The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-18
Issues Statement Challenge
ing Woodrow Wilson t0s
Continue Speechm a k in nj
Regardless of Injury III
Himself-Answers Bryan
MRS. ROOSEVELT
KEEPS HIM QUIET'
Bull Moose Is Allowed to See
None in Hospital But Mem
bers of Family and Most
Intimate Friends-Nisitor9
Are Refused Audience
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE.

BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE.
CHICAGO, Oct. i7.-Confident tha4N
he is past all danger Theodore Rooses
welt today plunged actively into th&k2
political campaign once more wtf1
declaration that Bryans statemax
at Franklin. Ind, that the act OF a55
assassin should not determine the f&a
sues of the campaign was s.rnaul
and proper. and challenged WoedrOTK
wilson to resume the stump
shortly after this statement was teSSs
sued. Henry Cochems called on 49,
colonel at the hospital. III
In the evening, Cochems. basfs1fe8
MS remarks on second speech r. q
Bfyan's at Indianapolis, called the Ne
oFaskan an oratorical gravedigger. 49,
SAID that 1t Is absolutely ghoulish fSGW
say that Colonel Roosevelt's supporf%9
ers are using his body IA a shield.
cochems insisted that the colouaYa
was not only ignorant of the con.
tents OF the second statement. BIZ 4
OF the fact that Bryan had mazda isSS
second speech as we'll. 7SH
The second statement is practices 49,
retraction Of all the kind THIN
bryan said about the colonel Whsm 1
informed that this was the case Co.
cnems said that the colonel ws1y
asleep at his hospital and could r.xlfg
under any circumstances be reached. 81
II will take tho responsibility f6lsA
this announcement" he said, n an Il
one must take it, S
The coloners statement ia a. x~r.8s
lows 's
Agrees With Bryan. n
Il wish to express my cordial aerea.a
ment with the manly and proper state \
ment or Mr.. Bryan, at Franklin. Ind.
When urging for continuance or fl1GSS
discussion of the issues at stake frsS
| TINS contest he said. The issues ~
this campaign should not be detees
mined by the act of an assasafla u
Neither Colonel Roosevelt nor hi33]
friends could ask that the discussIon8
should be turned away from the prinMS8
ciples that are involved. II he is eIectx&
ed president 1t should be because e. n
what he has done In the past an1~
what he proposes to do hereafter.s
Il wish to point out. however, thSf9
| neither I nor my friends have aslfSf I
that the discussion be turned aWndSS
from the principles that are inyofvol
| On the contrary. we emphatically d.
mand that the discussion be carried eG
precisely as IL / had not been shot AX&
shall be sorry IL Mr.. Wilson does n77 j.
keep On the stump. and feel that
owes 1t to himself and the AmeraC
people to continue on the stump. Nh
| Il wish to make enc more comMQ
on MIR. Bryan's statement. 1t H.
course, practically true. that In vot15
| for or against me. consideration Mtf
| be paid to what / have done In
past. and to what l propose to- ~
But 1t seems to me far more iniportal
| that consideration should be paid r.
| what the Progressive party propO4
| to do.
Il cannot too strongly emphaaa
the fact that while Progressiyes I'll
| sist that welfare of any one man
| this tight Is wholly immateriaI. co6
pared TO the great and fundameMN
issues involved In the triumph OF tn
principles for which our cause stau1
| II / had been killed the fight w0&1X
have gone on exactly the same. GoNS
ernor johnson. Senator BoreridgH.
Straus, Senator Bristow. Miss IT.
| Adams, Clifford Pfnchot. Judge III
Lindsay, Raymond Robbins, Mr.. Pre-
dergast. and the hundreds OF OH
men now on the stump are preachfM
the doctrines that have been preeo
| ing and stand for and represent III
the same cause. They would h1
continued the fight in exactly tn
same way IL / had been killed. as
they are continuing It In just the saz
way now that l am for the mom1
laid UP. ssS
$50 far as my opponents are G1
cerned, whatever could with truth ~
lpropriety have been said against
and my cause before l was shot, r.
with equal truth and equal pr0px1
In said against me. and 1t now nh
! be so said: and the things that GU
not be said now are merely the TIM
/ that ought not to have been said
i fore This Is not contest about IN
man: 1t Is a contest concerning -
ciples.
| III my broken rib heals
enough to relieve breathing. i sM
| hope to be able to make one o.
speeches In the campaign: IN
event, II I am not able to make q
| the men have mentioned above
| the hundreds like them. would
out case right to the end OF the c
paign. and trust our opponents
be stating their case also.
(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEW
| Here 10 the Cochems' statemen1<
! Colonel Bryans second intetx
referring to the disability Of GU
Roosevelt, delivered at IndianaY
.ass night. .is or "a dInarent u
than the one issued at FrAnklius
(which induced Abatement fpou
| mel Roosevelt expressing apnre4
| Of the sentiments Mr.. Bryan I'M
dressed. and replying to the t1~
| tons contained in that stateM41
Coud0neS Newspaper AnsMx
The indianapolis intervieMN
I, .candonatsnn Of the vi0lant Il
which the newspapers hxve ~
Goionej Roosevelt, and se3ke t<l
-. ~ III; :. - :, ~ S&4Aink