The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-10-31
VOTERS ARE ASKED
TO REBUKE TRA|LERS
PTOgTessIyes Say Minnesota Has
a Duly to Perform ROOse-
veIt's Last Speech.


tention to the extraordinary presiden
tial situation and urges the supporters
of Colonel Roosevelt to redouble theii
activities in his behalf. The address
was occasioned by the attempt upon
Roosevelt's life in Milwaukee last
week and Minnesota voters are urged
TO give the Progressive candidate 8
convincing majority in reputation OF
the assaults, verbal and physical, tina
have been made upon him. The ad
dress follows:
Minnesota has duty to perform
q duty to herself.
Theodore Roosevelt is out of the &C
tive fight, the victim of an assassin's
bullet, but still alive and sanguine OF
the triumph of the right The sue
cess of Progressive principles is now
up to you.
John Schrank trailed Colonel Roose
--elt through many states, intent upon
laurder Schrank's demented mino
was Influenced by such men as ]
Adam Bede, whom Minnesota has at
tempted to honor. Schrank traileL
Colonel Roosevelt with a revolver
Bede, for pay from the Republican
party, trailed Roosevelt with epithet.
calculated to find lodgment in weak
minds. Bede furnished the motive;
Schrank committed the overt act
Bede, speaking in Chicago the night
OF the assault, was interrupted by
men who sought to notify him of the
shooting. The men were threatened
with arrest, and the verbal assault.
upon Colonel Roosevelt continued. AZ
at former meetings during Bede's
trailing" campaign, bully" black
guard" traitor" pestilence" and
''scourge" were the terms used in re
ferring to Roosevelt The assault
upon Roos evelt's character was
vicious as Schrank's assault upon his
person.
Three ''trailers" pursued Colonel
Roosevelt-Bede, John M. Harlan OF
Illinois and Schrank. Schrank wound
ed his victim The voters will say
whether Bede and Harlan hit~theil
mark. Minnesota is especially inter.
ested because Bede is charged agains.
this state.
While Bede and Harlan were max
ing their assault in Chicago, Colone
Roosevelt, despite his wound, was
making his appeal to a Milwaukee An.
dience.
81 do not care a rap about being
0hnt-nnt coia
welt, with the bullet buried three
inches in his breast.
A man of intelligence, Colone
Roosevelt probably did not fail to re-
call the bullets that killed Lincoln,
Garfield and Mckinley. He knew he
might be making his last public ad.
dress. If a man is sincere in the
face of death, Roosevelt was sincere
before that Milwaukee audience. ! e
was having his last word, with the
courage to utter it.
"The bullet is in me now, so that
cannot make long speech, but will
do my best" he said "And now,
friends, want to take advantage of
this incident to say as solemn a word
Of warning as / know how to my fell
low Americans.
First of all, want to say this
about myself have altogether too
many important things to think of to
pay any heed or feel any concern over
my own death.
Il would not speak insincerely with
In five minutes of being shot. am
telling you the literal truth when /
say that my concern is for many
other things. 1t is not in the least
for my own life.
Il am in this cause with my whole
heart and soul. l believe in the Pro-
gressive movements movement for
the betterment of mankind, a move
ment for making life a little easier
for all people. movement to try to
take the burdens of the man, and
especially the woman, in this country
who is oppressed.
Friends, ask you this evening to
accept what / am saying as absolute
truth when l tell you am not think
ing of my own success. / am not
thinking of my own life, nor of any,
thing assoc ated with me personally.
ut is very natural thing that
weak and vicious minds should be
Influenced to ACTS of violence by the
kind of foul mendacity and abuse that
have been heaped on me for the last
three months. Friends, / will disown
End repudiate any man of my own
party who attacks with such vile, foul
SANDER and abuses any opponent Of
any other party.
Il am not speaking for myself at
all, / give you my word. / do not
care rap about being shot-not a
rap. l have had good many expert
ences in my time, and this is only
Dne of them"
Colonel Rooseyelt's second comics
sion of faith" was typical of the man
and of the fighting spirit behind the
Progressive cause. Neither bullets
nor epithets can stop the fight for the
rfght-a fight in behalf of the average
man.
Shall ]. Adam Bede's assaults 60
unrebuked y Minnesota voters? Does
Minnesota approve villification and
abuse of Colonel Roosevelt or any