Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-15
Harlan and Bede Called Off From
Their Campaign of Attack.
UPROAR IN THE COLISEUM
Scenes of Excitement When the
News of the Attempted As
sassination Was Received
in Chicago.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.


Violent reaction in favor of Col
Roosevelt, resultant from SYM
pathy for him and indignation
over the attempt to assassinate
him, is already apparent.
Politicians in both democratic
and republican camps admit thai
the incident will make thousand:
of votes for him. Going wit!
this sentiment is resentment
against those who have attacked
the colonel.
Unquestionably, if he is able te
take the stump again before cleo
ton day-as he most assuredly
will if his physical condition per
mits-he will not be the target
for continued verbal assault. All
engagements for Harlan and Bede
have been cancelled, of course,
and these two spe1lbinders will
not be heard from again this cam
paign, unless to discuss policies
and not persons.
Wave Of Horror Sweeps City.
A wave Of horror swept over Chicago
when the news flashed with almost the
rapidity of a lightning stroke through the
city that the colonel had been shot. Peo-
pie poured from theaters and hotels and
other places to seize eagerly upon the ex-
ira newspapers and crowd about the bull
letin boards.
Political differences We're lost sight OF
in face Of the fact that once more the
hand of the assassin had been laid upon
a public man. People discussed 1t in the
light Of an assault not upon Theodore
Roosevelt the citizen and candidate, but
upon Theodore Roosevelt the former Pres
ident, and beloved by section Of the
American people.
Today the excitement continues, and
great crowds throng around the bulletin
boards, awaiting announcement of the re-
suit of the physicians examination OF the
wound. Only one topic of conversation
is heard wherever a group of men gather.
and that Is the tragic event and it's prob
able bearing upon the campaign.
AS stated. the burden of opinion is that
the emotional American people will un-
dergo a revulsion of feeling In his favor
and that many a man at present unde-
termined in mind as to how he Will vote
will be swayed by sympathy to vote for
Roosevelt.
discussion today is what occurred at
the Harlan and Bede meeting last night.
when the two Roosevelt ''trailers" criti-
cised Col Roosevelt. Six thousand per-
sons in the Coliseum were yelling them
selves hoarse with glee last night over
the whitening invective of John Maynard
Harlan which he poured on the head OF
Theodore Roosevelt.
I'VE shall find Taft the escape from
Roosevelt, the migrate and traitor. Har-
Ian declared in his ringing, stentOrian
tones.
Effort to Stop Harlan.
A pale-faced man, evidently under
great stress Of emotion. walked up the
aisle and shouted question at Harlan.
In the hubbub Of applause that followed
Harlan's words migrate and traitor
the man could not be plainly heard
There were loud cries Of put him out, ~
for 1t was not the first interruption OF
the evening and Harlan had already
shown that he was not at home with
questioners.
For ten minutes the storm ragged about
the pale-faced man, who held his ground
and tried to get him to sit down or leave
the building.
The man would not move and would no,
sit down. The storm rose higher and
III 1t
1t was Senator Walter Clyde Jones, the
rampant progressive.
The fact was whispered to Harlan
who managed at last to get hearing
and said:
1.-The man who wants to ask n ques-
ton is Walter Clyde Jones. who was de-
feated for the republican nomination at
primary at which he was a candidate
He then sought the bull moose nominal
ton and was defeated by the bull
tude and longitude politically may be-"
Harlan Told of the Shooting.
In the meantime. Senator Jones wrote
on a piece Of paper this Question:
did YOU know when you called Roose.
welt traitor and applied other epithets tt
him that he had been shot in Milwaukee
by a man who had been melted to his
deed by just such incend.ary speeches as
the one you are delivering?"
The note was carried to the platform
by a newspaper man who had gone to
Jones to ask him what question he was
anxious to put to the speaker
The news that Roosevelt had been sho,
spread like wildfire through the audience
and caused an uproar. Something had -tC
be done to still the tumult and hold the
audience.
Then Bede came forward and said
Roosevelt has been shot at by "a socialis,
In milwaukee,. He has not been hit. /,
is nothing
Then he went on and turned strained
drawn faces into smiles by an illusion to
the women moosers as "heifergettes
The eXcOriation of Roosevelt went on
Theodore is no ordinary liar. He is
a congenital liar He was born that
way. it is not a habit-it is a gift"
TRADE Stopped by the Extras.
Ridicule, abuse, contemptuous deri-
sion were heaped upon the head OF the
bull moose candidate, and the crowd