The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-09-02

AttOrney-Our Next Governor-The Fate
of the Nation-How Our Aldermen Look
on Glove Fights-Hot Weather-A Late
Coney Island Sensation, etc.
New YORK, August 10, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
There is q difference in the Boord av
4Aldthermin that is full of future promise
Aldthermin Casey, Kelly, Riley, Driscoll
Hennessy, Fitzpatrick, Mullins, Lynch
and O'Shaughnessy find nothing detri-
mental to good order or public morals in
a glove fight. They maintain that it is a
reasonable and wholesome amusement
and besides, in the present instance, Tug
Wilson represents the Sassanach and
perfidous Albion; whereas Sullivan rep.
resents the proud land of Bryan Borou,
Wolfe Tone, Curran, Grattan, o'Connell
and Parnell, not to mention O'Donovan
Rosa aud Michael Grove and hosts OF
others whose name and fame will doubt
less survive their lives. Golinsky, Wolf
enstein, Hapstung and Deifenbach take
a different view from their fellow coun-
cilmen from the "jim av the say" and in
their opinion an encounter with sticks or
rapiers is infinitely preferable to con-
test with fists. The Mayor, stirred UP by
the assaults of the religious press, con-
suited the District Attorney to ascertain
if knocking mans teeth out and break
ing his ribs could he construed into a
breach Of the peace. The District Attor-
ney, who is man learned in the law, at
once consulted the Revised Statutes,
Coke, Blackstone and the Constitution
of tho United States, and he finally gave
it as his opinion that if the mar should
he killed, it would clearly he a breach Of
the peace, and being so, would subject
the offender under strict construction
of the law to the pains and penalties of
assault and battery. 1t las taken our
authorities some time to find out that it
is hardly the thing for the city to be
turned upside down by a couple Of brutal
blackguards, and a hundred policemen,
whose duty it is to guard our property
and our lives, should be detailed to do
special honor to their exhibition. At
last the order has gone forth to stop 1t;
though the deinoralizing effect of the ex-
hibition which took place a. few weeks
ago will remain with us for years, It has
given special boom to bullying and
ruffianism; more policemen have beer
beaten by roughs III the past three weeks
than in the preceding five years. It is
not considered manly by IL rogue to be
arrested without a show of resistance
feather in tie cap of the ruffian who does
it, and I have no doubt if the truth was
know it was the example of Sullivan
and Tug Wilson which precipitated the
late encounter at West Point, which
nearly ended fatally for one of the COM
batants.
The example has not been thrown
away OH the police; the club, which has
never been used sparingly, is now called
into requisition on the slightest provoca-
ton, and it is as much as mans life is
worth to meet policeman after dark in
certain localities, and it was only the
other night that worthy citizen was
dragged from his own door and shut up
in filthy cell because the policeman
did not think the citizen was quite civil
enough to him. The state of affairs here
may be guessed by the course Of the Dis
trict Attorney during the past week. An
effort has been made for years to stop
gambling in this gambling cursed city.
Raids were organized with the greatest
secrecy, sometimes at midnight, somc-
times at MONDAY. The police were sent
out without moments notice, but wien
they reached the door of the gambling
hell the apparatus had disappeared and
the birds had flown. It became apparent
at last that the gamblers and houses of
prostitution were protected at headquar-
ters, and as long as they were willing to
pay for it they had nothing to fear. This
was so apparent that the District Attor-
ney finally concluded that the ordinary
ministers Of justice were of 10 account,
so ignoring tho twenty-four hundred
policemen for whomLwe pay nearly three
million of dollars a year, and the whole
army of tip-staves and court officers, he
employed Pinkerton's detectives to aid
him, and for the first time in our history
the gambling arrest was a success. The
descent was made on the lottery dealers,
whose business amounts to millions a
year. There was some show of resist
ance, but Bob Pinkerton with big
sledge hammer in his hand is bad man
to fool with, SO they concluded to throw
up the sponge. The police denounced it
as an outrage, and several judges of the
courts have written to Mr.. McKeon to
stop his raids and suspend the prosecu-
tion, or he'll ruin the party. Mr. McKeon
though true-blue Democrat, is one Of
the old fashioned fellows belonging to
the school of Lewis Cass and Silas Wright,
so he replied if the party's success de-
pended on such material as that, the
sooner it went down the better. He says
that he is sworn to see the law executed
and in that execution he neither knows
nor cares for Democrat or Republican
All honor to John McKeon; his noble
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