Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-27
From the indianapolis Journal

In a recen. article we called the atten-
ton to the suggestive fact that Democra-
cy and lawlessness go hand in hand,
while, other things being equal. the high
est observance Of law and order is found
where Republican majorities are largest
This does not prove that all Democrats
are bad men or that all Republicans are
good ones, but it does go to show that
Republican principles and teachings tend
in the direction OF law and order, while
those of the Democracy tend the other
way. 1t is an undeniable fact that large
majority of the voters in the United States
who never carry concealed weapons or
engage in shooting ARRAYS, and who are
in favor of the enforcement of law under
all circumstances, belong to the Republi-
can party, while an equally large prepon-
derance of the street brawlers. admins
traitors of highway justice ana professors
of the tar and feather business are found
among the Democracy. A comparison
Of Democratic States with Republican, or
of the Democratic counties in any State
with the Republican ones will show this
generalization to be true. The State of
Kentucky, for instance, Is one of the
strongest Democratic States in the Union,
and there is none where human life is
held so cheap, where midnight attacks
and shooting affrays are so frequent, and
where murder is so rarely punished
This condition of things is beginning to
attract the attention Of those who have
given it but little heed before, and the
last case of homicidc-unless one shall
occur between The present time and the
printing of these words-elicits the fol
lowing confession and protest from the
Louisville Courier Journal:
1.-THE law against the carrying of con-
cealed weapons is dead letter. There
has scarcely been the conviction of a res
pectable, well-to-dO man for murder OF
homicide the last twenty years. Every
coward and bully goes armed. Every
case of manslaughter goes unpublished
| Every case of shooting with intent to kill
passes by as an amusing episode, provided
there is no funeral Even the most afro
cious, cold-blooded. deliberate, malignant,
dastardly assassinations have left no mark
on the statute books except the mark of
acquittals purchased by money or intimi
dation. Red handed murderers roam at
large among respectable people. Red
handed murderers occupy places OF res
possibility and trust The rule is that
you may kill your man with impunity.
! There is no danger of the gallows or the
prison for the assassin who has money
and frierds. A drink too many-a word
too much-a pull at the trigger of six
shooter, and funeral, and a mock trial,
and no thought for the widow and the
orphan, no thought for the public peace,
so the murderer be good. natured fellow,
who is sorry. and has enough to pay the
piper. That's the way the law ways in
Kentucky. There are at this moment
| fifty cases of homicide on our criminal
docket, which ought to be recorded as
murder cases, where the defendant is at
large on bail with the least possible dam
ger of an adverse result. There are five
hundred cases of petty shooting, with
intent to kill, which will never come to
trial.
If there is another State in the Union
to which the foregoing is closely applica-
bic it is Missouri, which is also over
whelmingly Democratic. The meeting
of these conditions in large and small
communities cannot be attributed to
chance or mere coincidence They indi-
cate general law.