, 1875-11-26
PUBLIC FEELING,


Yesterday beiug holiday, there wAs, OF
COURSE III unusual coueourae Of peoplo At tho
billRrd-rooms and like resorts. 10 the hotels. and
On tho streets. Tic neEh Of tho murder passed.
around isko wiidfre, aud 10 worry short tiue
formed the subject Of almost eycrJ conversation.
Tho almost universal exclamation WAS, ''poor
Charley" ind The expression of pity for tho
victim nas universal. Tho next thing that catno
to tho nInds Of the people wAs bitter denupcia-
tion Of the syetem Of BcounIreiistn which WAS
represented By Davis. Ono man said: III the
people don't riso up NOW and drive these thieves
out Of the city, thoy might ~ well givo up to
thom, and let them have tho town."
Another roplieds :" Ii tho police don't do some.
thing now tho people will hhve to take bold
themaesvos."
Still another. an old man without atoop, and
with irop-R1ay whiskess An'i IN eye that
Bparkied said II 8as In CalifoTnik Ia vigi1an.o
times, aud ban Francisco was never ~ bad on
"a Chicago ia to-day"
A gentleman in tho Grand Pacific rotunda said
last evening 10 crowd Which Of you gensle-
men is sater this minute than Charley Whyland
was whun that bn1,ho.roper killed him 7" and
tho crowd looked uneasy At tho idoa.
Another gentleman il tho same botel said, q
few minutes afterwsrti: "There are more lamp
posts than thore are bunko-ropers; wouldn't 1t
10 good thing to join the two thing: somc-
how?"
On al sides the opinion WAS expressed that
Davis ought to Hwtng, and no special pleadinga
OF EaudNn aentimensalit! should rave hts neck
aud give his worthless carcass toase Of l,fo
longer than Ia neccsaary for tho administration
| Of Justice.
| A gentleman on atreot-corner said 10 COM
| panion: ' There's d man who nayer did anythtug
In his ltfo but eteal and swindlc. and !le hsH
| more influence than John Y. Fsrwgll or Potter
Palmer; he has llvod hero until lle rcallv con.
| t1olh their interests In part. How would 1t bo,
AZ rnaster Of public policy to hang that map, or
drive him out Of town il ho preferred ~" Be-
| policeman who had baeu listener spoke up and
| said: III you will hang him and tue rest lke
him you can 10: a lo-year old boy to hold ms
| from interfering. cs, and ten men can drtTc
away Ill tue nliests tn Clnrago tha: would
trouble you 4 80 hung sll the gatnblers on
Clark street,"
:. Not to repent furtior opinions, 1t may be said
tlst tbs murder Of Charley Whylhnd By loafer
thief, bunko-rnper, gambler, such ~ Davis
wAa known TO De, will be found to have
sT1nnED UP MORE INDIGNATION
than ang pct tho Mcdonald gang, to which Day1f
belonged, have. eyor performed 10 Chicago
Without defendipg Whyland's life, character. ol
aciB, 1t iB enough TO say that lie was fouliY eud
murdered just ~ ths reader Of shis
someone's Ia In danger Of beiu8 uurdored II hcper.
nits by hiH silence aod inacton the oohttol which
the gamblers Of Chicago affect and possess ove,
tho GnverDneptand people thereof. TITO tnur-
lorous aot Was anaturAl outxroWsh Of the sYBsem
Davis iB no worso than each Of the thousand
moro or less, gamblers, bunko-roposB and hang
era-on ot Chicago. He Was perfectly iAwlees
aud deaplsed any control, 30 do they. ons ant
all. He wont Rr1uoa With The obvious intent Il
murder any man who coutradicted hia wlthes,-
40 DO they. lie lived under tho ban Of th'
law and In pnro defiance Of it-Bo :dF
Mike Mcdonald and tho rest Of tho gang. IL
wag, by nature, education, aud protess'on.
thief, a liar. = acoundrol. = coward,-so IT
tles, ono and ali. Davis was aud ia no WORST
to-day than yesterday morally. and 10 Is to-ta,
juat aB good Al hla associates OF the Ramblln'
a,rit,e. Not 10 draw ~ undue Discrimination
Davis aud tho remainder OF tue gang ara vormh
bencath the Law, aud should be treatod like otha
law they are beaBts OF proy, with moro like
ness ia the coyote than to any other beast
thev are. In short. worthy Just the treatmen
TINT tho Bame Glass received In San Francisco l.
1850. Not because oue Of their gang kille
; Charley Whyand. but bsoauae ths same fat
awaits apy man, good or bad, who oHonds tl.e1
nr auy ot.s OF thdn; and, also, because nothn
| hut heroic treatment will cure the distaao. lk
any other cancer on the city. thoy muat be cl,
out and thrown WAY. Tho police hago. up :
| lately. shown themselvca nnAb!a to do this worl
! aud now 1t ls about tfmo Tor another power
I | take the matter In hand.
Uncs8 Hupt Hlck0v hud hi8 force take th
matter it hand, therefore, It is but fair pr
dicton that otitr powers will bo BnmInonct
Let the ver1nin be driven ont OF this city With
ono week, or look out for tho uext move.