The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-31

Nov ember 5. Meanwhile, whatever
differences of opinion the editors re-
veal on this point, they all agree that
the nation is the richer for the he
role and appealing picture of the ex-
President etched upon it's memory
by the sudden fash of an assassin's
pistol. His unfiinching nerve under
the impact of a large caliber bullet
fred pointblank into his breast
from a distance of half a dozen feet,
his humanity in protecting his
would-be murderer from the VEN
geance of the crowd, and the superb
courage and will which enabled him
to stand and address an audience
for an hour and a half with the bull
let still in his body and his wound
Observation-Disclosures have won the re-
spouse of instant and unreserved ad-
miration from friend and foe alike.
Viewed from across the Atlantic, it
seems to the London papers that the
staggering drama of the incident
and the wave of sympathy which
swept the country in response can
not fail to affect the result at the
polls. "All previous estimates and
calculations are upset, thinks the
London Times, while The Daily Mail
declares that the way he met this
emergency will win him not only the
Presidency, but a place among the
nations heroes. CAS- display of
cool, stoical courage remarks The
Standard, "the performance of Cox
onel Roosevelt is not unworthy to
rank with any incident in the lore
of ancient Sparta or the Samurai Of
Japan" His amazing and charac-
teristic coolness" under the attack,
says The Pail Mall Gazette, must
touch every instinct which responds
to chivalry and self-control" 1t
adds: 1.-The picture of a stateman
insisting on finishing his address
with a bullet freshly embedded in
his breast is almost too staggeringly
dramatic for our British ideas to
comprehend"
Among the estimates by our own
papers Of the number of votes
affected by Colonel Roosevelt's al
most miraculous escape we find lit
tie agreement. While some Progress
sives predict that it will swing a mil
lion votes and elect their candidate,
others think it will not change the
intentions of more than 100000
voters, while still other students of
the situation say that practically all
who would be swayed by sentiment
are ProgressiYes already, and that
the result will be whatever it would
have been if the assassin had never
pulled the trigger. The Springfield
Republican, a Wilson paper, admits
that what has so suddenly occurred
may have political effects which it
would now be idle to forecast" The
Brooklyn Citizen (Dem.) thinks it
undeniable that "the flash of the
pistol aimed at his breast was more
likely to make converts to the third
party movement than any speech it
was in the power of Colonel Roose
welt to deliver" and in a Washing
ton dispatch to the New York Globe,
a Roosevelt paper, we read:
"All political calculations have
been thrown high into the air as the
result of the wounding of Theodore
Roosevelt. That the effect of the
shooting OF" Colonel Roosevelt is 60
ing to be to increase his vote enor-
mously is admitted by politicians
generally. The friends of the Colo
mel are predicting it will result in his
election. His enemies are not deny
ing that it has given an impetus to
his cause the strength of which they
can not fathom.
mot merely is it the talk in
Washington, but all over the coun-
trV From Chicago the word comes