The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1901-09-26
PARTY AMENITIES AND ETHICS
AS Defined by Charles Dick of the Republican State Execu.
tive Committee,
TOO INTENT UPON SECURING THE OFFICES
To Respectfully Consider the Chairman Daugherty Pro-
posing Quiet Campaign Account of President
MoKinley's Condition. aseusss.
T UPON SECURING THE OFFICES

One OF the most remarkable chapters
of party history in Ohio was written
last week anent the dastardly attempt
OF an anarchist to assassinate Presi-
dent Mckinley, and it remained for
General Charles Dick, the Republican
chairman, to seize upon it for partisan
and electioneering purposes.
On Friday, September 6, within 80
minutes after the attempted assassina-
ton, the Democratic committee sent
the following telegram:
Mrs. President Mckinley, Buffalo,
N. Y,
I'VE Join with the whole nation in
our profound sympathy tor you and
the president in the great trouble
which has come upon you.
IN. A. DAUGHERTY, Chairman,
&c. f. GILLIAN, Secretary,
mocratic State Executive Commit
tee."
A few minutes later the following
was sent out by the executive commit
tee through the Associated Press to all
parts of the Union:
1--WE are not acquainted with the de-
tails of the affair, but it is needless to
sey how profoundly shocked and hor-
ritied the officers and members of the
Democratic state executive committee
were by the news of the attempted as
sassination of President Mckinley.
Whatever our political differences
may be, they do not detract in the
slightest from our regard for Mckinley
as a man or the high honor and es-
TEEN we hold for him as the chief mag
istrale of the nation, to whom every
loyal citizen looks up with respect as
their chosen ruler.
IN. A. DAUGHERTY, Chairman,
&c. f. GILLIAN, Secretary,
Democratic State Executive Com
mittee."
Colonel James Kilbourne, the Demo-
cratic nominee for governor, was pro-
foundly shocked when told of the
shooting of the president. He had
long known President Mckinley, and
to him it was the striking down of
friend, not alone OF the head of the
government. In speaking OF the deed,
Colonel Kiibourne said:
THE presidents death at this time,
even from natural causes, would be
great misfortune to the country. If he
should die from the attack OF the as
sassin it would be national calamity.
l rejoice, as must all his countrymen,
that the latest report gives hope of his
recovery"
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between the two state committees.
Animated by the lofty spirit expressed
in his kilograms above, Chairman
Daugherty, while there were still grave
and serious doubts of the presidents
recovery, and certainty that pain
full and tedious convalescence, at best,
would follow, addressed the following
note to Chairman Dick
Columbus, o., Sept. 8, 1901.
Hon. Charles ". Dick, Chairman Re-
publican State Committee, Column
bus, Ohio:
"My Dear Sir-Ohio is the home of
President Mckinley, and the recent at
tempt at his assassination has aroused
the indignation and horror not only
of all the citizens of his own state,
irrespective of party, but of the nation
as well.
Ut is the hope and prayer OF all tne
people that he may be speedily re-
stored to health and resume the per.
formance OF the duties of his high
office.
"The Democratic state executive
committee believes that both political
parties in Ohio can best manifest the