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Source: Savannah Morning News Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Says He’s Not a Pole” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Savannah, Georgia Date of publication: 9 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: none Pagination: 8 |
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| “Says He’s Not a Pole.” Savannah Morning News 9 Sept. 1901: p. 8. |
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| McKinley assassination (public response: Polish Americans); McKinley assassination (public response: Savannah, GA); Leon Czolgosz (family background); Eugene I. Okarma; Eugene I. Okarma (public statements). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley; Eugene I. Okarma. |
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Says He’s Not a Pole
Savannah’s Poles Deny Czolgosz as Their Countryman.
The Poles of Savannah, of which there are about
thirty, mostly on the truck farms just outside the city, do not claim Czolgosz,
the would-be assassin of the President, as one of their countrymen.
Mr. E. I. Okarma, who may be said to be the head
of the Polish colony here, said yesterday that Czolgosz is not a Pole, except
by descent and should not be classed as one.
Mr. Okarma said the Poles of Savannah do not condone
the crime against the President. They condemn it and the would-be murderer,
but they resent the imputation that the crime was the act of one of their countrymen.
“Czolgosz having been born in this country, is
an American,” said Mr. Okarma, “even though his parents were immigrants, and
it is not right or just to charge the great crime against President McKinley
against our countrymen.”