Publication information |
Source: American Elevator and Grain Trade Source type: journal Document type: editorial Document title: “Assault on the President” Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: 15 September 1901 Volume number: 20 Issue number: 3 Pagination: 122 |
Citation |
“Assault on the President.” American Elevator and Grain Trade 15 Sept. 1901 v20n3: p. 122. |
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Keywords |
McKinley assassination (personal response); McKinley assassination (public response); William McKinley (personal character). |
Named persons |
Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley. |
Document |
Assault on the President
The dastardly assault upon President McKinley
by the assassin Czolgosz, thanks to the promptness with which the President
was taken in hand by the surgeons, failed of its purpose, and the nation is
spared the horror of a consummation of the assassin’s purpose. It is also spared
any business complications that might have followed an unexpectedly sudden change
of administration. By the time the next issue of this paper is ready, then,
so rapid seems now the President’s convalescence, the incident, save for the
scoundrel’s punishment, will, let us hope, have been closed by the President’s
entire recovery and a resumption of his official duties.
Were any good gift to be found in so untoward
an event, it would be gratification to the law-abiding in the instantaneous
and spontaneous expression by all classes, save a few incorrigible partisans,
of admiration for the splendid personal qualities of the man William McKinley
so swiftly uncovered by this awful test of the hidden springs of the man’s true
character. His forgetfulness of self, his tender and thoughtful regard for others—first
of all for the miserable wretch who would have destroyed him[—]all mark him
as a man apart and unite to drown all mere partisan differences in the inspiring
thought that Mr. McKinley’s entire purity of character and nobility as a man
exalts him in public regard as surely as his public position as President demands
the public respect and consideration.