Daily Republican., 1879-08-27
THE CALIFORNIA TRAGEDY.


Kalloch ImprovinE w Ork ing.
mems MASS Meetinx-De Y0ung'a
Defsnee-The Shooting Not Cow.
ardly.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26.-This morn.
ing Mr.. KallOch's condition was re-
ported as unchanged. Notwithstand-
ing the uniformly favorable report of
the physicians, taose who still linger-
ed about the vicinity of the Temple
persisted in the belief that he would
die, and that the favorable reports were
designed to keep them quiet. Ksar.
ney processes to share in that belief in
common with the bulk of his followers.
Everything is quiet about the city.
The precautions about the Central Sta
tion are still maintained, and two COM
panies of the National Guard remain
on duty there to relieve the police, who
have returned to their regular duty.
The offices of 1.-THE Chronicle" are still
guarded.
Tonight Kalloch's condition is con.
tinually improving, and it is now re-
ported that lie is out Of danger, though
the report is probably premature.
According to the present opinion o.
the physicians, the bullet merely grazed
his lung. No effort has yet been made
10 probe the wound. The Workiugmen's
guards on duty about the Metropolitan
Temple we're replaced BY the police
this evening.
The workingmen are holding a mass
meeting at Union Hall tonight, which
is crowded to suffocation. The meet.
ing has no particular connection with
the Kalloch affair, having been called
before the assault was made upon him.
Everything continues orderly and there
is no tendency whatever to rewaken
the excitement.
Intense excitement continues at San
Francisco, although no breach of peace
is apprehended. To-day Mr.. De
Young's journal, "The Chronicle, 4"
publishes a long article, in which be
shows that Mr.. Kalloch intended to
read in public the slanderous attack,
published some time ago by Napthaly
in "The San Francisco Sum-" prior to
the publication of the assault on his
fathers memory in "The Chronicle. :"
The article further shows that para
graphs were printed with the approval
Of Mr.. Kalloch, in which it was an
nounced that he was about to "vivisect''
the De Young's character. 1t is
affirmed that Napthaly retraoted his
statements in "The Sun" and that Mr..
Kalloch was aware that they were base
less.
"The shooting of Kalloch by Charles
De Young has been stigmatizsd as cow
ardly; in the estimation of his friends
it was not so. He did the shooting,
quite aware of all the consequences
that were likely to ensue. He was
aroused to a pitch of frenzy by the vile
utterance of Kallooh, made in the pres.
ence of 5000 or 10000 persons. Kal :
loch did not, under the circumstances,
deserve the treatment of man; he had
placed himself outside the pals of any
privilege Of self-protection'
A man who, in the presence of 5000
or $1,000 persons, attacks another man,
through that most sensitive avenue to
his feeling-his mother; when he ap-
plies the vilest epithets known to the
English language when lie forgets
his calling audience, common decency,
the most sacred proprieties of life, The
precepts of the religion he pretends to
inculcate, what can he expect? He is
provided for any emergency; he pre-
pares himself for death, and when it
comes it is not unexpected. If there
was no danger to DeYoung from Kal-
loch, there was abundance of peril
from persons in The vicinity, and es-
pecially from workingmen, who are
never absent from the neighborhood of
the Temple.
"Though Mr.. DeYoung had a loaded
pistol he never attempted to use it Cd
those who were attacking him, one Of
whom stabbed him with knife in the
back of the neck, and another of fwhom
attempted to shoot him in the back of
the head. He bore all patiently till
rescued from the hands of the infuria-
ted bystanders by the officers who came
to his assistance.
"It is not easy to see wherein lies the
cowardice of one who perils,in an affair
of this kind, his own life, and takes
the chances of being misunderstood and
held as one dishonored for the sake of
the mother who bore him. One who
knows that he must suffer the inevita-
BILE dangers and consequences of such
deed cannot Justly be accused of fear.
His friends rest their case by saying:
Put yourself in his place.''