The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-05

criminals were taken red handed, and
never was a crime so clearly proven.
The courts sent some of the murder
ers to the gallows, others to prison. 1t |
was justice stern, indomitable, merci-
ful and salutary. But the unhanged !
who remained free to ad
vance their mission would not be
pacihed. They made an alliance with
"a complaisant Democracy. Under this
treaty Anarchists carried the State oJ
Illinois, voting for Mr.. Cleveland and
"a Democratic Executive. Their vote
was a controlling part Of that tremend
Gus "tidal wave Of Democracy" which
overspread the land in November. As
a consequence of these certified alli-
ances the Governor now pardons the
dynamite ruflians, and in doing so in
suits the Judge who tried them, saying
in so many words that JefI'ries himself
had been on the bench Of Illinois.
II will be said that this arraign
ment is political discussiou," and
Jbat we criticise Democratic policy
from "a party point of view" Surely
there was no party interest involved
in those Chicago bombs, as they went
Kissing death through the air. There
was no politics in the dead, the
wounded, the writhing, in an instant
cast to their appalling fate.
If the Democratic Governor Of Hi
nois, elected under compact with the
men who made our Democratic Presi-
dent, was right in pardoning the
bomb-throwers, then woe in the day
Of ultimate retributou to those who
shot John Wilkes Booth aud hanged
Charles J Guiteau. If the murderers
of the innocent men in Chicago can be
set free amid the triumphant clamor
of jubilant Democrats, then som
atonement is due to the excited patriot.
ism which "removed" Lincoln and
Garfield. The assination Of these Pres.
ideuts was no less crime than the
as.ination of the Chicago police The
pardon of dynamite 6ssas ins must he
accepted as among the first fruits Of
Democratic ascendancy.
1t is not pleasant to write these
words. But are we not writing
history? We have not made this re
cord 1t has been made by the
Democratic party. is the outcome
Of those repellant alliances which
made Grover Cleveland President
If Mr.. Cleveland were to resign the
Presidency and say he would not en-
dure to go into history with his head
in the same pillory that now enclasp
the head of the demagogue Altgeld
no ore would be surprised. 1t would
be tribute to his own sef.respeGt.
He would then justify the proud
hopes of those who realize his full
appreciation of the horror Of the asso
citation
We do not believe that so radical a
confession of error comes within the
limits of reasonable prophecy. The
President, however, won by these ALI
aucts, aud he must stand by them.
These first fruits OF Dem )cratc ascen
dancy, these apples Of harted-anarchy
bankruptcy financial midsummer
madness, disl1yalty and crme-are "a
part of the price we pay for his admin
istration. But for alliances which
made him President justice would not
now be dead in the South; American
invested values would not be hundreds
Of millions poorer than six months
ago; the American flag would be float
ing in hawaii and American com
merce would not be in exodus from
the China seas; crime would not throw
its vampire wing over our tribunals Of
justice in New York; and the rufIians
of dynamite and anarchy would not e
holding high revel over the pardon OF
their confederated assAssins.
We sympathize with the President
All good men should, without regard
to party. Eut with sympathy there
is despair. There can only be evil.
Evil alone can come as a consequence
of policies whose first fruits awake n
terror, apprehension and shame.