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112 Whatever else John L. Heaton, The Story of a Page: Thirty Years of Public Service and Public Discussion in the Editorial Columns of the New York World (New York, 1913), 317.
113 He had a pleased Merrill, Republican Command, 166; Campaign Contributions, 693.
114 HARRIMAN PROVED Campaign Contributions, 440–41.
115 Millionaires virtually Corey, House of Morgan, 370–71; Don C. Seitz, Joseph Pulitzer: His Life and Times (New York, 1924), 305. Gould’s donation alone was worth nearly two million dollars in contemporary [2001] valuation.
116 Other donations Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 357–58. Heaton, Story of a Page, 320. TR’s final fund total was $2,195,000, more than 70 percent of it from corporations. For an exhaustive, if often speculative, analysis of the corporate-financing issue, and Harriman’s relations with TR, see Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” passim. Wheaton estimates that “between one-fourth and one-third [of the GOP fund] was put into the treasury in the last two weeks of the campaign” (606).
117 “Corporate cunning” Qu. in Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 249–50.
118 “It tires me” TR qu. in The New York Times, 12 Jan. 1919.
119 As one workingman Review of Reviews, Nov. 1904. An oft-reproduced cartoon by Homer Davenport portrayed Parker as a sphinx in judicial robes (ABP).
120 “Well, you are” Alton Parker, Autobiography Notes (ABP). For another version of this anecdote, see Campaign Contributions, vol. 1, 899–900.
121 The judge returned Alton Parker, Autobiography Notes (ABP).
122 As luck would New York World and The New York Times, 24 Oct. 1903; Heaton, Story of a Page, 209.
123 His remarks made The New York Times, 24 Oct. 1903.
124 “We are at” Hay, Letters, vol. 3, 319–20.
125 ALICE LIKED TO One “posterity letter” survives in which TR, afraid that his eccentric elder daughter might cause a scandal in the waning days of the campaign, lectures her sternly over his full signature.
Dear Alice, Do you know how much talk there has been recently in the newspapers about your betting—matching quarters at the races & c.—and courting notoriety with that unfortunate snake? … Do try to remember that to court notoriety by bizarre actions is underbred and unladylike. You should not bet at all, and never in public.… When you do foolish things, you make it certain that worse than foolish things will be ascribed to you. To run into debt and be extravagant as to your clothes—such pointless extravagance, too—is not only foolish but wicked. Your father, Theodore Roosevelt. (28 Aug. 1904, copy in AC)
126 Some instinct TR, Letters, vol. 3, 996–97.
127 He did not Ibid., 995–96.
128 By telegram, he Ibid., 996–98. These documents, plus others written in the weeks ahead, were absorbed by TR into the longest and most vehement of all his “posterity letters,” to the Senate Committee investigating campaign contributions in Aug. 1912. It is printed in ibid., vol. 7, 602–25.
129 “I congratulate you” Elihu Root to TR, 28 Oct. 1904 (ER).
130 IN THE LAST DAYS Wheaton, “The Genius and the Jurist,” 513.
131 “Has my request” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 1004.
132 There was no Wheaton, “Genius and the Jurist,” 530.
133 “Although this may” Ibid., 531; Alton Parker speech script, 31 Oct. 1904 (ABP). See also New York World, 1 Nov. 1904.
134 “I have never” EKR to Henry Cabot Lodge, ca. 1 Nov. 1904 (HCL). On this same day, Alice Roosevelt wrote in her diary, “I am positive he won’t be elected.… I can’t bear it” (ARL).
135 The question TR, Letters, vol. 3, 1013. See the whole of this strategic letter for further examples of TR’s exquisite sense of press timing.
136 Parker was tempted Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, 355.
137 This was going Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 143.
138 Old-time journalists Heaton, Story of a Page, 210.
139 “Mr. Parker’s accusations” White House press statement, 4 Nov. 1904 (TRP).
140 Roosevelt asked Ibid.
141 “The statements made” Ibid. For TR’s even stronger draft statement (which aides apparently toned down), see TRP.
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