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54
Henry Adams on Reed: to Brooks Adams, Feb. 7, 1896,
Letters
, II, 96.

55
“Chocolate eclair”: Robinson, 362, calls it Reed’s “alleged” statement. Kohlsaat, 77, gives it to Roosevelt and Peck says it was a “favorite saying” of Roosevelt although this does not exclude its having originated with Reed. To the present author it bears the stamp of Reed’s picturesque turn of phrase.

56
Roosevelt to Reed: McCall, 228; to Lodge: Mar. 13, 1896.

57
“In a word, my dear boy”: Pringle, 159.

58
Altgeld to Darrow: q. Ginger (
see
Chap. 8), 188.

59
“The whistle would not blow”:
ibid.
, 191.

60
“Mark Hanna’s era”: Norman Hapgood,
The Advancing Hour
, 1920, 76–77.

61
What sells a newspaper, “War”: Kennedy Jones, q. Halévy (
see
Chap. 1), V, 9.

62
Eliot’s speech in Washington: New York
Evening Post
, May 18, 1896.

63
“Degenerated sons of Harvard”: Roosevelt to Lodge, Apr. 29, 1896.

64
Eliot characterized: In addition to James’s biography, the sources used were:

B
ROWN
, R
OLLO
W
ALTER
,
Harvard Yard in the Golden Age
, New York, 1948.

H
OWE
, M. A. D
E
W
OLFE
,
Classic Shades
, Boston, 1928.

M
ORISON
, S
AMUEL
E
LIOT
,
Three Centuries of Harvard
, Harvard Univ. Press, 1937.

S
EDGEWICK
, E
LLERY
,
The Happy Profession
, Boston, 1946.

65
“Eliza, do you kneel …”: James, I, 33–34; “Misunderstood”: Morison, 358; “I had a vivid sense”: Brown, 27; “An oarsman’s back”: Sedgewick, 371–72; “A noble presence”: Howe, 185; “A gentlemen who is …”:
ibid.;
“Throwing it in ANOTHER!”: James, II, 69; “First private citizen”:
ibid.
, 92; “An emblem of triumph”: Sedgewick, 371–72.

66
“If ever we come to nothing”: Apr. 29, 1896.

67
Secretary Long on Roosevelt: Bishop, I, 71; Lodge to Roosevelt: Mar. 8, 1897, q.
ibid.

68
McClure to co-editor: Lyon, 148; to Page:
ibid.
, 167.

69
“Do nothing unrighteous”: q. Puleston, 182; Roosevelt’s reply: May 3, 1897.

70
Schurz’s visit to McKinley: Fuess, 350.

71
Spectator
on the Treaty: June 19, 1897.

72
“Empire Can Wait”:
Illustrated American
, Dec., 1897.

73
Bryce in the
Forum:
Dec., 1897, “The Policy of Annexation for America.”

74
“Far distant, storm-beaten ships”: from his
Influence of Sea Power on the French Revolution.

75
Reed on Senator Proctor: Dunn, I, 234.

76
“The taste of Empire”: q. Morison and Commager,
Growth of the Amercan Republic
, II, 324.

77
“Dissuade a cyclone”:
NYT
, Apr. 7, 1898.

78
Roosevelt to Mahan: Mar. 21, 1898.

79
Mr. Dooley on the Philippines: Dunne, 43. When Mr. Dooley asked Hinnissy if he could tell where the Philippines were, Hinnissy, representing public opinion, replied, “Mebbe I cudden’t, but I’m f’r takin’ thim in, annyhow.” Mr. Dooley wasn’t so sure. “Th’ war is still goin’ on; an’ ivry night, whin I’m countin’ up the cash, I’m askin’ mesilf will I annex Cubia or lave it to the Cubians? Will I take Porther Ricky or put it by? An’ what shud I do with the Ph’lippeens? Oh, what shud I do with thim?”:
ibid.
, 46–47.

80
McKinley on the Philippines: Kohlsaat, 68.

81
Lodge, must not. “let the islands go”: to Henry White, May 4, 1898, Nevins (
see
Chap. 1), 136.

82
Norton, “We jettison …”: text of the speech in
Letters
, II, 261–69. The politician who proposed lynching was the Hon. Thomas J. Gargan.

83
The Anti-Imperialists: Lanzar, Harrington, Howe, Fuess.

84
“An abominable business”:
Mark Twain-Howells Letters
, Harvard Univ. Press, 1960, II, 673, n. 4. See also Mark Twain’s “To The Person Sitting in Darkness,”
North American Review
, Feb., 1901.

85
Godkin on “inferior races”: Mar. 24, 1898, 216.

86
Carl Schurz, same argument: Schurz, 441.

87
Beveridge’s speeches: Bowers, 68–70, 76; Storey, 38; W. E. Leuchtenberg, “Progressivism and Imperialism, 1898–1916,”
Miss, Valley Hist. Rev.
, Dec., 1952.

88
“We’re a gr-reat people”: Dunne, 9.

89
Roosevelt, “my power for good”: Mar. 29, 1898.

90
Beveridge on Reed: to George W. Perkins, May 31, 1898, Bowers, 71.

91
“Opposition exclusively from Reed”: May 31, 1898, Lodge,
Corres.
, I, 302.

92
Reed begged Clark: Dunn, I, 289.

93
Lodge, “one of the great world powers”: to Henry White, Aug. 12, 1898, Nevins’
White
, 137.

94
Mahan, “the jocund youth” and
“Deus Vult!”:
Puleston, 201.

95
Schurz, “the great neutral power”: Fuess, 354.

96
Saratoga conference:
NYT
, Aug. 20, 1898.

97
Carnegie, “Let us stand together”: Harvey,
Gompers
(
see
Chap. 8), 89–90.

98
Reed “terribly bitter”: Dec. 20, 1898, Lodge,
Corres.
, I, 370.

99
Bryan and the Treaty: Dunn, I, 283; Hoar, I, 197; II, 110; Pettigrew, 206. The dealing in judgeships and other bribes by the Republicans is discussed in W. S. Holt,
Treaties Defeated by the Senate
, Johns Hopkins, 1933, 171, and in Garraty,
Lodge
, 201–2.

100
“Closest, hardest fight”:
ibid.

101
William James:
Letters
, II, 289; Perry, 240.

102
Norton, “lost her unique position”: Nov. 18, 1899,
Letters
, II, 290.

103
Moorfield Storey, “We are false”: Howe, 221.

104
“Most influential man”: Mar. 3, 1898,
Letters
, II, No. 976.

105
Storey to Hoar: Howe, 218–19.

106
“Touching a match”:
NYT
, Apr. 23, 1899.

107
“Moody and ugly”: Dunn, I, 298.

108
“Fatigue and disgust”:
NYT
, Feb. 21, 1899.

109
Tribune:
q. Robinson, 380;
Times
, Apr. 19 and 23, 1899.

110
Godkin on Reed:
Letters
, II, 239, 241.

111
“The public!”:
NYT
, Apr. 20, 1899.

112
“How is the horse feeling?”: Pringle,
Life and Times of William Howard Taft
, 1939, I, 236.

113
Beveridge, “We will not renounce”: q. Wolff, 303.

114
Godkin, “the military spirit”:
Life and Letters
, 243.

115
Admiral Dewey on the Presidency: Sullivan, I, 311.

116
“Evil genius”: Fuess, 366.

117
Third party and Plaza Hotel meeting: Pettigrew, 320–21; Fuess, 362–63.

118
Aguinaldo on the election: Wolff, 252.

119
“Hold your nose”: Lanzar, 40.

120
Nation’s
dissatisfied reader: Oct. 18, 1900, 307.

121
Lodge on Manila; q. Wolff, 304.

122
Roosevelt on expansion:
ibid.
, 332.

123
Dumdum bullets;
ibid.
, 305.

124
Norton’s elegy: to S. G. Ward, Mar. 13, 1901, Vanderbilt, 217. An effort to heal the breach between the Anti-Imperialists and the Administration was made by Senator Hoar in the spring of 1901, with embarrassing results. As President of the Harvard Alumni Association, he offered an honorary LL.D. to McKinley without consulting the Harvard Corporation. Although President Eliot regarded McKinley as a “narrow-minded commonplace man” (James, II, 118), the Corporation gave its approval. But when the Board of Overseers, which contained a number of Anti-Imperialists, was asked for its concurrence a storm was raised, led by Moorfield Storey and Wendell Phillips Garrison. Bitter feeling developed, debate was “very sharp,” and Theodore Roosevelt, thrown into a frenzy, and denouncing Storey as a “scoundrel,” marshaled the votes of the waverers by mail. Leaked to Godkin, who published it in the
Nation
, Apr. 25, 1901, the opposition in the Overseers became known to McKinley. Although the Board finally voted for his degree, reportedly by 26 to 3, he did not appear at Commencement, with the result that the LL.D., which could not be conferred in absentia, was not conferred at all. Roosevelt,
Letters
, III, Nos. 2010, 2012; Howe, 177;
NTT
, May 3 and 9, 1901.