The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1901, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1901. 600" CONTRIBUTION TO THE AMERIGAN PEOP SO SAYS ’ . TRUSTS THE ASSASSIN WILL BE TREAT_ED WITH FAIRNESS. BUFFALO, Sept. 9.—President McKinley to-day for the first time men- tioned his assassin and said: ‘“He must have been crazy. I never saw the man until he approached me at the reception.”’ R [ ‘‘He is an anarchist,’’ the President was told, and he replied: ‘‘Too bad, too bad. I trust, though, that he will be treated with all fairnsss.”’ —.—— | AllSymptomsAre | in Favor of the Stricken Chief General Belief That | the Executive Is Certain to Recover A all who have residence reflect the 1 be won and the | | unfavorable | | ery hour has | | the outcome er, and hope of some the complications bas | t | but sure. Every tvate and public word in attendance, ent. The reports s have given out are trom a = with se ne President out of danger is th et by a risk m | most eminent of the e, expressed ment c before peared. At the expi 00n, danger from | e— st gone, The Presi- | uy gy absolutely confident everything en cheerful and ex- | oy turn out all right,” declared the Vice preesed confidence in his recovery. To- | pregigent, and he sald he based his in- @ay he asked for & morning paper, but | gormation behind the public expressions of this, of course, had to be denied him. | 4ng physicians. So relieved are Secretary TAKES NOURISHMENT. | Gage and Attorney General Knox at the It 15 W | steady improvement that they returned to some difficulty that he can | rongly that be restrained from talking, and Colonel | Washington to-night feeling strong'y that hief would recover, M. T. Herrick of Cleveland is quoted as | their c! suthority for the statément that he has | 2ssurence of the physiclans v.hiu 1t 1: spoken at intervals of several things he | crenge for the worst should come it wou! proposed to @o in the future, This after- |be gradual and that they would have noon he asked to be aliowed to change | @mple time to return. his n and when permission was| In the case of Becretary Gage there was given, before the attendants could aid |21s0 & public reason why he should be at % him, he changed to a position without | his Dost. New York financlers have ap- pain. pealed to him to relieve the situation in Mrs. McKinley saw him agetn to-day for | the money market by increasing deposits 2 brief visit and Becretary Cortelyou was | in national banks and he feels that he can admitted for the first time. No one else | hardly act at this distance from the scene admitted to see him, although he in- | if he finds that action 1s desirable. quired several times who was downstairs. DEVOTION OF CABINET. He was given nourishment to-dey in the | Secretary of State Hay is due to arrive form of eggs beaten in milk. The water, | to-night and will remain with the other which has been given heretofore cold, did | members of the Cabinet at least for a { not appear to agree with him, and since | day or two. The devotion of the members last night very hot water has been taken |of the Cabinet to their chief is touching. | into the stomach through the mouth with | All desire to remain near him. until | splendid res His bowels moved |the cruclal period is passed, and Secre- | freely to-day, which was considered an |tary Hitchcock and Secretary Wilson excell symptom. If he continues to |avow that only absolute and imperative improve it will be gradual. If he should | public business will induce them to depart grow worse the change in that direction | before tHe President is pronounced out of | 2iso probably will be siow. This is the danger. Senator Hanna will also remain | opinion of Dr. Ma There will be no | until the physicians give absolute assur- . If he arrives at convalescence | ance that Mr. McKinley will live. Dr. Parke expresses his opinion that it| Controller Dawes and some of the other 3 4 o'clock this after that source was 2l Gent himself will be t we before it will be safe | eminent men connected with the adminis- to move s expected that the in- | tration expect to depart to-morrow or terior wounds will heal first. The sutures | Wednesday if the improvement continues of the 1 e were made S0 5000 | - Vice President Roosevelt has occupied after t sed that they are prob- | 3 peculiarly delicate and trying position rapidly. With the exterior | gjnce the event which threatened the a slower process. | President’s life, but he has borne himseif | OPTIMISM OF ROOSEVELT. throughout this ordeal in such a manner I R LR is The extreme optimism of the Vice Presi- |28 to win the admiration and respect of dent of the Cabinet |all: It has, moreover, added a new bond J would be difficult taté, J between the Vice President and those fn- oo _ . timately associated with the President, ard the latter are warmest in their ex- pressions of the manner in which he has met every requirement of the situation. Not for a moment has he permitted the idea to be entertained that there was need for considering the constitutional disability of the President and the exer- cise of executive functions which this | would impose on him. On the contrary, Roosevelt has been one of the most posi- tive in the conviction that the President would recover. During the long period of Garfleld’s illness distinctions arose as to what constituted the disability of the President within the meaning of the coa- | stitution; whether when the physical fac- ulties were benumbed while the mental faculties were unimpaired there was any disability as meant by the constitution. STRIKES POPULAR CHORD. But fortunately there has been no such issue presented on this occasion, and the Vice President himself has been primar- ily responsible for the avoidance of any thought of the temporary exercise of ex- | ecutive functions by him. Nor has there been any occasion for the exercise of ex- ecutive authority, for such minor routine matter as it comes can readily be left | until the present emergency has passed. Twice during the day and again this even- ing the Vice President has called at the Milburn house to inquire as to the Presi- dent’s condition. During the afternoon he met several of the Cabinet officers and Senator Hanna and spent a short time with them in in- formal discussion. On the streets Roose- velt has been the center of respectful at- tention, but he has met this with dignity | and composure. Despite senseless re- marks that he was going about guarded by secret service men, he has positively declined to have' anything like a guard | near him. One of his remarks to-day, in | speaking to two laborers who greeted him, struck a popular chord. They had | suggested that he might be afraid to be stopped. *“No, indeed,” he replied. “You men are our protection and the foul deed of Fri- day will only make you more vigorous in protecting those whom you elect to of- fice.” —_— ROOSEVELT CERTAIN PATIENT WILL RECOVER Refuses to Talk About Anarchists Until the President Has Passed All Danger. BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 2—Vice Presi- dent Roosevelt will not leave the city u: til the physiclans of the President issue | a bulletin or give an opinion that t President will positively recover. To- night, in company with his host, Ansl Wilcox, he went out for a short time. He is without doubt the most sanguine | of the Government officials here, un-| less it be Secretary of Agriculture Wil- | son, who predicts that the President will | be out in two weeks. Vice President | Roosevelt said.to-night: “I came here because I belleved my | place was near the President, and I shall | not leave until the situation has entirely | cleared up. If I was predicting when I shall leave here I would say to-morrow, | because I firmly believe that .the physi- cians will announce to-morrow that there | is absolutely no doubt that the President | will recover. I have been twice to the | President’s temporary home to-day and I | have seen mnothing but smiling, happy | faces, including a host of physicians, and WILL Bt THE GPARING OF THE PRESIDENT"S LIFE” LEAVING PATIENT'S BEDSIDE 'Relatives of the * | ~ President Are | Going_tgHomes Al Appear Satisfied | With Progress of the Improvement | ILBURN HOUSE, BUF- FALO, N. Y., Sept. 9— After the 9:30 bulletin had been issued from the Mil- burp residence announcing | a‘continuance of the favor- | able condition of the President, thers were many indications that the bulletins were but meager indications of the real | improvement of the distinguished patient. | At 9:45 o’clock Miss McKinley, a sister of | the President; Dr. and Mrs. Hermann Baer, the latter a niece of the President, | and the Misses Barber, nieces of the | President, left the house, and, taking car- riages, announced their Intention of re- | turning to their homes to-night. Abner McKinley accompanied them to ‘the station, and to the Associated Press ol |~ CONFIDENT OF RECOVERY. | “Tne nearest relatives of the President | are so confident of his recovery that they | have no hesitation in leaving.” Postmaster Frease of Canton, a warm personal friend of the . President, who came to-day filled with anxiety, said to- night: “I go back to-night because I have the most positive assurance that the Presi- dent is going to make a rapid recovery. In fact, by 10:30 o'clock to-night the entire temper of everybody about the Milburn residence seemed to have under- gone a radical change. The police did not stop wagons from going by the n t corner at high speed. The regu my guard was not so particular about those who passed up ar the gdarded street. The newspaper men did not maintain the quiet that has vailed for the past three days. ven those who came from the mansion where the wounded man lies stopped on the corner to laugh and chat. From somber foreboding the feeling has suddenly turned to joyful confidence that the na- tion’s ruler is to be spared HIGHLY FAVORABLE. At 10;50 to-night the lights in the mansion, except these dimly shining in the sickroom, were extinguished, and by 11 o'clock peaceful quiet reigned about the Milburn home. ' On the dark corner | opposite the house soldier: and newspaper men kept vi sheltered beneath their tents. The 9:30 bulletin, as was promised, was to be the last for the night, and, while | it was brief, attention was called to the | fact that the pulsq was exactly the same | as this morning—1§2—and that the temp-~ | erature was eight-tenths of a degree lower, highly favorable symptoms. Senator Hanna was the last official caller at the house. He stayed only a few minutes, but during that time had a | short interview with Dr. McBurney. | When he came out he declined to talk, E(urther than to say: “Everything is all right, and If the im- provement continues I am to go home j to-morrow."” MORE GOOD WISHES. The following message has been re- | ceived from King George of Greece, at Fredensborg: “I rejoice to hear that you so happily escaped the terrible attempt on your precious life, which has horrified the clvilized world, and hope to Ged that you recover for the gocd and glory of the policemen however, | American people.” The following message came from the Czar of Russia, at Fredensborg: “I am very happy to hear you are feel- | ing better after the ignominious attempt on your iife. I join with the Amerfcan people in the universal wish for your speedy recovery. et it MESSAGE OF “HARMONIE” BEN LOMOND, Sept. message has been sent Society: —The following the Harmonie BEN LOMOND, Sept. 9, 1901 To Mrs. William McKinley, Buffalo, N. Y.: The ‘“Harmonie,” a musical soclety of San that would not be so if the bulletins did | Frarcisco, assembled at its annual outing at not tell the exact truth.” | Ben Lomond, Cal., hereby expresses its horror The Vice President was asked to ex- |apa indignation at the attack upon our beloved press an opinion on legislation against | anarchists. He said: “It is not the time or place to discuss such matters. The only thing te be | thought of now is the President’s com- plete and rapid recovery.” President by a cowardly assassin, and sends to you its deepest sympathy, and earnesly hopes that the present prospects of a speedy recovery may be fully realized HENRY PLAGEMANN, President. HERMAN SCHAFFER, Secretary. ,