I should doubt very much the suggestion here, that the War Department has made a recommendation.

That has never come to my attention.

I haven't any present intention of leaving Washington.

Any of you that wants can have my chair.

I notice some of the representatives of the press take advantage of the opportunity to sit down.

I should try to deal justly with it, as I should with any other request for a pardon.

Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.

I congratulate you thereon.

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.

I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

He was a coward.