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As far as bullet sizes go, the .38 caliber (a measure of diameter) is one of the
larger size bullets. But “Superman” TR felt no pain?

TR takes a clean handkerchief to cover the “wound” as he heads for the stage,
where one of his bodyguards is attempting to explain what has just happened to

the audience. Someone in the crowd shouts out: “Fake! Fake!” (2) True to his
self-promoting form, TR the drama queen wastes no time in proclaiming to the
crowd: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether
you fully understand that I have just been shot.” (3) The horrified audience in
the Milwaukee Auditorium gasps as the theatrical TR unbuttons his vest to
reveal his bloodstained shirt. Then comes the proud boast: “It takes more than
that to kill a bull moose.” (4) Now the crowd is really buzzing as the legend of
TR reaches new heights of super-humanism. The babbler continues before
launching into yet another 90-minute speech about nothing: “But fortunately I
had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a
bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it
going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long
speech, but I will try my best.” (5) Right on cue, Schrank claimed that the spirit
of President McKinley had told him to avenge his murder by killing TR. In an
open letter to the American people, Schrank writes: “To the people of the United
States: In a dream I saw President McKinley sit up in his coffin pointing at a

man in a monk’s attire in whom I recognized Theodore Roosevelt. The dead
president said—‘This is my murderer ’—avenge my death.” (6) There were
indeed some Taft supporters who believed that the murder of McKinley in 1901,
also carried out by a deranged “Red”, was part of a plot to install TR as
President. This event makes Taft supporters look bad. Schrank’s “dream”,
coupled with TR’s whining about the “vicious attacks” against him, damages the
Taft campaign while creating sympathy for the “wounded” and “tough” TR.