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

Publication information

Source: Western New-Yorker
Source type: newspaper
Document type: editorial
Document title: none
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Warsaw, New York
Date of publication: 12 September 1901
Volume number: 61
Issue number: 37
Pagination: [4]

Citation

[untitled]. Western New-Yorker 12 Sept. 1901 v61n37: p. [4].

Transcription

full text

Keywords

presidential assassination (legal penalties).

Named persons

William McKinley.

Document

[untitled]

If President McKinley recovers, the maximum penalty that can be imposed upon the assassin is ten years in the penitentiary. Attacks upon the president and vice-president ought to be provided with special penalties for the sake of the nation as a matter of public policy. Something more than the sacredness of human life is at stake in such cases. The office has a vitality of its own which demands consideration.

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