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16 he elsewhere favored On 10 Nov., e.g., TR had replaced Alabama’s Lily White Republican Collector of Internal Revenue with a Booker T. Washington–endorsed Gold Democrat. The Washington Post, 11 Nov. 1902. See also Seth M. Scheiner, “President Roosevelt and the Negro, 1901–1909,” Journal of Negro History, July 1962.
17 “drawing of the color” Booker T. Washington in Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 6, 547. Scheiner, “President Roosevelt and the Negro,” claims that “something more than altruism” influenced TR’s Southern race policy. TR always denied that his motives were political (TR, Letters, vol. 3, 290–91, 387–88), but Scheiner cites evidence to the contrary. It suited him, e.g., to undermine the pro-Hanna Lily Whites of Alabama, whereas he appointed them freely in North Carolina in order to win the support of Senator Jeter Pritchard’s powerful machine. “His main purpose was to receive the support of Republican state organizations, not to aid or appoint Negroes.”
18 Within the depot The ethnic composition of TR’s welcoming committee—a pair of whites to a score of blacks—reflected that of the Yazoo Delta. Washington Evening Star, 18 Nov. 1902.
19 George H. Helm Gatewood, Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy, 96, 71; Washington Evening Star, 14 Nov. 1902; Denison, “President Roosevelt’s Mississippi Bear Hunt”; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 378.
20 Shortly before four Gregory C. Wilson, “Bagging the First Teddy Bear,” unpub. research paper, 1979, AC; Washington Evening Star, 13 Nov. 1902. Charles Snyder, “TR,” paper read to the New England Ophthalmological Society, 13 Apr. 1959 (TRC).
21 He stepped down The Washington Post, 17 Nov. 1902.
22 THE NEXT FIVE Paul Schullery, ed., American Bears; Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt (Boulder, 1983), 10; Denison, “President Roosevelt’s Mississippi Bear Hunt.”
23 “I am going” TR to Stuyvesant Fish, 6 Nov. 1902 (TRP). The hunt, organized by Fish, otherwise consisted of seven sporting gentlemen, TR’s personal physician, two Secret Service agents, and sundry guides and retainers.
24 Embarrassingly, he Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
25 Paradoxically, one Gregory C. Wilson, “The Birth of the Teddy Bear,” Bear Tracks: Official Newsletter of the Good Bears of the World, fall 1979; Holt Collier interview, Saturday Evening Post, 10 Apr. 1909.
26 No sooner had Denison, “President Roosevelt’s Mississippi Bear Hunt.”
27 Back at the Holt Collier interview, The Saturday Evening Post, 10 Apr. 1909. The sex of TR’s bear is a subject of debate. A hunter who has seen the skin judges it to have been that of a 246-pound female. Charles Moose interview with author, 10 Nov. 1988 (AC).
28 “Put it out” The Washington Post, 15 Nov. 1902.
29 Whether or not Clifford Berryman qu. in Marietta Andrews, My Studio Window: Sketches of the Pageant of Washington Life (New York, 1928), 172. The version of “Drawing the Line” most frequently reproduced is not the original Washington Post cartoon. Berryman seems to have produced a second version (with the bear as a cub), later in 1902—whether for publication or not is unclear. It is sometimes wrongly attributed to the Washington Evening Star. The “other” bear cartoon he drew for William E. Chandler is probably a third version, showing a pack of bear cubs joyfully escorting “Teddy” out of the forest (Presidential scrapbook [TRP]). According to Berryman, this one was “a hit.” In later years, the cartoonist so identified with the Teddy Bear that he used to sign his letters with it. Andrews, My Studio Window, 171.
30 Three thousand Wilson, “Birth of the Teddy Bear”; Peggy and Alan Bialosky, eds., The Teddy Bear Catalogue: Care, Repair, and Love (New York, 1980), 12–21.
Historiological Note: The most serious study of the TR/Teddy Bear phenomenon is Linda Mullins, The Teddy Bear Men: Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford Berryman (Cumberland, Md., 1987). See also the above-cited works of Wilson and Bialosky. Morris and Rose Michtom founded the Ideal Toy