The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-18
SAYS POLITICAL
WAR IS TO GO ON
]. R Agrees With Bryan Battle
is For Principle.
NOT YET OUT OF DANCER


Is ExceIIent-Wife Rules and Order,
Quiet.
Chicago, Oct. 18.-Colonel Roosevelt
has gained steadily and the surgeon:
in attendance upon him at the Merta
hospital believe that he is upon til
high road TO recovery, unless complf
cations set IN. s.
All the bulletins issued showed Z
generally improved condition. as indi
Gated in the clinical report, the pulse
temperature and respiration showing
little variation and being practically
normal.
The colonel is reacting rapidly te
his normal temperament, and we ara
all much pleased with his conditions
is the way Chief Surgeon John B. Muir
ply put it.
If no trace of septic poisoning de.
velops in the next twenty-four hours
the doctors say it will be case Of
marking time during the tediouc pc
riod of the wound healing, and that ii
a weeks time at least 1t will be pos
sible to move the colonel to his hons
in Oyster Bay The doctors make the
authoritative statement that the pn.
tient will be kept in Chicago until. the
middle of next week
Mrs Roosevelt maintained h4a
watch at the bedside of her husband,
and established a quiet smooth run
ming routine, which, it was agreed, waa
the best thing possible for the colonel.
At noon she decreed that no visitors
were to see Colonel Roosevelt during
the day, because he had not slept dur
ing the morning
Although Colonel Roosevelt Is ~
ready looking forward to the tim&
when he can leave the hospital, hi
physicians are not permitting his al |
parent improvement to influence then
in making promises.
Campaign activities should not ceas
because of Colonel Roosevelt's a. I
tempted assassination so far as he q I
concerned, he declared.
The following signed statement was
issued by Colonel Roosevelt in answsei
to what Mr. Bryan said in his spee4
at Franklin, Ind:
wish to express my cordial agred
ment with the manly and proper st
Daext of Mr.. Bryan at Franklin, Il I
zOi 7tIie issti "a
q the contest, he said:
1.-The issues of this campaizni
should not be determined by the act
If an assassin. Neither Colonel Roose-
velt nor his friends could ask that the
should be turned away from
he principles involved. If he is elect
ed president it should be because OF
what he has done in the past and what
he proposes to do hereafter
81 wish to point out, however. that
neither I nor my friends have asked
that the discussion be turned away
from the principles involved. On the
contrary, we emphatically demand
that the discussion be carried on, pre-
cisely as if I had not been shot. shall |
be sorry if Mr.. Wilson does not keep
On the stump, and l feel that he owes
It to himself and the American peo-
pie to continue on the stump.
81 wish to make one more comment |
On Mr.. Bryan's statement 1t is, OF
course, perfectly true that in voting I
for me or against me, consideration
must be paid to what 1 have done in
the past and to what I propose to do
hereafter.
"But it seems to me far more I'M
portant that consideration should be
paid to what the Progressive party
to do.
"I cannot too strongly emphasize the
fact upon which we Progressives in
sist, that the welfare of any one man
in this fight wholly is immaterial COM
pared to the great and fundamental is
sues involved in the triumph of tn,
principles for which our cause stands. 5
eff had been killed the fight would
have gone on exactly the same. Gov
ernor Johnson, Senator Beveridge,
Mr.. Straus, Senator Bristow, Miss
Jane Adams, Clifford PinchOt, Judge
Ben Lindsey, Raymond Robbins, Mr..
Prendergast and the hundreds of 9TH
Or men and women now on the stump,
are preaching the doctrines that have
been preaching and stand for and rep
resent just the same cause. They
would have continued the fight in ex-
hctly the same way if I had been
killed, and they are continuing in just
the same way, now that l am for the
moment laid up.
$50 far as my opponents are con-
cerned, whatever could with truth and
propriety have been said against me
and my cause before l was shot can
with equal truth and equal propriety
be said against me now, and it should
be so said; and the things that can
not be said now are merely the things
that ought not to have been said be-
fore. This is not a contest about any
man; it is contest concerning princi-
pies.
eff my broken rib heals fast enough
to relieve my breathing I hope to be
able to make one or two speeches yet
in this campaign. In any event, if /
am not able to make them, the men
7 have mentioned and the hundreds
like them will be stating our case
right to the end of the campaign. and
trust our opponents will be stating
their case Also"