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102 Isthmian delegates John Hay to TR, 7 Sept. 1903 (TD); Alban G. Snyder qu. in Ferguson, “John Barrett,” chap. 4, 12–13.
103 Desperate to keep Foreign Relations 1903, 190, 362; Story of Panama, 354–55; Tomás Herrán to Luis Rico, 15 Sept. 1903 (TH).
104 Proposals for a DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 249; E. Taylor Parks, Colombia and the United States, 1765–1934 (New York, 1968), 366. The forty-million-dollar argument was advanced by a special committee of the Colombian Senate, which argued that the Compagnie Nouvelle’s last extension of its concession had been granted by executive decree in 1900, and was thus unratified. If so, the concession would be renegotiable, without any further consideration of the Compagnie, at the end of 1904. The United States need pay no more than she had already agreed to pay for canal rights, while Colombia would quadruple her expectations from the Hay-Herrán Treaty. See TR, Autobiography, 538.
105 Hay ignored this John Hay to TR, 13 Sept. 1903 (TRP). Another reason for Hay’s anger toward Bogotá was that he had heard from Arthur Beaupré that Colombian negotiants had asked Germany and Britain to bid for canal rights in competition with the United States. Beaupré to Hay, 21 July 1903 (JH); TR, Works, vol. 20, 496.
106 Roosevelt had already TR, Letters, vol. 3, 599. See also TR, Autobiography, 536.
107 so did summer The treaty expired at midnight on 22 Sept. 1903.
108 A harvest of tart TR to Henry Cabot Lodge, 3 and 15 Sept. 1903, and to William Sewall, 22 Sept. 1903 (TRP); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 604. TR told a visitor that if people believed what was currently being written about him in the press, they would think him “the most despicable cur possible.” Parsons, Perchance Some Day, 149.
109 His Syracuse speech Wayne MacVeagh to TR, 23 Sept. 1903, Henry Cabot Lodge to TR, 26 Sept. 1903, and TR to William Sewall, 22 Sept. 1903 (TRP); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 591; Presidential scrapbook and TR to Charles J. Bonaparte, 15 Sept. 1903 (TRP).
110 Alaska Boundary Tribunal The boundary negotiations had begun on 15 Sept.
111 Roosevelt had long Elihu Root to TR, 11 Aug. 1903 (PCJ); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 425.
112 Roosevelt took TR, Letters, vol. 3, 605.
113 “I suppose few” Ibid.
CHAPTER 18: THE MOST JUST AND PROPER REVOLUTION
1 An autocrat’s a Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy (New York, 1900), 260.
2 THE PRESIDENT’S FIRST New York Herald, 30 Sept. 1903; Paul T. Heffron, “Secretary Moody and Naval Administrative Reform, 1902–1903,” American Neptune 29.1 (1969); Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 95–97; William H. Moody to the Michigan Club of Detroit, 3 May 1902 (WHM). For a modern assessment, see Judith R. McDonough, “William Henry Moody” (Ph.D. diss., Auburn University, 1983).
3 Since joining the Washington Evening Star, 10 Mar. 1902; Fleming, Around the Capitol, 36, 256; Paul T. Heffron, “Profile of a Public Man,” Yearbook of the Supreme Court Historical Society, 1980; Dictionary of National Biography. See also Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 95–97.
4 Emerging from the New York Herald, 30 Sept. 1903.
5 “a good jolt” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 514–15.
6 “In this particular” TR to L. Clarke Davis, 21 Sept. 1903 (TRP).
7 William A. Miller See note above, p. 659 (an open shop); also Gatewood, Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy, 160.
8 This apparent sanction J. W. Basra to TR, 18 Sept. 1903, and Lynn (Mass.) Central Labor Union to William Loeb, 25 Sept. 1903 (TRP); Washington Times, 18 and 20 Sept. 1903; James Garfield diary, 29 Sept. 1903 (JRG); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 607; The Washington Post, 15 Sept. 1903.
9 One of them Portrait in The American Federationist, Nov. 1903; New York Herald, 4 Sept. 1903; Glück, John Mitchell, 92. Mitchell, suffering from chronic alcoholism and insomnia, was heading toward a nervous breakdown. Madison, American Labor Leaders, 171–72.
10 Roosevelt sized Gompers TR, Letters, vol. 3, 607; New York Sun, 30 Sept. 1903. This was not the first time TR and Gompers had met. Their acquaintance was slight, but extended