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37 She established him Presidential scrapbook (TRP); Philander Knox to The Washington Post, 25 Sept. 1902; Chicago Tribune, 25 Sept. 1902.
38 He regretted that TR, Letters, vol. 3, 328; The Washington Post, 30 Sept. 1902; Merrill, Republican Command, 127; Willis Van Devanter to F. E. Warren, 13 May 1903 (WVD).
39 That did not TR, Letters, vol. 3, 335; New York World, 28 Sept. 1902; Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 417ff.
40 Right now, he TR, Letters, vol. 3, 335.
41 ON SUNDAY, 28 Washington Evening Star, 29 Sept. 1902.
Note: Dr. Rixey was the father of Lilian Rixey, author of Bamie.
42 The President’s EKR to Kermit Roosevelt, 28 Sept. 1902 (TRC); Dr. Rixey testimony in Roosevelt vs. Newett: A Transcript of the Testimony Taken and Depositions Read at Marquette, Michigan, May 6–31, 1913 (privately printed, 1914; copy in TRB), 66, 306–7; “President Roosevelt’s Injury”; EKR to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., ca. 29 Sept. 1902 (TRJR); Washington Evening Star, 29 Sept. 1902.
43 CHILL WEATHER George H. Gordon to John Mitchell, 27 Sept. 1902 (JM); Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 174; Low to TR, 2 Oct. 1902 (TRP). According to Wiebe, “Anthracite Coal Strike,” 244, the panic was unnecessary. If the operators had allowed their trains to haul bituminous coal (which was in plentiful supply, and which Mitchell had not embargoed), “all market demands could have been met.” In any case, fairly adequate supplies of bituminous coal got through somehow. There never was, as TR believed, “a coal famine.” For another account, see Arthur M. Schaefer, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Contribution to the Concept of Presidential Intervention in Labor Disputes: Antecedents and the 1902 Coal Strike,” in Naylor et al., Theodore Roosevelt, 201–20.
44 Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge to TR, 22 and 27 Sept. 1902 (TRP).
45 “Literally nothing,” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 331. Heman W. Chaplin argues in The Coal Mines and the Public: A Popular Statement of the Legal Aspects of the Coal Problem, and the Rights of Consumers as the Situation Exists (New York, 1902) that TR actually was entitled to intervene under the Sherman Act (55).
46 He suspected that TR, Letters, vol. 3, 331–32.
47 “Unfortunately the strength” Ibid.
48 Two days later Washington Evening Star, 30 Sept. 1902; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 359–60; Henry Lawrence, Memories of a Happy Life (Boston, 1926), 156; TR to John J. Leary, Leary Notebooks (TRC).
49 Crane suggested Carolyn W. Johnson, Winthrop Murray Crane: A Study in Republican Leadership, 1892–1920 (Northampton, Mass., 1967), 27–30; Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 176; TR to John J. Leary, Leary Notebooks (TRC).
50 Roosevelt was not TR to Hanna, 27 Sept. 1902 (TRP); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 360.
51 In the cool Qu. in Jacob A. Riis, Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen (Washington, D.C., 1904), 376. Crane is generally given credit for persuading TR to hold a strike conference, but the initial idea appears to have come from John Mitchell, who wrote Mark Hanna on 8 Sept. 1902, “The strike might be brought to a close if you could have the President write the railroad presidents and our officers to meet with him and you to try to adjust our differences” (MIT).
52 He showed them TR, Letters, vol. 3, 360; Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 470.
53 He got his The following text is from the original “Memo to the President dictated by P. C. Knox as representing his views and those of Mr. Crane, Mr. Moody, and Mr. Payne,” 30 Sept. 1902 (PCK).
54 Roosevelt struck out Ibid.; Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 182, misdates this memorandum as 3 Oct. 1902. TR deleted the phrase no precedent in other strikes will be created when he made his own public statement later.
55 THE COAL STRIKE Horace N. Fisher to Knox, 1 Oct. 1902, and Edwin E. Hoyt to Harry Hoyt, 6 Oct. 1902 (PCK); Pottsville Miners Journal, 24 Sept. 1902; Literary Digest, 4 Oct. 1902. Press accounts tended to exaggerate the violence, just as secretive Slavs downplayed it. John Mitchell admitted to six deaths, then seven. Stewart Culin, who spent six