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

Publication information

Source: Commoner
Source type: newspaper
Document type: editorial
Document title: none
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of publication: 27 September 1901
Volume number: 1
Issue number: 36
Pagination: 6

Citation

[untitled]. Commoner 27 Sept. 1901 v1n36: p. 6.

Transcription

full text

Keywords

anarchism (dealing with); anarchism (government response); the press (censorship).

Named persons

none.

Document

[untitled]

If, as a precaution against anarchy, the republicans make it unlawful for a newspaper to criticise an executive officer, they must be careful to see that the law is not retroactive. It is only a few years since the republican papers criticised the President, and some of them have been known to criticise Democratic and Populist governors even more recently[.]

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