The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-11

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therefore, be repeated. The honest mcr
will therefore applaud Mr.. IIartzcl's move
mcnt, and ithc receives the proper support
of the committee of which he is II member
,the public will be startled, we predict, by
the developments.
The summary dismissal Of the Grand
jury, Thursday evening, was very generally
discussed, yesterday, in all parts of the
city; and not few of our citizens endorsed
the action of the Judge, and argued that he
did right. Others, while admitting that
the Jurors may have been frttering away
their time in an Improbable manner, ar.
gued that the Jtdgc exceeded his powers
that the law gave him no control over the
Grand jury, and that in dismssing it in
the manner he did, he assumed q power
that the law has lodged nowhere except
with the Jury itself. Still Others place the
whole blame upon the shoulders of the
Prosecuting Attorney, claiming that the
Judge should have instituted inquiries, and
placed the responsibility where it rightfu-
ly belonged. The juymen themselves do
not we take it, question the purity of the
Judges motives. They hold that he was
mislcd by appearances; and blame him for
acting without extending inquiries. They
believe themselves victims of misconcep-
ton of facts, and not subject to the imputa-
ton under which the action of the Judge
has placed them.
There was full attendance upon the
meeting OF the Reform club, last night, the
crowd being fully twice as large as that of
last week. After the tormalties of open
ing, Mr.. Fisher, the recording secretary,
read letter from Hon. +. VI. Youngblood,
expressing regrets over his inability to be
present to address the club, stating as a
reason, that he had entered upon the de-
fence of a person charged with murder and
could neither postpone or abaldon the
trial. A letter from DR.. Reynolds was also
read, in which the Doctor indicated will
lngncss to come to Cairo whenever called
upon to do 50. AS the committee appointed
to raise a speakers fund had collected $50,
and as the sum of $25in the Women Tenn
perance Union was available for a like
purpose, the club concluded that it
was in condition to send for
the Doctor at once. Accordingly the
Secretary was directed to telegraph to him
to be in Cairo next Tuesday evening. Cap
tain Williams, the financial secretary, then
read report Of his dolngs during his term
Of Office. The report showed that the club
numbered DAB bona fine members; that
1913 persons had signed the pledge; that
1921 so had come into the treasury as con
tributions from the public; that $314G5
had been realized from entertainments;
$jGG.95 from dues, and S27,9 from the
contribution box Concluding the reading
OF the report, the Captain rendered his res
ignation as Financial Secretary, and as
Chairman of the Committee on Speakers
His engagements hereafter would, he said,
be Of nature that would render it impos-
siblc for him to give the positions the nee
essary time and attention. The resignation
was accepted. There being no speaker
present from abroad, the talent Of the audi.
cnce was utilized. aud although nobody
present made any pretensions to finished
oratory, the club was well entertained
what might be denominatcd "a real good
meeting"
In the absence Of anything more in
teresting we incorporate among our locals
the following complimentary notice OF
Judge Mulkey's candidacy fora seat on the
Illinois Supreme bench. We quote from
the Chester Valley Clarion, which says;
Among the eminent lawyers and jurists Of
Southern Illinois, from whose number a Sc
lection must be made by the people of the
Southern Grand Division IN June next, of u
successor to the lamcntcd Sidney Breesc
there is no one within our knowledge more
worthy Of the great honor than Judge
Mulkcy, of Cairo. The great State of Hi
nois should present supreme judiciary,
comprising the very best legal talent Of the
commonwealth. No mere sharp-witted
lawyer, who may succeed in making ignor-
ant Jurors "belicve the worse the better rca-
SON." should have place on our supreme
bench. No man should have a place there
on account of his activity or ability as a
politician. That great position--a position
which, nightly estimated, is one Of the
proudest and grandest in the gift
of an intelligent pcople-shoud be
filled only by man of broad and comprc-
hensive brain-work, Of scholarly culture,
Of the most extensive legal abilities and
requirements and of the kecnest moral
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