Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-02
CINCINNATI MORALIZING.
MURDERERS SAVED AND INNO-
CENT MEN KILLED.

CENI MEN KILLED.
The Bitterness Against the Militia not
MOderated-Sheriff Hawkins Course
Stin Censured-The Troops Being
Gradually Disbanded-Two Effective
Regiments Commended by the Cover
nor.
CINCINNATI, April 1.-The funeral of
Capt. John Desmond, Of the militia, killed
III Saturday nights riot, took place to-day
from the Cathedral. A detail of troops
attended and deep feeling of sorrow pre-
vailed.
The committee of fifteen has decided to
raise by subscription $40 600 to be used to
pay 1000 extra police. This VIII be a
loan to the city until the sum expended
may be raised by proper appropriation
and be returned. This will enable the
military to be withdrawn.
PURGING THE CTTY's POLITICS.
The Municipal Reform Association.
composed of citizens of all parties, has
issued manifesto to the voters of the
| city stating that they believe that the
| occurrences of the past few DAYS more
than ever demandthe severance of party
! politics in the municipal government and
| also stating that they will place in nOmi-
| at the approaching municipal election
men of irreprOachable integrity and un-
| doubted qualifications for the positions,
/ who have consented to accept the nomi-
! nations merely from consideration of
/ public duty. They are selected without
regard to political views, and all good
citizens are called upon to unite with the
| association in these attempts to place
pure and reliable men in charge of the
| city government. The association de-
termined to call a mass meeting at Music
Hall soon to ratify their ticket.
TROOPS OFF FOR HOME.
A portion of the sOldiery are being or
dered home. The Thirteenth and Four
teenth Regiments, from Hillsboro and
Columbus, respectively, and two in
dependent companies, the Governors
Guards and Duffy Rifles (colOred) !
from Columbus, started hOmeWard this
afternoon. These troops have been on
continuous duty for three days and nights
at the court house and Jail, defending the
barricades at the most dangerous points,
and have been the object of the attack Ofthe
mobs. Before starting for the depot the
trOpS were drawn up in line before the
jail and highly c0ngratulatOry and COM
mandatory dispatch from Gov. Hoadly
was read to them.
The troops remaining in the city not yet |
on active duty are the First, Second, Fifth. |
Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Regiments, together with the batteries. |
They Will take the places of those ordered |
home, and will themselves gradually be |
returned to their respective homes.
HOW THE PUBLIC FEELS.
AS to the state OF public feeling. il can
not be said that the original impulse that
actuated the men who took part in the |
demonstration on Saturday night has !
been removed or lessened by the presence |
of the military. On the contrary. the |
events of Friday and Saturday nights |
have given rise to new feel |
1ng-that of Indignation against the mill |
tia Only the hOpelessness of a conflict |
with this powerful y-armed force prevents
an attack upon it. The newspapers.
usually conservative in tone, speak with |
great freedom to-day on the situation as
1t now is.
Die VOlkSbldtt, a German paper. saws:
''Fhe calling out of the militia on Friday |
night can only be characterized as a /
grave mistake. Our militia know and can |
do nothing else, it appears, but shooting. |
If reliance had been placed on the police |
force, order might probably have been re- |
stored without loss Of life.'
THE INDIGNATION INCREASING.
ID Freie PreSSe, German, says: "Tbe |
Indignation of the people is on the in |
crease on account of the rough and /
wholly unprovoked shooting upon peaceful |
citizens, and upon women and children, |
and the Increase of Indignation is becom- |
ing more and more fearful. 1t NAV be |
dreaded upon too reasonable grounds |
that the shedding of blood is not yet
ended, but will begin afresh.v The arti-
Gle blames Sheriff Hawkins, Mayor Ste
phens and Gov. HOadley, the first two for
mismanagement and the last for not COM
ing here to see for himself what the situ-
alton was.
The Commercial Gazette, in an editorial
to-day upon the situation, speaks in the |
strongest possible condemnation of |
Sheriff Hawkins calling on the militia. |
and takes an account of the salvage from |
the three days of terror and destruction. |
"oUR JAIL FULL OF MURDERERs |
SAVED
1t says: eve have saved our iail
iuiI OF murderers. We have |
killed fOrty-fiYe innocent mer. |
and wounded and manned 145 more. ali to |
save our Jail full of murderers. We have |
burned our fine court house. with the re- |
cords of three-quarters of a century, |
creating confusion which a whole gene |
ration will not suffice to settle. But what /
is that by the side Of a Jail full of mur- |
derers saved from the popular excite |
ment! We have converted a just popular |
impulse against the prOstratiOn of the |
law before crime into war between an |
unOrganiZed people incensed to acts of /
blind vengeance against the authorities |
who killed them to protect murderers.
We have planted in the peoples minds |
the cause OF innocent blood crying from /
the ground, but we have saved our Jail |
full of murderers.
HONOR NOT SAVED.
''We have lost all-but not our iail full /
of murderers-not having saved even our |
honor. The reign of law and order is re- |
stored in Cincinnati-that law and order /
which makes murder the safest trade, |
which has made impotent the administra- !
ton of the law against crimes of atrOcity: |
we have vIndicated all practical forms |
anG rules ana traps and tricks which |
make the trial of murderer a farce, and /
degrade the judiciary to the sole end of
having known and proved murderers safe
from conviction, and of promoting the
trade of criminal lawyers. Is any citizen
of Cincinnati content with this salvage
except the Jail full of murderers, and the
criminal class and the trade Of criminal
lawyersY
The courts have been re-established in
the Public Library buildings. Copies of
pleadings Will be substituted for the
originals on application to the court. The
grand jury will resume its sessions at
once and arrangements will be made for
the speedy trial of all criminal cases. The
members of the bar have appointed a
committee to ascertain and report what
legislation is necessary to cover the loss
of records and legal papers.
The committee of one hundred appoint /
ed by the Mayor to assist him has been
organized permanently by the election of
Hon. VIM. S. Groesbeck as Chairman and
JHlius Dexter as Secretary.
Israel S. GetZe,of the Governors Guard, |
OF Columbus, died to-day at the hospital
from the effects OF the wound received by
the accidental discharge of his gun.
THE LONDON ''TINIEs'" " CRITICISM.
LONDON, April 1.-The Times, in
commenting editOrially upon the
Cincinnati riots, says: Occurrences
like this must give to the statesmen of
that vast and growing Republic food tor
reflection. One way to lessen the diff
Guilty Of preserving order is to secure
decent administration of Justice, where /
bosses and criminal lawyers no longer
have things so much their own way"