GETS BACK INTO CAMPAIGN.
October 17, convinced that he was beyond all possible danger, Col. Roosevelt resumed the active campaign from his sick room in Mercy Hospital by dictating a statement in which he requested his political opponents to continue the fight as if nothing had happened to him.
The colonel awoke feeling as he expressed it, "like a bull moose." In the afternoon he overcame Mrs. Roosevelt's objections to work long enough to send for Stenographer Martin and dictate the statement that put him back into politics.
Then he answered dispatches from President Taft, Cardinal Gibbons, and several other of those who had sent messages of sympathy.
He carefully reread the dispatch from President Taft and dictated this reply:
"I appreciate your sympathetic inquiry and wish to thank you for it."
"Sign that Theodore Roosevelt," he said to Martin.
To Cardinal Gibbons he sent this:
"I am deeply touched by your kind words."
To Woodrow Wilson: "I wish to thank you for your very warm sympathy."