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VOLUME 12, NUMBER 42
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Colonel Roosevelt had so
far recovered from the effects
of his wound that he was
taken from Mercy hosptial,
Chicago, October 21, and
reached his home at Oyster
Bay the day folowing in good
condition. If he continues to
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A dastardly but unsuccessful at
tempt was made upon the life of
Colonel Roosevelt on tho evening of
October 14, at Milwaukee, Wis.,
shortly after he had left his hotel on
his journey to the auditorium, where
he was scheduled to deliver an ad
dress. The shooting took place in front
of the hotel Gilnatrick. Colonel
Roosevelt reached Milwaukee shortly
after 5 o'clock and was taken to his
hotel, where he took dinner in a pri
vate dining room on the main floor.
Shortly before 8 o'clock he started
for the auditorium. While standing
in the automobile, acknowledging the
welcome of the crowd he was fired
upon by an assassin who told the
police, after an hour's examination
that he was Jolin Schrank, of 370
East Tenth street, New York.
An Associated Press report says:
No one in the party, including Colo
nel Roosevelt himself, entertained
tho slightest notion that the colonel
had been shot. He felt no shock or
pain at the time, and it was assumed
at the time that the bullet went wild.
As soon as Colonel Roosevelt had as
sured himself that the assassin was
safe in the hands of tlie police, he
gave orders to drive to tho audi
torium. The discovery of the wound
was not made until a short time later
in the dressing rooms of the auditor
ium. Despite the protest of his phy
sician the colonel strode out of the
dressing room and onto the stage,
and insisted on delivering his speech.
Colonel Roosevelt began to speak in
a firm voice, somewhat Inwpr than
his usual tone, and except that his
characteristic gestures were less
emphatic than usual, there was noth
ing about the man to indicate his
condition. After he had been speak
ing a few moments, however, his
voice sank somewhat and he seemed
to stand rather unsteadily. Dr. Ter
rell stepped up to him and insisted
that he stop. "I am going to finish
this speech," said the colonel em
phatically. "I'm all right; let me
alone." Tho colonel continued his
speech, evidently with increasing
euort, Dut no succeeded in making
himself heard and talked for, more
than an hour. Then he was rushed
to the automobile and flashed
through the streets to an emergency
hospital.
Colonel Roosevelt's Speech
The following report of Colonel
Roosevelt's speech, in which he re
ferred to his bullet wound, is taken
from the Philadelphia North Ameri
can. Following this portion of the
speech ho turned to tho more con
crete issues of the campaign, and
although weakened by the shot,
Colonel Roosevelt kept his audience
in good spirits by an occasional joke,
He spoke, In part, as follows:
"Friends, I shall have to ask you
to he as quiet as possible. I do not
know whether you fully understand
that I have just been shot, but It
takes more than that to kill a bull
moose. Fortunately, I had my manu
script (holding up manuscript show
ing audience hole whore bullet had
gone through), so that you see I was
going to make you a long speech.
See, friends, the. hole In It that the
bullet went through. It probably
saved it from going into my heart.
Tho bullet is in me now, so that I
can not make a very long speech, but
I will try my best!
"And now, friends, I want to take
advantage of this incident to say as
solemn a word of warning as I know
how to my fellow-Americans. First
of all, I want to say this about my
self. I have altogether too many im
portant things to think of to pay any
heed or feel any concern over my
own death. Now, I would not speak
to you Insincerely within five minutes
of being shot.
"I am telling you the literal truth
when I say that my concern is for
many other things. It is not in the
least fr my own life. I want you
to understand that I am ahead of the
game, anyway. No man has had a
happier life than I had a happy life
in every way. I have been able to
do things I greatly wished to do,
and I am interested in doing
other things. I can, tell you
with absolute truthfulness that I am
very much uninterested in whether
I am shot or not. As colonel of my
regiment, I always felt that a private
was to be excused for feeling at times
some pangs of anxiety about his per
sonality; but I can not understand a
man fit to he colonel who can pay
any heed to his personal safety when
he is occupied, as he ought to be oc
cupied, with the absorbing desire to
do his duty.
"I am in this cause with my whole
heart and soul. I believe in the pro
gressive movement a movement for
the betterment of mankind, tlie
movement for making life a. little
easier for all our .people, a movement
to try to take the burdens off the
man, and especially the woman, in
this country who is most oppressed.
I am absorbed in the. success of that
movement. I feel uncommonly proud
In belonging to that movement: k
"Friends, I ask you now this even
ing to accept what I am -saying as
absolutely true when I tell you I am
not thinking of my own success, I am
not thinking of my life or 'of any
thing connected with me norsonallv.
I am saying this by way of introduc
tion, because I want to say something
very serious to our people, and
especially to the newspapers.
"I don't know who the man was
who shot me tonight., He was seized
by one of my stenographers, Mr. Mar
tin, and I suppose Is in the hands of
the police now. He shot to kill. me.
He shot the bullet. I am just going
to show you (Colonel Roosevelt then
unbuttoned his coat and vest nnrl
showed his white shirt badly stained
with blood.) Now, friends, I am go
ing to ask you to be as quiet as pos
sible even if I am not able to give
the challenge of the bull moose quite
as loudly.
"Now, I do not know who he was
or what party he represented. He
was a coward. He stood in the dark
ness in the crowd around the auto
mobile, and when they cheered me
and I got up', he stepped forward and
shot me in the breast.
"It is a very natural thing that
weak and vicious minds should be in
flamed to acts of violence by the foul
mendacity and abuse that have been
heaped upon me for the last three
months by the papers in tho interests
not only of Mr. Debs, but of Mr. Wil
son and Mr. Taft.
"Friends, I will disown and repu
diate any man of my party who at
tacks with such vile, foul slander
and abuse my onDonents of anv nrhn.
party. Now, my wish Is to point out
seriously to the newspapers repre
senting both the republican and
democratic and socialist . parties that
they can not, month in and month
out, year in and year out, make the
kind of slanderous, hitter and male
volent assaults that they have made
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