honorable Justice, 235–36; Garraty, “Holmes’s Appointment.”
55 Roosevelt agreed with Garraty, “Holmes’s Appointment”; Henry Cabot Lodge to TR, 25 July 1902 (TRP). Holmes, for his part, had to admit that Roosevelt “said just the right things and impressed me far more than I had expected.” Qu. in White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 312.
56 “We shall have to” Garraty, “Holmes’s Appointment”; Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, 348. TR announced Holmes’s appointment on 11 Aug. 1903.
57 In the good old Lyrics in Music Division, LC. In 1903, the song was sung as a waltz.
58 Grotesque as it Archibald B. Roosevelt interview, 7 June 1977. TR had been peripherally involved in the coal strike since early June. See, e.g., Washington Times, 7 June 1902.
59 One hundred and forty-seven Anthracite Coal Commission, Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May–October 1902 (Washington, D.C., 1903), 37; Washington Times, 7 June 1902. For background to the anthracite strike, see Donald Miller and Richard E. Sharpless, The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields (Philadelphia, 1985).
60 A visiting British Stuart Uttley, quoted in Literary Digest, 8 Feb. 1902.
61 Roosevelt concluded Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 148; Proceedings of the Anthracite Coal Commission (Washington, D.C., 1903), vol. 28, 4377ff.
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1 What d’ye think Dunne, Observations by Mr. Dooley, 218–19.
2 FOR ELEVEN WEEKS Rosamond D. Rhone, “Anthracite Coal Mines and Coaling,” Review of Reviews, July 1902.
3 What made Sheriff George E. Leighton, “Shenandoah, Pa.: Story of an Anthracite Town,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Jan. 1937; Literary Digest, 24 May and 7 July 1902; Elsie Glück, John Mitchell: Miner (New York, 1929), 111; Stewart Culin, A Trooper’s Narrative of Service in the Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 (Philadelphia, 1903), 36–37. See also Victor