The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-24

"Prompt and terrible punishment has fallen
upon the heads Of the two cowardly rufians
who lately attempted to blow up the Liver
pool town hall. M'Gratb, as the worse Grim
inal of the two, and the chief agent of the
organization which aims at terrorizing Great
Britain by means of dynamite, has been
sentenced to penal servitudc for life, while
M'Keviet is to undergo similar imprison
ment for term of fifteen years" He also
relates an incident which shows plainly
that some of the most despicable, craver
hearted poltroons that trod the earth are
Englishmen. An excursion party on a
tram between south end and London COM
posed of number of ladies and
gentlemen(Y) was bound for the latter
place to enjoy themselves for day During
the ride one OF the aforesaid gentlemen, (O
named Thomas John Hambly, missed his
watch, and he forthwith accused two ladies
of the theft and proceeded to abuse and
strike them, tear their clothes from their
bodies, and by threatening to throw the
little child of one of them out Of the car
window and stamp upon it and to knife
them, compelled them to undress entirely,
so that he might examine their clothing.
Several other males who were in the same
car all that time, saw it all, without making
an effort to interfere. Where is there
an American who would not have shot
Hambly like dog that he wasG
The people of Green county have held
convention and nominated candidates for
The county offices and have requested the
county clerk to call an election in Novem-
Der next. The people OF Green county are
very foolish. Their election, if they do
hold one, will amount to nothing more
than the expenditure of much money,
more wind and sore disappointment; but
they will have learned something about
themselves that they do not now seem to
know-they will know that they don't
know quite as much as they think they
know. They intend, Of course, 70 hold an
election under the old election laws of the
state, holding that these are unaffected by
the new amendment and will remain 80 I'M
til 1882. But they have not given the sub
.ject very deep thought, or they would not
hold us they do The new amendment
either went into effect when the result OF
the ballots was declared, or it did not 60
into effect at all and it never will II 1t is
unconstitutional now 1t will be equally un-
constitutional in 1882. TO illustrate
this let us suppose the people of
Green county, or of Alexander county,
should hold an election next November and
elect their county officers. The governor
will refuse to issue commissions, as he has
time and again minated he will. The
officers apply for a mandamus, the case
goes into the courts and the courts decide
the new amendment and the laws made in
pursuance thereof TO be unconstitutional.
for the sake of argument that
this were the case, how then, could an
election be legally held under the same
and the same laws in 1892
The truth and the gist of this whole mud
died question is this Either the new cleo
ton laws never were and never can be con-
or the old laws were annulled
when the new ones were, enacted. If we de-
ny the first proposition and affirm that the
new law does go in effect in 1882, then We
must admit that the old law is annulled,
because it conflicts with the new in that it
requires officers to be elected in next No
vember for terms extending beyond 1882.
And for the same reason does the new
amendment fall, if we affirm that the old
provision Of the constitution is in force I'M
til 1882. For taen, the men elected in
next November would be entitled to hold
their Offices until 1883 and 1885, and an cleo
tion held under the new provision, in 1882
would give US two sets of officers, which
would be a most palpable violation, not on
ly OF the constitution, but of good horse
sense. 1t is reasonable to suppose that as
the majority of the people
Of the state voted for the new provision, 80
the majority are opposed to holding an cleo
ton in next November; for the amendment
was proposed for the ostensible purpose of
lessening the number Of county elections
in thcmterest of economy and those who are
seeking to defeat this purpose by holding an
election this fall are lead on by Office seek
ers whose thirst for Office blinds them alike
to the expressed will of the people and the
meaning Of constitutional law.
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