“Instead of having”: Richard Duffy, “Lincoln Steffens,” The Critic (May 1904), p. 402.
“correctly diagnosed”: “The Diagnosis and Cure of Municipal Corruption,” Outlook, April 16, 1904, p. 917.
“into the wards”: “William Allen White on Mr. Steffens’s Book,” McClure’s (June 1904), pp. 220–21.
“have done more”: “A Master Journalist,” Current Literature (June 1904), p. 611.
“the political . . . stream of pollution”: LS, The Struggle for Self-Government, p. 3.
“almost any State”: Ibid., p. 5.
“the System”: Ibid., p. 11.
“this paper government”: Ibid., p. 15.
“appealing his case”: Ibid., p. 16.
“that corruption”: Ibid., p. 36.
a sweeping bribery scheme: Ibid., pp. 35–36.
“brilliant reductions”: Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens, p. 125.
“a striking article . . . of his fellow-men”: NYT, Mar. 30, 1904.
“Your last article . . . bloodless political revolution”: Joseph W. Folk to LS, April 17, 1904, LS Papers.
“fixed . . . him with defeat”: LS, The Struggle for Self-Government, p. 108.
“To have you turn”: Belle La Follette to LS, Aug. 14, 1904, LS Papers.
his “long, hard fight”: LS, The Struggle for Self-Government, p. 118.
“La Follette’s people”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Oct. 2, 1904, in LS et al., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 168.
“met a friendly legislature”: Thomas Malone, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933), Vol. 5, p. 544.
“gone through the fire”: Robert La Follette to LS, Nov. 14, 1904, LS Papers.
“No one will . . . court of last resort”: Ibid.
“The President has”: William Loeb to LS, Aug. 24, 1903, LS Papers.
renewing a friendship: Racine [WI] Daily Journal, Aug. 31, 1903; LS to Joseph Steffens, Oct. 17, 1903, LS Papers.
distance “as a political critic”: H. H. Stein, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Press: Lincoln Steffens,” Mid-America (April 1972), p. 98.
“He is a Democrat”: LS to TR, Sept. 28, 1903, LS Papers.
“I wonder if you realize”: LS to TR, Sept. 30, 1903, LS Papers.
“he and the President”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Oct. 17, 1903, LS Papers.
“a complete destroying . . . on our part”: TR to Thomas Jasper Akins, April 5, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 771.
choosing to nominate Cyrus P. Walbridge: Steven L. Piott, Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997), p. 86.
was delighted when William Allen White: WAW to Samuel Adams, Nov. 9, 1904, White Papers.
“with the boodlers . . . traitor to a state”: Emporia [KS] Gazette, reprinted in Chicago Tribune, July 22, 1904.
“a state of violent”: Washington Post, July 25, 1904.
Folk ran a superb campaign . . . 30,000 votes: Piott, Holy Joe, p. 89.
“It must make you feel”: Joseph W. Folk to LS, Nov. 9, 1905, LS Papers.
He reiterated the profound obligation: Joseph W. Folk to LS, April 17 & May 22, 1904, LS Papers.
“one of the greatest moral”: The Arena (August 1904), p. 91.
“discovered that”: New York World, reprinted in Minneapolis Daily Times, May 16, 1904.
“a powerful exponent”: The North American (Philadelphia), Aug. 15, 1905.
“must-read” pieces: Winston Churchill in Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 120.
“distinctly literary . . . go wrong in the end”: Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI), Mar. 8, 1905.
for a potential series of articles: LS to Joseph Steffens, Oct. 17, 1903, LS Papers.
McClure preferred to continue: Lyon, Success Story, p. 222.
“assume the responsibilities”: Herbert Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, His Life and Work (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1912), p. 426.
“When you know”: MAH to TR, May 23, 1903, TRC.
“the time had come . . . as a boon”: TR to HCL, May 27, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 481–82.
“Your telegram received”: TR to MAH, May 25, 1903, in ibid., p. 481.
“In view of”: MAH to TR, May 27, 1903, in ibid., p. 481.
“It was surrender”: Oxnard [CA] Courier, June 6, 1903.
“Hanna Backs Down . . . President’s Wishes”: Fort Wayne [IN] Journal-Gazette and Trenton [NJ] Times, May 27, 1903.
“I hated to . . . half hours chat”: TR to MAH, May 29, 1903, TRJP.
“the most arduous”: Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, p. 450.
“an overwhelming personal victory”: Minneapolis Journal, Nov. 5, 1903.
“almost unique . . . discredited leader”: New York Sun, Nov. 6, 1903.
“There is alarm”: Stark County Democrat (Canton, OH), Nov. 6, 1903.
“the turning point . . . from Theodore Roosevelt”: Cited in New York Sun, Nov. 6, 1903.
“The wealthy capitalists”: TR to Nicholas M. Butler, Nov. 4, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 641.
“by the bushel”: New York Sun, Nov. 6, 1903.
“It is agreed”: Stark County Democrat, Nov. 6, 1903.
Roosevelt had “lost his popularity in”: Daily Telegram (Eau Claire, WI), Dec. 12, 1903.
“the general idea . . . out on the plains!”: Henry Hoyt to WHT, Oct. 19, 1903, WHTP.
“worried lest Hanna . . . getting the delegates”: Davenport [IA] Weekly Leader, Dec. 11, 1903.
“hoping to get Hanna”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Dec. [n.d.], 1903, in LS et al., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 162.
“If I am to have”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Dec. 13, 1903, in ibid., p. 160.
“for a short confab . . . the heaviest blows”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Dec. [n.d.], 1903, in ibid., p. 162.
“Hanna is my villain . . . may do good”: LS to Joseph Steffens, January 26, 1904, in ibid., p. 184.
“above the danger mark”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Dec. [n.d.], 1903, in ibid., p. 162.
“degraded the municipal”: LS, The Struggle for Self-Government, p. 165.
“He wanted to have a President”: Ibid., p. 168.
“legislators were kidnapped”: Ibid., pp. 179–80.
“government of the people”: Ibid., p. 168.
“was the choice”: Ibid., p. 162.
“the senator’s advanced age”: Minneapolis Journal, Feb. 5, 1904.
“For some inexplicable”: TR to Elihu Root, Feb. 16, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 730.
“My Dear Mr. President . . . friendship as ever”: New York Tribune, Feb. 24, 1904.
“The illness of Hanna”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Feb. 14, 1904, in LS et al., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 165.
the old senator seemed to rally: Washington Times, Feb. 12, 1904; St. Louis Republic, Feb. 13, 1904.
“Today he is . . . decide his fate”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Feb. 14, 1904, in LS et al., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 165.
after “a brave struggle,” he died: James Rudolph Garfield, Diary, Feb. 15, 1904, Garfield Papers.
“all talk”: Daily Northwestern, Feb. 21, 1904.
open resistance to Roosevelt: John Morton Blum, The Republican Roosevelt (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961), p. 54.
“Of course, Hanna’s death”: Albert Boyden to RSB, Feb. 15, 1904, RSB Papers.
“the best-governed”: LS, “Ohio: A Tale of Two Cities,” McClure’s (July 1905), p. 293.
“appeared just”: Brand Whitlock, Forty Years of It (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1914), pp. 168, 167.
“My feeling”: Tom L. Johnson to LS, Oct. 8, 1908, LS Papers.
“The day of the American . . . McClure and Lincoln Steffens”: Cited in Congregationalist and Christian World, Nov. 18, 1905.
“To you, more than”: Publicity copy, McClure’s (November, 1905).
“very much like”: Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens, p. 125.
“The story is”: “Interview with S
. S. McClure,” The North American, Aug. 15, 1905.
“mold it into a story . . . vital interest”: Minneapolis Journal, Feb. 26, 1906.
“We were ourselves”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 183.
“Month after month”: Ibid., p. 184.
“a medal of honor . . . being accomplished”: Minneapolis Tribune, May 16, 1904.
“when the historian”: “The Literature of Exposure,” The Independent, Mar. 22, 1906, p. 690.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: “Thank Heaven You Are to Be with Me!”
“You have been . . . absolutely cut off”: Horace Taft to WHT, Nov. 2, 1903, WHTP.
“it would be impossible”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 430.
“guilty of an irreparable . . . in Judge Holmes’ favor”: TR to HCL, July 10, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 288–89.
“the hearty approval”: Logansport [IN] Journal, Sept. 9, 1902.
“no small amount of praise”: Daily Californian (Bakersfield, CA), Sept. 5, 1902.
“of utmost importance”: TR to WHT, Oct. 25, 1902, TRP.
Taft’s views on economic matters: TR to HCL, July 10, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 288.
“the blindness and greed . . . freedom of contract”: WHT to TR, Nov. 9, 1902, TRP.
“I hesitated long”: TR to WHT, Oct. 21, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 358.
“All his life”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 263.
“Great honor deeply”: WHT to TR, Oct. 28, 1902, in ibid., p. 264.
“I am disappointed”: TR to WHT, Oct. 29, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 372.
“unanswerable”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 266.
“I am awfully sorry”: TR to WHT, Nov. 26, 1902, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 382.
“He is extremely . . . satisfied with your decision”: Henry W. Taft to WHT, Jan. 10, 1903, WHTP.
“really leaves me”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Jan. 7, 1903, WHTP.
“within a few months” Taft would resign: Washington Times, Dec. 9, 1902.
“heaved a sigh . . . one more protest”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 266.
“Recognize soldiers duty . . . I bow to it”: WHT to TR, Jan. 8. 1903, TRP.
“proudest and happiest” moments: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 245.
“flags flying” . . . WE WANT TAFT: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 267.
“This is a spontaneous . . . all Philippine questions”: Ibid., p. 268.
“the thousands of people”: Daily Kennebeck Journal (Augusta, ME), Jan. 12, 1903.
“All right stay”: TR to WHT, Jan. 13, 1903, in HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 269.
“very sorry . . . take you away”: TR to WHT, Jan. 29, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 413.
“with renewed vigour”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 269.
“working for other people”: WHT to William Worthington, Feb. 6, 1904, WHTP.
“I was not a month”: Cedar Rapids [IA] Evening Gazette, Jan. 25, 1904.
“There is not”: TR, “Speech at Fargo, N.D., April 7, 1903,” in TR and Lewis, A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches, p. 269.
“a personality which . . . administrative and legislative”: Henry Taft to WHT, Jan. 10, 1903, WHTP.
“Stood trip well . . . How is the horse?”: Boston Daily Globe, Jan. 31, 1904.
“a magnificent animal”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, p. 236.
“You will think I am . . . to leave me next fall”: TR to WHT, Feb. 14, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 425–26.
“the wisest”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 3, p. 279.
“I wish to heaven . . . questions that come up”: TR to WHT, Feb. 14, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 425–26.
“If only there were”: Ibid., p. 426.
“In view of your desire . . . a definite answer”: WHT to TR, April 3, 1903, TRP.
“in line with the kind”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 269.
“prophesied on the day”: WHT to Horace Taft, Aug. 19, 1903, WHTP.
“If I were to go . . . live in a boarding house”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Mar. 27, 1903, WHTP.
Taft’s mother . . . urged his return: Charles P. Taft to WHT, May 8, 1903, WHTP.
the family was unanimous: Henry Taft to WHT, June 16, 1903, WHTP.
“I should prefer”: Charles P. Taft to WHT, May 8, 1903, WHTP.
to give up so “great a work”: Horace Taft to WHT, May 13, 1903, WHTP.
If acceptance of the secretaryship seemed inconsistent: Henry Taft to WHT, June 16, 1903, WHTP.
“earnest desire . . . embarrass your candidacy”: WHT to TR, April 27, 1903, TRP.
“You don’t know . . . Civil Service Commissioner”: TR to WHT, June 9, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, pp. 485–86.
“should feel independent”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 2, 1904, WHTP.
“struck me all in a heap”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Feb. [n.d.], 1904, WHTP.
“The President is very . . . the step at once”: Henry Taft to WHT, June 16, 1903, WHTP.
“keep out of politics”: WHT to Howard Hollister, Sept. 21, 1903, Pringle Papers.
“Thank Heaven”: TR to WHT, June 9, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 486.
“I have an additional . . . much to tell you”: TR to WHT, Oct. 13, 1903, in ibid., p. 629.
“too amazed . . . a sacred potentate”: Davenport [IA] Weekly Leader, Jan. 29, 1904.
“was most enjoyable”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 1, 1904, WHTP.
the president stayed for hours: James Rudolph Garfield, Diary, Jan. 27, 1904, Garfield Papers.
affectionately known as “Big Bill”: Cedar Rapids [IA] Evening Gazette, Jan. 25, 1904.
“Two men were never”: Washington Times, Jan. 31, 1904.
“Taft is a splendid fellow”: TR to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Feb. 6, 1904, TRJP.
“too much like” her husband: Ibid.
“As the people loved . . . his own impetuosity”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 3, pp. 16, 18.
“It was good”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 1, 1904, WHTP.
“felt like crying”: Horace Taft to WHT, Feb. 4, 1904, WHTP.
“democratic manner . . . breezy informality”: Washington Times, Jan. 31, 1904.
“I’m mighty glad”: Cedar Rapids [IA] Evening Gazette, Jan. 25, 1904.
“he found time”: Washington Times, Jan. 31, 1904.
“He looks like”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 3, p. 15.
bombarded by dinner invitations: WHT to HHT, Mar. 4, 1904, WHTP.
“I went down”: WHT to HHT, Feb. 12, 1904, WHTP.
“The President seems . . . opportunities of observation”: WHT to HHT, Mar. 18, 1904, WHTP.
“coarse and brazen” divorced wife: WHT to HHT, Mar. 3, 1904, WHTP.
“the Chief of the Pawnees”: WHT to HHT, April 16, 1904, WHTP.
Alice Roosevelt . . . poker with men: Stacy A. Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker (New York: Viking, 2007), pp. 65–66, 74, 78.
“a great deal of criticism . . . much troubled”: WHT to HHT, April 5, 1904, WHTP.
“Isn’t there anything”: Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, p. 186.
“I do not feel”: WHT to HHT, Mar. [n.d.], 1904, WHTP.
“loaded tons of work . . . for the Administration”: Arthur Wallace Dunn, From Harrison to Harding, A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a Century, 1888–1921 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922), p. 67.
a “trouble-shooter . . . there Taft was sent”: Sullivan, Our Times, Vol. 3, p. 12.
“extremely popular both . . . as the other”: Iowa Postal Card (Fayette, IA), April 28, 1904.
“Things have quieted down”: A. B. Fergusson to WHT, Dec. 30, 1903, WHTP.
loath to invest “so far from home”: NYT, Mar. 11 & April 11, 1904.
vital infrastructure projects would be undertaken: Janesville [WI] Daily Gazette, Mar. 25, 1904; NYT, April 11, 1904.
Cannon’s approval of the railroad bill: WHT to HHT, Mar. 31, 1904, WHTP.
“All
in favor . . . the bill is passed”: Waterloo [IA] Daily Reporter, May 20, 1904.
“I have been working”: WHT to HHT, Mar. 31, 1904, WHTP.
the bill finally passed: NYT, Feb. 7, 1905.
“it would seem”: Logansport [IN] Pharos, Feb. 2, 1904.
allies of the sugar and tobacco industries vowed: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Mar. 3, 1904.
“I can see”: WHT to TR, Jan. 27, 1903, TRP.
“The interest of dollars”: Lyman Abbott to WHT, Feb. 20, 1903, WHTP.
“You are unjust . . . skillful and resolute”: TR to WHT, Mar. 19, 1903, in LTR, Vol. 3, p. 450.
as word spread . . . seating was filled to capacity: New York Sun, Mar. 15, 1904.
“nervous expectancy”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 15, 1904; NYT, Mar. 15, 1904.
“paper and pencil . . . against daring financiers”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 15, 1904.
“Oyez, Oyez, Oyez”: Ibid.
“being an Ohio man . . . was the alternative”: WHT to Joseph B. Bishop, Jan. 24, 1903, WHTP.
“How eminently characteristic”: TR to Joseph B. Bishop, Mar. 10, 1903, TRP.
“everyone was alert”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 15, 1904.
“No scheme or device”: Northern Securities Company v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904).
“holding companies . . . of the entire country”: New York World, Mar. 15, 1904.
“it was all over”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 15, 1904.
If “Congress can strike”: Northern Securities Company v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904).
“the surprise of the day . . . champion of labor”: Boston Daily Globe, Mar. 15, 1904.
“while the merger”: New York Sun, Mar. 15, 1904.
“I could carve out . . . it was never the same”: Harbaugh, Power and Responsibility, p. 162.
“put aside all else”: Washington Post, Mar. 15, 1904.
“hardly be exaggerated”: New York World, Mar. 15, 1904.
“more to the people . . . greater than the law”: Public Opinion, Mar. 24, 1904, p. 356.
the great “trust-buster”: Hofstadter, The Age of Reform, p. 238.
“run amuck”: Public Opinion, Mar. 24, 1904, p. 357.
“this power”: “Mr. Roosevelt’s Platform,” Outlook, July 2, 1904, p. 481.
“If a corporation”: TR to RSB, Aug. 27, 1904, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 909.
“the selfish rich . . . lunatic fringe”: Blum, The Republican Roosevelt, p. 60.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: “A Smile That Won’t Come Off”
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