All the Great Prizes
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Chapter 14: Setting the Table
“we need apprehend”: JH to MCK, October 6, 1897, MCK-LC.
“that did not differ”: CSH to Flora Stone Mather, December 10, 1897, WAD-LC.
“Her custom is”: JH to MCK, December 15, 1897, MCK-LC.
“what a pleasing impression”: CSH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, December 15, 1897, WAD-LC.
“ ‘Star Eyed Egyptian’ ”: JH to ESC, January 11, 1898, AP.
“lacking in virility”: Musicant, Empire by Default, 115.
“I shall never get”: Gould, The Spanish-American War and William McKinley, 41.
“The Worst Insult”: Morgan, William McKinley and His America, 269.
“Then the Spanish”: JH to HA, May 9, 1898, HA-MHS.
“We have been much shocked”: JH to Henry White, February 24, 1898, JH-LC.
“I shall never regret”: JH to MCK, February 20, 1898, MCK-LC.
“bored into extinction”: JH to HA, March 11, 1898, HA-MHS.
“We are all very happy”: JH to Theodore Stanton, May 8, 1898, JH-LC.
“deems it a principal”: Shippee and Way, “William Rufus Day,” in Bemis, ed., American Secretaries of State, 99–100.
“The jealousy and animosity”: JH to HCL, July 27, 1898, HCL-MHS.
“the American-British Society”: Ginger, The Age of Excess, 197.
“The reasons of a good understanding”: JH, “A Partner of Beneficence,” JH-ADD 78–79.
“It is to establish”: Campbell, Anglo-American Understanding, 47.
“partly due”: JH to HCL, May 25, 1898, HCL-MHS.
“For the first time”: JH to HCL, April 5, 1898, HCL-MHS.
“The Royal Family”: JH to HCL, May 25, 1898, HCL-MHS.
“We are glad to think”: Daily Chronicle (London), July 5, 1898, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“I am afraid I am the last . . . American character”: JH to TR, July 27, 1898, WRT-L&L 2:337.
his own inflated exceptionalism: Thomas, The War Lovers, 364–65.
“While we are conducting”: Olcott, The Life of William McKinley, 2:165.
“If old Dewey”: Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, 68.
“Surrender Daring”: Homans, Education by Uncles, 89.
“filled with handsome”: Ibid., 88.
“two chubby brown”: Ibid., 89.
“I am a ghastly wreck . . . ‘with old Hay?’ ”: JH to ESC, n.d. [July 1898], AP.
“Mrs. Don Cameron”: Homans, Education by Uncles, 94–95.
“lighthearted wit . . . nervous tension”: Ibid., 96.
“utterly depressed”: Nevins, Henry White, 138.
“No serious statesman”: HAE 1053.
“The place is beyond”: JH to MCK, August 15, 1898, JH-LC.
“I think it is my duty”: Telegram, Henry White to William R. Day, August 15, 1898, JH-BU.
“That’s what you get”: JH to CSH, August 29, 1898, JH-LC.
“the most interesting”: WRT-L&L 2:181.
“the old love . . . now I am old”: JH to WR, September 14, 1898, WR-LC.
“I am full of hurry”: JH to William Winter, September 14, 1898, JH-BU.
“I receive twenty”: JH to CSH, October 12, 1898, JH-LC.
“I feel so dull”: JH to CSH, October 19, 1898, JH-LC.
“We have never in all our history”: JH to MCK, July 6, 1898, in Olcott, Life of William McKinley, 2:133.
“ ‘We’re a gr-reat people’ ”: Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, 9.
“The President rules”: JH to ESC, October 27, 1898, AP.
“He scared me”: JH to CSH, September 29, 1898, JH-LC.
“I do not believe”: HCL, Speeches and Addresses, 372–73.
“to swallow up”: Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise, 72.
“the greed of conquest . . . criminal aggression”: Leech, In the Days of McKinley, 326.
“new duties”: Zimmerman, First Great Triumph, 317.
“moderation, restraint”: Ibid.
“the American people would not”: May, Imperial Democracy, 255.
“[O]ne night late”: Leech, In the Days of McKinley, 345.
“It is imperative”: Millis, The Martial Spirit, 385.
an exercise of tyranny: Beisner, Twelve Against Empire, 32.
“vulgar, commonplace”: Ibid.
“Triumphant Democracy”: Carnegie, “Distant Possessions—The Parting of the Ways,” 239.
“military dictator . . . always your friend”: Andrew Carnegie to JH, November 29, 1898, JH-LC.
“Hay needs an alter”: HA to Anna (Nannie) Lodge, August 24, 1898, HAL 4:609.
“[W]e tramp”: HA to ESC, November 21, 1898, HAL 4:621.
“I go to the Department”: JH to ESC, November 22, 1898, AP.
“I turn green”: HA to ESC, January 22, 1899, HAL 4:670.
“united in trying”: HAE 1055.
“[T]he Senator, while agreeing”: HA to ESC, December 18, 1898, HAL 4:635.
“halfbreed adventurer”: Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation,” 20.
“Our concern was not”: Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley, 188–92.
“Permit me to congratulate”: JH to John Tyler Morgan, January 21, 1899, Morgan Papers, LC.
“ridiculous and preposterous”: JH to HW, January 3, 1899, JH-LC.
“The two questions”: JH to HW, February 14, 1899, JH-LC.
“convinced that the Canadians”: JH to JC, May 22, 1899, JH-LC.
“quite savage . . . alteration it required”: HA to ESC, February 5, 1899, HAL 4:679–80.
“[I]t is an evil”: JH to ESC, February 7, 1899, AP.
“I am horribly rushed”: JH to HW, March 22, 1899, JH-LC.
“Mrs. Choate’s second”: New York Times, May 15, 1917.
only to be blocked by Cabot Lodge: Varg, Open Door Diplomat, 24.
“Poor Hay”: HA to ESC, December 25, 1898, HAL 4:646.
“I fear he [Reid]”: JH to Flora Stone Mather, December 25, 1898, M-WRHS.
“I shall continue to hope”: JH to WR, December 26, 1898, JH-LC.
“[T]he State Department”: JH to HA, August 5, 1899, HA-MHS.
“Did you ever”: JH to ESC, June 13, 1899, AP.
“But come and do not”: JH to ESC, July 18, 1899, AP.
“I am afraid”: JH to ESC, July 26, 1899, AP.
“It seems so unreal”: Ibid.
Chapter 15: Spheres of Influence
“I am plagued . . . nurseries of woe and worry”: JH to AA, August 10, 1899, JH-LC.
“the purgatory I have left”: JH to HA, August 5, 1899, HA-MHS.
With that the scramble for larger spheres: Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Involvement, 259.
“the extraordinary events”: FR, 1898, lxxxii.
a “room-for-all” doctrine: Colquhoun, China in Transformation, 368.
“[I]t is imperative”: Charles Beresford to JH, November 29, 1898, JH-LC.
“absolutely identical”: Beresford, The Break-Up of China, 446.
“The Open Door, or”: Beresford, “China and the Powers,” North American Review 510 (May 1899), 535–36.
“It is not very easy to formulate”: JH to Paul Dana, March 16, 1899, JH-LC.
In the early summer yet another China hand: Alfred Hippisley, “The Open Door Notes in Tyler Dennett’s ‘John Hay,’ ” August 22, 1935, typescript, Dennett Papers, LC.
“I would like to see”: WWR to Alfred Hippisley, August 3, 1899, WWR-HU.
“[N]ow that Russia”: New York Times, August 16, 1899; Campbell, Special Business Interests and the Open Door Policy, 55.
Hippisley prepared . . . “Of course, if the independence”: Hippisley, “The Open Door Notes in Tyler Dennett’s ‘John Hay.’ ”
He promptly asked Rockhill: JH to WWR, August 24, 1899, in Griswold, Far Eastern Policy of the United States, 73.
“must be accepted . . . in Peking”: WWR, memorandum, August 28, 1899, WR-HU.
“As the memo will have”: WWR to Alfred Hippisley, Aug
ust 29, 1899, WWR-HU.
“in no way interfere . . . over equal distance”: FR, 1899, 129–30.
“our relations with England . . . sweat to our brows”: JH to Charles Dick, September 11, 1899, JH-LC.
“The hills are now wrapped”: JH to HW, September 24, 1899, JH-LC.
“I hope . . . that England”: JH to HW, September 24, 1899, JH-LC.
“I get profoundly discouraged”: JH to HW, December 27, 1899, JH-LC.
“misinterpreted by the people”: WWR, memorandum, December 19, 1899, JH-LC.
“upon condition that”: Count Mouravieff to Charlemagne Tower, December 18–30, 1899, FR, 1899, 142.
“We got all that could be”: JH to HA, June 15, 1900, HA-MHS.
“all the various powers”: JH circular, March 20, 1900, FR 1899, 142.
Wu T’ing-fang . . . was not aware: JH to JC, November 13, 1899, JH-LC.
“I sincerely hope”: JH to Wu T’ing-fang, November 11, 1899, JH-LC.
“If, for example”: “Secretary Hay and the Open Door,” Independent 52 (April 5, 1900), 841.
The Philadelphia Press predicted: In “Secretary Hay and the ‘Open Door’ in China,” Literary Digest 20 (April 7, 1900), 415.
“is the last Power”: The Times (London), January 4, 1900, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“From the diplomatic”: New York Post, March 28, 1900, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“Nothing in the nature . . . of any complicity”: JH to JC, January 15, 1900, JC Papers, LC.
“free and open”: Miner, Fight for the Panama Route, 96–97.
“Hay scored”: HA to ESC, February 6, 1900, HAL 5:86.
“that of a 13-inch shell”: HA to ESC, February 12, 1900, HAL 5:91.
“What shall be said”: New York Sun, February 7, 1900, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“He is about as furious”: HA to ESC, February 12, 1900, HAL 5:92.
Roosevelt had issued a statement: TR-LET 2:1186–87.
“Et tu!”: JH to TR, February 12, 1900, JH-LC.
“Washington is just at the full”: HA to ESC, February 19, 1900, HAL 5:94–95.
“You may work”: JH to HW, August 11, 1899, JH-LC.
“a weak resort”: JH to HW, March 18, 1900, in Nevins, Henry White, 152.
“I have never had yet”: JH to HW, August 11, 1899, JH-LC.
“[M]y natural pessimism”: HA to ESC, January 30, 1900, HAL 5:79.
“Curiously enough”: HA to ESC, March 6, 1900, HAL 5:104.
“The action of the Senate”: JH to MCK, March 13, 1900, JH-BU.
“Had I known”: MCK to JH, March 13, 1900, JH-BU.
“We tramp in silence”: HA to Anne Palmer Fell, March 29, 1900, HAL 5:111.
“Always unselfish”: HAE 1063.
“Hay got your letter”: HA to ESC, February 20, 1900, HAL 5:95.
“I am all alone”: JH to ESC, November 7, 1899, AP.
“Did you ever get . . . believe them real”: JH to ESC, November 14, 1899, AP.
“Sicrety Hay meets”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“As long as I stay”: JH to HW, September 24, 1899, JH-LC.
“[H]e is naturally lazy”: CSH to HA, December 10, 1899, HA-MHS.
“[H]ow could I have paid”: JH to John E. Milholland, January 22, 1900, JH-LC.
“You will naturally not”: JH to Adelbert Hay, January 17, 1900, JH-LC.
“I sometimes feel a twinge”: JH to Adelbert Hay, February 6, 1900, JH-LC.
“Everyone thought of me”: Adelbert Hay to CSH, February 16, 1900, M-WRHS.
“Why, these bullets”: New York Times, June 4, 1901; a slightly different version is in New York World, August 5, 1900, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“Nothing—but nothing”: JH to HA, June 15, 1900, HA-MHS.
“Teddy has been here”: JH to HA, June 15, 1900, HA-MHS.
“Roosevelt burst into”: White, Masks in a Pageant, 223.
“Is America a weakling”: Morris, Theodore Rex, 8.
“Well, it was a nice”: Morgan, William McKinley and His America, 381.
all manner of demonic acts: Preston, Boxer Rebellion, 28.
“The interests of our citizens”: FR 1899, xviii.
“I return the despatches”: WR to JH, June 1, 1900, JH-LC.
“I regret to say”: Edwin Conger to JH, June 15, 1900, MCK-LC.
“Do you need more”: JH to Edwin Conger, telegram, June 15, 1900, MCK-LC.
Even within the administration: John Bassett Moore, memorandum, July 1, 1900, Moore Papers, LC.
“Act independently”: JH to Edwin Conger, telegram, June 8, 1900, MCK-LC.
“We have no policy”: JH to Edwin Conger, telegram, June 10, 1900, MCK-LC.
“state of war . . . for general protection”: Louis Kempff to John Long, telegram, June 19, 1900, MCK-LC.
“not chosen for defense”: Preston, Boxer Rebellion, 114.
“If wrong be done . . . parts of the Chinese Empire”: JH, “Identic Telegram sent to the United States Embassies in Berlin, Paris, London, Rome, and St. Petersburg, and to the United States Missions in Vienna, Brussels, Madrid, Tokyo, The Hague, and Lisbon,” July 3, 1900, JH-LC.
“The thing to do”: JH to HA, July 8, 1900, HA-MHS.
“the Europeans Massacred”: In Fleming, Siege of Peking, 134–36.
“Communicate tidings . . . general massacre”: Preston, Boxer Rebellion, 172.
“I did not imagine”: JH to JGN, August 21, 1900, JH-LC.
“near the danger point”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“I do not care”: JH to AA, n.d. (received August 9, 1900), JH-LC.
“But so far as I can learn”: JH to AA, August 8, 1900, JH-LC.
“[T]here is not much more”: JH to JGN, August 21, 1900, JH-LC.
Chapter 16: Rope of Sand
“[Y]ou have won for us”: Brooks Adams to JH, August 17, 1900, JH-LC.
“When all the world”: “Our Place Among the Nations,” World’s Work 1 (November 1900), 54.
“I am miserably weak”: JH to AA, August 24, 1900, JH-LC.
“I see nothing”: JH to WR, September 1, 1900, WR-LC.
“Russia has been”: JH to JC, September 8, 1900, JH-LC.
“there is a general expression”: Zabriskie, American-Russian Rivalry in the Far East, 62.
“I need not say . . . get into your bed?”: JH to JC, September 8, 1900, JH-LC.
“to hold on like grim death”: JH to WR, September 1, 1900, WR-LC.
“The dilemma is clear . . . the first of October”: JH to AA, September 14, 1900, JH-LC.
“What a business”: JH to HA, November 21, 1900, HA-MHS.
“[I]n watching you herd”: HA to JH, October 5, 1890, HAL 5:150.
“to work on my last shift”: JH to AA, September 26, 1900, JH-LC.
“We must not permit”: HCL to TR, June 29, 1900, Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1:467–68.
“We did wallop them proper”: JH to HA, November 21, 1900, HA-MHS.
“Mr. Roosevelt . . . worthily done”: TR to JH, November 10, 1900, JH-LC.
“[T]he President made a little”: JH to Adelbert Hay, November 14, 1900, JH-LC.
“the happiest hours”: JH, memorandum, November 13, 1900, JH-LC.
“deform and disfigure . . . better manners’ ”: JH to JC, December 21, 1900, JH-LC.
“the disaster . . . acted squarely”: JH to HW, December 23, 1900, JH-LC.
“Let me say, first”: Clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“Lodge has now”: JH to HW, December 23, 1900, JH-LC.
“most practicable”: DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 148.
“If the stirrers-up”: JH to Henry Watterson, January 11, 1901, Watterson Papers, LC.
“I thank you kindly”: JH to Andrew Carnegie, January 12, 1901, JH-LC.
“In wishing you, Sir”: JH to Edward VII, January 23, 1901, JH-LC.
“I am sick to the heart”: JH
to HW, December 23, 1900, JH-LC.
“treachery . . . in a newspaper”: JH to HW, February 10, 1901, HW-LC.
“When I send . . . of my life”: JH to ESC, January 16, 1901, AP.
“I think Hay very far”: HA to Brooks Adams, February 7, 1901, HAL 5:193.
“After watching Hay’s”: HA to ESC, February 18, 1901, HAL 5:201.
“angina senatus . . . external impassivity”: HA to ESC, February 25, 1901, HAL 5:204.
“satisfactory to the Senate . . . diffuse condition”: HCL to JH, March 28, 1901, HCL-MHS.
“I infer from your letter”: JH to HCL, March 30, 1901, JH-LC.
“I have drawn this up”: JH to JC, April 27, 1901, JH-LC.
“He looks pasty”: HA to ESC, April 8, 1901, HAL 5:230–31.
“the getting into hacks”: JH to HA, May 7, 1901, JH-LET 3:206–07; “Tadmor in the wilderness,” I Kings 9:18.
doctors had diagnosed tuberculosis: Sandweiss, Passing Strange, 226.
“delightful as ever”: JH to John Clark, September 18, 1900, JH-LC.
“I have been hit badly”: HA to ESC, March 3, 1901, HAL 5:213.
“His tuberculosis”: HA to ESC, April 22, 1901, HAL 5:237.
“ideal of the brotherhood”: JH, “A Festival of Peace,” JH-ADD 129, 131.
“You have had a very successful”: JH to Adelbert Hay, September 12, 1900, JH-LC.
“He is a very dear fellow”: HW to JH, March 9, 1901, HW-LC.
“disarming bonhomie”: CK to JH, July 27, 1901, JH-BU.
“even with a word”: JH to HW, June 30, 1901, JH-LC.
“He never looked so handsome”: JH to MCK, June 29, 1901, JH-LC.
“He had ease and variety . . . in three continents”: JH to CK, July 14, 1901, JH-LC.
“Twenty-four-years old”: JH to John Clark, July 13, 1901, JH-LC.
“Fate strikes us”: HA to JH, June 25, 1901, HAL 5:258–59.
“That was a letter”: JH to HA, July 11, 1901, HA-MHS.
“I can not see any”: JH to ESC, July 11, 1901, AP.
“[M]y sorrow grips”: JH to CSH, July 11, 1901, JH-LC.
“It is a month”: JH to WR, July 22, 1901, WR-LC.
“[W]e are not in despair”: CSH to HA, August 5, 1901, HA-MHS.
“I am profoundly gratified at”: JH to JC, September 2, 1901, JH-LC.
“Isolation is no longer”: Olcott, Life of William McKinley, 2:379–82.
“the McKinley grip” . . . fifty hands a minute: Morgan, William McKinley and His America, 124.