The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-20
Pools N CRIME.
Professor swing Tells what he knows
and Thinks Of GuIteRu.

fOOLA AND ChlmEs
Professor swing TELLS what he Knows
and Thinks Of auIteRu,
Professor Swing writes in the Alliance
as follows: The case Of Guiteau opens up
ina most sad and earnest manner the de-
bate over the guilt Of half insane offend.
srs. II has been three or four years since
wo who move around In Chicago streets
and in Chicago society began to hear Of
the "haltcrAzy Guiteau," ald the fool
Guileau." He became particularly viSi.
BILE when he came upon the key Of st.
Johns apocalypse and attempted. to con.
vey his superior information to q benlght
cd world. He went from clergyman to
clergyman with his pockets fall Of manu-.
script, but with q mind still more utterly,
full olits W greatness. His manuscript
was only q word or 0 syllable compared
with the philosophy Of himself with which
his head abounded. His insanity took
the form OF egotism, as is often tho case,
and kent the Guiteau bosom full Of the
idea that his owA birth was the greatest
event Of the century. 70 his folly there
was no humorous side-.it was always an
offensive and tricky form OF lunRcy, s
TIE KEY TO THE APOCALYPSE.
Soon after this malicious parsonage got
possession Of the key to the apocalypse
and had failed to draw an audience in
the city, he put up his handbills in towns
along tho Michigan Central road, and
made himself a matter Of suburban dis.
gust by never paying for the room which
echoed TO his brass and piety. Whatever
key he may have found to the mysteries
Of ST. John, he never revealed any
acquaintance with the Ten Command.
ments, and has left behind him Ia the
West no evidence that he would not
rather break all the laws Of God or man
than give up any part oil bis claim
10 q superiority 0i nSture aud right.
LunaCy often takes on itself the air Of
greatness. In each asylum there are q
few men who strut about the balls under
the delusion that they are kings, and
that all the inmates are their loyal sub.
jeCts. Guiteau, while In this city, was q
stalwart, dangerous aud criminal egolist.
He was mad 1T acquaintance who did not
attend his lecture; hegrew white with rage
at the papers which reported him; he was
meek and lowly only Of the time aud
place Of meal and bed for which he never
intended to pay. His application for
100000 for damage done his character
BpraDg from the insane exaltatlon Of him.
self which made him ask the President for
the position oil q ioroign ambassador, and
which led him to feel that Sherman and
Grant and Conkling and Arthur would
soon call at the jail 10 confess his heroism
on behalf OF the Republican party.
WHAT SHOULD BIZ DONE.
What must be done with persons OF this
particular Guitesu type2 Opinions being
in order, 1t seems that their Sins are OF the
worst possible grade, and that this partic.
ular offender hos intellect enough 10 de.
serve and fully to appreciate hanging. II
Is not within the bounds Of possibility
that he ls not accountable and responsible.
He is q moral ruin indsed-a man without
any moral sense, and yet he Is just such a
cruel and bloody savage as to merit the
penalty Of criminal law. The thlrty.six
Indians hanged come years Bgo Of Manka.
to had not the clear intellect u the highest
manhood, but they had brains enough to
plan and carry out awful Crueltiea and to
know that they were doing wrong and bar.
barous things. A thug may not be ae en-.
lightened as 9 Ben franklin, but he is en-.
lightened and ane enough 10 know what
lie crime, and for that reason 0 thug re-.
ceives no mercy. The public, where Gui.
teau has been, has called him Cracked
Guiteau, but 1t now Confesses that he has
been and Ia o deliberate criminal, and
merits whatever penalty the law would
impose upon O mar who had neyer been
feproached as a fool" The whole llle
oil the man has been an IMPOSITION upon
somebody, either a wife or q brother. Or a
town or q city; and not BY accident. bti
by result Of devilish plotting toward siot
result. II criminal law cannot touch a
man who has built up from boyhood a via
temper until II has become 20 colossal "A
10 shoot q President one maj well doubi
the value Of courts or jufies or statutes,
BISHOP %oHENEY's KxsERiRsCE,
Out Of this calamity at Washington there
should come q new dlsttust Of those men
who are called fanatics" and "Crask.
Drained fellows" Some Of these ate TO be
ClaUsed as highly dangerous. What lnssn.
ity some Of them possess perhaps came by
vice. 10 onssi these meek applicants iOr DO.
lice Bithop Cheney made some ConLemptu.
Gus remark, and In an Instant the fanatic"
knocked down the Bishop, as bsinga man
who did not fully appreciate bic visitor.
Several Of the Chicago Clefvymen have
found that these lnen who call with a
message from the Lord will, upon the least
display Of i%nctedulity by the listener, re-
veal q temper which shows that the Lords
part In tlleir itlnefaCy was small compared
with that oil "ths other fellow" The pub.
lie should not wait for each one Of these
to Establish bis quality by shooting some.
body, but oil these should be arrested
until II could be learned whether they ATE
hatmless by nature and by history, or
whether they are tricky aud malicious
wanderers, liable any day 10 Assail some
tender woman or shoot some CitiSen. Out
o. such examinations as that one At Wash.
i1gton there certainly may come lessons
oil wisdom.