The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-16

Q-"Are you not member or any
party %
be an example of the third term if
it should exist any longer. Mr.. Grant
was refused and he was satisfied This
man was refused and he is not sati-
fed It's gone beyond limits. If he
keeps on doing this after election he
can't possibly carry a solid western
state. The next thing we will have a
war because he will say, The scoun-
drels and thieves and crooks stole
my nomination, and now they will
up arms in all the western states.
We are facing a civil war just to
keep him in a third term in an lille
ultimate place.
Q-"Whcro did you get all this idea
Al have been reading history all
Q-'sYou don't find that anywhere
in history that they stole his nomina-
ton and going to steal his election 20
Ar don't have to read that in his
tory. You must know in the Chicago
convention, it was in every paper, ev-
erybody could read it,
Q-"Yod read it in the paper,
then?''
Ale says it every time he
speaks"
Will Not Try Him Now.
States Attorney Winfred z. label
of Milwaukee county has announced
that John Schrank, Colonel Roose-
velt's assailant, would not be brought
to trial until after the national cleo
ton, November 5. He said the trial
would be opened sometime between
the 18th and 18th of November.
Mr.. label, who is said to be the
only Socialist states attorney in the
country. gave three specific reasons
for his decision to put off the trial
for one month.
He said, first. that it was only rea-
sonable to await the results of Col
oneI Roosevelt's injury before placing
Schrank on trial; second, he said, he
had no desire ito crowd the defend
ant unduly," and third, because cit
would be unwise to call the case dur
ing the final struggle in The presi-
Dental campaign"
1T is my desire to try this case
justly and expeditiously,' said Mr..
label, land this will be done, but we
wish to avoid having the plain crimi-
involved in the national political sit
uation. 1t would not be fair to any
of the people involved to do so. If
we went to trial before election day,
it is almost certain that the matter
in one way or another would be
or another of the big political par
ties"
Taking up a discussion of the case
as viewed by him, the Milwaukee
county prosecutor declared that as
far as surface indications went.
IF Schrank is insane" said Mr..
label. sit seems that there is method
in his madness when he selects for
the scene of his crime a state where
there is no capital punishment.
Also I am informed in messages
insanity in Schrank's family as far
as can be traced. In addition the
man presents none of the usual sur
face indications of insanity"
The plea of guilty filed by Schrank
at his preliminary hearing before
court this morning is looked upon
as merely perfunctory by the public
prosecutors office.
Can Change His Plea.
81 shall permit Schrank TO with
draw that plea of guilty when he goes
to trial if he so DESIRES" said Mr..
label. I'm other words, this case
will be tried in exactly the same man
ner as any other case of like crimi-
nal gravity. But there will b. no per-
secution of the defendant. He will be
tried justly and fairly and can ex-
pect to receive the punishment mer-
tied by the crime
and evening in his cell at the county
Jail, where he had been taken after.
his arraignment.
At the prisoners request Sheriff
William A. Arnold of Milwaukee coun-
ty refused to let anyone into the cell
house to see Schrank
Much interest centered in the chem
zeal tests on the remaining bullets
from Schrank's revolver, which were
started this afternoon to determine If
the bullet with which Colonel Roose-
welt was shot had been poisoned. Prof
essor Summer said that the results
of the tests could not be known ex-
actly for sometime.
Schrank, when questioned on this
point, denied emphatically that he had
used poisoned bullets and asserted
with confident air that the chemical
tests would reveal nothing of this ma
ture.
Never a Socialist.
In response to repeated questions
from States Attorney label and
Sheriff Arnold, Schrank declared that
at no time had he been a Socialist or
a follower of Socialistic theories.
The prisoner said, according to the
sheriff and states attorney, that he
had voted the Democratic and Repub-
lican tickets at various times.
Never have I been a particular
friend of any one political party" said
while being Intercepted. II
have switched from one to another, as
my inclination to some local leader
led me. Always 1 have been an indie
pendent in politics."
States Attorney label said there
existed no grounds for reports that
was or had been a Socialist.
The man was uniformed on So
3ialism, as 1 have ascertained in my
examination of him. said the public
prosecutor. Il am afraid that because
his shooting happened in Milwaukee,
instead of Chicago or any other one
)f dozen cities, many persons will
Jump to the conclusion that it was the
1utgrowth or indirect result of the So
;ialistic propaganda. Nothing could