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71 “What did you” Davis, Released for Publication, 149.
72 “He pinked me” Remey et al., The Attempted Assassination, 16.
73 Terrell had heard Davis, Released for Publication, 378; Philip Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912,” 55. TR later remembered saying, “I am ahead of the game and can afford to take the chances.” TR, Works, 6.xiii.
74 “No, Colonel” Davis, Released for Publication, 378; Leary, Talks with T.R., 30; Emlen Roosevelt, ed., Roosevelt v. Newett: A Transcript of the Testimony Taken and Depositions Read at Marquette, Michigan (privately printed, 1913), 71, cited hereafter as Roosevelt v. Newett.
75 “It’s all right” Davis, Released for Publication, 380. Afterward TR wrote KR, “As I did not cough blood, I was pretty sure that the wound was not a fatal one.” (19 Oct. 1912 [TRC].) The auditorium where TR spoke is now the Milwaukee Theater.
76 Cochems preceded him New York Press, 15 Oct. 1912; Stan Gores, “The Attempted Assassination of Teddy Roosevelt,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 53 (Summer 1970).
77 Roosevelt stepped forward O. K. Davis to George Perkins, 15 Oct. 1912 (AC); E. W. Leach (eyewitness) in Racine Journal, 13 Aug. 1921. A surviving photograph of the shirt still evokes an emotional reaction. See Lorant, Life and Times of TR, 573.
78 “I’m going to ask you” Chicago Tribune, 15 Oct. 1912.
79 Waiting for the noise Philip Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912,” 57; Davis, Released for Publication, 381.
80 His heart was racing TR, Letters, 7.705. A stenographic text of TR’s speech, varying considerably from the original script, is reproduced in Gable, The Man in the Arena, 102ff. It appears to have been much abridged before its first publication in Elmer H. Youngman’s Progressive Principles (New York, 1913), 102–14.
81 Roosevelt swung his head The image of the steel-gray stare is Philip Roosevelt’s. (“Politics of the Year 1912,” 58.) O. K. Davis was similarly rebuffed when he, too, tried to stop TR from going on. “He paused in his speech, and swung around on me with an expression on his face that can be described accurately only by the word ‘ferocity.’ ” Davis, Released for Publication, 383.
82 After about forty-five minutes Philip Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912,” 58; Leach in Racine Journal, 13 Aug. 1921; Crozier, “Incidents in the Political Life of Theodore Roosevelt”; Davis, Released for Publication, 385.
83 Incredibly, members Philip Roosevelt, “Politics of the Year 1912,” 58; New York Press, 15 Oct. 1912; Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 149–50.
84 Before being stripped TR, Letters, 8.1449; TR to KR, 19 Oct. 1912, ts. (TRC). This was an inside joke. Many years before, Bullock had been convulsed by one of TR’s favorite stories, about the Rough Rider who shot someone and who, in response to his question, “How did it happen?” answered, “With a .38 on a .45 frame, Colonel.” TR, An Autobiography, 380.
85 Meanwhile, at New York Press, 15 Oct. 1912.
86 Never let Remey et al., The Attempted Assassination, 60 (facsimile).
87 News of the drama New York Press and The New York Times, 15 Oct. 1912. See also Nicholas Roosevelt, TR, 67, and Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 385–86. A medical soap opera commenced while TR was being examined in Milwaukee. The eminent surgeon Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore happened to be in the Auditorium to witness TR’s speech, and followed him to the Emergency Hospital to offer assistance if needed. He was unimpressed with the quality of the local care, and said urgently to O. K. Davis, “Get him out of here just as quickly as you can. This is no place for him.” Both Bloodgood and Terrell recommended Mercy Hospital’s John B. Murphy as the best specialist for his case. TR assented and was checked out of the Emergency Hospital at 11:25 P.M. (Davis, Released for Publication, 389; TR to J. Keeley, 30 Dec. 1912 copy (AC); Loyal Davis, J. B. Murphy: Stormy Petrel of Surgery [New York, 1938], 262–63; New York Press, 15 Oct. 1912.) For subsequent episodes of the soap opera,