The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-01-03

her good name for law and order, has
again been dragged in the dust.
Great God, how long area SUCH things
to be endured! 1t is not possible for
us thus to sow to the wind and not
reap the whirlwiud of disgrace and
dishonor. Every such exhibition of
lawlessness is an open insult to our
courts Of justice and all constituted
authority. 1t goes for nothing to say
the victim was thoroughly unfit TO
live and richly deserved the fate he
met. Let him be as bad as he may,
still the men who comprised his deaf h
are none the less murderers, and his
blood cries out TO an offended and
openly defed law for vengence. He
was prisoner in the hands of the law
awaiting his punishment decreed by
that law, aud the peace and dignity
of the commonwealth has been ruth
lessly set at defiance by men without
the fear of Gods law or mans enact
ments befora their eyes. We are dis
graced, dishonored, degraded, steept d
in shame and made Kissing and a
by-word by such deeds of foul infamy.
Look, you men, whojwould apologize
for or abet such deeds ofopen defiance
of the law made to protect each one
of us in our rights of life and proper
ty, that you do not live to bitterly rue
such contempt of constituted authori.
ty. Such deeds are barbarous. The
doings of suchi things brand us but
o Ie remove from the savage. =
We need an,,'.awakening of an en-.
lightened public RoDinion that will
force the courts of the commonweal h,
judges and juries to do their whole
duty. This is the remedy. But so
long as lawyers can be BOUGHT to
suborn perjury, and judges can be
INFLUENCED to shut their eyes to the
pIaiu letter of the law, and shcriils can
be PERSUADED to select jurieS to rem
der verdict, they have already made
aud the good people of the commune
ty stand in differently by and raise 10
open protest against such violence
done against justice, we may only eX-
pect these things. A lawyer is sworn
to look faithfully after the best inter
ests of bis clients, but he is none Il e
less a perjured scoundrel, when he
lends himself to what heEknows is
subornation of perjury in order to
compass the acquittal of that client.
The Judge upon the bench who has
not the moral back bone to observe his
oath and give the law as he knows ii
stands on the. statue books, but must
needs hunt for some techmicality, in
order to give the miscrant, whose case
is before him, the opportunity to be
turned loose to prey tiIlifurther upon
society, be he upon the Circuit or APP
peIlate bench, should ssave himself
from deserved perjurer's hell by va
eating that Office at once. But the
fault does not lie so much with the
courts, the seat of the trouble lies in
maudlin sympathy for the murderer
that is so prevalent among the people.
Judges, sheriff., jurors and lawyers are
only men and when they know they
will be called 10 a strict account be-
fore the bar of public sopinion they
will not be slow to give very sensi-
tive attention to the will of the pGOl lie
The remedy is TO be found in an awak-
en9d public conscience. There is
nothing that man 80 breads as that
his evil deeds shall be made the sub
jeCt of public scrutiny. @Itlake4 |, ng
and very successful career Of imiamy
for man to pronounce himself as SO
secure in his vilainies that he can
say, "the public be ID" There is
fearful day of reckoning not for oil # L
Montgomery county unless we bring
up with sharp turn. In the name
of the people Of the State, the grt nd
jury soon to sit, is called 5upon to sift
this last crime, together with 9th, +
infamies said to be existing in cur
midst, to the very bottom, and if posi-
BILE bring the perpetrators to realiz-
ing sense ofhow far they have trans
crossed against society.
Two United States Senators are to