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Source: San Francisco Call Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Roosevelt Leaves with Confidence” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: San Francisco, California Date of publication: 11 September 1901 Volume number: 90 Issue number: 103 Pagination: 9 |
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| “Roosevelt Leaves with Confidence.” San Francisco Call 11 Sept. 1901 v90n103: p. 9. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt (at Buffalo, NY); Theodore Roosevelt (public statements); William McKinley (recovery: speculation); Leon Czolgosz (grand jury); McKinley assassination (personal response). |
| Named persons |
| James A. Garfield; William McKinley; Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.; Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Roosevelt Leaves with Confidence
Vice President Declares That He Is Sure the Chief Executive Will Recover.
MILBURN HOUSE, BUFFALO, Sept. 10.—Vice
President Roosevelt left the city to-night at 9:50 for Oyster Bay, perfectly
confident that the President will recover. So confident was he, in fact, that
when a question of doubt was put to him he answered it with a parry. He was
then asked:
“Do you remember that President Garfield progressed
for ten days and that then just as he was ready to get out he collapsed and
finally died?”
Quick as thought the Vice President answered:
“Ah, but you forget twenty years of modern surgery
of progress. From what I can learn also the Garfield wound was much more serious
than the wound of President McKinley. I believe that the President will recover
and I believe it so thoroughly that I leave here to-night.”
Questioned as to the mode of procedure so far
as the State was concerned he said:
“I see no need for the call of an extraordinary
Grand Jury. The Grand Jury now in session, composed of American citizens, will
undoubtedly take care of the would-be assassin and the authorities of Erie County
will, for county, State and national pride, make a vigorous prosecution. Unless
Governor Odell is asked to interfere I see no need of his calling an extra term
or deputizing an Assistant Attorney General to prosecute.”
Asked as to the enacting of legislation against
anarchists he said:
“I have not thought much on the matter. What has
disturbed me is to find a reason for even anarchists to attack a man like President
McKinley. Here is the one country where they are allowed perfect freedom of
speech. Here, where the ruler is a man descended from farmer stock and self-made.
Here is a man who has no fortune nor no means other than that which he may manage
to save out of his salary as President. Probably many a workingman in the United
States to-day has as large an amount of real estate as Mr. McKinley. In addition,
he is kindly disposed and a Christian gentleman and in every great emergency
in which he could act he has been a friend of the common people. Why should
he be shot, then, even by anarchists?”