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59 Root told the Elihu Root to Philip C. Jessup, 26 Oct. 1935 (PCJ).
60 He would use TR legal deposition, 27 May 1914, qu. in Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 211; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 362; TR, Autobiography, 480.
61 Far from dissenting New York Tribune, 12 Oct. 1902. See Satterlee, J. Pierpont Morgan, 392–93, for details of Root’s trip.
62 When Mitchell Warne, “John Mitchell.”
63 THE WEATHER TURNED TR, Letters, vol. 3, 348; TR, Autobiography, 489, 491. TR has sometimes been accused of exaggerating fears of a coming catastrophe in Oct. 1902. But see the common terror of, e.g., Judge Gray in Ferdinand C. Iglehart, Theodore Roosevelt: The Man As I Knew Him (New York, 1919), 387; Governor Crane in Lawrence, Memories, 156; Charles G. Dawes, A Journal of the McKinley Years (Chicago, 1950), 325; and James C. Cortelyou to George Cortelyou, 7 Oct. 1902 (GBC).
64 “I bid you” TR deposition, qu. in Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 211. This conversation took place at 10:00 A.M., 13 Oct. 1902. White House appointment book (TRP).
65 Schofield must TR had arranged through Senator Quay a means whereby Governor Stone, in response to an anonymous telegram, THE TIME FOR THE REQUEST HAS COME, would instantly “ask” for federal military help. Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 212.
66 The old soldier Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 111–12. TR, pace the opinion of his Attorney General, considered himself empowered to send in troops by the Railroad Arbitration Act of 1888. TR to Carroll D. Wright (draft), 8 Oct. 1902 (TRP); Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 437–38, and Dawes, Journal of the McKinley Years, 327–28.
67 Then, late on Washington Times, 14 Oct. 1902. Morgan was accompanied by Robert Bacon.
68 WALTER WELLMAN Walter Wellman, “The Settlement of the Coal Strike,” Review of Reviews, Nov. 1902. The ubiquitous reporter was functioning as an unofficial conduit among TR, Mitchell, and the House of Morgan. White House appointment book, 4 Oct. 1902 (TRP); Walter Wellman to John Mitchell, 6 Oct. 1902 (JM); George Cortelyou to TR, 9 Oct. 1902 (TRP).
69 a document capable Beautifully bound and preserved as “Original draft of the Coal Agreement Made on Board S. Y. Corsair in the Autograph of Secretary Root, 11 Oct. 1902” in the Morgan Library, New York City.
Chronological Note: Not coincidentally, Attorney General Knox was at that moment addressing the subject of Capital v. Government before the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. His speech, entitled “The Commerce Clause of the Constitution and the Trusts,” was the sharpest warning yet that the Roosevelt Administration would use the Sherman Act against any corporate combination that sought to evade regulation by Congress. He made clear that a certain coal combination was practically asking to be so disciplined. The speech caused a sensation, as TR expected. He regarded it as “the most important” one that any member of the Administration would deliver in 1902, and had personally arranged for it to be delivered on 13 Oct. Of course, TR had no advance knowledge that the operators would begin to crack that same day, but his insistence that Knox heap further propaganda on them just then illustrates his uncanny sense of political timing. TR to W. H. Keach, 7 Oct. 1902 (TRP); Keach to TR, same date (PCK).
70 At first, Roosevelt TR, Letters, vol. 3, 350, 363; Corsair Agreement, copy in ER.
71 “An officer of” Qu. in TR, Letters, vol. 3, 365.
72 Anyone could TR, Autobiography, 482–84; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 352; Cornell, Anthracite Coal Strike, 230–31.
73 Nevertheless, Roosevelt Wiebe, “Anthracite Coal Strike,” 248, says that