The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-19

SECS the Boys.
.sAhl Here they are gain"
nc colonel lifted his right arm
without apparent effort and extended
the hand.
.Ycu know how to shake hands"
ha remarked with a nod ''You won't
pun II too hard %
How are you feeling now. col
uHel o. r@Sx- s4slsGad-
..Eeei like a bulldog came the
hearty response. That's a varia-
+ tscn Of The Bull Moose,
Are YOU going To leave TIE hos
pisai soon - was asked.
"Minday, Il everything goes all
right repiiea Roosevelt. hopefully.
THE doctors canot say positively yet,
because there's still some danger. We
do not know. YOU see. whether the
danger from blood poising IS gone.
we-.-1-us3ng the pronoUna though
he were one of tn. consultantS--
I @thnk il IL ail right now. but we
have to make sure.
"nr Lambert wanted to GO lack I"
New YORK today. bat the othe~ doc
tors here thought he'd better Wait "a
Gav OF So II may 30 that there IS
"a ltTtle spot VI Infection somewhere
around the wound, the colonel went
ON. Squeezing the fingers 81 hts right
hand together to illustrate.
The broken rib Is doing Gus. IL
takes a little time for the rough edges
to gene together. That won't he sA
repaired untn 7 get nome, but I'm
hoping il will knit SO that / 0an get
back to the campaign. When The rib
heals I can breathe more easily,
Yes, In about axed mp now 90
eanT~e. we have to look out for
setanus and pleurisy or pneumonia,
bat we don't apprehend anything Ike
that. a few days more Will see us
throEgh H."
IsEesevetf iazaTfo f4ed into a tain Of
his future campaign.
Il am assured that III he in shape
10 gct back on the stump by week
after next" he said confidently. II
want TO make few short speeches
to start with, and then I IN xoing 20
plug away hard I've got good deal
10 say
Here the colonel stopped. and \
smile overspread his rudy couuteu
anee. He removed his heavy trimmed
tortoise shell eyeglasses and wiped
them with a handkerchief
Eager to Get Back.
Yes. we've still got some cam
paign left. he repeated. Il want
TO be in it,"
From the way the ex-preisdent
talked Il was inferred that he intends
jumping back into the fight like a
whiriwind. He particularly wants TO
make speech at Madison Square
garden. as he feels that his voice is
needed in the New York campaign.
"Since | have been laid UP here
with this bullet" Roosevelt remarked,
with show of spirit. ut has been
said that they must stop the cam
patgn because they couldn't say
wv thlnEs that .Ahap.. caNid IL were ont
on the stump. Now, they may 20
ahead and SAY anything they want,
in answer them when ] get out.
If any man has a thing TO say
about me, don't let him hesitate
- because ma unable ~ talk now" In
sigfed the colonel almost kissing his
words. The campaign must be
fought on It's real issues--the way the
progressives have been fighting II.
Amy man who says he cannot say now
anything that he would have uttered
against me if I had not been shot.
confesses that he was wrong in at
lacking me before. Let him come
/ into the open now and say what Is
in his mind"
The wounded third party leader
cFlucklsd as ne adverted to the at
taeks made upon him in the cam
patgn by Governor Marshall
ing IA campaign On San Juan"
laughed the colonel. He seriously
told the people that / had not been
Ia the charge of San Juan, that |
was nowhere near the hail OF bull
let's
Now this bullet of mine" the
colonel went on,- tapping his chest,
s.has taken the breath out Of him.
He hasn't anything to say ahont II
now"
ri suppose" obsegyed Roosevelt,
with "a twinkle Of the eye, Mr.. Mar
shall Will seen De saying YEAS not
shot at all. that If / was shot it was
with bird shot, and that II was an
other man who was hit, and that
was not in Milwaukee anyhow, but
in Oshkosh
The ex-president lapsed into a
show of easy humor when he talked
of his experience at the auditorium
TN Milwaukee,. while he talked with
the bullet ia his breast
Amusing To Il. X.
1T was really amusing when /
pulled the manuscript ont OF my
pocket and saw the bullet hole in
H." he said with Il reminiscent smile,
81 did not know 1t was there. My
eyegiass case, too. had "a bullet hole
I In it, 1t was very amusing"
Amusing >" asked one of the col
oners visitors
We'll" replied Roosevelt. with a
shake of the head. Perhaps I'd bet
ter say interesting. The manuscript
was so punctured that it didn't do me
u bin of good. ! had to make my
speech without it.
aAnd when I'd got through ii was
funny to see the audience trying to
scramble up the platform to shake
hands with me They did not APP
i pear 10 realize that II WAS possible
Tor man who had just been snot
to shake hands with genuine cor
diality."
The colonel 10y this time had talked
fifteen minutes, Mrs. Roosevelt in an
adjoining room stirred, as an indica-
tien that IL was time for the inter-
view To end. She had lifted the EN-
barge. bat she did not intend that
q the colonel SHOULD talk himself tired.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.. left his moth
ers side and popped into the cotoneis
room, looking anXious!y AT his father.
Now, there. guess that's enough
y reclaimed the Colonel, he glanced
IA from the newspa per men To his son.
well resume this At another time"
Extending his left hand the colonel
gave cordial shake all around ana
NJ settled back with q cherry goodbye"
10 read his magazine,