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80 BOGOTÁ, AUGUST 12 Foreign Relations 1903, 179. See also DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 240–41, and Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 323–26. Due to the vagaries of Colombian cabling, Beaupré’s wire did not reach the White House until 5:30 P.M. on Saturday, 15 Aug. It was telegraphed to John Hay on Sunday, and to TR’s Oyster Bay office early the next morning.
81 ROOSEVELT WAS STILL TR to John Hay, 17 Aug. 1903, and Hay to TR, 16 Aug. 1903 (TRP). In another memorable image, written eleven years later, TR wrote of the Colombian leaders: “You could no more make an agreement with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall—and the failure to nail currant jelly to the wall is not due to the nail; it is due to the currant jelly.” Ibid., vol. 8, 945.
82 Before replying Francis B. Loomis to TR, 15 Aug. 1903. Moore (1860–1947) was a professor of international law and diplomacy at Columbia University. A former Assistant Secretary of State, he taught from 1891 to 1924, and wrote many scholarly works, including History and Digest of the International Arbitrations … (6 vols., Washington, D.C., 1898). At the time of his consultancy to the Roosevelt Administration, he was editing an eight-volume Digest of International Law.
83 Professor Moore’s Moore’s memorandum, dated 2 Aug. 1903, is reproduced in its entirety in DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 508–13.
84 For almost six Ibid., 510–11.
85 Throughout the long Ibid., 512–13.
86 The effect upon Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 350; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 566–67. On 5 Sept., TR invited Moore to dine and spend the night at Sagamore Hill. He startled the professor by confiding that he would recognize Panama if it declared independence from Colombia. “Of course,” he added hastily, “under proper circumstances.” John Bassett Moore, “Autobiography,” ms. fragment in JBM, Panama file.
87 “The fathers at” H. A. Gudger to Francis B. Loomis, 8 Aug. 1903 (FBL), and Alvey A. Adee to John Hay, 20 Aug. 1903 (JH).
88 “The fact that” John Hay to TR, 22 Aug. 1903 (TD). Faire valoir means fully exercise.
89 Gradually, a partial Luis C. Rico to Tomás Herrán, 13 Aug. 1903, and J. Bidlake to Tomas Herrán, 8 Sept. 1903 (TH); Alban G. Snyder qu. in Mary X. Ferguson, “John Barrett,” chap. 4, 12–13 (JB).
90 “The President will” John Hay to Arthur Beaupré, 20 Aug. 1903 (TD).
91 “For the first” Tomás Herrán to William Nelson Cromwell, 17 Aug. 1903 (TH).
92 AUGUST DROWSED The New York Times, 1 Sept. 1903; TR, Autobiography, 329, 339; P. James Roosevelt to author, 24 Nov. 1984 (AC); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 540. By 8 Sept., three members of TR’s security detail were laid up with fever. New York World, 9 Sept. 1903.
93 Toward the end The following account is taken from the New York World and New York Herald, 3 Sept. 1903, plus unidentified news clips in TRB.
94 “I came to kill” TR’s would-be assassin was Henry Weilbrenner, a “paranoiac” from Syosset, New York. He said that he wanted to marry Alice Roosevelt, which, TR joked, proved that Weilbrenner was insane. Unidentified news clip (TRB).
95 The security detail New York World, 4 Sept. 1904; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 587; TR to George Cortelyou, 25 July 1903 (TRP); Leupp, The Man Roosevelt, 238–39.
96 A providential invitation Leupp, The Man Roosevelt, 237–38.
97 His speech there TR, Works, vol. 18, 57–70; Jules Jusserand to Théophile Delcassé, 7 and 20 Sept. 1903 (JJ). A portrait of More hangs in TR’s study at Sagamore Hill.
98 “Again and again” TR, Works, vol. 18, 61.
99 “The line of cleavage” Ibid., 63.
100 A civilized commonwealth Ibid., 64–65.
101 BY MID-SEPTEMBER Tomás Herrán to German Villa, 2 Sept. 1903 (TH); Jules Jusserand to Théophile Delcassé, 22 Sept. 1903 (JJ); TR, Works, vol. 20, 497–98; Foreign Relations 1903, 264–65; Robert A. Friedlander, “A Reassessment of Roosevelt’s Role in the Panamanian Revolution,” Western Political Quarterly 14 (June 1961). As early as 1 Aug. 1903, the Panamanian newspaper El Istmeno had published a prosecession editorial, and been disciplined by Colombian authorities.