The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-09-14
PRESIDENT MKINLEY WILL WIN
IN HIS BATTLE FOR
LIFE.
HOPE MOUNTS HIGHER AND HIGHER
There Has Been Nothing but I'M
provement, Gradual and Slow,
hut steady ImprOve1nent-Every
Bulletin of the Physicians In At
tendance Brcatl,cs Encourage
ment-WIu He a Week Before the
President Can BE Pronounced Out
of Dnnger-Roosevclt Extremely
Optimistic.

ton to the American people Will ne the
sparing Of the presidents nfe." AS the
evening shadows were falling last
night John G.. Milburn, president OF
the Pan-American exposition. rever-
emily uttered these words as he stood
before the house in which the nations
patient was fighting so bravely with
death. And all who have been at the
Milburn residence reflect the view That
the battle will be won and the prayers
Of the world will be answered. Since
Sunday night not an u~nfavorable
symptom has appeared. Every hour
has been a victory. Faith In the out
come grows stronger and stronger ana
hop mounts higher and higher until
in the minds of some the danger OF all
future complications is brushed aside
and hope las become conviction. IN
deed, many of the presidents friends
seem possessed with a sort of super
stitious confidence in the presidents
cover which nothing but an abso-
lutte change for the worse can shake.
And the basis for the confidence that
is expressed is solid. There has been
nothing but improvement, gradual n
slow, but steady improvement. Every
bulletin, every private and public word
of the physicians in attendance
breathes encouragement. The reports
the physicians have given out are
Facts rs They Exist
from a scientific standpoint unmixed
with sentiment. Still that the presl-
dent is by no means out of danger Is
the verdict of each of them. Not n
of them will risk his professional rep
utation with a statement that the pres
ident will live. All they will say is that
with every hour the danger of compli-
cations from peritonitis or blood pois-
oning decreases. DR.. McBurney. the
most eminent of the physicians in at
tendance, expresses the opinion that II
the improvement continues it Will be a
week yet before the president can he
pronounced out of danger n conVa-
lescent. And some Of his colleagues,
like DR.. Mann, place the limit OF
danger still farther away. The fear OF
p%eritonitis,, it "a be said positively,
has well-nigh disappeared. At the
expiration Of the seventy-two-hour
period at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
danger from that source was almost
gone. The president himself has been
cheerful all day and has expressed
confidence in his recovery. Yesterday
he asked for a morning paper. but this,
of course, had to be denied him. 1t is
with some difficulty that he a be re-
strained from talking, and Col. Myron
T. Herrick of Cleveland is quoted as
authority FOR, the statement that he has
spoken at intervals of several things
he proposes to do in the future.
President Moves Unnided.
Yesterday morning he asked to be
allowed to move his position, and When
permission was given, before the at
tendants could move him, he changed
to the position he desired to assume
without difficulty or pain. This speaks
much for the general strength and
spirits. Mrs. Mckinley saw him again
yesterday for a brief visit and Secre-
tary Cortelyou was admitted for the
first time. No one else was allowed to
see him, although he inquired several
times who were below stairs. He was
given nourishment yesterday in the
form of eggs beaten in milk, admin
istered through the rectum. The water
which has beer given heretofore cold
did not seem to agree with him, and
since Sunday night very hot water has
been taken into the stomach through
the mouth with splendid results. His
bowels moved freely during the day.
and this alone was considered an
cellent symptom. If he continues to
improve it will be gradually. If he
should grow worse the change in that
direction also probably will be SLOW.
This is the opinion Of DR.. Mann. There
will be no crisis. If he arrives at con-
ryo1ocooroa nr or1rl ovnrocSnc the
opinion that it will be three weeks be-
fore it will be safe to move him. 1t is
expected hat the interior wounds will
heel first. The sutures Of
The Lncernted Tissue
were made SO soon after the bullet
passed that they are probably healing
rapidly. With the exterior wound it
is a slower process.
The extreme optimism of the vice
president and the members of the cab
met would be difficult to cverstate. II
am absolutely confident everything will
turn out all right" declared the vice
president, and he said he based his
confidence on information behind the
public expressions of the physicians.
So relieved are Secretary Gage and At
torney general Knox at the steady i'm
provement that taey returned to
Washington last night feeling strongly
that their chief would recover, but
with the assurance Of the physicians
that IL a change for the worse should
come 1t would be gradual and they
would have srnple time to return. The
devotion Of TIE members OF the cabi-
net to their ctief is touching. All
would desire to remain near him until
the crucial period Is passed, and Secre-
tary Hitchcock and Secretary Wilson
avow that only absolute and impera-
tive public business will induce them
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