“the master mind . . . damning words”: Ibid.
“He was pacing . . . of his independence”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 346.
“an inspired account”: Harry H. Stein, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Press: Lincoln Steffens,” Mid-America (April 1972), p. 95.
“no one asked”: Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 20, 1898.
“Before you say anything”: LS, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” McClure’s (May 1899), p. 59.
“that he would be unable”: Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 20, 1898.
“It is hard”: LS, “Theodore Roosevelt, Governor,” McClure’s (May 1899), p. 60.
“It looked as though . . . allowed to go his way”: Ibid.
“He stumped the State”: Ibid.
“The fire and school bells”: NYT, Oct. 27, 1898.
“seventeen feet”: Commercial Advertiser, Oct. 26, 1898.
his “presence was everything”: William T. O’Neil to J. S. Van Duzer, Nov. 1, 1898, in LTR, Vol. 2, pp. 885–86.
“that indefinable ‘something’ ”: Commercial Advertiser, Oct. 26, 1898.
“probable size . . . an omen of victory”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 204–05.
“Young gentlemen”: LS, “The Real Roosevelt,” Ainslee’s Magazine (December 1898), p. 484.
CHAPTER NINE: Governor and Governor General
the day Roosevelt was inaugurated: New York Tribune, Jan. 3, 1899.
“There never was such a mass”: New York World, Jan. 3, 1899.
“the desks and seats”: NYT, Jan. 3, 1899.
“A deafening outburst”: Ibid.
“stood for a moment . . . touch of human nature”: Boston Daily Globe, Jan. 3, 1899.
“He is a party man . . . first consideration”: New York Tribune, Jan. 3, 1899.
“if we do not work . . . of the people”: NYT, Jan. 3, 1899.
“It was a solemn”: EKR to Emily Carow, Jan. 3, 1899, TRC.
“physically to cringe . . . as well as the guinea pigs”: New York Sun, Jan. 1, 1899.
“usually an extremely . . . down the room”: Parsons, Perchance Some Day, p. 123.
transforming . . . into a comfortable family home: Morris, EKR, p. 193.
“If only I could wake”: EKR to HCL, January [n.d.], 1899, Lodge-Roosevelt Correspondence, Mass. Hist. Soc.
“Edith will never enjoy”: TR to Maria Longworth Storer, Feb. 18, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 949.
“perfect taste . . . her mind is made up”: Hayward [CA] Review, Feb. 10, 1899.
“Everything about her speaks”: Des Moines [IA] Daily News, Dec. 7, 1900.
“There’s honor even . . . respect that wish”: Lima [OH] Daily News, Mar. 9, 1899.
“represented him”: Sandusky [OH] Star, May 24, 1899.
“ever on his feet . . . knows the Governor”: “A Day with Governor Roosevelt,” NYT Illustrated Magazine, April 23, 1899.
“plunge at once . . . affairs of the State”: Ibid.
he would visit New York City: Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 23, 1899.
“touch Platt”: New York Evening Post, Oct. 2, 1899.
“so belittled . . . some party boss”: The Argus (Albany, NY), Dec. 14, 1899.
“the irrational independents”: TR to Maria Longworth Storer, Dec. 2, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1101.
“solemn reformers . . . sinister”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 288.
“I have met many”: TR to Lucius Burrie Swift, Feb. 13, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1182.
“an understanding . . . reasons for them”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 351.
“T.R. was a very practical”: Ibid., p. 349.
“appealing directly . . . over the heads”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 280.
“the séance . . . information to draw upon”: Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 16, 1899.
workers would most benefit: G. Wallace Chessman, Governor Theodore Roosevelt: The Albany Apprenticeship, 1898–1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965), p. 202.
“I think that perhaps”: TR to Jacob Riis, May 2, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1284.
“It was on one . . . living in the rooms”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 217.
“I do not think . . . in any shape”: Ibid., p. 219.
to revise the code: Janet B. Pascal, Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 145–48.
“the grudging and querulous”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 288.
legislation establishing an eight-hour . . . considerable progress: Ibid., p. 289.
“We arrived just as”: Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Ground (New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1947), p. 145.
“had the honor”: Ibid.
“was the most important”: Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (New York: Harper, 2009), p. 356.
“as if it were . . . the Audubon Movement”: Ibid., p. 358.
“I need hardly say . . . Polybius or Livy”: TR to Frank M. Chapman, Feb. 16, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 948.
“got on fairly well”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 290.
“the storm of protest”: Ibid., p. 298.
“only imperfectly understood . . . the good of the party”: Ibid., p. 274.
“gentlemen’s understanding . . . invisible empire”: Ibid., p. 275.
“that it was a matter”: Ibid., p. 298.
“had been suffered”: Ibid.
“into sudden prominence”: NYT, Mar. 21, 1899.
“radical legislation . . . as its champion”: Thomas Platt to TR, May 6, 1899, TRC.
“consider the whole question”: Ibid.
“The time to tax”: New York Tribune, Mar. 29, 1900.
“Roosevelt Stops Franchise Tax”: Chessman, Governor Theodore Roosevelt, p. 139.
“could get a show”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 302.
“It was said to-day . . . He appreciates courage”: Commercial Advertiser, April 28, 1899.
“Right in the solar plexus”: Ibid.
the stock market suffered a significant drop: Chessman, Governor Theodore Roosevelt, p. 147.
“You will make . . . not to sign”: Thomas Platt to TR, May 6, 1899, TRC.
“When the subject . . . various altruistic ideas”: Ibid.
“Communistic or Socialistic”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 299.
“created a good . . . State of New York”: Thomas Platt to TR, May 6, 1899, TRC.
“I do not believe . . . the public burdens”: TR to Thomas Platt, May 8, 1899, TRC.
“under no circumstances”: Ibid.
“Some of the morning newspapers”: Commercial Advertiser (New York), May 20, 1899.
“any taxes”: Chessman, Governor Theodore Roosevelt, p. 152.
“Persistent efforts . . . just and reasonable”: Commercial Advertiser, May 29, 1899.
“Passage of the amended”: Ibid.
“Would you let me”: TR to WAW, May 25, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1015.
“a young fellow named”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 297.
“a tallish . . . physical joy of life”: WAW, “Remarks at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, New York, N.Y.,” Oct. 27 [n.y.], White Papers.
“We walked”: Ibid.
“the yearnings . . . of wealth and income”: Ibid.
“He sounded”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 297.
“youth . . . into the new”: Ibid., p. 298.
“the splendor . . . never shall again”: Ibid., p. 297.
“Between his newspaper”: Thaddeus Seymour, Jr., A Progressive Partnership: Theodore Roosevelt and the Reform Press, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), pp. 159–60.
“I read it with”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 299.
“with the zeal”: Seymour, “A Progressive Partnership: Theodore Roosevelt and the Reform Press,” p. 163.
In Topeka . . . “a rousing reception”: Kansas City Star, June 24, 1899.
“cannon boomed”: Ibid.
hatbands promoting Roosev
elt: Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, p. 77.
“No public man”: Emporia [KS] Gazette, June 29, 1899.
“Governor Roosevelt”: Kansas City Star, June 26, 1899.
“had a larger crowd”: Emporia [KS] Gazette, June 29, 1899.
“without either wiring . . . same thing for me”: Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, p. 78.
“telling of the sentiment”: Ibid.
“Oh mentor!”: TR to Herman H. Kohlsaat, Aug. 12, 1899, in ibid., p. 83.
“Was my McKinley”: Ibid., p. 81.
Roosevelt wrote a warm letter to White: TR to WAW, July 1, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1028.
“we were planning for 1904”: WAW, The Autobiography, p. 327.
“bearing great fruit . . . of their wisdom”: WAW to TR, June 29, 1899, White Papers.
“When the war”: WAW to TR, Aug. 29, 1901, in WAW and Johnson, eds., Selected Letters of William Allen White, p. 41.
“I think the ‘Man’ ”: TR to WAW, Oct. 28, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1091.
“You are among the men”: TR to WAW, Feb. 6, 1900, in ibid., p. 1169.
“in a great quandary”: TR to WAW, Aug. 15, 1899, TRC.
“growth of popular unrest”: TR to Herman H. Kohlsaat, Aug. 12, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1045.
“surprised to find . . . the quack”: TR to HCL, Aug. 10, 1899, in ibid., p. 1048.
“such a good fellow . . . vanished”: Ibid., p. 1047.
“by means which are utterly”: Elihu Root to TR, Dec. 13, 1899, in Philip Jessup, Elihu Root (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1938), Vol. 1, p. 209.
“Oh, Lord!”: TR to Elihu Root, Dec. 15, 1899, in ibid., p. 210.
“In our great cities . . . remedies can be applied”: NYT, Jan. 4, 1900.
“The first essential . . . which we can now invoke”: Ibid.
“the adoption of”: Ibid.
“the party of . . . enlightened conservatism”: Chessman, Governor Theodore Roosevelt, p. 157.
Odell warned . . . leave New York State: Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, p. 211.
information on “their structure and finance”: Chessman, Governor Theodore Roosevelt, p. 174.
Platt’s “right-hand” man: TR, An Autobiography, p. 290.
“no matter what”: Commercial Advertiser, Dec. 12, 1898.
“issued an ultimatum . . . made up my mind”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 291.
“Why does he . . . cheek by jowl?”: New York Evening Post, Jan. 19, 1900.
“thoroughly upright and capable”: TR to Henry L. Sprague, Jan. 26, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1141.
“I have always . . . triumph for rascality”: TR to Henry L. Sprague, Jan. 26, 1900, in ibid.
“The outcome of”: Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 25, 1900.
“honest administration . . . the Colonel before Santiago”: New York Evening Post, Jan. 29, 1900.
“Could they assail . . . they have Roosevelt”: Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 24, 1900.
“the dogs of the Evening Post”: TR to ARC, Feb. 27, 1900, in TR and ARC, Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, p. 238.
“I value you”: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, April 17, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, pp. 989–90.
Roosevelt encouraged Bishop to visit: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Feb. 16, 1899, in ibid., pp. 947–48.
“I will explain”: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, April 18, 1899, TRC.
“with the most unaffected dread”: NYT, April 12, 1899.
“emphatically not one of the ‘fool reformers’ ”: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, April 14, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 987.
“positive orders to . . . to break down Roosevelt”: TR to Lucius Burrie Smith, Feb. 13, 1900, in ibid., p. 1182.
“You are about fourteen”: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, April 13, 1900, TRC.
“I thank Heaven”: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, May 2, 1900, TRC.
“Good Lord”: Ibid.
“I need not tell you”: TR to Joseph Bucklin Bishop, May 4, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1286.
“first acquaintance”: Finley Peter Dunne, “Remembrance of Theodore Roosevelt,” Unpublished MSS, Dunne Papers.
“Tis Th’ Biography”: “Mr. Dooley,” Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 25, 1899.
“I regret to state”: TR to Finley Peter Dunne, Nov. 28, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1099.
“I shall be very happy”: Finley Peter Dunne to TR, Jan. 10, 1900, TRP.
“I never knew”: Finley Peter Dunne, “Remembrance of Theodore Roosevelt,” Dunne Papers.
“Oh, Governor . . . Alone in Cuba”: Elmer Ellis, Mr. Dooley’s America: A Life of Finley Peter Dunne (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941), p. 146.
“an experiment”: LS, “Governor Roosevelt—As an Experiment: Incidents of Conflict in a Term of Practical Politics,” McClure’s (June 1900), p. 109.
“the organization doesn’t”: Ibid., p. 112.
“obvious solution . . . and successful too”: Ibid.
“Your TR article”: McClure to LS, Mar. 14, 1899, LS Papers.
“would be tempting . . . the party men”: TR to George Hinckley-Lyman, Jan. 25, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1140.
Only “great luck . . . own throat”: TR to Henry Clay Payne, Feb. 2, 1900, in ibid., p. 1162.
was a fait accompli: TR to George Hinckley-Lyman, Jan. 25, 1900, in ibid., pp. 1139–40.
“not an office . . . should achieve nothing”: TR to Thomas Platt, Feb. 1, 1900, in ibid., p. 1156.
“tempting Providence”: TR to ARC, Feb. 2, 1900, in ibid., p. 1159.
“the true stepping stone”: HCL to TR, Feb. 2, 1900, in TR and HCL, Selections from the Correspondence, Vol. 1, p. 444.
“in New York . . . figurehead”: TR to HCL, Feb. 2, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1160.
“the money question . . . up all winter”: TR to HCL, Jan. 30, 1900, in ibid., p. 1153.
a great “comfort”: EKR to Emily Carow, Oct. 15, 1899, TRC.
“would be a . . . continual anxiety”: TR to HCL, Jan. 30, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1153.
languished in “oblivion”: Diana D. Healy, America’s Vice-Presidents: Our First Forty-three Vice-Presidents and How They Got to Be Number Two (New York: Atheneum, 1984), p. 133.
“if the Vice-Presidency”: TR to HCL, Jan. 30, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1154.
“prove to the . . . alone as a nation”: TR to H. K. Love, Nov. 24, 1900, in ibid., p. 1442.
“a violent departure”: Woodland [CA] Daily Democrat, Dec. 29, 1900.
“little better than traitors”: TR to HCL, Jan. 26, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 923.
“We shall be branded”: TR, “Address on the occasion of the presentation of a sword to Commodore Philip, New York,” Feb. 3, 1899, in WTR, Vol. 14, p. 312.
“would not be pleasant”: TR to Maria Longworth Storer, Dec. 2, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1101.
“emphatically worth doing”: TR to HCL, January 22, 1900, in TR and HCL, Selections from the Correspondence, Vol. 1, p. 437.
“the chief pleasure”: TR to Fredéric René Coudert, July 3, 1901, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 105.
“if we shrink”: TR, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (New York: The Century Co., 1902), pp. 20–21.
“the ideal man”: HCL to TR, Jan. 27, 1900, in TR and HCL, Selections from the Correspondence, Vol. 1, p. 440.
irreversibly “planted”: TR to HCL, Dec. 11, 1899, in ibid., p. 1107.
“declare decisively”: TR to HCL, Feb. 2, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1160.
“There are lots”: HCL to TR, April 16, 1900, in TR and HCL, Selections from the Correspondence, Vol. 1, p. 459.
“You will have . . . office of Vice-President”: Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, pp. 72–73.
“You disagreeable thing . . . not come true”: Ibid., pp. 73–74.
she and Theodore had had more time together: Morris, EKR, p. 200.
“I really think”: TR to HCL, Aug. 28, 1899, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1062.
“the county fair business”: TR to Bellamy Storer, Sept. 11, 1
899, in ibid., p. 1068.
“You gave my wife . . . every word”: Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, p. 74.
“an even chance . . . any outside ambition”: TR to ARC, April 30, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1277.
“vociferous applause . . . Teddy, Teddy, Teddy”: Washington Times, June 17, 1900.
“There’ll Be a Hot”: St. Louis Republic, June 17, 1900.
“he had reason . . . invaded” his room: New York Tribune, June 18, 1900.
“Round and round . . . drum and bugle”: CRR, My Brother, p. 197.
“Don’t you realize”: TR to William McKinley, addendum, June 21, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1337.
“There is not a man”: Washington Times, June 18, 1900.
“These fellows have . . . ‘Vice-President’ ”: New York World, June 18, 1900.
“If you decline”: Ibid.
“the sun shone brightly”: New York Sun, June 20, 1900.
“the magic . . . of the tumult”: NYT, June 22, 1900.
“when he caught”: New York Tribune, June 22, 1900.
the demonstration subsided: NYT, June 22, 1900.
“We stand on”: TR, “Speech Before the Twelfth Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., June 21, 1900,” in WTR, Vol. 14, p. 345.
“of rounded periods . . . was beyond them”: New York Tribune, June 22, 1900.
“a little melancholy”: TR to Henry White, July 7, 1900, in LTR, Vol. 2, p. 1349.
“should be a conceited fool”: TR to HCL, June 25, 1900, in ibid., p. 1340.
“His friends were in despair”: Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 236.
“Oh, how I hate”: Parsons, Perchance Some Day, p. 134.
“had hoped to the last”: Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, p. 89.
“get the rest”: EKR to Emily Carow, June 22, 1900, TRC.
a telegraph boy knocked: WHT, “Address before the National Geographic Society,” Washington, DC, Nov. 14, 1913, WHTP.
“important business . . . suppose that means?”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 32.
“He might as well”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 160.
“strongly opposed”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 32.
“contrary to our traditions”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 160.
“beside the question . . . governing themselves”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, pp. 33–34.
“under the most sacred”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 160.
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