The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-21
CRIME OF ASSASSINATION.
Review of the Long List of As.
sallts on Public PcrsOnageS.

Happily on account of the resisting
quality of Colonel Roosevelt's strenu-
GUS manuscript speeches America APP
parently escapes the. humiliation of
another murder of a president-or an
ex-president-and n John Schrank,
narrowly escapes being fourth in line
of succession with John Wilkes Booth.
who killed President Lincoln, April
IL. 1865; Charles Jules Guiteau, who
killed President Garfield, July 2, 1881,
and Leon Gzolgosz. who fired a fatal
bullet into the body of President Nc
Kinley at Buffalo, September 6, 1901.
1t is a CHASTITY record for a demo-
cratic republic like America. Not one
of the assassins of American presi-
dents has been sane John Wilkes
Booth was a morbid sensationalist,
Guiteau was pleased to be crazed be-
cause Garfield would not appoint him
to an office he had asked for, Gzol-
gosz was crazed with the anarchic
conviction that he could right the
wrongs Of society by killing some high
official.
So Julius Caesar was stabbed to
death by Brutus, Cassius. Casca and
the rest of them, who did business for
Julius at the base of Pompey's me-
mortal, because Caesar was ambi-
tious." but these were the equals of
Caesar and men who really believed
he had an ambition to usurp absolute
rule. and not anarchists with bugs in
their brains. Similar a~ssassinations
nave been in vogue since long before
the inception of the Christian era and
ever since. Jael killed Sisera by driv-
ing a spike through his head while he
slept. Hipparchus and Heppias. broth-
er tyrants of Greece, We're chieftains
Of a EDITORIAL machine and they were
a~ssassinated by Hermodius and Aristo.
giton.
the list of assassinations of those
who were counted in one sense or an
other the great ones of the earth
would make a large volume. Philip
of macedon, Thomas a-Becket, Albert
l, Emperor of Germany: James I Of
Scotland. Alessandro de Medici, Will
lam OF Orange, Henry III of France,
Henry ~ of France. the Duke of
buckingham of 1923. Archbishop
Sharp and Cardinal Bcaton, Marat Of
the French revolution period, by Char
lotte Corday; Gustavus Ill of Sweden,
Kleber. n Of the great generals of
Napoleon 1; Paul, z of Russia;
K%otzebue. the great dramatist, one of
the first of assinations by an an.
nrchist who resented his satires
against so-called radical principle Of
that day: Alexander II, car of Rus.
sia, in 1881; and a long list of other
notables who were killed for political
reasons or On account of rival am.
billions.
One of the most romantic of as
sa~ssinations. really a series of them, II
murder a ever be called romantic,
was that of Rizzio, the Italian score.
tary of Mary. Queen of Scots. She
had for her husband Lord Darnley,
who became jealous of Rizzio and in
vaded the boudoir Of the queen with
two or three braves in Holyrood pal
ace. at Edinburg. and stabbed the
Italian to the death. Later Queen
Mary decided she desired the Earl of
Boutwell, rather than Darnley, and
Darnley was promptly assassinatcd by
cOnnivancc of Boutwell,. Married to
the earl the troubles of the queen
were piled up like Ossa on Pelion and
Pelion on Olympus. She asserted her
sovereignty to the throne Of England,
as we'll as Of Scotland. there being
doubt of the legitimacy of Queen Eliz-
abeth. but the latter was the more DO.
%tential. and imprisoned Mary and fin
ally had her ~beheaded, which was
rather another assassination.
Other assassinatiOns that shocked
the whole civilized world were those
OF President CarnOt of France. at Ly-
ons. in 1892; King Humbert l of italy
at Monza. by Rresci. n confessed an
hrchist, In 1900; that of the Empress