The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-15
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more than a bullet. It was a great

more tnan bullet. IL was grea
E speech"
Dr. John B. Murphy, who was t
weld the knife, stopped peering int
the X-ray machine and looked at thu
coionels face.
Game pretty near getting you, col
onei,', said the surgeon.
Not with little bullet like that
replied Colonel Roosevelt.
rThey will have to use bigger call
I bre lead than that If they want to gel
me. 1t would take howitzer to Kill
a bull moose"
The colonel jokingly chided the
surgeons for taking the case SO seri
ously." He insisted he was feeling
fine.''
.I'll be out campaigning in the next
"a hours he said, ''if they let me
have my way about it. / feel great
this morning and / could deliver a
speech now il You doctors would let
me get up"
with the Roosevelt party. was indis-
posed and had intended to remain at
the hotel He was in his room on the
fourth floor when he heard the shot
and was told that somebody had been
killed.
The doctor rushed from his room
and, in his haste to reach the street,
lost his balance and fell down flight
of stairs, sustaining severe bruises
about the body.
When he reached the side OF the
colonel he demanded to know what
was the matter. "Oh, nothing" re-
piled Roosevelt.
Il want to see what's wrong" the
doctor insisted. but was unable to do
SO until the colonel submitted to
preliminary examination behind the
stage of the Auditorium.
I'll make that speech IL die max
ing it, said Roosevelt. Boys, this
may be my last message but I'm going
to deliver it,
Il had intended to take up Mr..
Wilson's labor record" were his first
words to the audience, .ebut will not
do So tonight" His reference to La
Toilette was short, though he was IN
able to deliver 1t for some time be-
cause of the interruptions OF the aud
fence.
Senator LaFollette's attitude In
this campaign he said has been a
serious blow to the cause Of progress
sivism.'
He tried to minimize the fears OF
his friends and the audience but his
manner was that Of a man who an
ticipated a fatal result OF the attack
and he seemed to be making a last
supreme effort to implant his mes
sage in the hearts of his hearers.
On the operating table at the Mil
waukee hospital, he kept up a rapid
FIRE of conversation and seemed pleas
ed that he had got his message
across before being obliged to under
go treatment. His first thought was
for Mrs. Roosevelt and he sent her a
telegram in which he assured her that
his condition was excellent and or
dered that, IL the telegraph office was
not open at Oyster Bay, the message
should be taken there By taxicab.
The news of the coloners misfor-
tune had hardly grown cold on the
wires when kilograms of sympathy
and congratulations for his escape be-
gan to pour In from all parts Of the
compass.
One of the first was from Burt A.
Miller. nephew of former President
Mckinley. It was dated Cleveland,
Ohio, and read You have been
wounded in the same battle for hui
man rights in which Mckinley, my
uncle. lost his life. May you live to
carry forward this righteous war
Another was from Hiram w. John
son, governor of California, and vice
presidential nominee, on the bull
moose ticket. I'VE ali rejoice at your
provident escape it read. May God
be with you always as He was to-
night"
Ebert e, Martin, the coloners stem
ographer, who was the first to seize
Schrank after the shooting, Joined
the Roosevelt party August Is. He
was born in Manchester. N. H, but at
present his home Is in Rhinelander,
Wis. Martin is graduate of the De-
troit college. 1912. In his college days
he played right tackle on the football
team OF Big Rapids Business School,
in Michigan. Martin worked his way
through school and passed the state
bar examination at Detroit, being ad-
mitted to the bar last June.
He was attracted by the personal
ity of Roosevelt and obtained hie DO
sition by applying to Jonn McGrath,
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