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84 “The ‘greatest number’ ” Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 113. See ibid. for the gradual hardening of battle lines between conservation and preservation during the Roosevelt Era.
85 Whatever resonance Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt, 117; Muir admitted afterward, “I stuffed him pretty well regarding … spoilers of the forest.” John L. Eliot, “TR’s Wilderness Legacy,” National Geographic, Sept. 1982.
86 For the next James M. Clarke, The Life and Adventures of John Muir (San Diego, 1979), 292–93.
87 On 17 May “Comment” scrapbook; Muir qu. in William F. Bade, The Life and Letters of John Muir (Boston, 1924), vol. 2, 412.
88 some philosophical Fox, John Muir and His Legacy, 109–15; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 475. TR’s order, which created an almost unbroken chain of mountain reserves from Mexico to British Columbia, was hailed by Century, Aug. 1903: “If his trip had resulted in no other public benefit, this alone would have justified it.” Three years later, TR incorporated both the valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove into Yosemite National Park.
89 Roosevelt’s next TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 2, 414–18 (Carson City, Nev.); California Addresses, 40. Later, in Oregon, TR asked his new Commissioner of Public Lands, William A. Richards, to investigate that state’s famously corrupt disposition of forest property to mining and lumbering interests. “The extent of the Oregon land scandal would grow over the next several years as a kind of background theme to the larger story of conservation” (Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 112). For TR’s creation of the Public Lands Commission, see D. Jerome Tweton, “Theodore Roosevelt and Land Law Reform,” Mid-America 49.1 (1967).
90 “Well, thank” Lodge, Selections, vol. 2, 17.
91 Seattle neither “The Day Teddy Roosevelt Arrived, 1903,” Puget Sound Enetai, 18 Mar. 1983; Lodge, Selections, vol. 2, 20.
92 the issue which Mark Hanna to TR, 23 May 1903 (TRP).
93 “a knockdown” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 482.
94 Fate—or Joseph B. Mowry, Theodore Roosevelt, 172.
95 Roosevelt saw James Garfield interviewed by J. B. Morrow, 14 Feb. 1906 (MHM). Hanna wanted TR to recognize that opposition to the endorsement did not signify opposition to the nomination. As Chairman of the GOP, Hanna could not favor any candidate against any other, present or future. However, as John M. Blum points out, “He had not been so patient in McKinley’s behalf in 1895 or 1896.” Blum, Republican Roosevelt, 41.
96 YOUR TELEGRAM TR to Hanna, 25 May 1903 (TRP). He adroitly refrained from giving out the text of Hanna’s telegram, thus giving the impression that it had been less than respectful. Beer, Hanna, 613–14.
97 Hanna had no Mark Hanna to TR, 26 May 1903. The question remains, Did Hanna have any lingering presidential ambition in the spring of 1903? There is no evidence that he did, and plenty that he did not. On 20 Mar., he had sent TR a published interview in which Ohio Congressman Charles H. Grosvenor emphatically stated that the President’s nomination was certain, and that anyone opposing him was committing political suicide. “That settles me,” Hanna joked. Just two days before TR’s annihilating telegram, he had stated publicly, “I am not, and I will not be, a candidate for the presidential nomination.” Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 424. See also John S. McCook to TR, 22 May 1903 (TRP).
98 Thus the President Washington Evening Star, 27 May 1903; Blum, Republican Roosevelt, 51; G. Thomas Edwards, “The College, the Town, and Teddy Roosevelt,” Whitman Alumnus, Nov. 1977; Lodge, Selections, vol. 2, 20, 23. Having humbled Hanna, TR made an elaborate and not very convincing attempt on 29 May to explain himself. See Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 427, and also Beer, Hanna, 609–16; Blum, Republican Roosevelt, 50–53; and Gould, Reform and Regulation, 40–42.
99 ROOSEVELT ARRIVED TR, Letters, vol. 3, 558–59. See also Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, chap. 13. (Mr. Pickwick: “It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.” Mr. Snodgrass: