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Source: Seen and Heard Source type: magazine Document type: editorial Document title: “A Few Words About an Ex-Mayor” Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: 9 October 1901 Volume number: 1 Issue number: 40 Pagination: 26-36 (excerpt below includes only page 26) |
| Citation |
| “A Few Words About an Ex-Mayor.” Seen and Heard 9 Oct. 1901 v1n40: pp. 26-36. |
| Transcription |
| excerpt |
| Keywords |
| Grover Cleveland; McKinley assassination (personal response). |
| Named persons |
| Grover Cleveland; Leon Czolgosz. |
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The editorial (excerpted below) appears as given in the original source,
without paragraph indents and without a space break between the paragraphs.
Louis N. Megargee, the magazine’s publisher, is likely the author of this editorial. Each magazine issue is comprised solely of a few editorials followed by a facsimile of Megargee’s signature. |
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A Few Words About an Ex-Mayor [excerpt]
High public office is generally a thankless task.
If its incumbent makes one mis-step he thereafter, in the minds of many men,
lives in the shadow sometimes of wrong and always of disapproval. The good he
has done is absolutely forgotten; the evil, if evil it be, hangs over him like
a pall, unless some great event concerning him arouses the honest impulse of
the real people who are not politicians and care little for them. Grover Cleveland
would be a greater man to-day than he ever will be if he had met Czolgosz instead
of the universally beloved man—beloved regardless of politics—whose career was
prematurely ended by a maggot.