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33 While doctors hovered TR, Letters, vol. 3, 342.
34 The bells of The New York Times, 4 Oct. 1902.
35 “WELL, I HAVE” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 337. Wiebe, “Anthracite Coal Strike,” 245, notes that TR, having “tried and failed,” was risking an intervention by Hanna, who, if successful, would loom even larger as his potential rival in 1904.
36 Aides were surprised Beer, Hanna, 584; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 337–38, 341. See also TR to Seth Low, 4 Oct. 1902 (unmailed) (TRP).
37 He wanted to see Washington Times, 4 Oct. 1902; TR, Autobiography, 488. See, e.g., nearly the entire front page of the Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 1902.
38 The national newspapers Literary Digest, 11 Oct. 1902.
39 Roosevelt tended Brooklyn Eagle, 4 Oct. 1902; Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 207–8; Walter W. Ross to TR, 5 Oct. 1902 (PCK); Frederick Holls to TR, 2 Oct. 1902 (TRC); Dwight Braman to TR, 3 Oct. 1902, and Walter W. Ross to TR, 6 Oct. 1902 (PCK); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 346.
40 “the most awful” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 343–44, 592.
41 As if to reassure Grover Cleveland to TR, 4 Oct. 1902 (TRP).
42 This was that Ibid.
43 “Your letter was” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 338–39. Cleveland’s letter was indeed such a “help” that TR immediately leaked it to Robert Bacon at the House of Morgan.
44 “I think I” Ibid. TR’s decision to continue negotiating split his Cabinet into two, with Root, Knox, Moody, and Payne supporting him, and Hay, Hitchcock, Wilson, and Shaw preserving a disapproving silence. Walter Wellman in Review of Reviews, Nov. 1902.
45 Roosevelt did not Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 211; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 339.
46 JOHN MITCHELL RECEIVED John Mitchell to TR, 8 Oct. 1902, and Carroll D. Wright to TR, 6 Oct. 1902 (TRP).
47 “Dear Mr. Putnam:” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 343.
48 Putnam obliged Ibid., 344.
49 WHILE ROOSEVELT READ Mrs. George Dewey diary, 12 Nov. 1902 (GD); Culin, Trooper’s Narrative, 78, 70; Edward Hoyt to Harry Hoyt, 6 Oct. 1902 (PCK); Literary Digest, 18 Oct. 1902; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 361.
50 “He literally ran” George H. Gordon to John Mitchell, 7 Oct. 1902 (JM). Public leaders were beginning to talk seriously of nationalizing the anthracite industry (Carroll D. Wright to TR, 15 Nov. 1903 [TRP]).
51 “We believe that” John Mitchell to TR, 8 Oct. 1902 (TRP), bluntly pointed out that the President did not have the power to enforce the findings of his own commission. See Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 196–98, for more details of TR/Mitchell negotiations at this time.
52 His statement was Commons, History of Labor, 46; New York Tribune, 10 Oct. 1902.
53 “I must not be” Lodge, Selections, vol. 1, 537–38; Foulke, Hoosier Autobiography, 129. TR was now reading E.H.R. Tatham’s life of John Sobieski. See TR, Letters, vol. 3, 347, for the cast list of his commission.
54 Congress was entitled Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 208–9; Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 210. Ignoring an opinion from Knox that he had no constitutional power to act, TR drafted a “posterity letter” explaining that he might invade anyway. “The first principle of civilization is the preservation of order” (TR to Carroll D. Wright, 8 Oct. 1902 [TRP]). See also his angry remark to the Washington correspondent of The Times of London, “If they think I am going to tolerate mob law, they will find out their mistake five minutes after they have begun” (George Washburn Smalley, Anglo-American Memories [New York, 1911], 376). Something about the President’s smiling inscrutability at this time caused John B. Jackson, appointed envoy to Greece on 13 Oct. 1902, to feel that TR was “the most dangerous man the United States have ever seen.” Jackson to Andrew D. White, 27 Mar. 1912 (ADW).
55 “In all the” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 346–47.
56 Cleveland was Robert McElroy, Grover Cleveland: The Man and the Statesman (New York, 1923), vol. 2, 310–11; Grover Cleveland to TR, 13 Oct. 1902 (TRP).
57 Anticipating an early This sacrifice cost the former President $2,500. McElroy, Grover Cleveland, vol. 2, 310–11.
58 IT WAS ELIHU Elihu Root to J. P. Morgan, 9 Oct.