Theodore Roosevelt

Republican eagerness

• 1896 election - McKinley & gold defeated Bryan & silver
• Asst. Secretary Navy Theodore Roosevelt
• Secretary of State John Sherman of Ohio - for Hanna
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Albert Beveridge in Senate
• A. T. Mahan, George Dewey in Blue Water Navy

Yellow Press

• Hearst NY Journal vs. Pulitzer NY World
• NY junta of Toma Estrada Palma provided stories
• good Cubans vs. evil Spain; democracy vs. tyranny
• 1897 Fred. Remington, Richard Harding Davis sent
• Feb. - "Does Our Flag Shield Women?"
• Aug. - Karl Decker brings Evang. Cisneros to U.S.
• pro-Democratic Puck magazine
• pro-Republican Judge magazine

McKinley's appeasement

• June 16, 1897 - Hawaii annexation submitted
  • protectorate declared - against Japan
• minister Stewart Woodford to Spain
  • demands armistice, withdrawal
• Aug. 9 - Conservative Canovas killed
• Oct. - Sagasta promises autonomy, removes Weyler
• Dec. 6 - McKinley says Spain on "honorable path"
• Feb. 9, 1898 - de Lome letter to friend in Cuba
  • "weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, a common politician...
  • Hearst: "Worst Insult to the U.S."