McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Buffalo Evening News
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “What McKinley Said about the Illumination”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Buffalo, New York
Date of publication: 6 September 1901
Volume number: 42
Issue number: 126
Pagination: 1

Citation

“What McKinley Said about the Illumination.” Buffalo Evening News 6 Sept. 1901 v42n126: p. 1.

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Keywords

Pan-American Exposition (personal response); William McKinley (public statements).

Named persons

William McKinley.

Document

What McKinley Said about the Illumination

It’s fine! it’s grand! it’s a most magnificent spectacle! The people of Buffalo are to be praised for their enterprise in building this great Exposition. This is a scene which I never shall forget. Never before in my life have I seen anything which can surpass it in grandeur. Isn’t it wonderful? Isn’t it superb?—President McKinley to a NEWS reporter on Triumphal Bridge when the night illumination burst into all its glory last evening.