2: “WE WANT TAFT”
1. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, vol. 1 (Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1986), 159.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., 160.
4. Ibid.
5. Judith Icke Anderson, William Howard Taft: An Intimate History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 66.
6. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 161.
7. Peri E. Arnold, Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901–1916 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009), 80.
8. Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 40.
9. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 161.
10. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections of Full Years (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914), 35, https://archive.org/details/recollectionsfu02taftgoog.
11. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 165.
12. Ibid., 169. Arthur MacArthur’s son, General Douglas MacArthur, would display similar insolence to civilian authorities in the Far East, keeping President Harry Truman waiting before greeting the president when he arrived for a meeting on Wake Island during the Korean War.
13. Lurie, Taft: Travails of a Progressive Conservative, 46.
14. Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013), 274.
15. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections, 212.
16. John W. Grant, “William Howard Taft on America and the Philippines: Equality, Natural Rights, and Imperialism,” in Joseph W. Postell and Johnathan O’Neill, Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism During the Progressive Era (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 135, Kindle.
17. Ibid., 137–38.
18. Ibid., 129–33.
19. Ibid., 131.
20. Ibid., 133.
21. William Howard Taft, “Inaugural Address as Civil Governor of the Philippines,” Address Before the Filipino People in Manila, July 4, 1901, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 1, ed. David H. Burton and A. E. Campbell (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001), 75.
22. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections, 112.
23. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 269.
24. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 174.
25. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections, 217.
26. Arnold, Remaking the Presidency, 82.
27. Ibid., 84.
28. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 182.
29. William Howard Taft, “The Inauguration of Philippine Assembly,” Address Before the Philippine Assembly, October 16, 1907, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 1, 92.
30. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections, 159.
31. Ibid.
32. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 272.
33. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 199.
34. Ibid., 191.
35. Ibid., 240.
36. Ibid., 241.
37. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections, 265.
38. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 243.
39. Ibid., 219.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., 223–31.
42. Ibid., 231.
43. Anderson, Taft: An Intimate History, 81.
44. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 245.
45. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections, 267.
46. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 247.
47. Ibid., 252.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid., 254.
50. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 298.
51. Ibid., 299.
52. Ibid.
53. Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904).
54. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 399.
55. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 272.
56. Arnold, Remaking the Presidency, 89.
57. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 264.
58. Ibid., 309–10.
59. Frederick Palmer, “Taft, The Proconsul,” Collier’s 39 (April 13, 1907): 13.
60. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 276.
61. Ibid., 286.
62. Ibid., 286–88.
63. Andrew Dolan, The Taft Diet: How President Taft Lost 76 Pounds (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012), 28, Kindle.
64. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 288.
65. Alpheus Thomas Mason, William Howard Taft: Chief Justice (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965), 30.
66. James Chace, 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, and Debs—The Election That Changed the Country (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004), 26.
67. Ibid., 27.
68. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 535.
69. Ibid., 545.
70. Ibid., 546.
71. Henry Beach Needham, “Why the President Is for Taft,” Success Magazine 11, no. 173 (Oct. 1908): 661.
72. William Howard Taft, “Speech of Acceptance Delivered at Cincinnati, Ohio,” July 28, 1908, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 3, ed. David H. Burton (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002), 7.
73. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 551.
74. Edgar A. Hornig, “Campaign Issues in the Presidential Election of 1908,” Indiana Magazine of History 54, no. 3 (1958): 237–64.
75. “1908 Democratic Party Platform,” July 7, 1908, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29589 [https://perma.cc/8QBB-LV8E].
76. Taft, “Speech of Acceptance,” 14.
77. “Republican Party Platform of 1908,” June 16, 1908, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29632 [https://perma.cc/437D-VU69].
78. Michael Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (New York: Anchor Books, 2007), 155.
79. Taft, “Speech of Acceptance,” 19.
80. “1908 Democratic Party Platform,” July 7, 1908.
81. Taft, “Speech of Acceptance,” 35.
82. Anderson, Taft: An Intimate History, 93.
83. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 550.
84. Anderson, Taft: An Intimate History, 94.
85. The Library of Congress Presents: Historic Presidential Speeches, 1908–1993, Rhino Records, 1995, 6 CDs.
86. William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold” Speech (1896, 1921), YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV2wRCcWJa8.
87. William Howard Taft, “Republican Responsibility and Performance; Democratic Responsibility and Failure,” In Their Own Voices: The U.S. Presidential Elections of 1908–1912, vol. 1, Marston Records 2000, recorded August 27, 1908, https://www.marstonrecords.com/products/voices#1-23 [https://perma.cc/5TCE-285C].
88. William Howard Taft, “Functions of the Next Administration,” In Their Own Voices, vol. 1, recorded Aug. 5, 1908.
89. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 377.
90. Goodwin, Bully Pulpit, 556.