St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-26
The Bad Taste and Worse Morality Of
Certain Chicago Papers in Pub
fishing Vile Articles.
Efforts Made by Respectable Citizens to
Have Such Publications Suppressed
An Editor Arrested.
Something of the History of Mackin,
the Polished and Gentlemanly
BaIlot-Box Stuffer.
The Grief of His Handsome Wife
Over His Probable Fate--Mon-
umental Ignorance.
Correspondenoe OF the Globe.

CHICAGO, July 2S.-The disclosures Of
the Pail Mall Gazette still afford topic of
interest here. Through the medium of the
public press the authorities were given TO
understand that thousands of copies of the
original publication, together with pam
phletS and fac simile editions of the Gazette
were TO be circulated in the city. The Tri-
bune and an obscure evening sheet pub
llshed portions OF the matter. and, in order
TO make test case, newsboy was arrested
for selling an obscene paper and hned 500.
The editor Of the Tribune, Joseph Medill,
was arrested for issuing an obscene publica-
! ton. Mr.. Medill, through the columns of
his paper, claimed to have done a good
thing in publishing the stuff. and ridiculed
other papers for the lack OF enterprise or
poverty that hindered them from obtaining
and using the same reports. But on the
witness stand Mr.. Medill was obviously un-
easy. and IN defense argued that the cOndi-
ton OF society in this country was fully
AS BAD AS IN ENGLAND,
and if the publication was necessary evil
there, it must be equally permissible here.
He denied that he had given undue promi-
nence 10 the abominable tale. Opinions
will differ on that point. however, as it was
double-leaded and given exclusive place on
the first page of the Tribune. Editor Me-
dill also stated that as soon as it was dis
covered there was rush for the papers by
the public the presses were stopped and the
forms destroyed. He failed to explain.
however, how it happened that an extra
half-sheet containing the Gazette's filth was
sold TO newsbOys long after the regular edi-
ton was exhausted. The newsdealers, too.
and publishers who went 10 such expense
in procuring the original COPIES and making
preparations To issue fac simile copies are
very wrOth at the authorities for interfer-
ing with their plans. Newsdealers were
warned that
COPIES OF THE GAZETTE
or any pamphlet or paper containing the
Gazette's articles would be coniscated and
destroyed. One publishing house that had
made preparations for issuing fac SMILES to
be retailed at IS cents copy was given to
understand that its sheets would be de-
strOyed as fast as printed. The evening
paper before alluded TO found it necessary
to withdraw its editions from the streets.
Now Uncle Sam has taken hand in the
matter and the Tribune and Others may
find themselves in trouble for sending OBJ
jectionable matter through the mails. The
matter is now under consideration by mu-
nicipal and federal authorities, and the re-
suit is anXiously looked for by the enter
prising mOngeTs of nastineSS who have in
vested largely in papers and pamphlets
which they cannot now dispose Of.
JOSEPH CHESTERFIELD MACKIN,
ballot-box suffer and convicted perjurer,
now in Jail with the barest possible chance
Of escaping a five-yearS' sentence at Joliet
deserves a monument at the hands of his
party in Chicago. Mackin is no ordinary
criminal. AS an organizer and schemer. and
in his ability TO handle his tools i'm doing
| pOlifical fripEarH- he hos no Srtnarior HE do
votiOn to his party bosses has got him into
trouble. and now they appear to have tired
OF him, and would drop him entirely, but
they dare nOt-so Mackin says. Mackin is
man of fine appearance, elegant in man
ner and dress, a clever talker-rather too
suave, perhaps, but, withal, entertaining
and equally at home with party of gen.
tlemen at his club or in a
bar-room ''setting 'em up" to
a gang of roughS. Since his incarceration
in Jail his manner is perhaps little less
smooth, he's not quite so confident of eScap-
ing the penitentiary. but he is the same
bland, affable Joe Mackin. cheerful and
chatty, and reserving for the lonely mid
night hours his feeling Of deSpondency and
regret, if any such he has. Mackin married
the daughter of wealthy plebe-a Chicago
butcher
of the honest old citizen, who knew enough
OF politics, an especially of Joe's share in
/, it, TO object to his daughter becoming
the wife of a professional politician.
Mackin took his wife to the Palmer house.
where they have since lived. occupying an
elegant suite of rooms on the third floor of
that hostelry. Mrs. Mackins dress. copied
after the rather snowy garments OF actresses
and Others she has met in hotel life. has
done as much for her very stylish
appearance as nature did for her handsome
face. She is striking figure. and her de-
vOtion TO her husband is very touching.
Yesterday, while Mackin's lawyer-Emery
StoTrs-was securing the state in search of
judge of the supreme court TO make final
argument and obtain if possible. a writ re-
leasing Maclun on a technicality. Mrs.
: Mackin called at the Jail TO bid farewell to
her husband. as she and everyone else sup
posed he would be
SENT OVER THE ROAD THIS MORNING.
The scene must have been touching one.
for even Mackins eyes were red when he
stepped to the end of the corridor and
kissed his wife farewell. But on rejoininc
the group of reporters with whom he had
been conversing before his wife came in. his
manner was just as easy and free from
emotion as of old. \ few days will prob
ably settle Mackin's fate. He will either
be a free man. or tomorrow join the thrOng
of convicts that DO service TO the state in
Joliet state prison.
A curious thing happened the other day.
which goes to show there are plenty of peo-
pie who never read a newspaper. What is
now known as Lincoln park. up on the lake
shore was the old city cemetery. and was
used as buTying ground up TO the time of
the great fire in 1871. But the city
GREW so RAPIDLY
in the direction Of the cemetery and beyond
that the authorities made arrangements 10
remove the bodies to other grounds. giving
each owner of a burial plat an equal bit of
land in the new cemetery. The change
was affected and workmen converted the
former fat surface into long valleys and
miniature hills, and Nature, assisted BY the
gardeners art, produced what is now one
of the finest parks in the country. The
other day German living on the South side
called at the city hall TO inquire what had
become of the old burial ground. and what
had become of the bodies of some of his
, friends that had been inferred few weeks
before the fire. 1t almost took his breath
, away when he found that the cemetery was
public park as early as three years after the
fire. He confessed his ignorance. said he
didn't have time 10 read the papers and had
no cronies and but few acquaintaneeS.
7 This fellows ignorance is only equaled by
, that of the juror in the recent Italian muir
r der case, who confessed to not having read
/ paper for years.
THERE Is 4 RUSIoR
: that Chicago is to have a crematOry, such as
that in Lancaster, Penn. Grounds will be
secured on or near the lake shora north