The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-08
EAGERLY AWAIT
NEWS IN LONDON
Greatest Anxiety Manifested
for the President.
DEEP SYMPATHY
FROM THE BRITISH
Messages Are Sent from the
Leading Statesmen.

| London, Sept. Passengers booked
to sail for New York on the steamer
/ st. Paul gathered at Waterloo station
en- route for the steamer were ire
mendously eager for further news of
/ the presidents condition, many dread
/ ing the week of suspense with which
tnelr passage will be marked. The
/ CLOCK bulletin was hailed with the
greatest relief.
AT Euston station when the In
CaIlla train lett, there was a scene
SlAll4ar 10 the one witnessed at Water
100 station The passengers hing about
/ the platform inQuiring for the Latest
] information and apparently reluctant
70 put themselves out of cornmuniea-
uon with the news about the presi-
| dents condition even for A few ho,,rs
Richard Croker, John Fox of the New
YORK Democratic club, and Andrew
! FREEDMAN were among the travellers
MI Croker said he was very sorry
| about President Mckinley and he snI
iously inquired for the latest news re-
garding the presidents condition. The
| lord mayor has addressed to Ambassa
/ ton:
The people Of London have raca,vad
with profound regret and great indig-.
/ nation intelligence of the dastardly at
. tack on the life of the DISTINGUISHED
! president OF the United States and they
! l.
lency their sincere sympathy with
your country in this melancholy event
and they trust that so valuable a life
/ as President Mckfnley's may be spared
/ Tor the welfare OF the American peO-
pie"
i The United States embassy also has
! received many kilograms and telephone
messages from distinguished persons
/ tnquiring for news and expressing anx-
| iety and regret at the attempt Of the
WOuld-be assassin.
Pauncefote is Anxious.
Lord Pauncefote, the British am
bassador to the United States, accom-
panied by his daughter, was one of the
/ earliest callers at the United States
embassy this morning. He expressed
/ garding President McKlnIey's condi-
| ton. Others callers at the embassy in
cluded Judge Gray of Delaware, Pro
! lessor Saunders of Harvard and prac-
tlcaily all the leading Americans in
London.
The kilograms of sympathy and in
/ quiry received at the embassy from all
/ parts of Great Britain include mes
Sages from the mayor Of Liverpool,
/ Birmingham and Portsmouth.
BY night the embassy had received
| kilograms from almost every city in
\ the United Kingdom, besides countless
! inquiries from individuals, including
/ the Duke Of Cambridge the bishop of
/ RiPon, the foreign ambassadors and
| the Argentine minister. The following
| telegram is a fair sample of the mes
saEes referred to:
Il wish to convey the expression of
my deep sorrow and grief for the
abominable outrage to which President
/ Mckinley has fallen a victim"
/ The following is the text of King
] Edwards message TO the foreign ONCE:
! kiel, Sept. PLEASE send at once
to the American embassy to offer my
| deepest sympathy at the dastardly at
J tempt on the presidents life. I have
| telegraphed direct. Please keep me in
| formed of his condition"
! Mr.. Chamberlain's Sorrow.
/ Mr.. Chamberlain, the colonial secre-
tary, wired from Birmingham: Il
/ have heard with sorrow and detesta-
| ton of the atrociOus, cOwardly act of
/ which the president of the United
| States is a victim. Every Englishman
| deeply sympathizes with the people Of
America. and with the family of the
/ president, whose high character is well
/ appreciated on this side
In the absence of Lord Salisbury and
/ the Marquis of LanSdoWne from Lon
/ don, Schomberg Mcdonnell, principal
| private secretary to the prime minister,
| said to representative Of the Asso-
/ ciated Press:
You cannot use terms too strong in
| expressing our indignation at the out
/ rage and sympathy with the president.
/ II is terrible If Mr. Mckinley dies,
which we sincerely hope he will not,
! the whole world will lose a man of
/ greater integrity and craftsmanship
/ than it ever at present realizes. This
/ latest attempt may prove an interna-
tional arrangement by which anarchists
may be dealt with according to their
! deserts and this canker of civilization
! be suppressed. Certainly England
would favor such a plan. We and
! America are blamed on the continent
{ for harbOring anarchists.
I'VE are deeply relieved to hear the
J encouraging reports about the presi-
1 dents condition, but remembering
I keenly how President Garfield fingered
we dread the possibility of complica-
1 tons until the second bullet is found.
/ If the worst comes to the worst, which
, dislike to contemplate, ii is some
! slight satisfaction to know that Vice
4 President Roosevelt is such an upright.
1 level-headed man. 1 don't think Euro
/ pean statesmen would feel a bit ner-
vOus about his direction of affairs. We
: sincerely trust, however, that such
contingency will not occur
Comment of Newspapers.
Throughout the government Offices
the same sentiments were echoed. In
/ Washington itself the assailant could
| not have been more bitterly execrat ted
, England prays for Mckinney is
printed in great black type across the
front page of the Evening Star, and
all the journals express the hope of
the English people that the president
] will recover.
The Sun says: THE abhorrent crime
| was committed for mere wantonness.' -
! The Evening News says: That he
may be spared is the prayer of every
Englishman throughout the empire. -
| md the paper mentions the curious re-
semblance in the circumstance sur
rounding the crime in Buffalo and those
of the murder of President Garnet,
whose assassin climed to his victims
carriage for the ostensible purpose of
shaking hands"
The Echo eulogizes the personal traits
of President Mckinley as those on who