Rainsford, William Stephen, 337
Ralph, Julian, 321
Raster, Hermann, 120
rate cards, 344–45
Raymond, Henry J., 192
Reconstruction, 43–46, 53, 54, 57–58, 133, 179, 496n
recounts, election, 139–40
Red Cross, 461
Reid, Whitelaw, 90, 208, 276, 281, 295
Remount Camp, 22–23
Republican National Committee, 126
Republican National Convention:
of 1876, 125
of 1880, 182
of 1884, 221–22
of 1896, 326
of 1904, 390
Republican Party, 4, 43–46, 50, 51–55, 57, 71–77, 106–7, 111, 120–22, 125–29, 130, 131, 139–40, 155, 161, 177–78, 185–86, 188–89, 192, 204, 206, 222–28, 245, 246, 272, 276, 285–86, 293, 369–70, 381, 407, 451–52, 506n
see also Liberal Republicans; Radical Republicans; specific elections
revolution of 1848, 11–12, 35
Richardson, Leander, 261
Rickey (Pulitzer’s dog), 362
Riggs House, 140
Robb, Graham, 483n
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 428
Robinson, Douglas, 419, 425, 428, 431, 434
Rockefeller, William, xi, 259–60, 333
Rockwood Hall, 333
Rodin, Auguste, 405, 409–12
Roeslein, Fritz, 50
Romola (Eliot), 291
Roosevelt, Theodore:
at Gridiron dinner, 428
as New York City police commissioner, 312–13, 317, 389, 422
as New York State governor, 389
Panama Canal project of, 4, 417–40, 446–50, 455, 526n
as president, xi, 4–5, 372, 407, 416, 428
presidential campaign of (1904), 388–93
presidential campaign of (1912), 451–52
Pulitzer as enemy of, 4–5, 222–23, 246, 276, 297, 316–18, 387, 389, 421–40, 446–50, 455, 526n
Pulitzer prosecuted for libel by, xii, 4–5, 421–40, 446–50, 526n
Pulitzer’s views on, 325, 365, 369, 384, 388–93, 416
as reformer, 150, 222–23, 246, 312–13, 389
Rough Riders led by, 4, 343
vice-presidential campaign of (1900), 369–70
World’s attacks against, 4, 222–23, 297, 312–13, 315, 316, 317–18, 388–93, 416, 417–40
Root, Elihu, 434
Rosebault, Walter, 492n
Rosenblatt, Meyer, 155, 156–57
Rosh Hashanah, 520n
Rothschild family, 315
Rough Riders, 4, 343
“Royal Feast of Belshazzar,” 230–31, 245, 259
Russia, 135, 256, 260
Russia, 151
Sabbath, 15, 312–13
Sabine, Wallace C., 454
Sage, Russell, 205
St. Croix, Marquis Alexander de, 438–40
St. George’s Church, 309, 451
St. Louis, 28, 29–56, 58, 59–60, 66, 70–72, 73, 76–77, 83, 92–98, 99, 100–105, 109, 114–16, 118, 119–22, 133–35, 136, 137, 138, 140, 153–206, 244, 271, 298, 328, 479n–84n, 486n, 495n, 501n
St. Louis County, Mo., 48–50, 59–66, 68, 74, 96, 118
St. Louis Dispatch, 95, 153–61, 162, 192, 205, 206
St. Louis Evening Chronicle, 183
St. Louis Evening Post, 154, 156, 157–58, 160–61, 207
St. Louis Gas-Light Co., 163–64
St. Louis Globe, 102, 105, 111, 120
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 153, 156, 157, 158, 161, 162, 174, 177, 184, 190, 192, 201, 206, 346, 493n–94n, 500n, 502n
St. Louis Journal, 154
St. Louis Movement, 40, 483n, 485n–86n
St. Louis Philosophical Society, 34, 39–42
St. Louis Police Commission, xii, 46–47, 78–79, 83, 91, 95–97, 101, 166, 494n
St. Louis Post and Dispatch:
Associated Press (AP) certification of, 175–76, 407
building of, 177, 183, 244, 407
circulation of, 157–58, 162–63, 167, 172, 174, 176, 183–84, 194, 195, 201–2, 205
competition of, 174, 183–84
as Democratic paper, 178–79
editorial staff of, 165, 166–69, 171–72, 202, 301–2, 332–33, 403, 404
finances of, 184, 205, 206, 356
fire at, 177, 183
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. as publisher of, 403, 404, 407, 445, 454–55, 461–62
libel suits against, 183
management of, 165, 166–69, 184, 202, 205, 206, 301, 356
newsboys strike against, 183–84
newsstand price of, 183–84
offices of, 177, 183, 194–95
payroll of, 191, 301
printing presses of, 194–95
Pulitzer as editor of, 182–83, 186–88, 189, 190, 192–94, 198, 201–2, 223, 271, 341, 403, 404
Pulitzer as publisher of, xii, 173–76, 183–84, 190–91, 197, 205, 206, 217, 223, 233, 271, 291, 293, 298, 301, 308, 329, 332, 346, 356, 363, 377, 393, 404, 410, 459, 500n, 501n, 502n
reputation of, 174, 183, 192, 195, 217
sale of, 346, 393, 462, 520n
sensationalism of, 162–64, 183, 194, 200–202
Slayback killing at, 199–202
trustees appointed for, 460
typographical union of, 190–91
World compared with, 205, 206, 217, 223, 233
St. Louis Republic, 305, 393
St. Louis Spectator, 202
St. Louis Staats-Zeitung, 101–3, 154, 157, 205
St. Louis Star, 156, 157–58, 160, 172, 341
St. Louis Times, 65, 95, 120, 121–22, 127, 131, 138, 175, 485n, 497n
St. Louis Union, 154
St. Mark’s School, 366, 367, 385
St. Moritz, 277–78, 280, 304, 305, 386
St. Thomas Church, 260, 402, 458–59
San Francisco Examiner, 251–52, 291–92, 321, 322–23
San Juan Hill charge, 4, 343
Sargent, John Singer, 395–98, 399, 405, 461
scarlet fever, 253–54
Schmidt’s Hotel, 56, 60, 61–63, 486n
Schurz, Carl, 22, 35, 39, 44–46, 70, 72, 75, 76–77, 81, 83, 84, 85–87, 88, 89, 90, 92–93, 97, 101, 103, 104, 106, 108, 111–12, 119, 120, 126–27, 128, 137, 173, 185, 186, 196, 224, 228–29, 404, 482n, 492n, 496n
Schweninger, Ernst, 329
Scott, James, 233–34
Scott, Walter, 292
Scripps, Edward W., 183
Scripps-Howard, 462
Sedalia Daily Democrat, 490n, 494n
See, John, 478n
Seitz, Don Carlos, 302, 322, 323, 324, 330–33, 344–46, 351, 355–59, 365, 367, 372, 373, 375, 378–79, 387, 393, 401, 411, 413, 415, 420, 421, 425, 426, 427, 437, 441, 444, 479n–80n, 481n, 484n, 490n, 497n, 511n, 519n, 520n, 523n
Seligman, Joseph, 260
Semiramis, 289
Senate, U.S., 131–32, 158, 418
septicemia, 193–94
Seymour, Horatio, 180–81
Shafer, Ira, 253
Shakespeare, William, 47, 51, 98, 104, 137, 202, 436
Shaw, George Bernard, 244
Shaw, J. Angus, 333, 348, 363, 366, 431, 444, 458
Shenandoah Valley, 23–24, 478n
Sheridan, Philip, 23–24, 478n
Sherman, William T., 26, 188
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890), 356, 358, 518n
silver, 251, 289, 293–94, 301, 307, 309, 315, 326, 328, 332–33, 348, 384, 391
Sitting Bull, 218
Sixteenth Amendment, 143
slavery, 46, 95, 107, 142, 478n
Slayback, Alonzo W., 115, 124, 199–202, 206, 263
Sloane, Henry T., 362
Smith, Ballard, 249–50, 253, 256, 258, 265, 290–91, 292, 296, 298, 303, 315, 364
Smith, Delavan, 420–21, 434
Smith, William Henry, 205, 227, 256
socialism, 84, 150, 246, 297, 369, 499n
Southern H
otel, 100–101, 111, 112, 114, 115–16, 120, 126, 133–35, 348
Spanish-American War, 3, 4, 325, 338–43, 345, 347, 350, 359, 369, 373, 388
Speer, William, 391, 417, 418, 419, 421
Spinoza, Baruch, 442
Springfield Republican, 76, 85, 136–37, 143
Stallo, John, 89
Standard, Edwin O., 489n
State Savings Institution, 97
Statue of Liberty, 150, 235–37, 238, 244–46, 251, 276, 287, 507n, 508n
steel industry, 296–98, 371, 520n–21n
Stevens, J. F., 134
Stimson, Henry L., 421–24, 426, 428, 429–36, 446–50, 525n, 526n
Stires, Ernest, 459, 460
stock market, 176, 242, 297, 363, 406–7, 520n–21n
Stone, Melville, 504n
Storr, Anthony, 514n
Strauss, Adalbert, 32
Strauss, Theo, 32, 33, 481n
sugar plantations, 32
Supreme Court, U.S., 447–50
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 462
synagogues, 10–11, 15, 141
Taft, Charles P., 419, 425, 434, 525n
Taft, William Howard, 416, 417, 419, 420, 434, 448, 449, 451–52, 525n
Talmud, 288
Tammany Hall, 129, 229, 262
tariffs, 87, 181, 186, 219, 272, 285–86, 309
taxation, 3, 10, 11, 16, 57, 118, 120, 164, 165, 219, 235, 246, 327, 333, 485n
Taylor, Charles, 279
Taylor, Daniel C., 489n
telegraph, 2, 5, 100, 102, 114, 130, 135, 153, 159, 256, 315–16, 456, 459, 527n
telephone, 150, 258, 410, 459
temperance movement, 84, 90, 225, 228, 312–13
Teutonic, 285, 289, 311, 512n
Thackeray, William, 290
Thaw, Harry K., 431
Thayer, William Sydner, 376
Thompson, Mattie, 512n, 513n
Thompson, Phillip “Little Phil,” 512n–13n
Thoreau, Henry David, 34
Thwaites, Norman G., 397–98, 408, 411, 424–25, 432, 441, 443, 459
Tiffany & Co., 257–58
Tilden, Samuel J., 124–33, 152, 179–80, 181, 182, 216, 228, 279, 496n
Tilden-Hendricks Reform Club, 132
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 152
Tom Sawyer (Twain), 108
Torah, 15
Townsend, George Alfred, 126, 137, 211–12, 523n
Town Topics, 324, 341, 399
transcendentalists, 40
Treasury, U.S., 121
Trinity Church, 129, 402
Trollope, Anthony, 292
Trumbull, Lyman, 84, 85, 88
Truth, 192
tuberculosis, 16, 304
Tunstall, Nannie, 141–44, 497n
Tuohy, James, 381, 395, 397, 410, 412
Turner, George, 250, 273, 275–76, 284, 290, 291, 293, 302
Twain, Mark, 30, 108
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,” 121, 124, 130, 231, 392, 490n
typhoid fever, 335–38
Union Club, 260
United Labor Party, 246
United Press, 355
UPI, 355
utilities, public, 163–64, 371
Van Benthuysen, William, 345, 346
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, III, 389, 394
Vanderbilt, Grace, 389
Vanderbilt, William H., xi, 230, 238, 245, 259–60
Van Hamm, Caleb, 413–14, 418–19, 425, 434, 435, 446, 459, 525n
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 290
Varieties Theater, 113
Venezuela, 313–17, 325, 342
Verne, Jules, 282
Victoria, Queen of England, 254
Victoria Hotel, 234–35
Viking, 228
Villard, Henry, 217–18
Vosburgh, Henry, 21
voter registration, 43–44
Wagner, Richard, 277
Walker, Stanley, 403
Wall Street Journal, 521n
Washburne, Elihu, 122–23
Washington, D.C., 25–26, 131, 137, 138–46, 178, 191, 196–97, 240–43, 295, 429–36, 446, 497n–98n, 507n
Washington Monument, 507n
Washington Post, 138, 139, 140, 142, 173, 181, 193–94, 499n
Watterson, Henry, 76, 85–86, 88, 89, 100, 132, 136, 178, 181, 249, 489n, 491n, 496n, 504n, 513n
Waudran, Alfred, 76–77
wax-cylinder recorders, 280
Webb, Frederica, 394–95, 401–3, 406, 461
Webber, Felix, 309
“Weir Mitchell treatment,” 288
Welge, Theodore, 50, 60, 70–71, 97
Wells, Ida B., 108
Western Associated Press, 102
Western Celt, 79
Western Union, 193, 205, 315–16, 364
Westliche Post, xii, 34, 35–37, 39, 43–50, 52, 60, 65–66, 70, 73, 74, 75, 77, 83, 90, 91–93, 96, 97, 110, 114, 119, 127, 137, 146, 156, 157, 160, 162, 481n–82n, 488n, 492n
whaling industry, 27–28
Wharton, Edith, 112–13
“When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” 137
Whiskey Ring, 120–22
White, Edward Douglas, 449
White, Florence D. “Flory,” 171–72, 376, 435
White, Horace, 76, 85–86
White, Stanford, 285, 299, 372, 399, 431
Whitley, Jonas, 418–19, 525n
Whitney, William C., 216, 228, 230, 257, 369
Wickersham, George W., 437
Wickham, Elinor, 448, 452, 462
Wiggins Ferry Co., 29–30, 103
Williams, Charles, 434
Williams, Samuel L., 383–84, 390
Willich, Louis, 35–36, 46, 50, 481n, 482n
Wilson, Mary S., 99
Wilson, Robert, Jr., 456, 457, 458
Wilson, Woodrow, 416, 452, 528n
Wise, Henry, 447
Wolbrecht, George, 31, 71
Wolf, Simon, 92
Wood, John B., 492n
Woodlawn Cemetery, 337, 460
Woodson, Silas, 95–97
World:
accuracy of, 215, 345–46, 363, 373, 400
advertising in, 223–24, 239, 251, 261, 287, 326, 344–45, 347, 351, 357–58, 365, 370
budget cuts in, 333, 340, 343
business staff of, 233–34, 250, 273, 275, 290, 292, 301–2, 317, 321–24, 329–30, 340, 343, 344–45, 347, 349–59, 365, 400–401, 403–4
bylines in, 301, 302–3, 334, 513n
circulation of, 2, 3–4, 204, 207, 210, 211, 213, 215, 217, 219, 220, 223, 225, 226, 227, 231–32, 233, 236, 237, 250–51, 261, 270, 271, 274, 286, 290, 305, 321–22, 323, 330, 340, 343, 344, 347, 349–53, 357, 415, 420, 449, 462, 505n
city room of, 211, 212, 339, 413–14
classifieds in, 239, 326, 365
color printing used by, 326, 330–31, 340
comics published by, 330–31
commemorative coin issued for, 251
competition of, 3–4, 249, 274, 275, 321–32, 334, 338–41, 343, 372–73, 388, 462–63, 517n, 518n, 519n
compositors for, 212, 287
copy desk of, 413–14
cornerstone laid for, 280, 415, 511n
corruption attacked by, 208–9, 219, 222–23, 225, 230–31, 253, 306–7, 399–400, 414–15, 417–19, 507n
counting room of, 212
crime stories in, 213–14, 226–27, 253
decline of, 321–22, 340–41, 394, 462–63
as Democratic paper, 204, 210–11, 216, 217, 219–32, 259, 269, 271–72, 307, 326–28, 332–33, 348, 388–93, 406–7, 417, 418–19, 451–52, 506n
editorial page of (“the Page”), 208–9, 212, 218, 236–37, 240, 244, 245, 257, 263, 285–86, 296–98, 312–13, 316, 323, 327, 342, 343, 353, 371, 372–73, 381–82, 383, 388–93, 399–401, 414–16, 417, 419–21, 424–27, 436, 451–52, 453–54, 455
editorial staff of, 4, 207, 208, 211–12, 228, 239, 240, 244, 245, 248–51, 253, 258, 265, 270, 272, 273–74, 287, 290–91, 296–98, 300, 301–3, 305, 307–8, 322–24, 331
, 333, 340–42, 345–46, 353, 363, 364, 379–80, 381, 383–84, 399–401, 403–4, 406–7, 413–19, 427, 458–59, 460, 462–63
evening edition of, 258, 261–62, 300, 323, 334, 349–53, 357–58, 380, 403–4, 414, 418, 431–32
fifth anniversary of, 271
final edition of, 463
finances of, 2, 219, 232, 233–34, 289, 294, 333, 340, 343, 370, 379, 458, 462–63
front page of, 209, 211, 213, 226, 235–36, 249, 252, 271, 273, 314–15, 350, 400, 419, 424–25
gilded dome as symbol of, 287, 331, 340, 345, 353, 365, 417
Gould’s ownership of, 199, 204–6, 218–19, 232, 274, 293–94
headlines of, 211, 213, 249, 252, 273, 314–15, 350, 400, 424–25
illustrations in, 225–28, 230–31, 236, 253, 259, 340, 379–80, 455, 506n
innovations at, 208–12, 213, 225–28, 251–52, 458
labor organization at, 212, 296–98
length of, 211, 325–26, 357, 380
libel suits against, 183, 223, 330, 506n
library ban of, 331
London bureau of, 254–55, 301, 302–3, 306, 353, 380, 395, 513n
management of, 2, 208, 211, 249–50, 252, 253, 258, 273–74, 284, 290, 292, 298, 301–3, 307–8, 321–24, 329–30, 340, 341, 343, 344–45, 347, 349–59, 363–65, 370, 400–401, 403–4, 460–63
masthead of, 209, 211, 235–36
monopolies attacked by, 217–18, 219, 220, 225, 230–31, 271, 296–98, 356, 371, 389, 392–93, 399–400, 507n
newsboys (“newsies”) and, 226, 238, 349–54, 355, 358, 518n
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