The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-26

judicial contest, and that we ignore justice
when we oppose Judge Sharswood because of
his political views
"Alderman'' McMulIin's impeachment,
YESTERDAY afternoon, as will be seen by our
local columns, the committee appointed by the
Common Council on Friday of last week, and
charged with the investigation of the part
taken by Alderman McMullin and Councilman
William H. p. Barnes in the riotous proceed
ings of July Is and l6 held their first meeting
This was a full week after the appointment of
the committee, and six days after the prelim-
nary hearing before Recorder Eneu, at which
the Alderman and Councilman, in company
with the other participants in the riot, were
held in bail to appear at Court. Why an earlier
meeting of the committee was not called we
are not informed, nor have we any knowledge
of the facts which made it necessary to post
pone further investigation of the affair until
the 9th of August. We sincerely hope that
there is to be no 'hushing up' INDUCED
in in this particular case. The people of this
city are heartily tired of such proceedings,
and they are especially tired of them with
reference to the doings of Alderman William
McMulln. On all sides there comes to us an
imperative demand that the career of the
Fourth Ward Alderman shall be brought to
summary termination. Yet in the face of this
popular demand, and Notwithstanding the
Nervousness of the offense, it is rumored in
certain well-informed circles that high official
of the city has already been engaged in an
effort to get the Alderman out of the predica-
ment in which he now finds himself. If this
course should be persisted in by the official in
question, and particularly if Alderman McMul-
lin should succeed in disentangling himself
from the meshes of the law, the whole truth
will be made public and if we are not de-
ceived in our belief that the citizens of Phila-
delphia have some regard for their own safety
and honor, the truth, when made public, will
be equivalent to the retirement of the said Off
cial to the pursuits of private life.
Within fifteen days from the murder of Mrs.
Magilton, the unfortunate Winnemore was de-
clared guilty of murder in the first degree, his
trial having been prosecuted with such haste
that we were conscientiously obliged to char
acterize it as unseemly. The people now
demand that little of the zeal then displayed
shall be shown in the prosecution of Alder
man McMullin, both in the criminal suit
against him and in the movement for his i'm
peachment and removal from Office by Coun-
ellis. Delays are dangerous always, and in a
case in which Alderman McMullin is involved,
they are more dangerous than usual, if their
effect in the past is to be taken into con-
sideration.
There is another reason why this affair
should be conducted with all possible des-
patch. 1t is even now the common talk and
rumor of downtown politicians that William
McMullin is to succeed the Hon. Samuel j.
Randall as Representative of the First District
in Congress. For this reason it is of the great
est Importance to himself and his friends that
he should not be brought before a criminal
court to answer to a charge as grave as that
which is now preferred against him. But il
his just deserts are meted out to him, and the
people of the First District still choose to be
represented in the national legislature by him,
they will then have the full benefit of his repu.
tation and character. And who will envy
them, unless it be the constituency OF the Hon
John Morrissey, M. G. 7