Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-03
Won RULE.
u"c cause Of the Uprising of the PEG
pie OF Cincinnati.

Wv Va taON ltCtIH
per William Berner and a man named
falmer, employed by William H.Kirk in
MS horse sales stables ia Cincinatiattack.
ed and brutally murdered their EMPLOY.
or In his W stable. The motive of tie
crime was the money that Kirk had on
MS person. Berner and Palmer were
arrested and fully confessed the crima
IL was as clear q case of cold bloodad
premeditated murder as has ever haap
known In the history of crime. Tho
case came on for trial last week. Inst
: prior TO the trial T. G. Campbell. a fam.
GUS criminal lawyer, in an interview
WIN q reporter, stated that he was
ready 20 wager $4,000 that Berner would
ne acquitted under certain conditions.
Inc evening Post at that time warned
tns peoiic mat Campbell simply means
snas ior So.OOV ne could clear any MUIR
eerer. campbell appeared as attorney
fer Berner, and Notwithstanding Bsrner's
own confession of murder he was fOnnd
GUILTY ONLY OF MANSLAUGHTER,
But this Berner case can only in a
very small degree be held as the cause
OF tne great indignation meeting of and
OF the bloody riot of Saturday and
sunday LII was rather the last endurable
Leatners weight on the patience of the
to0-long outraged public of Cincinnati.
during the past 10 years there has
grown up In Cincinnati one of the most
powerful and terribly corrupt rings ever
Known IN the history of any American
city. The two chiefs of this ring are
the criminal lawyer T. G. Campbell, and
the young. and profligate- editor John
Mclean, OF the Enquirer. They ire
packed oy the southern lottery schemes,
Dy a long and wealthy list of local gam
blers. and by all the lower class Of sa-
loon keepers, owners of houses of pros
tltution, and the common roughs of
both parties.
Campbell is a Republican leader, that
the respectable element of the party.
headed by Editor Halstead of the Com
merclal Gazette, has been trying to
throw off for years.
Mclean is the most powerful Demo-
cratic boss in tho west, as evideeced by
ms delivering the U. S. senatOrship to II
B. Payne.
HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER.
Although Ostensibly of different par
Ties, Mclean and Campbell are supposed
10 DC really partners in all their trans
actions, political, professional and finan-
cial, Mclean. the democrat, supporting
Camp0elPs friends on the republican
ticket, through his paper. Campbell
uses the Enquirer to attack in the most
vlrnlent manner his chief enemy. Murat
halstead. Campbell defends all the
Enquirer's law suits and always aans.
Campbell and Mclean have their tools
In Office all through the city. They have
the police departments in their control.
Ihey. control several judges on the
bench. The local executive committees 4
OF both parties are in their power.
Naturally Campbell is the attorney of !
all the murderers, the gamblers and the
prostitutes of the city. There is never
any necessity of his losing a case. OF
course he has grown very rich and very
bold. In court he DULLES his brother
attorneys and instructs the Judges. As :
the :
RESULT OF THE CORRUPT PRACTICES
Oh the ring, for years it has been almost
impossible to convict any man Of muir.
der or any other crime who had any
money, or who was capable of doing any !
political work. There are now In Gin
a an accumulation Of 40 uncOn- I
vlcted murderers-uncOnvlcted and I'M :
acquitted. A man under Indictment
can be bled OF forced to do political
work.
In last falls county conventions three
indicted but balled out murderers sat
as chairmen of ward delegations and
served faithfully the men who held
thelr lives in their hands. In Cincinnati
Today noisy, arrogant keepers of houses 7
OF prostitution parade the streets, insult
ing public decency. A lady can hardly i
walk the streets alone and be safe from
outrage and insult, Gambling bells
are run in the most open public manner
possible. Citizens are robbed with yio-
lence by foot pads, and strangers are
e%ntrapped by bunkO men under The ewes
OF the police. Murders of the most cold
FLOODED character are more FREQUENT i'm
Cincinnati than in DeadwOOd. There
are a few arrests and fewer convictions.
There is a large and powerful, but un- 7
I'll recently inactive, law and order ele- i
ment in the city, who have tor some
Tune past been timidly discussing the
advisability of
A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
Of the holder and the more respect
able members of this party have preach
ed, on the streets, at public meetings,
ana threugh the papers, the necessity of
lynch law for the purpose Of clearing
the city OF the rule Of the thugs. Last
evenings mass indignation meeting
was not a simple imprOmptu and tempo
rary outburst Of indignation on account
OF one man escaping the gallOWs. It 4
was rather the elimination of a long
growing feeling of public Indignation.
Wnen such a man as ex.Lieut. Hickep,
topper, a man whose social, politlcaI AMI :
business standing is almost i1e1tical 4
with that of ex-MayOr Moffat. of Detroit. \
c~ountenanced the public meeting and Y
gave his voice in support of lis known
nothinU oIso oo,I1 -.