The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-08
BOWED IN SORROW
WOULD SAVANNAH BE SHOULD THE
PRESIDENT DIE.
THE QUESTION ON EVERY LIP
&c As TO THE CONDITION OF THE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE.

Eagerly for News of the Presi-
dents Condition - Not Curiosity
Alone, But sympathy, Prompted
the Question-Mayor Myers and
others of Prominence Discuss the
Attempted Assassination and the
anarchists - Mayor Says They
Sbouid All BE Deported-AIderman
NIXON says They should BE Set
Adrift I'm Midocean without Food
or Water.
The one question upon the lips of
savannahians yesterday was as to the
condition of the President. Men. abb
sorbed In the cares Of business, yet
found time to ask how the President
Jared. In public buildings, in business
houses, and on the streets might be
seen groups of three, four or greater
number, and one approaching and
4o,ning them would see at once that
+he talk was Of the President. Snatch
ing a minute from the rush and hustle
of his work. man would stop his
reighbor. fresh from the bulletin board
of the Morning News, on the street,
and eagerly inquire as to the state OF
+he chief executive. All were anxious
to know how he rested.
Upon the lips of women and children
the question trembled. Dreading to
hear their worst fears realized-to
learn that the honored and revered had
crossed over the river, the victim of
the anarchical Poles bullet, yet anx-
ious women and horror-stricken chill
dren asked the question, and over all
stole a sense of gladness that the re-
ports were encouraging-that it was
given out in Buffalo that there was
hope of recovery.
Throughout the day sounded the
question. From their work men hur-
ried at the dinner hour to their homes,
and there the first word that met them
was of the President. Anxious wives,
mothers and sisters sought to learn how
It Jared with Mr.. Mckinley, whom sll
remembered through the occasion of
his visit to Savannah in 1898, when he
came to review the q, 200 troops that
were then. encamped in and about the
city.
1t was not mere curiosity-a thirst for
news, for the sensational. Savannah
fans wanted to hear that the President
was recovering. His gracious manner,
his pleasing smile, his words on The
occasion of his visit all bound Savan-
nahians close to him, and marked has
been the expression of sympathy that
has fallen from the people of the city.
Was there any breach between Savan-
nah and the North remaining before
the Spanish war, President Mckinley
did much to heal it.
No formal message of coincidence to
Mrs. Mckinley or officers of the Pres
dents cabinet or household was sent
to express the sympathy of Savannah.
When asked if a message had been or
would be sent, Mayor Myers
said yesterday that he had
considered the matter, but had con-
cluded that there would be such a
food of such kilograms that it was
scarce worth while for him to send one.
Should the President, in the providence
Of God, die, such a message would be
sent, while the city mourned. Then
would the City Council. in all proba-
bility, be called in special meeting to
adopt some suitable resolution, ex-
pressive of the heartfelt sympathy of
the community.
Wherever he went during the day
the Mayor said, he had heard express
sions of sympathy for the President.
With the sympathy came compliments,
the Mayor saying that he had heard 1t
commonly stated as the belief of the
speakers that the country was threat
ened with the loss of the greatest Pres
ident, the noblest and the best, that it
has ever had.
While he sat in his Office at the City
Exchange yesterday, the Mayor re-
ceived a visit from the Spanish vice
consul, who expressed to the people of
savannah, through their chief execu-
tive, the sorrow of his country in the
calamity that has befallen the nation.
This for the President who directed
the affairs of state and the machinery
OF war. while the United States and
spain were wrapped in the throes of
a mighty struggle.
In view of the report of the praise
meeting that was held at Paterson. N.
j., the Mayor was asked for his views
upon such conduct as the anarchists
of that hot-bed of anarchy INDUCED in,
upon the receipt of the news of the
terrible deed of one of their misguided
adherents. He answered:
NO such meetings of anarchists as
are reported from Paterson would be
permitted in Savannah. We would al
low no such seditious gatherings.
where ruin and murder are plotted.
am only surprised that the administra-
tlon of any city in the Union should
allow such atrocious assemblies-as-
semblies where assassins are toasted
and their terrible crimes lauded to the
skies.
The time has come, as is made clear
by the dastardly attempt upon the life
OF the President, when this country
should take some action against the
anarchists. Not only should this coun
try move. but the authorities of other
civilized lands should rise to the occa-
sion and take concerted action, ban
ishing all the blood thirsty anarchists
and the entire crew of their sympa-
thizers to some island in the broad
ocean, like st. Helena, for instance,
where they might govern themselves
as they might list and be no longer
a menace to the lives of those whom
the peoples of the earth elect to set,
above them.
No more people of this character
should be admitted to America. Those
mat are here should be deported, and
stringent law OF immigration should
be enacted for the exclusion of any
man with anarchiGic leanings. 1t
could and should be DONE The terrible
spectacle of an excellent President
one of the best the country has ever
had-lying at the point Of death
through the work of the anarchial as
sassin, should arouse the American