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REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
Justice of the Supreme Court,
HON. WILLIAM P. POTTER.
State Treasurer.
HON. FRANK G. HARRIS
The New York and Pennsylva
nia yellow journals are not so
popular as they might be. The
people who have for a long time
been fooled by the pests and the
yelping gang of reformers (have
at last opened their eyes to the fact
that they have been dupes of breed
ers of anarchy, t reason aml murder.
It is reported that Emma Gold
man, Anarchist leader, was in
Buffalo last Monday, and that she
occupied a house a few doors from
where Czolgosz lived.
Superintendent Bull is said to
have asked New York to arrest
her. New York police are said to
l>e investigating the case at the re
quest of Governor Udell. LATER—
Since the above has been putin
type the she devil has been arrested
in Chicago.
The Nation's Happy Condition.
The surplus of $6,042,(528 in the
Government receipts for August as
compared with the expenditures is
a magnificent testimony to the work
of the McKinley Administration,
says Philadelphia Press. Congress
passed a law making a reduction of
about $40,000,000 a year in the
revenue taxes. But owing to the
great prosperity of the nation,
shown in the increase in internal
revenue receipts on spirits and on
other things not touched by the
new tariff, and the large reduction
in expenses, there was this hand
some surplus of over 50,000,000
for August following the surplus
of 815,000 for July, although de
ficits were expected j£'for both
months.
There is no doubt that the new
law will accomplish its purpose in
cutting off from the revenues $40,-
000,000, but it will not interfere
with the continued prosperity of the
nation and the additional receipts
that come from increased produc
tion and consumption in nearly all
lines of business. The reduction
in the expense of the army is in
some measure due to the changed
condition of things in the Philip
pines, brought about by the wise
management of affairs there. The
reduction of 85,000,000 in the ex
pense of the civil establishment is
to a great extent due to the econo
mic reforms of the Administration,
though the failure of the river and
harbor bill had somethingxto do
with it.
In the first two months of the
fiscal year 15)01 there was a deficit
of 84,800,000. For the correspond
ing period this year, despite the
effect of the $40,000,000 ta> reduc
tion law, there is a surplus of 80,-
057,628. At the same time there
is an increase in cash in the Treas
ury the interest charges have been
reduced and prosperity reigns
everywhere. It is a condition of
affairs concerning which every
citizen may be proud, more par
ticularly the President, whose wise
administration has brought it
about.
"I had a running sore on mv leg for
seven years," writes Mrs. Ja.-i. Forest of
Chippewa Falls, "Wis., ';. nd tpent hun
dreds of dollars in trying to get it healed.
Two boxes of Banner Salve entirely cured
it." Beware of substitutes. L. Taggart.
ASSASSiNUiOtf AND
YELLOW JOURNALISM.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The fiend who has shot down the
President of the United States isan
anarchist, by his own confession.
He is a pupil, a follower of Emma
Goldman.
We do not propose at this time
to discuss anarchy in general, nor
to linger upon the duty of Congress
to wrestle with it by forcible legis
lation, a right which Congress pos
sesses under the Constitution.
For a moment all men are
horror-stricken, and they are ask
ing oiieh other, "How is it possible
that a man can exist wieked enough
to do this foul deed?"
And yet, under the teachings of
the ''yellow'' press of this day and
generation, why should anyone
wonder at such a crime?
THE NEWSPAPER THAT
FOR SELFISH, SORDID PER
SONAL REASONS, DENOUN
CES EVERY PUBLIC OFFI
CIAL AS A THIEF FROM THE
PRESIDENT DOWN AS A NEW
YORK JOURNAL HAS DONE,
AND FROM THE GOVERNOR
DOWN, AS THE WANAMAKER
YELLOW PEST OF PHILA
DELPHIA HAS DONE, IS SI.MP
LY BREEDING THE MEN
WHO, WHEN THEIR BRAINS
ARE SUFFICIENTLY FIRED,
GO OUT TO SLAUGHTER.
We call names and we speak
strongly because the tme lias come
to call names and to speak strongly.
Newspapers like the New York
daily and the Wanamaker sheet
are menaces to life and property.
Do you doubt it?
Then we refer you to another
page of this morning's Inquirer,
where will be found denunciations
of the authorities of this city be
cause they refused a few months
ago to permit Emma Goldman, the
eminent advocate of violence, mur
der and assassination, to spread
her damnable and atrocious doc
trines in Philadelphia.
Listen while the Wanamaker
organ of Emma Goldman stands
by this brute called a woman upon
the occasion above mentioned:
"The example of lawlessness
being given by the police authori
ties is at once dangerous and dis
graceful. Should force be met with
force, the moral responsibility
would rest upon the stupid despots
of the City Hall. * * * *
The law should be brought to
bear upon the lawless Mayor and
Director of Public Safety."
And again we find this same
Wanamaker organ of Emma Gold
man declaring that her "right to
have her say" is just as plain as
that of the Mayor.
Could anything be more despi
cable? Here we find an assault
upon the authorities for curbing
anarchy, and coupled with it a
direct invitation to the anarchists
to meet the lawful authority of the
police with force. And then we
are told that if there should be a
clash the responsibility would rest
upon the "stupid despots" who de
clined to allow the doctrine of
assassination to be preached openly
in Philadelphia.
The preaching of anarchy by
Emma Goldman is called "free
speech'' by the Wanamaker news
paper. Is it ? We deny it. Persons
like the Goldman woman have no
rights under the Constitution.
They ought to be locked up. They
advocate, not freedom, not liberty,
but force. They are foes of liberty
and freedom.
Hasn't this been proved? Isn't
the self-confessed pupil of the Gold
man fiend the would-be assassin of
the President of the United States?
Yes, and her defender, her advo
cate, is the Wanamaker newspaper,
a newspaper whose hand is against
everyone, whose voice is raised in
condemnation of all Pennsylvania
officials, whose one cry in that the
state and the city are being robbed
by the very officials whom the peo
ple themselves have placed in tem
porary power.
It is not so. It is false. It is as
false as are the teachings of Emma
Goldman, as false as the doctrines
of the miserable creation of Gold
man and yellow journalism, the
vicious brute who has assailed the
President.
Anarchy and yellow journalism !
Where can you draw the line be
tween them? Anarchy means
violence and assassination. And
yellow journalism ? Why, it de
fends the right of anarchists to
discuss and explain their doctrine.
In fact, yellow journalism breeds
the assassins that strike down
public officials.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1901.
STORY OF THE CRIME
Details of the Dastardly As
sault On the President.
Ataiuiln Concealed Revolver In linnriag
ed Hand and Committed Cowardly
Act While Giving Sign of Friendship.
Crowd Tried to Lynch Ilim. McKinley'a
Superb Cooluen».
It was a few minutes after 4 p. m., fri
ll 11 y while President MeKinley was hold
ing n public reception iri the great Temple
t>f Music 011 the Pan-American grounds
riiat the cowardly attack was made, with
what success time alone can tell.
Standing in the midst of crowds num
bering thousands, surrounded by evidence
of good will, pressed by a motley throng
of polyglot peoples, showered with tx-
Copyright, 1000, by Charles A. Gray.
PRESIDENT SI'KINLF.Y.
pressions of love and loyalty, besieged
by multitudes, all eager to clasp his baud
—amidst these surroundings and with
the ever-recurring plaudits of an admir
ing nrniy of sightseers ringing in his ears
the blow of the assassin fell and in an
instant pleasure gave way to pain, ad
miration to agony, folly turned to fury
nnd pandemonium followed.
Last night a surging, swaying, eager
multitude thronged the city's main
thoroughfares, choking the streets in
front of the principal newspapers, scan
ning the bulletins with anxious eyes and
groaning or cheering in turn each suc
ceeding announcement as the nature of
the message sang or buoyed their
hopes.
Wim Fully Exposed.
The president, though well guarded by
United Statc-s secret service dectectives.
was fully exposed to such an nttawk us
occurred. lie stood at the edge of the
raised dais upon which stands the great
pipe organ at the east side of the mag
nificent structure. Throngs of people
crowded in at the various entrances, to
gaze upon their well-beloved executive,
perchance to clasp his hand, and then
fight their way out in the good-natured
1110b that every minute swelled and mul
tiplied at the points of ingress and egress
to the building.
It was shortly after 4 p. in. when one
of the throng which surrounded the pres
idential party a medium-sized man of
ordinary appearance and plainly dressed
in black, approached as if to greet the
president. His right hand was bandaged
in a white handkerchief, as if the hand
was sore. He was patient in line and
presented 110 appearance out of the or
dinary. He stepped briskly up to the
president when it came his turn, grasped
the extended hand in his left hand and
pressed the bandaged hand against the
president's body. There were two quick,
slightly muffled reports and a wisp of
smoke rose from the bandnged hand.
The bandage was merely the covering of
a revolver, with which the dastardly
crime was committed.
For a moment there was silence—the
silence that follows the discharge of a
bombshell. The president stood stock
still, a look of hesitancy, almost of be
wilderment on his face. Then he re
treated a step while a pallor began to
steal over his fentures. The multitude,
only partially nware that something se
rious had happened, paused in the silence
of surprise, while necks were craned
nnd all eyes turned as one toward the
rostrum where a great tragedy was being
enacted.
Antt&hrtin Quickly Captured.
Then came a commotion. With the
leap of a tiger three men threw them
selves forward as with one impulse and
sprang toward the would-be assassin.
Two of them were United States secret
service men who were 011 the lookout and
whose duty it was to guard against just
such a calamity as had here befallen tha
president and the nation. The third was
a bystander, a negro, who had only an
instant previously grasped in his dusky
palm the hand of the president.
As one man the trio hurled themselves
upon the president's assailant. In a
twinkling he was borne to the ground,
his weapon was wrested from his grasp
and strong arms pinioned his arms.
A murmur arose, spread and swelled to
a hum of confusion, then grew to a babel
of sounds and later to a pandemonium of
noises. The crowds that a moment be
fore had stood mute and motionless in
bewildered ignorance of the enormity of
the thing now with a single Impulse
surged forward toward the stage of the
horrified drama, while a hoarse cry
welled up from a thousand throats anil
a thousand men charged forward to lay
hands upon the perpetrator of the das
tardly crime.
The assailant was quickly seized by
secret service men and policemen. He
was knocked down and kicked about the
head and body several times, but was
finally rushed to a carriage, while officers
with drawn revolvers rode with him.
The carriage was driven at a gallop to
the gates. Several attempts were made
to upset it, but it got safely outside and
the prisoner was landed at police head
quarters. He refused to say anything
further ihau that his name was Fred
Niefnan. He saiil that ho cam? From
Detroit.
On thr> slightly raised dais wiin ennctert
within those few feverish moments a
tragedy so drninntie in character, so
thrilling in intensity that few who looked
011 will over he utile to Rive a succinct
account of what really did transpire.
Even the actors who were playing the
principal roles came out of it with
blanched faces, trembling limbs and
beating hearts, while their brains
throbbed with n tumult of conflicting
emotions which left behind only a cha
otic jumble of impressions which could
not be clarilied into a lucid narrative of
the events as they really transpired.
Hut of the multitude which witnessed
or bore a part in the scene of turmoil
and turbulence there was but one mind
which seemed to retain its equilibrium,
one hand which remained steady, one eye
which gazed with unflinching calmness
and one voice which retained its even
tenor and faltered not at the most crit
ical juncture. They were the mind ami
the hand aud the eye and the voice of
President MeKinley.
After the first shock of the assassin's
shots, he retreated a step, then, as the
detective leaped upon his assailant lie
turned, walked steadily to a chair and
seated himself, at the same time remov
ing his hat and bowing his head in his
hands.
Kvciryone Wiw Kxclted.
The president was carried first one
way, and then a step in the other. The
excitement was so sudden and intense
that for a minute no one knew what to
do.
Finally some one said to carry him
inside the purple edge of the aisle, and
seat him on one of the chairs. The
bunting was in a solid piece, 110 one had
time to produce a knife, had they been
able to think of such a thing. A couple
of men tore the benches aside and tram
pled the bunting down while Mr. Mil
burn and Secretary Cortelyou half car
ried the president over the line and into
the passageway leading to the stage,
which had not been used. The president
was able to walk a little, but was lean
ing heavily on his escorts. In passing
over the bunting his foot caught and for
a moment he stumbled. The president
was carried to a sent where half a dozen
men stood by, and fanned him vigorous
ly. Quick calls were sent iu for doctors
and the Emergency hospital ambulance.
The stretcher was placed on the floor
and the wounded president was lifted
by Mr. Milburn, Mr. Cortelyou and the
experienced ambulance corps, and laid
gently on the pillows. The president
groaned slightly, as though in great pain,
but recovered, pressed his lips firmly,
and resigned himself to the care of the
now grief-stricken men about him.
At least —men carried the stretcher
out, up the three or four steps to the
door, the southwest door, and as it
opened and the great crowd caught a
glimpse of the prostrate and wounded
shieftain upon the stretcher, a groan of
grief, so sympathetic and so earnestly
from the great heart of the American
people, went tip to the heavens as a to
ken of the sorrow overshadowing them.
The people were unprepared, the aw
fulnoss of the occasion was so far be
yond their comprehension that the only
expressions they could utter were gasps
of sentences, the burden of which was
their inability to believe this tragic truth.
Great Groan of Grief.
Men uncovered their heads, their
tongues swelled in their throats, they
looked at each other in the most sympa
thetic way, as though each wished to
claim the other for liis common brother
that they might have the strength 10
stand under the crushing blow.
Here in this vast sorrow-stricken as
semblage, which reached from the great
Electric Tower to the north, to the Tri
umphal Causeway to the south anil even
beyond that, was truly exemplified the
bond of sympathy whieV linked all man
kind. No man was weak who wept; it
was the time for weeping. There was
not then the slightest cry of vengeance
—that came n*£%u afterthought. At this
time, when the bullet-pierced body of
their ruler was being carried out to them,
and through their midst, it was one of
genuine sympathy that came only from
the heart. Women were no more af
fected than men. They clung close to
each other; it was a moment when every
one felt that he needed help—help of any
kind, only a word, a look, that was ail.
With that powerful military and po
lice escort, all on the double quick, the
president was hurried away to the emer
gency hospital, whero a room had been
prepared for him.
Messages had been quickly sent to
different parts of the city for the most
eminent physicians and surgeons, and
the first call was for Dr. Uixey, the fam
ily physician, who had left the grounds
with Mrs. MeKinley for the Milburn
home. He was quick to arrive in a
steam automobile, with two trained
nures, and they tore through the grounds
MISS. M*KIN'LEY.
at a terrific pace until the hospital was
reached.
Nivnian was detained in a side room in
the Temple of Music while the president
was removed to the hospital. Then, un
der escort of police, with a guard of sol
diers to fight back the enraged throng
in the Esplanade. Nieman was placed in
a ■ -Irringc and driven at a gallop down
De'a .va l ' :• venue, past the home where
the i;.villi ' ivlfe of i!i" president was
waiting her husband, to police head
quarters, where he was locked up. The
thousands ■■ ■'v.i waited about the Temple
of Mvic surged forward when he ap
peared, tearing down the barrier ropes.
fighting with the officers nnd the soldiers
"Lynch him—lynch him —
hang hiin —kill him." Some clutched at
the horses, others at the wheels of the
carriage. The police nnd soldiers fought
back the crowd aud the carriage galloped
away.
The escape of the would-be assassin
from the hands of the infuriated people
was in accord with the wishes of the
president. As the president sank back
in the arms of Detective Gary and Presi
dent Aiilbnrn, after the shooting, he
gasped tin- name of his secretary, Cor
telyou. The secretary bent over him.
"lie Careful About My Wife."
"Be careful about my wife." lie gasped
the president. "Do not tell her."
TtnJri, writhing in the agony of his
wounds, the president turned and saw
his attempted murderer helpless 011 the
floor beneath the blows of soldiers and
detectives. He raised his right hand,
stained with the blood of bis wound, and
drawing down the head of his secretary,
he whisperod:
"Lot no one hurt him."
Then he sank back, deathly white, but
clearly conscious, while they dragged his
assailant front his sight. He sat pa
tiently waiting without a moan or sign
of suffering beyond the ashy pallor of
his face, while they sent for the ambu
lance, and waited for its coming. Mo
sank obediently on the stretcher and was
carried out. Nine minutes after the shots
were fired he was lying in the Emer
gency hospital, tiieat iuirJVons had been
summoned by telephone and immediately
set to work to save his lfe.
The news of the shooting spread like
wildfire around the exposition. Crowds
were thunderstruck. Then silence fell
upon the Rainbow City. The Midway at
tractions closed their doors. All the
state and foreign buildings, headed by
the Cubans, closed their doors. Many
of the flags on these buildings were low
ered. People moved about ' dismayed,
with troubled faces, speaking in hushed
voices. Women went to and fro weep
ing. Strong men with white, set faces
and douched hands made their way to
the Esplanade and stood waiting by the
Temple of Music. The light of death
gleamed in their eyes and the doom of a
murderer hovered over the multitude.
Fortunately, the great bulk of thein ar
rived too late. The red-handed anar
chist had been removed beyond their
reach. When some heard I hat he had
been taken away they asked where he
had gone and they turned their faces
thither.
The young man who shot the president
had practically 110 difficulty in getting
to the side of the chief executive. Tlk
nature of the reception made it possible
for everyone to get into the big temple
and to pass close enough to the president
to shake his hand. No one was suspi
cious of the would-be assassin. He
looked like an ordinary young mechanic
with a sore hand, for, as has been told,
his hand was covered with a handker
chief or bandage.
In Midst of Protector*,
The president stood in the center of
the big auditorium, smiling and grasping
cordially the hand of every man and wo
man who approached him. Gathered
about him were a cordon of United
States marines, several detectives, among
them Geary, Solomon and Henafelt,
of the Buffalo police. The detectives
were within three feet of Mr. MeKinley,
watching closely every man who ap
proached. They were not expecting an
attack 011 his life; it is customary for de
tectives to guard him thus whenever he
appears in public.
The young man moved slowly along the
narrow aisle which stretched through the
crowd, waiting his turn leisurely. He
held bis handkerchief-covered hand with
the great', st care. The detectives saw
him and supposed his hand pained him.
They bad not the faintest suspicion that
it clenched a weapon which was to
strike perhaps a death blow to the man
whose life they were guarding. The
president shook hands with a lady. The
young man moved up close to him, eager
apparently to grasp his hand.
Just as the president finished greeting
the woman who was ahead of the young
man, the would-be assassin sidled up to
Mr. MeKinley, put his supposedly sore
hand to the chief executive's body nnd
shut his eyes.
Two muffled sounds and a wisp of
smoke rose from the bandaged hand.
The young man stepped back, not as if
to escape, but as if terrified at his own
handiwork. The president stood like a
statue with hig unmoved eyes glaring ut
his attempted murderer.
He had not winced.
A wave of intense excitement rippled
through the vast throng. Few had heard
the shots, but the sudden quiet told
everyone that something awful liaiT hap
pened. It was that fearful hush which
settles over u crowd which is affrighted
at something it doesn't know the nature
of.
The instant the dull reports sounded
and the would-be assassin stepped back
a guard reached forward and seized him,
at the same instant dealing a blow to in
sure submission.
•'I Wonder If I*m lilt."
Detective Sergeant Geary, who was
not three feet from the president, put
his arms around the latter and supported
him although the president was not reailj
in need of support.
"I wonder if I'm hit," the president
said to Detective Geary.
"I think you are," replied the detec
tive.
The president thereupon lifted the bot
tom of his vest and revealed a spot of
bloori.
The man who seized the would-be as
sassin fared nearly as badly for a few
moments as did the man he had arrested.
Mistaking the officer for the assassin a
brawny marine leaped upon him, and
bore him to the floor, placing his hands
at his throat in a manner to preclude re
sistence. The assassin attempted, in the
moment of diverted excitement, to get
up, but a burly negro seized him with an
iron grasp and the would-be murderer
was relieved of any ambition he may
linve had to escape.
Mrs. MeKinley Hear* Up Hravely.'
it was several hours after the attack
upon the president that the news was
broken to Mrs. MeKinley. The infor
mation was imparted as tenderly as pos
sible. as it was feared that the shock
would have an ill effect upon her not
too strong health. She received tha
news with remarkable fortitude aud did
not break down.
Queries at the home of "President Mil
burn are fruit I«»; s. Tin street in (lie Im
mediate vicinity of the house where the
president lies is roped off and guarded
by police, who will admit nobody. It
was announced earlier in the evening
that official bulletins would be igsued at
regular intervals and upon these the
public must wait, as the physicians and
officials refuse absolutely to give out any
information
M:«le Partial Confession.
When charged by District Attorney
Penny with being the instrument of an
organized band of conspirators he pro
tested vehemently that he never even
thought nt" perpetrating the crime until
yesterday morning. After long and per
sistent questioning it was announced at
police headquarters that the prisoner had
made a partial confession, which the
prisoner had signed.
As near as can be learned now the
facts contained in the confession are as
follows:
The man's name is Leon Czolgosz. He
is of Polish-German extraction. His
home is in Cleveland, whence he hfis
seven brothers and sisters.
He is an avowed anarchist and an ar
dent disciple of Emma Goldman, whose
teachings he alleges are responsible for
yesterday's attack on the president. He
denies steadfastly that he is the instru
ment of any body of anarchists or the
tool of any coterie of plotters. He de
clares he di<l not even have a confeder
ate. His only reason for the deed, he
declared, is thnt he believed the present
form of government in the United States
was unjust and he concluded the most
effective way to remedy it was to kill the
president. These conclusions, he de
clares, he reached through the teachings
of Km in a Goldman. Though his place of
residence is still a matter of doubt n
the minds of the officials they are in
clined to believe that Cleveland is cor
rect. The Cleveland directory shows a
large number of persons of the name of
Czolgosz, all within the radius of a few
blocks in the neighborhood of Ilosmer
street and Acland avenue.
Official Statement of Injuries.
Secretary Courtelyou makes the fol
lowing official statement of the presi
dent's injuries:
"The president was shot about 4
o'clock. One bullet struck him on the
upper portion of the breast bone glancing
and not penetrating: the second bullet
penetrated the abdomen five inches below
the left nipple and one and a half inches
to the left of the median line. The ab
domen was opened through the line of
the bullet wound. It was found that the
bullet had penetrated the stomach. The
opening in the front wall of the stomach
was carefully closed with silk sutures
after which t search was made for a
hole in the back wall of the stomach.
This was found and also closed in the
same way. The further course of the
bullet could not be discovered, although
I Where the Shooting Occurred.]
careful search was made. The abdom
inal wound was closed without drainage.
Xo injury to the intestines or other ab
dominal organ was discovered.
"The patient stood the operation well,
pulse of good quality, rate of 130, condi
tion at the conclusion of operation was
gratifying. The result cannot be fore
told. His condition at present justifies
hope of recovery."
EMMA GOLDMAN CAUGHT.
Chicago Police Arrest Woman Thought
to he Implicated With Czolgottz.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11. —Emma Gold
man, the anarchist queen, under whose
red banner Leon Czolgosz claims he
stands, whose words he claims tired his
heart and his brain to attempt the assass
ination of the president, was arrested
shortly before noon yesterday.
She disclaimed all but the slightest ac
quaintance with the president's assailant;
she denied absolutely that she, or any
anarchists she knew were implicated in
any plot to kill the president. She said
she believed Czolgosz acted entirely on
his own responsibility and that he never
claimed to have been inspired by her, as
he is quoted as allirming.
The president, she averred, with a
yawn, was an insignificant bsing to her —
a mere atom whose lift' or death were
matters of supreme indifference to her
or to any anarchist. Czolgosz' act was a
foolish, yet she declared it probably had
its inspiration in the misery which the
Pole had seen about him. Violence she
said was not a tenet in the faith of the
anarchist and she had not advocated it
in Cleveland, where Czolgosz has said
hie heard, nor elsewhere.
Referring to the wouldbe assassin, Aiiss
Goldman said: "I feel that the man is
one of those unfortunates who have ln»>u
driven t<> despair and misery to commit
the deed. I feel very deeply with him
as an individual, as I would feel with
anybody who suffers. If I had means I
would help hi:s\ as much as I could; I
would see that he had counsel and that
justice was done him."
Although the whole world waited Fri
day afternoon for the bulletins from the
president's bedside MWs Goldman did not
care enough about the report that ho had
been shot, which she heard newspaper
boys shouting, to buy a paper. It was
Saturday noon before her interest was
sufficiently aroused to buy a newspaper
containing the story. She was more in
terested in the arrest of the Chicago
anarchisls than in the president's con
dition.
Asked if she thought Czolgosz' act wa
praiseworthy from her viewpoint she
answered: "I am not in a position to say
whether it was good or bad. It is bad
for the man who attempted it. I am
not in his boots and know nothing about
it. What I don't see is why they should
make moro fuss over the president than
anybody else. All men are born equ.il.