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50 They confirmed TR, Works, vol. 18, 428ff.; this crossing occurred on 16 Sept. 1903; Obaldía’s party felt that the United States would “undoubtedly adopt the Nicaragua route.” Humphrey, “History of the Revolution.”
51 He and Murphy Humphrey, “History of the Revolution.”
52 Casting aside his Ibid.
53 Humphrey had declined Ibid.
54 “There goes our” Grayson M.-P. Murphy, interviewed by Henry Pringle, 2 Apr. 1930 (HP).
55 ROOSEVELT SPENT White House appointment book, 17 Oct. 1903 (TRP); Putnam, Memories of a Publisher, 145–47.
56 On Monday, crisp cables TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 2, 726; DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 312–13; John Nikol and Francis Holbrook, “Naval Operations in the Panama Revolution of 1903,” American Neptune 38 (Oct. 1977); Story of Panama, 429.
57 In coincidental, yet Story of Panama, 664; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 629–31.
58 On 23 October TR, Letters to Kermit, 45.
59 On 26 October Story of Panama, 380; DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 279; Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 360–61.
60 On 27 October Story of Panama, 328–29; McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 361–62; Documents, 22 Oct. 1903, in PBV.
61 “The only dangerous” Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 324.
62 Judging from his Ibid., 323, 327.
63 FATE NEWS BAD Manuel Amador to Philippe Bunau-Varilla, 29 Oct. 1903, original in PBV.
64 Some of it Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 328.
65 He was being asked Ibid., 329.
66 Francis B. Loomis Bunau-Varilla, interviewed by Howard K. Beale, July 1936 (HKB); Fletcher, “Canal Site Diplomacy,” 165; Story of Panama, 331.
67 Riding back to New York Story of Panama, 381.
68 Newspapers aboard The New York Times, 29 Oct. 1903; DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 313–14. Although he does not say so, Bunau-Varilla might have been told by Loomis that the Nashville had just been given (or was about to be given) its secret order to proceed at full speed to Colón. The gunboat left Kingston the following morning, Saturday, 31 Oct. Chauncey B. Humphrey states that “about Oct. 31,” he heard that two Colombian battalions were on their way to relieve the garrison guard in Panama City. “I … informed President Roosevelt what would happen [a revolution]. He sent immediately the gunboat Nashville with 450 marines to Colon to prevent the landing of these two battalions.” In the event, only one battalion arrived. The New York Times, 1 Nov. 1903; Humphrey, “History of the Revolution.” See also McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 360.
69 ALL RIGHT Bunau-Varilla, Panama, 332; Fletcher, “Canal Site Diplomacy,” 165–66.
70 Ton and a half On this day, Hay cabled Beaupré suggesting that he take “a leave of absence” from Bogotá. Foreign Relations 1903, 218.
71 ROOSEVELT SWATTED James Garfield diary, 29 Oct. 1903 (JRG).
72 It was his habit Lodge, Selections, vol. 2, 60–61; Review of Reviews, Dec. 1903.
73 In New York Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 339–40; Leupp, The Man Roosevelt, 147–55; Mark Hanna to George Perkins, ca. early Oct. 1903 (GWP); TR, Letters, vol. 3, 640. There is much criticism in the correspondence of Charles Francis Adams and James Wilson of TR’s factional fence-straddling. Wilson, showing remarkable disloyalty for a Cabinet officer, complained on 14 Oct., “In New York he is a [Thomas] Platt man, in Pennsylvania a Quay man, and in Delaware [a John] Addicks man, and that is all there is of it” (JHW).
74 At least there was The Washington Post, 16 Oct. 1903; Tilchin, Theodore Roosevelt, 46–48. Ambrose Bierce’s The Cynic’s Word Book (New York, 1906), carried this definition of boundary: “In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.”
75 “I think you are” Lodge, Selections, vol. 2, 60–61. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote to congratulate him on scoring “a personal triumph.” Holmes to TR, 21 Oct. 1903 (TRP).
76 Master of human A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls (Kansas City, Mo., 1902), 97. See