The socialist who helped T.R. was Bruere (can't remember first name), and he helped edit Roosevelt's Bull Moose nomination acceptance speech... There was a Robert Bruere who wrote for the New York Post and Harpers back then, covering the I.W.W. and labour movement, and, in particular, the forced relocation of immigrant and Wobbly-inclined miners from the Phelps Dodge copper mines around Bisbee, Arizona to Columbus, New Mexico during WWI. It might have been the same literary light, or perhaps a relative. But possibly that osometime New Yorker could have had connections to T.R. dating back to Roosevelt's time in New York as Police Commissioner.
Afraid I'm better acquainted with the material from the New York Sun in those and later days...
1912 was a wild year...
I'm sure those sailing from Liverpool aboard the Titanic would agree, and Wilbur wright certainly found at least one event that year to be a personal milestone....
Thanks and I hope I've got you thinking about T.R. and the judiciary.
I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
--T.R., at Berkeley, California, 23 March,1911.
Be honest, and remember that honesty counts for nothing unless back of it lie courage and efficiency.
--T.R., The Groton School; 24 May 1904>
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of its user.
--T.R.; autobiography
I reject most anything out of TR's autobiography. It's a silly, self-serving and often lying document that has been sadly credited with relevance.
The only autobio worse than TR's was La Follette's quivering piece, or Amos Pinchot's. Seriously. Compare them to Grant's, for example, or even Taft's post-presidential works (no autobiography), both of which are wholly devoid of the Rooseveltian "I". Thank God his nephew didn't live long enough to write his own autobio. Then again, too bad he didn't retire in time to write it...
Can you tell that the whole generation of progressives really pisses me off?
Here's a Bull Moose graphic back at you:
Tangled
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New Nationalism, Self Adoration, Recall of Judges,
Third Term, Populism, Egotism