McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Socialist
Source type: newspaper
Document type: editorial column
Document title: “Thoughts”
Author(s): Uncle Sam
City of publication: Seattle, Washington
Date of publication: 6 October 1901
Volume number: none
Issue number: 61
Pagination: [2]

Citation

Uncle Sam. “Thoughts.” Socialist 6 Oct. 1901 n61: p. [2].

Transcription

excerpt

Keywords

McKinley assassination (personal response: socialists); McKinley assassination (public response: criticism).

Named persons

Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley.

Notes

The title of the editorial column is accompanied with the signature statement “By Your Uncle.”

Document

Thoughts [excerpt]

THE results are proving that it would have been a good plan for the capitalists to have hired Czolgosz to commit his idiotic crime. The wanton killing of McKinley is now being used as an excuse for the passage of laws to prevent criticism of public officials, discussion of public measures, and prevent a change for the better in political or economic conditions. “Whom the gods would destroy,” etc.

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