The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-15
HE WAS SHOT
ON LEAVING
HIS HOTEL
CONTINUED from Page One.)

MT. hOOSeV6lt Iludlly raised MS
hand to stop the cheering, and as the
crowd ceased, voice cried:
Colonel, we sympathiZe with you!"
Mr.. Roosevelt gritted his teeth and
shouted back:
Now, don't you worry; it's nothing
at ALL" The former President had in
his pocket carefully prepared speech
which he had dictated on the train ON
his way to Milwaukee.
Without any Formally except to
greet the crowd as fellow citizens Of
Wisconsin," the Colonel pulled the
manuscript of his speech from his
pocket.
AS he drew it out he found, for the
first time, that the bullet had torn 4
round hole in the thick manuscript.
1t mad gone into the fleshy part of the
chest and had lodged there.
Begins in Firm Voice.
Colonel Roosevelt began to speak in
firm voice, somewhat lower than it's
usual tone, and except that his char
acteristic gestures were less emphatic
than usual there was nothing about the
he had been speaking a few moments,
however, his voice sank somewhat,
and he seemed to stand rather I'M
steadily. DR.. Terrell and Colonel Lyon
stepped up to him and the doctor in
sister that he stop.
Il am going 10 finish this speech"
said the Colonel, emphatically I'm all
right; let me alone"
DR.. Terrell and Colonel Lyon sat
down again. The colonel continued
his speech evidently with increasing
effort, but he succeeded in making
himself heard, and talked for more
than an hour.
Asks Auditors To Be Quiet.
Friends said the colonel in begin
ming his address, 81 shall have to ask
you to be as quiet as possible. l do
not know whether you fully under
stand that l have just been shot, but
it takes more than that to kill a bull
moose.
But, fortunately, l had my manu-
script, so you see I was going to make
a long speech.
"And friends, the bullet is in me
long speech. But | will try my best.
"And now, friends, l want to take
advantage of this incident to say as
solemn word of warning as know
how to my fellow Americans.
First of all l want to say this about
myself. l have altogether too many
important thangs to think of to pay
any heed or feel any concern over my
own death.
Now, I would not speak to you in
sincerely within five minutes of being
shot.
81 am telling you the literal truth
many other things. 1t is not in the
least for my own life.
Il want you to understand that am
ahead of the game, anyway. No man
has had a happier life than I have
had.
"Very Much Interested"
Il have been able to do certain
things that l greatly wished to do,
and i am interested in doing other
things. l can tell you with absolute
truthfulness that | am very much I'M
interested in whether l am shot or
not
1T was just as when | was Colonel
of my regiment. l always felt that
private was to be excused for feeling
at times some pangs of anxiety about
his personal safety, but I cannot I'M
derstand a man fit to be Colonel who
can pay heed to his personal safety
when he is occupied as he ought to be
occupied with the absorbing desire to
do his duty.
Il am in this cause with my whole
heart and soul; l believe in the pro-
gressive movements movement for
the betterment of mankind, the move
ment for making life little easier for
all our people, movement to try to
take the burdens off the man, and es-
pecially the women in this country,
who is most oppressed. l am absorb
ed in the success of that movement l
feel uncommonly proud in belonging to
that movement Friends, l ask you
now this evening to accept what | am
saying as absolute truth when l tell
you l am not thinking of my own sue
cess, am not thinking of my own life
or of anything connected with me per-
sonally
DR.. Terrell had a suspicion all the
time that the bullet had found it's
mark. but he had been baked by the
Colonel so that he could not make GER
tain He sat in his chair, his face
blanched, as Roosevelt launched into
the speech.
The audience, thoroughly alarmed
over the colonels plight, sat with bat
ed breath as Roosevelt spoke.
Places Hand Over Spot
When he pulled the manuscript out
and saw the bullet mark, he quickly
placed his hand over the tinged spot,
so the audience could not see it.
Not until the speech was over did
the crowd learn that the bullet had
pierced the manuscript
Colonel Roosevelt talked for Is min
utes before he gave the slightest in
dication that he felt the effect of the
bullet. Then sudden tinge of pain
made him clutch his right side The
audience was quick to observe it. and
a protest ran through the hall for the
Colonel to stop. Mr.. Roosevelt frown-