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THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY.

A graphic and vivid description of the Shooting of the President by Leon Czolgosz, an Anarchist, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo--Two shots fired from a derringer concealed by the assassin under a handkerchief which looked like a bandage--Different accounts by eye-witnesses--Assassin seized by James F. Parker, a colored man--Saved from the mob by the President's words, "Let no one hurt him"--Scenes among the horror-stricken crowds in the Temple of Music--The President taken on a gallop to the Emergency Hospital--Description of his wounds--How the great man bore the ordeal 33

PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S FIGHT FOR LIFE.

The fateful week at the house of President Milburn of the Exposition where President McKinley lay wounded--His coolness, bravery and cheerfulness--Physicians and country hopeful--President shows signs of recovery--How he was nourished--Scenes in the President's apartment--His sudden relapse--Hopes of the nation dashed by the news 41

DEATHBED SCENE OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY.

Friends and officials called back--President regains consciousness after first relapse--Pathetic parting between the President and Mrs. McKinley--The farewell Kiss--"God's will, not ours, be done," his last words to her--"Nearer My God to Thee"--Dr. Rixey remains to the end--Unconscious for hours before dissolution--A Christian deathbed scene that will remain forever, a beautiful and inspiring memory 57

THE STORY OF THE ASSASSIN.

Description of Czolgosz the assassin--A Pole by birth--Boasted that he was an Anarchist and believed in killing the rulers of all nations--Became an Anarchist under the teachings of Emma Goldman--How and why he went to Buffalo--Followed the President for three days seeking an opportunity to kill him--A monstrous confession--His father and mother found in Cleveland--Poor and ignorant, but nothing known against them--People who knew the assassin tell of his belonging to Anarchist clubs and always preaching Anarchy 65

EMMA GOLDMAN, WOMAN LEADER OF ANARCHISTS.

Description of the woman from whom the assassin learned the teachings of Anarchy--Text of Emma Goldman's speech which Czolgosz says inflamed him to commit assassination--Emma Goldman's career as an Anarchist in New York and Europe--Her arrest in Chicago--Arrest of the "Free Society" branch of Anarchists in Chicago 76

ANARCHISM AND ITS OBJECTS.

Definition of anarchy--No two Anarchists agree--Some of the leaders who have talked, written and acted anarchy in this country and in Europe--A hellish doctrine that has caused many of the world's greatest men to fall by the hands of assassins--Complete history of anarchy from Proudhon to the present day--Review of anarchistic agitation and murder--Story of the Haymarket assassinations in Chicago 89

SCENES AT BUFFALO FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION.

Wild anger of the people at the appalling crime--How the assassin was guarded against the popular wrath--Grief and anger mingled--The location of the Milburn house--The President's clothes--What he had in his pockets--Senator Hanna's remarkable dream of warning--The devotion of Private Secretary Cortelyou 99

How the American people watched and waited, hoped and prayed while the President lay ill--All the civilized world shared in the sorrow and anxiety--World-wide grief at the President's death--Rulers of the world eulogize the dead President--Their messages of sympathy 107

PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S LAST SPEECH.

Greatest speech ever made by the President delivered on the day before the assassination--World-wide in its influence and uniting the American people in praise of his wise statesmanship--Great honors shown the nation's chief on the day before his assassination--Events of a day to be memorable in American history 115

WILLIAM McKINLEY'S BOYHOOD.

His Scotch-Irish ancestry--His sturdy sire, William McKinley, Sr.--The Christian influence of Mother McKinley, who lived to see her boy in the White House--Early occupations of the future President--Supporter of Fremont and Lincoln--Early days at Niles and Poland, Ohio 123

McKINLEY AS A SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR.

Enlisted as a private and won a commission by gallant and heroic conduct--Under fire at Antietam and other historic battles--Promoted by General, afterwards President, Hayes--Brave and modest--Stories of his experiences in battle 129

McKINLEY IN CONGRESS.

Elected in the Centennial year--Soon gave evidence of legislative ability--Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and leader of his party in the Lower House of Congress--Fourteen years of memorable work--Some of his memorable speeches and debates--How his district was "gerrymandered" in order to defeat him--A marvelous legislative record 141

McKINLEY'S LIFE WAS PROTECTION'S ERA.

First champion of Protection for Protection's sake--Made his policy the policy of his party and the nation--Growth of the country's industry--His last speech substituted Reciprocity for Protection 161

McKINLEY AS GOVERNOR OF OHIO.

Twice chosen as chief executive of his state--First nomination by acclamation--A campaign that carried the people with him--Governor McKinley and the labor troubles--Always stood for law and order and sympathized with honest labor 169

McKINLEY AS A CAMPAIGNER.

His winning personality in politics--Believed in the people and knew how to convert men to his way of thinking--His methods of campaigning--His wonderful knowledge of politics--Campaigns of education--McKinley a wonderful speech-maker--Talks to workingmen and business men on the lawn at Canton 177

GOVERNOR McKINLEY'S FINANCIAL TROUBLES.

In trying to assist a friend his small fortune is swept away--Governor McKinley and his wife turn over all of their property to meet his obligation--Friends come to the rescue and he is relieved from owing any man a cent--The story of how W. R. Day, H. H. Kohlsaat, Myron T. Herrick and Marcus A. Hanna stood by Governor McKinley in his hour of need--Governor McKinley's attitude above criticism 185

McKINLEY'S LOYALTY TO SHERMAN, BLAINE AND HARRISON.

Friendship between three great statesmen--McKinley always an enthusiastic Blaine man--His honorable attitude toward the Ohio statesman--Thrilling scene in a National convention when delegates attempt to stampede to McKinley--How he stopped his own nomination for President and brought about the nomination of General Harrison by acclamation 189

FIRST NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT.

The sentiment of the people strong for McKinley's nomination in 1896--The other candidates--History of the great National Republican Convention at St. Louis in 1896--Foraker set the delegates wild with his speech nominating McKinley--First ballot secures his nomination--Historic political scenes and characters--Hobart named for the second place 195

THE GREAT CAMPAIGN OF 1896.

Men and issues of a memorable national campaign--William Jennings Bryan as McKinley's opponent--Gold vs. Silver--How the issues were stated by leading debaters--Bryan's speech-making tour--Pilgrimages of the people to Canton--McKinley receives thousands of voters at his home 213

THE SPANISH WAR CLOUD.

How President McKinley exhausted every means in his power to honorably settle the Cuban trouble and avert war with Spain--Brief history of the causes leading to the war with Spain--Wisdom and patriotism of President McKinley--A war for humanity 221

McKINLEY'S OWN STORY OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

In a celebrated state paper the President reviews the entire history of the Spanish war--His able conduct of the war--Every great historical detail of the struggle for humanity set forth by President McKinley--An historical document that will remain forever as a true record of President McKinley's humane and wise statesmanship 227

McKINLEY AND EXPANSION.

Great amount of territory acquired by the United States under President McKinley--The story of American expansion--President's policy toward the people of our new possessions--The greatness of President McKinley's Expansion policy--What it meant to the nation 251

SECOND PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF McKINLEY.

Complete history of the Philadelphia convention of 1900--McKinley's renomination a foregone conclusion--Senator Wolcott's great eulogy of President McKinley--Theodore Roosevelt named for Vice-President 263

PRESIDENT McKINLEY AND THE CHINESE CRISIS.

Prompt action by the President following the boxer uprising--Cause of the trouble--The siege of Peking--The United States joins the powers to rescue the besieged legations--China appeals to the United States to prevent the powers from dividing the Empire--President McKinley's attitude results in a just settlement of the trouble--A remarkable chapter on President McKinley's wise diplomacy 271

McKINLEY: BUILDER OF A WORLD POWER.

A complete history of the foreign policy of President McKinley during his two administrations--How he built up the nation to be one of the great powers of the world--The master work of his life was in giving the United States its proper place in the family of nations--Results that will rank with those of Washington and Lincoln in adding to the greatness of the American nation 281

PRIVATE LIFE OF WILLIAM McKINLEY.

A model son and husband--His courtship of Ida Saxton--Their marriage--Two children bless the union, only to die in infancy--Mrs. McKinley's health shattered--The "Major's" devotion to his invalid wife--William McKinley, the highest type of American manhood, and a model for every American boy and man 293

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