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Show CRANKS ARE DANGEROUS. Whenever a prominent man is shot down, as was Mayor Gaynor cn Tuesday, the first thought is that an anarchist has inflicted his murderous ambitions, but, with only one exception, each time the full particulars have disclosed the criminals to be cranks unidentified unidenti-fied with any propaganda. Czolgosz is the one exception in this country, and even that murderer was not inspired by purely anarchistic sentiments in his brutal assault on President McKinley. Booth shot Lincoln to avenge the South. Guiteau killed Garfield because of a fancied grievance of a political nature. Pendergrast took the life of Carter Harrison because of a per-tonal per-tonal affront wholly imaginary. Gallagher fired at Mayor Gaynor following the promptings of b disordered mind which had brooded over the man's dismissal from the public service. Seemingly there is far more danger from the crank who harbors har-bors a grudge until his troubles are extremely magnified than from the anarchist. |