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wrong to it (Theodore Roosevelt, 500–501). “Political economists are pretty generally agreed,” TR wrote in Thomas Hart Benton (1887), “that protectionism is vicious in theory and harmful in practice.” Yet by 1902 he saw “no reason” why Americans should not have it, if most of them wanted it. See TR, Letters, vol. 3, 312–13, and for a detailed study, James A. Rosmond, “Nelson Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Tariff: A Study to 1905,” (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 1974).

9 His failure eighteen Literary Digest, 27 Sept. 1902. The word reciprocity does not even appear in the index to the 1902 Republican Campaign Textbook.

10 Tariff reform Literary Digest, 16 Aug. 1902; TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 192–94; Merrill, Republican Command, 116–20.

11 During the next TR, Letters, vol. 3, 313, 326–27; Merrill, Republican Command, 122–23.

12 DISEMBARKING ON Chicago Tribune, 20 Sept. 1902.

13 When the train Pittsburgh Dispatch, 20 Sept. 1902. Quay and his colleague Boies Penrose had met with George Baer on 3 Sept. in a vain attempt to persuade him to arbitrate (Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 132). On the same day, TR, concerned at mounting violence in the anthracite country and criticisms of his own aloofness, released a report on the situation by Carroll D. Wright. This evenhanded document admitted a climate of “no confidence” and “distrust” on either side, but held that both had “reasonable and just” grievances that needed to be publicly adjudicated. Ibid., 109; The Independent, 18 Sept. 1902; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 327.

14 No sooner had New York Sun and Pittsburgh Dispatch, 20 Sept. 1902; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 327. Sargent is wrongly identified as Carroll D. Wright in the last-named source. For the story of Quay and Penrose’s attempt to influence strike negotiations, see Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 132–40.

15 Roosevelt sent a TR, Letters, vol. 3, 327.

16 HIS LEFT LEG Medical bulletin in Washington Evening Star, 24 Sept. 1902. The complete text of TR’s speech, his finest trust policy statement as President, is in Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 169–83.

17 It was the first TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 175–76, 178.

18 Speaking lucidly Ibid., 178.

19 By choosing two Ibid., 183–84.

20 At last the audience Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and Detroit Today, 21 Sept. 1902.

21 A REPORTER COVERING Detroit Today, 22 Sept. 1902.

22 Actually, the main Ibid.

23 Early the next morning Detroit Evening News, 22 Sept. 1902; Detroit Tribune, 23 Sept. 1902; Presidential scrapbook (TRP).

24 Speculation that Indianapolis Journal, 24 Sept. 1902; TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 187–95.

25 The tariff, for TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 191, 193.

26 Standing awkwardly Ibid., 194; The Washington Post, 24 Sept. 1902. Spooner wrote dryly to Senator Allison: “Some of it you undoubtedly recognize as familiar.” Merrill, Republican Command, 123.

27 WITH FURTHER ROARS Washington Evening Star, 24 Sept. 1902. Except where otherwise indicated, the following account of the events of 23 Sept. 1902 is based on “President Roosevelt’s Injury,” Indiana Medical Journal, Oct. 1902; Indianapolis Evening News, 23 Sept. 1902; and The Washington Post, 24 Sept. 1902.

28 From Logansport station The Washington Post and Indianapolis Evening News, 24 Sept. 1902.

29 “The President has” The Washington Post, 24 Sept. 1902.

30 “Elihu … if” Memorandum, ca. 25 Sept. 1902 (GBC).

31 Root paced up Ibid.

32 The President moved Ibid.; “President Roosevelt’s Injury”; New York World, 26 Oct. 1902.

33 Dr. George H. Medical bulletins in The Washington Post, 24 and 29 Sept. 1902; Dr. Lung qu. in Brooklyn Eagle, 9 Jan. 1919.

34 At five o’clock Douglas, Many-Sided Roosevelt, 96; The Washington Post, 24 Sept. 1902; Indianapolis Evening News, 23 Sept. 1902.

35 Successive bulletins Alvey A. Adee to John Hay, 24 Sept. 1902 (JH); The Washington Post, 29 Sept. 1902; Indianapolis Sentinel, 24 Sept. 1902.

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