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26 President and Secretary “We agree on all points of foreign policy.” John Hay to George Smalley, 9 July 1903 (TD). See also Hay to TR, 18 July 1903: “Permit me to observe that your planet seems to be in good working order” (TRP).
27 HAY SAID GOOD-BYE New York Tribune, 9 July 1903; John Hay to TR, 13 July 1903 (TD). In this same thank-you note, Hay repeated his “trembling hope” that he might one day have TR’s promised written account of his cross-country trip. TR complied on 9 Aug. 1903.
28 On 12 July Story of Panama, 346. For a detailed discussion of the political situation in Bogotá at this time, see Bergquist, Coffee and Conflict, 214–16.
29 By a coincidence New York World, 13 July 1903; Cromwell’s aide, Roger Farnham, had given this date to the newspaper a month before. McCaleb, Theodore Roosevelt, 157.
30 a desperate message Foreign Relations 1903, 163.
31 Hay prepared Ibid., 164; TR to John Hay, 14 July 1903, qu. in Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 311.
32 THE KISHINEV PETITION Simon Wolf to TR, 3 July 1903 (TRP); Beale, Theodore Roosevelt, 197. Wolf’s misgivings were shared by many Americans. A New York World editorial on 10 July declared that TR’s “anonymous” press blast of 1 July “deprives our Kishinev interference of all moral force, degrading it into a mere bargaining trick.”
33 Oscar Solomon Straus In 1902, TR had appointed Straus as United States Representative at The Hague.
34 When Roosevelt heard Wolf, Presidents I Have Known, 203 (facsimile of TR’s draft on pp. 206–8); Marks, Velvet on Iron, 151.
35 Everyone approved Straus, Under Four Administrations, 172–73; John Hay to TR, 11 July 1903 (TD); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 517. Afterward, everybody but Straus took credit for the cable. For its text, see Cyrus Adler, With Firmness in the Right (New York, 1940), 268–70.
36 Long before he Oscar Straus to TR, 15 July 1903 (TRP); Zabriskie, American-Russian Rivalry, 93. The three ports were Ta-tung-kou, Mukden, and Harbin. Newchwang was already open by treaty. Zabriskie confirms that the decision to open them (made secretly on 6 and 9 July) was prompted by the Tsar’s fear of “a united front of powers against Russia.”
37 Nicholas II’s rejection John Hay to TR, 14 July 1903 (TD); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 520. Knee, “Diplomacy of Neutrality,” argues that TR’s response to the Kishinev pogrom was more political than humanitarian. His main motive in cooperating with the Wolf committee was to secure New York’s large Jewish vote in 1904.
38 “If only we were” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 532.
39 One such vehicle Ray Stannard Baker research notes (RSB). Baker subsequently reworked these notes for publication in American Chronicle, 170–72.
40 A servant showed Baker research notes (RSB). TR’s study, almost unchanged, is now part of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
41 Like a sudden explosion Ray Stannard Baker to James Baker, 16 July 1903, and Baker research notes (RSB).
42 “My dear Mr. President” Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 7, 202–3.
43 “An old Florida” Baltimore Herald, 3 July 1903.
44 “It was a very” Ray Stannard Baker research notes (RSB). See also Baker, American Chronicle, 172.
45 Behind his jocularity TR to Brander Matthews, 11 July 1903 (TRP); Review of Reviews, Aug. 1903; Literary Digest, 18 July 1903; Rollo Ogden to TR, 3 and 28 July 1903 (TRP). For sarcastic black reaction to the Kishinev petition, see Ziglar, “Decline of Lynching.”
46 For political reasons Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., “A Republican President and Democratic State Politics: Theodore Roosevelt and the Mississippi Primary of 1903,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, summer 1984.
47 “This people is” James Wilson to TR, 2 July 1903 (TRP).
48 So far in 1903 Literary Digest,