The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-18

\ was flashed from Buffalo, to near
 \ ly every city and town in the
 world:
 William Mckinley twenty-fourth Pres
 ident of the United States, died at 2:15
 ar assassin's bullet.
 Nine days before at the Pan- American exposition, the President had made one
 of the most popular speeches or his
 term, a speech on reciprocity between nations.
 sReciprocity is the natural outcome of our industrial development" he had
 said. '"The period of exclusiveness is past. Commercial wars are unprofitable A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciproc- ity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retalia- ton are not
 The next afternoon there was recep- tion to the President. to which the pub lie had been invited.
 The reception was in the Temple Of Music at tine exposition. A little girl vas led up by her father and the Presi-
 dent shook hands with her As she
 passed along to the right the President locked after her, smiled and waved his hand in pleasant farewell.
 A few paces behind came an Italian, who held the Presidents hand until one
 of the detectives urged the stranger on.
 The President turned to the right again. bringinC his right hand about in the
 characteristic attitude with which he
 extends 1t while receiving Czolgosz was
 standing there. He thrust out both his
 hands brushed aside the Presidents ex-
 tended hand and brought the revolver,
 hidden in the handkerchief. up against
 the Presidents chest. At the same ln-
 stant he pulled the trigger. The first bull let entered too high for the purpose or
 the assassin. who fired again as soon as
 his finger could pull the trigger.
 Almost before the noise of the second
 slot sounded Czogosz was seized by
 secret service man. Others rushed In
 to aid in the capture, while officials of
 the exposition sought to give the ln-
 iured President what comfort they could.
 Eight days later the country was in mourning, for the President was dead
 little more than a month after that
 A pale faced, unsteady man approached the electric chair in the death chamber. of a penitentiary. The straps were ad- justed, the current thrown on and soon CzolgosZ had paid the penalty of his crime.
 President Mckinley was assassnated in the fifty-ninth year of busy life t1,a of Representatives for the seventh time. very few persons dreamd that he would ever be President. He was leader Tn the House on the tariff issue. and be- cause he had certain force in speech; but he was not seriously considered as a candidate for the speakership, which went to Thomas B. Reed. His previous career had been modest, as he was. He had enlisted in the army in the Twenty
 third regiment of his native state of Ohio in June, 1884, and had served through the war with moderate distinc- | tion, reaching the grade of captain and the brevet grade of major. the brevet being given to him for gallantry in battle. Much of his service was staff duty.
 When he was mustered out, July 26, 1865, he was in his twenty-third year, so that he was IS when he enlisted
 Before entering the army he had been student at Allegheny college in Mead vile. Pa. He now applied himself to the study of law, and settled at Canton and in 1867 he was admitted to the par. | Two years aftcrward he was chosen prosecuting attorney of Stark county and, in 1876, was elected to congress
 serving for fourteen years. In the last year of this service, as chairman of the committee of ways and means, ne was the author of the tariff law which bore his name In the election that followed in that year he lost his seat in the House Some say that he was defeated because the democrats had gerryman- dered his district; others because of the unpopularity of his tariff law. | However this may be, his tariff law made him governor of Ohio for two terms and President of the United States. | From 1894 to 1896 he was out of office, but he had received 1S2 votes for the
 nomination for President in 1892, and had been chairman of the convention. In | 1884 and in 1888 he had reported the na-
 tional platforms to the conventions of
 those years He was. in brief, the spokes-
 man for the policy of protection. It was
 for this reason that he had been in-
 trusted with the duty of framing it's nolicr
 at two national conventions, ana of pre- senting it's bill in 1890. He was the favor-
 ite of the extreme protectionists in the