New-York tribune., 1901-09-08
NEWS SPREADS FAST IN GERMANY
GENERAL. DENUNCIATION OF, THE ASSAULT
on THE PRESIDENT

Berlin Sept THE news OF the attempted
assassination OF President Mckinley spread
rapidly here this morning. causing great grief
Inc American colony was thunderstruck and
expressions OF sympathy We're heard on all sides
The news was received here TOO late fo,
comment iE the morning papers
The United States Ambassador. Andrew d
White who before his departure for
Sassnitz. said
President McKinley's death would be a terri
bic loss at the time when he had marked out a
policy for :he United States calculated To com
piete magnihcently his carer. knew him for
many years. and have never heard him speak
without being deeply impressed with his ability
patriotism and good will TO all mankind. If
there ever was a democrat use the word in
It's true sense-he was The only thing he
had at heart was the welfare not of a person
or of a class but of all the people His con-
duct has been admirable.
Regarding the Spanish war. ne tried earnestly
to prevent it, but when he saw the people were
determined to end the Cuban struggle he put
himself at the head of the movement and
brought it to a triumphant end
was especially impressed last summer when
during the terrible heat he stood perfectly cool
al the wheel He will pass into history one
of the greatest Presidents.
The North German Gazette" (semi- Officially
this afternoon says:
The execrable attempt fills Germans with sin
sympathy for the sorrow of the friendly
American people. May medical skill preserve
the revered head of the great republic and save
American history from the stain of another
Presidential assassination.
Baron Won Richthofen, the Secretary for For
eign Affairs. when he received news of the at
tempt on the life of President Mckinley called
at the United States Embassy this morning to
express his condolences. A number of members
of the diplomatic corps also called for the same
purpose The baron in interview said that
the Foreign Office received the news of the at
tempted assassination of President Mckinley
with the deepest Indignation. He expressed the
warmest sympathy with the President his fam
lily and the American people.
President Mckinley is held In the highest
esteem here of which the Emperor has repeat
edly shown proof The chief of the Foreign
Office was Immediately ordered to telegraph all
news regarding the attempted assassination To
the Emperor and to Count Won Bdlow- The
count inquired from Norderney tan island In
the North Sea-. before the official notification
was received. whether the rumor Of the at
tempted assassination of the President was
true and asked for news
The United States Consul-General f. H. Ma
son. said:
If there was head of a civilized nation who
sbould have been protected by his kindness and
blameless life from assassination, II was presl-
dent Mckinley. l knew him from chhohooa-
We are both natives Of Niles Ohio AS Doys
soldier lawyer and statesman the President mas
been generous loyal and manly, and incapabie
OF a mean cruel dishonest thought or act
As the author Of the tariff OF 1890 he was at
the time regarded with certain aversion in
Europe but his broad. patriotic, conellatoFss
stntesmanship. and especially his recent utter
ances on reciprocity and international conf
merce have dispelled all such feeling, ana ne is
now recognized by. intelligent Europeans as one
Of the ablest most courteous and most Just or
Prssidants The son of a workingman. his life
work has been in the interest or higner wages
for labor and the peoples prosperity
All the evening papers make sympathetic COM