to that the
constitution of the United States specifically provides the conditions
under which a state official may be removed, and it does not include
this particular condition. There is no reason why Gov. Johnson cannot
remain outside the state as long as he sees fit and there is nothing
the legislature can do to remove him for remaining away more than sixty
days."

CHAPTER VII.

BACK AT SAGAMORE HILL.

The trip of ex-President Roosevelt from Mercy Hospital, Chicago, to his
home at Oyster Bay, beginning the morning of October 21 over the
Pennsylvania road is described here by one of the correspondents who
traveled with him. Under date of October 21, he wrote at Pittsburg,
Pa.:

"On a mellow autumn day whose warmth seemed to breathe a tender
sympathy, Col. Roosevelt traveled from Chicago today on his way to
Oyster Bay on the most extraordinary trip ever undertaken by a
candidate for the presidency.

"Unable because of sheer weakness to show himself on the platform of
his private car, the stricken Bull Moose leader, with blinds drawn in
his stateroom, listened with throbbing heart to the soft murmuring of
eager throngs as they clustered at the stations along the way. As the
train rolled into Pittsburg tonight the colonel, shaken up by the
jostling of the train, meekly confessed to Dr. Alexander Lambert, his
New York physician, who with Dr. Scurry Terrell, are making the trip
with him, that he was 'tired out.'

"'I'm going to put in a sound night of sleep,' he sighed, 'I'll be all
right again in the morning.'

"The bullet nestling in the colonel's chest and the splintered rib gave
him more discomfort than the wounded leader had counted on. As the
train jolted at times the ex-President experienced piercing pain. But
he bore it without a whimper.

"When night came the physicians agreed that although the tumbling of
the train had caused the colonel more worry than he would admit, he
would suffer no ill effects.

"The ex-President's leisurely jaunt through Ohio, for he is running
upon a twenty-four hour train, was in truth an occasion of tragic
quiet. The waiting throngs which half anticipated that they would see
the plucky third party fighter walk out onto platform of his car, stood
in a respectful attitude as they learned that the colonel was unable to
see them.

"Almost the whole day the ex-President lay on a soft bed in his state
room, reading, or when that grew irksome, dropping into restful
slum