even; 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?

A. No, sir; not at all, perhaps a million people read it and didn't
think anything and I just happened to read the matter over, I was
interested from there.

Q. Editorial page?

A. Editorial page.

Q. You remember any particular editorial?

A. No, sir; I do not remember. I could not repeat it.

Q. Well, did you read anything else in any other paper except the World
that made any impression on you of Mr. Roosevelt?

A. Well, in fact I have been following up all papers of the political
views and I have been taking out the World as the right thing, she is
right the way she talks and one paper I read, the New York Herald, and
she never speaks about Theodore Roosevelt but the third termer and she
don't mention his name, only the third termer.

Q. Did you ever apply for any position in the United States Government?

A. No, sir.

Q. Did you know Mr. Roosevelt when he was Police Commissioner?

A. I did, indeed I did. In those days we was and my folks were in the
liquor business and they closed us up like the other people and I
didn't feel any sympathy with them.

Q. Which particular place did he close up?

A. What do you mean?

Q. You say he closed up some place of your people, which one?

A. He closed up all places.

Q. Were you in the liquor business?

A. I was with my folks.

Q. With whom?

A. My uncle.

Q. He closed your uncle?

A. He closed everything and there was about two months there was
nothing open and a policeman stationed at every door.

Q. That was after midnight and on Sunday?

A. It was not closed up on Sunday but during the week, I am not talking
about the Sunday Law.

Q. And you thought t