ROOSEVELT.
Tbo attempt to assassinate Colonel Roosevelt was a sorry failure, succeeding merely in giving him a most valuable advertisement. Here is a publicist who always has depended on loud generalities and theatrical display, and just when his fortunes seem to run to their lowest ebb he is fired at and wounded, enabled to stand and make a speech with a bullet in his chest. I am not for a moment denying that a man needs grit and fortitude to make a political speech just after he has been -shot. Colonel Roosevelt never has lacked doggedness and courage; he is merely devoid of discretion and a proper sense of values.
Still, everybody must bo delighted at tho Colonel's ko speedy and comnJete recovery. Ho is one of the world's most potted naughty boys, tho enfant terrible of international affairs. If ill befell him, everything would seem strangely quiet for awhile.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 28 October 1912, Page 3
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