New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-18
DECLARES
FIGHT MUST CONTINUE
Not a Contest About Any Man,
He Insists, but One Concern
ing Principles Alone.
AGREES WITH BRYAN VIEW
Endorses Nebraskan's State.
ment That Issues Of Campaign
Should Not Be Determined
by Assassin's Act.

Chicago. Oct. 17-Campaign activities
should not cease because Of Colonel
Roosevelts attempted assassination. so
far as he was concerned, the colonel said
tonight
The following statement was Issued By
Colonel Roosevelt at Mercy Hospital In
answer to what Mr.. Bryan said In MS
speech at Franklin. Ind:
wish to express my cordial agreement
with the manly and proper statement Of
Mr.. Bryan at Franklin, Ind. when, In
arguing for continuance OF the Discus
sion OF the Issues at stake In the con-
test, ne said:
THE issues OF this campaign should not
DO determined by the act Of al assassin.
Neither Colonel Roosevelt nor his friends
could ask that the discussion should be
turned away from the principles involved.
II he Is elected President. It should DO
because Of what he has done in the past
and what he proposes to do hereafter"
Discussion Must Go On.
1 wish TO point out, however, that
neither | nor my friends have asked that
the discussion be turned away from the
principles involved. on the contrary, we
alphabetically demand that the discussion
be carried on, precisely as IL 1 NAG nor
been shot. 1 shall be sorry II Mr.. Wilson
does not keep on the stump, and reel
that he owes K to himself and the Arnen-
can people TO continue on the stump.
i wish to make one more comment ON
Mr.. BTyans statement. IL Is, or course
perfectly true that in voting for me or
against me consideration must be PAID TO
what have done IN the past and TO what
| propose 10 do, but II seems 10 me fsr
more important that consideration shouid
be paid to what the Progressive party
proposes 10 DO, -
I cannot too strongly emphasize the
fact, upon which we Progressives insist,
that the welfare Of any one man In TINS
fight wholly is immaterial compared 10
tho great and fundamental issues IN
VOWED In the triumph OF the principles tor
which our cause STANDS,
II had been killed the fight would
have gone on exactly the same. Governor
Johnson, Senator Beveridge, Mr.. Straus'
Senator Brstow, Miss Jane Adams, lilt-
ford Pinchot, Judge Ben Lindsey. Kay
mond Robbins, Mr. Prendergast aho tne
hundreds Of other men now on the stump
are preaching the doctrines that nave
been preaching and stand for and repre-
sent just the. same cause, They wouia
same way II had been killed, and they
are continuing IN just the same way, now
that | am for the moment laid up
SO far as my opponents are concerned,
whatever could with truth and proprtety
have been said against me and my cause
before I wGs shot can with equal truth |
and equal propriety be said against me |
now, and II should be so said; and the |
things that cannot be said now are mere !
~ the things that ought not TO have been |
said before. This r. not a contest about |
any man; It is a contest concerning prin- |
ciPles
relieve my breathing | shall hope 10 be |
able % make one or two speeches yet In |
this campaign. In any event X am not |
able 20 make them, the men ! have men |
toned above and the hund reds like them |
will be stating our cause right 10 the end |
OF the campaign. and I trust our OPP |
ponents will be. stating their cause also
La salle. III, Oct. IT-Governor Thomas
r. Marshall OF Indiana. Democratic Vice
Presidential nominee, declared this after !
noon before a large audience here that |
Colonel Roosevelt's attempted assassins-
tion should not be permitted TO affect the |
results OF the national election He said |
The deplorable affair would bid US keep |
silent II this camp gu were being wased
the people would give the Office OF Presi- |
dent. Such, however is not the purpose
OF the campaign. IL involves, In the iudg-
ment OF the Democrats, more than mere
oniceholding. IL lays hold OF the only
principle Of self-goyernment
The Progressive has not much faith In
the JuEtlCe Of his cause who assumes that
II is either proved or dtsproysd w a mad
y "a
right before the shot was fired II Is now
light II Il were wrong before tho shot
was fred Il Is now wrong. Tho Democrat
believes Il 10 be wrong.
Governor Marshall closed his reference
10 Colonel Roosevelt by asserting that
such tragedies could be :neasuraoly Ie-
duced by getting away from the idea that
men are the Issues in the Republic and by
remembering that principles ars the real
issues.
Responsibility should be placed on
political party and not on man." he
added