Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-18

Chicago, Oct. 17.-Throughout day of unbroken calm, Colonel Roosevelt lay in his bed in Mercy hospital with It was day of waiting with the ever- present possibility of complications but with iessened fears on the part of those who were watching over the wounded man. He seemed in his al- most normal condition, but there was ] no relaxation in the strict regime and his physicians said that he was by nc means out of danger.
 Colonel Roosevelt's physicians who were discussing how long it would be before the colonel could leave the hos pital, said they thought it> might be safe for him to leave for Oyster Bay on Monday or Tuesday, If all goes we'll but not even a tentative decision was reached.
 Clinical Records Encouraging.
 The clinical records were the most encouraging of any day since Colonel Roosevelt entered the hospital. Dur ing the morning the variation in tenn perature was limited to two-tenths of a degree. and throughout the after noon 1t was reported as normal. There was virtually no variation in pulse. The period of possible development of blood poisoning has still another day to run, and although the physicians said that a change might occur with in an hour at any time during the next day, they were more optimistic of the outcome than at any other previous time.
 Dr. Scurry L. Terrell said the col- onel could not leave the hospital safe- ly until the expiration of the period, and for that reason 1t was regarded as out of the question to consider the coloners departure for Oyster Bay be- fore early next week.
 Victim of "Machine Rule."
 All day Mrs. Roosevelt was at the bedside, and although her husband jestingly complained that he was the victim of machine rule, she said he must see no one except members of his family. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Miss Ethel Roosevelt and Mrs. Nicho- las Longworth talked with their father from time to time, but even the fam- fly chats were limited to a few min utes on each occasion.
 Twice during the day, however, Mrs. Roosevelt made exceptions to her rule. Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, one
  greesive party, called late in the af- ternoon and spent ten minutes with Colonel Roosevelt. She had hardly departed when two babies-twins, who were spending the third day of their lives-were brought in. As there was no possibility of a conversation be- tween Colonel Roosevelt and the twins, Mrs. Roosevelt admitted them for a moment.
 Ate Three Hearty Meals.
 With the aid of mirror which en- abled him to catch a glimpse of the outerworld without turning in bed, Col : onel Roosevelt looked out at the street scenes when he was not talking with Mrs. Roosevelt or reading. He was eager to be up and out of doors, and spoke longingly of his horse. Sudar, on which he is accustomed to ride each morning when he is at Sagamore Hill He ate three hearty meals and said that he felt bully"
 Campaign activities should not cease because of Colonel Roosevelt's at- tempted assassination, so far as he Is concerned he said tonight.
 Urges Wilson to Keep on Stump.
 The following was issued by Colonel Roosevelt at Mercy hospital in answer to what Mir. Bryan said in his speech at Franklin, Ind:
 'I wish to express my cordial agree ment with the manly and proper state- 1nent of Mir. Bryan at Franklin Ind. when, in arguing for a continuance of the discussion of the issues at stalk in the contest, he said: :The issues of this campaign should not be deterred by the act of an assassin. Neither Col onel Roosevelt nor his friends could nE hot Ia turned away from the principles in volved. If he is elected president Ii should be because of what he has done in the past and what he pro- poses to do hereafter
 T wish to point out. however, tha1 neither I nor my friends have asked that the discussion be turned away from the principle involved. On tn. epntrary, we emphatically demand thI the discussion be carried on precisely H3 if I had not been shot. I shall b, sorry if MT. Wilson does not keep or the stump and feel that he owes I to himself and the American people tt continue on the stump.
 "Welfaro of One Man Immaterial"
 T wish 10 make one more common on Mr. Bryan's statement. It Is, 0 course, perfectly true that in votinI
 
 be paid to what I have done in tn past and to wha' I propose to do. But 1t seems to me far more i'm portant that consideration should b. paid to what the progressive part. proposes to do.
 I cannot too strongly enphasize tn Tact, upon which we progressives in sist that the welfare of any one maj in this fight is wholly immaterial com pared to the great and fundamen issues involved in the triumph of tn principles for which our cause stands Fight Would Have Gone on if He Ha
 Been Killed.
 If had been killed the fight woul nave gone on exactly the same. Gov ernor Johnson, Senator Beveridge, M, Straus, Senator Bristow, Miss Jan Addams, Clifford Pinchot. Judge Be Lindsey, Raymond Robbins, MT. Pren dergast and the hundreds of other me now on the stump are preaching tn doctrines that l have been preachin and stand for. and represent Just tn same cause. They would have contin ned the fight in exactly the same wa if had been killed. and they are con rinuing in just the same way now tha T am for the moment laid up.
 So far as my opponents are con cerned. whatever could with truth an propriety have bean said against m and my cause before I was shot ca with equal truth and equal propriet be said against me now, and it Ehoul he so said: and the things tha, cannc be satd now arc merely he thinsS tha Dught not to have been said befor,