El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-10-15
MORE DETAILED STATEMENTS ABOUT
ILLNESS WOULD HELP

THE Illness Of president Wilson has been attended By
alarming rumors about his areal oonditions-rumors
zuuch variance from the placid bulletins which have
been issued By The attending pysiciansat the white
house These bustns have described the presidents
dton unchanged or have said that he passed restul
night showed slight improvement
The rumors vary. They range from brain lesion 10
pHsumoua made worse BY nervous prosraton, and some
include mid form OF insanity. Washington is fun Of
such ruFors. They Numerous and extravagant
thar up TO within the last couple Of days Dr. Grayson and
his associates did rot think Il worth while to deny any
Of them And that hes nads the rumor crop thrive.
Washington naturally IS full botA Of politics and sus-
s0n and the tendency give OF less credit to
alarming rumors Is the more marked because physicians
attending prominent ia the past have been suspected
OF colorrr their bulletins with uafouuded optimism in
order rot to alarm Therefore, any apparent vagueness
10 bulletin emanating from the white house IS seized
upon example Of professional camoufage designed
to cover up a dangerous condition
So persistent have been the Of president VIII
sons alleged mortal illness that bis physicians have fet
obliged take cOgnzanee Of two namely one ascrloed
to senator Moses OF New Hampshire who is alleged TO
have written constituent that the president had brain
lesion ana one from an unknown source that the president
was not mentally capable Of executive acts such as the
signing Of bills passed BY congress- That last had direct
bearing the peaca treaty now 2 the tnIoes q raliea
ne brain lesion story Is officially denied and the
same denial covers the report Of executive disability Dr.
rays0n has announced that the president would be a5
10 deal with any emergency which might arse to require
executive action he has insisted from the first that he
tc0 the people fully into his coudence when he stated
that the president had partial nervous collapse colp
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spring By indigestion Of long standing lnadyeztenty
the hand Of censorship revealed This is the first We
have heard CT the president haFsg fallen under the raF
agss Of influenza Pans dispatches at the time said Re
c1nined 10 his chambers in Hotel CrlloD Iot 1e"
days with bad cold.
while Dr. Graysou told the reporters in seeming frank
ness about the presidents condition when he was taken
sick while on his western tour, the bulletins issued since
tie return Of M Wilson TO the white house lave been
noncouital and unsatisfactory because they have not
dealt with details such the appearance OF disappear
suce Of SYMPTOMS The public you'd Ike to know whether
the presidents nervous rtchngs lave stopped Whetner
1fIuenza weakness has overcome or whether these
manifestations have been replaced By others Of more
serious o. minor nature so as TO give the preaoe1ts
illness new turn d. Graysons statement for October
s mentioned because It IS typical lhe presidents
condition IS about the same That allows q any con
-struction that the public wants to put upon IT,
rive PRESIDENTS while in office, have been sufficiently
IN TO alarm the public and warrant frequent pulelns gs
ing information to their CONDITION frsslasn. ma
Henri Harrison was stricken March 2e, is41 HIS
iIness was not publicly made known Until i've days later
Re died Or April q. 80. ~,
President zachary Taylor took ck July g, 1850 ihs
first news Of the fact was PUBLISHED N rev 4oik uy
M TIE president died the following day However, n me
% hours preceding DEATH bulletins had been issued about
T-ssi5snt Abraham Lincoln vas shot at $50 P ma
April r. 1855 He died at 7:2o a NJ the day toiloNs
sgph wires had been cut BY coniederates OF me as
sassn II vas not until II p April IS mat me ne~s
ot ont OF the capital that the president had been sot ana
tie public taken BY surprise With news OF me pss
dents death few hours later
President Garfield vas shot July 2, 1881. man Of
onderfuI physical stamina, he survived until September
9 1t was often said that the attending physcans kept
back the truth the worst symptoms Up 70 July =
their bulletins were Of highly optimistic nature How
ever these are sne said TO have been fully justified By
- PATENTS wonderful powers Of resistanee About the
LIST OF Tuv or hs first Of August the physicians publicly
abandoned hopa ard from that time the people were