The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1901, Page 23

Cerone GOQQ*QIOIOMMQQMQ“'IC‘ 5 H e * : : 100N ?3 0 32 : : : : : = ol - e H DOrer e O rOROR GRIXO A PN OMflON*O' Call. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDA s SEPTEMBER 8, 1901. CHIEF EXECUTIVE’'S FIRST WORDS ARE CONCERNING DEVOTED WIFE ACTION FAST IN Hopes TIirs. TcKinley | Will Authentic Version of What | TRAGEDY True Story of thei Thoughtsof the President. Not Be Told. Occurred After Shots Were Fired. the utterances afte: sident was shot, ti y's trag Temple of Musi agree by difficult to elther se at God forgive him,” aft d that his firs reference McK: this. At least, I hope it wi! le: rter who stoed just | when the shootin, the He sz sald: approach him. d drawn up clos a white ded for he leane rt, e Assassin. r, a colored ma UFFALO, Sept. 7.—In many aterial points, and particu- | The action of | very fast and its com- | ne of confu. the President to his | will riot be clearest ac- from the Presi- sue | American President: it nen handker- it bore the appear- his left the President scienceless Agitators and Sensational Newspapers. DAVID STARR JORDAN CHARGES YELLOW PRESS WITH FOMENTING ASSASSINATION Says the Buffalo Tragedy Is an Outcome of Strife Between Classes Brought About by Con- B T e c e t | S TANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 7.—President David Starr Jor- dan gave out the following statement to-night touching on the attack upon President Mec- Kinley and the causes responsi- ble for such an assault upon an 1l | g ® | “The feeling of the American people to- ay is 2 compo¥nd of horror, indignation, vmpathy and shame. The man, if there be one, who does not re in all this s not an American, and the word ‘traitor’ is one which just fits him. “It was once the boast of a Duke of Wurttemberg ‘Lat though his country was d " bis right hand | poor and humole it possessed one jewel. the flash and | He could safe! and then | any of his su lay his head in the lap of ccts. Such a glory should | belong to free America. However high political discussion might arise, it should carry. no danger to life or property. Our servant, the President, should safely lay S Agent Foster were ol T v his head in the lap of the people he i poore odm 10 'Be | serves. Our Presiden: should need no < o ceemen | Podvguard. Tie deaths of Lircoln and 'd seemed | GoyGa1d were exceptions, which only raised hi. upright po- crive, bu d in a mo: ms of Secre: ¥ at his feet. forced rd him ask tha much pain, he said: much.’ and Alarm of Mexican Minister. Mexican Minister. nt, are you shot?" ter seemed about n a halting, sul the scuf- d rest he seemed only part. ted. I heard nof nt of the Presi. e k down the momen the was probably in exclamation a rough treatment he was recelv- secor HARSH WORDS NOT @TRACTED Eenator Wellington Makes No Com- ment on Reported Remarks the ML About the President. LTIMORE, Md., Sept. 7.—A morning an interview with George L. Welling. berland upon the re. him. He flatly de. rayers in the Synagogues. L, B¢ In all the Jewish prayers were offered recovery of the President. mentioned trophe in his address and dwelt instances the rabbi e of the President, breast and { an outcome cf the »sz's revolver had | ked from his hand | icked up the burning | Czol- back and Cortelyou and | e President-and 1 his wife, and a Secretary Cortelyou ) inside of his shirt he withdrew it his fingers were b He paled again at the 1 think he wd and rushing up to throw | of the President, but | President’s answer | I believe I am.” dragging erer away, but he did ed on the arm courage was superb, 3 : d__this | s he was the | morning to 146. Both his respiration | When the | and temperature, although they varied stretcher was ed forward and partly shot, and if he did s of the attempt upon ient McKinley, in which ing: OF ASSASSIN| a1 enemies. I have 2k (23 it care o say amy. | Berious Charge Is IMade -Against «m indifferent to the whole Walking Delegate W. T. Eaton. of the Senator was di- SACRAMENTO, Sept. 7.—The Bee to- morning with a affirmation of ‘the | provead the rule. “The immediate act of yesterday is | strife between - | classes, imported from the 01d World, _ | fomented by unpractical or conscience- t | section of the press which values - | o sensation above truth or peace or ~ | justice. We cannot suppress the agitator or the journal, for force only increases the danger. But we have a moral duty to stand against all move- ments of whkatever kind which seek to accomplish their ends through ir- t | timidation or murder. “The republic can recognize but one 3 | method of political reform—the ballot. | Those who would divide our people into warring bands, ylelding unquestioned con- fairly easy as he| . ;'t; feudal Jeaders, are not friends of nd some of the fad- | democracy. to his face. He 55 * ‘“To unionize all capital and to bring all labor into a single trust is to destroy democracy by destroying individuality in labor and commerce. The endeavor to do this on either or both sides does great Wrong to the millions of Americans who ng to neither band and are trying to live their own lives and earn their own bread as frcemen in a free man's own faghion. DAVID STARR JORDAN."” HANNA MAKES STRONG DENIAL BUFFALO, Sept. 7.—Senator Hanna was seen by a newspaper man a few min- utes after he left the bedroom of (he President. The Senator requested that a + £ _denial be made that he had sent a mes- — sage to his son, Dan R. Hanna, stating that President McKinley's condition was alarming. “I have sent no message to Cleveland or any other point in the country reg: ing the condition of the President, othar than the officlal bulletins issued by the physicians,” the Senator sald. “To forestall any report that may ob- tain circulation I wish to state now,” the Senator continued, “that no one is to blame for this terrible affair. The exposi- tlon officials, the officlals of the Govern- ment and the local officials did everything in their power to guard the person of the chief executive and no one is responsible in the slightest degree.” “Has there been a meeting of the Cab- inet, Senator?” & *“No, there has been ho meeting of the Cabinet, informal or otherwise, and I sincerely belleve that no emergency will arfse that will make such a fhing neces- sary.” &) | PRESIDENTS OF TWO GREAT INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING WHO DECLARE THEIR BELIEF THAT UN- SCRUPULOUS JOURNALISM 1S RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDITIONS RESULTING IN THE ATTEMPT UPON THE LIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. . — | Continued From Page Thirteen. PRESIDENT TIcKINLEY’S CONDITION IS NEAR]NG THE CRISIS. given to him at intervals, but no food of any kind as yet. His physicians say he has plenty of reserve strength to draw upon, and for the present neither nourishment nor artificial stimn!am:; are necessary. | No medicine except digitalis has been | given, and that was administered to | quiet his pulse, which mounted this much during the day, were considered | ¢ | satisfactory. g | s The doctors issued five bulletins be- | t | tween 6 o’clock this morning and 6:30 | this evening, and because they showed | an absence of unfavorable conditions | t they were -generally regarded as very hopeful. The record of pulse; showed a wide variation during the day, but any alarm occasioned on that score was minimized by a statement from Dr. Rixey, the President’s physi- cian, that Mr. McKinley's pulse under | normal conditions was inclined to be erratic and that he was not unfavor- ably impressed by the circumstances. The physicians were not concerned as to the patient’s temperature. During APPLAUDS ACT night contains the following: " In the midst of the sorrow which was every- where felt in Sacramento over the announce- ment that Presfent McKinley had been shot down by a vile assassin, there stood one man who was not moved to denmounce the craven assault which had been inflicted, not alone upon the chi magistrate of the nation, but upon the heart of the American people as well. The man was standing with another on the | wegt side of Second, between J and K streets, the forenoon and well into the afternoon it held at 102 degrees, and then began to increase slightly. At 3:30 it was at 102.2, and three hours later it had risen ‘to 1025, but even at the latter point it was not viewed with concern. The respiration of the wounded Presi t was looked upon as being quite satisfactory. VICE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ARRIVES Vice President Roosevelt reached the Milburn residence shortly after 1 o'clock to-day, after traveling con- tinually since 7 o’clock last night, when he left Burlington, Vt. He was escorted from the station as far as the Hotel Iroquois by a squad of mounted police, | and the remainder of the wav by a squad of bicycle police. He expressed his deep distress at the tragedy, but be- yond that declined to make any state- | ment. He remained at the residence about half an hour and then went to the nearby home of Ansley Wilcox. whose guest he will be during his stay. By evening all the members of the early yesterday afternoon, when a third party approached with the shocking news that Presi- dent McKinley had been shot down by an as- sassin, and that he was perhaps fatally wounded. The man. received the news with the remark: “He ought to have been shot in San Fran- cisco!” The man who gave utterance to this senti- ment in the nation’s hour of grief and horror was an is W. T. Baton., and he is the walk- ing delegate of the Building Trades Council of Sacramento, Speaking of the incident editorlally, the Bee says: The members of the Buliding Trades.Councll are good, hard-working, law-abiding American citizens. They will never countenance such a dastardly sentiment. Wt the same time they owe it to themselves and to thelr Americanism to publicly voice thelr abhorrence of Baton's expressions, and to kick him out in disgrace from among them. Cabinet except Secretary Hay and Secretary Long had arrived. The | Secretaries came as fast as steam | and steel “could carry them. Both | the Sccretary of State and the Secretary | of the Navy are expected to-morrow. Secretary Wilson and Secretary Root | spent most of the day at the Milburn | residence. All the members of the Cabinet will remain here until the result of the wound is deter- mined. It is probable that after they all arrive a Cabinet meeting will be held. Informally they have discussed the pos- i sibility of Vice President Roosevelt be- | | ing called upon to act as magistrate | during the disability of the President. But all precedents are against such a course while the President lives. | GENERAL BRCOKE TAXKES | CHARGE OF MILITARY | A plan to insure absolute quiet for the President has been put operation, and the safeguards are now such that it will be practically impossible for him to be disturbed in any way. General Brooke, commander of the | in ADVISES CRIME ON THE TRAIN Theatrical People Tell of the Conduct of an Alleged Anarchistic Musician. MOBILE, Ala.,, Sept. 7.—Fritz Hutt- mann, the Wichita, Kans., reporter, who says he was told last March by Antonio Magglo, a cornet player of the Andrews Opera Company, that President McKinley would be assassinated before October 1, was with the Andrews Opera Company here as a tenor singer until a few weeks ago, when the company disbanded and a portion of the members left for Kansas City. Several of the company remained in Mobile. Department of the East, who came here this morning from New York. assumed personal cliarge of the military. and un- der his direction the picket lines were extended in every direction. the city police the soldiers roped off the streets which intersect Delaware ave- nue near the Milburn residence, and both teams and pedestrians were kept out of the district. The telegraph office established in the Milburn stable was removed to a tent pitched on a lawn on the opposite side of the avenue. An additional tent for the use of the news- paper correspondents is also placed there. The White House clerical force, which had established an office in the main drawing-room of the Mil- burn residence, was moved to Glenny residence. which adjoins the Milburn home and which had been ten- dered to Secretary Cortelyou for the purpose. Mrs. Duncan, sister of the President, and her son, and the Misses Barber, nieces of the President, also left the Milburn residence, and at midnight departed for Canton. They are to be closely advised of the condition of Mr. A reporter to-day interviewed the mem- bers here, who stated that they were well acquainted with both Magglo and Hutt- mann and that the statement of Hutt- ‘mann telegraphed from Wichita last night is correct in every detail. They stated that Maggio was a member of the Itallan branch of the anarchist so- clety and that on the trip from Abilene to Paris, Tex., as spoken of by Huttmann, Magglo on several occasions went through the train delivering anarchist literature. He was remonstrated with by Andrews. the ménager of the company, Whereupon he threatened to kill Andrews. This brought abouf an embittered feeling be- tween them. Some time later the trouble was renewed and Magglo left the train. This was in the latter part of April and at last accounts he was sti]l at Silver City, N. M. g Aided by ! the | rious chinge will return here. Other members of the Presidential party who have been quartered in the Milburn residence will temporarily withdraw to further aid the plan of se- curing perfect quiet for the wounded man. The public shows its truest ap- proval of the plan by keeping away from the locality, and neither the sen- | tries nor the police have encountered | any opposition. Those whose presence is necessary move abont the house and grounds in the quietest manner pos- sible. McKinley, and should there be a se- | TO ACT AS THE LEADER Vice President to Be the Sole Judge. 5 o Must Decide for Him= self on Chief Execu= tiveship. B S y Roosevelt Would Not as President Without Cabinet Request. Special Dispatch to The Call. oy ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHING- TON, Sept. 7.—Vice President Roosevelt must decide for himself whether the Presi- dent’s disabilities are of such a nature or whether the com- dition of public business is such as to re- quire him to assume the duties of the chief executive as acting President. This is the opinion of many excellent lawyers who have considered the question, though it is not the unanimous opinion of the profession. Until the shooting of Presi- dent Garfleld the question of what was | the proper precedure in case of the in- | ability of the President to discharge the | powers and duties of his office never arcse. The constitution says that they shall devolve upon the Vice President, but the constitution is silent as to what shall con- stitute “inability,” and it is silent as to who shall decide when such inability ex- ists. Lander Porter Morse, a leading author- ity, sald this afternoon that in his opinion the Vice President was the judge, and that when he believed that inability with« in the meaning of the constitution ex= ‘isted it was his duty to discharge the du- ties as acting President until the Presi~ dent should be able to act. Will Await Cabinet Request. “But,” he continued, “no Vice President | would think of acting in such capacity without being requested by the President or Cabinet, if the President were not in | such mental and physical condition as to enable him to make the request.” Morse referred me to a pamphlet pube lished by Henry E. Davis of the District of Columbia bar, reviewing the discus- sion of Phe subject that was carrled on at the time President Garfield lay wound- ed. In this pamphlet former Judge Dit- tenkoffer of New York is quoted as main- taining that a disability which would Jjustify the Vice President in acting must be one which would completely disable him for the remainder of his term, on which the Vice President, on his own decision of necessity, shall become Presi~ dent. Vice President Must Decide. Professor Dwight contended that it was necessary for Congress to prescribe the manner in which proof of inability should be established, something that Congress has never attempted to do. Former Senator Trumbull held that the Vice President was authorized to act im case of disability, mental or physical, which was known to the Vice President when so open, notorious and indisputable as to be recognized by all as existing. Davis, after discussing the various views, agreed substantially with former Gover- nor Butler that the Vice President him- self should decide when a constitutional inability had arisen and should thereupon enter upon the discharge of the Presiden- tial duties. It is not believed here that Roosevelt will exercise any of the duties of the Presidential office until something should occur urgently requiring the personal at- tention of the chief executive, and the President should be in such condition as to be utterly unable to act. In that event it will be made clear to the country that the Vice President acts on the earnest solicitation of the Cabine LIGHT PENALTY FOR CZOLGOSZ Should President Survive Assault to Murder Would Be Charge Against Anarchist. Chief Justice Beatty of the Supreme Court of California says that Czolgosz Leon Czolgosz, the self-avowed dis- | ciple of Emma Goldman and the other radical anarchist leaders, who shot Pres- ident McKinley, insists that he alone is responsible for the crime. He says that he talked the matter over in advance in he was not advised by them and that there was no plot or conspiracy to take the life of the President in which any one else had a part. He declined to ! furnish the names of the men with | whom he discussed the crime. APPARATUS TO LOCATE BULLET Thomas A. Edison Sends an X-Ray Machine for President’s Use. S NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—At the telephonic request of Secretary Cortelyou Thomas A. Edison this afternoon shinped by the 6: p. m. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western train an X-ray apparatus to be used to locate the bullet remaining in President McKinley's body. The train fs due in Buffalo at 7 a. m. to-morrow. Dr. Knoll, superintendent of the House of Relief in this clity, who is an expert in the use of the apparatus, and several of Mr. Edison assistants were on the train. a general way with his friends, but that | | will be tried under the laws of the State | of New York, the attempt to kill Presi- | dent McKinley having taken place within | the boundaries of that State. If the | President shall survive, the charge | against Czolgosz will be assault with at- | tempt to commit murder. Scme laymen, fearing that Czolgosz has | a chance to escape with only a few years’ | of imprisonment, have raised the ques- | tion. whether he can not be tried upon a charge of treason. Chief Justice Beatty sald last evening that could not be dome, | in his opinton. The country Is not at war jand it cannot be alleged that Czolgosz has | helped the enemies of his country. When | President Lincoln was assassinated, | Payne, Herold, Atzeroth, Mrs. Surratt, Mudd, Arnold and O'Laughlin were tried before ‘a military court, ‘but the crime was committed within the lines of the army and the war was then going om. | Under ordinary conditions theirs would have been simple murder cases to be tried | by the civil courts. In the case of Guiteau, who assassinated President Gar- field, the trial and cfnviction were for | murder. —_— Day of Prayer in Nebraska. LINCOLN, Nebr., Sept. 7.—Abnér Mec- | Kinley passed through Lincoln this after- noon on his way from Denver to Buffalo. Governor Savage, other State officers and prominent citjfens met him at the station. Governor Satvage this afternoon issued a proclamation setting apart to-morrow as day of prayer for the recovery ef the President.