The Newtown bee., 1901-09-27

1901.
 in the privilege to take his hand and do him honor, has stirred the hearts and minds of the people of this great country as they have never been moved before in any period of our national history. Such an event in time of war, or in a season of great political excitement, shocking as it ever is to all the finer sensibilities of true and loyal people, would not have been so unexpected and startling. We know too well the terrible possibilities which everywhere, and in all ages, are con ceived and bred in the passions and hatred of sinful men. But peace and
 plenty are over all our land. We are united people as never before. Our Chief Executive was beloved by all good citizens, East, West, North, and South, and was President of the whole
 nation in the deepest, brOadeSt sense
 reasonable to expect. He had won the
 warmest respect, even of his political
 enemies He was hOnOred at home and
 abroad; and his spirit of wisdom and 1 fairness to all in the administration of
 the great responsibilities laid upon him had brought him very near to the
 hearts of those who do not approve
 his policy. We admired him as our | President. His meekneSS and faith
 fitness have proved him as having the
 true greatness of the divine servant of
 all the people.
 HE WAS THE CHOSEN REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATION.
 | We have put upon him the highest
 authority and honor we have to be-
 stow. Not to honor him is to dishonor
 ourselves; for both as Chief Executive,
 and as our distinguished fellow-citizen,
 in his private as we'll as in his public
 life he was worthy of our reverence
 and personal affection.
 The circumstances under which this
 horrible crime was committed are of
 peculiar, and wide spread interest.
 For the first time, almost, in the five
 
 he seemed to have little respite from
 the imperative demands of exacting
 duties and the burden of great cares.
 Success had crowned the efforts of the
 government in the furtherance of every
 good work in the cause of freedom,
 He had not sought to please himself
 in the exercise of the power deligated
 to him by the people; but had executed
 the purpose and will of the nation
 with the most liberal and considerate . charity toward all the world. He haG \. been assured of the approval and affec tion of his countrymen. Only the day before he had spoken the most gracious
 words of welcome and wisdom to the
 representatives of the continents o ' North and South America, assembled
 at the Pan-American Exposition; anG s the significance of his language, an6
 the spirit of his utterances were care z fully pondered by the thoughtful mer of the civilized world.
 The concluding words of his addres!
 are characteristic of the humble anC = profound Christian statesmanship by \, which he is so we'll known, at home = and abroad: ''Gentlemen, Let us eve ', remember that our interest is in con cord not conflict; and that our req :, eminence rests in the victories of peace not those of war. We hope that al who are represented here may bt . moved to a higher and nobler effort fo
 their own and the worlds good, ant that out of this city may come no only greater commerce and trade fo :, us all, but more essential than these ,o relations of mutual respect, cOntidenc ,e and friendship winch will deepen an, ,' endure.
 . "Our earnest prayer is that God vii o graciously vouchsafe prosperity, hap piness and peace to all our neighbors ~ ~ and like blessings to all the people U and powers of earth.''
 u On the morrow, while he stood in al the simplicity of our republican off cial life to meet the common peopl '' face to face, happy as we must thin ~ ~ in the plaudits of the admiring an s grateful multitude, even as he was eH ~ tending his hand to greet the humbles ~ citizen who would salute him on tha 'o joyful occasion, he was
 of SHOT DOWN BY THE DEGENERATE n DEGRADED ANARCHIST. rs Let us reflect for a moment on tn Ill real significance of this fiendish act 'y What does it mean? Was it the resu ce of some bitter personal hatred? Sha e. we find the cause ins political diSal 'n pointment, perhaps? Was it the freq le of madman? Or of some irresponsibl It crank? Such were the first thought )h which came into the minds of man, o. no doubt. But, no, Leon CZo]goSZ, tn IT, murderer of William Mckinley, Ina ;l- no personal grudge against the man | 1e tried to kill. He is not a disappointe ss politician seeking revenge for an or wrongs real or imaginary again: 1d the successful but ungratefl ne statesman. He is not an inSan ITS man in the ordinary sense of the wort 1o whatever we may say of his theor 1d of society. He is not freak, nor ey crank as the world goes He is a h. anarchist. His theory of life-in otht on words his religious faith and convi at tiOns, or maybe his lack of any reli nv ion at all iS the Cacrnt of his cOnGIlc