“We are editing in”: Albert Boyden to RSB, Nov. 13, 1906, RSB Papers.
“to look into his literary”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 228.
“Utterly beaten down . . . hard physical work”: Ibid., pp. 213–14.
“more easily . . . Send more chapters”: Ibid., pp. 229, 231–34.
“You have sublimated”: Ibid., p. 244.
“David Grayson is a great man”: LS to RSB, July 25, 1906, in ibid., p. 239.
Under such titles as: Ibid., pp. 240, 247–48.
“people will be expecting”: JSP to RSB, July 26, 1906, RSB Papers.
a “pioneer” study: Dewey Grantham, Jr., introduction, in Ray Stannard Baker, Following the Color Line; American Negro Citizenship in the Progressive Era (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), pp. x, xiii.
“to get at the facts . . . a major source”: Ibid., pp. vii, x.
“a clear statement of the case”: Bedford [PA] Gazette, Feb. 22, 1907.
“understanding and sympathy”: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 201.
“reporting the negro problem”: Bedford [PA] Gazette, Feb. 22, 1907.
“too complex to solve”: Ibid.
“Your work has been a wonderful thing”: IMT to RSB, Aug. 9, 1907, RSB Papers.
“the best things running”: JSP to RSB, May 22, 1907, RSB Papers.
chafed at the “consensus editing”: Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens, p. 164.
“It does not matter”: JSP to LS, May 11, 1907, LS Papers.
“You are crazy, Stef”: Albert Boyden to LS, June 18, 1907, LS Papers.
he had failed to answer a request: Albert Boyden to LS, April 5, 1905, LS Papers.
“We don’t need any”: John E. Semonche, “The American Magazine of 1906–1915: Principle vs. Profit,” Journalism Quarterly (Winter 1963), p. 38.
“It is very difficult for me”: JSP to LS, Feb. 28, 1907, LS Papers.
the magazine was covering: Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 183.
“you haven’t confidence”: JSP to LS, Feb. 28, 1907, LS Papers.
Steffens remained oblivious . . . near Cos Cob, Connecticut: Peter Hartshorn, I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2011), pp. 148–49.
“My husband has become famous”: Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens, p. 160.
“Either I am to write”: LS to Joseph Steffens, Aug. 27, 1907, in LS et al., eds., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 188.
At the time of his departure, Steffens argued . . . the new enterprise: Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 184.
“I know now I should not . . . most genuine of human dramas”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 262–64.
“All this was good for me”: Ibid., p. 267.
to “get into the fight”: Ibid.
debates that appeared “so important”: Ibid., p. 269.
“comprehensive and careful . . . invertebrate”: Life, Feb. 8, 1912, p. 308.
lacked “vitality” . . . “secondhand” material: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 271.
no “cohesive force” . . . “hold the reader”: WAW to JSP, June 22, 1907, White Papers.
“a certain hustle”: IMT to Albert Boyden, July 1, 1907, McClure MSS.
“I dreamed of you”: McClure to IMT, July 1, 1907, McClure MSS.
CHAPTER NINETEEN: “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!”
while attending a party . . . turned seventy years old: John Hays Hammond, The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1935), Vol. 2, p. 532.
“a gentle intimation . . . to another”: Henry Billings Brown and Charles A. Kent, Memoir of Henry Billings Brown: Late Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (New York: Duffield, 1915), p. 32.
“would be shutting the door . . . in 1908”: Hammond, The Autobiography, Vol. 2, p. 532.
In the interim . . . the previous summer: WHT, Professional Diaries [hereafter WHT Diaries], Jan. 22, 1906, WHTP.
“the tremendous vote”: Ibid.
Taft was “sacrificing . . . to open our markets”: New York Tribune, Mar. 17, 1906.
“an infernal ass”: WHT to Horace Taft, Jan. 29, 1906, WHTP.
“We suffered a very” . . . reach the Senate floor: WHT to Henry Clay Ide, Mar. 17 & 21, WHTP.
the press immediately began: Washington Post, reprinted in Syracuse [NY] Herald, Mar. 10, 1906.
would “undoubtedly have accepted”: WHT quoted in James Creelman, “The Mystery of Mr. Taft,” Pearson’s Magazine (May 1907), p. 529.
At Taft’s suggestion . . . renewed the pressure on Taft: WHT Diaries, Mar. 10, 1906, WHTP.
“would have as important”: TR quoted in WHT to TR, Mar. 14, 1906, WHTP.
“a big man”: WHT Diaries, Mar. 10, 1906, WHTP.
“running down” . . . best man on the bench: TR quoted in WHT to TR, Mar. 14, 1906, WHTP.
he intended to announce his nomination: NYT, Mar. 14, 1906.
“bitterly opposed . . . explain the situation”: WHT Diaries, Mar. 10, 1906, WHTP.
“three great trusts” . . . would “of course yield”: WHT to TR, Mar. 14, 1906, WHTP.
Charles thought he should take: Charles P. Taft to WHT, Mar. 10, 1906, WHTP.
“quite apart from”: Horace Taft to WHT, Mar. 13, 1906, WHTP.
Harry . . . better suited to be chief justice: Ross, An American Family, p. 183.
“My dear Will . . . for many years to come”: TR to WHT, Mar. 15, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, pp. 183–86.
“all I could expect” . . . until Congress adjourned in July: WHT to HHT, Mar. 15, 1906, WHTP.
Displaying decisiveness . . . postpone his nomination: Racine [WI] Daily Journal, Sept. 24, 1902.
“somewhat unusual . . . Mr. Taft in two!”: New York Sun, Mar. 17, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“the big, jovial, brainy” . . . no longer so appealing: Hutchinson [KS] News, Aug. 21, 1894.
“He has done big things”: Kansas City Star, June 21, 1906; WHT Diaries, June 23, 1906, WHTP.
“no American . . . eyes of his countrymen”: Clipping, in James Macusker to WHT, July 23, 1906, WHTP.
“I do not see”: Lyman Abbott to WHT, Aug. 4, 1906, WHTP.
“For the love of Mike”: Creighton Webb to WHT, May 29, 1906, WHTP.
“a most gloomy” . . . such a busy man!: WHT to TR, July 30, 1906, WHTP.
“Now, you beloved”: TR to WHT, Aug. 2, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, pp. 341–43.
“rather shocked . . . to sit still”: TR to WHT, July 21, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“By George”: TR to WHT, Aug. 20, 1906, in ibid.
a rigorous, doctor-prescribed diet: W. E. Zouke Davie to WHT, Oct. 27, 1905, WHTP.
a new bathroom scale . . . 250 pounds: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Dec. 3, 1905, WHTP.
“not an inexpensive luxury”: WHT to HHT, July 15, 1906, WHTP.
“twenty pairs of Trousers”: Receipt from Owen, Tailor for Men and Women, to Fred W. Carpenter, July 11, 1906, WHTP.
“It is the best thing”: Horace Taft to WHT, Dec. 13, 1905, WHTP.
Taft’s customary day: Wendell W. Mischler to [unknown], Aug. 23, 1906, WHTP.
Taft relished . . . and the children: Robert Lee Dunn, William Howard Taft, American (Boston: Chapple Publ. Co., 1908), pp. 43–44; “Murray Bay,” Cincinnati Magazine (August 1979), p. 72.
“jumping up and down . . . will do the business”: Dunn, William Howard Taft, American, pp. 44–45.
saving his “city clothes”: Ibid., p. 32.
“see youth returning”: Ibid.
The chairman . . . to give the keynote: WHT to TR, Aug. 6, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
In a letter from Oyster Bay: TR to WHT, Aug. 8, 1906, in ibid.
Taft organized his presentation: “Mr. Taft on the Present Issues,” Outlook, Sept. 15, 1906, p. 95.
the “only weakness”: WHT to TR, Aug. 21, 1906, WHTP.
if the draft seemed “too outspoken”: WHT to TR, Aug. 28, 1906, WHTP.
“outrageously long . . . circumstances like this”: WHT to
TR, Aug. 28 & 29, 1906, WHTP.
“It’s a bully speech”: TR to WHT, August [n.d.], 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“I neither wish”: TR to WHT, Sept. 1, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 392.
he suggested that Taft show: TR to WHT, Sept. 4, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“the first big Administration”: NYT, Sept. 6, 1906.
“is the issue”: New York Sun, Sept. 6, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“With a frankness . . . and unhesitatingly”: Washington Post, Sept. 6, 1906.
“the frankest”: New York Sun, Sept. 6, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“never made a sharper speech”: Henry Hoyt to WHT, Sept. 6, 1906, WHTP.
“It is the great speech”: TR to WHT, Sept. 6, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“A man never knows”: WHT to TR, Sept. 8, 1906, WHTP.
Revolutionary forces . . . a precarious situation: Newark [NJ] Advocate, Sept. 14, 1906.
“a government adequate”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, pp. 305–06.
“In Cuba”: TR to George Trevelyan, Sept. 9, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 401.
could not “prevent rebels”: Consul-General Steinhart to Acting Secretary of War, Sept. 13, 1906, in United States, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, with the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, Part 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), pp. 477–78.
“so angry with”: Cited in Morris, Theodore Rex, p. 456.
“as intermediaries” . . . a peaceful solution: Bruce A. Vitor II, Under the Shadow of the Big Stick: U.S. Intervention in Cuba, 1906–1909 (Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, 2009), p. 12.
From Oyster Bay . . . Attorney General Moody’s opinion: WHT to TR, Sept. 16, 1906, WHTP.
“If the necessity arises”: TR to WHT, Sept. 17, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 514.
When Taft and Bacon . . . reconcile differences peacefully: Duffy, William Howard Taft, pp. 187–88.
“informal, straightforward”: Racine Daily Journal, Sept. 19, 1906.
“the utter unfitness”: WHT to HHT, Sept. 20, 1906, WHTP.
“well founded . . . to their homes”: WHT to Charles E. Magoon, Nov. 22, 1906; TR to WHT, Sept. 21, 1906, both in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 418.
“leaving nothing of the Government”: WHT to TR, Sept. 25, 1906, WHTP.
“The insurgents”: WHT to HHT, Sept. 23, 1906, WHTP.
One insurgent encampment: WHT to HHT, Sept. 22, 1906, WHTP.
“Things are certainly”: TR to WHT, Sept. 26, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 426.
“the most unpleasant”: WHT to HHT, Sept. 27, 1906, WHTP.
he found himself awake . . . struck him dead: Ibid.
After a week . . . would land in Cuba: TR to WHT, Sept. 30, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 435.
“be maintained only”: Vitor, Under the Shadow of the Big Stick, p. 31.
The Cuban Constitution . . . would be withdrawn: Morris, Theodore Rex, p. 461.
“all parties here . . . such attacks futile”: WHT to HHT, Sept. 30, 1906, WHTP.
“I congratulate you”: TR to WHT, Sept. 30, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 435.
promptly cabled Nellie . . . “great comfort”: WHT to HHT, Sept. 29, 1906, WHTP.
“For the first time . . . quite brilliant effect”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, pp. 297, 299.
“Upon my word”: TR to WHT, Oct. 4, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“the shore of the Bay”: Dunn, William Howard Taft, American, p. 182.
“in agony on”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 301.
“Merely to record . . . to his War Department duties”: New York Sun, Oct. 27, 1906.
“If mental worry”: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Oct. 4, 1906, WHTP.
“those awful twenty days”: HHT, Recollections of Full Years, p. 295.
“The paramount issue . . . the jolly good fellow”: Omaha [NE] Daily Bee, Oct. 31 & Nov. 2, 1906.
“This is rather contrary”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 4, 1907, WHTP.
“Hats were thrown”: Salt Lake Herald, Nov. 4, 1906.
“The notices have all been”: HHT to WHT, Oct. 31, 1906, WHTP.
she was concerned . . . cost him the nomination: HHT to WHT, Oct. 27 & 29, 1906, WHTP.
“the blues . . . the direction of politics”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 1, 1906, WHTP.
“turned them down . . . I did not”: HHT to WHT, Oct. 27, 1906, WHTP.
“I think what”: WHT to HHT, Oct. 31, 1906, WHTP.
“If you do” . . . a “substitute”: WHT to TR, Oct. 31, 1906, WHTP.
“I am immensely”: TR to WHT, Nov. 5, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 487.
“Our triumph . . . would have been”: TR to Kermit Roosevelt, Nov. 7, 1906, in TR et al., eds., Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, p. 487.
“I am overjoyed . . . scandal-mongering”: TR to John St. Loe Strachey, Oct. 25, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 468.
“By George”: TR to WHT, Nov. 8, 1906, in ibid., p. 492.
“I’m going down”: Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 9, 1906.
The “ditch . . . gardens of Babylon”: New York Tribune, Nov. 12, 1906.
“particularly good spirits”: Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 9, 1906.
“a large portion . . . where he may be”: San Antonio [TX] Daily Light, Nov. 11, 1906.
“a little of everything”: NYT, Nov. 14, 1906.
Wishing to judge . . . about his work: NYT, Nov. 17, 1906.
He met with laborers . . . “what he saw”: New York Tribune, Dec. 16, 1906.
Although the Tafts . . . Kansas, and Texas: WHT to TR, Nov. 4, 1906, WHTP.
“Not in the history”: Ada [OK] Evening News, Nov. 9, 1906.
“several thousand”: Emporia [KS] Gazette, Nov. 10, 1906.
“One trouble about travel”: WHT to HHT, Nov. 16, 1906, WHTP.
During his lengthy absence . . . Brownsville, Texas: Chicago Tribune, Nov. 21, 1906.
“would certainly be denied them”: Brownsville [TX] Daily Herald, Aug. 14, 1906.
A series of . . . public bars: United States, Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Concerning the Affray at Brownsville, Tex., on the Night of August 13 and 14, 1906 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1908), Vol. 1, pp. 462–63.
Rumors . . . circulated: Washington Post, Aug. 15, 1906.
“colored soldiers” . . . after the shootings: United States and Ernest A. Garlington, The Brownsville Affray: Report of the Inspector General of the Army; Order of the President Discharging Enlisted Men of Companies B, C, and D, Twenty-Fifth Infantry; Messages of the President to the Senate; and Majority and Minority Reports of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1908), pp. 302–03.
Major Augustus Blocksom . . . “nine to fifteen”: Washington Post, Aug. 22, 1906.
“discharged from the service”: Morris, Theodore Rex, p. 455.
“in a state . . . openly at night”: Washington Post, Aug. 22, 1906.
“It is very doubtful”: Brownsville Daily Herald, Aug. 22, 1906.
If they continued to conceal: NYT, Oct. 18, 1906.
“this extreme penalty . . . when the penalty falls”: NYT, Nov. 7, 1906.
The president directed . . . any civil service position: Ibid.; Cleveland Journal, Nov. 10, 1906.
The battalion included . . . Spanish-American War: Cleveland Journal, Nov. 24, 1906.
“despotic usurpation of power”: Arizona Silver Belt (Globe City, AZ), Nov. 11, 1906.
“Deep resentment”: NYT, Nov. 19, 1906.
“the door of hope”: NYT, Nov. 21, 1906.
“a truckling”: NYT, Nov. 19, 1906.
“Once enshrined”: Ibid.
Taft consented to meet Mary Church Terrell: NYT, Nov. 18, 1906.
“to withhold the execution . . . generous-hearted”: Mary Church Terrell, “Taft and the Negro Soldiers,” The Independent, July 23, 1908.
“delay the exec
ution . . . on the subject”: Pringle, Life and Times, Vol. 1, pp. 324–25.
the negative impact: WHT to Louise T. Taft, Jan. 15, 1907, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
“If a rehearing shows”: WHT to CPT, Jan. 1, 1907, WHTP.
Upon learning that Taft . . . the civil branch: Cleveland Journal, Nov. 24, 1906.
“a severe strain upon”: NYT, Nov. 21, 1906.
“The order in question”: TR to Curtis Guild, Jr., Nov. 7, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 489.
“Discharge is not”: TR to WHT, Nov. 21, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
When Congress convened . . . overstepped his authority: New York Sun, Dec. 4, 1906.
a “fighting mad” reaction: NYT, Dec. 23, 1906.
“It is impossible”: TR to RSB, Mar. 30, 1907, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 634.
“tingling with . . . comrades of murderers”: The News (Frederick, MD), Dec. 20, 1906.
“excuse or justification . . . utterly inadequate”: New York Tribune, Dec. 20, 1906.
“fight to the last . . . decided to follow”: New York Sun, Dec. 23, 1906.
“extraordinary language . . . hatred and violence”: The News (Frederick, MD), Dec. 20, 1906.
“the colored man”: Washington [DC] Bee, Dec. 29, 1906.
sending a new round: Bisbee [AZ] Daily Review, Dec. 30, 1906.
At Taft’s urging: Chicago Tribune, Jan. 15, 1907.
Eventually, he allowed: NYT, Mar. 12, 1908.
“cleared the records”: NYT, Sept. 29, 1972.
Privately, Taft continued: WHT to Charles P. Taft, Jan. 1, 1907, WHTP.
“courage and good judgment” . . . already carried out: WHT to Richard Harding Davis, Nov. 24, 1906, WHTP.
“This Brownsville matter . . . disappear with argument”: WHT to Howard Hollister, Dec. 25, 1906, in WHT Diaries, WHTP.
CHAPTER TWENTY: Taft Boom, Wall Street Bust
“favorable consideration . . . in silence”: Fort Wayne [IN] Journal-Gazette, Mar. 7, 1907.
“an uneventful and poor”: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), Mar. 5, 1906.
a bill banning corporate contributions: NYT, Jan. 22, 1907.
“knowingly” . . . sixteen consecutive hours: The Railway Age, Mar. 8, 1907, p. 323.
many critical bills . . . law for corporations: Fort Wayne [IN] Journal-Gazette, Mar. 7, 1907.
“some sixteen million”: TR, An Autobiography, p. 404.
Pinchot mobilized his office . . . into forest lands: Pinchot, Breaking New Ground, p. 300.
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