The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-15

suit in explosion.-The Commercial in
speaking of the politics of New York, says
that the political situation is peculiar.
Senator Conkling, in the absence OF the
active participation of the Administration
in the affairs of the Republican party,
found himself in the State Convention in
possession of a small but reliable ma
iorily of the delegates, and used
his power to the utmost. The
disaffected Republicans, however, ac-
quiesce, and the party is solid. Ex-Gov-
ernor Morgan, who has many reasons to
complain of the Conkling rule, writes to
Mr. Cornell, the Republican nominee for
Governor, pledging him cordial support.
Harper's Weekly, with a protest joins in
CARRYING out the Saratoga programme, and
the New York Tribune goes to work with
out murmur. 1t thinks the organization
of the Republican party better than that
of the Democratic, but thinks the indlca-
tions are that the coercive power of the
Democratic organization applied to Tam
many will constantly reduce the proper
tions of the bolt, and in the end the party
be in the field with almost its full strength.
The Gazette devotes letter to ''South-
ern Civilization - The Murder of the
Chisholms," in which it says the killing OF
w. w. Chisholm was a political murder.
He had been Confederate soldier, but had
accented the results of the war, had been
Sheriff of Kemper County by appointment
of Gov. Alcorn While Sheriff he had un-
dertaken to execute the duties of his office
according to law, serving process for debt
on black and white alike. for which he was
charged with being Radical. This made
him an enemy to this society whom
it was the duty of every true Mississippian
to kill John W. Gully had numerically
whipped q colored boy named Walter
Riley, who then fled and hid, but secretly
returned and shot Gully. He was arrested,
the proof was clear, and he confessed the
crime 1t was alleged that the gun had
been Chisholm's. Some money was found
on him, and this was alleged to be from
Chisholm. Upon this flimsy pretext
Chisholm was arrested. Chisholm demand
ed an immediate examination, which was
appointed for II o'clock, at his own house
meanwhile the signs indicated that nc
trial was intended. Men came
into the village by COM
panes. About two hundred armed men
were gathered about his house, and gave
their orders to the Sheriff. who said
Chisholm must go to Jail.
He was taken to the Jail, and his family
went with him-his wife, three young sons,
his daughter Cornelia, and an elderly
Scotchman named Mcclellan. The armed
crowd followed. At the door Judge CHS
holm sent Mrs. Chisholm back to the house
on some errand. When she came back the
savages were at their work, and she tried to
push her way through the passages filled
with these murderers, to get to her hus
band and children. In this effort she saw
the most of this savagery. The
story has been told recently in our col
umns. There is no more question as to the
facts of the murder than as to the fact thai
the battle of Waterloo was fought. But
there was afterward some regard for the
political effect this was having in the
Northern States, and therefore desire tc
have the colored boy, Walter Riley, impli
cate Judge Chrisholm. Most extraor
dinary means were used to work upon his
hopes and fears. The preachers exhorteC
him mot to go into eternity with lie ir
his MOUTH He was hanged until nearly
dead and then let down again and again tC
confess Yet through all this ordeal of tor
ture he was steadfast in his refusal to lie
and at last he was hanged declaring that he
and he alone was guilty, and that he shot
Gully in revenge for the whipping Judge
Chisholm, Cornelia, 10 nnie and Mcclellan
were murdered. Henry Gully was trie(
last week for the murder of Cornelia. TIL,
proof was clear that he shot her, and die
it purposely. The verdict of not guilty
was in fact a verdict that in Mississippi th
is no ofTense. The Gazette adds that TIL,
armed men who demanded the life of judge
Chisholm and the jury that acquitted thu
cowardly savage who purposely shot thu
daughter because she stood in the way o
his shooting the father, represent the socia
state of that region. So do the 300 armed
men who demanded that Dixon leave Yazo,
County, or cease to be candidate.
The German Papers.
IThe Volksfreund.l
Grant, the candidate of the Imperialist
in the United States, will soon be home.
The prospects of the Democrats of Obi
are improving every day. 1t is nearly
month yet until the election, and the Dem
ocratic speakers can gain many vote. |
the Democratic voters all come out on elec
ton day and do their duty, grand Demo
cratic victory will not be wanting. No on
should listen to the nonsensical boasts Q
the Repubncans
fThe Volksblattl
DeBeck has not yet settled. Ducklo, toe
has not returned.
Formerly the city should buy the ga
|, works. now the Gas Company has pul
chased the city.
The silver enthusiasm of the Commerce.
has finally cooled We congratulate.
The Democral ic State ticket is not CON
plete. Several candidates who will site
, until the election are sought.
t TThe Free Presse.1
The report that Ewing is thinking of dt
clining is undoubtedly without foundation
But the information that the Democrat
.. have given up the State ticket fight and ar
now concentrating on making every exel
ton to elect majority of the legislativ
candidates, needs the greatest attention
The spoils are too costly, and the Demo
: Gratis will do anything to secure them. Th
Republicans should be alive and ready 6
all times to Illustrate these plans.