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Source: Atlanta Constitution Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Down with Them, Says Mason” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Atlanta, Georgia Date of publication: 16 September 1901 Volume number: 34 Issue number: none Pagination: 1 |
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| “Down with Them, Says Mason.” Atlanta Constitution 16 Sept. 1901 v34: p. 1. |
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| Keywords |
| William E. Mason (public statements); McKinley assassination (personal response); anarchism (personal response). |
| Named persons |
| James A. Garfield; Abraham Lincoln; William E. Mason; William McKinley. |
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Down with Them, Says Mason
Senator’s Remarks about Anarchists Yesterday.
Chicago, September 15.—“If the assassination
of President McKinley has taught no other lesson, it has taught 70,000,000 people
that anarchy is worse than treason and must be driven forever from the country.”
These ringing words from the lips of United States
Senator William E. Mason caused the audience that crowded Hyde Methodist church
at the memorial services today burst into a storm of applause.
“We should have better laws to guard the life
of the chief executive of the nation,” said the senator. “Some excuse may be
found in hatred or partisan excitement for the assassinations of Lincoln and
Garfield; but no such excuse exists for this foul deed. The president was killed
by a sane man, who had learned his lesson at the school of anarchy, who had
been taught in public places that rulers should be slain, who had been influenced
and incited to his deed by the nests of anarchy in Chicago.”