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William McKinley: Yet the instinct of justice prevailed, and the nation anxiously awaited the result of the searching investigation at…

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Yet the instinct of justice prevailed, and the nation anxiously awaited the result of the searching investigation at once set on foot.
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William McKinley
Republican · Ohio

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McKinley expresses the nation's desire for justice following the USS Maine incident.

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