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Taft was a good man and a good President. The cartoons above mock the
hypocrisy of TR’s “good trust / bad trust” comment; and his attacks on Taft.
1912
A STAGED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TR RUINS
TAFT’S CHANCES
In the fall of 1912, Taft still has a chance to win reelection; but that chance is
about to disappear. Just 3 weeks before the election, an “October Surprise”
comes in the form of an “assassination attempt” against TR.
On October 14, 1912, just moments before he is set to deliver a typically
Rooseveltian 50-page speech, TR, we are told, is shot with a Colt .38 by an
Anarchist fanatic named John Flammang Schrank. The bullet is first said to be
a “flesh wound” that “lodged in his chest”. Afterwards, the story changes to that
of a bullet “safely lodged” against TR’s rib, after having been slowed down by
both his steel eyeglass case and the thick speech he was carrying in his jacket.
