Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-26
THE GALL,

THE CALL,
after brief reference to the circumstances of
the tragedy, says: 1.-THE sentiment of law
abiding citizens is one of regret that the law
was not trusted to right whatever wrong may
have been committed. The delays of the law
are often irritating and sometimes inexplica-
BILE, but in civilized communities it is the arbi-
ter between man and man, whose decision
must be abided by. This is the view of the
case which the community will come to when
the present excitement has passed away. 1t is
high time that the public should hnd
some means TO put stop to these
personal wrangles which keep society in fer
ment. We have tolerated them too long and
the natural results are such tragedies as we
have now to record"
says: 1.-THE killing of Charles De Young was
vulgar assassination and is dark blot on
San Francisco's record. The dead man was far
from blameless, but he on whose account the
crime was committed was not irreproachable
in reputation or reticent in speech, and had
little excuse to have Islander against him
avenged by the bullet. Neither side can claim
to have acted the part of meek innocence
Each has made charges against the
other, unsuitable for the public press,
and inexcusable even if true; and
both sides sought to svenge
their wrongs, or pretended wrongs with pistols.
1t is great misfortune for San Francisco that
any of the parties had ever made their home
here, and the community is sick of malignant
personal abuse drawn from the secrets OF prl-
vate life, and of allowing party who adopts
that mode of warfare and finds himself beaten
about it to retaliate by murder. indignant
public opinion and memorable rigOr of law
should insist that such offences shall no longer
be permitted with impunity in our midst'
THE BULLETINS
editorial this evening, after briefly re-
viewing the whole Kalloch-De Young quarrel
says: ''The causes which lie at the bottom of
the feud are reckless journalism on one hand,
and border politics on the other. There Is
line in journalism which cannot be overstep-
ped without provoking retaliation. 1t is in
large presence the dead line. The public acts
of public persons are just subjects of public
criticism, but even that latitude is not jHsti-
fed if personal malice is the leading motive"
THE POST
says e6itorially: The homicide last night was
the natural, logical and inevitable outcome of
the example set by the deceased. J. M. Kali
loch appealed to the popular court of last resort
to vindicate his family honor,
precisely as Charles De Young
had done eight months before. The
only difference in their respective cases is the
fatal result. In both, the intent was criminal,
viewed from strictly legal and moral stand
point. In both, malice aforethought stood
self attested. In both, ikstifcation is sought
in the provocation of vituperation and dis
gushing SANDER"
THE Examiner
says of the tragedy: ut was deliberate as
sassination, and the assassin had manifestly
premeditated the atrocious deed, with malig
nant determination to make no failure of his
fatal purpose. The murder of last night was
another and last chapter in this most unfortun-
ate and deplorable trouble. For the peace,
order and good name of San Francisco, it
should be the end of lawless violence and
criminal shedding of blood in relation to the
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