MR ROOSEVELT.

Mataura Ensign, 29 November 1912, Page 5

MR ROOSEVELT.

"HEARD IN THE HOSPITAL.'' The shot at (Milwaukee on Monday, Sired by Mr Roosevelt's would-be assassin— a political fanatic has in a most dramatic manner stopped for the present the progress of the three-cor-nered fight for the Presidency (stated the New York correspondent of the 'Daily Mail,' writing on October US). The hubbub of three days ago, when the advocates of each candidate were everywhere shouting their partisan cries, has been succeeded by an impressive political silence, broken only by Mr Roosevelt's cheery sick-room laugu and fervent expressions by his admirers and antagonists of the hope thai the shot wound in the chest will hi without dangerous complications. Dr Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, after sending messages 01 profound sympathy to My Roose.cM and Mrs Roosevelt, has announced thai pending the complete recovery of fix-ex-President, he will make no nu>:< speeches with the exception of the ( he has promised to deliver to-nigh*. to-morrow, and the next day. In l!:< speeches he cannot cancel he will omit all references to Mr Roosevelt's Progressive Party. So far there is nothing to justify in the least the suspicion that John Sclirank, the man who shot Mr Hoosevelt, confided his intentions to a.ny third person. He is merely an unbalanced individual who has been reariin; and hearing of the "national disaster that, in the hyperbolic language of politicians, will inevitably follow the i l<••tion of a President for a third term <n four years.

Mr Roosevelt awoke this innrtiiii.L' iii the most chee-rful spirits. With a \oi--unic of Macaulay's "Assays" in hi;. hand, he had read until he fell :;s.!«--- ; « hist night, after tlio physicians, a;- .. precaution against lockjaw, had gi .•<■;: 'him a prophylactic, dose of an ami-te-tanic, serum. He slept lit fully unii! three o'clock in the morning:, when he fell into a profound slumber, which Listed until six o'clock. This morning's special editions of the newspapers announced in their niosr joyous type 2 "Air Rooseevlt can be heard this morning all over the hospital." After a sponge baih the patient ate a 'hearty breakfast, consisting of bacon, soft-boiled eggs, buttered toast, and tea, which he ordered "piping hot." Then came the doctors, who reported "temperature and pulse normal, and less irritation of pleura from the injured rib." and confirmed their verdict of last night that he is in a magnificent physical condition, owing to his regular oxereise and his' 'habitual abstinence from tobacco and liquor. As the time approached for the arrival of Mrs Roosevelt and his children the invalid displayed anxiety lest the room should be found untidy. "She is a good housekeeper, you know," ho said, "and might scold me if the room were not in the best order." Mrs Roosevelt entered alone, but after a few minutes the nurse beckoned to his daughters, Ethel and Alice (Mrs Longworth), and his son, Theodore, to enter the room. " 7,