Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-09-27
SOUTHERN PRESS ON MCKINLEY.

erlulcut HIS luefe Uecu IL LuOfe unlVer. /
sally popular chief executive.-San An
tonic Express.
OF all men in public life he was one
that 1t would have been thought was 1
least likely to excite the enmity of any |
man OF set of men.-Austin Statesman. |
His is not a nature to estrange even |
his bitterest opponents, much less to |
make personal enemies, and for that
reason everybody who knew him was 1
his friend.-New Orleans Daily States.
In winning and deserving the trust !
and esteem Of the whole people, |
through his public acts and private in
tercourse, he has never been excelled, |
If equaled, by any Presidential prede- !
cessor.-Vicksburg Herald.
The stricken President is perhaps the
most popular man that ever filled the
Presidential Office. AT every turn he
has consulted public opinion, and he
has never set up his judgment against
it.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
What heart but the heart of Il mad
man or an insensate beast would be
hard enough to even contemplate Il
deadly attack Oh IL so gentle, SO DEM
ocratic. so 'little given to the exercise
OF power?-Chattanooga Times.
He has won for himself the esteem,
respect, and even the love of the whole
people Of this country, and in foreign
lands he is justly counted as II Of
the wisest statesmen America has ever
Observation-Disclosures American.
There is less of partisan feeling and
sectional spirit in him than in any oc-
cupant of the White House since the
a No man has ever made a more
earnest. honest effort to be President
of the whole people.-Nashville Ameri-
can.
His kindly personal character has
made him popular ever with his polit-
ical opponents, and as Americans they
resent with ~unspeakable Indignation
and horror the act of the assassin and
unite in the prayer that his life may
be preserved to his friends and coun-
try.-Baltimore Sun.
Never has there been so general a
demonstration of sorrow over the ILL
ness of any ruler or potentate, and we
r pleased that from all the world
come messages OF sympathy both for
the President and his devoted wife, and
for their grief-stricken fellow country
men.-Mobile Register.
With great occasions, great qualities
he showed, not with strange eXertion,
not for display, but with that ease that
indicated the nature of n nal expand
Ing with opportunity beyond the limits
which the passions of the passing hour
had fixed for a partisan leader; a parti-
sal leader no longer, but the captain of
a s~elf-governing republic.-Louisville
Post.
After the election, and by his evident
desire to do what he could for the
South, the old Democratic stronghold
came to regard him more than any 9th
er Republican as the President Of the
whole United States. He guided the
! affairs of the nation with an almost Inn
partial hand, and today he is regarded
as n of the very best Presidents
| since the time of Washington.-Natch-
ez Democrat.
He has grown steadily in the Presi.
Dental Office, and he will go down in
history with u greatest executives.
That this kindly gentleman and broad
minded statesman should be the victim
of q vile attempt at assassination is a
sore trial on the patience of the Ameri.
a people; and when the news came,
and it was said that the President had
a fighting chance for life, we do not
doubt that millions of prayers Went up
for his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONNER
cial.
The American people. without dis
tinction of party, feel outraged at the
murderous assault, and they also feel
that there is 40 adequate punishment to
fit the crime of the would-be assassin.
The wretch who fired the bullets that
found lodgment in the Presidents body
administered a blow to every American
who loves his country and it's institu-
lions, and if he have single sympa.
thizer in all this broad land it were at
the risk Of his life to express his senti-
ments.-Arkansas Gazette.
If there is one man in all America
whom his countrymen would have
thought safe from such an assault that
man is William Mckinley. Upright in
character, courteous, gentle, lovable in
disposition and manner, he could have
had no personal enemies. And he car
ried into public life the same traits that
endeared him to those who knew him in
his private relations. An executive who
regarded his Office as representative Of
the people, by whom his authority was
conferred, he yer sought to find and
obey their will, and in maintaining his
most cherished political convictions it
was always with perfect consideration
toward his party opponents. There has
been in his conduct no more provoca-
ton for political than for personal ran
o and enmity.-Louisville Courier
journal.
What prouder moment could have
| hannenod in the 1ifp of anv rop2 Nh