A Labor Leader of To-Day: John Mitchell and What He Stands For [excerpt]

     But it is no one trait, however conspicuous, that will win success for Mitchell, if he wins (and that is a question which may be answered before this article is printed). At present he stands not quite midway between Wall Street and the mines. He has the personal respect of both. When President McKinley was shot, and the news spread to the coal region, the workmen gathered into a mob, crying, “Who shot our President?” They dispersed when they learned that it wasn’t President Mitchell who was shot.