Teddy Roosevelt: “Our country, now so great and so wonderful, would have been split into little jangling rival nationalities.”

I congratulate you thereon.

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

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

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