A. I never had my first, I come over here a minor; I got my papers when I was twenty-one, I think my paper reads July twenty-third, ninety-seven; I think that's what it reads.
Q. When did you first begin to think about this?
A. I began to think of it after the Chicago convention.
Q. What caused you to think of it?
A. I thought on account of calling a new convention and starting the third party that makes anybody think; what's the use of being a citizen if you don't take any interest in the politics of our country?
Q. What did you read in the paper that directed your mind to Mr. Roosevelt?
A. You read a lot of things in the papers and especially in the New York World; the New York World practically come out that the country is in danger if he has the chair again.
Q. Did you read Harper's Weekly?
A. Harper's I don't read, no, sir.
Q. Did they say anything in particular that centered your attention on this act?