The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-24
TIE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN: SUNDAY MORNING JULY a. 1881


predict that young Hays will be dealt with
more severely, for the simple reason that
his victim was caucasian, While.
this prediction may or may not be verified
in so far as the degree of punishment in
Aictad upon Hays is concerned, it is not at
all likely that the jury or the court will be
influenced by the tact that the victim was
white. But be this as it may; certain it is
that the wretch guilty of q crime such as
Hays and Green are guilty of, deserves to
be punished to the fullest extent of the
law.
"A Chicago correspondent of a South
ern Illinois exchange says; "Senator John
A. Logan came up in the cars from Carbon
dale to Chicago on Thursday evening. He
was in good health and inclined talk. He
says he has given the Cairo & st. Louis
Railroad Co. grounds at Murphysboro upon
which to erect their machine shops, and
that Murphysboro is growing finely. He
was not down to "mend his fences" in
Southern Illinois, and had very little to say
on politics. He is, however, an advocate of
the policy of "let we'll enough alone" and
is in favor of continuing man in Office so
long as he performs his duties well and sat
isfactorily, which means that Capt. Willis
will continue to be collector OF revenues
for this district. de says that Guiteau is a
crazy dead beat from Chicago, who was
never tolerated in the society of respectable
men. He also gave it as his opinion that
the democrats would defeat the republicans
in the next general election, providing, as
we suggested, that they did not commit
"hari-kar' at the beginning of the cam
paign."
The judgment of the county court in
the Winter-Thistlewo case was that the
city council had primary jurisdiction and
that it ought to have been brought before
that body for adjustment. This decision
would probably have satisfied the prosecu-
ton if the time for commencing an action
of the nature of this case before
that body had not expired. The law re-
quires that contest suits in which the city
council has primary jurisdiction shall be
brought before that body within thirty
days after the election; these thirty days
have expired long ago, and therefore, if the
prosecution had abided by the decision OF
the county court, the case would have end
ed there. But the prosecution did not
choose to give up so easily, therefore it took
the only step it could take to bring the
case to trial, namely, an appeal to the
supreme court of the state. Now, if that
court reverses the decision of the lower
court, and decides that that court had jur-
isdiction in the case then the case will
probably be tried; but if the decision OF
Judge Yocum is sustained then Mr.. Winter
will not enjoy the honor and emouments
of the Office of mayor OF this prospectively
great metropolis. II is believed by some
who have knowledge of the case and the
law that the upper court will sustain the
decision of the lower court, and the reason
given is, that, in the contest case of Ritten-
house VS.. Linegar, which was similar in
most respects to the case under considera-
ton, the judgment of Judge Yocum, that
the county court HAD jurisdiction, was
reversed by the supreme court of the
state, which held, as Judge Yocum held in
this case, that the city council ought to de-
eide the contest. 1t "a also believed and
said that the determination with which the
prosecution, or rather their client, pursues
the case, is not founded so much upon
belief that there is really good ground for
expect ne favorable jugdment as it is to
make capital for the next municipal cam
paign by keeping the defeated candidate
before the people and creating the impress
sion that he is the municipal me too" to
s. J. Tilden. But this is merely conjec-
tured and, you know, copjectures are
welfare sometimes true.
pERSONALISMS.