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THE ASSAULT UPON PRESIDENT MCKINLEY. OR the third time in the history of this country the hand of an assassin has been raised against the President. But whereas in the cases of Lincoln and Garfield there were strong partizan feelings to account for assassination, in the present instance, as many papers point out, it is difficult to conceive a motive for such a crime. Lincoln lived in troublesome times, remarks the Philadelphia Public Ledger, "when sectional hatred burned fiercely in the breasts of the defeated hosts of the South"; and Garfield was stricken during a period "when partizan rancor filled the land with angry contention and clamor"; but McKinley has ever sought to "maintain social peace and amity" and to "make friends of all men and enemies of none." The Ledger continues:

"At the moment his life was attempted he was engaged in a voluntary act of devotion to the public good. He went to Buffalo to add to the Exposition the dignity and prestige of his office. The duty he discharged was not mandatory; it was discretionary, and rendered through pure good-will and patriotic impulse. And it is worthy of note that only on the previous day the President had addressed a multitudinous audience of his countrymen on the vital policies of the time, and never during his entire public career had he spoken with more assured wisdom or courage. His address on that occasion was sentient with the spirit of the most saga cious statesmanship and patriotism;, it was that of a shrewd, honest, brave, farseeing man of affairs; a recognition of economic conditions due to the changing influences of time and development.

"The President of the United States should have been at Buffalo immune from the perfidy of political, factional, or of personal enmity even. The faithful, willing servant of his countrymen, he was there in the sacred trust of serving them."

The attempted assassination of the President took place in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition, during a public reception. The events which

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immediately preceded the assault on Mr. McKinley are thus told by Secret Service Detective Ireland:

"A few moments before Czolgosz, the assassin. approached, a man came along with three fingers of his right hand tied up in a bandage, and he had shaken hands with his left. When Czolgosz came up I noticed he was a boyish-looking fellow, with an innocent face, perfectly calm, and I also noticed that his right hand was wrapped in what appeared to be a bandage. I watched him closely, but was interrupted by the man in front of him, who held on to the President's hand an unusually long time. This man appeared to be an Italian, and wore a short heavy black moustache. He was persistent, and it was necessary for me to push him along so that the others could reach the President. Just as he released the President's hand, and as the President was reaching for the hand of the assassin, there were two quick shots. Startled for a moment, I looked and saw the President draw his right hand up under his coat, straighten up, and, pressing his lips together, give Czolgosz the most scornful and contemptuous look possible to imagine. At the same time I reached for the young man and caught his left arm. The big negro standing just back of him, and who would have been next to take the President's hand, struck the young man in the neck with one hand, and with the other reached for the revolver, which had been discharged through the handkerchief, and the shots from which had set fire to the linen.

"Immediately a dozen men fell upon the assassin and bore him to the floor. While on the floor Czolgosz again tried to dis

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PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.

charge the revolver, but before he could point it at the President it was knocked from his hand by the negro. It flew across the floor, and one of the artillerymen picked it up and put it in his pocket. On the way down to the station Czolgosz would not say a word, but seemed greatly agitated."

The President's first thought, it is related in the press despatches, was for his wife. "Be careful about her. Don't let her know," he said. His second thought was for his assassin,-"Let no one hurt him." His third expression was one of regret lest he might be "the cause of trouble to the Exposition."

Mr. McKinley was wounded in the breast and the abdomen, and the physicians summoned to his attendance include Drs. P. M. Rixey, M. D. Mann, Roswell Park, Herman Mynter, Eugene Wasdin, and Charles McBurney. The physicians' statement, issued on the evening of the fatality, declared that the upper bullet wound was a trifling one. The lower bullet inflicted a very dangerous wound, penetrating the stomach, and necessitating the closing with silk sutures of the front and back walls of the stomach, but no other organic injuries were discovered.

The disappearance of every trace of factional or political bias in the press, in considering at this time the life and record of the President, is a striking feature of the newspaper comment. The most radical of the Democratic papers and the severest critics of the President's policy in the past join with the Republican press in paying warmest tributes to Mr. McKinley's character. The Washington Times (Dem.) declares that "personally, it would be hard to find an inhabitant of the continent who is as free from enemies as President McKinley." The New York Journal (Dem.) says:

"Honest efforts to obey the will of the people, a life devoted to that noblest of human pursuits, the duties of government, is rewarded by the bullet of the assassin.

"In all the breadth of the land whose laws he administered, whose will he studied and obeyed, there lives not one soul free from deepest regret, from heartfelt sorrow.

"Eighty millions of Americans and countless millions of men and women in all lands where simplicity of life and purity of character are loved mourn to-day.

"What better farewell could Mr. McKinley possibly have addressed to the people of America and of the world than the conclusion of his address on Thursday last?

"Gentlemen, let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here may be moved to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world's good, and that out of this city may come not only greater commerce and trade for us all, but, more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, confidence, and friendship which will deepen and endure. Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth.'"

"To this prayer, which expresses so beautifully the aspiration of the typical American citizen, millions of his fellow Americans will add another for the President's prompt recovery, for his restoration to the nation and to the devoted wife."

From the kings and queens and presidents of the countries of the world, and from the leading European newspapers, have come messages expressing hope for the President's recovery and execration for the act of his assailant. The London Times declares that "President McKinley's personal character is respected both in our own country and by foreign nations, and the fatuous wickedness of the attempt on his life will meet with universal reprobation"; while the Berlin National Zeitung says that "the sympathy of the civilized world goes toward the dangerously wounded President." Such international expressions, remarks the Philadelphia Press, can not fail to bind the nations closer together. It says:

"The great tide of sympathy for the President's wound and of execration for the crime has flowed around the world. No land is absent and no people silent. Most of all, at this moment of overwhelming national sorrow, the English-speaking race, sev

ered tho it be by all the seas and loyal to differing flags, feels the unity of common emotions, common sympathies, and an embracing love and regard for its greater figures as they draw near the veil, if it be Victoria at Osborne House or the plain farmer's son at Buffalo, no less revered and loved."

Interest has naturally centered very largely in the would-be assassin, and it seems probable that one of the most important results of the assault on the President's life will be a new attempt on the part of the European Powers, in conjunction with the United States, to suppress the anarchist propaganda. Leon Czolgosz, the assailant of the President, is of Polish blood. In a "confession," reported in several papers, he says, in part:

"I am an anarchist. I do not believe in the American form of government. My faith in this government was destroyed by Emma Goldman, whom I heard deliver lectures in New York a few years ago, and with whom I have since been in correspondI believe that any man who accepts the Presidency is a foe to the common people. He represents only the class of oppressors.

ence.

"I did my duty. I am sorry that Mr. McKinley has suffered. I intended to kill him, and I regret that I did not succeed. "I hope that no one will mistake my position. I am not a common assassin. Personally, I had little to gain as a result of this act. The shot that I fired was for the benefit of all mankind. I intended to kill the President of the United States. Against Mr. McKinley as a man I could have no feeling. I have been told that he is a good man. I did not wish to inflict suffering upon his family, but in accomplishing my purpose I could not consider them. I say again that I did not assassinate the man. I intended to kill the President, because I believe it would have a good effect upon this country and upon all mankind."

Almost all the daily papers agree that in view of the present assault more repressive measures will have to be taken against the anarchists; but in discussing any proposed measures there is a great conflict of opinion. Says the New York Evening Post: "The problem of dealing with a sect which embraces at once the most submissive non-resistants and the fiercest and most treacherous assassins is obviously difficult. The plan, occasionally proposed in some European monarchy, of destroying, root and branch, all professors of the anarchist creed is not to be thought of for a moment. There is no safety for the individual or for the republic if a citizen may not hold any personal belief whatever as to the proper theory of government. He may give his private assent to the doctrines of socialism, or of anarchism ; or he may fancy that America should be ruled by the Man in the Moon. In any one of these supposed cases he may be a proper subject for a commission de lunatico inquirendo; but if competent alienists allow him to range at large, the civil authorities must remain quiet. To regulate by law private opinions as to religion or government would simply be a revival of that mode of inquisition and dragooning which has always been a disastrous failure."

The Post thinks that if arrest followed incendiary utterances and any attempt to incite to violence, the anarchist propaganda might be checked, but thinks that repressive measures must be undertaken cautiously, and that "the circumstances of each particular case must determine the course in regard to it." The Springfield Republican says:

"The plea of free speech, the pretext of political opinion, must no longer avail to protect what is simply a criminal organization. Its members should be dealt with as criminals, and should be put under the surveillance that attends criminals. Every man of them should be marked and followed by the oversight of the law, and be subject to arrest wherever found. There should be permitted no more publications of their evil teachings; there should be no more meetings allowed, no more street parades with 'Death to tyrants' and other angry legends on their banners; they should be driven to holes and corners. We have tried the plan of keeping everything in the open, and it has failed; now it is time to treat these conspirators to rigorous law. It might be well to consider whether the members of an

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