Teddy Roosevelt: “The thing they can do that will please me best is to let me be on that hunt alone, and pay no earthly attention to me…”

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

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 have just been shot.

I congratulate you thereon.