The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-15
DIXON HEARS NEWS
AND LEADERS GATHER
Manhattan Hotel Headquarters
ThrOngcd When Word of
Shooting Comes.
NEWS FROM O. X. DAVIS
Campaign Manager Blamcs In
citcrs Of Hatred Against.
Candidate.
NEWS FROM o. X. DAVIS

twelfth floor Of the Hotel Mania ttan
within fs'e minutes of the shooting It
came as a flash" over the special Progress
sive wire from the Chicago Tribune.
The first news was that Col. Roosevelt
had been shot and was reported to have
been killed. The telegraph operator who
got 1t left his instrument. poured the mes
sage into the ear of ;. bellboy and said
Go tell Senator Dixon and Mr.. Perkins
quick"
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon. the campaign
manager and chairman of the Progressive
party. was in the executive room of head
quarters with George w Perkins, chairman
of the national executive committee.
The bellboy entered without knocking
and delivered his message.
The Senator and MIR Perkins both
jumped up from the table and hurried
down the hall to the telegraph operator.
The news was just coming in that Col.
Roosevelt was not killed, but that the
bullet had made flesh wound and that
the Colonel was then on his way 10 de-
liver his scheduled speech.
In a few minutes other Progressive
leaders began assembling at the Man
haitian. State Chairman William H.
Hotcfkiss. who had got his information
from a newspaper, came first. Then
appeared Timothy l.. Woodruff. the Kings
county chairman. Mr.. Woodruff was in
the middle OF a speech At Camp Roose-
| welt. the Progressive rendezvous in Har-
lem. and was being heckled by Repub-
lican candidate for Congress when a
messenger pulled him aside and told him
, that Col. Roosevelt had been shot. Mr.
Woodruff shouted to his audience that he
guessed the Colonel wasn't hurt. and then
he rushed to the Manhattan in an auto
mobile.
A little later Frank A. Munsey appeared.
He was in>evening dress and came straight
from a theatre, q. A. Priestly. ma tional
committeeman from Oklahoma was also
in the little group that gathered in the
reception room.
Pretty soon Medill Mccormick got on
the Chicago end Of the wire. He had
arranged telephone communication with
the hall in Milwaukee and sent reassurin G
bulletins every few minutes. Then came
this despatch from Oscar King Davis,
secretary Of the Progressive party, who
is travelling with Col. Roosevelt;
| ArpIronIrM. MILWAUKEE. Oct II.
Georgia W. Perkins. Manhattan Hotci. Nc,-
| As Col. Roosevelt left the hotel to start
to the hall and was about to enter his auto
a man sprang forward and shot him in the
right side Albert Martin. stcnographer
OF our party. throttled the man before he
could fire the second time The Colonel
is not seriously hurt.
He stood in the auto and directed the
policemen in the arrest of the assassin.
whose name We have not learned The
Colonel insisted on coming to the hall and
going through at least part of his speech
at the hall,
DIR. Terril with Or. Hatton of Milwaukee
with two or three other surgeons examined
the hurt. They found that the bullet had
entered just under the right nipple. The
wound is bleeding somewhat The Colonel
is suffering no pain; there is obviously
no internal hemorrhaGe there. He fel,
no tendency to- cough even upon taking
| the fullest breath. The surgeons all agreed
that n was all right for him to 20 ahead.
The Auditorium was crowded Harry
Cochems introduced the Colonel and an
nounced to the crowd what had happened
When the Colonel arose to speak there was
a tremendous ovation. Tie drew his manu-
script from his coat pocket. It was then
seen that the bullet had gone directly
through II, This fact probably saved his
life. lie pointed out the bullet hole to the
crowd and said
| "SOu see IT, takes more than that ia
kill Bull Moose
He is now speaking. Re assured II Is
not a serious wound. Give all assurances
to Mrs. Roosevelt. IRmcdiately after
the speech the wound will he thoroughly
examined and the bullet probably cN-
tracted. q. Il. DAVIS
As soon as Senator Dixon was positive
that Col Roosevelt's hurt was not serious
he dictated this statement:
| The cruel. untruthfui, half frenzied at
tacks upon ex-President Roosevelt have
at last eliminated in attempted assassina-
tion, For months past the enemies of
ICol Roosevelt, in public utterance and pri-
vate speech. have combined to assa assina ia
the public and private character of the
greatest living American. Their violent
| Incorporate assaults upon him are directly
responsible for the murderous attack upon
him Tonight in Milwaukee
| Eleven years ago the weak brain of Czol-
i gOsz was stirred TO murderous intent by
the brutal newspaper assaults upon Presi-
dent Mckinley. In their blind fury Ia
destroy Roosevelt hi, enemies have re-
sorted to every vile and cunning trick ia
influence the people against their great
champion. The poor devil who fired the
revolver tonight In Milwaukee in not hall
80 guilty as are the men who for months
past have exhausted all the brutal adjec-
tives in the English language to destroy
the one man who above all others the
beneficiaries of special privilege in America
have learned to hate and fear.
In his great fight to restore real repre-
sentative government in the United States
and to uplift the masses of the common
people he has incurred the blind, bitter
hatred OF the privileged class. The crime
which these men have already committed
Is In no way palliated by the failure of the
assassin + aim tonight.
Roosevelt still lives to carry on the great
| fight in which he IL now engaged.
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