The President

     The latest advices from Buffalo, as this page is prepared for the press, keep alive the hope that Mr. McKinley will recover. The promptness of surgical treatment, vastly improved by modern science, the failure of the assassin’s bullet to strike a vital point, and the splendid strength and calm courage of the patient combine to increase the chances in his favor.
     That there are unfavorable circumstances must be admitted, and while hoping for the best the public should be prepared for the worst.
     Meanwhile, not since the death of Lincoln has the sympathy of the whole country, and of our kin and friends across the sea, been so spontaneous, general and deep as it is today for the blameless and kindly President stricken down without a warning or cause, and for the wife to whom his more than chivalric devotion has been so long and conspicuously displayed.
     The President’s death at this time would be a calamity from which countless prayers will today arise that the country may be saved.