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Source: Youngstown Vindicator Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Grover Cleveland” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Youngstown, Ohio Date of publication: 14 September 1901 Volume number: 13 Issue number: 12 Pagination: 2 |
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| “Grover Cleveland.” Youngstown Vindicator 14 Sept. 1901 v13n12: p. 2. |
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| Grover Cleveland (public statements); William McKinley (death: personal response); McKinley assassination (personal response). |
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| Grover Cleveland. |
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Grover Cleveland
Comments on the Dreadful News of the Third Presidential Murder.
Princeton, N. J., Sept. 14—When
interviewed by the Associated Press correspondent who delivered to him the first
news of the president’s death, ex-President Grover Cleveland, at his home, made
the following statement:
“This is dreadful news, and the more cruel because
it strikes down the confident and comforting expectation which all our people
were encouraged to entertain that their president would be saved from death.
In the afflictive gloom surrounding this third presidential murder within the
memory of men not yet old, we can scarcely keep out of mind a feeling of stunning
amazement that in free America, blessed with a government consecrated to popular
welfare and contentment, the danger of assassination should ever compass the
faithful discharge of the high duty. It is hard at such a time as this to calmly
and patiently await the unfolding of the purpose of God.”