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Reports from the July 4, 1903, issue of the Yorkville Enquirer and July 15, 1903, issue of the Keowee Courier
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Reuben Elrod died on Tuesday, June 30, 1903, when a group of white men shot him at his home about one mile from Piedmont, according to an Anderson Intelligencer article.
During some kind of commotion where a group of men came to his home, possibly searching for woman known to be there, a shot was fired through the weatherboarding of the house at random, but the ball struck old Reuben in the throats and struck.
An article on the killing of Reuben Elrod from the July 4, 1903 issue of the Yorkville Enquirer.Courtesy of Newspapers.com
Joseph Stalin
In conclusion,
QI believes that Thomas Nast deserves credit for the caption in his 1871 cartoon which was satirizing William Marcy Tweed. An efflorescence of sayings appeared subsequently.
In 1877 “The Daily Examiner” of San Francisco attributed an instance to Zack Chandler, but
QI conjectures that this attribution was based on political hostility. Boris Bazhanov in 1992 attributed an instance to Joseph Stalin, but there was a long time delay between when the remark was supposedly spoken in 1923 and when it was reported; hence, the credibility of the claim was reduced.
Cartoon by Thomas Nast published in “Harper’s Weekly” on October 7, 1871.