e expressed it, "like a bull moose." In
the afternoon he overcame Mrs. Roosevelt's objections to work long
enough to send for Stenographer Martin and dictate the statement that
put him back into politics.

Then he answered dispatches from President Taft, Cardinal Gibbons, and
several other of those who had sent messages of sympathy.

He carefully reread the dispatch from President Taft and dictated this
reply:

"I appreciate your sympathetic inquiry and wish to thank you for
it."

"Sign that Theodore Roosevelt," he said to Martin.

To Cardinal Gibbons he sent this:

"I am deeply touched by your kind words."

To Woodrow Wilson: "I wish to thank you for your very warm sympathy."

His statement dictated to Stenographer Martin asking the campaign to
continue despite Schrank's shot was as follows:

"I wish to express my cordial agreement with the manly and proper
statement of Mr. Bryan at Franklin, Ind., when in arguing for a
continuance of the discussion of the issues at stake in the contest
he said:

"'The issues of this campaign should not be determined by the act
of an assassin. Neither Col. Roosevelt nor his friends should ask
that the discussion should be turned away from the principles that
are involved. If he is elected President it should be because of
what he has done in the past and what he proposes to do hereafter.'

"I wish to point out, however, that neither I nor my friends have
asked that the discussion be turned away from the principles that
are involved. On the contrary, we emphatically demand that the
discussion be carried on precisely as if I had not been shot. I
shall be sorry if Mr. Wilson does not keep on the stump and feel
that he owes it to himself and to the American people to continue
on the stump.

"I wish to make one more comment on Mr. Bryan's statement. It is of
course perfectly true that in voting for me or against me,
consideration must be paid to what I have done in the past and to
what I propose to do. But it seems to me far more important that
consideration should be paid to what the progressive party proposes
to do.

"I cannot too strongly emphasize the fact upon which we
progressives insist that the welfare of any one man in this fight
is wholly immaterial compared to the greatest fundamental issues
involved in the triumph of the principles for which our ca