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Source: Chicago Sunday Tribune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Mayor Jones Expresses Grief” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Chicago, Illinois Date of publication: 8 September 1901 Volume number: 60 Issue number: 251 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 4 |
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| “Mayor Jones Expresses Grief.” Chicago Sunday Tribune 8 Sept. 1901 v60n251: part 1, p. 4. |
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| Samuel M. Jones (public statements); William Cowell (public statements). |
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| William Cowell; Samuel M. Jones. |
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Mayor Jones Expresses Grief
Toledo Executive Declares “No Life Will Be Sacred until We Make All Sacred.”
Toledo, O., Sept. 7.—[Special.]—Mayor Jones today
expressed his sorrow over the Buffalo tragedy and added:
“There is a profound lesson in these tragedies,
and that is that the spirit of murder must be got out of the world. The inadequacy
of any other form of protection has been too plainly demonstrated in this case.
I believe that no life will be sacred until we make all life sacred. I should
make that same statement if I should be a victim of the assassin’s bullet before
night.”
The Mayor’s private secretary and right-hand man
during political campaigns, William Cowell, nearly precipitated a row in a street
car by making this remark: “I respect the man who did the shooting as much as
I respect any soldier who fought for his country.” Some G. A. R. men and a young
Philippine soldier took the matter up at once and only the crowded condition
of the car prevented trouble.