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Source: Buffalo Evening News Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Senator Platt on M’Kinley” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Buffalo, New York Date of publication: 16 September 1901 Volume number: 42 Issue number: 134 Pagination: 8 |
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| “Senator Platt on M’Kinley.” Buffalo Evening News 16 Sept. 1901 v42n134: p. 8. |
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| Thomas Collier Platt (public statements); William McKinley (death: personal response). |
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| William McKinley; Thomas Collier Platt. |
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Senator Platt on M’Kinley
Says the Country Has Sustained a Distinct and Overwhelming Loss.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 16.—“In President McKinley’s
death the country has sustained a distinct and overwhelming loss,” said Senator
Platt, “and those who have been associated with him in his administration, both
in the advisory and in the legislative capacity, feel a most poignant sorrow.
During the past four years and a half I have become greatly impressed by his
admirable personality and my respect and regard for him as a President and as
a man were becoming more intense with the passage of time and the occurrence
of opportunities for contact with him. His national spirit was patriotic and
tolerant in the extreme. He has created a place in the affections of the people
seldom acquired by Presidents or Kings and his untimely demise leaves us all
crushed under a burden of grief and sorrow.
“Congress must at an early date deal with the
problem of prevention of such atrocious crimes in the future and, in the event
of their occurrence, of adequate punishment of the criminals.”