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25 As a result Weaver, Brownsville Raid, 30; Summary Discharge, 31–32.
26 Only one Summary Discharge, 24.
27 Some damaging Ibid., 31; Lane, Brownsville Affair, 18, 20.
28 Roosevelt waited Summary Discharge, 34. TR had also received urgent appeals from both Texas Senators to move the troops, in view of inflamed local feelings. Ibid., 29.
29 He ordered Ibid., 34.
30 Roosevelt then sent TR, Letters, vol. 5, 384–85; Lane, Brownsville Affair, 19–20.
31 It came on The complete text of Blocksom’s report appears in Summary Discharge, 60–65.
32 “be discharged” Ibid., 64.
33 Blocksom added Ibid., 65.
34 Over the last See Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 237–38.
Biographical Note: For a definitive statement of TR’s attitude toward blacks in April 1906, see TR, Letters, vol. 5, 226–28. It was made in response to the patrician racism propounded by his friend Owen Wister in Lady Baltimore (New York, 1906). TR accepted “entirely” Wister’s theory that blacks were “altogether inferior to the whites,” and wrote that he saw no reason why “ninety-five percent of the Negroes” in the South should be allowed to vote. He reserved his scorn for the hypocrisy of Southern whites who talked discrimination yet retained black mistresses, and, worse still, stole the votes of disfranchised blacks in order to “elect” racist members of Congress. He disagreed with Wister that Southern blacks had “become worse” since the Civil War, citing Booker T. Washington as an example of the race’s power to improve itself. “I may add that I do not know a white man of the South who is as good a man as Booker Washington.” See TR, Letters, vol. 5, 221–30.
35 His one outburst See p. 425.
36 More ominously Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 238.
37 THE PRESIDENT’S SANGUIS HARPER’S WEEKLY, 8 Sept. 1906; Cheney, Personal Memoirs, 83.
38 It was the greatest Harper’s Weekly, 8 Sept. 1906; Gould, Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 123. This battleship became the Delaware, displacing twenty thousand tons, and mounting ten twelve-inch guns. Wimmel, Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet, 195–97, 201.
39 “the dirt fly” TR’s first use of this phrase appears to have been at the Gridiron Club on 27 Jan. 1906. “As long as I am President the dirt will fly in the Canal Zone.”
40 Having fought Ralph E. Minger, “William H. Taft and the United States Intervention in Cuba in 1906,” Hispanic America Historical Review 41 (1961).
41 Roosevelt authorized Whitney T. Perkins, Constraint of Empire: The United States and Caribbean Interventions (Westport, Conn., 1981), 14. See also Scott, Robert Bacon, 113–19.
42 “Just at the” TR to Henry White, 13 Sept. 1906 (TRP); TR, Letters, vol. 5, 401.
43 It was particularly John Barrett, “Elihu Root’s Trip in South America,” ms. in JB; Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 481. This grand tour was the first ever made by an American Secretary of State in office. For a detailed account, see Janice Hepworth, “A Policy of Practical Altruism,” Journal of Inter-American Studies 3.3 (1961).
44 a paradox of Perkins, Constraint of Empire, 13. President Estrada Palma often threatened to resign, but his clear purpose in doing so was to force the United States to intervene and prop up his regime. See TR, Letters, vol. 5, 428.
45 “You had no” TR, Letters, vol. 5, 409. See also Christopher A. Abel, “Controlling the Big Stick: Theodore Roosevelt and the Cuban Crisis of 1906,” Naval War College Review 40.3 (1987).
46 His latest Secretary Bonaparte had joined the Cabinet on 1 July 1905. For an excellent short portrait, see Eric F. Goldman, “Charles J. Bonaparte, Patrician Reformer: His Earlier Career,” in Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 61, no. 2. See also Walker Rumble, “Rectitude and Reform: Charles Joseph Bonaparte and the Politics of Gentility” (Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1971).
47 It was agreed Perkins, Constraint of Empire, 14–15.
48 slaughtered six hundred Hagedorn, Leonard Wood, vol. 2, 65.
49 For much of Heffron, “Mr.