The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-07
SORROW
THROUGHOUT MONTANA
Grief Claimed Place When the News
of the Attempted Assassination
Was observation-disclosures Of Butte
Speak in Terms of Praise
Of the Nations Chief.

Was Received-Cltizens Of Butte
Speak in Terms Of Praise
=. Of the Nations Chief.
When the news of the attempted as
sassination of the president came to
Butte the busy community appeared To
| pause in it's myriad tasks, struck with
| amazement at the news. Never since
| the first oof was reared in Butte have
| tidings come that so stirred every
| heart. In the public mind grief and rag j.
| fought battle for place. Alternately
| mems thoughts turned to the pathetic
| spectacle of the nations well beloved
chief and the peoples friend laying
| stricken by cOwardly assault and to
the craven who had laid him low. No
| che in all the great city could express
his thoughts in coherent speech o"
| speak for publication in the calm and
| deliberate manner suitable for public
| Utteranca.
The news was flashed to the Daily
| Inter Mountain at $3.50 p. m. The pres
| ident WAS shot at 400 O'Clock and tha
| difference in time permitted the news
to reach Butte at the time stated. The
first dispatch was merely bulletin.
1.-The president has been shot, were the
Hateful words upon the fiimsy telegraph
! slip tossed on the desk of the telegraph
| editor.
| Big news was on the way to tho
press room at the time. The Near
thur hanging at Deer Lodge was in the
public mind and the wires We're busy
| telling the story.
a brief commotion in the newspaper
office was followed by the order to
give right Of way to an extra Inter
Mountain and the hasty message
rushed ahead of other important news
by the Associated Press was thrown
| into type, rushed down stairs to the
ready presses and in few minutes the
news boys were crying the extra on the
| streets
The manner in which the news of the
shooting subordnated every other mat.
| ter of public interest in the office Of
Buttes afternoon newspaper reflected
well the manner in which the public
met the profound shock of the tidings.
On the streets the news was at first
received with increduality; then as
verification came in the form of a news
paper extra the imaginations Of the
readers took wings and conjecture
was busy making wild guesses at the
personality of the assassin, the motive
and all the details of the deed
The regular edition of the Inter
Mountain brought the first news of the
manner in which the deed was COM
mitted. After the meagre tidings con
tanned in the extra were rushed through
| there was a lull in through telegraph
/ messages. 1t was doubtful if a mes
sage came into Montana that did not
come over a leased wire. AS far east
as Miles City and to the northwest as
far as Kalipell the friends Of the Inter
| foi o1o for nd
the wires freighted with messages to
| the exclusion of all other business.
Montana eager for. the news discarded
all business over the telegraph wires
| and not until the towns and cities Of
! the state We're appraised of the presi-
dents condition was business allowed
to resTme. At Bozeman the Inter Noun
| tain dispatch was read by over a
thousand people before it had been
| posted a half hour. In Butte and
| throughout the state deep concern and
| all-prevailing sorrow held sway and
men gave way to a wild desire to wreak
vengeance upon the coward who had
attempted assassination in the guise OF
a citizen who wished to greet the presi-
| dent with a welcoming handshake.
Today men in Butte are calmer. They
| speak their minds as men do who are
moved by deep grief. In the presence of
the Inter Mountain reporters today
nearly all the leading business and
professional men in the city have given
expression to their feelings upon the
high crime of yesterday. Below are sub
| joined a number of expressions from
well-known residents of Butte:
.ublic Opinion.
EX-SENATOR MANTLE-The shock
to me is beyond words. I know Mr.. Nc
Kinley personally. and no better, no
! kinder man ever lived. His ability is
known Of all men, not only of this ma
| ton. but Of the world. His conduct to-
wards China must forever stamp him as
truly great, and surprisingly good at
heart. That the president of Greater
| America should fall by an assassin's bull
| let, is a calamity of all time. hope and
pray that he will recover from the
| wounds, and I believe that my express
sion in this line will find favor in the
hearts of all good men. irrespective OF
political faith.
SENATOR w. A. CLARK-"I was
| deeply grieved to learn of the shooting
Of the president, as all American citizens
| unquestionatly were. Knowing the
President personally, had ample oppol-
| tunity OF learning his noble characted
and many charming attributes. He is
noble American loved by all his fellow
men. I can not understand the motive
for his attempted assassination by an an
archist. He Is liberal minded, just in all
things and I supposed. at peace with the
world 1t may develop that the man who
shot him, Is q manias, wits some imag-
mary grievance. Should the President
die it would mean a great loss to the Ma
ton. 1 sincerely hope he will survive
and I feel sure that the breast of every
American is filled with the hope that God
will spare him."
| WILLIAM SCALLON President Ana.