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6 Just before eleven Samuel Gummeré to Francis B. Loomis, 20 May 1904, “Dispatches-Tangier,” State Department files (NA). Gummeré was an old friend of Perdicaris from Trenton, and owed his appointment to him.
7 MR. PERDICARIS Samuel Gummeré to John Hay, 19 May 1904 (NA).
8 Conveniently, Roosevelt Still, American Sea Power, 164–65; Francis B. Loomis to Samuel Gummeré, 19 May 1904, “Instructions,” State Department files (NA).
9 The last seven Charles H. Darling to Francis B. Loomis, 19 May 1904 (NA).
10 “It is not” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 801 (italics added).
11 “If a nation” Ibid.
12 “jingoism run mad” New York World, 28 May 1904; John W. Blassingame, “The Press and American Intervention in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 1904–1920,” Caribbean Studies 9.2 (1969); Munro, Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy, 65; Marks, Velvet on Iron, 9–10, 146–47. Douglas R. Gow, “How Did the Roosevelt Corollary?” argues that Root’s first enunciation of the Corollary was a political, vote-getting gesture. But he errs in saying that it had no immediate diplomatic relevance. Walter Wellman noted in Review of Reviews (Dec. 1904) that “the [Cuba Society] letter was written wholly as a warning to Santo Domingo.” Havana also was being put on notice, as it discovered in 1906. TR enunciated the Corollary again in his Fourth Annual Message to Congress.
13 “I ASK NOTHING” Perdicaris, “Morocco”; Samuel Gummeré to Francis B. Loomis, 20 May 1904 (NA).
14 A few days Thomas H. Etzold, “Protection or Politics? ‘Perdicaris Alive or Raisuli Dead?’ ” The Historian, Feb. 1975.
15 “I had much” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 821, 807. See the last-cited letter, to George Otto Trevelyan, for an expression of TR’s current frame of mind. For a further sense of TR’s executive maturity at this time, see his long directives on Far Eastern affairs, Panamanian cable concessions, and Philippines administration in TR, Letters, vol. 4, 834–43. The note of command is assured, deft, irresistible; the point of view omniscient.
16 The odds on Washington Evening Star, 20 May 1904; Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 1, 322. TR had sensed Parker as his probable Democratic rival for more than a year. The Exeter, N.H., News-Letter, 6 Mar. 1903, in Presidential scrapbook (TRP).
17 Reticence and its Washington Evening Star, 21 May 1904; New York Sun, 27 May 1904; Newark, N.J., Evening News, 1 June 1904. See also TR, Letters, vol. 4, 804.
18 A White House “source” Washington Evening Star, 17 May 1904; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 797.
19 “He wants us” John Hay diary, 22 May 1904 (JH).
20 Like Taft William H. Taft to Mrs. Taft, 12 Apr. 1904 (WHT).
21 In any case John Hay diary, 22 May 1904 (JH); TR, Letters, vol. 4, 833.
22 With less than New York Evening Post, 18 May 1904; The New York Times, 3 May 1904; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 823–24, 833; Philadelphia Press, 4 June 1904; New York Sun, 18 June 1904.
23 “Mr. President, I” Butler, Across the Busy Years, vol. 1, 321. Another of TR’s favorite Beveridge stories had the young Senator visiting him at night and saying with solemn urgency: “It’s time now, sir, for you to govern by psychic suggestion.” Wister, Roosevelt, 112. In the event, the temporary chairman of the 1904 Republican convention was Henry Clay Payne. Elihu Root gave the keynote speech.
24 ROOSEVELT DID NOT John Hay diary, 28 May 1904 (JH).
25 The President seemed Qu. in Peter Larsen, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Moroccan Crisis, 1904–1905” (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1984), 52.
26 AT 5:30 A.M. Samuel Gummeré to Francis B. Loomis, 3 June 1904 (NA).
27 PRESIDENT WISHES Samuel Gummeré to John Hay, 8 June 1904, and Hay to Gummeré, same date (NA).
28 Before nightfall Samuel Gummeré to John Hay, 8 June 1904 (received 6:21 P.M., 9 June) (NA).
29 ON 10 JUNE Philadelphia Public Ledger, 10 June 1904.
30 Roosevelt accepted Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 206; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 828–29.
31 “Many great and” TR to Philander Knox, 23 June 1904 (PCK).
32 Roosevelt had grown TR, Letters, vol. 5, 782; Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 27,