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Source: Irish-American Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: “Death of President McKinley” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 14 September 1901 Volume number: 53 Issue number: 37 Pagination: 4 |
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| “Death of President McKinley.” Irish-American 14 Sept. 1901 v53n37: p. 4. |
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| Keywords |
| William McKinley (death: personal response); anarchism (personal response). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley. |
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Death of President McKinley
P 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.