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Source: Evening Public Ledger Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial column Document title: “Short Cuts” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date of publication: 8 February 1921 Volume number: 7 Issue number: 126 Pagination: 8 |
| Citation |
| “Short Cuts.” Evening Public Ledger 8 Feb. 1921 v7n126: p. 8. |
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| Keywords |
| Charles G. Pease; McKinley assassination (personal response: criticism). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz; Demosthenes McGinnis; William McKinley. |
| Notes |
| Click here to view an excerpted article from the New York Tribune that provides context for the remarks below. |
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Short Cuts [excerpt]
“I see in the paper,” said Demosthenes McGinnis, as he rolled a quid in his cheek, “that an anti-tobacco shark in New York is wondering if the assassin of President McKinley was guilty of a greater crime than the President himself. Czolgosz merely killed a man, but McKinley, by smoking, set a horrible example to humanity. All of which naturally moves a man to throw away his chew—and hit the anti-tobacco shark in the eye with it.”