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35. For detailed accounts of the
Manhattan Club affair, see Link, Wilson: Road to
the White House, 359-380; Gatewood, "James Calvin Hemphill,"
382-391.
36. Hemphill to Taft, January 1, 1912.
37. Among Taft's favorite schemes for
the promotion of world peace was the negotia-
tion of arbitration treaties between the
United States and other nations.
38. Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, II,
754-755.
39. Taft to Hemphill, January 3, 1912.
40. Actually the story of the
Harvey-Wilson break which appeared in the Daily
Observer on January 5, 1912, was the work of three individuals,
Hemphill, Harvey, and
Watterson. Watterson told Hemphill about
the Manhattan Club meeting during his visit
to Charlotte in behalf of the
arbitration treaties. From this point on, Hemphill and
Watterson plotted their strategy in
consultation with Harvey. All three contributed to
the contents of the article and agreed
to the timing of its publication. See Gatewood,
"James Calvin Hemphill,"
384-386.
41. Hemphill to Taft, January 5, 1912.
42. Taft to Hemphill, January 17, 1912.
43. Hemphill to Watterson, January 15,
1912; Hemphill to Harvey, January 17, 1912.
44. Hemphill to Taft, January 18, 1912.
45. See Link, Wilson: Road to the
White House, 372-374; William R.
Thayer,
Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate
Biography (Boston, 1919), 351-355.
46. Hemphill to Taft, February 26, 1912.
47. Hemphill to Taft, March 9, 1912.
48. In Toledo, Ohio, on March 8, 1912,
President Taft severely criticized the recall of
judges and judicial decisions as dangerous to
"well-ordered freedom." Roosevelt had
earlier advocated the recall. See New
York Times, March 9, 1912.
49. Medill McCormick, publisher of the Chicago
Tribune, had originally favored the
nomination of La Follette but switched
his support to Roosevelt.
50. See Francis G. Wickware, ed., The
American Yearbook: A Record of Events
and Progress, 1912 (New York, 1913), 7 (hereafter cited as American Yearbook,
1912).
51. Hemphill to Taft, April 10, 1912.
52. Taft to Hemphill, April 12, 1912.
53. William Lorimer was elected senator
from Illinois in 1909 under allegedly
questionable circumstances. Widespread charges of
corruption led to a senate investiga-
tion. On March 1, 1911, Lorimer was
declared by the senate to be the duly elected
senator from Illinois.
54. Boies Penrose had been senator from
Pennsylvania since 1897.
55. Roosevelt won sixty-five pledged
delegates in Pennsylvania. Observers at the time
interpreted this event to mean that
Roosevelt's forces directed by William Flinn had
utterly routed the Taft organization
under Penrose. See Mowry, Theodore Roosevelt and
the Progressive Movement, 233.
56. Charlotte Daily Observer, April 17, 21, 1912.
57. Taft to Hemphill, April 19, 1912.
58. See James C. Hemphill,
"Sincerity vs. Hypocrisy: Taft vs. Roosevelt," Harper's
Weekly, May 4, 1912, pp. 8, 20.
59. Taft to Hemphill, April 30, 1912.
60. American Yearbook, 1912, pp.
9-10.
61. Hemphill to Taft, May 23, 1912.
62. Taft to Hemphill, May 26, 1912.
63. See Mowry, Theodore Roosevelt and
the Progressive Movement, 240-255; New
York Times, June 22, 28, July 3, 1912; Adolph Ochs to Hemphill, May
31, 1912;
Gatewood, "James Calvin
Hemphill," 391-392.
64. Hemphill left the New York Times to
accept a position on the staff of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger in the
spring of 1913. The following year he quit the
Ledger to
engage in "special literary work for various newspapers" on a
short-term
basis. In 1919 he returned to his native South Carolina
to edit the Journal and Carolina
Spartan in
Spartanburg.
65. See especially Hemphill to Taft,
October 7, 1915, Taft to Hemphill, October 9,
1915.
66. Taft to W. P. Greene, November 20,
1927 (telegram).
Credit for the photographs of Taft and
Hemphill on page 35 belongs to the Ohio
Historical Society and the Charleston News
and Courier, respectively.
WAITING FOR THE
WAR'S END
1. Most of the following information
about Ames has been culled from a packet of
clippings, official appointments, and
other memorabilia in the possession of his great-