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72 the supreme adjective Philippe Bunau-Varilla to Poultney Bigelow, 26 Feb. 1926 (PB).
73 “I HAVE TAKEN” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 788.
74 By terms of treaty Miles P. DuVal, And the Mountains Will Move (Stanford, 1947), 136–37; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 770.
75 He sent Taft TR, Letters, vol. 4, 786–93; the other Commission members were William B. Parsons, Benjamin M. Harrod, William H. Burr, Carl E. Grunsky, and Frank J. Hecker. DuVal, And the Mountains, 130.
76 Roosevelt ordered Taft TR, Letters, vol. 4, 790.
77 Sanitary reform Ibid., 791–92.
78 ON 10 MAY Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 583. The following account is based primarily on Moore, Roosevelt and the Old Guard, 114–17.
79 “You might as” Ibid., 460.
80 Shadows stole Ibid., 117.
81 Senator Matthew Quay Quay’s final decline had begun on 8 May.
82 “The last consignment” Review of Reviews, June 1904; New York Sun, 11 May 1904.
83 businesslike light The names of these products are taken from contemporary magazines. The shadow-free lamp of 1903 caused a revolution in American lighting.
84 George Cortelyou Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 267; Moore, Roosevelt and the Old Guard, 57–58, 70.
85 “Go see Cortelyou” Moore, Roosevelt and the Old Guard, 117.
Historiographical Note: The date of this interview cannot be established with certainty. But internal evidence proves Moore was wrong in remembering it as taking place after the death of Quay (28 May 1904). His mission on behalf of Senator Penrose must have come after Bliss’s rejection of the GOP chairmanship on 10 May, and before TR’s announcement of the appointment of Cortelyou on 17 May.
TR’s reverence for Quay, which has often embarrassed his apologists, was perfectly in character. He owed his Vice Presidency (hence, his Presidency) to him. He also admired very strong men, even if their morals were doubtful. Quay’s erudition (he introduced TR to Finnish literature) was another bond. TR was so impressed by the Senator’s deathbed speech that he devoted 1,500 words of his autobiography to it. See Kehl, Boss Rule, 226–29, TR, Autobiography, 158–61, and Steffens, Autobiography, 419–21. For more on the death of Quay and the controversy caused by TR’s description of him as “my staunch and loyal friend,” see Contemporary Literature, July 1904.
CHAPTER 21: THE WIRE THAT RAN AROUND THE WORLD
1 “I hope ye’re” Dunne, Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, 87.
2 AT SIXTY-FOUR Ion Perdicaris, “In Raisuli’s Hands: The Story of My Captivity and Deliverance, 18 May to 26 June 1904,” Leslie’s Monthly Magazine, Sept. 1904.
3 This did not Bowen, Recollections, 34; Leslie’s Weekly, 23 June 1904; Outlook, 11 June 1904. For the diplomatic and strategic background to the story here beginning, see William J. Hourihan, “Roosevelt and the Sultans: The United States Navy in the Mediterranean, 1904” (Ph.D. diss., Northeastern University Press, 1975).
4 He sat there New York Sun, 14 June 1904; Perdicaris, “In Raisuli’s Hands”; H. E. Davis, “The Citizenship of Ion Perdicaris,” Journal of Modern History 8 (1941); Outlook, 11 June 1904. Ion Perdicaris was the son of a wealthy, naturalized Greek American who was appointed United States Consul General in Athens in 1837. In 1840, just after Ion’s birth in that city, Perdicaris Senior returned to the United States and made a fortune in natural-gas companies. Ion was raised and educated in Trenton, N.J. After a year at Harvard, he began his divided life on both sides of the Atlantic, writing, painting, and studying the occult. Hourihan, “Roosevelt and the Sultans,” 45–47.
5 The other male Except where otherwise indicated, the sections of this chapter detailing the kidnapping of Ion Perdicaris are based on his own three narratives: a letter written while he was being held captive, reproduced in the New York Sun, 14 June 1904; “Morocco, ‘The Land of the Extreme West,’ and the Story of My Captivity,” National Geographic, March 1906; and “In Raisuli’s Hands.” Supplemental details come from Cromwell Varley, “Captured