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109 Roosevelt’s “tyrannical” Senoia, Georgia, Enterprise-Gazette, 26 Feb. 1903, Presidential scrapbook (TRP); Fleming, Around the Capitol, 49; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 3, 231–32. Dr. Crum assumed his appointment on 30 Mar. 1903.
110 “To the Secretary” TR to Elihu Root, 21 Feb. 1903 (ER).
111 Treaties were TR, Letters, vol. 3, 433; Walter Wellman in Chicago Record-Herald, 3 Mar. 1903; proclamation, 2 Mar. 1903, Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
112 He had hardly Chicago Record-Herald, 3–4 Mar. 1903; Literary Digest, 7 Mar. 1903.
113 A House-Senate The phrase ugly with anger is Walter Wellman’s in the Chicago Record-Herald, 4 Mar. 1903. See also Washington Evening Star, same date.
114 At 2:00 A.M. The adjective dilatory is Quay’s own. Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 2, 1903, vol. 36, pt. 3, 3005–6; The Washington Post, 4 Mar. 1903.
115 Outside, the moon Washington Evening Star, 4 Mar. 1903; Bolles, Tyrant from Illinois, 8–9; Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 2, 1903, vol. 36, pt. 3, 3058.
116 Joseph Gurney Cannon Thompson, Party Leaders, 181; Public Opinion, 13 Feb. 1903.
117 Yet in this Cannon began to speak at 3:30 A.M. He had been confirmed as Henderson’s successor in January. Washington Evening Star, 4 and 5 Mar. 1903; Merrill, Republican Command, 137.
118 Long years of Bolles, Tyrant from Illinois, 8–9; Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich, 213–14.
119 “I am in earnest” Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 2, 1903, vol. 36, pt. 3, 3058.
120 When Cannon Busbey, Uncle Joe Cannon, xvi; James E. Watson, As I Knew Them: Memoirs (Indianapolis, 1936), 92, 99–100; Thompson, Party Leaders, 177–79.
121 “I am getting” Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 2, 1903, vol. 36, pt. 3, 3058.
122 Applause roared Washington Evening Star, 3–4 Mar. 1903; Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 2, 1903, vol. 36, pt. 3, 3008.
123 THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S Washington Evening Star, 4 Mar. 1903. The author is grateful to Brad Smith for enabling him to sit in the President’s Room and revisit this moment.
124 The naval-construction TR, Letters, vol. 3, 438; Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 7, 106; Gatewood, Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy, 112, 115. TR kept Crum in office as a recess appointee until the Senate finally confirmed him in Jan. 1905.
125 As the hands Congressional Record, 57 Cong., sess. 2, 1903, vol. 36, pt. 3, 3070; New York Sun, 5 Mar. 1903.
126 Far away, at Washington Evening Star, 4 Mar. 1903; Thompson, Party Leaders, 174–76; photographs in LC. For an analysis of the political forces Cannon harnessed in his leap to power, see Stephenson, Nelson W. Aldrich, 213–14.
CHAPTER 15: THE BLACK CRYSTAL
1 We’re a gr-reat Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and War (Boston, 1905), 5.
2 “Will you take” Pittsburgh Gazette, 2 Apr. 1903.
3 The fireman stared Pittsburgh Gazette and New York Sun, 2 Apr. 1903.
Note: The principal source for this chapter is TR’s own scrapbook, “Comment on West Coast Trip, 1903,” 3 vols. (TRP). Because the scrapbook proceeds chronologically, with an abundance of overlapping information, it will be cited as a single source. The author has also relied in particular on the eyewitness daily reports of Lindsay Denison in the New York Sun, and TR’s own narrative in Letters, vol. 3, 547–63. This classic, often very funny document, written at the request of John Hay, has been published separately in Elting E. Morison, ed., Cowboys and Kings: Three Great Letters by Theodore Roosevelt (Cambridge, Mass., 1954), 1–23. See p. 241.
4 Free at last
Chronological Note: TR’s official itinerary gives an idea of the rigors of presidential touring in the age before air travel and the loudspeaker. (“Whistle-stops” omitted.) APRIL 1: Leave Washington, D.C. 2: Chicago, Evanston, Ill. 3: Madison, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Wisc. 4: La Crosse, Wisc.; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. 5: Sioux Falls, S.D. 6: Yankton, Mitchell, Aberdeen, S.D.; Edgeley, Fargo, N.D. 7: Jamestown, Bismarck, Mandan, Medora, N.D. 8: Livingston, Cinnabar, Mont. (Yellowstone