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Source: Salt Lake Herald Source type: newspaper Document type: letter to the editor Document title: “About Stcholgosh, ‘Ain’t It?’” Author(s): Ellis, Charles City of publication: Salt Lake City, Utah Date of publication: 13 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 111 Pagination: 4 |
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| Ellis, Charles. “About Stcholgosh, ‘Ain’t It?’” Salt Lake Herald 13 Sept. 1901 n111: p. 4. |
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| Leon Czolgosz; McKinley assassination (personal response). |
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| Charles Ellis. |
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About Stcholgosh, “Ain’t It?”
To the Editor of The Herald:
This cuss, with the unpronouncable [sic] name,
who shot the president, was hatched from an egg laid by a meaner reptile than
himself. That is the thing to kill. This fellow had small brain and large enthusiasm.
The latter overruled what common sense he possessed, and he was carried away
by the idiotic notion that he would be doing something for the advancement of
humanity if he killed the executive of our government.
His incapacity to think his idea out is seen in
the fact, patent to all, that the president is not the government. This shows
that his teaching came from those who were trained in Europe and loaded their
weapons for men who were the government. This poor assassin-in-will is the victim
of some other murderer. To kill him and let that other go would be like killing
the snakes in the field while those more dangerous ran free at home. When the
president can talk he will say so.
CHARLES ELLIS.