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Source: Daily Capital Journal Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: “M’Kinley’s Death” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Salem, Oregon Date of publication: 6 September 1906 Volume number: 16 Issue number: 214 Pagination: 2 |
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| “M’Kinley’s Death.” Daily Capital Journal 6 Sept. 1906 v16n214: p. 2. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (anniversaries of); McKinley assassination (personal response); William McKinley; William McKinley (political character); Theodore Roosevelt (compared with William McKinley); Theodore Roosevelt (criticism); William McKinley (death: personal response). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz [misspelled below]; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt. |
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M’Kinley’s Death
Five years ago President McKinley
was assassinated by one Czolgoz, a confessed anarchist.
It was one of the BLACKEST AND MEANEST CRIMES
ever committed in the world.
It took out of life, activity and usefulness one
of the best and most useful men in American history.
McKinley was not a great man, nor a brilliant
man, BUT HE WAS A GOOD MAN and was beloved by the people.
He was not strong enough to withstand some of
the worst elements in his party, but that was not his fault.
He was not built on the lines of Roosevelt, and
he WOULD NEVER HAVE HAMMERED CONGRESS, as Roosevelt has done.
McKinley’s death was the end of an era of partisanship
of the milder type. It ushered in a new era in public affairs.