Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-09-13
Washinotou STANDARD
OLYMPIA. WASH.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER IS, 1901.
The Topic of the Week.

icty and tribulation to the American
people. The announcement made
in last weeks paper that the Presi-
dent had been shot by an assassin,
while shaking hands with throng OF
visitors in The the Temple of Music
at the Pan-American Exposition,
caused a wave of ineilaEle sorrow to
sweep over every patriotic heart.
The would-bc assassin was Leon
Czolgosz, whose very name paralyzes
the English alphabet. He was born
IN Detroit, and halls now from Cleve.
| and. He first gave his name as Fred
Nieman. Although he claims &c
have been born in this country he i:
the product of the spawn that drifts
over the ocean to perpetuate its like
on the free soil of country that is
far too tolerant of the habits of the
Gu t-throat element of other lands
Many of the immigrants from des
potic countries bring with them ali
their rancor against governmental
rule, without the common sense tC
discriminate between the autocratic
acts OF tyrant and the mild rules
made for mutual benefit, by the people
themselves, and at once b egin to plot
against those in authority. They arc
from the moment their feet rest on
free soil, "forninst" the government
as they were for cause on the other
side the planet, and with far more
freedom to plan and plot and form
clans for propagating discomfort. l.
it any surprise that the progeny oil
such hotbeds is of like temperament
and embued with the same disposition
to kill?
The accounts say that the first
bullet struck upon the upper portion
of the Presidents breast bone. and
glanced of, not penetrating the body
The second entered tho abdomen, pen.
etrated the stomach and lodged in the
back. The first was extracted. the
second could not be located.
The assassin approached the Presi-
dent as if to greet him, with his pis-
tol-hand covered by a white handker-
chief under which the weapon was
concealed. After the second shot, the
President sank back into q chair,
while the bystanders furiously at
tackled the assassin and disarmed him.
He WAS Immediately taken to police
headquarters. The first words he ut.
tered after recovery from the severe
drubbing we're: 81 am an anarchist.
I only did my duty" He afterwards
signed a statement that he became an
enthusiastic anarchist through the in
fluence Of Emma Goldman. He said
the intent of killing the President was
deliberately formed, three days before,
by himself, and that he had no &C.
complete. There were three secret
service agents within . few feet of the
President, but there was absolutely
nothing in the manners OF the young
man with curly, brownish hair and a
we'll shaped moustache, who kept
slowly moving on in the line, TO ex-
cite suspicion. He had cap under
his arm, his left hand was wrapped in
white silk handkerchief. as if he had
hurt bis hand and bound it up. No.
body thought that it covered an ugly
little 32-calibre derringer, carrying
Eve short cartridges. The President
reached out his right hand to grasp
that of the man. and smiled. For an
answer, the man reached his left hand
around, pressed his weapon against
the black frock.coat Of the President
and pulled the trigger twice in quick
succession. Then the cry arose 1.-THE
President is killedw and pandemonium
reigned.. While Secretary Cortelyou
and Mr.. Milburn, President of the Elk.
position, cared for the President, the
secret agents we're taking care of the
assassin; but = Hercules in black
James F. Parker. q negro waiter. tool
the job of their hands. He is feet
4 inches tall and weighs $50 pounds
Of muscular enthusiasm. A left shift
of his clenched fist and he knocked
the pistol from the assassin's hand; q
right hook, and he spun the mar
round like . top; punch and he
broke his nose, blow and he split hi.
lip and Knocked out several teeth
When Czolgosz was released from thi.
wound.up demon of Retribution, thu
giant sighed, "Oh, for only ten sec
onds morew
In moment, the account says
there were 10000 frenzied American.
around the temple, calling for ropes tc
hang the assassin, and the cry Of
"lynch himl" went from one end o.
the grounds to the other, while womer
fought for places on the line which
was soon provided, to string up The
man who was covering behind the
closed doors of the Temple of Music
But soon CLINT OF steel was apparen,
and company of marines appeared in
their blue blouses, to give the vagrant
who had attempted and presumably
contaminated, the highest crime, the
chance for trial. They saved the man
who shot the President from lynching
President Mckinley was taken e
the Emergency Hospital, on the
grounds. It was found that but one
shot, the first, was serious. It entered
Eve inches below the left minnie