The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-28
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II. h. MURDOCE. Editor.
coInrado,s dovernor Is Posing.


Governor Thomas of Colorado evidently affects the spec
taoar being an all around adept in the act Of posing H
is going to hang some several hundred citizens his state
f informally executing murderer who first his
dsfensess victim an innocent little child They burned
the brute instead of hanging The Of the fires
victim pierced the soul Of the governor Colorado How
about the uneard cries child the souls Of her
father and mother? There is no higher power in this land
than its people who higher than governors courts laws
or constitutions for the people rule wisely
maintain all these Above people Of this country, unan
nousy resolved there stands superior only Omnipotence
all shocked sentmentaists contrary notwihstand
ing Hanging OF course would have been legal and more
humane probably ropes oftimes hard to reach
and they sometimes break machinery Of the courts
coupled with the resources Of clubbing lawyers cOnfus
ing Jurors render Just verdicts uncertain times besides
jain bars are ever defective and prison walls prove UNEQUAL
to the desperation Of the criminal verdict Of jury
consisting Of all the men and Of entire
county without regard to their politics religion is more
liable to be correct as righteous than the finding Of
twelve men under the complicated instructions Of court
and the sophstry Of tricky lawyers paid centum per
gawp and per tear
The Eagle is not going to defend mob law, does it
maintain that burning the Of convicted murderer
10y FIRE or by electricity as New York IS more
condgn and suitable penalty the easy drop and the
hard rope In fact we very question the humanity Of
the death penalty the writer having been of major
m Of the legislature which abolished death penalty in
Kansas But when the governor Of Colorado has succeeded
in indictng convieng and in hanging frenzied men
and women Of Lincoln county Colorado the execution
Of the wretch who gave heed to the agonized cries Of
Of her
life which he had brutally despoed there viii be others
there to see if not to participate the crime been com
nitted in The sinks Of city criminal might have
capped or if apprehended the Of time reached the
rsnitsntisry or even the gallows But committed it
was in rural community Of viruous people unused to a
city daily calendar Of crime the affords different
record record beyond any epungng or correction at the
hands Of the governor Of Colorado.
Governor Thomas Of Colorado politically posing
in another direction The northwestern portion that
state is great game country dispatches tell that
a number of Indians have been discovered uninhab
tied and almost inaccessible fastness, killing
deer These Indians do not belong Colorado besides
the shooting season over Governor Thomas is sending
troops up through the SHOWS White River region to
KIN the Indians for killing his Every hundreds
of white men, from almost every state in the Union,
into the mountains Of Colorado XIII But there Is
difference The white huntsmen in killing Colorado deer
for sport leave behind them trail Of money. They are
gentlemen Of means and must be protected The Indian
has no money and of meat therefore has rights
Legally and arbitrarily claimed by the state
of Colorado but morally they belong the Indian,
whom God gave them The truth the deer which the
Indians are reported to be killing roam the mountains be
yond the colorado north, and south, and the
governor Of Colorado the kind Of right
the governor of Kansas has the wild
and ducks which tarry every year
SON; and idea Of Governor Thomas ordering his militia
out to Kill Indians because they are seeking to appease
their hunger like his demand that the people Lincoln
county shall indicted convicted for avengng out
ragged innocence.
Mob law be depored but more because Of the
possibility individual misappcauon penalty than for
the violence its punishment to say nothing its de-
snoraizng effect in weallng respect viii the
majority as orystalized formal and approximately
safe rules for The guidance Of a But law should
not be forgotten is as rule resorted to because Of
of faith in the execution Of enacted law