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34 Squinting against The New York Times and Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 1902.
35 “We are passing” White House speech transcript, 23 Aug. 1902 (TRP).
36 Human law, he Ibid.
37 Roosevelt noticed Illustration in Frank W. Lovering, “Eyewitness Tells of TR’s Pittsfield Outrage,” unidentified Berkshires news clip, ca. 20 Aug. 1962 (TRB); Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 1902.
38 “Where men are” White House speech transcript, 23 Aug. 1902 (TRP); Merrill, Republican Command, 21.
39 E. H. Harriman could Providence Sunday Journal, 24 Aug. 1902. TR felt somewhat responsible for a current drought in GOP campaign contributions, brought about by the Northern Securities prosecution. TR, Letters, vol. 3, 317.
40 His audience began Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 1902.
41 By now, he Photograph and report in Denison, “The President on His Tours.”
42 THERE WAS SOME Literary Digest, 6 Sept. 1902.
43 PRESIDENT WOULD The New York Times, 24 Aug. 1902, e.g., TR has been criticized by John M. Blum in The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson (New York, 1980), 29, for saying nothing against the trusts that had not already been said by, e.g., President McKinley’s Industrial Commission. But as Galambos, Public Image, 258, points out, popular anger against the trusts had cooled by 1902. TR sought to rekindle it by restating old truths in his new, harsh, twentieth-century voice. For reactions to his antitrust oratory on tour, see Literary Digest, 6 Sept. 1902, and articles by Joseph Auer in North American Review, Dec. 1902, and Albert Shaw in Century Magazine, Jan. 1903.
44 THE PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL Sixty years later, Frank W. Lovering, who covered the trip for the Boston Journal, was driving along Bayshore Drive in Miami and noticed an old Pullman car in a siding, silhouetted against the moonlight of Biscayne Bay. “Something impelled me … to cross the tracks.… I walked along beside the Pullman. Bright in gold leaf I read by the sputtering glow of an arc lamp, Mayflower. I put my hand affectionately on the polished railing of the observation platform. Time fell into retreat. It was September again in the Berkshires.” Lovering, “Eyewitness.”
45 At Bangor, Maine Mrs. F. H. Eckstrom to C. H. Ames, 30 Aug. 1902 (TRP); Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, 153ff. See also The Washington Post, 28 Aug. 1902. Afterward, TR invited Sewall to visit the White House with “as many of your family as you can persuade to come.” For an account of their stay, see TR, Letters, vol. 3, 422.
46 “Not since the” Literary Digest, 6 Sept. 1902.
47 All Europe Ibid., 20 Sept. 1902. In London, the Westminster Gazette hailed TR as “one of the most courageous political adventurers of our time” (ibid.).
48 THE TRAIN SWUNG Presidential itinerary (TRP).
49 To Roosevelt, as Burlington Free Press, 2 Sept. 1902; unidentified news clip, Presidential scrapbook (TRP); John Hay to Alvey A. Adee, 30 Aug. 1902 (JH); Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 738.
50 Big Bill extra When the gaslights failed at a crowded Vermont reception, Craig was seen jumping “like a tiger” in front of TR. Reillumination of the room disclosed a wall of Secret Service agents around the President. Boston Herald and Philadelphia Press, 1 Sept. 1902.
51 Brattleboro. Girls Boston Journal, 4 Sept. 1902; TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 134–36, 143, 145.
52 Wednesday. Last day The following account is based on Lovering, “Eyewitness”; Boston Journal, 4 Sept. 1902; New York Herald, 4 Sept. 1902; George A. Lung, “Roosevelt’s Narrow Escape From Death,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 9 Jan. 1919; photographs donated by W. Murray Crane (TRB); and an official report by W. T. Meyer, 1 Oct. 1902, Precautionary File (GBC).
53 “Oh my God!” New York Sun,