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he owned in South Carolina. This formality aside, “I … continued to consider myself an American citizen … both my parents being, at the time of my birth, citizens of the United States.… I now realize only too keenly the false position in which I have been placed by this fatal hesitation and neglect.” Qu. in Larsen, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Moroccan Crisis,” 67–68. Larsen cites an important, and neglected, ruling by Secretary of State Root on 27 Oct. 1905 that Perdicaris “never effectively acquired Greek, or divested himself of American citizenship.” See also Etzold, “Protection or Politics?” on Perdicaris’s legal entitlement to United States protection in 1904. Perdicaris was presented with a new United States passport in 1905, and spent the rest of his life in Britain.

Raisuli, enriched by the Sultan’s ransom, became a figure of legendary status in Morocco. His followers believed him to be immortal. He acquired a fleet of small ships and practiced Berber-style piracy on coastal traffic. In old age, he was captured by a younger rival, after a fierce fight. He died in April 1925, a few months after his ancient hostage.

CHAPTER 22: THE MOST ABSURD POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF OUR TIME

1 I think a lot Dunne, Observations by Mr. Dooley, 225.

2 THE DIFFICULTY OF TR, Letters, vol. 4, 892.

3 So, by late June The most complete account of this year’s campaign events is Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist.” See also Merrill, Republican Command, chap. 8.

4 There was no William H. Harbaugh, “Election of 1904,” in Schlesinger and Israel, History of American Presidential Elections, vol. 3, 1973–74; Thompson, Party Leaders, 365–66; Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 315.

5 Alton Brooks Parker Washington Evening Star, 2 May 1904; Alton Parker scrapbook (ABP); Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 109. See also Fred C. Shoemaker, “Alton B. Parker: The Image of a Gilded Age Statesman in an Era of Progressive Politics” (M.A. thesis, Ohio State University, 1983).

6 Roosevelt had foreseen John Hay diary, 20 Mar. 1904 (JH); Brooks Adams to TR, 22 Sept. 1902 (TRP); TR, Letters, vol. 4, 806.

7 Personally, he liked On 15 June 1900, Governor Roosevelt expressed “not merely a strong personal liking but a very high regard and admiration” for Parker, and went out of his way to secure patronage for the judge’s brother, also a Democrat. Parker publicly praised TR on his retirement from Albany. There is a photograph of them sitting convivially at the same table at TR’s farewell dinner. TR, Letters, vol. 2, 1333, and vol. 3, 1; Alton Parker, Autobiography Notes (ABP).

8 The judge was James Creelman, “Alton Brooks Parker: A Character Sketch,” Washington Evening Star, 24 May 1904; M. G. Cuniff, “Alton Brooks Parker,” World’s Work, June 1904. The best assessment of Parker is Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” chap. 3.

9 Eighteen years of Review of Reviews, Aug. 1904; Harold F. Gosnell, Boss Platt and His New York Machine (Chicago, 1924), 42; Dictionary of American Biography; Washington Evening Star, 9 May 1904.

10 And so did most Harbaugh, “Election of 1904,” 1977; Washington Evening Star, 6 July 1904.

11 ON FRIDAY, a little The New York Times, 9 July 1904. Parker’s house, called Rosemount in 1904, is now Lamont Landing in Esopus, N.Y. Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley, The History of West Park and Esopus (Hannacroix, N.Y., 1978).

12 Around sunset The following account is taken from The New York Times and New York Herald, 10 July 1904.

13 the achievement of his life Nobody browsing Parker’s papers in LC can doubt that his remaining twenty-two years were anticlimactic to this moment. In old age, the judge began to dictate a memoir of Saharan dryness, but words failed him when he reached 1904. Apart from a few notes, the autobiography lay unfinished.

14 They were full Alton Parker scrapbook (ABP); The New York Times, 9 July 1904.

15 The telegram was Washington Evening Star, 12 July 1904; The New York Times, 10 July 1904. See also Harbaugh, “Election of 1904,” 1983.

16 I REGARD THE Qu. in Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 343–45.

17 An eighty-year-old For obvious