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Show I FEARS FOR HIS SON When the father of Wan-en G. Harding heard that his son had seen selected to head the Republican ticket, he expressed regret. "With a father's love.- he fears that should his boy become president he would be a shining mark for an assassin's bullet. He would prefer to have his boy in a less distinguished position and feel that he is safe, than to have him president of the United States. It is .remarkable that in the greatest republic on the face of the earth, where there is less oppression than is to be found in any part of the world, the killing of the supreme head of government has been repeated three times. During the world war one of the things most feared was the possibility of the assassination of President Presi-dent Wilson, f Our democratic custom makes access to the presence of the presi dent no more difficult than the entrance of an employe to a conference con-ference with his employer in Europe, and, as a result, whenever u crank, an anarchist or a man with a brain storm becomes afflicted with the idea that he should slay our chief magistrate, the way is open to his murderous deed, j Our presidents should be better guarded than they are. Of late years a greater degree of precaution is taken than when Garfield, unattended except by members of his cabinet, was' shot as he was 1 waiting to board a train. McKinlcy was fatally wounded at a public a-cception at an exposition. ex-position. Roosevelt, then an ex-president, was shot while campaigning for the presidency. |