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28 Even as he spoke Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 203; LaFollette’s Autobiography, 174.
29 One of the Senator’s Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act,” 1560, 1564.
30 “The one thing” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 56.
31 THE COSMOPOLITAN’S SERIES March issue, on sale 15 Feb. 1906; TR, Letters, vol. 5, 45; La Follette’s Autobiography, 176. For a contemporary group portrait of the progressives of 1906, see Allen, America’s Awakening.
32 Perhaps the fiercest The New York Times, 22 Aug. 1988. The original, pre-Doubleday text has been reissued as The Lost First Edition of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” ed., Gene DeGruson (Memphis, 1988).
33 Now, at last The Jungle sold more than one hundred thousand copies in 1906, and was read by an estimated one million Americans. Christine Scriabine, “Upton Sinclair and the Writing of The Jungle,” Chicago History 10.1 (1981).
34 Senator Beveridge sent John Braeman, Albert J. Beveridge: American Nationalist (Chicago, 1971), 101–10.
35 “I recommend” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 381.
36 In requesting Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 483ff. This chapter of Sullivan’s great saga is an exquisitely detailed piece of social history.
37 Sinclair was but Ibid., 479; Upton Sinclair, The Jungle [1906 version], ed. James R. Barrett (Chicago, 1988), 2, 334.
38 ALICE ROOSEVELT HAD Teague, Mrs. L., 128; Carol Felsenthal, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (New York, 1988), 102–3.
39 frenzied press activity There are 415 large scrap albums of wedding reportage in the archives of the Martin Luther King Library in Washington, D.C.
40 Roosevelt seemed Felsenthal, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 106; Rozek, “ ‘The First Daughter of the Land’ ”; Teague, Mrs. L., 122–23. Alice’s train was arranged by her cousin Franklin, who was good at that sort of thing and consequently known, among the Oyster Bay Roosevelts, as “Featherduster,” and “Miss Nancy.” Alsop, “Autobiography,” 2; Rixey, Bamie, 92.
41 “I want you” Teague, Mrs. L., 128. Alice Roosevelt Longworth frequently repeated this remark to family members, always emphasizing that it was only half humorous.
42 “Alice—Alice” Washington Evening Star, 23 Aug. 1908.
43 ROOSEVELT READ TR, Letters, vol. 5, 156–57. John E. Semonche, “Roosevelt’s ‘Muck-Rake Speech’: A Reassessment,” Mid-America 46.2 (1964), shows that TR’s reaction to muckraking in 1906 was consistent with his views as early as 1901.
44 “I need hardly” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 156; see also vol. 3, 142. In 1906, Hearst was not only contesting his recent defeat as a candidate for the mayoralty of New York, but preparing to run for Governor.
45 The pity was Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 531–34. Aldrich also yielded to pressure from TR and the American Medical Association.
46 “The tone” British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 12, 19.
47 If so, the Lambert, Stephen Benton Elkins, 273–74; Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act,” 1564; The New York Times, 24 Feb. 1906.
48 four other Republicans Aldrich, Foraker, John Kean of New Jersey, and the former Governor of Massachusetts, Winthrop Murray Crane, appointed to the Senate in 1904 after the death of George Frisbie Hoar. Senator Tillman, who voted in favor, was the ranking Democrat on the committee.
49 Now began Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 244–45; Mowry, Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 204–5.
50 The issue of Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act,” 1565–66.
51 So, amid For an alternative metaphor, see Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 242: “So the battle raged until the wind-batteries had literally blown themselves out.”
52 WAS ONE TO Sinclair, Jungle [1906], 36.
53 (“Eik! Eik!”)“Eik! Eik!”) Ibid., 4. See TR, Letters, vol. 5, 178–79, for his letter to Sinclair about The Jungle. He wrote that, in his opinion, the author’s brand