The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-28
ALTGELD AND THE ANARCHISTS.


If any thing could kindle anew the fiames
of anarchy it would be the spectacle which
the Governor of Illinois makes of himself
In his arraignment of Judge Gary and de-
tectlve Observation-Disclosures Inter Ocean.
WITH the release of these three men
there may come an apotheosis of anarchy.
and the people of Chicago made TO pay
dearly for the act of Governor Altgeld pay
ing his political debts.-Ohio State Jour
nal.
GOVERNOR ALTGELD thinks 1900 words
will be enough to justify him to the law
abiding cltizens Of Illinois in overriding
the DEGREES of the courts and Jury with
document that will be received with ac-
claim only by the enemies of law and order.
New York Sun.
APPARENTLY the Governor believes that
the police should bear the blame for the
riot; that rhe men who were hanged were
martyrs, and that Fielden. Schwab and
Neebe. without having spoken any word OF
contritiOn, were TO be released as wronRed
and blameless men.-Chicago RECORD.
AS between the Supreme Court and the
Governor the Peep lie will very decidedly
take the side of the former. The Governor
would have done much better If he had
simply said that he granted the release be-
cause of the Anarchist vote given to him In
Chicago last Novembes-St Louis Globe
Democrat.
ILLINOIS is unfortunate IN having dem.
agoRue for Governor who has chosen this
Columbian year TO infiict this disgrace
upon the State, and Chicago. which will
soon be again cursed by the presence OF
these three miscreants. deserves the sym
Dathy of the rest of the country.-Cleve.
land Leader.
For whatever may follow let the An
archist Governor of Illinois be held respon-
sible. Let public execration and public
contempt fall upon the head of the man
whose sense of duty in high place 10 60
small as to justify TO himself the shameless
encouragement of the worst of all crimes.
Detroit Tribune.
THE performance can hardly be claesed
rs the trick of a demsgogue. for it cannot
be presumed that the Governor thereby ex-
poets to win popular favor. 1t rather ap-
pears to be the act of one in full sympathy
with anarchistic methods and of one who
has waited for an opportunity to so declare
hlnlself.-CinciDnati Tribune.
WHILE it may not so prove the great
danger that lies in his action is that it may
serve an announcement to the dissent
nation OF those doctrines which brought
about the deplorable event of seven years
ago. The authorities of Chicago, In spite
Of the pardon. should redouble the vigil
lance of their watch upon the Anarchists.
Toledo Commercial
He has encouraged anarchy and gwen
back to 1t three of Its most able and deter
mined leaders. He has left Its opponents
in worse position than they would have
been had the authorities passed unnoticed
the murderous deeds which these men
helped tOlncite. His course is not explica-
BILE upon any theory credita bic to him.
detroit Free Pre- So.
LET us hope that Governor Altgeld's act
may be As powerless to breed mischief in
the future as it will be to soil the reputa-
ton of the Nation. of the Judge who pre-
sided at the Anarchists trial and of the
jury " no rendered the verdict In the past.
But. whatever may he it's effect. 1t 10 TO be
regretted that 1t was ever made by the ex-
ecutive of a great 6tate.-New York World.
HE Anarchists can begin to I'D up
their heads In Illinois. Gov. Altgeld has
pardoned all of them concerned in the Hay
market massacre. He criticises severely the
judge that tried them and the commander
of the police they killed. and he pardons
them because he thinks they did not have
fair trial. The policemen th ey murdered
did not have fair trial either. -Louisville
Commercial
ANARCHY in this country never received
q more deadly blow than whom Justice was
meted ont to the diaboiical bomb throwers
who terrified Chicago some years ago. 1t
is no time to silence the warning then given
to Anarchists. now that the cable almost
daily brings news of anarchistic unrest in
of a monument TO anarchy just erected in
Chicago-New York Herald.
IT was generally understood that they
were to be let 60 in the event of Altgeld's
election. The Anarchists believed that he
was not merely an alien by birth. but an
alien by emperment and sympathies and
they were right. He has apparently not a
drop of true American blood in his VEINS
He does not reason like an American, nor
feel like one. and. consequently, he does
not behave like one.-Chicago Tribune.
The document reads almost as if the
Governor himself were an Anarchist His
conduct furnishes an additional and start.
ling example of the dangers which Turk in
having the pardoning power lodged in the
hands of the executive. and as such
strengthens the argument against the abo-
lition of capital punishment. Unques-
tlonabiy. if the four other Anarchists had
not been hanged. they would have been
pardoned with their associates now.-New
York Evening Post.
GOVERNOR ALTGELD has assumed q ro-
sponsibility of the gravest character in
pardoninR the three Chicago Anarchists.
His reasons for doing 80 will not bear ex-
animation. That the Anarchists had fair
trial and were Justly condemned is the uni.
versaI opinion of Americans whose opin.
ions are worth regarding. 1t Is late in the
day for Governor AitR-ld to come forward
with the assertion that they were not fair
ly tried and that Judge Gayy had mani-
tested prejudice against them.-New York
Tribune.
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