man who would start a war for conquest; and he thought
also of the possibility of foreign powers to help Roosevelt possibly to
annex the Panama Canal and break down the Monroe Doctrine. He said he
believed the country would be facing a civil war if Roosevelt went on
as he had done.

He gives as a reason for his present attack upon Roosevelt, that he did
not wish to give him (Roosevelt) an opportunity to plead that no
defense of the Third Term tradition had been made in 1912 should he
aspire to another term in 1916. Asked as to how he reconciled his act
with the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," he replied that, "religion
is the fundamental law of human order, but to kill to try and do a good
thing, and to avenge McKinley's murder, justifies the killing."

The proof of his position came to him in his dream and in his vision.

"Roosevelt's ambition and conduct proves to every man that he was back
of McKinley's assassination in some way or other."

The defendant says that he prayed God to find a leader among men who
would take this responsibility, and he expected all along someone else
would do this thing, but no one did it, and as he was a single man of
36, without a family, and thought the deed was a good deed, and it made
no difference to him, he was willing to sacrifice his life for that
end, even if he were torn to pieces by the mob. He therefore concluded
that it was his mission, and desired to make of this a test case.

[Illustration: Henry F. Cochems.
(Who was in the Automobile with Col. Roosevelt when the
Ex-President was Shot.)]

He thinks the election returns corroborate the fact that the people
have been awakened to the idea of no Third Term.

In the progress of the campaign, when the progressive movement had
taken shape, and Colonel Roosevelt had been nominated as the head of a
third party, and on August 7th, 1912, the dream which had come to him
in 1901, as above related, began to assume more importance, and special
significance in his mind. He felt extreme agitation on this subject
continuously. On the morning of September 15th, 1912, the anniversary
of the date of his dream in 1901, having retired as usual the night
before with his manuscript by his bedside, he suddenly awakened between
1 and 2 A.M., with the completion of a poem entitled "Be a Man"
uppermost in his mind.

We insert the poem at this point:

1. Be a man from early to late
When you rise in the morning
T