Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-10-15
u Do Not Care a Rap About
Being Shot Not a Rap Is
Spectacular Way In Which
He Begins Address,
SHOWS BLOOD STAINED
SHIRT TO AUDITORS
BIameS Newspapers Which
Have Heaped Abuse Upon.
HIM During Past Few,
Months, for Assault

lhN Morning journal special Leased Wire
Milwaukee, OCT. H. colonr
ltooseNr! amazed his physician. mem.
htrs OF his party aud his auditors l.,
the remarkable display of merry,
shown when hc refused 10 rcfraif
IRON delivering his scheduled ad.
dtess. After having been introduced
nN Alr CVchcms, who broke the start.
hng news To the audience Of the al
tempted assassination. Colonel Eonse-
Nell walked to the front Of the pat-
form aud said
do not care a rap about being
Friends. he continued. II shall
have TO ask on to hc as quiet as pos
lsil lo. ! do not know whether yo,l
/ luliN understand that | have Just been
! shot' tut it takes more than that 10
Kill bun moose.
but fortunately | had my manu-
script tholding up manuscript, show
iilE audience where bullet had gonf
'hruuRh) SO Nou see | Was going 10
make a long speech Ana friends
The hole Is IN it that the bullet Went
through, and IL probably saved ii from
gong INTO my heart The builct is In
me now, 50 that | cannot make a long
speech. iiut | Will tly my hust
and now, friends, | want to take
advantage of this incident to say rs
solemn a word OF warning, as | know
how, to my fellow Americans. First Of
~ ! want 10 say this about myself
hilNc altogether too many important
things to think Of to pay any heed a,
ie'l any concern over my own death
Now ! would not speak to YOU insin- |
cerclN within five minutes of hrine |
shot | am telling YOU the literal truth
when say that my concern is for.
many other things Il IL not in the
least for my own lie
want YOU to understand that | /
I'm hhrad Of the game anyway. Noi
nam has had a happier hfe than | +
have had, u happier life in every way /
! nave hctn able to do certain things
mat arontlN wished to do ana | am
interested in doing other things / +
'Hh toll YOU with absolute truthful-
mess mat ! am very much nuinlcfested
~ whether ! am shot or not
always zen thai private was to
''t excused fut feeling 1T times some
l"hss ~ anxiety about His Personal
safety, iMt cannot understand a man
fii to hc cplonc who can pay any
heed to his personal safety when he
IS occupied rs he ought to be uccu.
med with the absorbing desire to do
ais duty
! ain in This cause With my whole
ieafl and sonl I believe in lhr pro-
sresf'No movement "a movement for
p" oii"fmcni Of mankind. the move
li'hl lNr nakins life Il little easier 1
ef iill NNr people. a movement to r-vt
'ah, the urdcns off thc.m .man .lAa ,
~ 'einilS the woman in this countre.
no Is mos oppressed am absorb
d III the sncrrss of that movement. /
eel linc0wmonN proud Ia belonging :
@ that mutemeni
Friends. ask you NOW TINS even I
ng to accept what | aln saying as nb-
oiutc truth when / tell Yod am not /
linking oi inA own Success ann not =
lilnsins pf my lifc or Of anything d
onneri"d with me personally ault
uNlng this lN WaN nf Introduction +
'causr want 10 say something very ~
'r'ous To our people and especially q
. the newspapers.
Il don't know VINO the man was d
hp shot me tonight Hc wus seized II
y one "t my stpnugrtphers. Alr Mar
u. ana suppnsc is I'm the hands uf *
ne police now. lie shot to kin mo. Il
lst going 10 show Nnn tCnlnu.I II
.ooscNell then unhul,oned his coat
nd vest and showed his white shirt II
adiA stained with blood Mou u
lends. I am gniug to he ne uiiet a i.
rssihlc lf am not able to en.c the
laiirn-r of the lnlll moost quite as +.
'udlN N"v / do net know who hc "a
aS or what parry hu represented fici
as % COW tie rtoud ia The dark /.
rs ia IN" eroWd around lhc auto- 81
"ial" aud wh'n th'A cheetcj me
ld got zap ln u'N. ht stepprd for n
ara and shot ufr in thc lnea~t IS,
"a Is Ncr, natural thng that p'
''ak ana vicious minds shouid bee ~ @