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Source: Commoner Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Lincoln, Nebraska Date of publication: 4 October 1901 Volume number: 1 Issue number: 37 Pagination: 6 |
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| [untitled]. Commoner 4 Oct. 1901 v1n37: p. 6. |
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| full text |
| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (public response: criticism); lawlessness (mob rule); Leon Czolgosz (trial: personal response). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz. |
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The men who advocated lynch law in the case of Czolgosz should ponder well on the outcome of the assassin’s trial. The assassin was given a fair trial, and the spectacle is one calculated to increase respect for law and order. A lynching would have been an incentive to anarchy.