The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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harbor “no protected class”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 191.
“to a most limited extent”: TR to HCL, Aug. 22, 1895, in TR and Henry Cabot Lodge, Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884–1918 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), Vol. 1, p. 165.
“The police force became”: Riis, The Making of an American, p. 329.
“I have never been”: TR to HCL, July 20, 1895, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 469.
“You are the biggest . . . wrecked the Republican Party”: Avery Andrews, “Citizen in Action: The Story of T.R. as Police Commissioner,” Unpublished typescript, n.d., TRC.
Reports surfaced: The Journal (New York), Aug. 6, 1895, Clipping Scrapbook, TRC.
“the next bomb”: New York World, Aug. 7, 1895, in Clipping Scrapbook, TRC.
Rumors circulated: NYT, Jan. 4, 1896, Clipping Scrapbook, TRC.
“Roosevelt is like a boy”: Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, OH), July 18, 1895.
“This was a fight”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, p. 58.
“in windows . . . mounted paraders”: New York World, Sept. 26, 1895.
“laughed louder . . . Certainly”: NYT, Sept. 26, 1895.
“That is the . . . Millionaire’s Club”: New York Sun, Sept. 26, 1895.
“a striking resemblance”: New York World, Sept. 26, 1895.
“That is really a good stroke”: New York Sun, Sept. 26, 1895.
“shrieking with rage”: TR to HCL, July 20, 1895, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 469.
“It looked almost”: New York World, Sept. 26, 1895.
“Bully for Teddy! . . . a man!”: Daily Republican (Decatur, IL), Sept. 27, 1895.
“Cheered by Those”: Chicago Evening Journal, Sept. 26, 1895, reprinted in Daily Republican, Sept. 27, 1895.
“a hundred parades”: New York World, Sept. 26, 1895.
“are on the verge”: TR to HCL, Oct. 3, 1895, in TR and HCL, Selections from the Correspondence, Vol. 1, p. 181.
“has actually been endeavoring”: TR to HCL, Oct. 11, 1895, in LTR, Vol. 1, pp. 484–85.
“Thinks he’s the whole board”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 258.
“He talks, talks . . . parted rather coldly”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, p. 63.
“armed combat”: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 529.
“His wife and children”: Morris, EKR, p. 163.
“Their gay doings”: Ibid.
“overstrained . . . the world should stop”: HCL to ARC, December [n.d.], 1895, in Rixey, Bamie, p. 89.
“a chocolate éclair backbone”: Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, p. 50.
“who want to strike down”: TR to Cecil Spring Rice, Oct. 8, 1896, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 562.
“years of social misery”: TR to Cecil Spring Rice, Aug. 5, 1896, in ibid., p. 554.
“The halls were jammed”: TR to ARC, Oct. 4, 1896, in TR, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, p. 194.
“He gave all of his time”: Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, p. 42.
“the happiest . . . really worth living”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 131.
“had no heart in it”: Ibid., p. 151.
“reform was . . . did come back”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 181.
“The end of the reign . . . ‘reform cop’ is retired”: New York Evening Post, April 15, 1897.
“the proudest single . . . brain and will power”: LS, “The Real Roosevelt,” Ainslee’s Magazine (December 1898), p. 480.
people who had “failed in life”: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 550.
“I became more set”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 201.
loosening the “steel chain”: Goldman, Rendezvous with Destiny, p. 85.
“more than any he has ever”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 30.
“Perhaps it is the comfort”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 148.
“I have been . . . want of time”: WHT to HHT, Dec. 10, 1892, WHTP.
“The Bar here . . . body of men”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 26, 1895, WHTP.
“They have eight bedrooms”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 21, 1892, WHTP.
“He is absolutely”: Lyle, “Taft: A Career of Big Tasks,” The World’s Work (September 1907).
“Stop that! . . . to the case”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 126.
Taft edited the document himself: Lyle, “Taft: A Career of Big Tasks,” The World’s Work (September 1907).
“over again and again”: Ibid.
“holding that city . . . a civil war”: WHT to HHT, July 9, 1984, WHTP.
killed “to make an impression”: WHT to HHT, July 8, 1894, WHTP.
“I hate the . . . nothing to reporters”: WHT to HHT, July 4, 1894, WHTP.
packing the court “to suffocation”: WHT to HHT, July 11, 1894, WHTP.
“the last sentence”: WHT to HHT, July 13, 1894, WHTP.
took almost an hour: Ibid.
“had the right to organize . . . employment are unsatisfactory”: “Thomas vs. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company,” Federal Reporter, Vol. 62 (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1894), pp. 817–18.
“urged a peaceable . . . against their employers”: Ibid.
not “as Police Commissioner”: Hurwitz, Theodore Roosevelt and Labor, p. 172.
“applauded him to the echo”: Riis, The Making of an American, p. 333.
“one railroad worker”: John Fabian Witt, “Toward a New History of American Accident Law: Classical Tort Law and the Cooperative First-Party Insurance Movement,” Harvard Law Review (January 2001), pp. 694–95, 719–20.
he would later be vindicated when in 1908: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 139.
One brakeman was working: See “Narramore v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company,” Federal Reporter, Vol. 96 (1899).
“a dead letter”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 141.
injured employees successfully cited: Witt, “Toward a New History of American Accident Law,” Harvard Law Review (January 2001), pp. 776–77.
“to give the defendants”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 145.
“Iron Pipe Trust Illegal”: Arnold, Remaking the Presidency, p. 78.
“precisely the same”: New York World, Feb. 15, 1898.
“The deanship is”: WHT to HHT, July 1, 1897, WHTP.
“I wish I could make”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 26, 1895, WHTP.
“a bad taste”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 23, 1894, WHTP.
“something to say”: HHT to WHT, June 23, 1895, WHTP.
“I shall use you”: WHT to HHT, June 28, 1895, WHTP.
“the prominent names . . . fizzle of mine”: WHT to HHT, July 13, 1895, WHTP.
“a happy summer home”: Mabel Boardman, “The Summer Capital,” Outlook, Sept. 25, 1909.
“whole cargo of Tafts”: Robert Lee Dunn, William Howard Taft, American (Boston: Chapple, 1908), pp. 34, 43.
“He played eighteen . . . has got to burn around me”: Taft, Memories and Opinions, pp. 107–09.
Nellie Taft . . . immersed herself in the civic life: HHT to WHT, Nov. 19, 1892; June 5, 1893; Nov. 11, 16, 20, & 24, 1893; Dec. 4, 1893, WHTP.
Nellie found time . . . president of the Orchestral Association: Anthony, Nellie Taft, pp. 110–20.
“My love for . . . me to know”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 6, 1894, WHTP.
fancied herself “the new woman”: WHT to HHT, June 27, 1897, WHTP.
“It is so delightful”: HHT to WHT, July 6, 1896, WHTP.
“I should have much preferred”: WHT to HHT, Mar. 26, 1896, WHTP.
“I want peace”: Mrs. Bellamy (Maria Longworth) Storer, “How Theodore Roosevelt Was Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy: A Hitherto Unrelated Chapter of History,” Harper’s Weekly, June 1, 1912.
“The truth is”: AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 2, p. 441.
“Judge Taft”: HCL to TR, Mar. 8, 1897, in TR and HCL, Selections from the
Correspondence, Vol. 1, p. 252.
“Give him a chance”: Storer, “How Theodore Roosevelt Was Appointed . . . ,” Harper’s Weekly, June 1, 1912.
“more than once”: AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 2, p. 441.
“would rather welcome a foreign war”: Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, p. 247.
“soldierly virtues . . . slothful, timid”: NYT, June 3, 1897.
“The victories of peace”: Wagenknecht, Seven Worlds, p. 248.
“seen the dead piled up”: Evan Thomas, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (Boston: Little, Brown, 2010), p. 229.
“Every man”: TR, “A Colonial Survival,” in Hermann Hagedorn, ed., Literary Essays, Vol. 12 of WTR, p. 306.
“became convinced”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 208.
incarcerating nearly a third: James Bradley, The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War (Boston: Little, Brown, 2009), p. 71.
“on the ground of . . . material gain”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 176.
exercised a “free hand”: TR to ARC, Aug. 21, 1897, in TR, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, p. 208.
He generated war plans: RSB, “Theodore Roosevelt: A Character Sketch,” McClure’s (November 1898), p. 23.
“I am having immense”: TR to Bellamy Storer, Aug. 19, 1897, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 655.
“it is not easy”: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 175.
“There isn’t the slightest”: TR to John Davis Long, June 22, 1897, in LTR, Vol. 1, pp. 630–31.
“You must be tired”: Thomas, The War Lovers, p. 174.
“stay there just exactly”: TR to John Davis Long, Aug. 26, 1897, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 662.
fortunate to avoid Washington: TR to John Davis Long, Sept. 15, 1897, in ibid., p. 675.
“an act of friendly courtesy”: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 596.
“an act of . . . Havana tomorrow”: TR to Benjamin Harrison Diblee, Feb. 16, 1898, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 775.
“It seemed as . . . General Miles”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 189–90.
“vacillated between”: Ibid., p. 189.
“suspension of judgment”: IMT, “President McKinley in War Times,” McClure’s (July 1898), p. 211.
“excited goings-on . . . an invading army”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 189–90.
Roosevelt’s “amazing” personality: IMT to RSB, May 3, 1911, RSB Papers.
“I am more grieved”: TR to William Sheffield Cowles, Mar. 30, 1898, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 804.
“weakness . . . ludicrous than painful”: “Theodore Roosevelt’s Diaries—IV,” Personality (July 1928), p. 65.
“The only effective forces”: Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time, Vol. 1, pp. 90–91.
“warlike element”: IMT, “President McKinley in War Times,” McClure’s (July 1898), p. 221.
“too much” for McKinley: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 189.
“He steadily grew paler”: IMT, “President McKinley in War Times,” McClure’s (July 1898), p. 223.
“proceed at once . . . utmost endeavor”: H. W. Brands, Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 23.
“Keep full of . . . the Asiatic coast”: TR to George Dewey, Feb. 25, 1898, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 784.
“if it had not been”: AB, Taft and Roosevelt, Vol. 2, p. 441.
“In all its earlier . . . best of the old”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 195–96.
“a continuous flow of war articles”: Ibid., p. 196.
“The editors of McClure’s . . . historical value”: “McClure’s Magazine in War Times,” McClure’s (June 1898), p. 206.
“could not run away . . . to serve it?” IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 195.
“a triumph of the new journalism”: Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R., p. 191.
Baker calculated . . . every transmitted word: RSB, “How the News of the War Is Reported,” McClure’s (September 1898), pp. 491–94.
“It is a little short”: RSB to to J. Stannard Baker, May 1, 1898, RSB Papers.
his paper . . . collapsed into insolvency: Thomas, The War Lovers, p. 271.
“Populists stopped . . . flags fluttering everywhere”: WAW, “When Johnny Went Marching Out,” McClure’s (September 1898), pp. 199–203.
“have not been . . . entire four years”: George B. Waldron, “The Cost of War,” McClure’s (June 1898), pp. 169–70.
“day and night”: “McClure’s Magazine in War Times,” McClure’s (June 1898), p. 206.
“Having tasted blood”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 196.
“For weeks we could not tell”: TR to Brooks Adams, Mar. 21, 1898, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 798.
A dangerous operation: TR to ARC, Mar. 7, 1898, in ibid., p. 790.
“kind of a nervous breakdown”: TR to William Sheffield Cowles, Mar. 29, 1898, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 803.
“You know what”: AB to his mother, Oct. 21, 1908, in Abbott, ed., Letters of Archie Butt, p. 146.
“that a war hardly seemed”: Arthur Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis (New York: Scribner, 1992), front matter.
“We knew his face”: Ibid., p. 1.
“queer, strained humility”: TR, “A Colonial Survival,” in WTR, Vol. 12, p. 301.
“He apparently considered . . . table during dinner”: TR to James Brander Matthews, Dec. 6, 1892, in LTR, Vol. 1, p. 299.
“absolutely the very best”: Richard Harding Davis and Charles Belmont Davis, Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917), p. 191.
“This is the best crowd”: Ibid., pp. 195–96.
“jumped up . . . Americans in Cuba”: Edward Marshall, The Story of the Rough Riders, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry: The Regiment in Camp and on the Battle Field (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1899), p. 104.
“He was suffering”: Richard Harding Davis, The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898), p. 163.
“If the men . . . ‘shown more courage’ ”: RHD and Davis, Adventures and Letters, pp. 196–97.
“No one who saw”: Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King, p. 185.
“charging the rifle-pits”: RHD, The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, p. 217.
“Up, up they went . . . never quite to be got over”: Quoted in Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 168–70.
“had single-handedly”: Lubow, The Reporter Who Would Be King, p. 195.
“Except for Roosevelt”: Ibid.
lived in constant anxiety: Morris, EKR, p. 181.
“These dreadful days”: Rixey, Bamie, p. 123.
“for the sake of the children”: Thomas, The War Lovers, p. 317.
“I do not want”: Ibid., p. 279.
“looked the picture . . . the Cuban campaign”: NYT, Aug. 15, 1898.
“bubbled over . . . could have been with us”: New York World, Aug. 6, 1898.
“the sober judgment . . . any bloodshed”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Mar. 8, 1898, RSB Papers.
“War excitement here . . . jostling crowds”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, May 1, 1898, RSB Papers.
“the thrill”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 84.
“It was the . . . time usually wasted”: Ibid., p. 191.
“roomy, comfortable house . . . amassing a fortune”: RSB, “Theodore Roosevelt: A Character Sketch,” McClure’s (November 1898), p. 32.
“I talked with a number”: Ibid., p. 31.
“a magnificent example . . . joyousness of disposition”: Ibid., pp. 32, 23, 24.
“rare power . . . active strength”: Ibid., pp. 31–32.
“president of the”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, Aug. 30, 1898, RSB Papers.
“I want to thank you”: TR to RSB, Nov. 4, 1898, RSB Papers.
“I was to write”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 84.
“one of his f
inest characteristics”: RSB, Notebook J, Oct. 6, 1910, RSB Papers.
“Once a friend”: RSB, “Theodore Roosevelt: A Character Sketch,” McClure’s (November 1898), p. 31.
“what was really interesting”: Baker, American Chronicle, p. 95.
“outpouring of marvelous”: Ibid., p. 85.
most amazing invention “since the days of Jonah”: Sioux Valley News (Canton, SD), Jan. 5, 1899.
“simpler in construction . . . without recharging”: RSB, “The Automobile in Common Use,” McClure’s (July 1899), pp. 7, 10.
“the first fully verified”: Baker, American Chronicle, p. 153.
“one of the few thinkers”: Ibid., p. 110.
“My life was being”: Ibid., p. 116.
“I have been spreading”: Ibid., p. 115.
“It seemed to me”: Ibid., p. 120.
McClure’s “affectionate interest”: IMT to RSB, Sept. 13, 1899, RSB Papers.
“I cannot think”: Baker, American Chronicle, p. 117.
“Do only what . . . friends they were”: Ibid., p. 123.
“as far away as possible”: Ibid.
“At first”: Ibid., p. 124.
“across bare ridges . . . sense of freedom”: Ibid., p. 125.
“I rode or tramped”: Ibid., p. 129.
“I began again”: Ibid.
“This being true . . . see and think”: Ibid., p. 132.
“not a leader . . . live together peaceably”: Ibid., pp. 132–33.
“one by one”: LS, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” McClure’s (May 1899), p. 57.
“Should I run?” . . . predicted victory: LS, The Autobiography, pp. 342–43.
“Take an independent . . . will end him”: LS, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” McClure’s (May 1899), p. 58.
“I am not a Republican”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Oct. 18, 1894, in LS, et al., eds., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 106.
“I’m a practical man”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 346.
“good public service . . . by bettering it”: LS, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” McClure’s (May 1899), p. 58.
“What’s the difference? . . . when I’m governor”: Ibid., p. 59.
“Roosevelt most positively”: NYT, Sept. 18, 1898.
“Oh, what a howl”: LS, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” McClure’s (May 1899), p. 58.
“received with becoming meekness”: Commercial Advertiser (New York), Sept. 19, 1898.
“Rough Rider . . . taken prisoner”: Ibid.