The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-07
THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
MR.. M'KINLEY.


| The news of the cowardly shoot
ing of President Mckinley at Buff
falO yesterday afternoon shocked
the whole world, not alone because
OF the danger it showed to which
the Republic is exposed, but also
because of the kindly feeling every
where entertained toward the
President.
Twice within sixteen years, and
three times since the War Between
the States has an assassin sought
the life of a President. In the
case of President Lincoln, death en-
sued in a very short time, while
President Garfield fingered for
weeks, while the people of the Re-
public prayed in vain for his recov-
cry. The third instance is the most
| alarming because the man who
tried to kill Mr.. Mckinley is a
member of the new breed of an
sassins and cut-throats that is
worldwide in its ramifications.
Booth was the case Of the indi-
vidual shooting Lincoln in an in
sane emotion after bloody civil
war. Guiteau was the crazy in
dividua1 who imagined he had a
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Nieman is the member of a
band holding to he1lish creed,
ready to stealthily kill the public
officer, not from emotional insanity
or maddened by a supposed person.
al grievance, but as the result of a
deep faith in the stiletto, import
ed into this country with the horde
of undesirable and vicious unre-
stricted immigrants who bring
their vernin, their vice, and their
venom to this free land. The man
who sought to take Mr.. McKinley's
life was we'll dressed and had the
appearance of a prosperous citizen.
He was not dirty or ragged. He
was probably educated in the
schools, and did not belong to the
ignorant or illiterate classes. He
is the type of the anarchist who
teaches that it is right to kill ones
rulers a,l1 to antagonize the exist
ing order of government. These
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country as in Europe, and the as
sassin yesterday declared he had
done his duty just as the bloody
handed assassin in France declared
he had done a good deed when he
had alassinated the President of
the French Republic. What to do
with men holding such views and
carrying them out without COM
junction is one Of the problems of
the age. They are not amenable to
reason or open to any influence
that would restrain men Of any real
Americanism. They have no part
nor lot with the true Americans
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public. They are a set of foreign
verniin, expelled by the best public
opinion Of Europe from their birth
places, seeking to carry out their
creed of anarchy and blood in
America. They deserve to be treat
ed as vermin and exterminated by
nnfI II I'D k1,o% L, u
may look to see this red-handed as
sassin go to his trial, Boosting of
his deed and declaring that he was
Fan apostle of liberty, rejoicing in
the notoriety that his crime has
brought him, and having no re-
morse for his bloody deed, thus pos
horde Of anarchists who infest some
of our cities as well as European
cities. The craftsmanship of this
day ought to be able to find a way
to strangle the bacilli Of anarchy
as well as hang the anarchists be-
fore they are more firmly rooted in
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pests cannot be too stringent or too
strenuously enforced.
From thousands and thousands of
homes in this land today prayers
will go up for the recovery Of the
President. In this national solicit
tude he is first in the hearts Of ali
his countrymen Of all sections and
political creeds. No President of
late years has been personally SO
well liked as Mr.. Mckinley. His
personal clean life, his devotion to
his invalid wife, his freedom from
hate or rancor, his amiability and
affability have won him the person.
al esteem of all men, and in the
hour of crisis there is no feeling
anywhere except of prayer that he
may be restored and that the blow
may not result fatally.
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