Cut Short

While Theodore Roosevelt was speaking at a railroad depot in Hickory, North Carolina, in 1912, “some fifty students from Lenoir College gave the school’s cheer, adding ‘Wilson! Wilson!’ at the end.  A melee broke out between Bull Moose and Democratic supporters, and the Colonel’s train departed before he could finish his remarks,” according to Gerald Helferich in his book, Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912.

Source: Gerald Helferich, Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912 (Guilford: Loy’s Press, 2013), 132