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COMPLETE LIFE OF
William McKinley
AND
Story of His Assassination
AN AUTHENTIC AND OFFICIAL MEMORIAL EDITION, CONTAINING EVERY INCIDENT IN THE CAREER OF THE IMMORTAL STATESMAN, SOLDIER, ORATOR AND PATRIOT
OUR MARTYR PRESIDENTS.
PREFACE.
No figure of modern American history appeals so strongly to the patriotismand love of the American people as William McKinley, and no volumecan have greater interest and value at the present day, or be more dearlyprized, than a history of his life in which every event of his great career as anoble youth, a gallant soldier, an able lawyer, a brilliant orator, a grandstatesman, a brave patriot and an heroic martyr is set forth accurately, andin a spirit of love and reverence.
The author of this memorial edition has produced exactly the volumedescribed.
In graphic words he has described the assassination of President McKinley.It is a word picture that will linger forever in the memory of everyreader, calling forth sympathy and patriotism on behalf of the martyr Presidentand undying contempt and horror of the assassin and the foul andcowardly thing called anarchy. Every detail of that now historic scene istold so vividly that the reader sees it as if he were an eye-witness.
McKinley’s gallant fight for life, his cheerfulness, his patience, his tendersolicitude for his invalid wife, his trust in God and all the beautiful attribu