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100 REVOLUTION IMMINENT Foreign Relations 1903, 235. This telegram arrived at 2:35 P.M.
101 Washington was ill Ibid., 231; Story of Panama, 393.
102 Governor Obaldía had Story of Panama, 392–93.
103 Lady Gregory’s and TR slightly misspelled some of his Irish citations (e.g., Turin for Tuirean). The Gregory and Hull titles are separate books, respectively Cuchulain of Muirthemne and The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature.
104 WHEN ELISEO TORRES Story of Panama, 440–41.
105 Torres waxed more Ibid.
106 “I would be willing” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 643.
107 FIVE O’CLOCK CAME Story of Panama, 395. Prescott had indeed been involved in revolutionary plotting since the birth of the junta. McCullough, Path Between the Seas, 342.
108 Subsequent calls Story of Panama, 394–95; John Hubbard to William H. Moody, 8 Nov. 1903 (TRP).
109 One of their first Story of Panama, 396.
110 “Of course I have” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 643–44.
111 He dozed off The Washington Post, 4 Nov. 1903; Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
112 Refusing comment Washington Evening Star, 3 Nov. 1903; The Washington Post, 4 Nov. 1903.
113 UPRISING OCCURRED Foreign Relations 1903, 231. The word Barranquilla refers to the troopship’s port of origin.
114 Roosevelt sent at once Washington Evening Star and New York Sun, 4 Nov. 1903, clips in John Hay scrapbook (JH). There is hour-by-hour newspaper coverage of the revolution in this archive. The Panama dispatches to the New York Herald (written by the brother of a junta member) seem to have been especially valued by Hay, who annotated many of them.
115 All the more Foreign Relations 1903, 236.
116 But “reason” of Washington Evening Star, 4 Nov. 1903.
117 For NASHVILLE White House telegraph copy (unsigned), 3 Nov. 1903 (TRP). News of the instructions was leaked to the New York Sun.
118 By 10:30 P.M. Story of Panama, 440. A similar cable, almost directly quoting the White House draft, was sent out at 11:18 by Darling (399).
119 The Atlanta had Nikol and Holbrook, “Naval Operations.”
120 Up Pennsylvania Avenue The Washington Post and Washington Evening Star, 4 Nov. 1903. Myron T. Herrick had been elected Governor of Ohio in a convincing victory for Hanna Republicans. The result was an immediate resurgence of the Hanna for President movement among GOP conservatives. The Washington Post, 5 Nov. 1903.
121 The White House DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 330; Story of Panama, 397. At 12:10 P.M., Loomis ordered Ehrman to inform the captain of the gunboat Bogotá “plainly” that the United States, mindful of her responsibility to maintain peace and free transit across the Isthmus, requested him to hold any future fire. Foreign Relations 1903, 232.
122 Commander Hubbard, by Story of Panama, 441, 656; John Hubbard to James Shaler, and copy to Eliseo Torres, 4 Nov. 1903 (TRP). The two-way effect of Hubbard’s order has been downplayed by historians seeking to blame the Roosevelt Administration for fomenting the separation of Panama (see Friedlander, “Reassessment”). While the ban on military movement undoubtedly strengthened the junta’s hold on Panama City, it worked to Colombia’s advantage in Colón. Rebel forces, which outnumbered Colonel Torres’s battalion three to one, were prevented from crossing and bloodily completing the work of revolution.
123 Torres reacted with Story of Panama, 441.
124 The mid-morning train John Hubbard to William H. Moody, 5 Nov. 1903 (TRP); Story of Panama, 439, 441.
125 Torres went in John Hubbard to William H. Moody, 5 Nov. 1903 (TRP).
126 “war against the” Ibid., and 8 Nov. 1903 (TRP).
127 Undeterred, Torres’s John Hubbard to William H. Moody, 5 Nov. 1903 (TRP).
128 IN WASHINGTON, the TR, Letters, vol. 3, 437; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to TR, 24 Oct. 1903, and White House appointment book, 4 Nov. 1903 (TRP). Privately, as an old soldier, Holmes admitted that he came “devilishly near to believing that might makes right.” For a revisionist view of the great Justice, see Albert W. Alschuler, Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes (Chicago, 2000),