St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-09-14
Attempted Assassination
Of President Mckinley

Of President Mckinley
At 4o'clock last Friday evening,
while holding a reception at the
Buffalo Exposition, President Nc.
K,nley was shot by a man named
Leon Czolgosz, who processes to be
an anarchist. The would-b assas-
in came up with the throng and
sought to shake the Presidents
hand, and simultaneously fired two
shots at him. One bullet struck him
OH upper portion of the breast bone
CLAIMING and not penetrating; the
second was more serious, penetrat-
ing the abdomen five inches below
the left nipple, and penetrating the
stomach. The wound is not neces-
sarily fatal, and symptoms are
favorable to recovery.
1t Is needless to say that from all
quarters has arisen deep 'nd'gna.
ton at the dastardly crime, and
from all over the civilized world
comes hopeful tidings that the life
OF the President may be preserved.
The Daily Item truthfully says:
"This anarchist had perhaps no
malice against President McKin-
ley. He and the society which d.
rectly or indirectly lnstigated him
struck at the head of the govern.
ment. 1t is their purpose to con-
tlnue striking down the heads of
government to show their hatred
Of organized society. They seek
communism which is to have no
head, in which all the people are to
be heads. They are enemies of all
government, even the most demo.
cratic, and they bind their agents
by solemn vows with the death pen
atty to slay the victim they have
selected for their bloody altar.
These wretches must be extermi-
mated"
Senator William E. Mason,
speaking of the enactment of laws
to prevent the gathering of auarch-
lists, said:
1.-The man that attempted to kill
President Mckinley Is guilty of
treason. A law should be enacted
by the government that would pro-
hlbit the teaching of treason AMI
deal with those guilty Of the crime.
eff we caught man teaching a
youth to steal we would punish
him. There is a class of people
that teaches that it is right to Kill
a President. This not only is MUIR
der, but treason. The people who
teach it are accessories to the MUIR
der before and after the fact and
are guilty of treason when they
teach it,
STATEMENT OF AN EYE
WITNESS.
a special to the Picayune, Sept.
s, says:
James 8. Parker, the Georgia
negro, who knocked down Czol!
gosz, the moment after he shot the
president, was found to-day. He
gave a graphic account of the
tragic occurrence.
81 was next in line behind the
who shot the PRESIDENT"
he said. 81 tried to get in front
of him several times, but he pushed
me back with his elbow. A little
girl had just shaken hands with
the president when the assassin
reached him. Czolgosz had the
concealed in hardker-
chief, which was wrapped around
the revolver and his hand. Czol-
gosz did not extend his left hand,
as some of the newspapers report.
The president thought Czolgosz's
right hand was sore, and put ont
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left hand. AS he did, the anarchist
fired twice, BAN, BAN. l struck
him in the nose with my right fist
aud reached with my left hand to
take the pistol from him. Several
Of the marines thought the officer
was the man who did the shooting,
but he pointed to where l had
Czolgosz down on the floor, and
said: There is the man who shot
him.
"Czolgosz raised his pistol again,
to shoot either the president or
myself. but at that time l cboked
him so hard that he couldn' shoot.
struck hun SO hard chat the blood
gushed from his nose. We strug-
yled some seconds before the secret
service officers reached US. Then
one of them, l think it was Foster,
struck HIM aud said: YOU
.--, did yon dare t" shoot
our presitlant::'
81 wanted To cut his throat. but