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Source: Atlanta Constitution Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “‘Kill Them,’ They Cried Out” 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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| “‘Kill Them,’ They Cried Out.” Atlanta Constitution 16 Sept. 1901 v34: p. 1. |
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| McKinley memorial services (Detroit, MI); Russell Alexander Alger (public statements); Henry M. Duffield (public statements); anarchism (personal response); anarchism (public response). |
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| Russell Alexander Alger; Henry M. Duffield; William C. Maybury; William McKinley; Alfred Russell. |
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“Kill Them,” They Cried Out
Audience’s Reply to Question as to Anarchists.
Detroit, Mich., September 15.—Nearly
2,000 people had gathered in Light Guard armory this afternoon when Mayor Maybury
called to order the public mass meeting in memoriam of the late President McKinley,
which the common council called at its special session yesterday. The keynote
of the speakers was the necessity of uprooting and stamping out anarchy in this
country. General R. A. Alger, secretary of war in President McKinley’s former
cabinet, said:
“The root of anarchy which has been started in
our country and which has resulted in the loss of a president should be stamped
out. It is our imperative duty to stamp out the evil.”
He was followed by General H. M. Duffield, who
declared:
“Congress dare not adjourn without passing a measure
which will stamp out this greatest of evils—anarchism.”
When Alfred Russell, a leader of the local bar,
asked what shall be done with anarchists, there were cries from the audience
of “Kill them! Burn them!”