Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris [439]
60 “The Russians think” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 913.
61 “Unless I am” Albert J. Beveridge to TR, 26 Aug. 1904 (AJB).
62 The “speaking” Harbaugh, “Election of 1904,” 2024–27.
63 A quieter voice Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 396; Nicholas Murray Butler to TR, 6 May 1904 (TRP); Thompson, Party Leaders, 81; New York Sun, 24 June 1904; New York Evening Post, 21 June 1904.
64 At six foot Champ Clark, My Quarter Century in American Politics (New York, 1920), vol. 2, 281; Thompson, Party Leaders, 33, 81–82; Fleming, Around the Capitol, 228; Dunn, From Harrison to Harding, vol. 1, 219; Thomas R. Shipp, “Charles W. Fairbanks,” Review of Reviews, Aug. 1904.
65 This awkwardness New York Sun, 24 June 1902; Republican speaking schedule in Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 599.
66 The first tests M. Des Portes to Théophile Delcassé, 7 Sept. 1904 (JJ).
67 Both states were Public Opinion, 15 Sept. 1904; Review of Reviews, Oct. 1904; Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 373–74.
68 “Unless we throw” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 919.
69 “The people need” Joseph Pulitzer, open letter to Josephus Daniels, New York World, 8 Sept. 1904.
70 THE PRESIDENT CHOSE TR, Letters, vol. 4, 921–43.
71 At least twelve Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 601.
72 “Our opponents” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 921, 930, 939.
73 “There is not” Ibid., 923–42.
74 “We have striven” Ibid., 942.
75 The President’s letter Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 409–10; Public Opinion, 22 Sept. 1904; John Hay to TR, 13 Sept. 1904 (TRP).
76 “WELL, MY PART” TR, Letters, vol. 4, 945.
77 Cortelyou’s first The Wall Street Journal, 12 June 1903; Thorelli, Federal Antitrust Policy, 592–93; Merrill, Republican Command, 168–70.
78 When one did George Cortelyou, interviewed by Louis Wiley, 29 June 1906, transcript in GBC.
79 “Now, Mr. Bliss” Campaign Contributions, 123.
80 “You need have” Ibid., 128. According to Archbold’s testimony, this interview took place in mid-Sept. In 1912, TR vehemently denied that it took place “with my consent or knowledge” (TR, Letters, vol. 7, 603). “I cannot of course say whether or not it is true that Mr. Bliss asked for or received such a contribution.”
81 AT 10:00A.M. The New York Times, 23 Sept. 1904.
82 The bedlam continued Ibid.
83 Parker’s next Ibid.
84 The judge spent Ibid., 23–25 Sept. 1904; Alton Parker scrapbook (ABP).
85 “War grows more” John Hay to Joseph H. Choate, 1 Sept. 1904 (JHC).
86 Roosevelt, younger Japan’s special interest in Korea had been sanctioned by the Anglo-Japanese agreement of 1902. On 26 Feb. 1904, Korea agreed without protest to become a virtual protectorate of Japan.
87 “I would like” Jules Jusserand to Théophile Delcassé, 18 Oct. 1904 (JJ).
88 “Look how long” Ibid.
89 Jusserand, whose Ibid.
Chronological Note: The role of international arbiter, so different from that of Rough Rider, appealed to TR, and he was flattered to play it in preview on 24 Sept. 1904, when two hundred delegates from the Interparliamentary Union visited him at the White House. They read a resolution from their recent convention in St. Louis, where legislative officials from Europe, the British Empire, and South America had called for a peacekeeping “congress of nations” (New York Tribune, 25 Sept. 1904). They begged Roosevelt to call a second Hague Conference, along the lines of the one that had established the International Court of Justice in 1899. One delegate reminded him that the first conference had postponed the vital question of arms limitation. “In applying to you we address ourselves to an earnest defender of international justice, and we bear in mind that you were the first head of state who turned governments toward the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.” TR agreed to their plea, telling them, “At an early date I shall issue the call for the conference you request.” Republican officials did not doubt he would choose a date “early” enough for the election. See also Literary Digest, 8 Oct. 1904.
90 Joseph Pulitzer complained New York World, 1 Oct. 1904.
91 The aggregate George Cortelyou,