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I FRED HoLBRoOK-It is sad blow
| to the country. Mr.. Mckinley has the
respect of every American, Of whatever
party he may be a member. 1t is to be
| hoped that the president will recover.
I D. NJ. NEWBRO-The country can i'll
fahprd to lose Mr.. McKinley's steady
hshd whilst 1t rides these high waves
4of prosperity. for there is always danger
of breakers ahead. The miscreant who
! shot the president ought not to be al
lowed to have another chance to harm
| anybody.
BEN f. CALKINS-The grief over
this awful affair will be as great among
members of the opposing as among those
of his own party. Mr.. Mckinley is par
excellence in uprightness. The soldiers
| of the Spanish American war, as well as
! OF, the war for the union, will be espe-
cially grieved. The president was SOL
der that every man must respect.
JAMES T. FINLEN-Mr. Mckinley
| was our president. president of all the
1 people; and this assault is a blow at
every individual in the country. His
! death would be a grave calamity.
HARRY SYMONS-There can be no
| possible excuse for, or liberation of. the
act. The prosperity Of the nation should
| be guarantee of peace and good will.
Mr.. Mckinley is a conservative and safe
i as we'll as most excellent man.
| OCTAVIUS HIGHT-It is unspeakably
distressing.
| II. J. BLUME-If 1t is the result of an
anarohistic plot, the nest at Paterson,
I! N. j.. should be rounded up to finality.
l " to-
bic to talk about. That the perpetrator
no more room in this country for an
| archists.
! CITY TREASURER BEN CALKINS-
1T was a cowardly deed, without semb-
| lance of justification. The government,
| in case the shot terminates fatally, ought
| to.take hold and exterminate, or exile for
i all time, the men whose teachings are re-
| sponSible for this act. 1t is unjust to
| the people at large to have the best men
/ of the country shot down for no other
| reason than that they are chosen, by
| reason of their ability, to take charge of
/ t4e affairs of the nation. 1t is the duty
4 OF the government to drive out all such
| desperate teachers as those whose writ
| ngs have led up to this appalling deed
:, We must. if life is to be held sacred.
I The law is for the protection of law abid-
ing people. No one has right to live
here and think or do such deeds as this"
POLICE JUDGE THOMAS BOYLE
There are no two sides to the question
\ Of the horror of the deed. The chief mag
| istrate of the nation was shot down in
| cold blood, by fanatic, who was made
i So doubtless, byt what he had read or
heard from false teachers. 1t is deplora-
| BILE in every sense of the word"
JAILER SOL LEVY-"I sincerely hope
| that Mckinley may recover. He was the
president of this nation, elected by the
people. and was deserving of better end
than to be shot down by an unknown as
sassin, who stood for anarchy and the
breaking down of laws. Human life is
always too sacred to go in this way; it is
]. especially SO in the case of high official
chosen by the people to execute the laws
that they make
DAY POLICE SERGEANT GEORGE
YOUNG-"Why couldn't he have taken
| some worthless fellow who was worth
nothing to the country, instead of the
chief executive of the nation? Mckinley
did only what the people elected him to
>. do-execute the laws Of the land. If there
was any occasion to change the laws and
the order of society of murder. the as
Il sassin should start in to kill all the peo-
II pie, instead of the man who executes the
~ laws
= DIR, C. B NORCROSS-My father was
a union soldier and Of course, my sym
81 pathies are always with the veterans OF
Il that war. It is all the more keenly felt
by me when I remember that after VIM
J. Mckinley had barred his breast thous-
I. and times to hail of an open enemys
} bullets, he should fall by the hand OF 8
a coWardly assassin.
"A. S. CHRISTIE-How such mis-
creants as anarchists can flourish on this
soil is a mystery. No punishment car
adequately punish the crime. President
Mckinley is greatly esteemed abroad al
j well as at home. The horror Is MADE
worse by the thought OF the president
: long suffering wife.
G, s. LANDER-There Us problem
to be solved in this country; and tina
is, where liberty ends and license begins
President Mckinley is the ablest ant
best chief executive any country IN tns
world has today. His death would be
. calamity that it is not easy to foretell
Let us all hope that the president viii
recover.
w. A. sMITH-Words fail to express
. my contempt for the awful crime Ever!
true Americans heart Is bowed in grie
!, at the bedside of President Mckinley to
. day.
HARRY A. KENNEDY-N looks as
, sometimes liberty and license are take1
! as one. There ought to be no room II
this country for anarchists. America
| never had a purer, cleaner, more patri
. otto president than Mr.. Mckinley.
r.. A. HEUSER-As much respected a
, he is today, President McKinley's tru
u worth as a statesman, patriot and goo
Imam will not be fully recognized for an
other generation.
]. H, LEYSON-Thfs nation can II
afford to snare President Mckinley. III