Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-01-10
LINCOLN COUNTY
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The Governor Of Ohio il trying :
new role AZ temperance reformer. Out Of
GO cases pardoned out Of penitentiary lasi
year, IS were released on the condition Of
total abslinence" Should any Of them
violate the pledge, he will feel himself
bound to 20 back TO Columbus.
Permit me, Mr.. Editor, to offer word
ofconsolstion TO my afflicted friend Lee
Huffman. And Lee, / sincerely sympa-
thize with you. Many years ago under
went a similar ordeal. The memory Of
that day will never pass away. The start
ling novelty Of the relation the eumber.
some mountain OF new responsibility-the
sitting sense Of acquired dignity pom
derous question Of training, educating, de.
velopinR-the far.off future with its exem.
plored lsbyrinths Of uncertainty, doubt.
possibility; and the final philosophic re
solve TO live in the present and hope in the
future, are all wildly before me nov.
will embody the result Of my observation,
experience and theorizing in a single
maxim Name her "Kate Walton" and
go ahead.
The record Of the present week bids
fair TO be Of unusual interest. AZ far AZ
our State is concerned, the week will be
ushered in with our Legislative salve Of
artillery, in commemoration Of the great
battle which was fought and won after
peace had been made, by way Of easing
down into private life. The annual cele.
bration Of this event by our State is in
peculiarly good taste, inasmuch as il calls
to mind the bulletin Of the General from
the stricken field, so strangely distasteful-
as we distinctly remember-to a former
generation, wherein il was briefly aud
pointedly written 1.-THE Kentuckians in.
gloriously fed" The second point Of in
terest to our immediate region will be the
action Of the Democratic Convention in
the nomination Of a a candidate for Clerk
OF the Court Of Appeals. OF course there
is but one opinion here. Wolford the pa
triot and philanthropist, the soldier and
the sage, is our choice, our unanimous
choice for the position. We sincerely
trust that the Convention will accord to
him the honor he has so grandly won, and
pay him the debt Kentucky 30 Justly owes
This week will also probably determine the
fate Of Guiteau. Well, he has gained the
object Of his highest ambition--notoriety
| presume no other citizen Of the nation
was ever so widely known, or 80 volumi-
nously written up, or 50 unanimously de-
tested, or 50 utterly friendless, OF so thor
oughly satisfied with his position Ger
tainly no other has been for so long pc
riod the daily topic Of conversation in every
assembly, in every enlightened land. |
have never sympathized with the vengeful
spirit that has clamored for his blood.
grant he is guilty Of a fearful crime, and
that his life is Justly forfeit. Still, re-
gard him simply as a murderer, and his
condemnatior-sho he be condemned
az simply just This, it seems to me, i. as
FAR as a rational man has a right to go
and the Thousand mslsdictions-msny Of
them, doubtless, uttered by men more
guilty than the poor, deluded criminal
are, at best, but defiance of Him who has
said, Vengeance is mine" But the alb.
sorbing interest Of the week in our State
will circle around the Ashland horror.
The question will be, will an outraged and
maddened community permit the accused
and captured parties the benefit Of a trial
under the law and verdict of their peers,
or will they, goaded to desperation by the
enormity of the crime, the uncertainty Of
HE law and the laxity of its execution,
take the matter into their own hands and |
seek to appease justice by the dangerous
remedy of mob violence? We hope that |
wisdom may govern and work out the re-
suit. Yet we can not but see that this
crime, and the daily record Of crimes
which are making our annals so black and |
so bloody, are but the natural, legitimate
and logical results Of the utter impotency
Of the law as administered in these latter |
days, We will not attempt to point out
why this is so but the fact il patent that
after arrest, and all the machinery of straw
bail and change Of venue. and hung jury,
and insanity, Sc, has been run upon the
case (even with the most positive proof, a
crime is scarcely ever murder), and a SEN
tence has been obtained, then comes in the
poetic fiction Of Executive clemency, and
the culprit is turned loose upon society,
petted martyr, or thoroughbred lion-in
either character emboldened by immunity
to renew his outrages upon the commu.
nifty.
WAYNE COUNTY