St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-11

the supreme court. the Appeal Ava
lanche continues: 1.-The opinion was
welcomed by all lovers of law and Or
der. Its effect was not confined to
Tennessee. 1t was felt throughout the
whole United States, and the supreme
court Of Tennessee gained enduring
honor for adeancing civilization to that
degree. The court did not overlook
any phase of the case. 1t consid-
cred even the excuses King made
for his act. But the governor has
greater power to save, he has met the
courts power to condemn and has
whistled the latter judgment down the
wind. With stroke of his pen he has
given hope to every murderer in the
JailS of Tennessee. He has rebuked
the jury and made light of the
states highest tribunal of JUS
tice. 1t were infinitely better
if the jury of the trial court
had bade King to go free. We now
wish sincerely that it had done so. 1t
were even better if the governor mad
granted an absolute pardon. He has
acted without the support of the trial
judge, the jury or the prosecutor, usual
torial clemency, and it now remains for
freedom
The Evening Scimitar
vehemently denounces the governor in
a sensational editorial abOunding in
such sentences as these:
HE has spit upon the courts of the
state and nation. and held out his hand
to save an assassin i'll whose person was
centered and upon whose fate depended
the question whether money and infiu-
in the South was sufficient to make
distinction between persons convicted
ofceld-blooded murder. < = The res
cue of Ii. Clay King from the gallowS,
to which all of the courts of the country.
after careful review of the evidence.
had condemned him, was crime more
damnable even than the murder OF Pos
ton. He has risen above all
law, all right. all justice. What King
executive of the state. He has taken
justified the murder of PostOn. He
has saved the assassin. He
has taken the smoking pistol
from Kings hand. stepped into his
shoes, dipped his hands in the blood of
his victim and trampled upon the
already outraged law. He has turned a
deaf ear to the pleadings of the victims
family for Justice de has made the
governor of the state the champion of
murdererS. The governors
conduct tears the bandage from the
eyes of Justice. 1t pulls down the
pillars of the temple. 1t paralyzes
the strong arm of the law. 1t
STILES the cry Of the widow and the Or
shakes the very foundation of society.
aid makes every man law unto him.
self. RI If Buchanan should be
shot down from
Behind a Pillar
on the portico of the capitol today, if
King should be slain OH his way 10 the
penitentiary. who shall say that the
gallows would bear frmit?'
These publications aroused intense
feeling. 1t was given out that the Jail
would be attacked and the notorious
prisoner lynched. So great was the
anxiety that Criminal Court Judge j. j.
DubOse issued the following order late
this evening:
1t appearing to the court that there is now
undue excitement in the public mind be-
cause of the communication of the sentence
of II. Clay King, who was by the supreme
court sentenced to hang on the 18th day of
August, 1892; and it further appearing that
because of threatened mob violence 1t is
not safe to longer keep said King in the
county Jail of Selby county-it is, therefore,
ordered bv the court that the sheriff of
Shelby county, without further delay, take
said King and deiiver him to the keeper of
the penitentiary at Nashville, in pursuance
to the order as made by the governor COM
muting his sentence TO lite imprisonment in
the penitentiary of the state.
j. j. DUBosE.
Attest: JAMES F. HUNTER.
King was spirited away this evening,
aand may escape mob violence. The
whole country is aroused. Telegrams
from Mississippi. Arkansas and Ten
uessee are pouring in, protesting with
fiery indignation against the action of
the governor. The mass meeting to-
night promises to be an immense affair.
though several influential citizens are
doing all they can to put stop to it.