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4 “It is enough” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 1–2. Taft had, meanwhile, returned home with most of his official party.
5 Alice had returned Longworth, Crowded Hours, 106–7; TR, Letters, vol. 5, 15; Review of Reviews, Oct. 1904.
6 This did not “I confess that we came out from [the] Navy Yard in Portsmouth with all the booties as we could carry and cast a discreet smile on our ‘wily Oriental faces.’ ” Kentaro Kaneko to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 7 Sept. 1905, in Kanda and Gifford, “Kaneko Correspondence,” 2.
7 After Tsu Shima TR qu. in Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 168; Ferguson, “John Barrett” (JB); Grenville and Young, Politics, Strategy, and American Diplomacy, 313ff. Many years later, when Philip C. Jessup asked about TR’s conduct of Far Eastern affairs from 1905 to 1909, Root replied dryly, “He kept them in his hands.” Interview, 13 Sept. 1932 (ER).
8 a new recruit See James Brown Scott, Robert Bacon: Life and Letters (New York, 1923), 105; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 2, 455–56.
9 Socialism was spreading British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 1A, 3, 162–63; Jusserand, What Me Befell, 322.
10 The “odd year” Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 26–27, points out that, by statute, the second and fourth congressional sessions of the four-year cycle had to end on 4 March. That made each a mere three months long.
11 One issue above Ibid.; Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 198. It is not known if TR saw Baker’s earlier conspiracistic articles about J. P. Morgan and “The Great Northern Pacific Deal” in Collier’s, Oct.-Nov. 1901. If so, he would have been able to trace the progressivist neurosis to the first weeks of his own presidency.
12 “law-abidingness” S. S. McClure to TR, 18 July 1905 (TRP). See also Philip Loring Allen, America’s Awakening: The Triumph of Righteousness in High Places (New York, 1906), chap. 1.
13 Doubtless somebody “Somebody” by the name of Herbert Croly had indeed just begun work on what was to become the basic text of Progressivism: The Promise of American Life (New York, 1909). See Croly, “Why I Wrote My Latest Book,” World’s Work, May 1910, and “The Memoirs of Herbert Croly: An Unpublished Document,” ed. Charles Hirschfeld, New York History 58.3 (1977).
14 What particularly S. S. McClure to TR, 18 July 1905 (TRP). The first five chapters of Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, remain the best survey of the rise of Progressivism in early twentieth-century America.
15 Now here, in the Ray Stannard Baker to TR, 9 Sept. 1905 (TRP). The page proofs are wrongly identified in TR, Letters, vol. 5, 25, as coming from Baker’s first (Nov. 1905) article in the series. See text, below.
16 Let Baker, Steffens See Eugene L. Huddleston, “The Generals up in Wall Street,” Railroad History 145 (1981), for an alternative look at Ray Stannard Baker and his work. While history has viewed Baker as one of its greatest muckrakers and a wholly impartial analyst of runaway corporate power, Huddleston maintains that Baker was neither as objective nor as well-informed as Progressives then and since have made him out to be. He claims that Baker oversimplified complex issues, fell short in command of technical data governing railroad rates, operations, and regulation, and used as his most trusted background source an outdated, fifteen-year-old book, A. B. Stickney’s The Railway Problem. Huddleston also feels that Baker often relied on moralistic rhetoric designed to stir up emotion in an effort to disguise the fact that he had little solid evidence of wrongdoing. In Huddleston’s judgment, Baker’s solid reputation today is based partly on the esteem accorded him by TR, who consulted with the journalist in drafting railroad-reform legislation, even including a paragraph almost exactly in Baker’s words in his Message to Congress seeking such legislation. Time would demonstrate that TR used Baker to help