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4 Only when a Leighton, “Shenandoah”; Walter Wellman in Chicago Record-Herald, 14 Sept. 1902: “Their faith in him is completely sublime.”
5 John Mitchell Robert H. Wiebe, “The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902: A Record of Confusion,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Sept. 1961; Leighton, “Shenandoah”; Miller and Sharpless, Kingdom of Coal, 254–55; Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 116–18. This concession amounted to a personal triumph for Mitchell, who argued passionately against a national strike.
6 Swarthy, silent Glück, John Mitchell, 106, 98; Wiebe, “Anthracite Coal Strike,” 240–41.
7 Mitchell’s concessions Miller and Sharpless, Kingdom of Coal, 256; Anthracite Coal Commission, Report to the President, 35. See Eliot Jones, The Anthracite Coal Combinations (Cambridge, Mass., 1919).
8 When the miners Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 115.
9 Roaming the anthracite Wiebe, “Anthracite Coal Strike,” 237–38; Mark Hanna to George Perkins, 19 May 1902 (GWP).
10 “The coal presidents” The New York Times, 30 July 1902.
11 SHENANDOAH WAS QUIET Culin, Trooper’s Narrative, passim; Leighton, “Shenandoah,” 136.
12 Centre Street was Leighton, “Shenandoah,” 136; Rhone, “Anthracite Coal Mines.”
13 Shortly before 6:00 Harrisburg Patriot, 31 July 1902. The deputy, Thomas Bedall, was the nephew of Sheriff S. Rowland Bedall. Their identical surnames have confused some historians—e.g., Miller and Sharpless in Kingdom of Coal.
14 He was accompanied The New York Times, 31 July 1902; Literary Digest, 9 Aug. 1902; Leighton, “Shenandoah,” 143. See also Glück, John Mitchell, 111ff.; Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 151–52.
15 guns and bayonets The New York Times, 31 July 1902; Harrisburg Patriot and The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 Aug. 1902.
16 This freed Roosevelt TR, Letters, vol. 3, 359; Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 109; Literary Digest, 9 Aug. 1902.
17 Ten thousand bared Philadelphia Public Ledger, 2 Aug. 1902.
18 Few among the Wiebe, “Anthracite Coal Strike,” 240, 235.
19 “If you lose” Glück, John Mitchell, 94; Philadelphia Public Ledger, 2 Aug. 1902.
20 For the next Philadelphia North American, 1 Aug. 1902. See Glück, John Mitchell, 104–5, for the visits of intellectuals to anthracite country that summer.
21 Roosevelt began to William Lemke, “Teddy Downeast: The 1902 New England Tour and the Style and Substance of Roosevelt’s Leadership,” in Naylor et al., Theodore Roosevelt, 190–200.
22 From what he heard Norton Goddard to TR, 12 Aug. 1902 (TRP).
23 The feeling went The following account is taken from a scoop in the Philadelphia North American, 9 Aug. 1902.
24 (Some years before) Ibid.
25 “Will you send” TR to E. H. Harriman, 16 Aug. 1902 (TRP).
26 “My day has” E. H. Harriman to TR, 18 Aug. 1902 (TRP).
27 Some paragraphs Ibid.
28 “The rights and” Facsimile in Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 425.
29 This pious protestation Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 170–72; The New York Times and New York Tribune, 21 Aug. 1902.
30 Roosevelt, about TR to Philander Knox, 21 Aug. 1902 (TRP); Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 148; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 359. 137 THE SYLPH steamed Frank W. Lovering in Boston Journal, 23 Aug. 1902; The New York Times, 23 Aug. 1902; unidentified news clips, Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
31 Three traveling aides For an example of TR’s continuing management of press relations, see his letter to the editor of the New York Sun, asking for Lindsay Denison to accompany him on tour. “He is a trump, and as you know I can tell him everything” (TR to Chester S. Lord, 12 Aug. 1902 [TRP]). Denison rewarded him for this encomium with favorable Sun coverage and a major article, “The President on His Tours,” World’s Work, Nov. 1902.
32 Roosevelt had grown Frank W. Lovering in Boston Journal, 4 Sept. 1902; unidentified news clip, Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
33 AT NOON THE TR reached Providence after a night stop in Hartford, Conn., where he created a sensation by publicly associating himself with the city’s blue-collar