The age-herald., 1901-09-11
HANNA AND ROOSEVELT
 TDNGS DEPART FROM BUFFALO

matter. What has disturbed me has been to find a reason for even anarch. ists to attack a man like President Mckinley. Here is the one country where they are allowed perfect free dom of speech. Here the ruler is a man, descended from farmer stock, self-made. Here is man who has no fortune or no means other than that which he may manage to save out of his salary as President. Probably many a workingman in the United States today has as large an amount of real estate as MT. Mckinley. In addition, he Is kindly disposed Chris tian gentleman, and In every great emergency In which he could act he has been friend of the common peo- pie. Why should he be shot at, then, even by an anarchist?"
 Improvement Is Rapid.
 The Presidents physicians are im- pressed with his remarkable recuperativc powers. and the rapidity of his improve, ment Ordinarily an incision for such an operation as was performed upon the chief executive should heal within three weeks. but in the Presidents case he may be strong enough to be moved a little sooner. The President will be taken direct to Washington as soon as it is safe to move him.
 Within the sick room many evidences of the Presidents improvement are ap- parent. The President himself began 10 show confidence in his ability to care for himself. and from time to time he would carefully turn himself to get more rest full position. Yesterday he took the pre- caution to ask if he might be permitted to move. but today he changed his posi- ton on his own volition, without diffi- culty. The President asked for the papers again today, and also asked when he would be allowed to sit up.
 A most interesting development of the day was the determination reached among those in charge of the case that food should be administered to the pa- tient tomorrow by the mouth
 Not since the shooting has morsel of food been given to the patient by natural means but the drain on the system has been met by dissolved foods administered
 
 by injection.
 An Important Factor.
 The importance of this feeding by the mouth Is that 1t will restore the normal action of the stomach for the first time since that organ had both it's walls pierced by a bullet. The doctors are sat- isfied that the time has come to renew these normal functions, and the four days which have elapsed since the wounds in the stomach were closed give every assurance that the sutures are sufficiently healed to allow nature to re- sume her sway.
 No member of the cabinet has yet been within the sick room, nor has the Vice President nor those closest to the con- hdence of the President, such as Senator Hanna and Judge Day, seen the Presi- dent
 It was said today by one of the phy- sicians assistants, who was present at the first operation that Dr. Mann dis played his consummate skin and calm ness by going about the operation as if the patient were q child with slight complaint. And yet Dr. Mann has since told a friend that when he released the duty before him, although he had per formed hundreds of operations of lapor- atomy, he would have sacrff1Ued all he possessed to have escaped the responsi- bNity of operating upon tho President of the United States