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Death of President McKinley
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MK, after
lingering for a week, died early on Saturday morning, from the effects
of the wounds he received at the hands of the assassin Czolgosz.
The whole world joins with a sorrowing nation over the sad result
of this shocking crime. William McKinley, grandson of an Irish rebel
of 1798, will be remembered as a true, amiable, high-minded gentleman
personally,—no matter how much one may have differed from him politically.
He was a man of the people and a true representative of the possibilities
of the democratic principle that bars no man from the highest office
in the Republic, by reason of an humble origin.
Providence, as we have often been
reminded, moves in mysterious ways; and one result of this tragedy
will be to fill all honest men’s minds with detestation for the
dangerous and senseless doctrines of anarchy, whose fatal consequences
in this instance, have plunged the whole land into mourning for
its murdered Chief Magistrate.
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