Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-09-10
ANARCHY
The Spirit that Leads TO the AssasSi-
nation Of Presidents.

s, 1901.
TeXt-"For rulers are not a terror
to good works, but to the evil" Ro-
Mans 1873.
Mr. Hawk said in part:
Three times within the memory of
persons in middle life has the Plesi-
dent of this republic been stricken
down by the hand of an assassin.
Three of cur best loved and most
capable Presidents have been the vic
tins of a fiend's deadly bullet and the
nation and the world have been called
to morun without adequate reason
In the case of President Lincoln, we
may trace the cause of his death to
the deep political prejudice and hatred
engendered by the Civil War, and it's
many sided and far reaching conse-
quences.
The war was over. the South had
lost, and while many of its citizens
acQuiesced in the verdict brought
about by the stern arbitrament to
arms" yet John Wilkes Booth repre-
sented small minority of lawess.
vengeful spirits who hated the gov
crnment and aid not hesitate to
strike it the severest blow within
their power. When Lincoln fell, the
greatest soul of the 10Th century was
gone, and the loss u the nation and
to the world was irreparable. But
the dire results to the nation would
have been much greater, had the
hellish plot of the Conspirators been
fully carried out and Mr. Seward or
the cabinet, General Grant the ropu-
lar hero of the war and others who
had been marked for slaughter, fall
en- by their murderOus designs But
somehow, God ovcrrules, and as Gen
eral Garfield, addressing one o. the
crowds that assembled together inn
mCdfatcly after Lincoln's asslssina-
ton, said with a view of quie.iIlg and
calming them, clouds and dark
ness are round about Him;
righteousness and judgment
are the habitation of His throne
After quoting this scriptrc, he en-
claimed, God reigns, and the gov
ernment at Washington still lives"
And it was true.
Sixteen years later, General Gar,
field was himself President of the
United States, and his administration
started off with good promise of sue
cess and prosperity. He had won in
the race with his chief competitor
and men of all parties had high re-
gard for his personal character, and
they had the right to expect an able
administration at his hands.
On the 2nd of July 1881, the nation
was again startled by the intelligence,
flashed over the wires, the Presi-
dent has been shot by an assassin. -
Until Sept. 18th, oven two and a half
months the nation and the world were
in the suspense of alternating hope
and fear, for the life of the Christian
President hung in the balance, and,
although prayers ascended daily and
hourly in his behalf, neither physic-
lans nor people knew now it would
But his noble life went
out, and if any reason may he assign
ed for the deed of the assassin, it
was probably owing to a disagree
ment over the distribution of the fed
eral patronage in the state of New
York between certain factions of the
party in power. While Guiteau, the
was responsible alone for
his crime, his sympathies had been
with the faction that was opposed
10 the Presidents policy. Brooding
over imaginary or real wrongs, this
oTce-sccker became the
victim of laWlCsslCss, and with an in
sane desire to defy tile authority rep,
resented by the President, he DELHI
'ately murdered him.
Twenty years later, Sept. 9Th. 1901,
1t time of profound peace and
great national prosperity with no
political iinimoslty whatever, when
The momcntous sentence, with which
-hc American people we're already
100 familiar, the President has been
was once more spoken
md read by millions of our citizens,
1t was more than heart could bear.
Men in public life and men in private
life were Gstoundel. Since the days
Of Washington, no one had occupied
the position of ruler of this land who
was so much the president of the !
whole people as William Mckinley,
Df Ohio. North and South, East and
West, people of all parties and of no
party, honored the gentle, friendly,
modest, approachable man, who had
twice been elected by the suffrages
Of his fellow citizens to the highest
place within their power to give.
When death seemed imminent, nil