Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-07-25


 attorney of San Bernardino county, and asking advice of the friend as to whether he should run. He was told, of course, to go in and win. The republican convention met in San Bernardino last Saturday, and, in the report of it, ss published in the Los Angeles Times, the colonel's name does not appear as having even been presented to the conven- ton. The inference is that he was like the man who thought he was called to preach the gospel. It was some other noise he heard. which he mistook for call to run for district attorney. Col. Eggers IS a most unfortunate man, anyway, and deserves the sympathy of char itably disposed people. Nature stinted him by not providing him with the necessary qualifications to successfully fight the battle of life, and he has scored failure wherever he has resided.
 The tendency towards anarchy Is much stronger, throughout the country than is generally appre- ciated. There are many men. who would resent as an insult, the charge that they were possessed of anar- chistic tendencies, but whose actions are strongly in that direction. An archy, as defined by Webster, Is, want of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power, or where the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with imPunity." That the tendency of the age is in the direction of the above condi- ton of affairs cannot be denied no matter how beautiful a con trast to it may be painted by the optimist. It lis ,evideneed by the ease with which the criminal escapes the penalty of his crime. It crops out at every labor distur- bance by the reSdiness of the popu- lace to join the labor agitators in the destruction of property, and | a-o., c,f k,r,., tsfa ;saaIf Tka .x.,H citizen who goes on jury, and takes a solemn oath to return yer dict in accordance with the law aud evidence of the case, submitted at the trial, and then votes for a yer dict contrary to law and evidence, but in accordance with his sym pathies for the accused or his family, takes a long stride towards anarchy The man who signs petition for the pardon and release of a red handed murderer, or other violatOI of the law, aids in making the laws less efficient, and if Webster's def. milton of anarchy is correct, he has registered his signature on the side of anarchy. The man who goes around the community, trying to work up sympathy and sentiment in favor of man who has committed some heinous crime against society is as much an anarchist, according to Webster as the maa who throws bomb Tn & public assemblage although his manifestation of it is
 in milder and less dangerous form The man who commits a wantou and unprovoked murder, although he may not do it in the name oI anarchy, is as dangerous an anar, chist as the man who kills from the simple love of disorder and confu. sion, and the man who pardons such criminal aids and abets anarchy as much as did Governor Altgeld iu pardoning the Haymarket conspira tors and murderers.
 We have been informed that ( petition has been circulated and signed numerously by prominent citizens, asking for the pardon ol Thomas Gallagher, now serving s life sentence for the murder oI Constable Hawkins at Jerome When a petition is presented to s man it is his privilege to sign it ol refuse to do so as he may select Upon what theory one can justify his action in signing petition, ask ing for Gallagher's pardon, is mor' than we can guess, His crime wa one without single mitigating cir constance. The only possible ex .. cuse that could be given for it wa the fact that Gallagher was drunk position in which he placed him
 self very frequently, and in whicl , condition, he was always quarrel ! some. The aFresting officer haS never harmed him or abused hin and was simply discharging hi duty, when Gallagher deliberatel, 3 and in cold blood shot him dowl
 and killed him, The jury whicl
 tried him found him guilty of mur der, but recommended him to tn, mercy of the court. In passing 5 sentence upon him, the court wa ' much more merciful to him, thal
 he was to his victim, 4s instead O ; pronouncing death sentence upoI him as he deserved, he sentence'
 him to life Imprisonment. Wit 8 the murder records of this county : during the past ten or twelve year l. the JoURNAL-MINER feels it woul @ not be doing duty it owes to tb y community, should 1t not in th D name of justice, protest against th J pardon, not only of this man Gall' n | eyhar huf nf any cf har rad hnnda