ountry in case
of war. You may as well send every patriot to prison."

(As showing the erratic reasoning of the defendant, the following
passage, intimating that the assassination of President McKinley was a
part of a conspiracy to elevate Colonel Roosevelt to a permanent
control of the destinies of the United States, we quote further:)

"Political murders have occurred quite often, committed by some
power that works in the dark and only too frequently of late the
assassin was classed as an anarchist, but the real instigators
could never be brought to justice. Whoever the direct murderer of
President McKinley has been it could never be proven that he has
ever been affiliated with any anarchistic or similar society, but
we may well conclude that the man who in years after willingly
violated the third unwritten law of the country whenever he thought
it profitable to change his creed while president, perhaps to the
mother of monarchies."

(From the remarks of the prisoner in our examination of him, we find by
"the mother of monarchies" that he refers to the Roman Catholic
Church.)

We further quote:

"Such was his fear that his machine, built up in 7-1/2 years will
be destroyed over night, that he threatened not to leave the chair
unless he were allowed to nominate his successor."

"Gentlemen of the jury: The 3t (third termer) 'never again will I
run for pres.' (president) has a parallel in the history of Rome.
Whoever read the history of Julius Caesar knows that this smart
politician while elected dictator managed to become so popular with
the people that they offered him the kingly crown, but J. Caesar
knew that he had to bide his time, that the rest of Senators know
of his ambition, and after refusing three times he knew they would
offer it to him a fourth time, and when then he accepted it he was
murdered for ambition's sake."

"He" (Colonel Roosevelt) "was ambitiously waiting for the
Government at Washington to start a military intervention in
Mexico, but the leaders of the Republican party feared that the 3t
(third termer) would muster an army of volunteer Rough Riders and
return at election as the conquering hero."

"The danger even more grave than civil war is the possibility of
intervention of foreign powers, who may help the 3t (third termer)
in order to keep the Union disunited an