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Show v "WHAT A SCENE! WHAT A MAN!" The more one contemplates that wonderful scene in Milwaukee the night Roosevelt was shot, the stronger grows the impression of Roosevelt's greatness. Roosevelt did not know whether the wound he had received was fatal, but he was so intent on delivering another message to the American people that he stood for nearly an hour setting set-ting forth his convictions as the blood flowed, drenching his garments. NTo man not intensely earnest and deeply devoted to a cause could have commanded the will power to have done what Roosevelt did. Writers in all parts of the world have commented on the fortitude forti-tude and heroic courage of the man, Frederick W Heathbv, of the London Daily Mail, speaking of "The Amazing Mr. Roosevelt," says: "Mr. Roosevelt not only becomes the uncrowned king of America, Amer-ica, but the most remarkable man in the world. He is the onlv politician whose word is less than his deeds. He is the only man of his kind who would have stood before a frenzied audience and shown them his blood-stained shirt. That act is unexampled for sheer audacity and daring outside the realms of imaginative drama. "-That act which those who do not understand may dismiss as sheer bravado will not only win him the Presidency, but will win for him for all time a place among the real heroes of his land. "What a scene! What a man! Truly in this amazing leader America has no equal in any country in the world. He can do nothing noth-ing more except make a merry pact with death, but if there is sentiment senti-ment in America, which we know there is, if there is any sense of the dramatic, tin's attempted assassination of Mr. Roosevelt and his almost al-most unbelievable act of courage are blessings in disguise, for out of BHMMBMMIHHBWiHMHHBIg'-u-i i '.''' "- Mf'' 1 1 1 ,AMWW i -H " ' rt them surely nui3t come one and only one result the return, the triumphal return, of Roosevelt to the White House." And to think that the Republican National Committee sent that despicable Harlan and that vulgar Bede on the traiL of Roosovelt to brand that noble man as a coward and a drunkard. Looking back, we gain a near view of the rascality and low methods of the Stand-pat Stand-pat Republican loaders. They did not have the physical courage to pull a gun and shoot, but they did attempt to assassinate the character of Theodore Roosevelt. |